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.
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.
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Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
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A mostly harmless language shift that needs to be stopped immediately: Saying “I resonate with this” when you mean “This resonates with me.” I am asking everyone, as a personal favor to me, to cut it out.
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A mostly harmless language shift that needs to be stopped immediately: Saying “I resonate with this” when you mean “This resonates with me.” I am asking everyone, as a personal favor to me, to cut it out.
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(throwing open my window) you there, boy, what day is this?
Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
(throwing open my window) you there, boy, what day is this?
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I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
Can confirm. Aurora going off.
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Can confirm. Aurora going off.
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New Blogpost: I’d Rather Be a Mouse Than an Elf
Why sword & whiskers fantasy is more gameable than your standard pseudo-medieval fantasy settings.
#osr #ttrpg #MausritterMonth
Why sword & whiskers fantasy is more gameable than your standard pseudo-medieval fantasy settings.
#osr #ttrpg #MausritterMonth
I’d Rather Be a Mouse Than an Elf — Prismatic Wasteland
I love pretending to be an elf just as much as the next guy, but it pales in comparison to the joys of pretending to be a mouse with a sewing needle sword at my side.
www.prismaticwasteland.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
New Blogpost: I’d Rather Be a Mouse Than an Elf
Why sword & whiskers fantasy is more gameable than your standard pseudo-medieval fantasy settings.
#osr #ttrpg #MausritterMonth
Why sword & whiskers fantasy is more gameable than your standard pseudo-medieval fantasy settings.
#osr #ttrpg #MausritterMonth
“Let people have their fucking popsicles.”
POP(SICLE) PSYCHOLOGY | Gin and Tacos
Get more from Gin and Tacos on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
“Let people have their fucking popsicles.”
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November 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Is there a Bluesky labeller that flags people who post in ALL CAPS A LOT? There should be.
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Is there a Bluesky labeller that flags people who post in ALL CAPS A LOT? There should be.
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I read The Double Helix as an undergraduate. I was a science major at a women’s college taking molecular biology. Our professor taught us that Watson & Crick screwed Rosalind Franklin over.
So I read the book to learn more. I’ll never forget how reading this passage made me feel.
So I read the book to learn more. I’ll never forget how reading this passage made me feel.
![“By choice [Rosalind Franklin] did not emphasize her feminine qualities.. There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black her, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents. So it was quite easy to imagine her the product of an unsatisfied mother who unduly stressed the desirability of professional careers that could save bright girls from marriages to dull men.. Clearly Rosy had to go or be put in her place. The former was obviously preferable because given her belligerent moods, it would be very difficult for Maurice [Wilkins] to maintain a dominant position that would allow him to think unhindered about DNA.. The thought could not be avoided that the best home for a feminist was another person’s lab”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:opitzjj6oapo6y3cr5ipwfdu/bafkreibj5i6hdhoinpdbtx5ij7e56lz5v6zg6d6aompkuvrxrdnmkfvj2m@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I read The Double Helix as an undergraduate. I was a science major at a women’s college taking molecular biology. Our professor taught us that Watson & Crick screwed Rosalind Franklin over.
So I read the book to learn more. I’ll never forget how reading this passage made me feel.
So I read the book to learn more. I’ll never forget how reading this passage made me feel.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Developers Unhook Breaking Changes Of Questionable Value From Safe Changes A Lot Of People Will Want Challenge 2025
#TTRPG #FoundryVTT #Pathfinder2e
#TTRPG #FoundryVTT #Pathfinder2e
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Developers Unhook Breaking Changes Of Questionable Value From Safe Changes A Lot Of People Will Want Challenge 2025
#TTRPG #FoundryVTT #Pathfinder2e
#TTRPG #FoundryVTT #Pathfinder2e
“Unable to reach a verdict on the charge of ‘improper disposal of a perfectly good sammich.’”
A troubled nation breathes a sigh of relief as the Hoagie Hurler case is finally adjudicated.
#NotAllHeroesWearCapes
#NotAllHeroesWearCapes
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
“Unable to reach a verdict on the charge of ‘improper disposal of a perfectly good sammich.’”
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A little bird told me that there's a comic here for you to read!
Wondermark #1370; The Avian Informant (Part 1 of 2)
Wondermark #1370; The Avian Informant (Part 1 of 2)
![A man in an apron, aptly named Apronni, addresses his coworker:
APRONNI: JULIORA! A little bird told me it was your birthday next Wednesday!
Juliora comes in to reply.
JULIORA: A little bird? Like, a BIRD bird? TALKED to you?
APRONNI: Yeah. Came to my window last night around eight.
Now we see a little pigeon perched on the sill of an open window. Apparently Apronni lives in a barn, or something like a barn? It’s not entirely clear.
BIRD: Pssst. Hey buddy. [Apronni enters.] She’s been looking at ski boots on Zappos. Do what you will with this information.
Back in the office now, flashback over.
JULIORA: Because I’VE seen a little bird too! It let me know when a Zumba class opened up in my area!
ENTREBERT (entering with his hands held a pigeon’s width apart): A little bird? About yea big? Knows a lot about when jeans go on sale? Yeah, I’ve seen ‘I’m!
APRONNI: I guess it must be the same little bird visiting everyone!
Cut back to the bird, still on the windowsill. Part of the flashback from earlier? It’s not entirely clear.
BIRD: I’m very tired](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kihgsldesfdvdp7fi65m3m45/bafkreibsyythulynv4ub447jbqlnjqofsiykphmyxm7bf66duxcgjxopba@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A little bird told me that there's a comic here for you to read!
Wondermark #1370; The Avian Informant (Part 1 of 2)
Wondermark #1370; The Avian Informant (Part 1 of 2)
Dear Netatmo, This explains why you can’t show me a weather forecast in your app, but it doesn’t explain why you thought it was a good idea to require your servers to be up in order to show me the status of my devices on my home network.
November 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Dear Netatmo, This explains why you can’t show me a weather forecast in your app, but it doesn’t explain why you thought it was a good idea to require your servers to be up in order to show me the status of my devices on my home network.
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Introducing Bowie Days:
I will listen to one David Bowie song a day, then write a short post about it!
I’ll do this until I run out of Bowie songs, (there are more than 400!) or until I don't feel like it anymore.
Join me on a tour through a great musical career!
I will listen to one David Bowie song a day, then write a short post about it!
I’ll do this until I run out of Bowie songs, (there are more than 400!) or until I don't feel like it anymore.
Join me on a tour through a great musical career!
a man in a suit and tie is making a sad face .
Alt: David Bowie, (a man in a suit and tie) is cracking a bittersweet smile
media.tenor.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Introducing Bowie Days:
I will listen to one David Bowie song a day, then write a short post about it!
I’ll do this until I run out of Bowie songs, (there are more than 400!) or until I don't feel like it anymore.
Join me on a tour through a great musical career!
I will listen to one David Bowie song a day, then write a short post about it!
I’ll do this until I run out of Bowie songs, (there are more than 400!) or until I don't feel like it anymore.
Join me on a tour through a great musical career!
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🏺 Since Titan has an active atmosphere and weather patterns that deposit material over its annual (long, c. 29 Earth yrs) seasons, if we ever get back there to look at the archaeology of this historic lander site, we may well have to excavate it
This is the surface of Saturn's giant icy moon Titan, photographed by the Huygens probe on 14 January 2005.
It is the farthest place from Earth where we have so far landed.
It is the farthest place from Earth where we have so far landed.
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🏺 Since Titan has an active atmosphere and weather patterns that deposit material over its annual (long, c. 29 Earth yrs) seasons, if we ever get back there to look at the archaeology of this historic lander site, we may well have to excavate it
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if you don't need a commision, and instead would like to keep me alive for absolutely no reason, my ko-fi is here o/
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
if you don't need a commision, and instead would like to keep me alive for absolutely no reason, my ko-fi is here o/
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Hello gamers I'm opening *emergency* graphic design commissions, to help me keep my healthcare due this friday. Flexible pricing, I'll do:
-Title typography
-Iconography
-flyers
Looking forl ow effort/stress (ie not suited for short turnarounds and big expectations), great for mockups and prototypes
-Title typography
-Iconography
-flyers
Looking forl ow effort/stress (ie not suited for short turnarounds and big expectations), great for mockups and prototypes
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Hello gamers I'm opening *emergency* graphic design commissions, to help me keep my healthcare due this friday. Flexible pricing, I'll do:
-Title typography
-Iconography
-flyers
Looking forl ow effort/stress (ie not suited for short turnarounds and big expectations), great for mockups and prototypes
-Title typography
-Iconography
-flyers
Looking forl ow effort/stress (ie not suited for short turnarounds and big expectations), great for mockups and prototypes
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fascinating black hole mass measurement from a #JWST -detected, lensed Little Red Dot (LRD) at z~7, suggesting an almost-"naked" BH (M_BH/M* > 2) arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21748 🔭
arxiv.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
fascinating black hole mass measurement from a #JWST -detected, lensed Little Red Dot (LRD) at z~7, suggesting an almost-"naked" BH (M_BH/M* > 2) arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21748 🔭
Great news for Australian bird watchers. Merlin now works in Australia. If you don’t know what Merlin is, it’s basically Shazam for birdsong.
Birdsong Identification App - Major Update 2025 Q4
YouTube video by Bird Walkz (QLD Australia and beyond)
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Great news for Australian bird watchers. Merlin now works in Australia. If you don’t know what Merlin is, it’s basically Shazam for birdsong.
This reeks of Apple trying to buy their way out of a hole they’ve been digging for themselves since they launched Siri. It was a me-too service then, and they’ve done less than nothing since then to make it genuinely useful. They are well past just slapping some LLM polish on the turd that is Siri.
Tim Cook Says Next-Gen Siri Still on Pace for ‘Next Year’, Along With Additional AI Partners
Link to: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/apple-aapl-earnings-report-q4-2025.html
daringfireball.net
November 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This reeks of Apple trying to buy their way out of a hole they’ve been digging for themselves since they launched Siri. It was a me-too service then, and they’ve done less than nothing since then to make it genuinely useful. They are well past just slapping some LLM polish on the turd that is Siri.