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Greg Johnston @gbj.dev · 02/06/2026

sorry you've left me with a brainworm and it's "get in loser, we're plundering the Egyptians"

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Greg Johnston @gbj.dev · 27/02/2026

Reading the news in 2026 is like:

Donnie Darko "I made a new friend today" meme, with text: "Elon reinvented communism." "Communism or slaves?" "Slaves."

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Greg Johnston @gbj.dev · 15/09/2025

(By the way, episcobot is still struggling mightily with the question “What are today’s lectionary readings?” Specifically because it thinks today is June 22, 2025.)

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Greg Johnston @gbj.dev · 05/09/2025

Honestly, 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.

St. John's Episcopal Church in the neighborhood of Charlestown in Boston, an early Gothic revival church built in 1841, shown in September 2025, with green leaves on the trees and bright blue sky.

St. John's in January 2025, with snow-covered trees and a grey sky.

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Greg Johnston @gbj.dev · 17/08/2025

💀 ok I know this is bad I will stop.

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Greg Johnston @gbj.dev · 17/08/2025

Tried the new “EpiscoBOT.” I don’t think I need to throw out my diploma yet, chat. (Or my calendar, I guess.)

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Greg Johnston @gbj.dev · 08/07/2025

Oh nice, thanks! So, in other words, the 2025 results for proficient scores in Holy Scripture (73%) are identical with the 23-year median (73%) and average (72.5%), and overall there's a very slight trend higher over time.

A scatterplot of all GOE results for Holy Scripture from 2002 to 2025, with a trendline showing a slight gradual increase from ~70 to ~73

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Greg Johnston @gbj.dev · 24/06/2025

About a day and a half, then! (There is, indeed, an app for *everything*)

A map from ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World showing the fastest route by land from Jerusalem to Gaza, by fast carriage, which would take about 1.5 days.

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Greg Johnston @gbj.dev · 29/05/2025

Guys you just need to be better at prompt engineering. The key thing is to project confidence here. No, a computer can’t tell you the year. Don’t be silly. But a computer can pick up on the confidence *you* have about what year it is and isn’t that what matters in the end?

Google AI Overview for the search “is it 2025,” replying “No, it is not 2025”

Google AI Overview for “it’s 2025, correct?” replying “Yes, it is currently the year 2025.”

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Greg Johnston @gbj.dev · 21/05/2025

that retired priest who still comes to clergy meetings

The meme of the one person in the group doing a sarcastic giant thumbs up, after the dude is like “I saved $45k by bringing coffee from home every day for 20 years”

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Greg Johnston @gbj.dev · 16/04/2025

For my first Narthex ⚓ post: Our Holy Tuesday Renewal of Vows with our Lutheran colleagues began with a procession across Boston Common this year.

Clergy of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts and Lutheran New England synod gathered on the steps of the Cathedral after the Holy Tuesday renewal of vows, in red or rainbow stoles.

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Greg Johnston @gbj.dev · 08/04/2025

Great example of AI slop stuffed into everything. These are three suggestions for replies to an email with the subject line "Oops...here's the attachment" 2 of the 3 are about the beauty of the quote in the email signature. The other one nonsensically says "Let me know if you need anything else."

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Greg Johnston @gbj.dev · 02/04/2025

This chart is called “these are much bigger tariffs than investors were expecting.”

Graph of NASDAQ Futures dropping sharply during tariff announcement.

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Greg Johnston @gbj.dev · 24/03/2025

See this break through to the #2 stop on the front page of Fox is pretty surreal honestly, after seeing how bifurcated the media have become over the last decade. It gives you a sense for how huge this is.

foxnews.com #2 headline story: "Security Breach — Trump officials accidentally text journalist about military strikes before they happen"

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Greg Johnston @gbj.dev · 10/02/2025

Wait sorry @nytimes.com but did you *mean* to say that ordinance disposal would be “a bigger problem” than the mass ethnic cleansing of Gaza or…?

NYT text: Emptying Gaza: President Trump said the nearly two million Palestinians that he wants to displace from the Gaza Strip would not be allowed to return under his proposal to rebuild the territory. A bigger problem is that unexploded munitions litter Gaza after months of Israeli bombardment, and Mr. Trump’s government-downsizing efforts have sidelined the groups that would clear them.

“A bigger problem” highlighted.

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Greg Johnston @gbj.dev · 09/01/2025

Here was my spreadsheet based on last year's questions. It's possible to use this by saying "well, here's a guessed average for each bucket" but I can guarantee the answers here overall are just going to be based on vibes, not arithmetic

Spreadsheet columns:
Children: 22
Youth: 11
Young Adults: 24
Middle Adults: 41
Senior Adults: 29

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Greg Johnston @gbj.dev · 21/12/2024

Some of the stats are off (e.g., pretty sure this is the total number of stars on your repos, not total in 2024) but this is fun. git-wrapped.com/profiles/gbj

Screenshot of git-wrapped results (link with HTML version is in the body of the message)

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Greg Johnston @gbj.dev · 04/12/2024

It's hard to believe it's been just about 5 years since I first shared the original version of Venite with a few seminary friends. They have been hard years, in this world. Now there are > 1000 people using the app on any given day. What a joy to be able to send some light into a dark world!

A graph of use of Venite.app, showing gradual linear increases in use over the last 5 years. The current numbers show 7.1k users in the last 30 days, 3k in the last 7 days, 1.1k in the last day.

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