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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 21/08/2026

"don't get left behind by ai." by Jane (@janebwriting on IG)

"don't get left behind by ai."

so leave me behind. leave me with the long speech written by ink-stained hands for the best friend dressed in white silk. leave me in art galleries and bookstores and theaters that house decades of ghost stories. leave me with the family photograph where the dad is blinking and the cousin is talking with the aunt and the dog is a blurry smudge. leave me with the typos. leave me deep in the forest with only the hum of the honeybees and the rush of a stream. leave me with the flyer drawn up by a local artist or designed in a rush on canvas or scribbled on a piece of lined paper. leave me with the google search that pulls me down a rabbit hole. leave me on the couch on a tuesday night, white wine in hand, crying "how do i get over him?" to the sister. leave me at the computer, typing an email that takes up only thirty fucking seconds of my time.

leave me behind with the things that make us human.

@janebwriting

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 27/01/2026

I have no idea how Wheel of Time ended up higher than Taskmaster Australia or other Dropout shows.

A screenshot of a TV Time wrapped showing Most Watched Shows. The top four are Taskmaster, Taskmaster: New Zealand, Wheel of Time, and Game Changer.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 17/01/2026

Their merch store has these classy numbers

A navy blue t-shirt that reads "A.I. Will Replace You."

A red t-shirt that reads "generative ai"

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 31/12/2025

NGL, I was expecting something more like this...

A photoshopped picture of a brown leather couch floating in the water of Long Wharf in Boston. There's a number of boats in the background and a building on the dock off to one side.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 04/12/2025

Our cats had a fun year watching videos. This is their YouTube Wrapped.

A screenshot of YouTube Wrapped that says "Moments from your years: watched nature documentaries, focused on pet enrichment, learned about otters"

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 27/11/2025

First time playing Jackbox Party Pack 11 and I won Cookie Haus with this banger.

An upside down top hat cookie, painted white and labelled "Maria Antoinette's Angel" It has a blood red mark at the collar and two feathery wings.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 26/10/2025

This is in addition to the cat food I need to run over and donate to them as well. We were introduced by our vet, collecting pet food, but they do amazing work for hungry humans too. mannaonmain.org

A receipt from "manna on main street" for a $51.50 donation to "[fight] hunger in the North Penn region!"

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 07/10/2025

Man, this panel from @thisecommercelife.bsky.social hits perfectly. What's the over/under on there existing a real tombstone with an LLM written epitaph?

A tombstone that reads "Sure, I can help you with that! Here is a concise epitaph for your father's tombstone: Robert Wimbly, Deceased"

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 21/09/2025

There's no reason this company needed to spend tons of money on domains to sell licorice, caramels and taffy. Probably explains why their Australian Red is $1.125 per oz while Wiley Wallaby is almost half that at $0.599 per oz.

A vending machine that contains stacks of cardboard tubes. At the top, it reads "licorice.com, caramels.com, taffy.com"

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 17/09/2025

This is Moxxi. She's mad that I'm on a work trip even though the rest of the family is there with her.

A standard issue cat -- mostly brown with patches of white -- sitting on a perch in front of a window. Her pink collar reads "the goodest girl"

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 11/08/2025

Considering divorce rates for women peaked in 1980, dropped by 1993 when SMS was invented, and is lower still now, I would hypothesize the author is full of it. www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resour...

A graph showing Women’s Divorce Rate, 1900-2022 sourced from https://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/family-profiles/FP-24-11.html

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 31/07/2025

My wife bought a box of 200 paper straws and they are, apparently, the best cat toy ever. These goobers have balls and toys out the wazoo and they were up all night tackling straws.

Two cats are giving their backs to the camera while their heads are in their food bowls.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 30/07/2025

So we can't write someone off for... writing off a whole group of minorities?

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist - James Baldwin

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 04/07/2025

Not only that, it has a blank next to that checkbox and encourages the applicant to provide more detail, which Mumdani says he did. "Please further self identify yourself ... and add more specific information where relevant (such as tribal affiliation or country of origin)."

A screenshot of the Race Information section on a college application

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 03/07/2025

A tale as old as time...

Microsoft's stock price, showing a gain of $72.51 (17.32%) year to date.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 29/06/2025

Robin is willing to ride at dawn.

A black and white cat sitting loaf style wrapped up in a gray blanket.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 25/06/2025

One of the largest multi-cultural cities on the planet might build a few buildings that look like the historical architecture of some of those cultures? Seems suspect. Especially since Kampala looks like this...

A city skyline of Kampala, Uganda. Aside from there being more white trim on the buildings, it resembles any other city skyline

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 16/06/2025

Instantly reminded me of the background of the skill select screen in Skyrim.

A screenshot of the skill tree selection UI from Skyrim, the video game. It features several skills like Pickpocket listed across the bottom, with a fake constellation about each one. The background of the image is a wavy mess of different green colors.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 28/05/2025

Such a weird hill for you and Casey Newton to draw the line on, nitpicking the words of an author who knows their life work has been appropriate by this tool and now had to witness an author-focused convention using it. Especially since, if you ask ChatGPT if it's a search engine, it says no.

Screenshot of a ChatGPT chat that reads "No, I'm not a search engine! While I can help you find information and provide answers to questions, I don’t work by searching the web in real-time like Google or Bing. Instead, I generate responses based on the knowledge I’ve been trained on, up until my last update (October 2023). So, if you ask me something, I’ll try to provide a useful, contextually relevant'

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 24/05/2025

Onion's antics have my wife just waiting for Moon to start getting up to no good with his thumbs.

A brown and white cat, standing on a wooden shelf, with extra toes visible on both his front and back paws.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 20/05/2025

Just this annoying strip, although it gets a bit worse after rain.

A picture of a lawn with a foot wide area of muddy, grass less standing water

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 10/05/2025

Ashbringer knows eating nutritional yeast is messy. Ash does not care.

A black cat standing on a countertop with two food bowls. One bowl has the remnants of yellow powder -- the same yellow powder coats the cat's face. His pink tongue is stuck out to lick his chops.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 06/05/2025

We've had groundhogs for the last four years. This year we have baby foxes. I choose not to speculate.

The tiny brown-red head of a baby fox peering over the edge of a backyard deck.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 28/04/2025

The paper version uses vertical space to make it look dramatic but represents the same data.

A graph showing average male height by country. Although the difference from The Netherlands to Philippines is only .25 meters, the graph is drawn so the difference looks staggering and significant.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 28/04/2025

For someone who's only lived here for two months and is two months behind on rent, Ms. Derby sure does give us a lot of sass. #Cats #Caturday #Cat

A gray-brown cat standing on top of a cat condo. The expression on her face reads "really? This again?"

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 22/04/2025

Here's the text and page it links to. www.thenec.co.uk/contact-us/

Got a question? We're here to help.

Due to attend an event at the NEC? If you have any questions about your upcoming visit, take a look at the frequently asked questions to help you find an answer or point you in the right direction. From cash machines and car parking to restaurants and rest rooms whatever information you need, we've got you covered.

If your query has not been answered, please visit our Contact Us page

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 15/04/2025

"Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations" And their official response? "Unfortunately, this is an incorrect response from a front-line AI support bot." Plus locking the Reddit thread discussing it. Man, it couldn't have happened to a better company.

Earlier today Cursor, the magical AI-powered IDE started kicking users off when they logged in from multiple machines.
Like,you’d be working on your desktop, switch to your laptop, and all of a sudden you're forcibly logged out. No warning, no notification, just gone.

Naturally, people thought this was a new policy.

So they asked support.

And here’s where it gets batshit: Cursor has a support email, so users emailed them to find out. The support peson told everyone this was “expected behavior” under their new login policy.

One problem. There was no support team, it was an AI designed to 'mimic human responses'

That answer, totally made up by the bot, spread like wildfire.

Users assumed it was real (because why wouldn’t they? It's their own support system lol), and within hours the community was in revolt. Dozens of users publicly canceled their subscriptions, myself included. Multi-device workflows are table stakes for devs, and if you're going to pull something that disruptive, you'd at least expect a changelog entry or smth.

Nope.

And just as people started comparing notes and figuring out that the story didn’t quite add up… the main Reddit thread got locked. Then deleted. Like, no public resolution, no real response, just silence.

To be clear: this wasn’t an actual policy change, just a backend session bug, and a hallucinated excuse from a support bot that somehow did more damage than the bug itself.

But at that point, it didn’t matter. People were already gone.

Honestly one of the most surreal product screwups I’ve seen in a while. Not because they made a mistake, but because the AI support system invented a lie, and nobody caught it until the userbase imploded.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 14/04/2025

Robin is wondering the same...

An upside-down Harlequin cat, hanging over the edge of a white shelf. His eyes are squinting.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 12/04/2025

Compared to the previous games, the new model, specifically the horns, is hard to look at. All their foreheads walk into the room a few minutes before they do.

Iron Bull from Dragon Age: Inquisition. He's gray-skinned, but has unique ears. His horns com out the side of his head and his forehead is boney.

A Qunari from Dragon Age 2. His horns protrude from the sides of his forehead and he has uniquely-shaped ears.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 12/04/2025

Finished up Dragon Age: Veilguard tonight and don't really understand most of the negative feedback. I found the pacing a bit off -- you'd fight one of the BBEGs and then a companion would invite you to a picnic -- but other than that, it was fine. Except! The Quanari? Who OK'd this model?

A screenshot of a Qunari from Dragon Age: Veilguard. He's essentially a grey-skinned human with a huge, lumpy forehead.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 11/04/2025

Our angry little princess is back at the vet. She was admitted to get IV fluids and some TLC. #cat #cats #caturday

An up close picture of a gray cat, with a bit of white around her pink nose, glaring through the blue bars of her cat carrier.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 04/04/2025

Maybe I'm just bad at reading this graph of egg prices from the government website?

A graph showing the average price of eggs at an all time high, based on data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 02/04/2025

I've seen the take that NaNoWriMo shut down because of the AI controversy and not the grooming scandal. In my opinion, that isn't what happened. Tax returns for non-profits run farther behind than you might imagine. NaNoWriMo's tax returns for 2023 were due around October 2024.

A Tumblr screenshot that reads "Tells you where people's priorities are (nothing new there) it took an Al scandal that involved money to take it down, rather than a contacting minors inappropriately in the forums. well well well."

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 01/04/2025

You might be right. The video isn't on their official YouTube, it's on this other one with only one video.

A screenshot of the @NaNoWriMoKilby YouTube account showing 1 video.

A screenshot of the @NaNoWriMoKilby YouTube account, showing it was created 7/3/2024

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 26/03/2025

The fruit-bat in question

A black cat with a narrow snout. He's in a gray hammock with one ear folded over by a wooden support beam. He's giving the camera a side-eye.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 23/03/2025

lol took me forever. The dark spot in the top left is the dog's nose, the mouth to the right of that. The other two bits are ears.

A white dog, perhaps a chihuahua, looking shiftily at the camera.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 17/03/2025

We put their bowls on these stands that are supposed to be good for their necks. But it also cuts down on random things in the bowl.

A plastic tray on legs. It has a single water bowl on it.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 16/03/2025

Poor Chessie needed a bath after dealing with the side effects of antibiotics. She was well-behaved but still not happy. #Caturday #Cat #Cats

A gray and white cat, completely drenched except her head, lounging in a stainless steel sink with Dawn spotted in the background.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 14/03/2025

Man, I'd love to buy a book from @bookshop-org.bsky.social instead of a big retailer, but apparently this nonsense Cloudflare page has other ideas. Tried three times and it won't send me a code. Cool cool.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 28/02/2025

We're waiting for the radiologist to review her ultrasound, but the current working theory is that she has more gallstones and a blockage. If that's the case, we'll have to head to the local vet hospital for a surgery consult. #cats #CatsOfBlueSky

A close up picture of a gray cat. She's laying in loaf formation with one paw sticking out. The side of her face is squished as if she has bed head and her collar's tag reads "Oldie But a Goodie"

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 25/02/2025

I cannot believe that my CPAP had a 2024 Wrapped.

How your usage added up

We're here to help as you find your rhythm.

Nightly averages are based on your usage per night.

Avg nightly usage: 8h 12m

Avg nightly score: 95

Avg nightly events: 1.2

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 25/02/2025

Did someone say dark cat? (This is Mackenzie. We met her at the cat cafe this weekend.)

A sleeping black cat, laying on her side in a fluffy greenish gray bed.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 24/02/2025

Pretty anxious that our eldest #cat isn't feeling well and we don't know why. She's on her second round of blood tests and may have to go back this week for more. On the plus side, her teeth are fine, her liver enzymes are at her baseline, and she has meds for nausea.

The head of a grumpy looking gray cat is sticking out of an opening in a white cabinet. There's a sign next to her that reads "Brushings, blankets, butlers, brothers & broths" but "brothers" is crossed out.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 18/02/2025

NaNoWriMo's charitable organization status with the State of California is officially "Delinquent" b/c they've failed to file one or more of the required annual reports. This appears to include the the Form 990 that would report board members, key employees, and where their money is being spent.

A screenshot from the State of California Department of Justice website showing "Registrant Details" for National Novel Writing Month. Under Registry Status, it reads "Delinquent"

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 16/02/2025

I've been playing Tango on LinkedIn for a while now. Last night, while doing an escape room with some friends, one of the boxes opened and revealed a Tango puzzle! It was a "It's a UNIX system! I know this!" moment and I loved it. (Although doing Tango with physical pops is a little harder)

A screenshot from the movie Jurassic Park showing two children operating a computer with a 3D operating system. It shows endless rows and columns of blue boxes with a spotlight shone on one box.

Below is a screenshot from Silicon Graphics 3D File System Navigator for IRIX, a real OS based on UNIX that the Jurassic Park effects were based on. It has the same boxes and spotlight, although the boxes in this version are purple.

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