John DeTreville
@detreville.bsky.social
Retired Computer Science researcher
Pinned
Kidnapped by space aliens and replaced with a robot double. And you?
I was futzing around with AI Assistants this afternoon and generated this perfect family Christmas-card photo from a couple of shots lying around my Photo Library. All praise to Nano Banana!
December 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I was futzing around with AI Assistants this afternoon and generated this perfect family Christmas-card photo from a couple of shots lying around my Photo Library. All praise to Nano Banana!
Remember, Jesus said The Rapture™ was scheduled for the 23rd OR THE 24TH! Stay ready! (And if you're planning to be raptured, please send me all your passwords FIRST. I'll need them.)
John DeTreville ✅ (@detreville@discuss.systems)
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Remember, Jesus said The Rapture™ was scheduled for the 23rd OR THE 24TH! Stay ready! (And if you’re planning to be raptured, please send me all your passwords FIRST. I’ll need them...
discuss.systems
September 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Remember, Jesus said The Rapture™ was scheduled for the 23rd OR THE 24TH! Stay ready! (And if you're planning to be raptured, please send me all your passwords FIRST. I'll need them.)
I just realized that the ratio of one mile : one light-year is close—within ~4%—of the ratio of Earth’s circumference : Earth’s distance from the galactic center. Good to know!
September 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I just realized that the ratio of one mile : one light-year is close—within ~4%—of the ratio of Earth’s circumference : Earth’s distance from the galactic center. Good to know!
South Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana have sent troops to occupy Washington, D.C.—just 160-odd years later than originally planned. Their valiant gray-clad boys have finally conquered the Blue!
August 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
South Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana have sent troops to occupy Washington, D.C.—just 160-odd years later than originally planned. Their valiant gray-clad boys have finally conquered the Blue!
Oh God, NOW what?
August 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Oh God, NOW what?
Rescue pup Django just learned how to jump on top of his crate but couldn’t figure how to get down. My wife’s reaction? “This is new.” #DogsOfBluesky
July 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Rescue pup Django just learned how to jump on top of his crate but couldn’t figure how to get down. My wife’s reaction? “This is new.” #DogsOfBluesky
Texas mandates the display of The Ten Commandments in all classrooms. Unconstitutional and yet a state law, probably forever. Imagine a non-citizen at a school declines to display The Ten Commandments as ordered. Are they committing a state crime? So can they be administratively deported until dead?
June 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Texas mandates the display of The Ten Commandments in all classrooms. Unconstitutional and yet a state law, probably forever. Imagine a non-citizen at a school declines to display The Ten Commandments as ordered. Are they committing a state crime? So can they be administratively deported until dead?
My wife recently asked me “when is this year’s estival solstice” (or words roughly to that effect). I answered that, well, it depends… then offered to explain ultra-precisely how time zones can skew the answer. This is just one small part of how it’s So Much Fun™ to be married to me!
June 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
My wife recently asked me “when is this year’s estival solstice” (or words roughly to that effect). I answered that, well, it depends… then offered to explain ultra-precisely how time zones can skew the answer. This is just one small part of how it’s So Much Fun™ to be married to me!
Just had cataract surgery, so I immediately bought a cool new pirate eyepatch from Amazon.
June 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Just had cataract surgery, so I immediately bought a cool new pirate eyepatch from Amazon.
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Just as Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, he can unilaterally rename the “WWW” (the Wide, Wide World of the Web) to “AOL”. It synergizes so much more simply and bigly.
January 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Just as Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, he can unilaterally rename the “WWW” (the Wide, Wide World of the Web) to “AOL”. It synergizes so much more simply and bigly.
I just had cataract surgery! My vision’s already better, even with one eyeglass lens popped out, but my two eyes’s images don’t quite merge yet. Here’s a sketch of the effect. Next, continued improvement, then my other eye surgery, then new eyeglasses. I don’t think I’ll be driving for a while….
May 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I just had cataract surgery! My vision’s already better, even with one eyeglass lens popped out, but my two eyes’s images don’t quite merge yet. Here’s a sketch of the effect. Next, continued improvement, then my other eye surgery, then new eyeglasses. I don’t think I’ll be driving for a while….
This morning I have cataract surgery _and_ a broken toe.
May 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This morning I have cataract surgery _and_ a broken toe.
I need to get out and make friends more. #CatsOfBluesky
May 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I need to get out and make friends more. #CatsOfBluesky
Benjamin Dreyer—@bcdreyer.social—is an excellent writer.
![Screenshot of an iMessage conversation between me (blue) and a confidant (not blue).
_[link to benjamindreyer.substack.com at A Word About.. | Benjamin Dreyer | Substack]_
Me: “And BTW, __YHGBFKMwTS__ is __You Have Got to Be Fucking Kidding Me with This Shit™__. I'd normally have capitalized __with__ but here I must defer to the eminent Mr. Dreyer.”
Me, again: “Oh! Oh! Mr. Dreyer even gives the __double space__ its own footnote in this post: _Think of it as a tiny window into an evil alternate universe, except we're living in it._ I hate to say it but he's a better writer than me—a _much_ better writer.”
My confidant, making excuses for me: “It's his job. You can't be great at everything.”
Me, ultimately: “But Paying Too Much Attention To Ephemeral Minutiae™ _is_ my job!]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mljjomjmqi2462fgti2dmr2s/bafkreietufdf2s7gzgic5j56vdhgdyzsqpb4z3wnh3vw6fqqpo42pbnmhu@jpeg)
May 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Benjamin Dreyer—@bcdreyer.social—is an excellent writer.
Probationary Danger-Pup Django™ energetically shreds another defeated squeaky-toy! #DogsOfBluesky
May 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Probationary Danger-Pup Django™ energetically shreds another defeated squeaky-toy! #DogsOfBluesky
Today is May Day, the day Greeks put flowers under their cars’ windshield wipers. It’s my 36th year doing it too, inspired by a trip to Greece in 1990.
May 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Today is May Day, the day Greeks put flowers under their cars’ windshield wipers. It’s my 36th year doing it too, inspired by a trip to Greece in 1990.
New Famous Saying Of The Week™
“Bike lanes help motorists not kill bicyclists. I understand, of course, that they’re not universally popular….”
“Bike lanes help motorists not kill bicyclists. I understand, of course, that they’re not universally popular….”
April 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
New Famous Saying Of The Week™
“Bike lanes help motorists not kill bicyclists. I understand, of course, that they’re not universally popular….”
“Bike lanes help motorists not kill bicyclists. I understand, of course, that they’re not universally popular….”
I have works in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute. I wonder if they’re still there.
April 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I have works in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute. I wonder if they’re still there.
At first I thought, Somaliland wants to be Trump’s new 51st state? Sorry, Canada and Greenland! And Trump fave Gaza will have to get back in line too. And anyone remember old-time hopefuls DC and Puerto Rico and others? No? Me neither.
![[screenshot from today’s New York Times:]
An African Territory Hopes Trump Will Grant Its Ultimate Wish:
Statehood
After years of building relationships with Republicans and conservative think tanks, officials in Somaliland want to make a deal with President Trump.
[obligatory photo of camels and Swazilanders, denoting a far-away place with strange people and customs]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mljjomjmqi2462fgti2dmr2s/bafkreicdpscss5v2rzrbod4v6gjjm6mv3voygcwajz5hvair2ullghgtmm@jpeg)
April 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
At first I thought, Somaliland wants to be Trump’s new 51st state? Sorry, Canada and Greenland! And Trump fave Gaza will have to get back in line too. And anyone remember old-time hopefuls DC and Puerto Rico and others? No? Me neither.
OH NO! I missed the deadline & may NEVER know what Exciting New Evil Deeds™ Elmo’s DOGGIE has dug up—but it WAS nice of The Biden Crime Family™ to leave all that incriminating info Just Lying Around™ for Musk’s SpaceX Scouts™ & Cybertruck Explod⌫rers™ to find by hitting ^F over&over&over&over….
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[“gurK” indeed!]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mljjomjmqi2462fgti2dmr2s/bafkreiaslauqqiocd2yqscyfhymn6kn6buitzntnlt3bk74ek4zbigzhwu@jpeg)
April 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
OH NO! I missed the deadline & may NEVER know what Exciting New Evil Deeds™ Elmo’s DOGGIE has dug up—but it WAS nice of The Biden Crime Family™ to leave all that incriminating info Just Lying Around™ for Musk’s SpaceX Scouts™ & Cybertruck Explod⌫rers™ to find by hitting ^F over&over&over&over….
I use a phone app to control my insulin pump, BUT typing “.05” with a leading decimal point—oops!—makes the app think “5”, and I get 100× the insulin—oops! Roughly the same bug was in a similar app 1½ years ago, triggering an FDA recall. Today’s may not be as serious, but it’s fun to see it again.
March 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I use a phone app to control my insulin pump, BUT typing “.05” with a leading decimal point—oops!—makes the app think “5”, and I get 100× the insulin—oops! Roughly the same bug was in a similar app 1½ years ago, triggering an FDA recall. Today’s may not be as serious, but it’s fun to see it again.
My city is full of Super-Fun Sights™!
March 24, 2025 at 6:40 AM
My city is full of Super-Fun Sights™!