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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 […]

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Obviously Mr. Turing would use OKCupid.
Because he's an intellectual.
Meme with three panels. Panel 1: Image of a cartoonishly angry man with a hat that says “AI SUX”, he is saying “If Alan Turing were alive today he'd say LLMs aren't real Al!” Panel 2: Same image but the hat says “I ❤️ AI”. This other man says “NOOO! He would! They pass the Turing Test! Panel 3 has a heading that says “Alan Turing if he existed today”, and below a black and white photo of Alan Turing. His speech bubble says “I’m quite fond of this Grindr app”. Then there’s a Grindr logo.
October 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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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
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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.
Wide angle photo of a path through the forest, surrounded by enormous trees. It’s autumn, and the trees are exploding with vibrant, yellow, and red colors.
October 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I am very lucky.
Photo of a woman (my partner) holding a cat in front of a window. The cat is staring out the window intensely, while the woman is doing a cute silly face imitating the cat. There’s an overall orange theme that brings it all together.
October 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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😐
Screenshot of a popup from Zoom. It shows a button that says “Start recording” then an interface of a video player. Below it explains the feature from the screenshot above: Meet without meeting Included in Zoom Workplace, Clips allows you to meet without meeting, cover for yourself when you're out, or be in two places at once by sending a Clip so you can skip. Try it out
October 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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#mario #nintendo
Screenshot of a tweet followed by a meme. Tweet: Doug Bowser @thetruebowser ... Today, I announced my plan to retire from Nintendo, effective December 31, 2025. Nintendo has been an integral part of my life for 44 years, starting with Donkey Kong Arcade as… Meme: image of Mario spinning his enemy Bowser by the tail, a famous scene from the end of Mario 64. Text overlaid on the image says So Long Gay Bowser
September 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Here’s an excellent cloud ☁️
Photo of a fluffy cumulus cloud floating over a brick apartment building, with a blue sky behind it. It kind of looks like a dog or a lion.
September 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Ada wishes you a cozy 😽#caturday
Photo of a cat sitting in a box. The cat is a Brown Siberian, tabby with long, fluffy for, and she’s staring towards the camera with a serious look. The box is wrapped in a colorful blanket that matches the wall behind it.
September 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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#bloomscrolling
Photo of a sunflower with a bumblebee eating from it. In the background are blurry, purple flowers, and other sunflowers.
September 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Didn’t have the big camera but managed to grab this phone pic of the barred owl we spotted in Mont Royal park in Montreal!

It was being chased around by a peregrine falcon! The falcon was squawking up a storm which made it easy to follow them both around 😲

#owl #wildlifephotography #montreal
Photo of a Brown owl with white spots standing on a tree branch far away. It’s faces turned backwards towards the camera.
September 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Can't wait to debug these #php errors 😵‍💫
Screenshot of a syntax-colored PHP error log. The logs are incoherent because rather than showing the specific PHP files where the error happened, ad well as the line number where the error occurred, it shows “Unknown” for each file, and “line 0” which makes no sense.
August 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Finally checked out a #wordpress Mexico meetup, was great to hang out with some nerds and practice mi español!

#cdmx
Photo of a smiling man with a beard, glasses, and a dress shirt giving a presentation in front of a projected slide discussing web hosting in 2025. Photo of a man talking and gesturing from a seat in the audience of a talk on web development. Photo of a group of people in an office gathering around a screen projecting the WordPress admin backend. One of them is gesturing to the screen, another turns and smiles at the camera.
August 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM