·J Mopp / is on Nostr

Software engineer, person with many interests, and actual mad scientist living in Amsterdam

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2024-10-30 13:40:05

Is it showing off if I practise pistol squats in the office?

2024-09-14 13:51:21

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@npub1afz…wdvg Noticed the same thing in NL too. White eggs are more common now than brown ones

2024-09-10 16:26:14

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@npub10dx…0dm6 I made the foolish mistake of reading the books and thinking I'll wait until the last books come out because there's no way that they'd let the TV series overtake the books, right?

2024-09-04 14:22:25

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@npub1afz…wdvg From a South African's accent you can tell their race, home language, socio-economic upbringing, and region. We're just as bad as the Brits in that regard

2024-09-04 14:22:25

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@npub1afz…wdvg From a South African's accent you can tell their race, home language, socio-economic upbringing, and region. We're just as bad as the Brits in that regard

2024-08-11 16:50:22

Today I realised that the red couches in the big Amsterdam library are perfectly sized for me to read comfortably with no fidgeting. This is a problem, because I now have to have a couch with those exact measurements in my house for the best reading experience.

2024-08-11 16:50:22

2024-08-03 08:01:48

Must resist the temptation to buy an eland skull. It will not make my Amsterdam apartment look gezellig

2024-08-02 13:13:00

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@npub1afz…wdvg I love how his name made a round trip: Adetokunbo -> Αντετοκούνμπο -> Antetokounmpo

2024-08-01 05:36:56

If you think about it, Johannesburg's geography is pretty weird. It's this huge city in the middle of nowhere, not close to any ports or trade routes. It was a boom town — it grew rapidly due to the discovery of gold in the late 19th century. But unlike other boom towns, the gold didn't run out. It was mined for so long that an entire diversified economy could grow around it: indeed the heart of the country's economy.

2024-07-29 17:21:10

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@npub10dx…0dm6 I thought Spar was South African until I went to Amsterdam and saw one there. They're not as big there as they are here though.

2024-07-29 09:07:11

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@npub10dx…0dm6 Me too, that is definitely one of the things I love about South Africa

2024-07-29 08:55:18

Today's episode of Only In South Africa: a guy parked outside the Home Affairs office with a photo booth and a photocopying machine set up inside his minibus taxi.

2024-06-23 17:27:10

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@npub1afz…wdvg South Africa does, but the Netherlands doesn't. And with the government that's about to come into power it doesn't look like it's going to change soon.

2024-06-23 15:24:31

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@npub1afz…wdvg That's a big part of the reason why I'm not prepared to give up my South African citizenship to get a Dutch passport. I'd like to one day go back and help build.