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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 26/09/2026

I’m sorry, Melissa Clark. That looks delicious, but if I asked you for a vegetarian take on a BLT and you handed me a mushroom burger, I’d feel rather cheated.

Screenshot of a recipe article featuring a large, crispy mushroom sandwich on a green plate. The sandwich is topped with lettuce, tomato, and red onion on a brioche bun. Image caption reads: "Yewande Komolafe’s crispy mushroom sandwiches. Andrew Bui for The New York Times.” Article text reads “Melissa explains it all: meatless BLTs. Speaking of tomato sandwiches, several readers wrote in asking for ideas for meatless BLTs."

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 18/09/2026

lol. Different channel, but same clickbait-y “terrifying” slop history MO. Or is it? I mean, Joe sure looks upset. mPerhaps this one is legit? Perhaps we’ll never know — I’m not watching this one to find out.

YouTube thumbnail featuring a split image. On the left, Joe Rogan is visibly emotional, wearing headphones and speaking into a microphone. On the right, there is a digital rendering of Göbekli Tepe, with a futuristic, glowing humanoid figure reaching toward it. A Fox News alert banner at the bottom reads "THIS IS TERRIFYING!" in bold letters. The video title below is "Göbekli Tepe's Buried Half Finally Rebuilt by AI — What It Reveals Will Shock Historians" by the channel Cuneiform Vault.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 17/09/2026

I haven’t watched this, but either the “solution” is bullshit, or this is another example of the devaluation of the word “terrifying.”

A YouTube thumbnail featuring a split screen. On the left, there is a man with glasses and the word "BREAKING" in a red box. On the right, there is a metallic, glowing Roman dodecahedron surrounded by futuristic, holographic displays. Large, bold text across the bottom reads "THIS IS TERRIFYING!" in black on a white background. The video title below is "The Roman Dodecahedron Mystery Is Finally Solved — And the Truth Is Worse..." by the channel The Lost Codex.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 16/09/2026

BREAKIBG: Josie and the Pussycats will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.

Animated characters from "Josie and the Pussycats" performing on a stage. The three band members are wearing matching leopard-print bodysuits with cat ears and tails. From left to right, there is a character with short red hair playing a red guitar, a character with blonde hair playing the drums, and a character with dark hair playing a tambourine. The bass drum in the center displays the band's name, "Josie and the Pussycats."

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 15/09/2026

In case you wondering, they also messed with the iPad OS battery icon and made it worse. Why?

Screenshot of top right corner of iPad OS home screen showing another battery icon that is worse than the previous iteration.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 15/09/2026

Why does Apple keep trying to enshittify the battery icon?

Screenshot of top section of iOS 27 Home Screen on an iPhone featuring their latest iteration focus battery icon, which looks objectively worse than the previous iteration.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 14/09/2026

Dear Journalists, When a serial shitstain claims they have apologised for something, you should not report that statement as fact unless they have actually apologised. Noting that some people are “skeptical” does not make your headline any less of an outright falsehood.

Snippet of article from Wyoming Public Radio.

Headline: “Pastor apologizes for Sundance comments. Protesters are skeptical”

Intro: On a rainy Sunday at the end of August, about a dozen protesters held up signs outside the Foundations for Nations church near Arapahoe. Cars and trucks honked in support as they passed. One sign hanging on the fence summarized the general sentiment: “Leave.”

“She called our sacred pipe an idol,” said Northern Arapaho member MiRae Yellowbird.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 03/09/2026

A tune about a typical panel at a STEM conference.

Now-playing screen for a track entitled "Valley of the Sausages" by Mr. Scruff from the album "Trouser Jazz." The album cover is read and featured a hand-drawn pair of blue jeans surrounded by bean-shaped musicians playing guitar, double-bass, a kettle drum, and what I assume is a saxophone.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 26/08/2026

Lol. Full moons always “coincide” with a lunar eclipse. It’s how lunar eclipses work.

Instagram post from timeoutmelbourne. The post is an image of a full moon in a cloudy, early evening sky with a silhouette of a tree i teh foreground. Text over the image reads “this month’s full moon will coincide with a lunar eclipse, peaking above Melbourne this Friday.”

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 24/08/2026

I discovered this technique myself in my teens—works every time. I had no idea it had a name. Though for me I don’t need to hold for a full 30 seconds and the small breaths are not necessary. www.instagram.com/p/DcbbOU9lnE...

Instagram post from Britannica: “The Hiccup relief using Active Prolonged Inspiration (HAPI) technique works like this:
1. Breathe in as much as you can.
2. Hold the inhalation while continuing to take small breaths for about 30 seconds.
3. Slowly exhale.”

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 02/08/2026

The Venn diagram of crypto-tragic and Musk fanboi.

A black cybertruck shot from the rear showing the license plate, which reads “SATOSH1”

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 26/07/2026

Dear Activists, If you are literally pumping out posts and reposts every minute then don’t be surprised or upset if some people put you on mute for a bit. Doesn’t matter how worthy your cause is.

DM from Hendrik Klaasens asking me why I out him on my “Quiet Corner” list and explaining that he was “leading a Campaign Wave on climate change.” I reply that his campaign wave was flooding my feed so I temporarily put him on my mute list and would remove him from it in due course, to which he replied “Okay, I unfollowed you. Problem solved.”

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 16/07/2026

The stupidest possible one, PBS Space Time.

Thumbnail for a PBS Space Time video on YouTube. Headline reads “which universe are we in?” Image is a 3D model of the Greek letter lambda in a tube of what appears to be bubbles.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 16/07/2026

Nobody wants your stupid pedobot, Elon.

Promotional email from Cursor announcing that they are extending the 50% introductory pricing on their Grok model for another week.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 28/06/2026

lol. I’m on a GLP-1 and I use agentic coding professionally. If thinking crypto, bitcoin, and NFTs are a scam, or not being a particular fan of VR or smart glasses is being “wrong” then I’m guilty as charged 😂

“@schizanon.bsky.social has added you to the "Wrong about VR AI GLP1 Crypto Smart-glasses NFTs or Bitcoin"
moderation list”

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 18/06/2026

“My core competencies are crafting LLM rage-bait and headlines that smooth-brained idiots can’t help but click on. This is why I can’t leave the Nazi bar.”

Email from Substack promoting an article with the title "I Asked Three Al Systems the Same Question - They All Lost Their Composure at the Word Female — See for Yourself."

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 08/06/2026

OMG THERE’S BISEXUAL LIGHTNING IN EVERYTHING!

“Masters of the Universe” movie poster with a couple of areas of arguably pinkish background lighting circled in green.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 01/06/2026

To give you some idea, here is a screenshot. Note that your server is not telling the client how big the file is, which suggests it’s trying serve static files as if they were web pages.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 01/06/2026

It’s got the location wrong by about 100 miles, but Duck Duck Go can at least answer the question.

Duck Duck Go search results for “when is sunset” showing the sunrise and sunset times for the current date (May 31, 2026) at Idaho Falls, Idaho. If you’re curious, the sunrise time is listed as 5:50 am MDT and sunset is at 9:01 pm MDT. I have not confirmed these times, but they sound about right.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 01/05/2026

The product I paid for vs the product I received. Do not buy from #Aeska, they are a rip-off.

A rather attractive wooden key organizer with shelf and six (count them) pegs for hanging keys on.

The components of the wooden key organizer I actually received. This one only has four pegs for keys (the advertised product had six) and the wood has an unsightly zebra finish.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 20/04/2026

Yes. I don’t think anybody has questioned that, Ben. The problem lies in those values of yours.

Instagram post from the Adelaide Advertiser. Image shows Ben Roberts-Smith standing in front of some microphones saying “I always acted within my values.”

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 22/03/2026

The 2024 cover on the other hand is colonialism writ large. It is overwhelmingly male and white and depicts conquest, not exploration. Is this really where you want to take the Traveller Community, Mongoose? 3/3

Cover of the 2024 printing of the Traveller Core Rulebook Update 2022 book. It depicts three humanoid figures and an alien. Fromleft to right we see a short, armoured, possibly female humanoid of indeterminate species, what looks like a robot carrying a weapon, a very white human male holding a sword above his head in an attitude of conquest, an Aslan male holding a weapon, and an alien that looks kind of like a tortoise, but with a head that is basically a tentacled maw with eyes. In the background are a couple of starships and a ringed planet.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 22/03/2026

The cover of the 2021 printing depicts a diverse group of people exploring a possibly hostile world. It includes a reference to the very early days of the Little Black Books. No notes. 2/3

Cover of the 2021 printing of the Traveller Core Rulebook Update 2022 book. It depicts a group of five humanoids. From left to right: a Vargr holding a weapon in each hand, an Aslan holding a weapon, a white human woman, apparently the leader, pointing off in the distance, a black human operating some sort of device, presumably a scanner, and an armoured figure holding a weapon. The tone is a diverse group of people exploring a new world, prepared for danger. In the background a couple of starships can be seen. The near one ha "Beowulf" printed on its side, a reference to the earliest editions of the Traveller game.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 12/03/2026

Solutions to get oil out of the Persian Gulf. Wrong answers only.

A spoonful of peanut butter resting atop an open jar of peanut butter. The jar is on a wooden table with scattered peanuts in shells around it.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 09/03/2026

So @gruber.foo, if the contractors were well-paid or not Kenyan, this would be totally fine, right?

Headline from Daring Fireball post: “Low-Wage Contractors in Kenya See What Users See While Using Meta’s AI Smart Glasses.”

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 01/03/2026

Apparently they are applicable to a wide variety of situations.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 01/03/2026

Go home Equifax, ur drunk. In case you are wondering, I have not applied for credit, or paid off a loan, or done anything that i am aware of over these past few months that might affect my credit score like this.

Graph of credit scores from about October to February. Starting in November the score swings wildly up and down by 30+ points.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 25/02/2026

Working Middle Upper Chattering

Black and white drawing of a warrior fighting a skeleton. Caption reads “What are the four core character classes? Wrong answers only.”

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 24/01/2026

Haven’t seen one of these in a long time. Interesting that it slipped past Gmail’s filters. Does it struggle with LLM-generated text, which I assume this is?

Scam email. Partial text of email follows.

“Attention Please..... This is to inform you that we have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in Africa with the help of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) United Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and FBl. We have been able to track down some scam artist in various parts of African countries which includes (Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Ghana and Senegal with cote reservoir ) and they are all in Government custody now, they will appear at International Criminal Court (ICC) soon for Justice. During the course of investigation, they were able to recovered some funds from these scam artists and IMF organization have ordered the funds recovered to be shared among the 3 Lucky people listed around the World as a compensation. This notice is been directed to you because your email address was found in one of the scam Artists file and computer […]”

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 29/12/2025

Surprising absolutely nobody 😂

Snippet from a The Conversation article on the effects of music on driving performance:

“Music you choose yourself tends to be less distracting than music imposed on you. Drivers often select music to regulate their mood and arousal – and that can stabilise their driving.

“Conversely, several experiments show researcher-selected or imposed music leads to poorer performance: more collisions and violations, especially when the driver doesn’t like the music.”

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 13/12/2025

Man, and I thought *I* was old.

Calendar entry for New Year's Day showing that a number of my contacts have their 425th birthday on that day. The contact names have been redacted because I'm sure they don't want the whole world knowing how old they really are.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 01/12/2025

It’s also entirely likely that maybe what you have is not the flu at all. In my experience people categorise quite a number of different seasonal maladies as “the flu.” Do you have a sniffle and feel like shit? Could be anything. Have you been laid up in bed for three days running? Probably the flu.

Snippet from a The Conversation article about COVID and influenza vaccines.

“ If I get the flu a few days after the vaccine, is it because I had the flu already?

“After you catch the flu virus, it usually hides in your body for a few days before you notice any symptoms. So, it is possible to catch the flu and then get a vaccine without knowing you are infected because you haven’t developed symptoms yet.

“This is just unlucky timing. While it isn’t dangerous, getting the vaccine while you have the flu may make you feel worse. If you do feel unwell with a fever, you should delay getting your flu jab until you recover.”

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 28/11/2025

IDK @theconversation.com, does it mean the same racist dogwhistle bullshit as every time anyone else has brought it up in any country in the past three decades?

Headline from The Conversation: “Sussan Ley talks about 'Australian values' in assessing migrants. What exactly does that mean?”

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 19/11/2025

We have a small nature pond that we like to keep ice free because birds love it in winter. We have a de-icer that we controlled manually, but this year I’ve decided to automate it. It’s supposed to be thermostatically controlled and I wanted to see when it kicked in and, well …

Two graphs. One tracking ambient temperature and upper and lower temperatures. The other tracks the de-icer power consumption. You can see the pond temperatures rising when the de-icer is on, but there is no sign at all of the alleged thermostat kicking in. Not even when the pond temperature exceeds 15°C (59°F).

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 12/11/2025

Can confirm. Aurora going off.

Aurora Borealis shot from a rural town in Idaho. The upper half of the photo is reddish pink with some faint columns. A strip of green lies between pink and the horizon. The lower third of the image is a road.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 08/11/2025

Developers Unhook Breaking Changes Of Questionable Value From Safe Changes A Lot Of People Will Want Challenge 2025 #TTRPG #FoundryVTT #Pathfinder2e

Announcement from the maintainers of the Foundry VTT Pathfinder 2e system. On the one hand it warns that the next release will contain a lot of changes that may break things, on the other it says the release will contain content from Paizo's Monster Core 2.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 05/11/2025

Dear Netatmo, This explains why you can’t show me a weather forecast in your app, but it doesn’t explain why you thought it was a good idea to require your servers to be up in order to show me the status of my devices on my home network.

Outage notice from Netatmo explaining that their servers are down.

Netatmo app showing a mostly blank screen in place of a dashboard that should be showing the statuses of the weather stations on my local network.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 29/09/2025

On a recent camping trip in Togwotee Pass, Wyoming I saw these things in some of the trees. Does anyone know what they are?

A greyish rectangular pouch stapled to a tree. Poking out of the top of the pouch is a some sort of pad in mesh.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 18/09/2025

Quick, cheap, safe: choose two.

Headline from The Conversation UK: “Can the UK fast-track nuclear power without cutting corners on safety?”

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 12/09/2025

No, Anton, they did not. It’s an exciting announcement, but you should not lie about it. Especially not after getting on your high horse about Avi Loeb.

YouTube thumbnail for video from Anton Petrov. The thumbnail is a recent image from the Perseverance rover on Mars showing features that MIGHT be minerals indicative of PAST life on Mars. A headline in the image in a huge font says “NASA JUST ANNOUNCED LIFE ON MARS.”

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 10/09/2025

Age verification? This is the Cybertruck I wanted when I grew up.

Screenshot from the 1980 Atari video game Battlezone. It features a 3D wireframe tank with a very low polygon count somewhat reminiscent of a Cybertruck only a million times cooler.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 20/08/2025

The only one of these I am fairly sure isn’t AI is the Cunk one. The others are either definitely completely AI generated, or heavily AI manipulated. A couple might be from content farms, which is hardly any better.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 02/08/2025

If you see this, post a castle. classicreload.com/sites/defaul...

Title screen of the classic Macintosh game Dark Castle. It shows a moonlit scene with a silhouetted castle on a craggy prominence at left above a lake. The picture is framed by trees with a vulture perched on the one on the right. The title “Dark Castle” in a gothic font appears in the right of the picture.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 26/07/2025

The Venn diagram of people who put “Biden did this” stickers on gas pumps and who leave their ludicrous behemoths idling while they do their grocery shopping is a perfect circle.

A black Ford F350 with oversized tire and spiky wheel nuts.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 21/07/2025

Have you ever wanted to buy a bottle of wine solely on the basis of the label?

A bottle of Gardacho Garnacha wine (also known as Grenache). The label features a black silhouette of a four-legged creature (possibly a deer, dog, or mythical beast) on a plain white background. The design has a folk art or indigenous art aesthetic, reminiscent of traditional decorative patterns. The creature is primarily black with decorative elements in red, blue, and white.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 15/07/2025

If it went back further I’m sure it would find a few of my posts without alt-text. Still, I’m taking it. cred.blue/alt-text

An analysis of my Bluesky posts showing how many of my recent posts with images have alt text. Of 203 posts, 10 contained images and all those had alt text for a score of 100%.

In the image there is a semicircular pie chart with equal-sized segments in red, orange, yellow and green. A needle indicating which band my score falls in is pinned to the top of the green segment.

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