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kestrel cravensworth (they/he)
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32, pansexual, a goofy silly guy

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adhd-alien.bsky.social
5 panel comic. Panel 1: the adhd alien figure greets her brain, asking if the brain is ready for some work today. Panel 2: the brain is crying and mumbling. Panel 3: the alien is pleading with the brain that they need to get a lot of things done. Panel 4: the brain is hissing like a cat. Panel 5: the alien simply says „ok then“
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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transmetalmum.bsky.social
Today we remember our beloved trans friends and families members who lost their lives through needless violence and bigotry. We love and miss you every day. It should never be like this. #transdayofrememberance
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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aloft-game.bsky.social
Aloft has joined the Build, Design, Chill event on Steam!

Pick the shiniest rock in the skies and turn it into a place where adventures begin. 🍃🪹

https://bit.ly/4nZqTC5
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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wario64.bsky.social
Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut is $4.99 on GOG buff.ly/aHIfduP #ad
November 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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luminouslyiii.bsky.social
Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice.

They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.
AI generated content disclosure via Arc Raider's Steam page: The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this: During the development process, we may use procedural- and AI-based tools to assist with content creation. In all such cases, the final product reflects the creativity and expression of our own development team.
November 8, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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chlowski.bsky.social
the Bugs Bunny "I wish" meme "I wish all AI enthusiasts a very Fuck You"
November 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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theonion.com
All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny
All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI—In what they described as a collaborative effort to share resources and information in defense of U.S. territory, Pentagon officials confirmed Monday that all six branches of the ...
theonion.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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tendermiasma.com
Censorship is now coming for your dnd and your warhammer and your farming sim, they don't care if it's not adult content. They wanted everything
acvalens.com Ana Valens | 🔞 @acvalens.com · 18d
MasterCard is marketing its new MasterCard Threat Intelligence platform to issuers & acquirers. A source familiar w/ MasterCard’s internal operations told me MTI is flagging anime, VTubing, adult content, tabletop, video games as potentially “high fraud risk”

fintechmagazine.com/news/how-is-...
How is Mastercard Preventing Payment Fraud at Scale?
Announcing Threat Intelligence at Money 20/20 US, Mastercard showcases its latest technology in preventing fraud, combining insights from Recorded Future
fintechmagazine.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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skatunenetwork.bsky.social
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
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
October 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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maladroithe.bsky.social
Some promising news
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.
www.npr.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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legendarium.bsky.social
Still one of the fav things I've made
October 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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sireviscerate.myatproto.social
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
August 28, 2023 at 9:28 PM
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toadcialism.bsky.social
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!
emilyonhere.gay Emily @emilyonhere.gay · 21d
“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten
October 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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ateatree.bsky.social
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!!!
gamesdonequick.com Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com · 21d
GDQUEER STARTS TOMORROW AND WE'RE BENEFITTING Lambda Legal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

gamesdonequick.com/schedule/61
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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menotti.bsky.social
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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glassbottommeg.bsky.social
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
October 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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resnikoff.bsky.social
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...
Tutorial: How to cancel your Spotify subscription
YouTube video by Indivisible
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
baseball posting is unambiguously good for Bluesky. not my thing but we desperately need some lighter topics round these parts
October 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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letitmelo.bsky.social
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.
Ethan Evans, former Amazon VP As VP of Prime Gaming at Amazon, we failed multiple times to disrupt the game platform Steam. We were at least 250x bigger, and we tried everything. But ultimately, Goliath lost. Here's why: The 15+ year long attempt to challenge Steam started before I was VP of Prime Gaming, but we never cracked the code. Not under my leadership or anyone else's. The first way we tried to enter the online-game-store market was through acquisition. We acquired Reflexive Entertainment (a small PC game store) and tried to scale it. It went nowhere. Then, after buying Twitch, we created our own PC games store. Our assumption was that gamers would naturally buy from us because they were already using Twitch. Wrong. Finally, we built "Luna," a game streaming service that let people play without a high-end PC. Around the same time, Google tried the same thing with their product "Stadia." Neither gained significant traction. The whole time, Steam dominated despite being a relatively small company (compared to Amazon and Google). The mistake was that we underestimated what made consumers use Steam It was a store, a social network, a library, and a trophy case all in one. And it worked well. At Amazon, we assumed that size and visibility would be enough to attract customers, but we underestimated the power of existing user habits We never validated our core assumptions before investing heavily in solutions. The truth is that gamers already had the solution to their problems and they weren't going to switch platforms just because a new one was available We needed to build something dramatically better, but we failed to do so. And we needed to validate our assumptions about our customers before starting to build. But we never really did that either. Just because you are big enough to build something doesn't mean people will use it
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
This is so bleak:

www.404media.co/a16z-is-fund...
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.”
October 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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joolia.bsky.social
oh hello
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
October 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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theeldermemes.bsky.social
"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.
jasonschreier.bsky.social Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 29d
SCOOP: For the last two years, Microsoft has pushed Xbox to hit profit margins of 30%, an ambitious target that's far higher than the industry average.

This chase for profit has led Xbox to raise prices, cut thousands of jobs, and rethink everything.

Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins
Management’s goal of 30% profit margins for gaming has led to job losses, canceled projects
www.bloomberg.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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patrickfenelon.bsky.social
*starts rhythmically pounding the table, as ominous music starts playing*

TREE LAW!
TREE LAW!
TREE LAW!
October 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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direkris.itch.io
You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands
October 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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byelacey.bsky.social
support webcomic artists monetarily because they need personal web sites to avoid 🫱 this shit 🫲
tenacity-comic.bsky.social Paige Critchlow @tenacity-comic.bsky.social · Oct 22
Hey, so I'm probably pulling TENACITY off Globalcomix.

Globalcomix made a promotional Youtube video for TENACITY using ChatGPT to write their script for it. I did NOT give my consent to them for this and asked for the video to be taken down(which they did).

Details below ⏬️
#globalcomix #comic
Screenshot from the creator chat channel of the Globalcomix discord server. (1) Screenshot from the creator chat channel of the Globalcomix discord server. (2)
October 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM