john f

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john f

john f

@johnnygf

Christian, cycling advocate, software developer, armchair theologian

Katılım Ekim 2007
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john f
john f@johnnygf·
In an experimental format johnnygf describes a pitch for an exciting new product in an episode of Dragons Den (Shark Tank in the USA) with an unexpected ending! Read "Chicken Water", now! johnnygf.medium.com/chicken-water-…
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john f@johnnygf·
@Cobylefko @mattyglesias the set-back is a killer. I'd say most buyers would prefer a tiny back yard over a front that has a garden that's not big enough or private enough to be worth maintaining.
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Coby@Cobylefko·
@mattyglesias Parking minimums are part of the answer (though better clustering would solve much). But the real issue is the setback regulations and lack of mixed-use. No enclosure or vibrancy. If these homes were built right up on the street, the bad design wouldn't matter as much.
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Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias·
Modern townhouse projects take advantage of the efficient nature of this building typology, but tend not to recreate what makes historic townhouse *neighborhoods* appealing.
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john f
john f@johnnygf·
@mattyglesias These ones look like apartments or a technical college rather than houses.
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john f@johnnygf·
@cpgrabow Αριαδνε is a great name for a cable-laying ship
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Colin Grabow
Colin Grabow@cpgrabow·
One tailwind for this project: the Jones Act and Foreign Dredge Act don't apply to cable laying. Which is why the Greek-flagged, Norwegian-built vessel Ariadne was able to participate.
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Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸@aaron_renn

Hydropower Line From Quebec to Queens Could Power a Million N.Y.C. Homes - A 339-mile buried transmission line is on schedule to bring clean electricity to New York City this spring - Interesting that they were able to build this. nytimes.com/2026/03/16/nyr…

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john f
john f@johnnygf·
@s8mb I think the issue is 2-fold. i) It's too big a shock to the existing workers if the competition can destroy them overnight. ii) Once the competition is gone then prices can rise ever higher with no improvement in customer service.
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Sam Bowman
Sam Bowman@s8mb·
There's something to be said for rent-seeking so nakedly that you don't even bother to pretend that you're doing it in consumers' interests. Let's just have a price floor on taxis so we don't lose business.
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CircleLineBelfast
CircleLineBelfast@CircleLineBT·
The Fleadh isn’t just a festival, it’s a live test of how Belfast could work We should be measuring: • How pedestrianisation performs at scale • The role of street vendors in animating the city • How well disabled access is supported in a car-free core • Whether late-night public transport meets real demand beyond Fri/Sat 700,000 people will give us the data The mistake would be treating this as temporary instead of learning from it.
Belfast Live@BelfastLive

Street trading allowed for Fleadh on three Belfast streets belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-n…

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john f
john f@johnnygf·
@Ingathewinger @arisroussinos When I read Bill Cooper’s After The Flood one of the things that struck me was that there is still some anger about the Anglo-Saxons pushing the Brythons into the west
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Aris Roussinos@arisroussinos·
If you live in London, you should know that Brân (raven), son of Llŷr, had his head, lopped off in a battle with invading Irish, buried on Tower Hill to protect the kingdom, at which Branwen died of a broken heart. This is England’s deep mythology too.
Aris Roussinos@arisroussinos

Everyone in Britain is heir to an extremely complex & ancient Celtic mythological cycle of native gods & heroes, just like Ireland, but set in the country in which they live, yet the British educational system actively ignores it. I doubt 1/10000 children could name a British god

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Colm O'Cinneide
Colm O'Cinneide@colmocinneide·
Well put. I note that Farage & co talking about banning mass religious observances would take out e.g. Catholic Corpus Christi parades. But this doesn't seem to register with anyone on the nominally culturally conservative right-wing of British politics.
Yuan Yi Zhu@yuanyi_z

The collapse of the Prostant/Roman divide and its replacement with undifferentiated cultural Christianity in the UK is a very obvious sign of the Americanisation of UK discourse.

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mansfield book club
mansfield book club@contrapolisci·
Wanting to learn to read like a Straussian? Skip AI, read Great Books.
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john f
john f@johnnygf·
@contrapolisci I think it can be easy to miss in The Republic that Socrates felt threatened by Glaucon and felt he had to tell him what he wanted hear. (That's my reading, anyway.)
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More Births
More Births@MoreBirths·
Patriarch Ilya II of Georgia passed away this week at age 93. He singlehandedly created a baby boom in his country when he offered to personally baptize every third or higher birth. He was godfather to over 50,000 children.
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Orthodox Christian@orthodox_33ad

🇬🇪 His Holiness and Beatitude, Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi and Patriarch of All Georgia, Ilia II, has passed away at 93 years old. He was the spiritual leader of the Georgian Orthodox Church and credited with expanding and deepening the faith in the Soviet and later post-Soviet period. May his memory be eternal.

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Dan Hitchens
Dan Hitchens@ddhitchens·
Remarkable speech from Pam Duncan-Glancy (Independent): “There will be countless disabled people in our constituencies who haven’t had the choice to have a shower in weeks. People who can’t choose when they go to bed. Some who will already be in bed. “People who can’t choose what to eat. People who can’t choose to go out of their house, because it isn’t accessible. People tonight who can’t choose the care or the healthcare they need, including at the end, because it simply isn’t available for them. “And crucially, there will be disabled people whose struggle is so hard that they’ve given up hope, given up fighting, and will be considering tonight taking their own lives. “I know this, because I have been all of these people I’ve described. They live in fear every single day, worrying about what new limit someone else will put on their lives, and what little power they will have to change it. They live every single day without choice at all… “In a world where so many have little or no choice, we can’t risk making death the only choice they ever have.”
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Terry Marc
Terry Marc@Marcute22·
Longtime users are frustrated with X because it no longer works the way it used to. Back in the early days of Twitter, your reach was simple and direct. If you had 5,000 or 10,000,20,000 followers, your posts were delivered to them in real time. It was a true chronological feed—your tweets showed up in the order you posted them, and your audience actually saw your content. The “old” Twitter (pre-2016) was built around that real-time experience. Your voice reached the people who chose to follow you, without interference. Today, that’s no longer the case. X relies on an algorithm-driven, engagement-based feed, meaning even your own followers may never see your posts unless the system decides to prioritize them. That shift—from a guaranteed audience to an unpredictable algorithm—is why so many longtime users feel frustrated and disconnected.
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john f
john f@johnnygf·
An LLM/AI tool called SocrAItes that when you ask it a question, like ‘how can we have a just society?’ It responds with ‘have you read The Republic?’
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AnechoicMedia
AnechoicMedia@AnechoicMedia_·
Ultraprocessed food isn't a coherent scientific concept and the attempts to formalize it have been a joke, as with the scale used in this study. Slice a potato and bake it: Unprocessed (Group 1) Slice a potato and fry it: "Ultraprocessed" (Group 4) Nuts: Unprocessed Nuts, salted: "Processed" (Group 3) Homogenized, pasteurized milk: Unprocessed Milk churned with sugar into ice cream: "Processed" This is a search for a scientific-sounding language to describe why one set of foods is nutritionally suspect, but in moralizing terms of how it was created by an industrial system, rather than characterizing food impacts directly by nutritional content or satiety. They can't just call the system "added sugar" because that's too obvious and not morally satisfying.
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ

People who eat around nine servings a day of ultraprocessed foods like chips and doughnuts have about a 67% higher risk of heart attacks, strokes and dying from heart disease compared with those who eat about one serving a day, according to a new study. 🔗 on.wsj.com/3PgXHeg

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john f
john f@johnnygf·
@davidalber94179 @AnechoicMedia_ @SwipeWright I mean, I aspire to make basket-fuls of home-made deep fried chips like my dad used to on Fridays (jam-packed baskets, middle ones barely cooked, super greasy, just chips, salt & vinegar, nothing else). But the deep fryer is too much of a faff for me & my wife likes variety.
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Apple TV News Hub@AppleTVNewsHub·
Although not announced, #ForAllMankind Season 6 begins filming this week! S5 premieres March 27 on Apple TV
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