Johnny Vector
@johnnyvector.bsky.social
Engineer raised by a family of scientists. Amateur renewable energy nerd. Professional engineer (but not Professional Engineer). Occasional designer of sound, lights, and video. Clown-adjacent.
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I enjoy whenever an entire household is beholden to the whims of one cat
This animal just standing in the living room, screaming, while the human adults explain "Sorry, Gibby likes it when we smack his ass with a cardboard tube for 10mins at 6pm every day, hold on". That is good to me.
This animal just standing in the living room, screaming, while the human adults explain "Sorry, Gibby likes it when we smack his ass with a cardboard tube for 10mins at 6pm every day, hold on". That is good to me.
December 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I enjoy whenever an entire household is beholden to the whims of one cat
This animal just standing in the living room, screaming, while the human adults explain "Sorry, Gibby likes it when we smack his ass with a cardboard tube for 10mins at 6pm every day, hold on". That is good to me.
This animal just standing in the living room, screaming, while the human adults explain "Sorry, Gibby likes it when we smack his ass with a cardboard tube for 10mins at 6pm every day, hold on". That is good to me.
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“Rain smacked Los Angeles. It splattered on the palm trees, sizzled on the neon, gurgled down the dirty boulevard. The town was sick. They hadn’t seen sunlight in almost a day. But I had the cure. A fifth of magic and a sack full of cold, hard joy. ‘Ho,’ I said once. It was enough.”
-Noir Santa
-Noir Santa
December 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
“Rain smacked Los Angeles. It splattered on the palm trees, sizzled on the neon, gurgled down the dirty boulevard. The town was sick. They hadn’t seen sunlight in almost a day. But I had the cure. A fifth of magic and a sack full of cold, hard joy. ‘Ho,’ I said once. It was enough.”
-Noir Santa
-Noir Santa
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Unless Santa straps a green light to Rudolph's tail and has Rudolph fly sideways with his nose pointed to the left of the sled, he is technically in violation of 14 CFR 25.1385(b), SERA.3215, and ICAO Annex 2, 3.2.3.1 (b) requiring positional lights for all aircraft operating at night.
December 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Unless Santa straps a green light to Rudolph's tail and has Rudolph fly sideways with his nose pointed to the left of the sled, he is technically in violation of 14 CFR 25.1385(b), SERA.3215, and ICAO Annex 2, 3.2.3.1 (b) requiring positional lights for all aircraft operating at night.
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'Tis the season for some festive science songs.
If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance
If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance
December 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
'Tis the season for some festive science songs.
If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance
If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance
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Back when I was younger, my Monday nights normally involved figuring out dinner or deciding what to watch on tv
Now in my mid-40s it's being annoyed at the chaos of the spice cabinet and rage-installing rail-mounted racks
Now in my mid-40s it's being annoyed at the chaos of the spice cabinet and rage-installing rail-mounted racks
December 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Back when I was younger, my Monday nights normally involved figuring out dinner or deciding what to watch on tv
Now in my mid-40s it's being annoyed at the chaos of the spice cabinet and rage-installing rail-mounted racks
Now in my mid-40s it's being annoyed at the chaos of the spice cabinet and rage-installing rail-mounted racks
This thread, especially if read past the end, is, as the British say, brilliant!
Thread.
Something nice happened to me yesterday: the conclusion - or maybe not - of a story of interconnectedness, that made the world feel momentarily very small and intertwined.
The story begins on April 21 2024 on a walk I'd taken along the Jurassic Coast for research for a book I was writing.
Something nice happened to me yesterday: the conclusion - or maybe not - of a story of interconnectedness, that made the world feel momentarily very small and intertwined.
The story begins on April 21 2024 on a walk I'd taken along the Jurassic Coast for research for a book I was writing.
December 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This thread, especially if read past the end, is, as the British say, brilliant!
This whole story is brilliant
December 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This whole story is brilliant
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Woefully underrated post!
Is the hand makeup covering a scar from the removal of a sixth finger?
December 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Woefully underrated post!
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This is because Christie gave all her stories clear titles like "The Mystery of the Death on the Omnibus" and "Mary Had A Little Murder", while Ellison called all his "'Avast, Mine Attendant!' Wept The Desperado" and "Methinks A Computer Wouldst Damn The World"
I think a lot about how Harlan Ellison said in an interview that Agatha Christie’s work would be forgotten five minutes after her death, and (by implication) his work would live on, and nearly the opposite has occurred. I’m not even sneering at Ellison. Just how we don’t understand posterity.
December 16, 2025 at 6:14 AM
This is because Christie gave all her stories clear titles like "The Mystery of the Death on the Omnibus" and "Mary Had A Little Murder", while Ellison called all his "'Avast, Mine Attendant!' Wept The Desperado" and "Methinks A Computer Wouldst Damn The World"
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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This giant pinecone belongs to the coulter pine! It can be found in California & Mexico. Nicknamed “the widowmaker,” it produces some of the world's largest pinecones—which can weigh ~11 lbs (5 kg) & plummet to the ground with deadly force!
Photo: damontighe, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
Photo: damontighe, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
December 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This giant pinecone belongs to the coulter pine! It can be found in California & Mexico. Nicknamed “the widowmaker,” it produces some of the world's largest pinecones—which can weigh ~11 lbs (5 kg) & plummet to the ground with deadly force!
Photo: damontighe, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
Photo: damontighe, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
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I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a more transparently corrupt government and I'm from India
trumpcard.gov is live and the million dollar fees are all referred to as “gifts” or “contributions” to an undisclosed party lol
December 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a more transparently corrupt government and I'm from India
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As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet.
Forever.
Forever.
December 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet.
Forever.
Forever.
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There is a story the bees used to tell, which makes it hard to disbelieve... #Storytime
December 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
There is a story the bees used to tell, which makes it hard to disbelieve... #Storytime
This is the answer:
"The evidence suggests that Bert isn’t cockney at all. He’s a spooky nature spirit, antic and mercurial, who is gamely attempting to pass himself off as a local."
Poppins is magical, shouldn’t Bert be too? Well played, Mr. Van Dyke, well played.
"The evidence suggests that Bert isn’t cockney at all. He’s a spooky nature spirit, antic and mercurial, who is gamely attempting to pass himself off as a local."
Poppins is magical, shouldn’t Bert be too? Well played, Mr. Van Dyke, well played.
Elastic limbs, fantastical accents and crackling sexual chemistry: Dick Van Dyke turns 100
The goofy star of Mary Poppins becomes a centenarian on Saturday. And what a precocious performer he has proved, sustaining scrappy mischief through seven decades of mainstream entertainment
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This is the answer:
"The evidence suggests that Bert isn’t cockney at all. He’s a spooky nature spirit, antic and mercurial, who is gamely attempting to pass himself off as a local."
Poppins is magical, shouldn’t Bert be too? Well played, Mr. Van Dyke, well played.
"The evidence suggests that Bert isn’t cockney at all. He’s a spooky nature spirit, antic and mercurial, who is gamely attempting to pass himself off as a local."
Poppins is magical, shouldn’t Bert be too? Well played, Mr. Van Dyke, well played.
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So ... I was listening to that Nick Fuentes interview (against my better judgement)
Wasn't expecting the thread to end like this 😭💕
December 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
So ... I was listening to that Nick Fuentes interview (against my better judgement)
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Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
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There's a generaisable life lesson here.
No matter how clever you think you are, if you - as an unqualified drongo on the sidelines - think you understand a topic better than the people who have been doing the work for decades: You don't. Your pants are around your ankles.
No matter how clever you think you are, if you - as an unqualified drongo on the sidelines - think you understand a topic better than the people who have been doing the work for decades: You don't. Your pants are around your ankles.
December 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
There's a generaisable life lesson here.
No matter how clever you think you are, if you - as an unqualified drongo on the sidelines - think you understand a topic better than the people who have been doing the work for decades: You don't. Your pants are around your ankles.
No matter how clever you think you are, if you - as an unqualified drongo on the sidelines - think you understand a topic better than the people who have been doing the work for decades: You don't. Your pants are around your ankles.
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THREAD.
A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.
A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.
December 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
THREAD.
A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.
A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.
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Some people have asked what I mean when I talk about the need for anti-corruption reforms. Here are some ideas.
December 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Some people have asked what I mean when I talk about the need for anti-corruption reforms. Here are some ideas.
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Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair
December 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair
(Eyes bulging out of my head, jaw dropping to bottom of frame) A GOOOOOAAAAATTT!!!
THREAD.
A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
December 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
(Eyes bulging out of my head, jaw dropping to bottom of frame) A GOOOOOAAAAATTT!!!
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Yes, this. "Give my child the armor of Science!"
Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors
December 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Yes, this. "Give my child the armor of Science!"