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Mike Rastiello
@mikerastiello.com
Trying to be better.

He/Him

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Austin, TX

Check out @amomentinrock.com

https://mike.fail
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Hey guys! I'm excited to be launching a new project and website - amateur concert photography by me around Austin, TX.

This is a passion project, combining my love of music and photography, where I will try to capture special moments on stage.

I'd love if you'd follow along here, or at the site.
Hey everyone! It's @mikerastiello.com here with another new project - amomentinrock.com

Amateur concert photography by me, taken around Austin and elsewhere.

You can follow this account for updates when I see a new show.
A Moment in Rock
Amateur concert photography by Mike Rastiello
amomentinrock.com
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It's my duck in a box
November 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is the first (non-Looney Tunes) road runner that I ever saw.

It was 2013 and I was actually 32 years old.
November 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Last night our friends came over with their two Boston terriers and I achieved my greatest form: a dog bed. #dachshund #bostonterrier #dogs
November 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
It's my duck in a box
November 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
November 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Every morning is a game of keep away. #dachshund #dogs
November 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Leopards and faces and all.
November 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This is a religious figure talking the talk and walking the walk.

More of them need to step up like this man.
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Out today, a visit to the "Trans Takeover" of Barton Springs: All across the stone slab, LGBTQ+ folks sat in clusters, talking and dipping in and out of the water together. ... Happy people who use every pronoun and none at all.
At Barton Springs, Trans Existence Becomes Resistance
Following a transphobic incident earlier this year, community members gathered to "protect trans joy."
www.texasobserver.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Now playing. #vinyl
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
We went on a lengthy walk this morning. As usual, Poppy’s nose led the way and today it led her up a little hill next to the sidewalk. What she didn’t understand was as she was walking up the hill, I was on the flat sidewalk.

She was very confused and didn’t know how to get down.

#dachshunds #dogs
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
All glory to the giant coffee shop cinnamon roll.
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Please, my state. It’s so dry.
WITH WHAT WATER? AND ON WHAT POWER GRID??
If the plans come to fruition, Texas would have more Google data centers than anywhere else in the world, CEO Sundar Pichai announced with Gov. Greg Abbott. bit.ly/49UoTrr
November 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
And another thing: I didn’t get peed on. Please dont put in the newspaper that i got peed on.
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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At the
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM
I like to sit down when I brush my teeth.

It’s more enjoyable.

I bet there’s some more weirdos like me out there.
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 AM
It is insane to me that businesses across the globe pay Microsoft billions of dollars combined for the shittiest and wildly unproductive application suite.

Office is pure garbage and everyone is just fine with that?
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I still can’t believe that people don’t understand that any written or typed communication is never private.

The shit people put in emails and texts is mind blowing.
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I think bacon is better on chicken sandwiches than burgers.

And I love bacon on burgers.

I will not be taking questions at this time.
November 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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me and whomst
November 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
🎧 I saw Pony open for Pool Kids a few weeks ago and they were a lot of fun. #vinyl #vinylsky
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Hell yeah.

Wordle 1,607 2/6

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November 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Do not under any circumstance hand your phone to law enforcement.
November 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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NORTHERN LIGHTS ARE BANGIN IN AUSTIN
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Poppy loves a fire. #dachshund #dogs
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM