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I'm three cocktails, one glass of port, two desserts, and a cheese plate into the evening and it's starting to sound like a great idea to begin a Word of Honor rewatch

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am pleased to report Stop #1 has cheese

A bright pink pomegranate cosmopolitan in a fancy glass, with a pin that says "it's my birthday" resting against the glass

A cheese plate featuring three cheeses, grapes, crackers, and tiny pickles

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It feels weird to go out to do my solo birthday plans amid an unexpected death in the family, but everyone is telling me to go out and try to have fun, so. I am out. Let's see if fun commences

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've been out of the studio for a while, so it hadn't occured to me what might have happened to the price of copper in the interim until I saw a post about data centers burning through it - the relatively cheap, 18-24 gauge copper I use for raising has more than doubled in price in six months

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A message from a bar bathroom stall:

Written in sharpie on a wall, "Byler was endgame. Trust."

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

for those spectating from a safe distance, TSwift fandom continues to eat itself over the new tracks - mostly about Cleveland!, which is the kind of unpopular that forever obligates certain parts of any fandom to take up arms to defend the thing one outraged essay at a time

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have no real birthday plans for today as I'm a day out from a paycheck and three days out from a day off, but! I dug out a "It's My Birthday" pin and I'm wearing it around today. It is, alas, not my Disneyland birthday pin from last year, but it will do

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

an interesting morning to be in a particular fandom I'm in several different subreddits for Particular Fandom, and the positivity-focused ones are eating themselves while the fans having honest feelings-focused ones are delivering one-liners better than anything in Particular Fandom's new material

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Currently on yet another Mass Effect 3 playthrough to try out a male Shep romance with Kaidan. I have, at this point, sampled the majority of romance options. I have opinions.

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the u-pick orchard had a minimum weight ... what am I going to do with all of these apples

An enormous sack of apples sitting on a porch rocker. The bag is clear, and through it you can see fully 25 pounds of freshly picked apples.

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

someone save me from tomato and pepper season, plants can't stop won't stop

Eight containers overflowing with red, orange, yellow, black cherry, and stripey yellow-green tomatoes, plus green poblano, orange habanero, and wrinkly red carolina reaper peppers.

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

now that things have had a day to settle, is this a safe space to admit that my immediate reaction to finding out Paul Gross was cast as HR's homophobia final boss was "noooooo"

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm very excited about Paul Gross, but Kevin Zegers is Josh from Air Bud, and now I'm having a crisis about Josh from Air Bud being in his forties Also, Air Bud never got to play hockey and Chiron is right there, I'm just saying

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

in my basement riding out a tornado warning, so I've been offline, and someone messaged me they were freaking out about the Paul Gross news. I thought he was dead. way more upsetting than a possible tornado

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

honestly not terrible for a cameraphone

The blood moon lunar eclipse at near totality, when the moon is tinted red and just a shining curve of light is visible at the top

The blood moon lunar eclipse, as it escapes one of many clouds

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

logging on after a famous person dies is always like, will I be sad today or will there be an unfortunate plot twist

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I made a fatal attempt at small talk with a man in a [redacted English football team] jersey, just to ask him how his season start was going. He then proceeded to win a trophy for the most mansplaining I have ever received in over twenty years of following Premier League football

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I have a phone gallery folder of reaction gifs that had become too large to navigate successfully, so yesterday I organized it into 66 folders, subfolders, and subsubfolders. It was incredibly relaxing. Everything is so organized But now I'm out of gifs to sort, so ... off to the Tumblr mines I go

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Aria T'Loak is romanceable in my heart

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I planted three kinds of zinnias this year: Benary's Giant Bright Pink, Zowie Yellow Flame, and Profusion Double White. The Profusion are small and cute, a nice border plant - but I'm looking for cut flowers, so I'll probably skip those next time. Zowie Yellow Flame are as pretty as everyone says

A flower with two layers of petals. The outer edges are bright yellow, smearing down into a vibrant red center. The photo doesn't capture this well, but the innermost edge of the petals is a bright magenta.

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My mom, watching me play Mass Effect: "Why is a cow stealing your money?" Me: "For the uprising." Her: "Are ... you just going to stand there and let him steal it?" Me: "Yes. For the cause."

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Combing through the response to this has made for a fascinating afternoon. I'm not unfamiliar with "I wrote the definitive work on this, therefore it belongs to me and everything that follows is derivative and encroaching" academic territorial behavior, but this is so extra

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I DNFed a book for the first time this summer. Not because it was offensive or terrible, just because a hundred pages in I still wasn't hooked and life is short. What a beautiful free feeling Shoutout to the library, which frees me from financial pressure to continue books I'm not enjoying

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Gianna Parasini is romanceable in my heart

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Nintendo, Super Mario Bros. & Duck Hunt It was the hottest thing going until our friends got a SNES and Super Mario World. Then the Nintendo gathered dust forever. The house didn't see much Nintendo gaming after that, aside from my mom's brief Wii Sports era.

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If anyone has a recipe they particularly enjoy that uses fresh cayenne peppers, wave at me! I planted them in May with no particular culinary agenda (I was given a plant and figured, why not), and now I have peppers almost ripe and no ideas beyond salsa

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

#petdeath We had to let Louis go this week. I'm not okay about it, I'm not ready to talk about it, but it happened.

Louis, a black cat with a white spot on his chest, sitting quietly for his portrait. His yellow-green eyes are lit by the sun.

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

oh the shit I would be talking if this account could lock. there are so many people on this web site who would not be feeling my wrath at all because it would be locked away where they would never see it

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My porch plants all went bone dry and withered today despite having been watered yesterday evening. This isn't the biggest problem caused by having the worst air quality in the world, it's just one that caught me by surprise

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

always a delight to have customers at the restaurant

A fuzzy yellow bee collecting pollen on a vibrant purple-pink coneflower

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

😑 should've left certain shirts in storage

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I miss locked posting sometimes not because I want to post my face, or my job, or personal details I wouldn't discuss publicly, but just so randos can't keyword find me

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I can tell when people haven't bothered to be curious about the sandbox they're playing in. It shows. I can't tell if I'm noticing it more lately, or if it's bothering me more, or if fanfic writers are generally becoming less curious. Maybe it's just me.

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

do you guys think I can still redeem this

A coupon book from the defunct 1990s store Media Play, open to a coupon for a Free Paperback (Buy two paperbacks, get a third FREE). In the fine print, it says, "Hurry, coupon valid September 5-25, 1999."

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My overall feelings on Game Changer s8 thus far: - It's been nice to see so many people! Feels like they're using some of that $$ to give more folks screentime, which I am enjoying - Don't Wake Standards & Practices is the only new game so far that I've really enjoyed in both concept and execution

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This is a great time to stop using AI for any part of your fanfic process. The best time to stop was before you started, but the second best time is now. If you've been using AI around the edges of your own work, you're still using AI in your work.

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

the thing about bisexual sitting is that your skeleton and all the bits that hold it together are generally less excited to do it as you age, so it has been a real revelation to discover that my parents' deep tilt recliners are incredible for sitting every which way while fortysomething

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Can we as a society reach an understanding that Hayden Pike is probably the second highest paid player in Montreal. Can we acknowledge that he is making top line, two Cups, point scoring money money. Can we accept that by 2017 every one of his kids' college funds is paid up for Harvard Law

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This is 10/10 incredible, and "hairy like the otters in your DMs" took me out

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I'm watching Ted Lasso with my mom, who has never seen it before. We're midway through s2, and as a halfway point check-in I asked her who her favorite / least favorite characters are. Favorites: Keeley (#1, no hesitation), Ted (also) Least Favorites: Nate ("he seems mean"), Beard ("kinda weird")

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The Utz lemonade chips are ... good actually??

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This has been a truly wild year for people to be getting into hockey for the first time because of HR. Welcome to the NHL, where Theriault could theoretically get fired for his treatment of Shane Hollander, but would be rehired the actual second someone got desperate enough for a Cup

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Quick poll: if there was a sudden whiteout light and the loudest, most apocalyptic sound you've ever heard in real life, would your immediate instinct be to run outside to see what was happening?

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Six years of planting milkweed in the front garden, and this is the first time I've ever seen a monarch caterpillar at the restaurant! A very exciting day!!

A monarch caterpillar with alternating black, white, and yellow stripes, perched on the bright green leaves of a swamp milkweed plant.

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

What a night - Freddie is a Stanley Cup champion - Bussi closed out with a shutout - Taylor Hall has more rings than Connor McDavid - Rod toss-hugged the Cup with no regard for Phil's blood pressure - the schadenfreude was so rich and plentiful we'll be eating on it all summer

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Thunder was continuously rolling inside a storm cloud passing south of us, on and on. Every time it seemed like it was about to fade out, suddenly it got a little louder again. My mom, out of nowhere: "This is like [Erika Ishii]'s really long 'yeah boy' from that episode [of Game Changer]."

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

"I am GOING to Dairy Queen. I will NOT be bullied by fishflies." - me, a whole adult from the big lakes, psyching herself up for the annual battle with the horrors

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

apps that give me push notifications about father's day are getting uninstalled. I do not care who you are. uninstalled. uninstalled

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Trelkez @trelkez.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It has been four days of Curl discourse and I'm going to get a carpal tunnel flare from hitting downvote so much, how did Frost fans cope with this

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