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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

best friend sent me a video message earlier in which the 5yo says "i love you Auntie Gilding*" and kisses the phone goodnight and i think i might actually die of cuteness overload

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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

the problem with taking a week off work to try to arrest the burnout is the guilt complex over not having spent the entire time doing work

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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

most regrettably, it appears i am still having fun (presumably some kind of sin)

looking north from the end of the platforms at Canary Wharf DLR station, along elevated tracks that quite quickly lead between buildings to the next station only 50m away (West India Quay); the tracks have a zigzag to allow switching direction
a DLR train apprpaches to the left, and we're looking over the shoulder of one of my cameras mounted on a tripod which is videoing the scene

me posing for a seffie at West India Quay next to my dear friend, the compact Nikon, which is on a tripod at eye height
it's a Coolpix L30 which is adorably small and kinda crap but does at least have a short optical lens, unlike a phone

my face is uncovered but we're outdoors and nobody else is anywhere near (it was covered in Canary Wharf and on the train itself)

view over the shoulder of the Nikon's perspective at West India Quay, recording trains taking the sharp curves of the elevated tracks; one is doing so now
the focus is on the camera and the view displayed on its screen, showing the train in front

view out of the front windshield of a DLR train (DLR are automated, no driver) with both my gopros stuck to the glass, getting a forward perspective view
we're somewhere near Stratford and a friend train approaches going in the opposite direction on our right

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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

playstation "news about one of your follows!" me _clicks Expand_ playstation _opens the game's _Steam_ page_ uhhhhh... what?

a photo of the tv, because screenshotting here is disabled, showing a web browser window open on the PS5 to display information about an upcoming game

except for some reason the page with the information is the game's Steam page, which is honestly probably better but surprising that Sony allows this (and fed it to me as a notification); obviously if i purchased on this page i would not be able to play the game on this device

the game in question is Boltgun 2, if you want to test this for yourself (otherwise, the content in the image about Slaanesh etc is irrelevant to the point here)

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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

ooo interesting, i found a place _within_ London that also uses 165s, the Greenford Branch

the front/back (in this case the driver just got out, so it will be the back) of a BR Class 165 diesel commuter train parked at West Ealing, in delightful GWR green

seffie of me in my usual niche in the corner of a carriage, with my cameras attached to the window at around eye height

view through the window of trees passing by, with my cameras blurry in the near field, recording

an Elizabeth Line train pulls into the station on the left; a sign in the middle identifies the station as West Ealing; on the right, the Greenford line track leads onward from an empty platform before curving off to the right

note that the Greenford track has neither a third rail nor an overhead power cable

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Luna @lunaceleste-cat.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

give whole stick! om nom nom

luna stands vertically on two feet, a chonky column of floof, front paws wrapped around a fishypop stick as she tries to get the whole thing in her mouth, eyes wide and ears back as she loses concentration on the world beyond flavourtown
rayne's hand can be seen holding the end of the stick, just barely

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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

...i should really get around to repairing my custom headphones

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

you’re a worker and deserve a union even if you (temporarily) make really good money we uh actually need workers with a modicum of bargaining power in unions. fucking obviously it was previously very popular for the capitalist class to pretend to be programmers, but it’s always been popular […]

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CelloMom On Cars @cellomomoncars.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

"As microorganisms break down sewage, they release carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide – three potent greenhouse gases. Our new research found a surprisingly simple way to cut greenhouse gas emissions from open wastewater treatment lagoons: growing plants on buoyant rafts." […]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

[aipol] i've been mulling over the claim that "genAI is just like {compilers, LSPs, ...} because it improves productivity also! they're just abstractions of 2025!" and, sure, this is true at least in the facile and mostly useless "line of count" generated sense. but that's also irrelevant. I'm […]

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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

one last bit of fun, because there's technically a separate line (two stops) to the airport comes in super high up too which is neat

seffie with my gopros, attached to the window of a Line 4 train as we approach the airport

the big red snout of OCTranspo train C5 parked at Aéroport station, with airside stuff (taxiways, jet bridges, etc) visible a couple of storeys below and behind it

view from the window of planes parked by hangars, the runways in a green gap beyond
the horizon line is above the planes, showing we're at hangar-roof height

zoomed in view of two Canadian flags whipping in the wind, in front of an airside building, and runways beyond

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Rayne :v_lesbian: :v_enby: :v_trans: @shebutch.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

big thank you to @rally for sending me, my Dead Winter comics, - I love Dead Winter and hella excited to start reading. can't wait for the next books to release! 🤘🏼 love Liz ❤️

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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

i _have_ to make this worth it now, as i made someone move so i could sit here 😳😅

snub nose of the engine unit, it is number 2229

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

for me it's almost entirely point (3), which i think is the source of a lot of disconnect with some of my peers. i don't think my job security got any less (more, if anything) plus i'm confident i can outperform genAI jockeys if it comes to that; and i don't think writing code is any more […]

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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

[shitpost] if we'd stayed in the EU we could have had a 100% metric eclipse but noooooo,

a screenshot from a map showing eclipse coverage, with london highlighted, showing a diagram of what maximum coverage will look like; the diagram shows a mostly black disc with a sliver of yellow, and 91.41% coverage

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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

me: "now im going to think carefully, be tactical, and do this right on the first try" also me: _immediately points camera directly into the sun, somehow, again_

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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

[ukpol, queerpol, rant/hottake] passing and stealth are about _personal safety_ passing and stealth are important and desirable to many because they are about _invisibility_ not everyone wants or needs them for themselves, but if you seriously make the argument that passing is bad because […]

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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

_switches language in Compiler Explorer and then closes the tab without switching back, losing an unsaved example_ gfdi that's the third time today

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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

[mh--] trying and failing to resist the regularly scheduled sunday afternoon complete breakdown 😭

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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

didn't even know there were diesel commuter trains still in use around here #stillBetterThanCars

a big copper exhaust pipe from the bottom of a BR Class 165, with shield around where folks might touch it, pipes up to above carriage level , between two carriages

a 165 (not actually the one i was in) pulls away from the platform in Guildford, going back the way we came, off into the sunset

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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

oh to just go live on a giant column surrounded by trains like one of the prophets of old

looking along the tracks from Woodland Bridge in Putney, where we can see the arches of a brickwork viaduct descend to track level over a half kilometre or so, and in front of that, two huge broken-topped victorian brick columns - maybe three storeys tall? - of where a rail bridge used to fly over, but doesn't any longer
to the side the edge where the track used to end and now cuts off into empty space is visible
the tops of the columns are maybe a dozen square metres, long and narrow, and have small trees growing out of them

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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

can't get over the "are you lost?" feeling that these things elicit every time i see one

a DB freight locomotive approaches, seen from a passenger train on the line going the opposite way, somewhere outside Shepherd's Bush

the DB freight locomotive zooms by the window, branding nice and clearly visible against its burgundy skin

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Once upon a time I might have had respect for software development as a profession. There may still be small pockets of professionalism hidden away but for the most part it's a deeply and dangerously unserious field.

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Almost 10 years ago I did a keynote where I said something like: «We made a digital world and we made everyone live in it. They never had a choice.» Now I feel like I’m one of those people. I don’t want to live in a world where everyone is recording me, or regurgitating slop.

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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

somehow going from believing that What-I-Do unconditionally helped to make the world a better place to seeing it as social asbestos with no safe minimum level of exposure

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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

sometimes i wish i knew how to retroactively erase/poison any positive associations and memories a piece of media built in my head

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin.fedi.circumstances.run · 24/07/2026

RE: social.treehouse.systems/@bodil/116… _ethics aside_ should be treated similarly to “i'm not a racist, but”, as a clear vice signalling ethics is _the_ barrier between yourself and your acceptance of whatever atrocity you find personally convenient.

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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

ooooo neat i haven't thought about D in a while i should actually study this a bit, since we seem to be reinventing some of it #letsGoThrifting #aFineAdditionToMyCollection

holding up a copy of The D Programming Language, by Andrei Alexandrescu; in front of a shelf of books in Oxfam

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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

...huh a while back i remember making the argument that 32-bit line numbers would _surely_ be enough for anybody for the foreseeable future

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Alex Celeste, Princess Consort of Burnout @erisceleste.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

so uh what do you do with your time off i do completely normal human things #justBRollThings

behind the view plate of a big purple Nikon camera pointed crosswise across the tracks at Clapham Junction, directly at the big Welcome to Clapham Junction sign

pointing the camera down track, alongside a train that's about to depart
the camera is on, but the screen doesn't show up (it's super zoomed in)

dutch angle photo of me fiddling with my purple camera on a tripod as an Overground train moves in the background

normal angle of me, fiddling with the Coolpix on the tripod

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