John M. Gamble

@jmgamble.bsky.social

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Lives in Chicago. Programs obscure algorithms. My primary posting site is and will remain at Mastodon. The account is bridged here: @jgamble.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy

List of cities with the worst air qualty, taken from a screenshot of the IQAir website. The top four cities are 1. Detroit 566 2. Minneapolis 289 3. Chicago 259 4. Toronto 241 Over 300 is considered dangerous, 201 to 300 is considered unhealthy. The screenshot was taken 12:14 PM July 16th, 2026
Another "Sickos" cartoon, based on the original cartoon from The Onion. This one has the cartoon character Cathy, wearing a disgusted face, looking through a window, palms against the window panes. Her shirt has the word "ACKOS" on it. The speech bubble above her head says "ACK... HA HA HA... ACK!"
Picture of seven actors. Four of them, standing in the rear, are men, three of whom are dressed in 19th century formal Western clothing , the fourth is dressed in work clothes. In front, sitting are a woman in a formal dress, a boy in formal clothing minus the jacket, and a woman in a shirt and pants holding a rifle. (It's the cast picture of Best of the West)
Screenshot of a Numbers A Plenty page for the number 8647. It announces in the header that 8647 is a prime number. Following that, its first three properties listed are: ° 8647 has 2 divisors, whose sum is 8648. Its totient is 8646 ° The previous prime 8641. The next prime is 9663. The reversal of 8647 is 7468. ° 8647 is digitally balanced in base 2, because in such base it contains all the possible digits an equal number of times.
In the style of The Onion's Sicko cartoon, a goose is staring through a six-paned window. The goose is holding a knife in its beak. The speech balloon above it reads "HONK... HA HA HA... HONK!"
Section of Martin Nowak's Wikipedia article titled "Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein" Nowak maintained a close personal and financial relationship with the financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.[33] The preface of his 2011 textbook, Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life, ends with "I thank Jeffrey Epstein for many ideas and for letting me participate in his passionate pursuit of knowledge in all its forms."
Reply by "eggnog slut" (deus01.bsky.social) to the criticism they received over their unfunny jokes about alleged woman-on-man sexual assault. It reads "if it wasn't funny there wouldn't be so many people joking about it" 7:04 AM • Apr 30, 2026
Fosstodon 1h ago • @fosstodon Hi all, we've made the decision to defederate with mastodon.cloud, due to the unfortunate neglect of the server. Mastodon.cloud was already limited by Fosstodon. We will complete the defederation in 72 hours. Please reach out to accounts you still follow on mastodon.cloud and encourage them to move, while you can still contact them as the defederation will break your follow. 12:17 PM • Apr 18 2026 • Ivory for iOS
Partial screenshot of the "score" of the Millerman School German or Autistic test. The result says "Autistic" in large letters. Below in italics it reads "Not necessarily German about it." The horizontal bar codes below that have German at 31% and Autistic at 60%.
Screenshot of a CNN app report with the headline: "Democrat Emily Gregory will flip deep-red Florida House district that includes Mar-a-Lago, CNN projects". It is by Molly English and Randi Kaye. It is time stamped as being "updated 7:08 PM CDT, Tue Mar 24, 2026. Below that is a picture of a smiling woman backdropped by what I presume is the Florida coastline.
Reply to original poster from unmesa.bsky.social, that reads: "Yeah so every chiropractor is a monster, and all benefits of chiropractic treatments are self-deluded. Thank you for your bias, sir."
A screenshot of the hourly temperatures on Weather Underground app. The graph from 2 PM to 5 PM show temperatures that go from 60° to 62°. Just before the 6 PM mark, the line drops to 38° and slopes down to 35°. There is a number above the line that suggests it will drop to 24°. All temperatures are in Fahrenheit.
Screenshot of a tweet from Stew Peters (@realstewpeters on Twitter) on January 14th, 2023 12:58 PM. It reads: I'm not going to debate this anymore. It's a Bioweapon. Read the patents. Anyone who says otherwise, or is unwilling to say it is lying and complicit, and should stand trial for accessory to murder.
Screenshot of the account claiming to be the Chicago Bail Fund. At the time the screenshot was taken it had 7 followers and 138 posts. The account name to block is at-sign followed by 'chicagobailfund' dot bsky dot social.
Poster for the movie The Icicle Thief. It is divided into thirds with background colors green, white, and red (the colors of the Italian flag) with two of the main characters, separated by a list of the starring actors. At the bottom is a scene from the famous film The Bicycle Thief, which this movie lightly parodies with a film within the film.
Poster advertising the movie Allegro Non Tropo, dominated by a Coca-Cola bottle, with smaller depictions of three animated characters from the movie surrounding it.
Image of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson as he is walking towards a stairway, while being asked questions. A bill concerning the Epstein files, that he wanted amended, just passed the Senate without amendments. His lips are sucked in as he listens to a reporter's question. He obviously doesn't want to be in this position, doesn't know why no one amended the bill in the Senate before passing it, and can't answer any question with any confidence. He is having a bad night.
Album cover for The Rolling Stones record Their Satanic Majesties Request.
Picture of Michael Knowles, speaking at CPAC in 2023, from a March 2023 Rolling Stone article. He has a strange, extended smile that wouldn't have been out of place on Jack Nicholson's Joker character.
Album cover of the Miles Davis record Kind of Blue. The image is a photograph of Davis, facing slightly downward, blowing into the mouthpiece of his trumpet. It's a close-up shot, so only the mouthpiece, neck, and a valve of the trumpet are visible. The lighting is low. Davis is wearing a blue-gray suit and vest, and a black tie with red and orange circles in a diamond pattern.
Latest (as of 12:20pm August 24th 2025) post from The ClownTownCrier (ihippie at bsky dot social) that reads "I do believe that if you post on Bluesky, or any social media for that matter, you should NOT have ANY control over who can respond to that post. You want the ability to say whatever about whatever, but no one can either agree or disagree whit [sic] you. If your ego is that fragile, maybe just shut up!"
The term "N-ray" was added to dictionaries upon its announcement and was described as a real phenomenon until at least the 1940s. For instance, the 1946 Webster's Dictionary defined it as "An emanation or radiation from certain hot bodies which increases the luminosity without increasing the temperature: as yet, not fully determined."
Wikipedia text that begins " If Pac-Man is caught by a ghost, he loses a life; the game ends when all lives are lost. Each of the four ghosts has it's own unique artificial intelligence (A.I.), or "personality": Blinky gives direct chase to Pac-Man; Pinky and Inky try to position themselves in front of Pac-Nan, usually by cornering him; and Clyde switches between chasing Pac-Man and fleeing from him."
An image of Winslow Homer's painting The Gulf Stream. A small boat with no sail is tossed by high waves and bad weather. The sole occupant is trying keep the boat level. The Met's website reads "In Homer’s epic saga set along the Gulf Stream, a Black man faces his possible demise on the deck of a distressed boat while threatened by sharks and a waterspout. This painting is the culminating expression of various deeply personal and universal themes that Homer explored across his career, particularly the conflict between humans and the natural environment."
Color panel from the Peanuts comic. From left to right are the characters Charlie Brown, Linus Van Pelt, and Lucy Van Pelt. All are staring at something with some amazement. Linus is saying something with his arms raised, clearly exasperated.
Picture of the April 1972 issue of Analog Magazine. The cover is the illustration for Harry Harrison's "A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!" Dominating the illustration is a large tube being lowered by cables to the ocean floor. Based on perspective, a huge iron framework machine with "arms" waits to receive it and maneuver it into position. The tube, large enough to allow two train tracks side by side, is at an angle and possibly in a precarious position. Two bright red, finned mini subs are nearby.
Screenshot of an oblivious account. From "deepfates" (whose account starts with @deepfates.com) a post that reads: "I heard people wanted a million Bluesky posts? So I made an open-source script that allows anyone to scrape the Bluesky firehose and collect everything people post." There's another paragraph that shows they're deliberately failing to read the room, and praising the fake AI "researchers".
Screenshot of a DM conversation continuing from the previous message. The reply is at 1:08 PM. It reads "Both pictures in my profile are from existing art (Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Ed Emshwiller's cover art for Astounding in 1955). Both are reasonably famous (Kubrick more so of course). Obviously, do whatever you want, but I don't own anything here." There is one reply at 2:11 PM. It reads "It in your profile I can pay you for that"
Screenshot of the beginning of a DM conversation, from @lindaisagitl.bsky.social, at 12:31 AM. It reads, "Hey, your profile looks amazing, if you'd be interested, I'll like to make a beautiful painting from it as an inspirations for my client art project and you will be getting paid for it"
One of the Michigan "I Voted" sticker designs. A candy-striped lighthouse next to blue water in front of a multicolored setting sun and under a purple sky emits a colorful beam. In the triangle of the beam is the I Voted! slogan.
Screenshot of the Thank You screen that Bluesky sent their users today (2024.09.17). It says "Celebrating 10M users" followed by one of those dumb celebration emojis. Under that is the number 3,197,442. Under that is the username and the join date "Feb 6, 2024" which was a few days after the open enrollment day.
Strategically clipped image from the Wikipedia entry for Hespeler, Ontario. There are two lines. The top is the last line of the data box reading "GNBC Code FCKDQ" The next line is the beginning of the main article: "No population data is available for the former" at which point it cuts off.
A picture of a bottle of McFuddy's Pepper Elixir. The bottle's glass is brown. The label is a roundish seal, with the name McFuddy across it. The seal is green with a thick red border and a stylized four leaf clover made from a Celtic knot design. Gold writing on the label states "Quality Beverages Since 1941" and "The Distinctively Strong Pepper Elixir"
Screenshot of an article that was on Forbes magazine website. Under the subject thread "Forbes > Leadership > Diversity, Equity & Inclusion" is the headline "Will Surviving Gunfire Be Donald Trump's Next Appeal To Black Voters?" The article is credited to Shaun Harper. The bio reads "I am a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) expert".
Top view of the different types of insets used by different types of screws (and by extension, screwdrivers). There are 26 of them in this diagram. Row 1: Square, Hex, Pentagon, Slotted, Phillips, Torx. Row 2: Security Torx, Tri-Wing, Spline, Spanner, Pozidriv, Hex Socket/Allen. Row 3: Square Recess/Robertson, Clutch, Mortorq, Frearson, Supadriv, Polydrive. Row 4: Double square, Bristol, Torq-Set, One-way, Pentalobe. Row 5: TP3, TTAP, Triangle/TA
Cover of an issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, October 1955. The art is by Ed Emshwiller. The cover is a very orange sandscape, with rocks occasionally popping through the sand. Three-quarters covered is a skeleton lying face-down. Immediately behind it is a robot, sand part-way up to its knee joints, staring down at it. It has obviously been motionless for years. Words near the lower left corner, including the quote marks, read "Follow Me...".
Screenshot of a quote tweet by Eric Idle. The tweet he's quoting is from British Comedy Guide and reports that the new stage show of Monty Python's Life of Brian would launch in London in 2024 and one of the changes was to drop the song "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life". Idle's tweet reads "I have nothing to do with this production or adaptation. Apparently Cleese has cut the song. Of course." There is a response from Caroline Gold who compares Cleese and Python to Roger Waters and Pink Floyd.