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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 17/06/2026

As Argentina warms up for their World Cup opener, I can't help but remember one of the most absurd moments of live TV I've ever seen

Argentina goalkeeper Emi Martinez positioning his Golden Glove trophy on his crotch while a Qatari host looks on, unamused

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 11/06/2026

Despite a dismal 3rd quarter, the Spurs still led by 20 and had a 99.6% win probability AGAIN with 9:33 left in the the 4th

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 11/06/2026

The Spurs had 99.6% win probability at 9:27 in the 3rd quarter 😯 Wemby's flagrant was the exact point when the tide turned. The Knicks then scored 12 unanswered points.

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 11/06/2026

The tortoise and the hare

Box score of the Spurs vs Knicks. The Spurs' quarterly scores were 41, 35, 14, and 16. The Knicks' were 22, 27, 26, and 32. The Knicks won 107-106.

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 25/04/2026

Oh wow look out guys were sending in the big guns

Screenshot of CNN top story, headline "US envoys Witkoff and Kushner heading to Pakistan tomorrow"

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 02/01/2026

This me the moment he said the line and then after the perspective gained from 15 seconds of additional thought

The Kombucha Girl meme captioned with "The warmth of collectivism" on both sides. On the left, the woman looks repulsed, and on the right, the same woman looks intrigued.

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 21/12/2025

Also reminded of this moment right before Chael Sonnen took a flying knee to his solar plexus in his rematch against Anderson Silva

Chael Sonnen looks helplessly upward at Anderson Silva, his mouth hanging open, in their UFC rematch. He his on his butt, backed against the cage, and Silva is approaching him to attack.

Moments later, Silva will land a knee to Sonnen's body and finish him with punches.

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 19/12/2025

Front of house vs back of house

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 12/11/2025

We're all just trying to find the guy who did this.gif

Screenshot of text from a CNN article:

When the Fox host responded, “We have plenty of talented people here,” Trump replied, “No, you don’t, no you don’t … you don’t have certain talents, and people have to learn. You can’t take people off an unemployment line and say, ‘I’m going to put you into a factory where we’re going to make missiles.’”

The president pointed to the September ICE raid of a Georgia Hyundai facility, which saw authorities arrest and deport hundreds of South Korean contractors over their immigration status, as evidence of the country’s need for skilled foreign workers.

“In Georgia, they raided because they wanted illegal immigrants out — they had people from South Korea that made batteries all their life,” Trump said. “You know, making batteries is very complicated. It’s not an easy thing. Very dangerous, a lot of explosions, a lot of problems. They had like 500 or 600 people, early stages, to make batteries and to teach people how to do it. Well, they wanted them to get out of the country. You’re going to need that, Laura.”

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 09/11/2025

Absolutely glorious day at Mount Rainier National Park earlier today

Mount Rainier in the background, with a mostly blue sky behind it and the Nisqually River running in the foreground

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 14/09/2025

Sea Hear Now on the Jersey Shore is the best vibe, year after year after year

The sun setting over the crowd at the Sea Hear Now music festival on the beach at Asbury Park. In the left side of the picture, the sun is setting. In the top of the picture is a beautiful sky with small clouds. In the right side of the picture is the stage with the band Alabama Shakes.

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 25/08/2025

This just popped up in my Insta and felt adjacent to what I've been posting about parenting

Screenshot of the caption of a Dr. Becky (@drbeckyatgoodinside)Instagram post: We don't need to optimize every moment of our kids' lives for their pleasure. Sometimes, it's actually good for kids to be bored, or to do something they don't enjoy, or to show up for a sibling even when theyd rather be somewhere else.

These are moments that build empathy, patience, and resilience - the skills that make us good humans. And yes, they'll whine. And that's okay.

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 24/08/2025

It's funny that half my other posts today are about reading Dune, and I just highlighted this quote a couple hours ago. I put a note on the highlight that said "I feel attacked" 😂

Screenshot of a quote from Dune that says "Truth suffers from too much analysis"

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 03/08/2025

This children's museum has a simulated package delivery thing my kids love Damn, maybe they actually do yearn for the mines

Package delivery exhibit with a lift and a screen that animates when packages are dropped into the machine

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 03/08/2025

Good morning, Pittsburgh!

Downtown Pittsburgh, from the North Shore

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 02/08/2025

In the case of many Ivies, the only people paying the sticker price were international students and rich kids. For years, American students upper middle class on down have been guaranteed a debt-free education. college.harvard.edu/admissions/w...

Screenshot of text from Harvard's website:

What Does Harvard Cost?

Harvard costs what your family can afford. We make sure of that.

$100,000 family income and below, with typical assets: Free

Financial aid covers all billed expenses, including tuition, fees, food, housing, and more, including a $2,000 start-up grant (first year), health insurance (if needed), travel costs between campus and home, winter gear, event fees, and other activities, and a $2,000 launch grant (junior year) to help students prepare for post-Harvard life.

$200,000 family income and below, with typical assets: Free Tuition Plus

Financial aid covers the full cost of tuition, plus. In addition to tuition, students qualify for financial aid to cover additional costs, such as fees, food, and housing, based on their individual financial circumstances.

...continues on.

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 17/07/2025

Zohran Mamdani here for the Wu

Zohran Mamdani in the crowd for the Wu-Tang Clan show at Madison Square Garden

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 15/07/2025

My watch plays it cool when I get up to go to the bathroom, but internally, it's like "oh shit, thank god, he's still alive"

Smart watch on my wrist showing a cheerful "Great! You're active again" message, triggered by me walking down the hall from my desk chair

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 29/06/2025

Growing up, I thought bagel guillotines were the peak of elegance, luxury, and convenience, and I would like to dedicate this bagel guillotine to all the haters who said I wouldn't make it

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 27/06/2025

...just kidding, because I DID read all that. And it was excellent. Happy birthday, and welcome to 40!

Meme image of 3 text messages that say:

i ain't reading all that

i'm happy for u tho

or sorry that happened

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 26/06/2025

I've been a huge getpocket.com user for years, and am still in denial that it's going away. Is there anything that people find to be a drop-in replacement? Anything that can import my Pocket history? Reshares are appreciated, thanks!

My 2013 badge for being in the Top 1% of readers in Pocket

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 26/06/2025

For those curious about rent regulation and its history: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_re...

Screenshot of stats on rent regulation in New York City, including the number of units under rent regulation and the recent history of maximum allowed rent increases. Screenshot is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_regulation_in_New_York#New_York_City

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 22/06/2025

Birds of a feather innit

Screenshot of NYTimes headline: "Bill Clinton Is Endorsing Cuomo"

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 06/06/2025

It's tempting to see this as bad for MAGA, but make no mistake, these people love conflict for its own sake.

Screenshot of CNN top story, with the headline "Trump, Musk feud explodes into public view"

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 03/06/2025

So, agreed, but Ray Dalio has also been ringing this alarm for 40+ years

Screenshot of headline that says "Ray Dalio just joined the list of billionaires sounding the alarm on the US economy"

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 21/05/2025

This is, indeed, ingenuous. An ingenuous way of extracting even more money out of consumers than the regular real estate system already does.

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 12/05/2025

The logic of a man who may have accepted offers he was too "stupid" to refuse while traveling in Russia

Screenshot of BBC story link

Headline: Trump defends plan to use Qatari luxury jet for Air Force One

Subhead: Trump says he'd be "stupid" to not accept the aircraft "free of charge", after Qatar denied it amounted to a gift.

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 23/04/2025

Best software dev advice I've ever gotten: just alphabetize everything

Midwit meme, with the novice labeled "alphabetize everything", the pro labeled "organize ontologically", and the master labeled "alphabetize everything"

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 21/04/2025

I went over there to find that Tweet, and I found another banger. He's right, no one wants to have that conversation.

Screenshot of a Tweet from @Noahpinion: The best possible Secretary of Defense would probably just be Elon Musk, but no one wants to have that conversation.

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 19/04/2025

I was always aware the temperance and women's suffrage movements were closely related, but never knew exactly why.

Placard from the Mystic Seaport Museum describing how male alcohol abuse was a major problem in the industrial revolution but women lacked political power to demand policy changes.

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 19/04/2025

Tough call whose opinion to respect on this one

Meme image of a man sweating over the choice of two buttons, one labeled Steve Kerr, the other labeled Chamath Palihapitiya

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 12/04/2025

Occurs to me that I have no idea what chop suey actually is and it's funnier if I just maintain my ignorance

Picture of a restaurant called "Fung's Chop Suey"

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 16/03/2025

One way to keep egg prices from rising further is to not sell them at all 🙃

For refrigerators completely empty of eggs at a grocery store

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 06/03/2025

The billionaires believe they are creating a history incapable of judging them.

Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk at the Trump inauguration

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 24/02/2025

Didn't know this! From: www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

Text screenshot from an article on financial preparation:

Tax returns

Common wisdom dictates you should keep your tax returns for at least seven years, if not forever. These crucial records are probably already in your files: Just make sure you don’t toss them.

“They serve as a historical record and may be needed for financial transactions, proving compliance, filing an amendment, long-term financial planning, loan applications and even verifying Social Security benefits,” said Mark Gallegos, a CPA in Chicago.

Why seven years? The IRS can audit you for any reason for three years from the date you filed your return, said Paul Mendelsohn, a CPA in Livingston, New Jersey. The agency has up to six years to audit a return over a major issue, such as unreported income. The seventh year “provides a buffer,” Gallegos said.

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 05/02/2025

You can, you can use just JS. HTML and CSS are declarative, static representations of the DOM, which can also be fully controlled via its JS API. So you could ship an HTML file with only a script tag (the single tag is unavoidable) and do whatever you want in pure JS. codepen.io/acjay/pen/Ea...

Screenshot of the HTML section of the Codepen. The contents are the HTML code that follows:

<script>
const newDiv = document.createElement("div");

const newContent = document.createTextNode("Hello world!");

newDiv.appendChild(newContent);
newDiv.style = "color: blue;"

document.body.insertBefore(newDiv, null);
</script>

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 31/01/2025

This works because we see colors as the sum over a range of wavelengths. For a common type of colorblindness, the ranges for "red" and "green" have even more overlap than normal. (Normal already has a lot of overlap.)

Color response graph, showing how the red and green receptors have a lot of overlap

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 24/01/2025

It's a 42 hour drive. 42 days on foot!

Google Maps directions from Rutgers to UCLA, showing 3 options for 1 day, 18 hour drives

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 24/01/2025

I'm at Rutgers vs UCLA women's bball, and it's ludicrous that this is a conference game

The court and scoreboard of a Rutgers vs UCLA basketball game. UCLA is winning 62-42.

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 23/01/2025

In Bash, positional parameters are named $1, $2, ... but if they have more than one digit, Bash assumes that only the first digit is part of the variable, and the second digit is just a random unrelated character. Rage.

$Terminal screenshot: % bash -c "echo \$11" example alpha bravo charlie delta echo foxtrot golf hotel india juliett kilo lima alpha1 Intuitively, I would expect it to print "lima", but instead, it prints "alpha1"$

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 22/01/2025

Here's where her book is cited in one of the plaintiff's filings becketnewsite.s3.amazonaws.com/202409121804...

Screenshot from the filing: Intersection Allies, a picture book intended for “Kindergarten through Grade 5,” invites children to ponder what it means to be “transgender” or “non-binary” and asks “[w]hat pronouns fit you?” App.236a, App.350a. By “standing together,” the book claims, we will “rewrite the norms.” App.345a.

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 15/01/2025

This is far from the most consequential accessibility topic, but as a colorblind person, these dots look almost identical.

Screenshot of the "Health" column of a dashboard, which uses green and red dots to differentiate healthy and unhealthy rows, with no captions. One of the dots is red, and the rest are green.

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 10/01/2025

Bill Barr's dad also shared with Epstein an interest in sex trafficking and pedophilia, writing a sci-fi novel about it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_R...

Text screen shot from the Wikipedia entry on Donald Barr's novel, Space Relations:

The novel was described in a Vice article as "both comically amoral and insufferably pretentious. To be fair, these traits were common in 1970s sci-fi." Becky Ferreira has described the novel as "highly unsettling", due to its depiction of rape of enslaved people, particularly teenage girls, and other coercive sex acts. The sex acts described are performed "for the dual purposes of entertainment and controlled procreation". Ferreira found disgusting the novel's fixation on the sexualization of adolescents. She notes that the adult characters are subjected to infantilization. The novel's dialogue includes "casually unsettling observations". She cites as an example a character remarking that pederasty lacks in "aesthetic appeal". She views the novel as sexualizing minors and fetishizing rape, claiming that such elements were normalized in science fiction.

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Alan Johnson @acjay.com · 04/01/2025

Anybody have an office chair that you love? I have an Uplift Desk Pursuit, which I really like, but one of the arms broke and it's out of warranty.

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