John Thornton
johnpthornton.bsky.social
John Thornton
@johnpthornton.bsky.social
Data scientist. Software engineer. Army Veteran. Hiking, playing games with friends.

Founder of Thornton Data Solutions, a consultancy that helps organizations reduce IAM Costs.

Current Interests: Access optimization and fermenting my own foods
I forgot to soak my Bacalao so now I'm subbing in some halibut we had. Gonna make Halibut Con Natas the way I imagine some Portuguese dude in Alaska would.
December 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Reposted by John Thornton
Family Christmas is when you learn so many new things, such as the fact kids are using devices to emulate amiibo if they don't care about the statues.

But I would never let such blatant lawlessness into my home, personally. I'm merely showing what relatives are doing.
December 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The key to successful Christmas shopping for an over-thinker is to drink two tall pours at your malls bar and let the spirits take over.
December 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I honesty can’t think of a better thing to put his name on than what will be known as an embarrassing boondoggle.
He’s gilded the entire White House, slapped his name on both the Kennedy Center and Institute for Peace, installed a new Trump Gold Card, and now proposing a new “Trump class” of naval vessels.

I know we keep saying this is insane but this is seriously fucking insane.
oh my god its literally Long Beach's wario
December 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
My wife and I bought tickets to see Avatar at 8PM, it is 3 Hours and 17 Minutes long. I am 44, she is very pregnant, pray for us.
December 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
It’s good to get outside
December 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Joe Rogan fans
what’s more virgin than a computer
December 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Happy drive 2/3rds of the speed limit day to all of you observing it!
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I see a lot of folks blaming “Democrats” for folding. I get it, I’m angry too. But it wasn’t “Democrats” that folded, it was a specific set of Senators and they meed to be called out specifically and removed from power. If we want things to get better we can’t attack the folks who held the line.
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We can't afford healthcare or food so this is likely to be accurate.
Dr Oz: "Americans will lose 135 million pounds by the midterms"
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
They have to put up signs to remind dementia Donny where he is.
New sign outside the Oval Office..
November 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Ugh, AI is useless...
October 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
My twelve year old gaming mouse just died so I swapped in a new one. It immediately prompted me to install mouse management software and I'm not sure this is progress...
October 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
View on the morning walk
October 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The historically apolitical chatter at my local dog park has turned firmly anti-Trump.
October 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Anti-aircraft guns are illegal but barrage balloons are not.
If I were Senator Durbin, and I was the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, I would make a mental note to revisit this in the near future. ICE fast roping onto rooftops in Chicago seems like a good reason to exercise a teeny bit of oversight

www.newsweek.com/ice-rappel-b...
ICE Agents Rappel From Black Hawk Helicopters Into Chicago for Major Raid
Roughly 30 undocumented immigrants were taken into custody, several of them suspected of gang affiliation, NewsNation reported.
www.newsweek.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I’m fine with not giving Trump any more of my money to commit crimes with. We can start the government back up after the people retake congress.
October 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Zoo day!
September 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Oh no I’m stuck on an airplane!
September 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Honoring my Swedish ancestry today!

(Listening to Sabaton’s Carolus Rex while I assemble an IKEA bookshelf)
September 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Chicken dinner
September 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
There's some disheveled dude sitting on a street corner with a poorly painted sign that says something like "Democrats are murderous child mutilators" and I have to say the upshot of lots of people deciding that they're Charlie Kirk is going to be embarrassing for them.
September 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A lot of folks are going to criticize JD Vance for trying to cover Kirk’s show but I think its great that something got him up off the couch.
September 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I’m in line for Somfermfest and it’s kinda neat to be standing in line with a bunch of folks who’s unifying trait is that they like pickles.
September 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
In college I occasionally amused myself sometimes by configuring the most expensive possible Mac (roughly the cost of a new car). It was an academic exercise because I could never find a use for one.

Until today when I created a dataframe of access similarities that weighed in at 84gb.

Gofundme?
September 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM