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Dan Q
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Blogs at https://danq.me. Founded https://threerings.org.uk. Based between Oxford and Witney, UK. Queerer than the average bear.

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As part of my efforts to reclaim the living room from the children, I'm building a new gaming PC for the playroom. She's called Bee, and - thanks to the absolute insanity that is The Tower 300 case from Thermaltake - she's one of the most bonkers PC cases I've ever […]

[Original post on danq.me]
On a desk cluttered with computer parts, a partially-built PC stands in an irregular-hexagonal prism shaped case with vented yellow sides and a three-pane angled glass front.
January 8, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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I don't know if anybody else in the universe would benefit from a visualisation of the #probability of different #dice results when playing #forgedinthedark based #rpgs (e.g. #bladesinthedark). Maybe it's just me. But here's an illustration I made anyway.

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Pie charts showing probabilities of your highest roll being 1-3, 4-5, 6, or "multiple 6s" when rolling one through eight 6-sided dice. With just one die, the chance of 1-3 is 50%, but it's a tiny sliver by the time you're rolling eight. But the chance of your highest roll being 2 or 3 is still significant at any level.
January 7, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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Tintern Abbey's looking especially beautiful in the fresh snow, this morning.

#note #history #Wales #photo #photos #archeology #snow #winter #weather

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/05/tintern-abbey/
A partially-ruined stone monastery juts out of a snowy plain in a wooded valley, under bright blue skies.
January 5, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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Our dog has decided that the perfect place to lie down at our holiday accommodation is... on a staircase whose carpet is the same colour as her!

I'm grateful for her very-visible blep... or I'd have tripped over this camouflaged pupper several times already!

#note […]

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A champagne-coloured French Bulldog lies on a step of a staircase carpeted in the same colour as herself, u her tongue in medium-blep.
January 4, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Back at the Rollright Stones fire New Year's Dsy, per family tradition. This year the younger child counted 74, the elder 59. The curse that prevents you counting the same number twice continues!

#note #archeology #family #parenting #children

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/01/27831/
A man with blue hair points at some standing stones.
January 1, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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I think the dog's back paws were cold this evening. The giveaway was when she tucked them into a convenient nearby trouser pocket.

#note #dog #dogs

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/30/27826/
A sleeping French Bulldog lies on her side with her back paws tucked into the trouser pocket of a human sitting near her.
December 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Went to a West End theatre wearing my "Slamilton" t-shirt.

In this corridor, during the act break, a stranger spotted it and did a double-take.

"Is that...? wait... that's not Hamilton!", they said.

I seized my chance.

"It's Slamilton," I replied. "You know: 'Who […]

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Dan, a white man with a goatee beard and a blue ponytail, wears a 'Slamilton' t-shirt in a theatre stairwell.
December 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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[Food (festive)]

Boxing Day breakfast (of champions (of leftovers)).

#note #christmas #food #breakfast #meat

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/26/boxing-day-breakfast/
Four Yorkshire puddings on a side plate, each with one or two chipolata sausages sticking out, smothered in gravy, alongside a small quantity of sage & onion stuffing.
December 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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[Food (leftovers, now for a dog)]

Unusually, we had no guests this Christmas Day. This meant that my usual level of overcatering went even further than normal.

A side effect of this is that a certain little doggo was delighted and surprised by her Boxing Day […]

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A champagne-coloured French Bulldog kicks her lips excitedly alongside a bowl full of chunks of roast meat.
December 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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[Food (preparation)]

I asked the younger child to "help" me calculate how much Yorkshire pudding batter to make for this Christmas dinner.

"Well," he began, "I'm going to want FIVE Yorkshire puddings, soo..."

#note #christmas #xmas #cooking #food #parenting […]

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Dan, a white man with a beard and blue hair, wearing a WordPress-themed Christmas jumper, beats a bowl of batter.
December 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Can't fall for phishing tests if you don't read your email
December 19, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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As somebody with an unusual #name (which I changed by #deedpoll), I'll occasionally hear people ask loaded questions like "Yeah, but what's your REAL name? The one on your #birthcertificate?" 😡

Well #fuckthehaters. As of today, my birth certificate's been retroactively updated to show my "real" […]
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December 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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As somebody with an unusual #name (which I changed by #deedpoll), I'll occasionally hear people ask loaded questions like "Yeah, but what's your REAL name? The one on your #birthcertificate?" 😡

Well #fuckthehaters. As of today, my birth certificate's been retroactively updated to show my "real" […]
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December 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Y'know what, I bet I'm the first person ever to use exactly that combination of hashtags.
December 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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I'm not sure which of our children was last in this bath, but the configuration in which they've left their toys makes me feel as though I'm the subject of some kind of waterfowl-related shunning.

Perhaps they finally got wind or my heretical opinions on the God of […]

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Four thematic rubber ducks sit along the edge of a fitted white bathtub, seemingly deliberate in their placement which sees them facing directly away from the bather and towards various shampoo bottles and a candle in a glass.
December 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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A few pockets of the morning's freezing fog still cling to the hedgerows as the dog and I set out on a chilly West Oxfordshire morning walk.

#note #oxford #weather #walking #dogs #dog

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/13/27761/
A French Bulldog trots along a concrete slab farm track alongside fallow fields bordered by mist, hedges, and distant flanking hills.
December 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Obviously I wasn't planning on going to the US anytime soon, but if I did... they might struggle with my visa application when I put every "email address I've used for the last 10 years" on, because I actively use a variety of catch-all domains/subdomains.

I've probably missed some addresses (e […]
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December 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Since I relaunched freedeedpoll.org.uk three months ago (with new features) and made an explanatory demo video, the volume and kinds of questions I've been emailed has... become larger and more diverse.

I still get questions about childrens' names and citizenship and gender recognition […]
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December 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Not sure I’m a fan of this new ultra-minimalist #christmastree trend.

🔗 Via: https://danq.me/minimalist-trees

#christmas #tree #trees #photo #funny
Display bed of Christmas trees outside a hardware store except each pot, labelled with its species and approximate height, is empty.
December 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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@aho Sounds like a great feature. Sadly, doing so in a way that's remotely reliable would need AI-generated content to be, y'know, tagged as AI-generated.

Some kind of "evil bit" for #rss, I guess.
December 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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For the last few years I've been running a proxy of the BBC News RSS feeds (https://bbc-feeds.danq.dev) that strips out duplicate content, non-news content, and (optionally) sports news.

This weekend, for the first time, somebody asked if it could produce an edition that included only the […]
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December 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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We got our dog a Christmas jumper.
My favourite thing about it is that its coat hanger contains instructions for use:
"Please insert dog" 🤣

#note #dog #dogs #christmas #xmas #clothes

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/03/please-insert-dog/
Christmas jumper for a dog, featuring blue-and-white stripes and sequin Christmas trees; its hanger contains an arrow pointing down alongside the text 'please insert dog'.
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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A friend of mine spotted another British street sign that lends itself to #sexuality #activism - this time, for us #bisexual folks - and I couldn't help but draw it:
A sign in the style of British road signs showing a bicycle lane on the left of the carriageway by using a pictographic bicycle to the left of a white line, except the background colour of the lane is the pink-purple-blue of the Bisexual Pride flag, and the text underneath contains an extra space so that it reads "Bi cycle lane".
December 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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I find a lot of these "this company is tried to usurp your brand with Chinese domain name purchases" emails in my spam folder, corresponding to my (many) domains. They're a scam, of course: the scammer is trying to goad me into saying "No, please help protect my […]

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Screenshot of scam email which begins "Dear CEO, This is a formal email. We are the Domain Registration Service company in Shanghai, China. I have something to confirm with you. Baokang Ltd sent a request on December 3, 2025. They desire to register "danq" as their internet keyword and Chinese domain names..." and goes on to try to bait the recipient into replying and expressing an interest in the domain names mentioned.
December 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Fellow folks at the interest-intersection of "public transport" and "queer activism" (I know you're out there!): I had an idea for a t-shirt.

Do I print it? Or give up on graphic design and go back to backend programming where I belong?

#note #trans #trams […]

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T-shirt design: a sign in the typographic and graphical style of British road signs, showing the words 'Trams rights at all times' on a background in the blue/pink/white of the trans pride flag, with an outline of a tram whose pantograph is reshaped to resemble the trio of the masculine, feminine, and combined symbols used as a trans symbol.
December 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM