John Gordon 📷

@Bluedonkey
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British ex-pat living the island life in the #SanFrancisco Bay Area. #Alameda.

Architect of #Cloud / #embedded / #IoT systems. Working on #AI #GunDetection.

Like #ElectricVehicles, #CleanEnergy, #Photography, #3dPrinting, #Electronics and #Travel.

All opinions mine. #fedi22

LocationAlameda, California
Websitehttps://bluedonkey.org/
Photographyhttps://ourlivez.com/
GitHubhttps://github.com/john94501
John Gordon 📷6h ago
Not sure what this cyclist was thinking last night. Suddenly swerving into the path of oncoming cars seems like a bad idea.
John Gordon 📷6h ago

Argh, US health insurance (scam) is a nightmare. Getting a straight answer from them is impossible. No matter who you speak with, it is always somebody else who is responsible.

Then they made the mistake of asking about my experience... 0 across the board. Finally, they asked for suggestions: I just said "Quit!"

John Gordon 📷1d ago
John Pfaff1d ago
There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.
John Gordon 📷1d ago
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱🪊1d ago
Briefly thought about entering the lottery for a WWDC26 ticket and then I remembered what country it's in.
John Gordon 📷1d ago
Jonathan Wight1d ago

If you’re thinking of flying internationally to attend WWDC if you get a golden ticket (or any other US conference):

Please reconsider. Don’t come.

You can protest this administration by not coming and not spending your tourist dollars here

And don’t forget it’s just not safe to travel here.

John Gordon 📷1d ago

Of course, the imbecile starting a war in the Middle East that he can't win (he's not competent enough to win anything, let alone a war in a region he knows nothing about) is going to help people look at EVs again...

https://www.morningbrew.com/stories/2026/03/23/us-consumers-reconsider-evs-amid-rising-gas-prices

John Gordon 📷1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116279675496378768

When the Democrats take control again we need to immediately remove this, and add a climate gas tax for any state that has less than 15% EV registrations. Have that percentage increase every year.

Also, cut all federal funding for any state that refuses to take steps to address climate change. States that continue to deny get nothing.

John Gordon 📷1d ago

I would love to find the "genius" who thought that the FaceTime app should be able to make regular phone calls and that call histories for all calling apps should be blended together.

That just cost us $50 because my wife tapped the previous call from me in her FaceTime history while I was in the UK and the stupid thing made an international call over the mobile network instead of a FaceTime call. No warning. No clue that the call was not a FaceTime call. Just more of Cook's poor UX. Fire him.

John Gordon 📷4d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@climatenewsnow/116263513441763825

Yeah, but that wouldn’t make the convict & his cronies in the oil industry richer.

We could have made much more progress on energy independence (especially independence from oil companies) had the convict been locked up for his many crimes instead of being allowed to run for president. The first time.

John Gordon 📷4d ago

If it is so easy, and so little risk, why don't you send that drunk fool you have tin charge of the military over there with some of his proud buddies and they can take care of it, no?

#USPol #USPolitics