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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰
@johngordon.bsky.social
Retired GP. Avid cyclist. CrossFit, cognitive disability. Curious. TrueName John Faughnan (not actor). Intergalactic Antifa Coordinator.

Also mastodon - https://appdot.net/@jgordon
Yeah, America is mostly broken, but this map of Minneapolis greater metro bikeways is wonderful. Best in USA; and probably NA.

The neighboring St Paul routes are just a few years behind — second best in America.

#bikesky
November 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
If you need to reorder your feed list don’t tap on what looks like a sort icon. It does nothing. Tap on the gear.
October 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Also, it’s not hard to see examples of how forked America is in 2025.

It ain’t just the MAGA.
September 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I had to screenshot the BlueSky layout because ... don't Thiel and McAfee kind of look alike? Maybe don't do psychedelics gang.
September 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
My 1975 Raleigh International
August 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
This what I get when I visit the New Republic news site.

A minor but meaningful market of how bad our crisis is
August 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I remembered a NYT Op-Ed by Andy Grove on the risks of hollowing out American manufacturing.

My ai says it was not the NYT, but Bloomberg in 2010.

It is paywalled — www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I think of it often.
August 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Visiting first big Minnesota mall - 1956 Southdale. Three pictures from a history exhibit tell much of the era.

@blindeke.bsky.social would appreciate how it was necessary to destroy the urban core to save it.
August 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The most complex interface the average human was comfortable with. Once everything was simpler than this.

This is relevant to the collapse.
August 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
They are right to be suspicious. I know this place. I know these books. Not from this time, but from 50y ago.
July 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The secured facility is the home of a Christian-sect. “LW” for Living Will. I had to sign in to get to the public gift store and coffee shop. I am the only visitor. Security and staff suspect I am an infidel.
July 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I needed coffee. Apple Maps pointed me to a coffee shop. A public shop. Inside a long concrete secured facility.

Which is how I entered the epicenter of the 20s ….
@laurajedeed.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Typical urban Minneapolis hell hole.
July 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I asked an AI to summarize ideology of the Musk Party

The Pro-Natalist is the weird one. Otherwise it’s kind of 1950s GOP.
July 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Trump admin sends spam to SS recipients about glorious tax cut.

Just another bit of American decency degraded.

Rather like Apple using Wallet notifications to spam us about a movie.

Yeah, once this would have been important. Now it is breaking the prized crystal while the house is on fire.
July 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Saint Paul #nokings. Remembering victims of a deranged killer.
June 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Saint Paul No Kings.

March proceeding at this time. 10 minute program delay. We are asked to spread out when marching - obviously in case of need to evacuate.
June 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
It “sees” the PNG output and says it’s displayed in message, but I don’t think the perplexity client can render it.

It says:
May 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I liked the Otto low security ultralight bike lock. It was a great design for its use case.

Except for one minor flaw. It was made with a defective combination lock. It could forget the combination…

#bike #bikesky
May 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
No instructions with my new toy but there’s a nice QR code for the instructional video …
April 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Ummm. How do I submit a search string in Perplecity’s 4/24/25 update?

This is from a Space question. There is no submit button.

I think they are trying to do a full AI generated coding pipeline and have no human testers left.
April 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Saint Paul, MN
April 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Shot, Chaser etc. @daringfireball.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
MN
March 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
From one of my Econ papers …
March 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM