iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 21/09/2026

I do not 'have' a cat, but I suppose I serve one, primarily as a bed. He wears a tux. He doesn't seem to care what I wear.

2191

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 27/08/2026

Well, that alone was worth the walk.

000

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 06/08/2026

Nothing to see here. Just Google's shitty AI trying to get me to buy cheap illegal motorcycles imported from China and sold by Walmart. Why do they hate having me as a customer so much?

Screenshot of Google AI promoting criminality

000

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 05/08/2026

Google is trying to force me to get an iPhone.

000

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 31/07/2026

😲😬 '82. Ride bicycles, people.

011

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 15/07/2026

I once saw a woman run up on a curb, but then she stopped, and so I thought, I guess I don't have to call the cops. Ten minutes later she sped into traffic stopped at a red light and killed two people.

020

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 06/07/2026

The only thing I miss about Twitter was the platform for shaming brands. Poor show Dyson.

000

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 27/06/2026

The hummingbirds are not my favorite part of living here, except for when we're having breakfast together by the pool. Cities aren't loud, cars are loud(and in LA all the damn helicopters).

010

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 10/05/2026

The AIs are just such sycophants. It creeps me out. Everyone can't be this narcissistic, can they? I was just grabbing dinner.

000

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 10/05/2026

Getting stronger and stronger. Maybe one day, I'll be able to set max assist in traffic and still be most of the power.

000

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 27/04/2026

Reminds me of visiting Copenhagen. Apparently, Dutch for Dim sum:

Sign in Copenhagen for a dim sum restaurant that reads "Chinese Tapas".

240

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 22/04/2026

My ride to/from physical therapy yesterday on my 250W max gravel Canyon. I rode a Dogma at the shop two weeks ago. 4kph higher top speed. Fewer watts. Competing with cars the entire time for both rides. I'm perfectly happy to let Grandma decide if she wants to go 20mph vs 28mph on a bicycle.

230

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 02/04/2026

The car brain in America is egregious. American insurance is insanely bad. The medical costs are extraordinary. What is she complaining about instead? The parking! 🙃

100

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 18/03/2026

Ah, I just missed it, but you can probably see where he was coming from. Just total incompetence. Give them lanes this wide and they still drift half a foot into the bicycle lane. Streets downtown should be designed to destroy the vehicles of drivers this incompetent.

000

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 15/03/2026

I did find where they broke out LIFE. Apparently $25M was old info. Looks like it's $34M now.

000

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 15/03/2026

If LA made their buses fare free, it would impact less than 2% of their revenue and may directly free up more than twice as much money that they are currently spending on fare collection, fare enforcement, and fare exemption. @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social

Chart of LA Metro FY26 budgeted revenue.

211

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 12/03/2026

Crazy. www.google.com/search?q=Hea...

000

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 08/03/2026

Happy LA Marathon crash ride day!

Oura Ring showing 3h 26m sleep for the night.

010

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 03/03/2026

Guys. Walkable cities ftw.

Chart of my highest step count days Jan 6 - Mar 3.

000

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 09/02/2026

Working on a Sunday, but when this is where you're working, how can you feel anything but blessed?

000

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 24/01/2026

Car people are sheep that have been guided by a battery of policy incentives. Saying that consumers aren't shaped by the incentives requires ignoring all of the massive pro car subsidies and policy incentives of the last 70 years.

020

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 31/12/2025

Santa Monica desperately needs congestion pricing. It is served by six bus systems and light rail. Plus, the people driving through are the most insufferable and entitled pricks outside of Manhattan.

One half of one bus of people blocking three intersections in Santa Monica with cars.

120

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 30/12/2025

Just imagining the horrors such spells would perpetuate if true. 😬😵

000

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 29/12/2025

LA after the rain is the most beautiful place on Earth. LA should ban cars. It could be like this 350 days a year.

Panorama shot of Santa Monica after the rains.

010

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 15/12/2025

You give yourself too little credit. I did this on a gravel bike between spine surgeries. I've seen well over 80kph on Strava around here. Are we going to ban gravity assist?

060

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 13/12/2025

And now I'm thinking of riding my bike. Are we sure rest days are not just what happens when you keel over from exhaustion?

010

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 12/12/2025

Apparently, Youtube recommends "Christian" music at me now because I listened to George Michael. 😵‍💫 If you needed one more reason to the game where you see how fast into December you can go without hearing this song...

Google recommending Wham! as "Christian" music.

010

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 12/12/2025

🤔 I think I can almost get away with this. Maybe on a weekend.

Vitals including calories burned for the day.

000

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 21/11/2025

Hey, look. Rich people in coastal mansions strongly support giving themselves a tax break to... incentive themselves to not burn down their neighborhood... again. These guys never miss an opportunity to wreck the tax code.🙃

010

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 19/11/2025

LA is just so strikingly beautiful in so many ways.

Light clouds concealing the afternoon sun over Santa Monica.

Dark clouds rolling ominously over Hollywood.

010

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 17/11/2025

I feel like this would be epic if it were at ground level and integrated into an urban grid instead of a private retreat 10m above ground level.

000

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 13/11/2025

Santa Monica is pretty good.

000

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 10/11/2025

I'm told "they" say that riding an ebike is cheating. So, I dunno... Maybe you should cheat? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Photo of physique of middle aged ebike rider

060

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 09/11/2025

BMI is one of the stupidest metrics ever devised. Of course TFG is a fan.

Obesity analysis result concluding obesity based upon BMI with only 11% body fat.

000

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 01/11/2025

Nice!🫡 I would have been up there, too, but I crashed my bike on the 24th.🫤

010

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 30/10/2025

If I were going to take up an interest in sportball, this is where I would go to watch.

People watching the would series on the promenade

010

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 22/10/2025

This is LA County. Decades of NIMBYism resulting in decades of studying the problem, raising billions, and then blocking the solution every single time because someone wants it somewhere else. NIMBYism is intolerance and hate, and we need to recognize it in our communities accordingly.

000

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 21/10/2025

🤔 measuring by time or by distance?

210

John Lin @itsjohns.network · 15/10/2025

We actually do this here. Sidewalks and bike lanes have reflectors and brightly colored posts. Parking garages have bright yellow bollards. People still crash into them. The people publishing this stuff should not only not be allowed to dress themselves, they should be fired. It doesn't work.

120