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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 03/10/2026

YES we have Jimothy tea pets in stock at our Seattle café-store! Come by and adopt yours this weekend!

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Goddammit the bank is using it too, and it hangs up if you hit 0 or they don't have a programmed response to what the voice recognition picks up "We've solved customer service! Steal from everyone and poison the air to power hanging up on your customers till they give up!"

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I switched to a new phone carrier and Verizon immediately locked me out of my account and their disconnected line login is broken. I didn't realize they had switched so hard to all genAI "customer service" until trying to call them to make sure they cancelled my plan and there is NO way past the bot

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

Honestly a lot of the “look at what AI can do for you!” things can be replaced with a basic shell script.

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A computer can never be held accountable, but we could try, like, shuttering the model and the data centers used for it, confiscating the land, selling it, and paying the proceeds to people harmed.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I almost put Secret of the Stars on here, but let's be honest, I was already fully invested in RPGs by the time I played and liked that game. (I STILL like that game, ftr, whatever scorn critics may heap upon it. It's got combo moves and classic villains like the aptly named BadBad!)

My 9 Games: The 9 games that shaped who I am

Dragon Warrior, ExciteBike, Chrono Trigger, WaveRace64, Zelda: A Link to the Past, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Sleuth, and Sim City 2000

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 23/09/2026

We scored (among other cuties) a half dozen Jimothy tea pets from @queenbeeceramics.bsky.social! These are ONLY at the shop, not listing online, though we hope to get enough in a future run to do an online stock up as well. They are here now for ya, come get em!

A collection of short-spine raccoon tea pets on a gongfu tea tray

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Because there are important things to do,

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

AUTUMN 🍃🍂🍁🎃🕸️👻🍁🍂🍃💖

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Angry scream at the heavens, indeed

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh good, another reason to never fly again in this timeline. We got stuck on the wrong side of the quantum mirror.

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

First Terranigma and now Lufia?! it's not even my birthday!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

But that’s not the case. People set AI up. They are the ones who set harmful things in action. And so they are the ones who should be held responsible.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

With an added difficulty level

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Mia [data-css=poetic] @miriam.codes · 18/09/2026

I keep making these light jars, and people keep asking for them. That's a fun little exchange we have going on, me & people. This one came out the other night, with various other shapes in progress. (Still figuring out how to photograph lights) #pottery #art art.miriamsuzanne.com/product/pott...

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Hourglass light jar

Art by Miriam Suzanne, made by hand in Denver, CO.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026

This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My library has a video games section (how cool is that?), so it occurs to me that the game-key card trend of fake "physical" games isn't just shitty to players, it cuts libraries out of acquiring lendable copies.

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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bolivian Murder Kitten just dropped...

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

black cat collection 🌻🐈‍⬛🍂🐈‍⬛🎃🐈‍⬛💖🐈‍⬛

a painting of a black cat standing on a fence overgrown with vines, with a sunflower field behind it

Drawing of a black cat strolling through a colorful early autumn landscape

a painting of a black cat with big round eyes sitting in a pumpkin patch. in the background we can see a countryside landscape with fields and a small cottage. there are chickens in the grass nearby and a wheelbarrow filled with pumpkins with a black cat sleeping on them. there's also a black cat in front of the house door in the distance. the color palette is warm oranges, pinks, yellows and muted greens.

a small black cat sitting in a leafless tree back lit by the sunset

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today's very important Chobani Flip update

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 13/09/2026

“Abdicati | blarg” exple.tive.org/blarg/2026/0... > I can’t begin tell you how tired I am of people anthropomorphizing AI in a way that lets OpenAI and its employees straight up confess to committing crimes on stage

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Abdicati | blarg

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

it's liiiiiive!! 📣✨️

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you like, or are looking to try, the strapless N95 masks from Readimask as this fall’s Covid and respiratory surge heats up, I just found out there’s a 20% discount code active currently: MeetJess20

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why are the podcasters rehabbing Doctorow?

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep."

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Graphei @graphei.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

oh god it me.

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 03/09/2026

Trans folks are valid, deserve respect and safety, and we care more about our ethics than our profits. Period. #noterfsallowed #fandomtea #synesthesiaart #tea

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The speed with which a warm wet washcloth becomes a cold wet washcloth is annoying.

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Coming back to streaming later this month on Patreon! First one back will be Friday, September 18th. Hope to see y'all there for the Artificer Chat. Be sure to follow me on Patreon to join in. 🤘 patreon.com/artificer_ind

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Artificer Industries — Original playable creations for Daggerheart

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just to name a few, every time you use (let along brag about using) a synthetic media extruding machine, you are helping to build the case for the next hyperscale data center, helping to normalize the data collection (theft & surveillance) they are built on, >>

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Oh. No.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ironically, there's something about bike helmets discourse that causes people's brains to turn off. Bike advocates: "Helmets are great, but they are literally not designed to save your life if you're hit by a car." Everyone else: "Why do you oppose bike helmets??"

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Happy Caturday 🐾🤍

A black cat rides proudly on a robot vacuum as it zooms across a colourful rainbow-like background, leaving a trail of dust behind. The cat says, “Weeeeee.” Text above reads, “I hope you find time to do something silly and let yourself enjoy it!”

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Started this on stream, and just finished. Whipped up a new weapon for #Daggerheart! I'll be giving it stats, then releasing it and the line art as a coloring page to supporters on Patreon & Ko-fi. #ttrpg

A digital illustration of a fist weapon with three long blades, and a hollow grip. Near the open grip, three vials of pink, turquoise, and green liquid sit ready to be inserted into the weapon.

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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 06/08/2026

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke thinks your right to vote should be linked to how much income tax you pay. This week @rachelgilmore.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to dig into how Shopify’s leaders are pushing right-wing politics in Canada. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/340_...

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🎃Meli👻 @mismatched.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Anyone got opinions on blogging platforms that don’t suck? I’m thinking about doing beverage blogging somewhere besides here

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Google really just said “digital maps are one of the most genuinely useful software tools in existence, right? Let’s destroy them”, huh

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It's true, the Discord is friendly and full of stationery nerds, nice place ^_^ (also, a lot of the folks there are strongly #NoAI, which is perhaps unsurprising for a group of physical media fans)

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 29/07/2026

All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...

someone holding up a sign that AI crossed out

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

@weratedogs.com Hey, your store added me to a mailing list even though I opted out, unsubscribe doesn't work so I wrote in, & now your ticketing system is misdirecting your autoreminder that my ticket is waiting on a reply to *me* as if I were the one supposed to reply to my own ticket. Please fix.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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