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Jer Clarke

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🇨🇦➡️🇲🇽 Canadian living in Mexico City

💚 WordPress developer for https://globalvoices.org

☸️ Free from addiction with https://recoverydharma.org

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Jer Clarke

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This #catholic Church in #tlalpan, #mexico had AI slop printed out and hanging from the pillars 🫠

Photo of a banner hanging on the pillar of a Catholic Church. The banner shows an illustration of an anime style angel that matches nothing else in the church.

Photo of a banner hanging on the pillar of a Catholic Church. The banner shows an illustration of three kings bringing presents. They are far too smooth.

December 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM

Jer Clarke

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This is extremely relatable for me right now. #jobsearch #IndistinguishableFromMagic

Screenshot of a filled-out form question.

Can you describe specific ways you have integrated Al tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond
simple prompt usage.*

there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely
how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.

it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. "you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster."

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn't mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face.

December 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM

Jer Clarke

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Gave my first talk en español at the Mexico City #wordpress meetup on Saturday. 90 mins of pure Spanish, what a workout!

So glad I connected with this community, made some great friends already and it's awesome to shoot the 💩 with fellow nerds.

Slides and […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

Photo of Jer wearing a ponytail and blue wordpress t-shirt, sitting in front of a laptop and pointing towards a screen with a presentation on it. A phone is also visible, recording the talk.

Photo of a talk participant in a room with little desks, asking a question of the presenter while a couple other participants listen.

Selfie of a group of people in the presentation room, looking at the camera and making thumbs-up gestures.

December 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM

Jer Clarke

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Good morning to this tree, springing forth in December so I only saw the sticks for like two weeks in November 🪾🌳🇲🇽

Photo of the top of a tree backlit by morning light. It’s covered in new green buds and tiny leaves. Behind it is a brick high rise residential building.

December 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM

Jer Clarke

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May the holidays brighten your chilly days ❄️☃️❤️‍🔥

Illustration of what looked like a white gorilla or yeti in a snowy landscape, there’s what looks like a chimpanzee on their back, clawing at them and drawing blood. The whole thing has a weird vibe.

At the bottom is the text “Season’s Greetings” in a gift card font.

December 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM

Jer Clarke

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🍑

Screenshot of Duolingo summarizing my yearly progress. Accompanying the text is an illustration of their owl mascot duo with a big butt.

You earned 69680 XP in total, more
than 99% of learners!
You put in the work. It shows.

December 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM

Jer Clarke

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Seasonal lighting ✅

A living room lit up by various Christmas lights around a large window. A cat tree, a huge plant and a couch are also visible.

A fluffy Siberian cat sitting at the top of a cat tree with colorful Christmas lights in the background

December 2, 2025 at 3:45 AM

Jer Clarke

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… and I never saw snow again. The end.

Screenshot of a Facebook post that says “ on this day five years ago” and shows a post by me that says “ out doing errands before moving to Mexico like” followed by a photo of a statue of a man seemingly walking into the wind with an old-fashioned outfit and a cane. The statue is covered in snow.

November 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM

Jer Clarke

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Shout out to a show I didn’t hear a single thing about, but saw on AppleTV and gave a chance to because it looked fun: The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin

Its a silly bordering on ridiculous, but charmingly wholesome, 18th century romp. Full of […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

Promotional poster for the show, with a photo of a 18th century man in a fancy costume drinking tea while riding backwards on a horse. He’s surrounded by text praising the show:

'AS A COMEDY, AS PURE ESCAPISM, THIS STANDS & DELIERS’ - THE TIMES
'A LOT OF FUN...A JOY TO WATCH' - RADIO TIMES
'BRILLIANTLY ABSURD... A LOT OF LAUGHS’ - DIGITAL SPY
'NOEL FIELDING...WHAT ASINGULAR TALENT HE IS’ - THE TELEGRAPH

November 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM

Jer Clarke

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Another neighbor spotted out my office window. Buenas tardes, Yellow-rumped Warbler 👋🏻 🐥

#mexico #cdmx #birds #birdwatching #wildlifephotography

Photo of a small bird sitting on a branch without any leaves and looking off into the sunset. The bird has a mix of black, white, and grey feathers, with yellow patches on its throat, the top of its head, and a section under the wing.

Photo of the same bird on a branch at sunset, but now its head is pointed towards the camera, and the crest of yellow feathers in the center of its head is clearly visible.

November 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM

Jer Clarke

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I'm so easily impressed these days. Feeling exalted just to see #vscode releasing updates that have QoL improvements that don't involve AI 😅

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_106#_code-editing

Screenshot from the link in this post:

Title: Copy diagnostic hover text

"A copy button now appears in diagnostic hovers (errors, warnings, info, and hints) to make copying error messages easier. When you hover over a diagnostic marker, move your mouse over the hover message to reveal a copy button in the top-right corner.”

Followed by a screenshot of a hover message in the code editor with a highlighted “copy” button in the corner.

November 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM

Jer Clarke

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Couple of my neighbors chilling in the shade on Sunday morning 🕊️

1) Rufous-backed Robin
2) Black-backed Oriole

Photo of a largish bird (Rufous-backed Robin) sitting on the branch of a tree. It has a bright orange chest, yellow beak, and a bright red eye with yellow eye-ring. It seems to be looking at the camera.

Photo of a black and yellow bird (Black-backed Oriole) sitting on a branch in a tree. It looks a little cold.

November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM

Jer Clarke

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Coming back to a #wordpress site with a bunch of feature-bloated plugins like Jetpack and AIOSEOP, it's really striking how much AI bloatware is harming the experience for people who just want to create the old fashioned way.

There are now two DIFFERENT […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of the WordPress editor with the “Add image” tools open. Along with the usual “Upload” and “Select Image” buttons, there are two nearly-identical “Generate with AI” buttons that cause the interface to stretch to two lines.

November 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM

Jer Clarke

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Ooof, that's not a good look for WP Pusher out of the gate 😅 (This is PHP 8.3, already a legacy version in the grand scheme of things)

#wordpress

$Screenshot of a wordpress admin showing a ton of PHP deprecation errors after a plugin was activated, e.g. : Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property Pusher\Log Logger::$file is deprecated in /Users/jer/Valet Sites/jc/wp- content/plugins/wppusher/Pusher/Log/Logger.php on line 18$

November 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM

Jer Clarke

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Came to get free vaccines at the Olympic Stadium here in Mexico City. Good news: the people love vaccines! Bad news: 4 hour wait 😅💉
#cdmx #mexico

Photo of an extremely long line lineup in a parking lot outside a tent. There are hundreds or maybe thousands of people, it’s a sea of umbrellas.

November 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM

Jer Clarke

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Look I don’t care about sports but that is some absolute peak sports right there.

Summary of the Blue Jays versus Dodgers game happening right now. It shows the Blue Jays are ahead 4 to 3. It’s the bottom of the eighth on the seventh game of the World Series.

November 2, 2025 at 2:59 AM

Jer Clarke

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🎃 Quien quiere dulces? 🍭

Photo of a spooky looking entrance for Halloween. Everything is lit, bright red, and there is lots of skull imagery.

November 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM

Jer Clarke

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REMEMBER: Gremlins is a CHRISTMAS movie, ET is a #halloween movie. Know the difference 👍🏻

Me, I’m watching Ernest Scared Stupid 🎃

Screenshot from gremlins, showing the gremlins singing Christmas carols

Screenshot from the movie ET, showing the kids walking around at sunset on Halloween with ET under a sheet.

Screenshot from the movie, Ernest scared stupid, showing Ernest, standing in a Halloween flavored room with a troll

November 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM

Jer Clarke

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Still thinking about these maple leaf-shaped, ketchup-flavored Cheetos 🤔🤤

Photo of a hand holding a maple leaf-shaped, ketchup-flavored Cheeto. It’s all dusted red

October 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM

Jer Clarke

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Obviously Mr. Turing would use OKCupid.
Because he's an intellectual.

October 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM

Jer Clarke

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Jeans no shirt is peak masculinity.

Me I go for shirt and nothing below. Pooh bear non-binarity 👌🏻

A photo of a man, and a woman kissing on a boat. The woman is wearing a bathing suit, and the man is wearing jeans with no shirt.

Below, the photo is another photo of a flag. That says fuck Trudeau.

Below, that is a headline, as if from a newspaper that says “ Katy Perry confirms Trudeau Romance begin after she saw a compelling truck flag.”

October 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM

Jer Clarke

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I don’t live in Canada anymore, so I have to watch your #fall colors photos with envy. Luckily I have a print of this shot from Parc Mont Royal in #montreal up to keep me sane.