Aria Stewart

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324 Posts

Witch City, MA

Lifetime cyclist, transit lover, and infrastructure nerd.

Community = infrastructure + accountability.

Busses are great, trams are better.

Imagine if roads were parks instead.

Webhttps://dinhe.net/~aredridel/
Bloghttps://aredridel.dinhe.net/
Politics & Techhttps://kolektiva.social/@aredridel/
Aria StewartMar 2
Angus Andrea Grieve-SmithMar 2

In the Iraq wars I got really sick of hearing liberals handwring about deaths among "American soldiers and Iraqi civilians." Can we not do it again with Iran or Venezuela or anywhere else Trump decides to bomb?

If you believe our country's soldiers are fighting an unjust war, then you should value the lives of the people defending others from our country.

Aria StewartMar 2
Show threadApiaryMar 2
There’s still a foot of snow outside, and we might get more. But sun means my house is warmer, and my heart is lighter.
Aria StewartFeb 28
𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇Feb 26

This is big! The default speed limit in #Vancouver is being lowered from 50 km/h to 30 km/h on streets without a centre line. The vote took place last year; the roll-out is now happening in half a dozen neighbourhoods. #visionzero

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/02/25/vancouver-slower-speed-limits-six-neighbourhoods/

Vancouver rolls out slower speed limits in six neighbourhoods

The City of Vancouver began rolling out 30-kilometre-per-hour speed limits on residential streets in six neighbourhoods on Wednesday.

CityNews Vancouver
Aria StewartFeb 26
No gods, no Wordle streaks, no masters (no kings either)
Aria StewartFeb 24
mem_somervilleFeb 22

For anyone who could use a spot of good news--outside of our region you might not have heard of it.

Dr. #RumeysaOzturk has completed her PhD.

"I would like to be called Dr. Öztürk, not Miss Öztürk, from now on.”

Yes, Dr. sister!

#SomervilleMA

https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/02/20/ozturk-phd-tufts-ice-immigration

Rümeysa Öztürk completes doctorate at Tufts nearly a year after harrowing ICE arrest

The Turkish national and Tufts University student was swept off the streets of Somerville last year by masked immigration agents. In a social media post this week, she announced she's completed her doctorate from Tufts’ Department of Child Study and Human Development.

Show threadAria StewartNov 28
@taivlam So many strong parallels here, and I've slipped into two of these communities despite their best efforts to be elitist and terrible, and come away with mostly the good half of their rhetoric and left the rest. .. but I think I got lucky.
Show threadAria StewartNov 15
And a basic web hosting built in too. It's nothing special, but they've made the basic case work for free. And a photo website is a special case, since that's actually what a personal account is going to want like 50% of the time.
Show threadAria StewartNov 15

Their business model is also clear: they charge you money to host email. More people = more cost. Not more domains, not more addresses, not nickel and dime for more services. Just a clear pricing model.

They have some surprisingly good addon services too. Custom DNS? With full technical control? But kinda easy to use? I am shook.

Aria StewartNov 15

I remain completely impressed with the work that the team at Fastmail has done.

If you want to move away from Google, you could do far far worse.

They don't hide technical detail from you when it's important. They've carefully crafted all the text to be specific, but comprehensible. They explain things in clear language. It's really best in class.

Aria StewartNov 13
Crowd SupplyNov 12

Coming soon! Ceres FPGA Development Board - a powerful FPGA dev board with PCIe, DDR4, and 28 Gbps I/O by @mxsparks

https://www.crowdsupply.com/autonoe-systems/ceres-fpga-development-board