Minister (priest) in the Episcopal Church (🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️), creator of the Leptos web framework for Rust (github.com/leptos-rs/leptos) and of venite.apphttps://bsky.app/profile/gbj.devhttps://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3mj3vri67xs2mThis is true but the most fun part is that there's a typo* in the Greek [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Apr 2026 22:56 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj3vri67xs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3mftrxhh6nc2jReading the news in 2026 is like:27 Feb 2026 13:11 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3mftrxhh6nc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3mdetb7tzd22uI check Fox semi-regularly to see what people I disagree with are being told. Just now: "The New York Post reported that an accidental discharge of Pretti's...pistol, which was being held by an agent after it was taken away from him, may have made authorities believe their lives were in danger."27 Jan 2026 03:34 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdetb7tzd22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3m47o7shsys2oTheir defense, by the way, is "We didn't know we were essentially paraphrasing Hitler, we were just expressing a common nationalist sentiment." I'm not sure that "We weren't being edgelords, we just substantively agree with some of the principles of National Socialism" is that effective an argument [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Oct 2025 00:24 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3m47o7shsys2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3m253y5ady22mThe funniest and most frustrating part of old Twitter/new Bluesky is that it consists largely of smart and well-educated people having arguments about things outside their areas of expertise, in ways that rehash the contents of intro classes in the subject, with no self-awareness about it.01 Oct 2025 13:02 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3m253y5ady22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3lyy63vosps25unbothered. moisturized. happy. in my lane. making friends for myself by means of the mammon of unrighteousness. flourishing.16 Sep 2025 20:32 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyy63vosps25https://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3lyvpcfihus22Many people don’t know that Kristallnacht was unleashed in response to the assassination of a German diplomat in Parish by a German-born Polish Jew living in Paris. His parents were Polish migrants whose legal status had just been revoked by both Germany and Poland, leaving them trapped in a camp.15 Sep 2025 21:02 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyvpcfihus22https://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3lyt6reyy222lI'm willing to believe that the best chatbot spiritual counsel could be *better* than the worst human forms. There are plenty of clergy who will say things that are net harmful. On the other hand, it comes nowhere near the *best* human spiritual counsel, which is also grounded in empathy. [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Sep 2025 21:00 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyt6reyy222lhttps://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3ly3qj2xgh224Honestly, this is one my favorite church buildings in the entire world, in every season. What an odd thing to be the Rector. I randomly took the photo on the left yesterday to replace the one on the right on our website, after our administrator pointed out it was a bit snowy for September.05 Sep 2025 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3ly3qj2xgh224https://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3lxk4qqbyws2tI've lived in Boston my whole life, and people really are like this... and it's what makes Massachusetts great. +++ "The only thing that really needs to be done at South Station is clean the bathrooms, they really need some attention," said Linda Radzvilla of Mashpee. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Aug 2025 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxk4qqbyws2thttps://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3lxcuqqjmbc24From: Donald John Trump Subject: I want to try to get to Heaven. ... That's why I've launched a 24 HOUR TRUMP FUNDRAISING BLITZ, and I'm asking everyone to chip in $15 to make it one for the record books! ... Sincerely, Donald John Trump26 Aug 2025 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxcuqqjmbc24https://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3lx7xtk4cbs2kOne of the potential problems with the rapid adoption of LLMs in fields like education is that the entire ecosystem depends on a handful of products by very large companies that are currently losing huge amounts of money on them, creating a classic “too big to fail” situation. Perversely (1/2)25 Aug 2025 12:11 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3lx7xtk4cbs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3lwzf3v2rjk2qToday was example number 137 of the principle that the longer you give something to cook in your brain, the less time it takes to type at the keyboard. It turns out spending all week thinking about something without having a chance to write it does in fact make the writing much faster!22 Aug 2025 21:19 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwzf3v2rjk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3lwujhjju7k2yThere is a crisis of masculinity in America, and it’s that a large number of men are terrified, all the time, of ordinary life. Like these guys are… so scared of being asked for money in a train station that they have called out the National Guard to protect them? Man up, bro.20 Aug 2025 22:54 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwujhjju7k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3lwlphatv2s2aTried the new “EpiscoBOT.” I don’t think I need to throw out my diploma yet, chat. (Or my calendar, I guess.)17 Aug 2025 10:47 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwlphatv2s2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3lwafjkd2nk2kPosting on Bluesky, if you are active in circles related to your vocation or profession, is not like texting your friends. It is like writing a letter to the editor of your local paper. Discerning whether something is for a public post or the group chat or your journal is a really important skill!12 Aug 2025 22:50 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwafjkd2nk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3lvwcs4aosc27My favorite gerrymandering fact: Massachusetts has a 60-40 vote split and a 100% Democratic Congressional delegation, not because it’s gerrymandered but because it’s so uniformly divided at around 60-40 throughout the state that you can’t make a single contiguous district that a Republican could win08 Aug 2025 22:35 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvwcs4aosc27https://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3lvbgsi25ds2qThis is a great example of the way in which non-technical people have been duped into pulling LLMs into areas where traditional computing is really good and LLMs are really bad… like generating invoices and payment records. [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Jul 2025 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvbgsi25ds2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3luzvvxoehk2oFor my Rust/web programming followers: here’s a short video introducing the code-splitting features released in Leptos this week https://youtu.be/w5fhcoxQnII?si=DRNnqjI1jjOaqOcq28 Jul 2025 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3luzvvxoehk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3lue7hzzhos2kHonestly if someone had asked me whether “Yeti Blood Oath Seminary Follies” was a Mountain Goats track title before I’d seen the story, I’d have been like 50-50. Maybe a B-side I didn’t know? Gives “Maize Stalk Drinking Blood” title vibes, you know? [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Jul 2025 00:22 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3lue7hzzhos2khttps://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3luddpd5dlc2lOne of the cool things about early medieval history is that there are both many more weird Latin names and many more weird Germanic names than we use today, along w our names. So eg I just read a page that included Bishop Sagittarius (v Latin), Queen Radegund (v Germanic), and also a Gregory.19 Jul 2025 16:05 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3luddpd5dlc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/gbj.dev/post/3lubwpnxlqc2cupdate: the protagonist has punched the Devil in the face [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Jul 2025 02:40 +0000at://did:plc:2mqeiwt22nvz4yrv6edtszss/app.bsky.feed.post/3lubwpnxlqc2c