John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 8hIn the future being able to remember anything from books or articles you have read in the past instead of asking an LLM to pull it up and simplify the language for you will make you look like this. 2172
Reposted by John HerreidJohn Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2025St Michael the Archangel by Allan Rohan Crite, 1967. 320734
Reposted by John Herreidmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14hawoke this morning with a Vision 4981491498
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 14hThe Chicago Fig trees we planted four years ago are finally fruiting, just as the weather turns cool. Not sure if they will actually produce or not. 050
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 15hI don’t know of a recent disconnect as strong as the conviction of the boomer generation that young people love and desire AI, and that it will solve and bridge a generational gap among customers if it gets implemented. Trying to talk to them about it is like speaking to a brick wall 3170
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 15hWhat is the charge? Drinking a coffee? A succulent icèd coffee? 0190
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 16hThe Star Wars sequel trilogy was Disney turning a big dial taht says "Nostalgia" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right. 2151
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Chipper woman explaining hand hemming garments on YouTube: with a little skill, your stitches should be barely visible on the outside Me: with a little less skill 1120
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Checked out FB briefly and the first thing I saw was some ai slop a relative shared that implies that a baby and a kitten have the same growth trajectory 3160
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I thought the jawbone relic of Blessed Fulton Sheen was cool but it kind of messes with you watching any of his media clips afterwards because the teeth are the same 0130
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My kids are of the age now where I keep seeing cool playgrounds or toys that I immediately think my kids would love but then remember my youngest is 10 and they are all too old to enjoy it 1160
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Imagine nuking a cup of tea in the same microwave Charles Dickens did 2363
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026While you were choosin’ Texas, I studied the blade 0135
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Drinking the sleeping in a big bed with my wife juice 0192
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026In case you want some mostly old-timey autumnal-ish music, here’s a playlist I made last yearopen.spotify.comHarvest MixSlightly spooky, slightly melancholy, slightly cozy, mostly old-timey music for autumnal listening 040
Reposted by John HerreidDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Little J, you're not supposed to be arguing with your elders in the Temple. J: I am smarter than them and you know it. Some words between adolescent Jesus & his parents as imagined by Simone Martini in 1342. 317824
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026One of the most Berkeley things about Berkeley is that all of the city signage is in this font 0162
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My Google maps has changed voices to be a Millennial woman who is disappointed in me. 180
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Got the complete Babylon 5 for $25 and some awesome posters for $3-$5 each 3110
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It’s 52 degrees and the neighborhood garage sale is happening 070
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Good night, sleep well. I’ll most likely bomb Iran after the mid-terms. 071
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My Alberta! I’m not supposed to get rats in it! 3232
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My daughter has created a tray to snack upon with tea while we watch the Great British Bake Off 0170
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Purchased a small painting of Ben Hatke’s Not-so-Great Pumpkin, just need to frame him! Ben is releasing more of these little guys over the next few weeks on his Etsy shop if you are a fan. www.etsy.com/shop/HeyBenH... 180
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Remembering when I was a kid and my siblings and I found a stuffed animal whose species could not be ascertained, so we named it Monkey the Frog and made up mythology about him 1100
Reposted by John HerreidHarrison Lemke @hplemke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026it is now truly autumn, and therefore the perfect time to listen to my new record, which is a tape, which you can buy on CD or stream on Bandcamp: "The Autumn Tape" lo-fi folk songs, tape experiments, jangle pop, analog synth micro-soundscapes harrisonlemke.bandcamp.com/album/the-au...harrisonlemke.bandcamp.comThe Autumn Tape, by Harrison Lemke14 track album 0128
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It’s 48 degrees out so I am wearing my Magnifica Humanitas swag from @theworkofbees.bsky.social and having some coffee 1110
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Daughter keeps saying that she wants to dress as something more recognizable this Halloween and has rejected several ideas because they feature red hair (she says she doesn’t want to highlight her red hair). Today she announces she is going to dress as Little My from Moomin. 2130
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Suddenly remembering when people tried to make “butter boards” a thing, shuddering involuntarily 010
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A feral kitten is living in the bushes of our neighbor’s yard and my daughter managed to snap a blurry shot of it. It makes it look like a cryptid. 0110
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Looking at anti-inflammatory diet ideas, since I am starting to develop symptoms of arthritis, and can easily see how this kind of thing becomes a jumping-off point to woowoo / MAHA 2110
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Someone busted the gas cap cover on my van while siphoning gas and now the sliding door is getting stuck on it when it opens 4100
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Babe wake up new Radical Amy Acton mailer just dropped 030
Reposted by John Herreidskater clam of the skies @stakethisclaim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Me when my children tell me they can't find their shoes and they're exactly where I said they would be: 073
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Everyone is bro now, the triumph of bro I was at the store the other day and a group of teenaged girls walked by, all addressing each other as “bro” and using “bro” as an exclamation 3160
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Man making faces in a mirror, from "Random Sketches by Hokusai, Volume 12",1834 0111
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It’s officially autumn and 60 degrees out, so I can finally wear this 80s era Eddie Baer sweater vest that Aletheia got me over the summer. I think it has Doc from Fraggle Rock vibes 3170
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Being in my late 40s means occasionally looking up a random actor on IMDB who I thought was MUCH older or MUCH younger than me back when I was in my 20s and discovering that they are maybe four or five years apart from me in age 1100
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Classical education advocates on social media have feeds that are like 75% owning the libs and 25% asking why people keep politicizing the concept of classical education when it’s about eternal truths not temporal politics 1284
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Moving radio and television to on-demand streaming means there’s no longer a common culture for stuff like this. Like, in 2005 if you never heard of a #1 hit it was because you were an insufferable elitist hipster. In 2026 it just means you listen to Spotify or similar. 1161
John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I have a soft spot for weird hippie books, so I grabbed a zine-like booklet from a little free library about baking sourdough. The author states that baking bread without measuring ingredients is an act of resistance against traditional gender roles. Sure. Why not? 1240