kestrel cravensworth (they/he)

Picture of the standing holding a copy of death of the heart up to their head. Their other hand is up over their forehead giving a peace sign. Behind them is a “Florida welcomes you” sign

The no. 1 album you slept on this year 🙂‍↕️

Lmk if you’ve bumped this or seen us play these songs live 👀 if u haven’t, you got some listening to do

An Alzheimer's pill appears to protect some in a high-risk population A new study is reviving hope that a twice-daily pill can slow down Alzheimer's in people whose genes put them at high risk for the disease.

Some promising news

Still one of the fav things I've made

All the scrolls in the Library at Alexandria could probably have fit on a 16 GB hard drive, how important could it have been, honestly

I got a million problems; what people buy with SNAP cards ain’t one of them.

Everyone should police their Congressmen the way they police total fucking strangers at the grocery store: we’d actually be better off for it!

Extremely proud of how this has all come together - please come out to enjoy what the team put together (including myself, @mr-shasta.fastestfurs.com, @lazlotus.bsky.social, @carrarium.bsky.social and @metroidcrime.com as the games committee) and support the crucial work of @lambdalegal.org!!!

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Someday I'm gonna update my pie chart of Where SkateBIRD Made Money, minus the first year, and everyone's gonna go "AMAZON? REALLY?!"

Like they seem confused now but Luna really was fine to work with, a good partner, they paid on time, contract negotiation ezpz, etc

The Luna team itself was cool

YouTube video by Indivisible Tutorial: How to cancel your Spotify subscription

FYI if you have a Spotify membership, Indivisible is asking people to cancel until they stop running ICE recruitment ads. Instructions on how to do it here: www.youtube.com/shorts/TKp7c...

baseball posting is unambiguously good for Bluesky. not my thing but we desperately need some lighter topics round these parts

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

Last week, I wrote about Doublespeed, essentially a click farm that sells “synthetic influencers” to astroturf whatever product or service you want across social media, despite it being a clear violation of every social media platform's policy on inauthentic behavior. But that was just the tip of the iceberg. a16z’s Speedrun is also backing: Creed: An AI company “rooted in Christian Values” which produces Lenny, a “Bible-based AI buddy who's always got your back with wise words, scripture-inspired guidance, and a listening ear whenever you need it.” Zingroll: The “world’s largest Netflix-quality AI streaming platform,” which is another way of saying it’s a Netflix populated exclusively with AI Slop. Vega: which is building “AI-powered social orbits.” What does that mean? Not entirely clear, but the company has produced one of the most beautiful Mad Libs paragraphs I’ve ever seen: “We’re building the largest textual data moat on human relationships by gamifying the way people leave notes for each other. For the first time, LLMs can analyze millions of raw, human-written notes at scale and turn them into structured meaning, powering the most annotated social graph ever created.” Moona Health: an AI-powered Sleep care app the company says is covered by insurance. “Our AI-powered platform automates insurance claims and scheduling and analyzes sleep data – providing personalized session guidelines to therapists,” Moona says. Jooba: “The world’s first autonomous recruiting firm.” Margin: “The World’s first AI powered credit card.” Margin says “Customers earn points, with dynamic rewards that adapt to their preferences in real time.” First Voyage: A wellness app that gives you AI “mythological pets that turn wellness into play.” Axon Capital: billed as “DeepMind for Finance,” Axon says it has “pioneered brain-inspired, low-latency AI for financial markets.”

This is so bleak:

www.404media.co/a16z-is-fund...

Georgie a cream Shiba Inu wears a hand knit balaclava with pointy ears. The hat is greens and blues and tbh the pup doesn’t look that happy

Another angle of Georgie a cream Shiba Inu wearing a hand knit balaclava with pointy ears. The hat is greens and blues and tbh the pup doesn’t look that happy

oh hello

"why are games so expensive"
"why are mass layoffs happening"
"why are games getting cancelled"
"why did that popular studio close"

it's capitalism. capitalism is why all of this is happening. the rampant prioritizing of profit over the all else, from price and quality to dev health and well being.

*starts rhythmically pounding the table, as ominous music starts playing*

TREE LAW!
TREE LAW!
TREE LAW!

You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands

support webcomic artists monetarily because they need personal web sites to avoid 🫱 this shit 🫲

POV: The new singer of the Reading Rainbow theme song and the new host of Reading Rainbow meet for the first time in Canada 🥹📚🌈

Video Description:
Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨

youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared

What Does POTS Stand For? POSTURAL: Related to the position of your body ORTHOSTATIC: Related to standing upright TACHYCARDIA: Increased heart rate SYNDROME: A group of symptoms

It’s POTS awareness day—a blood flow problem common after Covid.

POTS can be subtle—I often wonder how many people who feel rundown, anxious or distracted have this treatable condition.

Main criteria is heart rate going up >30bpm when going from laying down to standing—smthg you can check at home!

Screen shot of The Conversation headline: Autism charities portray Autistic people as helpless and a burden - our research shows why it matters

📢 New research: how Autism charities talk about Autistic people.

TLDR: they say we're a problem.

Summary in The Conversation: theconversation.com/autism-chari...

Full text: https://doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0335132

@helenabnett.bsky.social @kat-williams.bsky.social @willowholloway.bsky.social

Sex 2

Image 1/6 of the "Test" Crow Time update where a knight with a blade that can cut thru all man-made matter is being challenged by a crow to cut a cake.

Image 2/6 of the "Test" Crow Time update where a knight with a blade that can cut thru all man-made matter is being challenged by a crow to cut a cake.

Image 3/6 of the "Test" Crow Time update where a knight with a blade that can cut thru all man-made matter is being challenged by a crow to cut a cake.

Image 4/6 of the "Test" Crow Time update where a knight with a blade that can cut thru all man-made matter is being challenged by a crow to cut a cake.

Test 1/2

real talk "kids have been priced out of toys" is a really fucked up sentence that I think speaks to a sickness deep in our society, this should not be a thing that happens

Went for a walk to look at the changing leaves. It was good... except no one bothered to bump into me as we both drop our things in a clumsy meet-cute moment then go get hot cocoa and croissants. Please give me time to recover from this travesty.

*screams*

“Apple, Google, and Meta were under no obligation to remove these apps,” says @alexabdo.bsky.social. “If they did it because the DOJ threatened them, even implicitly, that’s a First Amendment violation. The government shouldn’t be able to behave like a mob boss in going after protected speech.”

Enormous alpha Scolipede in Pokémon za looking down at my player character’s outdoor cafe table in the silent imploring way only very big dogs are able to do, staring down silently, being Very Good about simply not leaning down and grabbing it

A Little Sip Of Coffee For Scolipede Please? A Little Sip Would Not Hurt Scolipede. Please Put Cup On Snout For A Little Sip For Scolipede Just A Little Taste

Of course women don't like the Cybertruck.

Women only want one thing, and it’s an original Masters of the Universe Battle Bones fully loaded with Heroic Warriors and Evil Warriors and with a mouth full of weapons and accessories.