John M. Gamble
@jmgamble.bsky.social
Lives in Chicago.
Programs obscure algorithms.
My primary posting site is and will remain at Mastodon. The account is bridged here:
@jgamble.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
Programs obscure algorithms.
My primary posting site is and will remain at Mastodon. The account is bridged here:
@jgamble.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
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🌞 GIANT SUNSPOT ALERT! A huge sunspot group ~130,000 km wide is turning toward Earth. Several dark cores are bigger than Earth and visible in filtered scopes. It launched an M6 flare on Nov. 28—possibly stronger. Now facing us, future flares could be geoeffective. More at Spaceweather.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🌞 GIANT SUNSPOT ALERT! A huge sunspot group ~130,000 km wide is turning toward Earth. Several dark cores are bigger than Earth and visible in filtered scopes. It launched an M6 flare on Nov. 28—possibly stronger. Now facing us, future flares could be geoeffective. More at Spaceweather.com
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someone attended the Bari Weiss School of Having Principles
November 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
someone attended the Bari Weiss School of Having Principles
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The heart and soul of Trumpism in one tweet
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The heart and soul of Trumpism in one tweet
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Another Indiana Republican Senator makes it clear he’s still opposing the GOP push to re-gerrymander the state. dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
November 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Another Indiana Republican Senator makes it clear he’s still opposing the GOP push to re-gerrymander the state. dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
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Wasn't expecting this to be what did it but, yeah, a coalition with online edgelords and parents of kids with Down Syndrome was bound to get here at some point bsky.app/profile/eric...
h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 29, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Wasn't expecting this to be what did it but, yeah, a coalition with online edgelords and parents of kids with Down Syndrome was bound to get here at some point bsky.app/profile/eric...
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Every variation of blood-libel/Satanic baby-killerism is a permission structure employed to allow, endorse, and ultimately *require* the sinful behavior that is the cause of its adherents' anxiety.
VP JD Vance stood before a crowd and tried to falsify history, claiming Christians ended widespread mass child-sacrifice practices among Native Americans
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Every variation of blood-libel/Satanic baby-killerism is a permission structure employed to allow, endorse, and ultimately *require* the sinful behavior that is the cause of its adherents' anxiety.
One of the stories in I, Robot ("Liar") ends with the
professional to the point of obsession robopsychologist destroying the robot in question.
It was the right call.
professional to the point of obsession robopsychologist destroying the robot in question.
It was the right call.
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 AM
One of the stories in I, Robot ("Liar") ends with the
professional to the point of obsession robopsychologist destroying the robot in question.
It was the right call.
professional to the point of obsession robopsychologist destroying the robot in question.
It was the right call.
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Kickstarter doesn't send you messages from Gmail.
Neither does Shopify, by the way. Earlier this year I got a very persistent series of emails from "Shopify" claiming I needed to contact them related to my store's theme. LLMs have made it so these emails aren't full of typos anymore.
Neither does Shopify, by the way. Earlier this year I got a very persistent series of emails from "Shopify" claiming I needed to contact them related to my store's theme. LLMs have made it so these emails aren't full of typos anymore.
November 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Kickstarter doesn't send you messages from Gmail.
Neither does Shopify, by the way. Earlier this year I got a very persistent series of emails from "Shopify" claiming I needed to contact them related to my store's theme. LLMs have made it so these emails aren't full of typos anymore.
Neither does Shopify, by the way. Earlier this year I got a very persistent series of emails from "Shopify" claiming I needed to contact them related to my store's theme. LLMs have made it so these emails aren't full of typos anymore.
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The last time I launched a Kickstarter campaign, in 2019, the thing to expect was a bunch of soliciting DMs from marketing agencies and so on. Now they don't come through KS, they come via email. Par for the course.
But a special wag-o-the-finger to the ones claiming to be FROM Kickstarter!
But a special wag-o-the-finger to the ones claiming to be FROM Kickstarter!
November 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The last time I launched a Kickstarter campaign, in 2019, the thing to expect was a bunch of soliciting DMs from marketing agencies and so on. Now they don't come through KS, they come via email. Par for the course.
But a special wag-o-the-finger to the ones claiming to be FROM Kickstarter!
But a special wag-o-the-finger to the ones claiming to be FROM Kickstarter!
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People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
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Who gives a shit!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who cares!!! Eat whatever pie!!!
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Who gives a shit!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who cares!!! Eat whatever pie!!!
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One of the greatest days in Twitter history was when Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood tweeted about THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR by el-Mohtar and Gladstone. The book ended up at #1 on Amazon. Not #1 in SFF; #1 in BOOKS overall.
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
One of the greatest days in Twitter history was when Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood tweeted about THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR by el-Mohtar and Gladstone. The book ended up at #1 on Amazon. Not #1 in SFF; #1 in BOOKS overall.
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I'll start dressing like they did in the 50's when airlines offer the cabin space they had in the 50's.
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I'll start dressing like they did in the 50's when airlines offer the cabin space they had in the 50's.
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today's nearly random theater photo:
birthday girl Helen Gahagan, Hugh Huntley, Merle Maddern, and Alison Skipworth in The Enchanted April (1925)
birthday girl Helen Gahagan, Hugh Huntley, Merle Maddern, and Alison Skipworth in The Enchanted April (1925)
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
today's nearly random theater photo:
birthday girl Helen Gahagan, Hugh Huntley, Merle Maddern, and Alison Skipworth in The Enchanted April (1925)
birthday girl Helen Gahagan, Hugh Huntley, Merle Maddern, and Alison Skipworth in The Enchanted April (1925)
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new: i read the 2026 cook county budget so you don't have to.
spoiler: more money for police and prosecutors (plus a lot of other stuff).
spoiler: more money for police and prosecutors (plus a lot of other stuff).
Cook County law enforcement agencies get more money in 2026
The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved large investments in policing and prosecutions, over objections from advocates.
chicagoreader.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
new: i read the 2026 cook county budget so you don't have to.
spoiler: more money for police and prosecutors (plus a lot of other stuff).
spoiler: more money for police and prosecutors (plus a lot of other stuff).
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We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.
![A quote-tweet with the profile blocked out because I won’t be accused of sending flying monkeys at this digital turd.
counterpoint: pirate everything all the time. pirate a sandwich. download a car. abscond from from small business owner mindset with your brain
[High Priestess, Low Patie... • @cherie... • 14h
Re: previous post - People who steal art of any kind are assholes, full stop. If *you* deserve to be paid for your labor, so do I - and so does everybody else; this means writers, visual artists, musicians, and every other category of People Who Make Things.]
• • •
every time vulgar leftism pipes in from the sidelines of petit bourgeoisdom i am forced to become 8.75% more marxist](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x2ssvkga34xug334b66hvrje/bafkreigp2f33rtfu62kqjygnsxhg3jxxs6udwuyisipmyqrh5ew4c6kbyi@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Breaking: President Trump pardons the two turkeys that paid him the most for it.
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Breaking: President Trump pardons the two turkeys that paid him the most for it.
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Not that you asked, but here's a thread of intriguing (real!) food facts to amuse/bore your friends and family.
Great for gatherings when you need to change the subject!
Great for gatherings when you need to change the subject!
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Not that you asked, but here's a thread of intriguing (real!) food facts to amuse/bore your friends and family.
Great for gatherings when you need to change the subject!
Great for gatherings when you need to change the subject!
Everyone boo Mr. Dreyer, please.
If Nvidia had just stuck to soaps and moisturizers they probably wouldn't be mired in all this mess.
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Everyone boo Mr. Dreyer, please.
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FFS 😡
FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS
Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!
Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS
Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!
Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
FFS 😡
FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS
Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!
Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS
Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!
Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
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do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
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I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
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Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕