John Carney
@johncarney.dev
An Australian Rubyist living in USA. Agile enthusiast, TTRPG fan. ADD/ADHD. He/they.
Check my pinned thread for more details.
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John Carney
@johncarney.dev
· Nov 11
I’m an Australia software engineer currently living in the US. My language of choice is Ruby. I’m also a tabletop role playing game fan.
Most of my posts are about TTRPGs, with a smattering of coding-related posts. Refer down-thread for a TTRPG starter pack and a coupe of TTRPS feeds I maintain.
Most of my posts are about TTRPGs, with a smattering of coding-related posts. Refer down-thread for a TTRPG starter pack and a coupe of TTRPS feeds I maintain.
Almost added dour cream to my grocery list. No thanks, I don’t need a buzzkill for Thanksgiving.
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Almost added dour cream to my grocery list. No thanks, I don’t need a buzzkill for Thanksgiving.
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Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
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can’t help but notice it’s ‘they’ when a single mother might manage to use SNAP benefits for food that actually tastes good but it’s ‘we’ when a handful of ketamine addicts wanna ruin the economy
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
can’t help but notice it’s ‘they’ when a single mother might manage to use SNAP benefits for food that actually tastes good but it’s ‘we’ when a handful of ketamine addicts wanna ruin the economy
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We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
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historic levels of leopards eating faces
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
historic levels of leopards eating faces
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RIP JIMMY www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRWd...
Jimmy Cliff - Wanted Man / Rehearsal in Strudio 1977 Jamaica
YouTube video by JahNesta
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
RIP JIMMY www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRWd...
Hear. Fucking. Hear. The “AI” medical researchers use to develop new cancer therapies (for example) is a very different thing from the “AI” Musk thinks would be fun to use to roast people at parties.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Hear. Fucking. Hear. The “AI” medical researchers use to develop new cancer therapies (for example) is a very different thing from the “AI” Musk thinks would be fun to use to roast people at parties.
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RIP to Jimmy Cliff, a constant part of the soundtrack of my childhood and integral part of what I would argue is the best sountrack of all time for The Harder They Come. This one hurts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg7q...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg7q...
You Can Get It If You Really Want
YouTube video by Jimmy Cliff - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
RIP to Jimmy Cliff, a constant part of the soundtrack of my childhood and integral part of what I would argue is the best sountrack of all time for The Harder They Come. This one hurts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg7q...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg7q...
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And it was better than the movies.
Disney Spent More On ‘Andor’ Than Any Of Its ‘Star Wars’ Movies
Disney has revealed it spent $60.5 million on Star Wars streaming series Andor in 2024, giving the show a total cost of $705.5 million - far higher than the spending on any of the movies in the saga.
www.forbes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
And it was better than the movies.
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watching the real-time brain rot of people like nate silver bears this out
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
watching the real-time brain rot of people like nate silver bears this out
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Geneticist and microbiologist Rita Rossi Colwell was born #OTD in 1934. She was the first researcher in the US to use computers to analyze bacteriological data, and the first woman to serve as director of the NSF. 🧪 👩🔬
November 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Geneticist and microbiologist Rita Rossi Colwell was born #OTD in 1934. She was the first researcher in the US to use computers to analyze bacteriological data, and the first woman to serve as director of the NSF. 🧪 👩🔬
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Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
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Fishmas day 22! Start thinking about that new theme!!
November 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Fishmas day 22! Start thinking about that new theme!!
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When I wrote about the ancient Zanclean megaflood filling the Mediterranean in as little as 12-18 months (!), it was wistfully.
I'm English. Lovely place, England, but Big Geological Drama? None of that round 'ere, sadly.
Imagine my delight at what geophysicists found in the English Channel.
1/
I'm English. Lovely place, England, but Big Geological Drama? None of that round 'ere, sadly.
Imagine my delight at what geophysicists found in the English Channel.
1/
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
When I wrote about the ancient Zanclean megaflood filling the Mediterranean in as little as 12-18 months (!), it was wistfully.
I'm English. Lovely place, England, but Big Geological Drama? None of that round 'ere, sadly.
Imagine my delight at what geophysicists found in the English Channel.
1/
I'm English. Lovely place, England, but Big Geological Drama? None of that round 'ere, sadly.
Imagine my delight at what geophysicists found in the English Channel.
1/
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Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.
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Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!
NASA's pix of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are now up science.nasa.gov/solar-system...
This is the HiRISE/MRO image ⬇️
This is the HiRISE/MRO image ⬇️
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!
We have a small nature pond that we like to keep ice free because birds love it in winter. We have a de-icer that we controlled manually, but this year I’ve decided to automate it. It’s supposed to be thermostatically controlled and I wanted to see when it kicked in and, well …
November 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
We have a small nature pond that we like to keep ice free because birds love it in winter. We have a de-icer that we controlled manually, but this year I’ve decided to automate it. It’s supposed to be thermostatically controlled and I wanted to see when it kicked in and, well …
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A cycling influencer nominated for a list of top 100 women cyclists said she has declined the honour due to the decision not to include trans women.
Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻
Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻
Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out - BBC News
Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A cycling influencer nominated for a list of top 100 women cyclists said she has declined the honour due to the decision not to include trans women.
Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻
Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻
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Test to determine if migrants are racist enough to come here
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Test to determine if migrants are racist enough to come here
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you: please act normal you need these people to like you
people: hello Ed nice to meet you
me: The German practice of leaving cities to circumvent rationing by bartering for food with farmers during WWII was called "Hamstering" and the Nazi propaganda poster against it somehow turned out cute.
people: hello Ed nice to meet you
me: The German practice of leaving cities to circumvent rationing by bartering for food with farmers during WWII was called "Hamstering" and the Nazi propaganda poster against it somehow turned out cute.
November 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
you: please act normal you need these people to like you
people: hello Ed nice to meet you
me: The German practice of leaving cities to circumvent rationing by bartering for food with farmers during WWII was called "Hamstering" and the Nazi propaganda poster against it somehow turned out cute.
people: hello Ed nice to meet you
me: The German practice of leaving cities to circumvent rationing by bartering for food with farmers during WWII was called "Hamstering" and the Nazi propaganda poster against it somehow turned out cute.
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Explore the wild places of the Wood, unearth treasure hoards in forgotten ruins, confront fell beasts, roving fungal monstrosities, terrible wyrms, tricksome fairies, and restless spirits of the long deceased.
Head to our website to pre-order your collection, or just click the link: bit.ly/3Kfj79e
Head to our website to pre-order your collection, or just click the link: bit.ly/3Kfj79e
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Explore the wild places of the Wood, unearth treasure hoards in forgotten ruins, confront fell beasts, roving fungal monstrosities, terrible wyrms, tricksome fairies, and restless spirits of the long deceased.
Head to our website to pre-order your collection, or just click the link: bit.ly/3Kfj79e
Head to our website to pre-order your collection, or just click the link: bit.ly/3Kfj79e
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"Why SHOULDN'T government be run like a business?"
Because the goals are diametrically opposed and mutually exclusive. Businesses exist to make money. Governments exist to make people's lives better.
You ask if the fire dept is successful at putting out fires and saving people, not the $ it makes
Because the goals are diametrically opposed and mutually exclusive. Businesses exist to make money. Governments exist to make people's lives better.
You ask if the fire dept is successful at putting out fires and saving people, not the $ it makes
March 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"Why SHOULDN'T government be run like a business?"
Because the goals are diametrically opposed and mutually exclusive. Businesses exist to make money. Governments exist to make people's lives better.
You ask if the fire dept is successful at putting out fires and saving people, not the $ it makes
Because the goals are diametrically opposed and mutually exclusive. Businesses exist to make money. Governments exist to make people's lives better.
You ask if the fire dept is successful at putting out fires and saving people, not the $ it makes
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Wouldn't it be a ginormous waste to send a rover all the way to Mars to collect rock samples for study back on Earth and then to just...abandon them? By @astrojonny.bsky.social 🧪
NASA Found Something on Mars. Now We Might Just Leave It There
NASA spent years and billions of dollars collecting Martian samples to bring home. Now they might be stranded
www.scientificamerican.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Wouldn't it be a ginormous waste to send a rover all the way to Mars to collect rock samples for study back on Earth and then to just...abandon them? By @astrojonny.bsky.social 🧪