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jesslyn 🎃

@squishybelle.bsky.social

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anxious lost princess. she/her. hella gay. always making stuff. trying not to let the existential dread set in

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jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · Oct 19

i thought i should (re)introduce myself. hi! i'm jesslyn. i'm a toy designer & collector, australian volunteer wildlife rescuer, and crazy bunny lady.

i procrastinate a lot and sometimes 3d print things.

basic red haired white girl with glasses in her natural habitat, at home in front of the computer

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jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 17h

i just had to rescue my favourite swan and he's probably not going to make it

scraggle why :(

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jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 22h

he's a bit terrifying

an intense rainbow lorikeet staring down a fluttershy toy

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jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 2d

the circle of life was not messing around today.

a heartbreaking rescue of a swan so weak it couldn't hold its head up any more

.. and then the discovery of three newly hatched baby cygnets, right near home

a black swan unable to lift its head, which is laying near its foot, which is tangled in seaweed. it is alive but doesn't look like it.

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jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 2d

i only discovered this because i googled the url Firefox was hanging on and someone had posted the config line to disable http3 so i googled that to make sure it was legit and there was someone with the exact same problem two years ago on the ISPs forums 🫠🫠🫠

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jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 2d

solved!! the new router connects to the internet via IPv6 with a newer protocol that the old one didn't support, which combined with the ISP using CGNAT, can cause issues with http3 on Firefox

so it's NOT the routers fault, it's a gremlin that only the new router could see

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jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 3d

and i think its only happening with ipv6 connected sites

jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 3d

i think what might be happening with the router is that my habit of opening like 20 tabs at once from a folder of bookmarks is tripping some kind of bot/ddos protection

the clue - google search just refused to load in firefox. i tried chrome and it made me confirm i was human first before loading

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jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 3d

i am so tired of being asked if i am a robot, having to do captchas, entering verification codes, and approving things in an app

why does the future suck so much

jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 4d

sometimes you tell yourself you're going to try to save money this week

but then you see a deal on age of the primes trypticon.

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jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 4d

i could just give up and return the router but that feels even worse

there's probably nothing even wrong with it

jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 4d

i hate being my own tech support

I hate feeling so out of my depths understanding things and that, historically, posting for help has been an absolute last resort that is rarely helpful

if i can't google my way to a resolution and do it on my own, its over. there's no one to fix it for me

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jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 4d

!

i cant wait to hear it 🥹🥹🥹

jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 7d

forgetting to refill the cat water until the pump makes a noise like a wet smoker's cough

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jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 7d

i have spent hours tweaking wifi config settings to diagnose an issue where sometimes a page will just sit blank and not load

straight up not having a good time

jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 7d

i bought a router for 59% off from the amazon sales and now im getting my full 500mbit internet speed over wifi instead of being bottlenecked around 100

jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 7d

our best theory is the delivery driver delivered and photographed the wrong item, actually realized that mistake, picked it back up, and in an uncharacteristic display of going the extra mile, returned a few hours later to deliver the correct one?

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jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 7d

so it turns out the parcel was not stolen but we have a bigger mystery -

* a parcel is delivered and photographed
* i check the door and there is nothing there. assume stolen
* later there is a completely different parcel there, correctly addressed, containing the printer bar

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jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 7d

and then the second delivery of the day was stolen from the doorstep. it was an LED bar for my 3d printer.

a small stupid part of me is hoping they'll put it back when they discover how useless it is to them

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jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 7d

i bought a router for 59% off from the amazon sales and now im getting my full 500mbit internet speed over wifi instead of being bottlenecked around 100

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love & barley 🐸🌶️🪏🎃 @loveandbarley.bsky.social · 9d

give greta thunberg a gundam

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jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 9d

this was for a bushfire in tasmania

i live in melbourne

there is a whole damn strait inbetween us

jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 9d

and i can't just turn it off because WHAT IF there was a relevant emergency

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jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 9d

dear phone,

i have anxiety. i live in a constant state of 'shields up, red alert'

can you not?

thank

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 10d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 11d

this is a tragedy. i have five pairs of these beloved pants. it's an elastic waist with no pull string or loops :(

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jesslyn 🎃 @squishybelle.bsky.social · 11d

if you are a woman or have a woman in your life you will know the rarity and triumph of finding the perfect pair of pants that also HAVE POCKETS

thanks to my weight loss they are now too big and i can no longer use the pockets because even just having my phone in there makes them fall down

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