John Forbes

Computer scientist, biologist and startup guy. Perennially trying to choose between starting another company and living in a remote cabin by a steelhead stream.

[John Forbes @johnbforbes]

@NewYorker It means that maybe, just maybe...the human race will survive

[John Forbes @johnbforbes]

@pinnoizeshop If you fall asleep for two days you need to go to the hospital

[karl taro greenfeld @karltaro]

Wow, you know who is not showing up for fire victims in Los Angeles today? @GetSpectrum Why am I not surprised that they won't cancel or port your services w/out a huge fight. #spectrumsucks

[John Forbes @johnbforbes]

@onlyinbozeman Nobody wants foggy goggles

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@red_mutant_eyes @MarkTheStewart @PulpLibrarian I stayed in 12 different hotels on my recent trip to Thailand. I never used the phones in my rooms. Not once.

[John Forbes @johnbforbes]

@HeatherThomasAF Why don't we have thousands of these airplanes to protect America?!?

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@ShouldHaveAnima Chonk

[John Forbes @johnbforbes]

@Dr_TheHistories Fake?

[John Forbes @johnbforbes]

@Winking_Buddha @JoyceCarolOates Where on earth did you go? Nobody does colonoscopies these days without putting you under

[John Forbes @johnbforbes]

@Chill87_ @ericriveracooks GPS in Tokyo is in a class of its own - by that I mean not working at least 50% of the time

[John Forbes @johnbforbes]

I am on the Narita Express going to the airport and the train has stopped. The announcer says that there has been a fatal accident on the train

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@Sarahhuniverse gross

[John Forbes @johnbforbes]

@BankofHawaii On September 16th, you said "financial services for Intuit apps would be restored by October 31, 2024". We've waited for several months. Is it time for all Quicken users to switch to another bank? Nobody uses WebConnect, which is just a marketing term for manually uploading data.

[John Forbes @johnbforbes]

@PaprikaGirl_JP When I was five years old living in Ogikubo I picked a kaki off our neighbor Mrs. Maki’s prize tree, and I might have well as committed murder

[Kaylan_TX @Kaylan_TX_]

Is he wasted???!?!?

[John Forbes @johnbforbes]

@drsimonegold Come on. We now have several years of data on mRNA vaccines - they are as safe as any other vaccine and have saved the lives of millions of people.

[Damion Schubert - @ZenOfDesign.com on bsky @ZenOfDesign]

“And every four years, we will have suburban housewives in Pennsylvania choose a new president.”

“Just Pennsylvania, sir?”

“And Wisconsin and Michigan. And maybe Arizona, as a treat.”

“No one else can vote, sir?”

“They can vote but it won’t matter.”

[Mike Madrid @madrid_mike]

No matter how much you humiliate yourself they will never consider you an American. Hope attending the rally was worth the price of your self worth

[John Forbes @johnbforbes]

@SeamusBlackley No no no. Number 8!