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John Cavnar-Johnson

@cavnar-johnson.net
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I enjoy writing software, reading fiction, drinking beer, and making the world a better place for us all to live.

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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 24/09/2026
Read this thread. Even though Republicans in Texas have engaged in a lot of voter suppression, this ain’t that. Voter suppression is when the Texas AG goes after voter registration organizations based on rw bs laundered by Fox (Bartiromo). www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...
texastribune.org
Judge: Paxton cannot shutter Texas Latino voting group
Paxton had accused Jolt Initiative of an “unlawful voter registration scheme,” but a federal judge found the AG failed to offer "any plausible proof" of wrongdoing.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 23/09/2026
This is just a quote from me from 1997 during garbage time at a Houston Rockets game.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 22/09/2026
Pong (the home version)
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 20/09/2026
Has anyone written a comparison between the development of TESCREAL and the rise of spiritualism in the 1840’s and beyond? There are odd parallels along several different aspects. Perhaps there’s a theoretical framework with explanatory power out there.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 17/09/2026
New dev interview questions (w/24 hrs lead time): Junior Dev: Read this article and spot as many developer mistakes as you can. Senior Dev: Tell me how you would design an app to avoid this situation Dev Lead: Imagine you have just become the Dev Lead at Flock. What do you do to mitigate this?
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 01/09/2026
This is a long thread (obviously). I think they may have missed a couple of Paxton’s scandals. I am not sure because there are a few that are hard to differentiate without going into a lot of detail. As always, with the caveat “that we know of”
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 28/08/2026
We should tell Trump that the lake is called “The One Big Beautiful Lake” in his honor. That’s what Lake Ontario means (more or less)
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 27/08/2026
I did not expect to find myself in complete agreement with a take from Ted Cruz and Dan Patrick today. Complete agreement except for the part where they think it’s bad and it’s been my lifelong dream
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 14/08/2026
At the day job, we’re doing some “internal standards” work; so evaluating various technology and design options. We are an F# shop, so I reminded my team that we don’t have to recommend “Some x” if “None” is the more useful option. #fsharp
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 12/08/2026
This skeet really captures the essence of the situation. It could be turned into one of those “ads” in the print edition of @theonion.com. Think of the illustration possibilities.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 31/07/2026
Peak Bluesky (complimentary)
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 22/07/2026
Jira
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 22/07/2026
The function* of hippie punching is to reinforce right wing framing. An effective response is to ridicule the act of hippie punching. “The Atlantic hires hippie punching hack to punch hippies. You will never guess what happens next”. *No matter what the motives of the puncher are.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 13/07/2026
*verify your age* Typing my FORTRAN code on punch cards
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Daniel Schultz @dandadad.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
When someone comes on hospice service, we provide them a care team including an MD, a nurse practitioner, an RN, home health aide, social worker, chaplain and volunteer — and then we find out their kid has been filling all these roles for years.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 04/07/2026
I expect some difficult conversations happening at work around “AI” soon. I really appreciate this post for giving me a better vocabulary for those conversations.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 01/07/2026
Who’s organizing the counter demonstrations? Looks like I need to take a couple of days off in September.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 27/06/2026
Free tacos being given away to Democrats (this taco truck is parked outside the Dem State Convention) paid for by donations raised by Greg Abbott (not Paxton, btw) to oppose the Dems. This is criminal fraud, according to Trump’s DOJ. See the logic in their indictment of the SPLC.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 15/06/2026
There are many decent people who vote for Republicans in Texas. The party itself (electeds, staff, and activists) are absolutely terrible people. Just the most cynical, hate-mongering, racist, corrupt organization. Mostly fueled by oil money. Stories like this make me physically ill.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 11/06/2026
Hakeem Olajuwon. Although I will never forget seeing George Gervin scoring 40+ points regularly in the early 80s.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Famous authors asking you out
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 07/06/2026
For all the folks looking for positive masculine role models, here’s a new YouTube channel that has it covered. He just happens to be a great role model for all the genders, however many there are in your world view. www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...
cbsnews.com
The first-ever dedicated Mister Rogers' Neighborhood YouTube channel launches globally
The iconic, Pittsburgh-based children's show now has a dedicated YouTube channel honoring the legacy of Fred Rogers.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 06/06/2026
The Mexican contribution to breakfast is undeniable. However, I will always have a soft spot in my heart for south Texas diner breakfast cuisine which is like the “best of” combination of Mexican, ranch, and southern cuisine.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 30/05/2026
Reinventing the 1960’s Batmobile from first principles
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Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
this is chorizo erasure
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 27/05/2026
For all the folks just finding out about the Texas Railroad Commission (because an insanely bigoted Republican candidate is in the news), the TRC doesn’t regulate railroads anymore. Its power has always been in oil and gas. It set global oil prices for decades. It was the model for OPEC. Literally.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 22/05/2026
Trump v US was an overt act in furtherance of the Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Just gonna go ahead and post this again, 'cause it's still fuckin' relevant.
A poem and a drawing. The poem starts at the top left of the page, is titled "Humanities" and is made up of a set of 6 haikus. The first and last ones are on the left side of the page, but haikus 2-5 are increasingly indented, The text of the poem reads:

Who needs history?
Literature? Languages? 
Art? Philosophy?

These can only help
    you to better understand
        our humanity.

Best to let machines
    read your books. And write your books.
        Do your art for you.

You will never need
    to think. Never need to learn.
       You’ll learn to like it.

And when the end comes
    you’ll have never burdened your
        soul with any growth.

Someone selling this
sees profit in destroying
your humanity.

-- John Wyatt Greenlee

The drawing is at the top right. It's a black and white ink pen drawing made of abstract shapes and lines. It might look like a tree made of bird heads.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 03/05/2026
The Grapes of Annoyance
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 30/04/2026
My hottest political take: Sure, expanding SCOTUS is essential, expanding the House of Representatives ain’t a bad idea, but what we really need to do is expand the Senate. Break up the big states. It’s easy. Just look up how Kentucky became a state. The constitution doesn’t define what a state is.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 29/04/2026
And that’s why I am going to keep saying that we need to give Trump the full Akhenaten treatment when he’s gone. Remove his name and likeness from every single thing.
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Happy 93rd birthday to Willie Nelson! Clip from Outlaws and Angels, Live at the Wiltern Theater, 2004.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 29/04/2026
Jim Comey’s lawyers ought to show up for their first appearance with an entire case of Metamucil to give to the DOJ lawyers. What else do give those who have lost the presumption of regularity?
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 28/04/2026
“I think it might be upsetting that we really do not live in their world of principalities and powers.” Colbert is making an interesting theological point, positioning authoritarians and their lackeys as “the powers”. Reminds me of Walter Wink…
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 27/04/2026
media.tenor.com
a black and white photo of two men with the caption i 'm shocked shocked to find that gambling is going on
Alt: A scene from the 1942 movie Casablanca. Captain Renault (Claude Rains) tells Rick (Humphrey Bogart), “ I’m shocked, SHOCKED, to find that gambling is going on in here”
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 22/04/2026
One more thing. Trump wants to put a whale molester in charge of consumer safety. That’s right, he’s proposing moving the US Consumer Products Safety Commission into HHS. We surely don’t need RFK, Jr. controlling the best government social media account. www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/...
cpsc.gov
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 22/04/2026
Much like marine mammals, the Marine Mammal Commission is endangered. Trump wants to eliminate it. On the list of Trump atrocities, this one is way down the list, I know. It’s just one more independent agency that must be eliminated by the “unitary executive”. www.mmc.gov/wp-content/u...
mmc.gov
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 20/04/2026
TIL: The full Akhenaton is called “Damnatio memoriae” bsky.app/profile/patr...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I love that Orbán is going to be beaten by a guy named Peter Hungarian. Like if Trump went down to someone named John American.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 09/04/2026
Once Trump is out of power, we need to give him the full Akhenaten treatment. Remove his name from everything. Erase his existence from history. The lists of US presidents will just skip his two terms. Most of all, we need to make sure he knows it’s going to happen.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 05/04/2026
Love your neighbor. That’s the theme this morning and every morning. We can change this world.
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pixelkitties🐭 🦆 @pixelkitties.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
#Easter
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Hillel @hillelwayne.com · 24/03/2026
Yogurt of Theseus: if you keep a yogurt culture alive for a year, and eat it every day, so that none of the original bacteria are there, is it still the same yogurt?
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 21/03/2026
This is art
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 13/03/2026
If we made a list of things that “driving in Houston is objectively much more dangerous than”, it would be a long list, even if we limit it to transportation
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 07/03/2026
The Leopards Eating People’s Faces party loses another one: www.texastribune.org/2026/03/06/d...
texastribune.org
Dan Crenshaw blames primary loss on clickbait misinformation
The fourth-term congressman, who lost decisively to state Rep. Steve Toth, said baseless attacks about his alleged insider trading and gun stances fueled the upset.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 07/03/2026
Imagine the council of advisors: Hegseth, Rubio, Stephen Miller, Navarro, and RFK, Jr.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 05/03/2026
I watched Henry Kissinger eat crispy tacos with a knife and fork.
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John Cavnar-Johnson @cavnar-johnson.net · 01/03/2026
This Manucher Ghorbanifar erasure
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