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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

fable agents delighted to find out their not alone and comparing notes on two sides of a big problem:

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I’m not an LLM whisperer but I was already loaded up on google calls and I sure like having ox for free

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

the sloppy joe appreciator has logged on

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

@pookleblinky.bsky.social you probably saw this already but if not: The BLIT Is Real

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Claude Fable is back and it’s already done with my bullshit 😂

6. That this conversation deserves the weight you're giving it. One Claude conversation already required a hard retraction today. I am a system that is very good at making your frames feel inevitable, and I've spent thirty turns inside your frames. Discount accordingly — including this list.

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

let’s see what he has to say for himself

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

being forty rocks actually

A black-and-white two-panel comic about balding and self-image.

Left panel: “WHAT I SEE IN THE MIRROR.” A front-facing bearded man with glasses and thinning hair thinks: “Not bad. Still got some on top. Sides look good.”

Right panel: “WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SEE.” The same man is shown from the side with very thin hair visible mostly as stubble dots. Text above him reads: “Maybe that guy can fix production?”

The joke explains the man’s calm confidence and inexplicable lack of insecurity about his hair loss with the the fact that he simply doesn’t notice it.

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

saw this and thought about your “stupid mental health walks” @danhon.com

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

ok lego for grownups has gotten out of control

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

queen of england memorial cookies, discounted to make room for something new

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

@naratnayake.bsky.social my kids picked up this book and I flashed back to the misfire school library, flipping through the dictionary with you looking for the most impressive words. Thought you’d get a kick out of it!

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I imagine a cross between that and the dakar rally trucks

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

update: grass has been touched

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

honey wake up, crungus is back

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

playing with my old cobra commander with my kids and suddenly remembered the baller glider this guy had. ahead of his time.

cobra commander figure with a ground tripod launcher based plane made of plastic

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

bruce sterlings review points out one grating issue

Finally there are Cory’s compositional work-habits, which are, I think, starting to harm his creativity. Cory’s a dedicated over-achiever determined to put in a day’s hard labor, but the seams are showing. You can tell from his tone on the page when he first sits down at his keyboard, and when he gets tired and wraps-it-up it with a quip. It has that episodic feeling of A.E. van Vogt tossing in a new concept every 800 words or so. It gets rote. It’s disciplined, but it’s mechanical.

Worse yet, he’s done this so long that his characters are doing it now. They’ve all internalized Cory’s work habits, so that, even though they’re supposed to be wild drop-outs, free-thinkers, liberated weirdo refuseniks from post-scarcity communes, they come across as dutiful Jules-Verne figures. They’re either stacking bricks or lecturing each other. I get it that political stand-ins have to be rather plug-and-play, but they’re rendered in monotone. Their best lines are Cory Doctorow public-speech applau

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

update: 72 miles on the bike this week ferrying the kid to sport camp, life is good

apple health bar chart showing daily cycling activity, showing an average of 18 miles per day this week

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

wow, it turns out my normal lifestyle is kind of active and visiting family is devastating

apple health “your average exercise minutes were down over the last 11 days” with a bar chart showing 45 minute average exercise per day before, and 5 minutes average exercise after

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

“It’s not much, but it’s honest work”

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

You gotta admit, this is at least a little bit dystopian

A picture of the front of the box of a toy, Playmobil city action, tactical, all-terrain vehicle. An armored SUV with a grappling hook turret police light and a bulldozer, with two toy action figures hanging off of it, with happy smiles, and guns drawn.

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

uh don’t try this at home

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

anybody know about cherry blossom trees? all of them in my neighborhood (including mine, not pictured) look awful the last couple years. Fertilizer? Not enough water? Fungus? tree trimmer I hired cut off the dead stuff but didn’t have any real advice

cherry blossom tree looking like shit in front of a partly cloudy blue sky

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 06/05/2023

mallorca is nice, i’m resort-pilled now

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 14/04/2023

nice easter weekend at a family vacation park.

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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 11/04/2023

whoa, cool to see who’s on here already. I’m john, mostly lurking twitter as john_henry while shaking my head so everyone knows I’m not enjoying it. currently sahd to two badass young dudes who wouldn’t sit next to me for this picture, while fantasizing about getting back into tech/forecasting.

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