John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Last month we went to a Ukrainian restaurant and saw this in the bathroom. I assume demand for your linked sticker will be much broader 000
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Tioga would like to play ball, please. If anyone's available this afternoon, swing on by. I have to work. 010
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'll be going to a Canadien's home game next month, so I think that means I have to become a fan. This is fine; I really like the Québécois. Anyway, if the Sharks and Les Hebs meet in the playoffs I'll be rooting against you. Please remember: it's not personal. It's just sports. 110
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They should invent anxiety that sucks less. At the very least you should be able to change *how* it sucks from time to time. As a treat. 000
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Tioga is the best dog. We had to give him a new home last year, but his new primary people let us visit or, in this case, let him come to our house for a couple weeks of "vacation". We love him so much. 010
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I have a coworker in the home office today. Not very good with computer work, but he does raise morale. 150
Reposted by John PorterJordan van der Hagen @thejvandy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Set Wide the Window. Let Me Drink the Day. Glacier National Park, Montana 0142
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Tioga is at our house for a little vacation, so I'm just letting you know that there may be many dog pictures posted here for the next couple weeks. 030
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026according to a quick internet search. For me, a guy in his late 40s in 2026 America, I am drawn much more strongly to Vonnegut's melancholy thousand words than to Rand's strident tens of thousands. Kindness and wisdom, on the scale we can practice them, won't fix everything, but they can fix a lot. 000
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That's, once again, a line from Cat's Cradle. It's part of a speech given to commemorate the One Hundred Martyrs to Democracy. The speech is about 1000 words long. For some reason, while reading it I thought about John Galt's speech from Atlas Shrugged. It clocks in at about 30,000 words 100
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Think what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise." 100
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I also want to mention that seeing how things have changed over the last couple weeks, after a long period of more or less predictable pattern of fountaining, has felt pretty special. There's an emotional resonance, alongside the scientific fascination. 000
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm still keeping an eye on Kilauea, waiting for fountaining episode 55. Overflows are happening again, now from the top of a cone that has built up over the past couple weeks. Are these precursors to the big event? Dunno, but it's neat! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HggW... 120
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's the most boring rock forming mineral. Vote graphite! 100
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Oh man, I LOVE my USB monitor, but yeah, it's too heavy unless I really need it. The search for peripherals (and meaning) continues! 010
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I've watched quite a few youtube videos where bands on tour stop by the local radio station studio to play a short set. Nobody does it better than KEXP. Head and shoulders above the rest. (Incidentally, I'm finally ready to appreciate this masterpiece. Thanks, Merlin) youtu.be/wb0fW8yQCHc?...youtu.beKing Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Iron Lung (Live on KEXP)YouTube video by KEXP 021
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Had a terrifying thought this morning: what if happiness and personal fulfilment depends on something besides having just the right travel power/charging setup? probably best not to think about it too much. 100
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This looks like it is either extremely my jam or a nice ride until it goes off the rails in episode 7. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7vd...youtube.comSmall Prophets — Official Trailer | Apple TVYouTube video by Apple TV 000
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The shame and embarrassment would absolutely ruin a normal person. 220
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This sign I saw on my way to the office this morning overestimates how much I enjoy going into the office. 030
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Here, have a beautiful song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjfm...youtube.comLea Salonga - On My Own (Les Misérables) [720p]YouTube video by engchi93 120
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 29/09/2026He will soon be the most powerful ghost in generations. 011
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I opened the Notes app on my ipad and found many delightful artefacts of the past. One was a note from 2016 called "My Doctor Who Ratings" with one entry: The Empty Child: negative infinity I'd prob. rate it higher, but it's an understandable rating for an ep. that gave an 8 year old nightmares. 110
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It doesn't have to be a notes app, specifically. A good pdf reader/editor would work, if it is free or has a lifetime license option; I don't want to sign up for another eel. 100
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I've been using Goodnotes to annotate pdfs for some projects on my ipad. Recently many of the files in my database have broken, showing only annotated blank pages (see pic). So I'm looking to switch apps. Anybody have recommendations? (I know, the handwriting is very bad. New apps can't fix that.) 100
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I expect the upcoming civil and/or world war will raise gas and grocery prices, so it'll all work itself out. Democracy!! 090
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026When I think culinary trees I think of peaches, apricots, apples. The basics. You've mentioned some uncommon ones on here. What are you growing right now? 130
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Friendly reminder: Please don't drop into someone's replies, guns blazing. You're not going to have the impact you want by insulting strangers, unless the impact you want is making strangers sad or angry. If that's why you're online, grow up. It's not cool to be a dick in your free time. 010
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You're right, but dang it, I still struggle with the fact that SpaceX is doing really cool stuff with rockets while being led/owned by *that guy* of all people. Incidentally, I'm always a little surprised by this Einstein fact. I guess I think of him as a historical brain, not as a rounded person. 4230
Reposted by John PorterNot the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 28/09/2026really sucks how much social media (even just text based ones) has fragmented....bluesky has lib chopped uncs...substack notes has annoying writers...threads and twitter have all the really mentally ill people. That used to be all in one place! 1155237
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I finally looked into the etymology of the word peon, and it turns out that it has nothing to do with a class so low that they were peed on, as I thought when I first encountered the word as a ten year old. 000
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ok people. You can vote for literally the most boring rock forming mineral or a *cobalt* mineral with a name that's real fun to say. It's not a hard choice. Vote skutterudite! 162
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 25/09/2026(un?)Fortunately, it only turned out to be a 20 min delay. I've just boarded in Denver so there was a possibility of actual views out on those decks at the end of the terminal, if only I had more time! 110
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There is a short delay with my flight. I hope they are not waiting for a shipment of small, lemon-soaked paper napkins. 110
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Ten bucks somebody said that most of the old arches are made of brick and mortar. The boss heard that and ran with it. "Mortars, sniper ammo, drones. Put it all in there!" 010
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We watched it with the kid a couple months back. I remembered liking it when I watched it many years ago. It has only improved with (my) age. 110
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Subtweet at the company that put out the corporate presentation I'm looking at right now: pyrite does not have cleavage planes, so don't go putting that in your corporate materials. It makes you look bad. 101
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The world would be a better place if more people treated airports like a little liminal vacation than an obstacle between point A and point B. (Exceptions will be granted for those really short connections that make one hurry.) 010
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, "Why, why, why?" Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land; Mans got to tell himself he understand. That's real good, and I feel like it's one of those Truths that justifies fiction. 110
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Sure, you say comics are fine to share, but what if I share SMBC with my friends and then one day, BAM! They see one like this and it breaks them. What then, Zach??! 160
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Dangerous time for ships transporting yellow cakes. 1290
John Porter @maletero.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Great stuff. Now we can generate Cuban Missile-level crises faster than ever. 072
