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Justin Mason

@jmason.org
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Dublin-based software engineer; still linkblogging at jmason.ie . Nerdy stuff on mastodon.ie/@jmason . Been on the internet far too long at this stage. Opinions my own.

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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 28/09/2026
"There's no carbon tax on aviation fuel"
"the worst person you know just made a great point" meme
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 11/08/2026
A Zamburak is a Technical
The zamburak, a camel-mounted swivel gun
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 07/08/2026
Spiralism you say?
A 5000-year-old kerb stone from Knowth, covered in engraved spirals
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 02/08/2026
Came across a good one the other day.... #streetpoker
The "Hanged Man" tarot card, found lying on a path
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 17/07/2026
Why is Youtube drama spray-painted onto the streets of Glasnevin?
"Bricks + Minifigs Steal Lego" apparently
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 15/07/2026
Mr. Tayto's Spanish pen-pal
A Spanish crisp bag for El Tio Las Papas Patatas Fritas (yum)
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 03/07/2026
ChatGPT did my homework, Spanish museum edition
An impressively wrong map of the retreat of the Armada, featuring two islands of Ireland
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 19/06/2026
Bezos Center For Sustainable ProteinCharlton Heston discovering what Soylent Green is made from
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 04/06/2026
oh look, two people had showers
two sparkline graphs showing short 0.630 kWh bumps
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 25/05/2026
Pawlitican
Election poster for a dog wearing a tie
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 15/05/2026
new favourite reactji
A screenshot of a Slack reaction emoji reading "SLOP" in the style of a "STOP" sign
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 28/04/2026
actually I hadn't seen this part before. How on earth is that cross-the-junction bike lane supposed to work?!
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 12/04/2026
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 01/04/2026
Hopefully for Artemis 2 NASA will be printing a new version of the iconic Space Mickey chart I have hanging on the wall here
A large chart of the Apollo Manned Lunar Landing mission plan from the Office of Manned Space Flight, which unfortunately looks like a huge space penis, I have been told
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 12/12/2025
This blog post about Google de-indexing a personal blog very much rings a bell for me -- journal.james-zhan.com/google-de-in... . The vast majority of my own blog is no longer in the Google index, for the same reason: "Page is not indexed: Crawled – currently not indexed"
bar chart showing a huge amount of "Page is not indexed: Crawled – currently not indexed"
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 15/11/2025
Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 10/11/2025
looking forward to seeing footage of the Presidential Bee Swarms frolicking with visiting dignitaries
'When asked if any animals would be joining her at Áras an Uachtaráin, she said she had two black cats, a brother and sister who were known as “Cat One and Cat Two”.
Ms Connolly also said her husband, or “current husband” as she refers to him, Brian McEnery would be likely to bring “more than one” of his beehives with him to the Áras.'
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 03/11/2025
When an Amazon vendor's random name generator accidentally generates a "real" product's name
A mop and bucket called "Ibuprofen"
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 24/10/2025
That people are now being paid handsomely to hate, is a huge, huge social problem. Regulation is desperately needed. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
This week’s violence has raised serious questions for some of the main social media platforms. Livestream content depicting violence outside Citywest was broadcast on YouTube, TikTok and Twitch, with streamers rewarded by viewer donations, as they captured protesters shouting racist expletives towards Citywest.
In one eight-minute segment of an hour-long livestream I watched on YouTube that night, the user broadcast the burning of the Garda van, referred to migrants in horrific terms and proclaimed they were there to show people “the real truth”. During the video, they received the equivalent of €56 in donations from viewers around the world. The notion that violence can be monetised on social media illustrates a glaring failure of platforms to adequately enforce their own community guidelines around violence.
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 22/10/2025
I just came across this Stephen Collins comic and it seems very relevant to this story making it across the channel.
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 14/10/2025
today's annoyance. The box on the left is "fast acting" and costs 59 cents per tablet. The box on the right, 33 cents. The only difference is some added sodium. What a scam
A pair of boxes, of green and blue Panadol tablets
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 09/09/2025
Guilty as charged, m'lud
Waterford Whispers: "Thousands Of Middle Aged Men Flock To Dun Laoghaire To Stare At Big Ship"
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 06/09/2025
Cycled the Royal Canal from the M50 to the Liffey ✅ -- the latest bit of the Greenway is grand? Flat I guess? Did the job anyway
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 06/09/2025
Sooo many hops
Am extremely productive hops bush
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 29/08/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Anakin/Padme meme: "rapid cuts are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout" -- "so we'll be making rapid cuts, right?"
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 26/08/2025
Why TF is a bloody airport emailing me about perfume? How's about putting in some seating instead of shops, you shitlords
an email from "Heathrow Airport" titled "Discover your scent of the season"
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 06/08/2025
Ok, this is a nice new viz from home assistant
A Sankey chart data visualization for home energy use
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 03/08/2025
If you see this, post a castle
A shot from the 1990s Aussie classic movie, "The Castle"
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 19/07/2025
Lobster roll o'clock!
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 04/07/2025
chat is this good
"According to the research team, the consequences of this reversal are already becoming visible. The upwelling of deep, warm, CO₂-rich waters is believed to be driving the accelerated melting of sea ice in the Southern Ocean. In the long term, this process could double current atmospheric CO₂ concentrations by releasing carbon that has been stored in the deep ocean for centuries—potentially with catastrophic consequences for the global climate."
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 14/06/2025
The Robert Moses-era martini fountain is back! (copied from the Punch newsletter)
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 28/05/2025
oh look, there's Ireland, second from the bottom in the EU. our climate strategy: going Just Great
A chart from the EU's Climate Action Progress report from 2024, showing Ireland's disastrous performance
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 26/05/2025
Video of the jay in peanut demolition action:
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 26/05/2025
The local jay is getting really brave!
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 16/05/2025
It's a slippery slope back to the 1990s
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 24/04/2025
Dr. Zaytoon approves
Doctor Zaytoon testing a tasty kebab
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 22/04/2025
Pharmacists if you even mention Solpadeine:
the Michael Collins note-taking meme
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 18/03/2025
haha this is absolute garbage pricing. wtf, literally twice the correct price
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 05/03/2025
Happy Threads (1984) Day to all who celebrate
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 15/02/2025
A 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission pin
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 07/02/2025
the "That's Bait" screengrab from Mad Max: Fury Road
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 12/01/2025
Absolute unit of a buzzard, chilling out just on the far side of the wall of Carton Estate in Maynooth today
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 27/11/2024
try selecting ticket type:
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 23/11/2024
The Power Broker: read. ✅
The final page of Robert Caro's "The Power Broker"
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 18/11/2024
Age yourself with your first computer
A ZX81, the manual, a tape recorder and a TV of the same era
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 24/10/2024
is it better than wearing the Cone Of Shame? I think so!
Ben the dog, wearing a "sock" on his paw instead of the Cone Of Shame
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 21/10/2024
Just realised what the food matrix in The Substance reminded me of
Bryan Johnson holding up his big bag of bodily fluids
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 08/10/2024
right now in Dems HQ
screengrab from Flash Gordon, showing Ming's weather control machine
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 18/09/2024
Misty Prospect Cemetery this morning
Sun shining through the trees and mist over the graves
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 11/09/2024
Here's Meta's Director of Engineering saying that they all use AI to write each other's peer feedback ("PSC") forms
quote from Esther Crawford at Meta stating that "Metamate" is useful as a "PSC feedback editor"
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