Zen Render / John Burton
@zenrender.bsky.social
Techie, BBS/Modemmer from way back, electronica producer and remixer (late 90s and again now), cyclist, Vancouverite, FireFlowSafety, dad of two adults, somehow “nice busdriver” energy or something? Rebooting my life. In love. Ally. Demi (Apparently?) ADHD
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
This goes for all drivers, but most specifically EVO drivers? With the fleet of Prius? Priuii? Priuses?
TURN YOUR HEADLIGHTS TO AUTO/ON
you’re all darkwads at night by default. You’ve got running lights in the front, but you’ve got nothing in the back to show “Oh hey, there’s a black car there.”
TURN YOUR HEADLIGHTS TO AUTO/ON
you’re all darkwads at night by default. You’ve got running lights in the front, but you’ve got nothing in the back to show “Oh hey, there’s a black car there.”
October 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This goes for all drivers, but most specifically EVO drivers? With the fleet of Prius? Priuii? Priuses?
TURN YOUR HEADLIGHTS TO AUTO/ON
you’re all darkwads at night by default. You’ve got running lights in the front, but you’ve got nothing in the back to show “Oh hey, there’s a black car there.”
TURN YOUR HEADLIGHTS TO AUTO/ON
you’re all darkwads at night by default. You’ve got running lights in the front, but you’ve got nothing in the back to show “Oh hey, there’s a black car there.”
True. Micheal was really really hard to watch those first couple of seasons. Then the writing started to humanize him until you found yourself rooting for him to be a better person, like watching a squirrel trying to cross the road.
August 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
True. Micheal was really really hard to watch those first couple of seasons. Then the writing started to humanize him until you found yourself rooting for him to be a better person, like watching a squirrel trying to cross the road.
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Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?
July 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?
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Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
July 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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no photo published of ellsworth kelly's mirrored concorde (1971-2) goes as hard as the one gemini g.e.l. provided to moma for their exhibition catalogue before the entire edition was even made
greg.org/archive/2025...
greg.org/archive/2025...
July 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
no photo published of ellsworth kelly's mirrored concorde (1971-2) goes as hard as the one gemini g.e.l. provided to moma for their exhibition catalogue before the entire edition was even made
greg.org/archive/2025...
greg.org/archive/2025...
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Sometimes there's magic
July 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Sometimes there's magic
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just scrolling past seeing the black and gray device on the left with a light brown cat and the black and gray device on the right with a light brown foamy liquid I thought it juiced that cat
July 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
just scrolling past seeing the black and gray device on the left with a light brown cat and the black and gray device on the right with a light brown foamy liquid I thought it juiced that cat
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zero points awarded to the guy at my superman showing who loudly announced to his date “i know more about superman than anybody” and threw up his hands and went “what are we DOING??” anytime something nice happened
July 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
zero points awarded to the guy at my superman showing who loudly announced to his date “i know more about superman than anybody” and threw up his hands and went “what are we DOING??” anytime something nice happened
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Fighters coming in!
July 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Fighters coming in!
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Still hits like sci-fi
June 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Still hits like sci-fi
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🌲 Today’s haiku:
branches twist and bow –
sunlight dances on thick moss,
stone watches it all.
🎨 Inspired by Glimpses from the Forest (1862) by Daniel Huntington.
#Haiku #Poetry #BlueSkyPoets
branches twist and bow –
sunlight dances on thick moss,
stone watches it all.
🎨 Inspired by Glimpses from the Forest (1862) by Daniel Huntington.
#Haiku #Poetry #BlueSkyPoets
March 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🌲 Today’s haiku:
branches twist and bow –
sunlight dances on thick moss,
stone watches it all.
🎨 Inspired by Glimpses from the Forest (1862) by Daniel Huntington.
#Haiku #Poetry #BlueSkyPoets
branches twist and bow –
sunlight dances on thick moss,
stone watches it all.
🎨 Inspired by Glimpses from the Forest (1862) by Daniel Huntington.
#Haiku #Poetry #BlueSkyPoets
If I tight I had a place in my apartment for it, I would have picked this up. Vancouver, Value Village. I think it was $24.99?
January 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
If I tight I had a place in my apartment for it, I would have picked this up. Vancouver, Value Village. I think it was $24.99?
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thats ok im already fluent in anxiety
January 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
thats ok im already fluent in anxiety
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January 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Guys, yesterday, I needed a cord I’ve been holding onto for 10 years.
IT WAS ALL WORTH IT.
IT WAS ALL WORTH IT.
January 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Guys, yesterday, I needed a cord I’ve been holding onto for 10 years.
IT WAS ALL WORTH IT.
IT WAS ALL WORTH IT.
Why did cats hang out with humans BEFORE we invented cans and can openers? How did they know we had things they wanted to eat before we started canning stuff? Did cats come running when we opened clay pots of things? Wicker baskets of stuff? Cats’re just hard-wired for “Ooh, a can! That means FOOD!”
January 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Why did cats hang out with humans BEFORE we invented cans and can openers? How did they know we had things they wanted to eat before we started canning stuff? Did cats come running when we opened clay pots of things? Wicker baskets of stuff? Cats’re just hard-wired for “Ooh, a can! That means FOOD!”