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arestelle

@arestelle.bsky.social
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Lover of language, knowledge nut, shutter snapper, musicophile, stargazer, bookworm. Misfit programmer by day. | she/her

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 14h
Bob Ross?
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Heaven.
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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!
a row of short-spined raccoon ceramic tea pets on a gongfu service tray
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
she is so god damn cute
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Is "this tech" a hammer?
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I did actually get through to a human there, but he claims there's no way to (1) block a merchant or to (2) manage expected transactions, which 1. can't be right, you absolutely can do this on other companies' cards and 2. directly contradicts "information" on their website The 21st century, folks
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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
So anyway maybe switch away from Verizon if you want #NoAI
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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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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"...she was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you."
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
can someone please escort that addled man-baby to a padded room
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I would like to object to the fact that the rest of us don't even get regular cost of living increases while we're working, let alone a pension (not that she is getting that, mind. that we don't.)
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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 · 28/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Timon: It Starts
Alt: Timon: It Starts
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I mostly find new music through the music hashtags on mastodon, which skews rather more metal or chiptune or classics or any kind of indie than contemporary country
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
…oh. I knew they didn’t want you to honk because why would they, but this did not occur to me.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just listened to the latest @dreamingagainstthemachine.com and while there's some good stuff here, some of it also needs a response: www.dreamingagainstthemachine.com/episode-24-t... 🧵>>
dreamingagainstthemachine.com
Episode 24: The Myth of AI Doom, with Cal Newport
This week, Adam talks with computer scientist and author Cal Newport about the resurgent claims of AI doom in the news, where these ideas come from, and what we can do to shift the narrative around AI...
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I've got a bridge to sell you.
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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 · 25/09/2026
Use All the Fonts!
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
and you have gotten so fast as you developed your system over the past few years too!
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
that's SO many words of gaslighting
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sidebar: that site (my9games.net/en) uses your browser default sans serif font. Mine's Dosis: www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/dosis
fontsquirrel.com
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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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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
FFVIII 🫶
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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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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it better die and get reborn while it's in the locker during gym so we get back to the locker room and it's yelling
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I intended to get an electric tankless system at my last house. I was dissuaded by the combo of upfront expense and massive power requirement and got a tank electric instead.
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If the grid & your service can handle the super spiky load
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
(probably not that much more, even. the water heater itself was ~$750)
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Christ. I got a new 40 in March and it was <$2k including labor. A 50 would've been maybe a few hundred more
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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 · 23/09/2026
🥹 mrrrrr 💖
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Debbie, "squirrels had our nuts in a vice" is just accurate reporting, please grow up
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
AUTUMN 🍃🍂🍁🎃🕸️👻🍁🍂🍃💖
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bro won’t listen to all of society but as soon as a chatbot regurgitates it he thinks it’s amazing
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
😍
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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 · 22/09/2026
My ebike is so much cheaper than a car!
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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 · 21/09/2026
I should find one too, it's been too long since my last one ended
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Switch 1/2 physical edition like Terranigma? 🥺
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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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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The only way I like olives is in a spread that has more garlic in it than olives (exaggerating slightly but not that much) People who can eat them straight and claim to like them are up to something.
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Also my mom LOVES them so I was primed with “these might be good”
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I would try each one raw first, because science or something. The things in grocery stores are sad imitations.
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I don’t know that I ever disliked them, and I like trying things, so when the farmers market I had access to in NJ had like a bazillion varieties including heirlooms at much better prices than we get here, I tried them. And took notes. Tbf I mostly used them for mini pizza/bruschetta? things but
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Been checking out SG-1 from the library, season by season. The only things I sub to anymore are Beacon and Dropout.
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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
…there’s a whole lot of 1, 4, and 6 within tech cos
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