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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 2h

I’ve been granted a $10.33 bill credit for this outage, without needing to badger support. Not great, but not terrible.

Screenshot of an email from AT&T:

We're issuing you a
bill credit
Hi Amethyst,
The internet network interruption you experienced on
October 8, 2026, is covered by the AT&T Guarantees.
. We
know even a short interruption can impact your day, so
we've rounded your bill credit up to cover a full days) worth
of service. That's our AT&T Guarantee hard at work to help
make it right.
Credit amount: $10.33
Your credit will appear in 1-2 bill cycles-no action required
by you.
Thanks for being a valued customer.
AT&T

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 07/10/2026

My home internet finally came back around 30 minutes ago, just shy of *35 hours* of downtime. 😮‍💨

Screenshot from my Unifi router dashboard: "Internet disconnected from Oct 6, 2:23:46 AM to Oct 7 11:18:52 AM"

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 07/10/2026

My fiber internet has already been completely out for 14 hours today, and AT&T is now saying it will be restored *tomorrow night* 🤯🤬

Screenshot from the AT&T internet portal: "There's an outage affecting service in your area. [...] Your service should be fully restored by Wed 10/07/2026 08:00 PM PDT". I have scribbled a lot of red lines under the day.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 19/09/2026

Just over *two weeks* to go before #PyBay 2026, happening on October 3rd at UCSF Mission Bay. We've got an excellent lineup of speakers, including: @gaborbernat @emmatyping @pamelafox @brianokken @coderanger and so many more! Thanks to our generous sponsors […] [Original post on toots.n7.gg]

PyBay 2026, October 3rd, in San Francisco. 11th Annual Regional PyBay Conference. For the community by the community.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 18/09/2026

Oh NOW you want my opinion on the ridiculously overpriced VR headset that was too heavy and where you refused to embrace popular VR use cases for until it was too late so I just put it on top of my *other* horribly expensive monument to Apple Design? Ok

Screenshot from my email client, of an email from Apple Market Research, with the subject “Tell us about Apple Vision Pro”

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 17/09/2026

Oh boy, I have once again won the opportunity to spend more money! 😹

Email from Valve saying I’m “officially in the reservation queue for Steam Frame”

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 15/09/2026

for those who don’t remember, or more likely, were too young *or not yet born* … 💀 www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vint…

Picture of most of the Apollo 13 Hardees rocket set, including the plastic rocket in the background, and a set of Apollo 13 branded pogs and slammers in the foreground.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 04/09/2026

The girl will happily leave Ohio, but Ohio won’t leave the girl.

Screenshot from the MyDialect quiz site, saying I talk most like someone from Colorado, despite never having lived there. It includes a color scale map of the states, showing that my dialect roughly matches a large swath of territory from the entire west coast, into Colorado, and then continuing across the Midwest into the western portion of Ohio, where I was born and raised.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 25/08/2026

The sales spam emails for GitHub projects have discovered the concept of negging

Screenshot from my email client, showing a message with the subject “Why isn’t unit test FT bigger?”

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 19/08/2026

@offby1 it’s about sending a message

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 18/08/2026

@bitprophet it’s so simple how is it not obvious? 😹

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 17/08/2026

Thanks for making supporting queer pride an “experiment”, in “beta” no less. 🙄

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 01/08/2026

How will I possibly trust any other site now that I've seen this?

Screenshot from a checkout flow where a grey banner floats on a red background. The banner reads "2048-bit super security" followed by a shield icon.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 31/07/2026

Insurance companies acting like mafia mob bosses if you don’t follow through after getting a quote

Screenshot of an email from Farmers Insurance, with the subject “If disaster strikes…” and the body summary starting with “You want us on your side”

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 30/07/2026

Newest member of the family, rescued from my dad before he could send it off to the monsters at carvana.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 20/07/2026

@glyph case in point: my ruff-api project. ah yes the thing that I built so I could wrap ruffs formatter in python, that I haven’t touched in many months 🥴

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 18/06/2026

[gerrymandle day 34 solution] This one was legitimately tough to figure out.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 18/06/2026

I clearly chose the correct video to start my morning with.

A drum sequencer in the middle of the frame, surrounded by inset videos, including a hand shaking a banana, two hands clinking a fork and knife, and a person playing guitar, but their head is replaced with a hand playing a keyboard.

A drum sequencer again surrounded by inset videos, this time including the hand shaking a banana, a frame with six slices of increasingly burnt toast, two sets of hands playing keyboards, and a hand turning a dial on a synth machine titled “Wasp”.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 13/06/2026

My weekly New Music playlist has tracks from Evanescence, Smash Mouth, Sublime, Smashing Pumpkins, and Marilyn Manson. What year is it?

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 07/06/2026

@soapboxsoftware just in case you haven’t seen it, I’ve been noticing this animation error if I slide out of a media item and then immediately start scrolling up on the timeline

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 27/05/2026

Seriously! Check out this candidate statement, y'all — this is how you do it!

MIKE KATZ
Occupation: Cybersecurity Engineer/Researcher
Age: 58
My education and qualifications are: The tech industry has enjoyed a free reign for too long. Corporations are offshoring jobs and replacing them with Al, shedding ethical standards, lobbying against regulations and helping create a surveillance state which endangers us all. Billionaires escape taxation while the social safety net is gutted and healthcare subsidies eliminated. In the name of profit and greed, Americans are losing our human and privacy rights. We are waging needless wars, destroying the planet and killing innocent people. I'm the father of two girls, a former School Board member, a lifelong Democrat, a techie and a human rights activist. As Director of Research for CeHRP and Oakland Privacy, I've fought to raise awareness of ICE's use of Flock cameras and Palantir technologies. I'm running to revive privacy, labor and environmental rights, reign in Big Tech, abolish ICE, reduce military spending and end the genocide of Palestinians. I support Medicare for All, wealth taxes and sensible Al and crypto regulations.
I oppose wars of aggression and support joining the ICC. I will fight for free speech on campuses and free college tuition. I stand with immigrants, the LGBTQ community, people of all colors, Muslims and the working class. Love triumphs over hate. Thank you for voting.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 20/05/2026

Close to arrival — the sun is down, but a thin crescent moon has popped out to say hello. #train

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 20/05/2026

The beauty continues into the sunset. #train

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 19/05/2026

Goodness the coast is beautiful 😮‍💨 #train

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 19/05/2026

On the train back home from #PyConUS. Thank you to everyone I met and all of the old friends for making this week a great respite from the world around us. Long Beach was absolutely *lovely*, and I look forward to seeing you all again next year! 💜

Selfie at the train station, in my “roomette”, with my bags on the seat across from me. I’m looking at the camera with a combination of excitement and exhaustion, wearing my favorite cat ear beanie. Out the window is a local Amtrak California on a nearby platform.

A photo of my view out the window, as the train passes through farm land. A purple baby Kraken plush acquired from the conference sits on the window sill with a smirk.

A photo of the Gulfstream factory at a regional airport, with a variety of Gulfstream airplanes are parked on the tarmac outside of the building.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 18/05/2026

Congradudolences to Long Beach Creamery on 11 years of business… as a hundred pythonistas descend upon the scene for the #PyConUS #IceCreamSelfie 🥳😮‍💨

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 15/05/2026

A Mario taking a picture of a Mario playing a Mario #PyConUS Join us at the PSF booth where you too can be a Mario playing a Mario! @pythonbynight

A photo of Mario playing Mario, while Mario takes a photo of Mario playing Mario.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 15/05/2026

I’m hosting an LGBTQ+ Social open space at #PyConUS tomorrow at noon in Room 102A. Feel free to bring your lunch, hang out, and chat about anything with fellow Pythonistas and allies. Look forward to seeing you there (yes you!) 😸

Screenshot of the LGBTQ+ Social open space registration. The event happens Friday May 15, 12:00 pm PDT, in Room 102A.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 14/05/2026

It’s pretty nice here at night too #PyConUS

Night time photo of from my hotel room, looking out over the convention center towards the harbor, with the boat Queen Mary lit up in the distance, and palm trees backlit by the glow of the city.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 13/05/2026

Good morning #PyConUS, I am extremely happy with my hotel view

View from my hotel window, with a view of the Long Beach harbor, gantry cranes, an old ocean liner, blue skies, palm trees, and nearby hotels. A building mural says “Long Beach Vibe City” in a handwritten style with blue and yellow text.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 27/04/2026

Zero finally getting his well-deserved time in the limelight. #NBPy

Photo of Deb on stage, with a photo slide of Zero, my grey and white tabby, draping his head and paw over my hand while I’m trying to work.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 26/04/2026

“It is a well known fact […] that if you want a job done, you should give it to someone who is already very busy” @phildini at #NBPy

Photo of Phil on stage with a slide containing the given quote.

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