Kestrel Casey

There are actually 3 Warning songs in the karaoke book. I can't sing them, but someday I will get drunk and try Evolve.

It does look like a shower, but i think it's a giant version of the thing bank drive-thrus use to send checks through the pneumatic tubes

I love that like a third of the comments are "WHO GAVE PAU A FLAMETHROWER"

Also, thanks for the heads up that this was out.

Why do I feel like Harry Kim is wearing rollerblades just out of frame

Photo and caption: A common loon defends its territory from a predatory bald eagle

Loons are also precious to parts of Vermont, so I saved this a while ago and think of it often

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Every year I think I want one of these, and then it makes my teeth hurt and I enjoy it exactly none

How dare you. 2 forever. (Except that I've moved from V7s to V5s as my hands have become shakier.)

Regret to say that for a little while I did this exact kind of "editing" work...on Fiverr.

It was a broke and desperate time.

I once got about halfway to making moving ears with arduinos and tiny motors, if you're looking to go way out there

We have a few disagreements, but she marched in our Pride parade and, having met her, I can say she's got a very polite fierceness.

This is soooo pleasing especially with SOUND ON!

This is a dangerous road, because it's exactly what I did and now, years later, I'm screaming into the void because I need newer/better hardware but can't afford the Windows 11 AI laptops that are scarfing up all the parts 🤦🏻‍♀️

(Real but kidding. Try Linux, folks, it's good.)

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

It might finally be the golden age, if Microsoft has anything to say about it.

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I also used a hint.

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I've heard Mint Cinnamon is now The Thing for normie conversion. Otherwise I probably would have wanted to poke around Bazzite and see what it can actually do.

For the first time in my life, I'm setting up linux as the daily driver.

Not only that, I'm going with Mint because I want to play around with the "most accessible" distro, for when I inevitably end up recommending and/or tech supporting it for other people.

To robot hell with both of them

I'm bonus annoyed at that second one because it's part of such an obvious trend. "Well, AI can't do *my* job, because it's bad at my job, but it's fine to replace someone else's job that I rely on." It isn't.

Also, calling AI vocals "an accessibility measure" pisses me right off.

To be fair, they said "we're not using AI to write articles, we're just starting off by using it to make audio versions."

Which isn't, in my eyes, better, because 1. That's unnecessary environmental damage, and 2. Why is it okay to replace one type of worker (a reader) if not the others

Because of the color shift in my phone, there was a brief moment in which by brain interpreted the peanut butter as pesto.

Now that I've sorted that out, 10/10, would eat.

I'll say this for the SFWA AI survey, at least it had an option for "There is no ethical use case for AI."

The struggle is real 💜

Don't bother with the survey; it's designed to force answers that look like you're cool with them using AI.

Just block and move on.

Whoever wrote this form tried so hard to force results that look like consent.

Everybody hates this. Whoever suggested it is a fool. And you're not just losing money and eyeballs today: you're getting blocked by a large chunk of your potential future audience.

Bye forever! 😊

I don't know why this has "shaved a wizard" vibes, but it does.

Also, the amateur stylist in me wants to see what it would look like if you tried thinning shears next time instead.

If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

The only thing I know to do about war is to warn people not to enlist.

The military—all branches, all jobs—will fuck up your life even if they don't outright end it.

It will not help you. It will not keep its promises. That shit ended with WWII. It will just ruin you and move on.

Back in my day we made the macaroni and cheese without milk for the powder packet and we threw in whatever else we got from cull at the co-op and we fucking liked it.

Well, no, we didn't like it, but we all smoked a pack a day back then, so we couldn't taste it anyway.