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Ugh 😩 I'm glad you got your money but how annoying that this was necessary. Fingers crossed they'll manage to remember now! Unrelatedly, I've been thinking all day that I'm rly looking forward to having you here & showing off the kid! 💚 He's v cute, tho doesn't pay any bills either afaik 😆

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah I was assuming that if they were not paying on time bc they're struggling, you wouldn't have put it as you did. It *is* always the people who have plenty of money, esp when it comes with the oblivious air of "oh wait does it matter whether I pay this month or next?" 😑 I hope they pay up soon!

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've had to go back to work, which is terrible, but I have a work buddy. The blanket he's sitting on is the blanket I used to have to put out for Rass when he wanted to hang out with me while I worked 🥺

Rumble, a brown/black and white cat with Burmese markings and only one eye, sitting on a folded-up blanket on a desk. He's assumed the traditional cat loaf position with his paws all hidden underneath his body and his tail curled along his side.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ugh I hate that for you! That you've got ppl paying late, I mean. You'd think people would realise that a tiny daycare run out of someone's personal home is not the kind of place that won't be bothered by late payments!

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

86 on my phone when I first read this post; now 11 bc it was an incentive to clean up 😅 Laptop I don't count, but whenever it gets to the point where I'm opening already-open tabs bc I can't find them anymore, I try to whittle them down to abt ten.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why are they combining allergic reaction and cut-off circulation? I have other questions abt this list but this is the least rhetorical one 😆

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wait another two years and this will be the skill employers train their application AI to look for on resumes

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Maybe, though considering his job is TV comedy in the UK, that almost seems like a professional oversight 😅 or it's just that the only way he knows to make things "funny" is by "shocking" people with how gay he is, and it not working in a somewhat queer context simply never occurred to him

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's also just a weird thing to do on Taskmaster. The entire premise of the show has (kinky) queer undertones, and the hosts enjoy playing with that. Their Taskmaster personas are very much queer; Matt coming in and making Greg as the Taskmaster say he's straight totally undermines the show.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah, that in combination with his reply to the picture ("well that's tipped me over into straight") felt like watching a guy who's marching at Pride in a full rainbow outfit being asked by a bystander if he's queer. Very "do I really have to say it?" Great moment, though not for Lucas 😆

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I feel like it's been making Greg 😑 as well 😆

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I feel like even the adaptations give us at least four 😅 It's like Doctor Who. The protagonist(s) are infinite variations on a core archetype each. It's true though that Wu Xie, growing from "young" to "midlife crisis" to "retired", seems to use at least three base archetypes.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Boo snot! Hope you feel better soon 💚

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For real? I was so sure this was AI 😆 Fair enough! That's a terrible way to judge this tho; having worked in the field I know that agreeing on the few shows/movies that are "good" is a business necessity. Nobody will make deals with you if you don't agree that Breaking Bad is the best show ever.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yes! I said it somewhere in the replies; the longer I look at it the surer I am that it's AI, probably drawing on reddit or facebook. This also explains why shows that drop entire seasons are largely missing (where's orange is the new black, for example?) -- there's just not as much chat abt them.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Exactly. I'd be surprised if this list wasn't AI, and sure, that's info abt what the most western-social-media-famous shows are. If you publish this list in the NYT as "best 21st c. shows" (and not e.g. "most discussed on social media"), the only purpose I can discern is conservative culture forming

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That, and starting with Breaking Bad, *still*, 18 years after it first aired.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They list a lot of shows I really like! E.g. Sad Cop Anthology s1; love that show. I just don't really understand the purpose of a list this predictable and conservative. The evident lack of effort that went into diversifying it makes it something to mock, for me, even tho it has a lot of my faves 🤷

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy birthday! 🎉 That's an excellent card 🤠

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

1) fight club '08 2) grimdark gun drugs man cop 3) jon hamm's wang 4) capitalism torture porn 5) oops we forgot women 6) there's women in this too iykwim 😏 35) sad cop anthology (S1 ONLY. DOES IT NEED SAYING. FUCK.) 88) serial killer protag (not the gay one!) Anyway 1-7 should be Nirvana in Fire

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

so I bought the 6, meaning they supported the 3+ from '19 to '26, which I guess are 7 years. Will say that the 3+ also got very slow by the end -- that's partially on me, tho; I hadn't been installing updates. Since FP uses unchanged Android, installing their updates regularly is pretty important.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I did! The 6 is my second Fairphone, I had the 3+ before. Before that I've had Samsung, Huawei, and Sony (and before that an iPhone 6/4). I like the FP better than all of these except Sony, and abt equal to Sony -- except that Sony won't let me replace parts, so FP wins. The 3+ went out of support

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm so angry abt this. I watch German and English language youtubers and I want neither to sound like AI Bot Pete. At least let me turn it off for good in my settings!

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fairphone lets you buy replacement parts incl battery pack (that you can install yourself) and has the explicit goal to extend the time you can keep your phone. Not sure how long exactly they support updates but I feel like I remember reading something abt 7 years. I have the 6; it's a decent phone.

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nolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I made multiplayer Windows 98 Solitaire. It's called Solitaire Alone Together. You can play together, with the whole internet, but you can't chat or talk. solitairealonetogether.com

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh I've been doing that. I know the kid doesn't care what the lyrics are but I do 😆 I enjoy singing, so singing to the kid is a good chance to get to do it, but it's less fun when I also have to come up with the lyrics as I'm doing it.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Unfortunately I'm also very limited by mostly knowing songs in that way where I know the chorus and can kind of keep up with the verses if I'm listening to the recording, but don't actually know the full lyrics by heart 😅

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Kid likes it when I sing to him. I'm realising a lot of my post-1975 faves are useless for singing a capella: single-note melodies that rely on lots of guitar accompainment. Had some luck with Doors and Procol Harum; sorry to be singing to you abt drugs and debauchery, son. I should try Queen!

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Around here, Oktoberfest starts tomorrow. It has its own version of con crud: when companies do trips for employees, it's not unusual for entire teams to be out sick for a week after. Still, I'm sure that nobody will be masking. Very glad to not have to go this year, masked or unmasked!

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Cats usually perfect this skill around their 7th or 8th birthday. Rumble is certainly a master!

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Spiting BeReal by sharing my cat pic on a different social media site

Rumble the cat (Burmese markings with white spots, a round face, and stocky build) snoozing on a couch with his chin resting on his front paw and his tail curled up around him. He's the picture perfect example of "cute cat sleeping". In the background, there's some floor-length windows looking out over some lush green garden shrubs.

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The "your BeReal has posted" seems like a "job finished" notif, but then they also make me watch the upload. Also their error handling is bad bc they don't seem to discard stale uploads: I've had two uploading thumbnails after my first upload died and I created a second one 🤔 Anyway. Hate bad apps!

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Currently I am once again logged out and unable to log in bc we're too cool for passwords but also can't reliably send verification codes 😩 The thing that gets me abt the app is that it almost seems like they *do* have a queue, but for some reason make you stick around and watch as it's processed?

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NEW CAT JUST DROPPED!!!!!

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

and unsustainable. So this is the story of why I get as angry at bad code as other people get at frequent flyers. Your bad app is harming the planet! Besides, I couldn't upload the picture I took of my cat, which violates the first internet law that demands all cat pics be shared without delay 😡

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

budget, which has led to a lot of modern web applications having abysmal performance and using application logic unsuited for the infrastructure they're running on and/or the tasks they're meant to perform. The solution tends to be to add more resources (= buy more AWS servers), which is wasteful >

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

infrastructure 101. It's not enough to stick your app into "the cloud" and rely on Jeff to boot up additional instances for load peaks, esp not when the idea of your product is to essentially DDoS yourself once a day. Infrastructure isn't sexy, tho. It doesn't sell, so it doesn't get attention or >

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

exactly BeReal does, and I'm more versed in web than app tech. But looking at BeReal's behavior, I feel confident in saying that I don't assume they thought much about what the concept of their app meant for their run-time infrastructure. Which pisses me off! Load handling is basic web >

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

they're not staring at their open app and the upload bar, and they're not confronted with failed uploads and generating additional load trying to fix that failure. You can scale to run through the job queue as quickly as possible and send a notif when the post has posted. Again, I don't know what >

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This slight lag isn't great if you're reacting to a load window that, as with BeReal, is only 2 min long. If you're chucking the requests into a job queue, though, you have more time to boot up resources that will fetch jobs from the queue proactively when they're ready. Users have to wait, but >

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

well-designed job queue and asynchronous pic upload, you can use scaling to shorten the wait. Scaling always lags a bit: booting up new resources for higher load is reactive rather than pre-emptive, and each instance needs to warm up: most systems take longer for the first time running a process. >

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

stuck at 30% and then fails in what seems like a time-out. It would also avoid additional load created by people re-taking and re-uploading their pictures when they don't post on the first try, or reinstalling the app and generating login and verification requests to fix their problem. With a >

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

be a little fiddly to fetch the pics during the job: you'd need auth and state handling. It also means that users won't immediately see their post and will have to wait for their picture's job to run thru. I would take that over what has been my experience the past four days, where my upload gets >

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

what BeReal does. What I do know is that after taking your pic, you need to keep the app open until the upload has finished. This tells me that if they have a job queue, they're still processing the upload during the request, not the job. This makes a job queue almost obsolete. It would probably >

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

during the load peaks), or using a job queue: perform minimal processing of the initial requests to collect them in a queue; then work through the process-intensive uploads one by one according to available resources. Ideally you'd be doing both to ensure a smooth user experience. I don't know >

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

idle system gets hit with a barrage of upload requests. They could run a system large enough to handle those peaks. That's not ideal, though: it's a lot of expensive resources going unused most of the time. Their other option is to get clever: use scaling (increase resources on demand only >

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teyla 🏳️‍🌈 @teyla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I've been using BeReal. It's a nice idea, esp for people (like me) whose friends live far away. The app, however, is buggy in ways that make me fundamentally angry. Here's why: Everyone uploading pics at the same time means BeReal, by design, has load peaks: once a day, their usually mostly >

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sarah Yeoman (American Artist, born 1959) "Collusion", 2018. Watercolor on Paper, 91 × 61 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Kelsey @stuckyparty.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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