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john
@curiousjohn.bsky.social
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outlier, not always in the direction I want
superforecaster, techie, expat
@john_henry elsewhere
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curiousjohn.bsky.social
ok lego for grownups has gotten out of control
lego set “star wars logo”. in which you build the famous words “star wars” from the movies. with legos. that you paid 40 bucks for.
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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queen of england memorial cookies, discounted to make room for something new
November 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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@naratnayake.bsky.social my kids picked up this book and I flashed back to the misfire school library, flipping through the dictionary with you looking for the most impressive words. Thought you’d get a kick out of it!
October 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
curiousjohn.bsky.social
I imagine a cross between that and the dakar rally trucks
September 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
curiousjohn.bsky.social
it’s not Fayazi Haza?
description of character from the tainted cup SHE LOOKED TO be about my age, and she was as tall as I was, with a long neck, enormous purple eyes, and thick, silvery, straight hair that fell in a shining sheet. Eyelids dashed with blue and purple, traceries of red paints about her ears. Lashes as thick as a stonetree’s trunk, her snow-white brow encircled by a gray ribbon threaded with pale green. Her pale skin was so unblemished and luminous it almost appeared to shine, cracks of ethereal white peeking through her robes, which covered nearly the whole of her being from the neck down—except her feet, which carefully shuffled forward on tall platform sandals. She was without doubt the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Not the most beautiful woman, nor the most beautiful person, but the most beautiful thing. She seemed to emit a silver shimmer simply walking through the adjudication chambers,
September 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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thanks facebook
geert wilders suggested content
June 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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update: grass has been touched
April 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
curiousjohn.bsky.social
honey wake up, crungus is back
March 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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playing with my old cobra commander with my kids and suddenly remembered the baller glider this guy had. ahead of his time.
cobra commander figure with a ground tripod launcher based plane made of plastic
October 10, 2023 at 3:40 PM
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bruce sterlings review points out one grating issue
Finally there are Cory’s compositional work-habits, which are, I think, starting to harm his creativity. Cory’s a dedicated over-achiever determined to put in a day’s hard labor, but the seams are showing. You can tell from his tone on the page when he first sits down at his keyboard, and when he gets tired and wraps-it-up it with a quip. It has that episodic feeling of A.E. van Vogt tossing in a new concept every 800 words or so. It gets rote. It’s disciplined, but it’s mechanical. Worse yet, he’s done this so long that his char­acters are doing it now. They’ve all internalized Cory’s work habits, so that, even though they’re supposed to be wild drop-outs, free-thinkers, liberated weirdo refuseniks from post-scarcity communes, they come across as dutiful Jules-Verne figures. They’re either stacking bricks or lecturing each other. I get it that political stand-ins have to be rather plug-and-play, but they’re rendered in monotone. Their best lines are Cory Doctorow public-speech applau
September 26, 2023 at 11:35 AM
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update: 72 miles on the bike this week ferrying the kid to sport camp, life is good
apple health bar chart showing daily cycling activity, showing an average of 18 miles per day this week
August 31, 2023 at 9:36 PM
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wow, it turns out my normal lifestyle is kind of active and visiting family is devastating
apple health “your average exercise minutes were down over the last 11 days” with a bar chart showing 45 minute average exercise per day before, and 5 minutes average exercise after
August 22, 2023 at 6:25 AM
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too many peaches
branch broken off a peach tree, fully laden with about 100 peaches
August 18, 2023 at 12:04 AM
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“It’s not much, but it’s honest work”
happy riot police toy
August 3, 2023 at 3:56 PM
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“I love my job”
happy riot police playmobil toy
August 3, 2023 at 3:54 PM
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You gotta admit, this is at least a little bit dystopian
A picture of the front of the box of a toy, Playmobil city action, tactical, all-terrain vehicle. An armored SUV with a grappling hook turret police light and a bulldozer, with two toy action figures hanging off of it, with happy smiles, and guns drawn.
August 3, 2023 at 9:05 AM
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me and who
caveman riding dinosaur
July 24, 2023 at 9:06 PM
curiousjohn.bsky.social
uh don’t try this at home
July 3, 2023 at 6:05 PM
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anybody know about cherry blossom trees? all of them in my neighborhood (including mine, not pictured) look awful the last couple years. Fertilizer? Not enough water? Fungus? tree trimmer I hired cut off the dead stuff but didn’t have any real advice
cherry blossom tree looking like shit in front of a partly cloudy blue sky
July 3, 2023 at 1:50 PM
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art museum day
June 20, 2023 at 10:11 PM
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mallorca is nice, i’m resort-pilled now
May 6, 2023 at 5:15 PM
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urban life
April 17, 2023 at 2:47 PM
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nice easter weekend at a family vacation park.
April 14, 2023 at 11:15 AM
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whoa, cool to see who’s on here already.

I’m john, mostly lurking twitter as john_henry while shaking my head so everyone knows I’m not enjoying it.

currently sahd to two badass young dudes who wouldn’t sit next to me for this picture, while fantasizing about getting back into tech/forecasting.
April 11, 2023 at 6:06 PM