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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 48m

Mine: they should be able to ace it. A ”passing” grade typically can allow 40% wrong answers and that’s awful

arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 11h

Haven't clicked but the way this starts as if their goal were actually faster service and not the surveillance of everyone and everything with faster delivery (powered by even more horrific working conditions) as the excuse.

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 23h

Lil mushroom guys 💖

Sillycat Glassblower @sillycatglass.bsky.social · 1d

De Nouveaux Champignons sont ✨️Disponible✨️🍄
#glassblower

Boucles d’oreilles Champignon Amanite de couleur bleu dans une goutte de verre que j’ai réalisé.

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 23h

Chaiiiiiiii

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 1d

Tidying codebases is not low variability. It is as varied as the ways in which each codebase is distinctly awful.

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 1d

(looks up when reddit was created, crumbles to dust)

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 2d

I order most of my tea online from various indie shops so I’ll keep an eye out

arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh I know English breakfast and Irish breakfast and Scottish breakfast but I don’t think I’ve seen Welsh breakfast- new tea to hunt down! 😄

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 2d

I understand this and also my electric kettle is my most used appliance. How else would I get the right temp for a white tea and a delicate green tea and a green oolong and a roasted oolong and various puer & black teas?

(Only thing it can’t do is raise the boiling point here to the standard 212F.)

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 2d

The IG part sounds like realtors using others’ photos to make their posts/themselves look good

arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 2d

If you mean generally photographers sign away ownership, that’s a thing some do and many do not. Lack of professionalism indeed. It’s their job to know what rights they have and where/how that means they can post things. It’s also sites like Zillow using things in ways agents cannot authorize.

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 3d

There are more reports and articles including a major lawsuit against Zillow for unauthorized use of tens of thousands of photographs if you look instead of deciding your perception of your personal experience is representative. rworld.com/blog/photos-...

Photos Are Intellectual Property But ‘Stolen’ All the Time — Broward, Palm Beaches & St. Lucie Realtors®

There’s been a recent uptick in the number of Florida companies accused of copyright infringement, alleging they used website photos without the true owner’s permission.

rworld.com

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 3d

Bully for you.

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 3d

Also, in my case, allegedly, not bothering to keep record of who the photographer was and then misrepresenting the photographs as their own.

arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 3d

Seems pretty self-explanatory. Using photographs they have no right to - like reusing the photographs from a previous listing from years earlier without the photographer’s permission.

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 3d

“worked on the soundtracks for Final Fantasy XIV and Chrono Trigger”

…and like every single other Final Fantasy 🐐

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 3d

As if the rampant image theft by realtors wasn’t bad enough (it’s a lot of why the theft engine aspect of gen ‘AI’ is so personal to me)

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 5d

Got an hour and a bit this morning to save your older computer from the landfill or just give Microsoft the boot on principle?

JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 6d

As, promised, here's my Guide to leaving Microsoft behind and switching to Linux Mint.

Say Goodbye To Microsoft AI, Ads and Other Nonsense. Switch to Linux Mint!

YouTube video by JayIsPainting at EarthSkyArt

youtu.be

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 4d

There are a lot of websites that spread your session traffic across multiple subdomains.

When I block cookies by default, I have to put an exception in for each subdomain on which I allow session cookies, because somehow I can't grant a domain-level exception.

I hate those websites.

arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 4d

"maybe the emperor should start wearing clothes"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4d

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

No more kings. Vimes had difficulty in articulating why this should be so, why the concept resonated in his very bones. After all, a good many of the patricians had been as bad as any king. But they were...sort of...bad on equal terms. What set Vimes's teeth on edge was the idea that kings were a different kind of human being. A higher lifeform. Somehow magical.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 5d

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 5d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 5d

😭

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arestelle @arestelle.bsky.social · 5d

What, don’t you love contemporary bland man-cave gray? All gray all the time

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