Moon Kestrel 🦊🌙
@themoonkestrel.bsky.social
Photosensitive Fox. Book lover. Blogger. Artist. Nerd. Engineer. Writer. Gamer. Aerialist. Geek. Streamer. She/her.
'May your ink never mix with your tea.'
'May your ink never mix with your tea.'
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⭐🌟 searching by starlight 🌟⭐
November 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
⭐🌟 searching by starlight 🌟⭐
After a bit of chaos, this year's tattoo and road trip have a date 👀
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
After a bit of chaos, this year's tattoo and road trip have a date 👀
Moon Reads: Narwhal's Sweet Tooth by Ben Clanton. What happens when a narwhal eats too many sweets?
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November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Moon Reads: Narwhal's Sweet Tooth by Ben Clanton. What happens when a narwhal eats too many sweets?
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YOU MATTER.
and to my chronically ill, disabled, closeted, homebound, or otherwise "invisible" friends & folks... you are ✨ valuable ✨
I refuse to submit myself to a system that says that productivity determines worth. Fuck that.
You exist, and you are a TREASURE. Nothing is required of you.
and to my chronically ill, disabled, closeted, homebound, or otherwise "invisible" friends & folks... you are ✨ valuable ✨
I refuse to submit myself to a system that says that productivity determines worth. Fuck that.
You exist, and you are a TREASURE. Nothing is required of you.
You matter.
Not in the way people usually say it.
Not in the “chin up” or “you’ve got this” way.
I mean you…exactly as you are right now. With all your hurt, your warmth, your doubts, your quiet strength.
You are not a burden.
You are a pulse…alive, human, enough.
And I’m glad you’re here 💙🫂
Not in the way people usually say it.
Not in the “chin up” or “you’ve got this” way.
I mean you…exactly as you are right now. With all your hurt, your warmth, your doubts, your quiet strength.
You are not a burden.
You are a pulse…alive, human, enough.
And I’m glad you’re here 💙🫂
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
YOU MATTER.
and to my chronically ill, disabled, closeted, homebound, or otherwise "invisible" friends & folks... you are ✨ valuable ✨
I refuse to submit myself to a system that says that productivity determines worth. Fuck that.
You exist, and you are a TREASURE. Nothing is required of you.
and to my chronically ill, disabled, closeted, homebound, or otherwise "invisible" friends & folks... you are ✨ valuable ✨
I refuse to submit myself to a system that says that productivity determines worth. Fuck that.
You exist, and you are a TREASURE. Nothing is required of you.
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"architect or gardener" methods of work are overrated, I make dry stone walls where I've collected weird ideas for decades and when I wanna draw something I can just stack them where the weird edges naturally fit together.
November 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"architect or gardener" methods of work are overrated, I make dry stone walls where I've collected weird ideas for decades and when I wanna draw something I can just stack them where the weird edges naturally fit together.
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Artist be like if I shift this line 0.05 cm to the left, increase overlay by 2%, and move this character’s head slightly by 3° will make a life changing difference that everyone notices
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Artist be like if I shift this line 0.05 cm to the left, increase overlay by 2%, and move this character’s head slightly by 3° will make a life changing difference that everyone notices
Moon Reads: An Unlikely Coven by AM Kvita, with big thanks to Orbit Books UK for this fun read about found family and magic. @orbitbooks.bsky.social #gifted
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November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Moon Reads: An Unlikely Coven by AM Kvita, with big thanks to Orbit Books UK for this fun read about found family and magic. @orbitbooks.bsky.social #gifted
Moon Hauls: Colours of Magic Illumicrate
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November 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Moon Hauls: Colours of Magic Illumicrate
At this point, things that weren't "AI" have been rebranded to be AI, doesn't mean they're more than algorithms or generative LLMs. It's marketing and hype and trying to make it seem fancier.
As I regularly note, "AI" at this point is an umbrella marketing term for a bunch or generative/machine learning/other formerly differently-termed processes that (of course) have no actual intelligence behind them. It means nothing useful for how the underlying computing proceeds. Thus the quotes.
I love how you used quotation marks around "AI." If you've been doing that all along, I'm kicking myself for not noticing. It's a misleading or just lying marketing term and we shouldn't accept and repeat it without pushback. Generative LLMs are not AI.
November 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
At this point, things that weren't "AI" have been rebranded to be AI, doesn't mean they're more than algorithms or generative LLMs. It's marketing and hype and trying to make it seem fancier.
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A thread about how artists are treated more like a natural resource to be mined by others, rather than as valued workers in the industries based on their work.
Let me tell you about the weird business that delivers art into our lives, and the impact it has on the long-term careers of artists. This is a thread prompted by yet another article on authors' incomes, and the inevitable reactions from the 'people-would-pay-if-it-was-worth-it-to-them' brigade. 1/
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
A thread about how artists are treated more like a natural resource to be mined by others, rather than as valued workers in the industries based on their work.
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The thing about the relentless march of time is that you only get an ending (happy or otherwise) in fiction. Here in the real world no cause is ever lost forever even though we may not live to see it prevail. This is both hope and cautionary tale.
"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences.
Don't say the second when you mean the first.
Don't say the second when you mean the first.
October 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The thing about the relentless march of time is that you only get an ending (happy or otherwise) in fiction. Here in the real world no cause is ever lost forever even though we may not live to see it prevail. This is both hope and cautionary tale.
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I think about this advice a lot: start your project now, today, even if it'll take you 10 years to do, because the time is going to pass anyway. Time is going to march on! Might as well have something in progress!
June 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I think about this advice a lot: start your project now, today, even if it'll take you 10 years to do, because the time is going to pass anyway. Time is going to march on! Might as well have something in progress!
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Video games fundamentally require teleological thinking: to achieve goal X, you must do Y.
Llm's lack any kind of teleology, they fundamentally cannot produce a coherent video game.
Because no matter the video game, there are goals to achieve and some means of achieving those goals.
Llm's lack any kind of teleology, they fundamentally cannot produce a coherent video game.
Because no matter the video game, there are goals to achieve and some means of achieving those goals.
October 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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One of the things I've been doing that take time is a new discipline (if I had the money and time I would get a degree on this) of circus. This is a tiny snippet from last week. Which I have improved significantly on this week. #cyrWheel #circusArts
October 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
One of the things I've been doing that take time is a new discipline (if I had the money and time I would get a degree on this) of circus. This is a tiny snippet from last week. Which I have improved significantly on this week. #cyrWheel #circusArts
Moon Reads: The Moth Keeper, a sweet nightly story about community and choices.
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October 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Moon Reads: The Moth Keeper, a sweet nightly story about community and choices.
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When developers get the lion's share of a video game's profits and not executives and shareholders, then we can talk about raising the price of games.
But miss me with this $100 shit when we have leeches like Phil Spencer and Andrew Wilson constantly laying off devs for a quarterly boost.
But miss me with this $100 shit when we have leeches like Phil Spencer and Andrew Wilson constantly laying off devs for a quarterly boost.
October 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
When developers get the lion's share of a video game's profits and not executives and shareholders, then we can talk about raising the price of games.
But miss me with this $100 shit when we have leeches like Phil Spencer and Andrew Wilson constantly laying off devs for a quarterly boost.
But miss me with this $100 shit when we have leeches like Phil Spencer and Andrew Wilson constantly laying off devs for a quarterly boost.
It's been a very busy overwhelming time recently at work, but I found out that people put in their yearly surveys that I am one of the reasons they stay here, and it touched me that I have impact in their lives and make work a better place.
October 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
It's been a very busy overwhelming time recently at work, but I found out that people put in their yearly surveys that I am one of the reasons they stay here, and it touched me that I have impact in their lives and make work a better place.
Happy publication day to The Isle in the Silver Sea by @tashasuri.bsky.social , an exquisite tale that will wrap itself around you. With thanks to @orbitbooks.bsky.social
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October 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Happy publication day to The Isle in the Silver Sea by @tashasuri.bsky.social , an exquisite tale that will wrap itself around you. With thanks to @orbitbooks.bsky.social
Moon Hauls: Darker Academia @illumicrate.bsky.social
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October 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Moon Hauls: Darker Academia @illumicrate.bsky.social
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The IDF took 3D animations from the Scottish Maritime Museum, a cyberpunk project and other places to make shit up about Gaza, Lebanon and Iran and these were reproduced in international outlets for the past 2 years.
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NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
October 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The IDF took 3D animations from the Scottish Maritime Museum, a cyberpunk project and other places to make shit up about Gaza, Lebanon and Iran and these were reproduced in international outlets for the past 2 years.
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I feel like this is a PSA but: most soap doesn't kill bacteria, it's just mechanically removing it from your skin.
What it does do is bond to grease which is why it's a good solution to remove, say, cooking oil or similar
(Depends on what's in the soap obv yadda yadda)
What it does do is bond to grease which is why it's a good solution to remove, say, cooking oil or similar
(Depends on what's in the soap obv yadda yadda)
October 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I feel like this is a PSA but: most soap doesn't kill bacteria, it's just mechanically removing it from your skin.
What it does do is bond to grease which is why it's a good solution to remove, say, cooking oil or similar
(Depends on what's in the soap obv yadda yadda)
What it does do is bond to grease which is why it's a good solution to remove, say, cooking oil or similar
(Depends on what's in the soap obv yadda yadda)
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Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.
Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.
Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.
Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.
Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.
October 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.
Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.
Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.
Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.
Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.
Moon Reads: Dark Fairies an anthology that brings magic back
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October 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Moon Reads: Dark Fairies an anthology that brings magic back
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"My eyes are gone, but I see-see!"
I drew Lord Skrolk from Warhammer Fantasy in 2018 it seems, and put some post-its in his Liber Bubonicus, cause it's important to keep track of important info.
I found him in a plague ridden folder just now and made me happy.
I drew Lord Skrolk from Warhammer Fantasy in 2018 it seems, and put some post-its in his Liber Bubonicus, cause it's important to keep track of important info.
I found him in a plague ridden folder just now and made me happy.
October 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
"My eyes are gone, but I see-see!"
I drew Lord Skrolk from Warhammer Fantasy in 2018 it seems, and put some post-its in his Liber Bubonicus, cause it's important to keep track of important info.
I found him in a plague ridden folder just now and made me happy.
I drew Lord Skrolk from Warhammer Fantasy in 2018 it seems, and put some post-its in his Liber Bubonicus, cause it's important to keep track of important info.
I found him in a plague ridden folder just now and made me happy.