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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 05/10/2026

looking forward to another ten years of fab food family and zefrank videos with my fav person ☺️

pic of me and my partner but I covered his face with a sticker of Chloe the pug with a tennis ball in her mouth.

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 03/10/2026

And what made this all possible:

A screenshot of an instagram story that says:
the FOMO is real but yknow what i'ma do it

- above a screenshot of a (presumably) mastodon posts. The post is sharing a movement poster graphic about not using Meta products for a week. The graphic reads "Lights out META, January 19-26, 2025" and lists Meta products.

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 22/09/2026

walked into the kitchen and saw this, so yeah. he about to make some Ras el Hanut. yes i live at spice world.

A variety of spices, herbs, and dried cooking ingredients stored in glass jars, plastic containers, and bags. Visible ingredients include whole cumin seeds, dried herbs, chili flakes, whole cloves, peppercorns, and ground seasonings in assorted jars with colorful lids.

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 04/09/2026

Idk maybe it’s cuz i got directed to bsky.app at some pt and forgot, and bsky.app is cursed ??? it has ghosts ???

Screenshot of bluesky feed show I’m on the fr you feed seeing @dame.is do the social art post but **it’s not liked** there are ghosts in this app folks

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 04/09/2026

i also did not get it, but basically it lets you reset your 5h+weekly usage limit. or whether it's both, 5-h, or weekly is indicated by the name or listing maybe? that part is unclear to me still.

Screenshot of usage in chatgpt pro showing 5-hour limit with 0% remaining and a weekly limit with 3 days left at 24%. Below, suage limit resets are listed with the caption "Use a reset to restore your 5-hour limit, weekly limit, or both." There are two full resets available on this account.

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 21/08/2026

they be smack talkin in the gc when i’m working hard so rude

Screenshot of a text message with a laugh crying emoji react (not from me):

Ariel's PT: was that hard?
Ariel: I... think so?
Ariel's PT: I have never had a patient say that before

There have been a whole bunch of classic ariel moments in this appointment. She forgot what a movement felt like literally 2 seconds after stopping

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 11/07/2026

post conference sleep be like 🧪

Screenshot from Garmin showing toda/ sleep time was 13 hours and 1 min

Screenshot from Garmin showing Friday July 10th (yesterday) I slept for a total of 14 hours and 41 minutes

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 28/06/2026

helped* my partner make a floating kirby monument in pokopia. this is the greatest achievement of my week *he’s color blind and cannot be trusted with colors in the red-green lineage

Nintendo Switch screenshot from Pokopia showing a ditto human character on the left smiling in front of a pixelated pink Kirby monument floating in a starry night sky. The scene is framed with decorative hearts and stars. Green grass and water are visible below. A "Memories" menu header appears at the top with timestamp 6/27/26 8:59 PM at the bottom right.

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 02/06/2026

paused at a beautiful resting place when biking along the erie canal in rochester (2022). hope to do this again someday 🙂‍↕️ shared on spark

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 01/06/2026

why did i have to find the backlink via pdsls to see your reply? 😒 didn’t show in my notifs either

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 01/06/2026

in case you’ve forgotten, i would like to remind you all i love cats #CatVideo Shared on Spark

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 17/05/2026

yeah @ewancroft.uk nailed this one lmao if you scribble with teal.fm check yours @ tourmaline.croft.click

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 19/04/2026

scrolling through the SIAM Life Science schedule, wishing it was on atproto so I could see it via atmo.rsvp instead 👀 tempted to just load them myself but probably shouldn’t, right? (but would be happy to help @siam-ls.bsky.social do it) 🧪💻🧬

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 19/04/2026

rochester aurora, 2024 📍 Monroe County, New York, US #GrainSocial camera details here

green-purple streaks from the aurora between two towering trees

green streaks from the aurora between two towering trees

many smaller green streaks from the aurora with trees in the foreground and background

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 16/04/2026

atmosphereconf 2026, and my pre-conf trip to see family 📍The Pit, UBC, British Columbia, CA see all the pics here #GrainSocial (redrafted w witchsky hi)

smoke blowing left from a sad backyard fire that wouldn’t burn due to wet wood. backdropped by trees.

golden sunrise of the seattle skylight from the bremerton-seattle ferry

sun baked waters from the amtrak train toward vancouver canada, i have no idea where along the route.

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 27/03/2026

If you couldn’t make it in person, you can check out our live stream of the #ATscience talks on stream.place - just login below with the account you’re seeing this from! stream.place/stream1.atmo... #OpenScience #AtmosphereConf 🧪💻🧬👩🏻‍🔬

Rowan Cocket presenting on Modular Open Science at ATscience

Matt Akamatsu presenting on modular science and discourse graphs at ATscience

Full crowd excited for ATscience before Ronen Tamari presents on Semble

Maria Antoniak presenting on Lea, a bluesky client for scientists, at ATscience

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 23/03/2026

📍 Blazing Onion Burger Co. Restaurant · United States ★★★★★ Lunch with my mom - very good salad, intrigued by the other menu items too. But bring a sweater 😂 beaconbits.app/beacon/6i6n57nrkq6xa… #BeaconBits

Southwest salad: greens, grilled chicken, black beans, tomato and avocado slices

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 14/03/2026

3.14159265358979323846264338 these are the digits of pi i know from my head because of this song - pi.ytmnd.com (only works on dekstop idk why) ((also typing it vs saying it is much harder lol)) (((also it’s my birthday)))

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 12/03/2026

Update: in the light of day I got 0.0020 and using motion to assist I got 0.0010 😇

Screenshot of JND score results text in a group chat showing 0.0020. Below the results it reads “Okay this is genuinely impressive. You’re well below the standard JND of 0.02. The CIR should be sending you a job offer. Or at least a certificate.

The text says “Not moving the screen around suck it”

And my partner replied: Come at the queen, you best not miss. THAT’s 👏🏻 MY 👏🏻 WIFE 👏🏻

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 19/02/2026

The scores themselves aren’t very useful cuz my partner got >30 and in the top 50% after this (he is colorblind. still funny.)

Sorta screenshot but actually a photo of a phone screen with dialed.gg being played. The score in the top right is 3.22/10. The top color is a seafoam turquoise (H188, S77, B98). The bottom color is pale pink (I can’t read the info for color detail).

I repeat; he thought seafoam turquoise was pale pink. Added context - he has an amazing memory.

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 18/02/2026

This is my Lunabelle, the most precious gremlin baby to ever exist (she lived with my mom when i moved to college but when i visited after 5 years away she was immediately purring and lovey 😭 my she rip)

Beautiful calico kitten playing with the draw string of window blinds, photographed against a baby blue wall.

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 09/02/2026

Found myself — between science, medical, indie hacker, and tech early adopter group. I’d say that’s apt enough.

Screenshot of bluesky map by theo.io showing 5 labeled green clusters. From left to right, top to bottom: tech forward early adopters”, “indie hackers & solopreneurs”, “science & medical health journalists”, “medical profrssionals”, “oncology professionals and advocates”

My handle appears in pink in the upper center region

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 02/02/2026

Not bad for my first try. Definitely looking forward to when I have the $$ and space to do this more. ☺️ and yes I will 100% be doing science experiments with my art 🤣 (as in trying things in a controlled way to see what happens)

Fluid pour painting done with a cup layering + pouring technique. Colors used include purple, pink, blue, white, and metallic silver with silicone. In the painting the colors appear mostly as shades of purple with white in the upper left center area, brighter and more pink purple in the bottom left region and more blue in the right regions.

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 29/01/2026

look i’m not a gamer but,

Screenshot of the Pirates of the Caribbean game inside the Virtual Magical Kingdom (VMK) MMO

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 26/01/2026

Not mandatory but yes you sit in with your Bluesky account. I made a video recording if it helps. The main this is this should be the password you use to login to the bluesky app, not an “app password” you can generate. If you’re still getting an error I’d try: 1. Hitting the “reset” button

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 21/01/2026

i went to see if this domain was available for reasons and it wasn’t so i wanted to see if there was a site up with it and uh,

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 15/01/2026

heck yeah can wait to see you again!

picture of a goose at the sarasota bird sanctuary i took in florida last week

(user i’m replying to has handle and display name of goose. this is a joke that i saw them mast bc i met this goose last week)

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 03/01/2026

this is where i’m starting, jan 2026. been falling for no apparent reason, sporadically + dealing with exercise intolerance since 2018 or 2019. still no diagnosis. decided fuck it i’m gonna see a physical therapist for it anyway, worth a try. started two weeks ago. 2026 goal: do pt @ home often

Screenshot of logseq ios app (alpha version) showing PT supertag that lists my current routine:

Current (reps/time x sets)
• Diaphragmatic breathing, 30s × 3
• BW Box squat slow decent, 10×3
• Lunges, 5×3
• BW Ring rows, 10×3
• Kneeling extended arm plank, 30s x 5

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 01/01/2026

happy new year (in 3 hrs) 🎊 will be starting out with 2x memory 🥹🙌🏻 on my laptop! + partitioning the hard drive so my work can run on linux and i can keep hobby + personal stuff separate

camera shot (glorified screenshot) of my computer showing the task manager on the performance memory tab.

i upgraded from 16gb to 32gb thanks to so magic luck of facebook marketplace where someone was selling an optiplex w 32gb that just so happened to be the exact RAM type i need for $125. so i got to upgrade my RAM at a pre-wack price AND got a lil server i can play with now.

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 28/12/2025

this book is making me feel and think all sorts of things. about a quarter thru but would definitely recommend. #Booksky 📚💡💙 🧪

Camera shot of a page from the book “Why brains need friends” by Ben Rein, PhD. The text I am highlighting (not literally highlighted) reads:

When people are lonely, their brain starts to process social intormation in a new, unhelpful way. They seem to focus more on the bad in their interactions. (…) Lonelier people also struggle with trust, showing weaker activity in trust-related brain areas…Unluckily, lonelier people are also rated as less trustworthy by others.
In our divided modern world, I can't help but wonder if the loneliness we've allowed to manifest is driving us even further apart. Maybe our isolation is making us distrust one another more, enhancing our vulnerability to things like political polarization, culture wars, and other factors that widen our divides.”

“To make matters worse, being isolated can make socializing less enjoyable, which may make it difficult to escape a state of Loneliness. Lonely people experience less social reward… (…) This all carries an important lesson: When you're feeling lonely and isolated, it may take a few interactions to get you out of your shell and settled back into your routine.”

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 27/12/2025

👀 can you tell what's significant about this #atproto #xodus

Screenshot of ATlast results page showing 16 connections found from 24 Twitter/X follows. There's an option to select all or clear. Two cards are shown: one for @techcrunch and another for @freecodecamp - the Twitter/X username is on top with a count of potential matches to the right. The rest of the cards show more details about the account, pulled from their Bluesky profiles. A follow button is shown on the left: selected accounts have a person with a check, unselected accounts have a person with a +, and already followed accounts are muted and unclickable.

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 26/12/2025

Celebrating all the artists coming here so I can see their art by sharing more of my own art 🫶 This was one of my first digital fluid pours in procreate, and I decided to mockup a lil canvas for it too. These pieces take a while to make.

Canvas mockup of a digital fluid pour painting. The frame is meant to look like wood. The art piece has a texture over it to give it a canvas look. And the painting is described in the next image’s alt text.

Digital fluid art painting with a diagonal black and white split. Purple, pink, and hints of a soft orange fluid motions soften the border between them and spread into the black and white sides.

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 16/12/2025

decided to buy a dress eventually and everyone agreed i looked like a scientist from the 50s/60s 🤓👩🏻‍🔬💃🏻

Ariel (OP) is on the right wearing a green long-sleeve midi dress with a mock neck, fabric waist belt, and a pleated skirt. She is also wearing skin-colored panty hose and short matte black heels.

On the left is Ariel’s partner wearing a shark tie. That is the most important part: he is wearing a tie with sharks on it. Also, a driver of Chloe the pug is covering his face for online anonymity.

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 10/12/2025

little baby cuddles to warm up your wednesday 💕 #DogPics #CutiePatooies #Photography

blakc and white photography: black toy poodle laying in my lap look at the camera.

blakc and white photography: black toy poodle laying in my lap look asleep like a little baby.

black and white photography: pug laying on a palace of pillows with her paws up covering her snoot looking sad nobody is sitting with her.

black and white photography: pug laying on a palace of pillows with her her snoot buried in the pillow asleep now that somebody is sitting with her.

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 07/12/2025

someone forgot to tell our science museum

Sand with colored light highlighting different elevations. Blue is water and lowest elevation, with green to yellow encompassing higher elevations typical do land masses, mountains, etc.

A penis island was crafted at low (green) elevation.

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 06/12/2025

Jerry if I have to see your posts, it’s only fair my partner does too.

Screenshot of Bluesky showing Jerry posting Paul’s cat with the share menu opened so I can send it to my partner. The bottom of the menu says “This post is only visible to logged in users” which is unfair. If I have to read Jerry’s posts it’s only fair my partner has to too, even if he doesn’t use social media.

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 01/12/2025

i was laugh crying cuz i kept pulling vowels in bananagrams while having only four consonants 😭 like tf am I suppose to do w no consonants i eventually managed to get a few at the end and complete it but wow that was a rude game

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 27/11/2025

This is so fascinating. Love the alt text copying for these! My score is still 100% as it should 🧜🏻‍♀️

Year Highlights

Users interacted with: 20,216
Number of words written: 63,896
Posts per day: 6.5
Most liked post: 130 likes
Unique emoji count: 100
Total links shared: 289
Most active time: 12pm

Top emojis used in 2025: 👀 (57), 😅 (54), 🥲 (39), 🙃 (31), 😂 (31), 😬 (27), 😭 (25), 🧪 (21), ♀️ (17), 🤣 (16), 💀 (16), 😎 (13), 🤔 (12), 🤗 (12), 😐 (11), 😇 (10), 🎉 (10), 😌 (9), 🙄 (8), 😜 (8), 🤷🏻 (8), ❤️ (8), 🙂 (8), 😝 (7), 😉 (6), 🤦🏻 (6), 🥺 (5), 😛 (5), 😪 (5), ★ (5), 💻 (4), 😍 (4), 🤭 (4), 📌 (4), 😵 (4), 💫 (4), 🧬 (3), 💕 (3), 😈 (3), 😮 (3), ☠️ (3), 🤝 (3), ✨ (3), 🥹 (3), 🤡 (3), 👻 (2), 🏴 (2), 🐱 (2), 👏🏻 (2), 😻 (2) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest)

Top interacted accounts in 2025: @dame.is, @baileytownsend.dev, @jcsalterego.bsky.social, @gonzo.bsky.social, @mackuba.eu, @pfrazee.com, @j4ck.xyz, @hailey.at, @graze.social, @richferro.com, @goose.art, @rude1.blacksky.team, @stellerarts.com, @katskitties.bsky.social, @devingaffney.com, @chanda.blacksky.app, @bmann.ca, @sarahmackattack.bsky.social, @alt.psingletary.com, @schlage.town, @purrinink.bsky.social, @hankgreen.bsky.social, @tynanpurdy.com, @natalie.sh, @juli.ee, @iame.li, @ens0.me, @leaflet.pub, @isuggest.selfce.st, @samuel.fm, @itsflanoy.bsky.social, @ngerakines.me, @danabra.mov, @rahaeli.bsky.social, @scalzi.com, @danidonovan.com, @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social, @buildwithtori.com, @knotbin.com, @chelseasprite.bsky.social, @seductivelysoul.art, @nerdjpg.com, @george-station-cat.bsky.social, @indexx.dev, @ebonyteach.blacksky.app, @dreamcatcher01.bsky.social, @sharpiepls.com, @tenoaks6.bsky.social, @carlbergstrom.com, @weratedogs.com (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest)

Social score: 974, 56% above average, range is 0 to 1200. It’s a measure of my participation across the ATmoshere up til now.

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 25/11/2025

match with meeeee! or get one of the other cool designs / colors / items. each design is listed once and then you can see the sweaters / shirts / etc. and their color options inside :) #ShopSmall #Gifts #Disability #DisabledInSTEM

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 24/11/2025

STOP. This is a cute selfie checkpoint. You must repost with a cute selfie to proceed. (I can’t wait til these get unhinged but here’s a cute one sry)

Ariel, a woman in her 30s, places the back of her hand up against her face so signal “yes ofc I’m cute”. She has short curly brown hair, navy blue gladses, and she is wearing a purple tank top.

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 20/11/2025

eeeeeeep think i’ve got 99% of the colors in place now! still a few ui things to clean up because claude went crazy with the divs 🫠 but excited to have this tedium complete.#BuildInPublic #WebDev #UI #ATDev #Testing-New-Spark-Version-Fingers-Crossed

photo of my computer screen with ATlast open on the right, and the source code open on the right. here i am showing the light mode coloring of the ATlast home page. the background is a subtle cyan-purple gradient, barely visible - almost white, with purple text and orange accents.

photo of my computer screen with ATlast open on the right, and the source code open on the right. here i am showing the dark mode coloring of the ATlast home page which is my favorite and i hope everyone uses dark mode tbh it’s just better. the background is a deep purple gradient with cyan text and orange accents.

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 19/11/2025

decided to make a theme for @zed.dev instead of working on the ui for ATlast tonight 🙃 dark theme inspired by alabaster (from @tonsky.me) but…cuter and with more contrast than usual dark themes. will eventually make the light mode cuter too but..it’s Dark Times rn so might take a while

Photo of my computer screen showing off zed editor with my custom theme. Two files are open, a markdown file showing javascript code and a typescript file.

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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 14/11/2025

decided to start with some #art instead of work because i don’t wanna get off my comfy chair #design #logo #wish-bsky-client-had-hidden-tags #tumblr-hashtags-were-better-should-i-join-wafrn-lol

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