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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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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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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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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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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
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This form dynamically changes the labels for the Surname and Forename field based on the value of the Gender field. Wut?

Because a Male Surname is totally distinct and nothing like a Female Surname, I guess?!?

#note #gender #webdesign #names

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/24/male-surname/
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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This telegraph pole in the centre of Eynsham carries the scars of hosting countless community announcements, notices, and flyers over the last 30 years.

#note #photo #photos #photography #oxford #uk #telephone #telephones

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/18/30-years-of-notices/
Close-up of a wooden telegraph pole littered with rusted staples and drawing pins of different sizes and ages, with an out-of-focus urban street disappearing into the distance.
November 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Gorgeous autumn dawn this morning with a razor-sharp moon hanging above the shifting hues of the South-East.

It's going to be a cold one. (At last; it's been an unseasonably-warm November so far!)

#note #weather #photo #photos #autumn

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/17/autumn-sunrise/
A silver sliver of a crescent moon in the indigo part of a colourful autumn sunrise framed between spindly tree branches above and roofs below.
November 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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[Food (packaged)]

Second "surprising Finnish confectionary" is Vihreät Kuulat Jaffa Cakes. I ran vihreät kuulat through a translation tool and apparently it means "green balls", which doesn't tell me much.

Knowing it was neither lime nor apple (which were also […]

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A box of Vihreät Kuulat Jaffa Cakes. The cross-section cutaway shows a green jelly within the biscuit, and alongside are pictures of spherical green jellies.
October 28, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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[Food (packaged sweets)]

Buying a bag of Haribo in Finland, I shouldn't have been surprised (given the country's love of salmiakki) that the black ones were liquorice flavoured.

And yet somehow, when I chucked a handful onto my mouth, I was.

(Not in a bad way. But […]

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A bag of Haribo ClickMix, opened, held on a white hand.
October 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Good morning Lapland!

#note #travel #snow #weather #holiday #finland2025

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/10/26/27483/
October 26, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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This was meant to be a joke, but an hour later they accidentally cut through our sewage outflow pipe...
Two men in a rainy garden stare into a trench they've been digging.
October 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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You know those old "best at: some resolution]" [<a href="/hashtag/88x31" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#88x31 buttons you used to see?

What if you could dynamically generate them so that the resolution shown was the one the visitor was actually using? Like... a fun #easteregg version of a "best at any resolution" […]

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October 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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#note #fun #mobiles

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/10/14/one-percent-guild/
Screenshot from an Android phone at vole.wtf/one-percent, showing a picture of Dan alongside other people.
October 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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[Food (meat)]

I'd never put much thought into it before but a slow cooker is basically the opposite of an air frier.

They're both relatively small (compared to an oven) hot boxes for cooking food. But an air frier uses the small space to contain as much energy as […]

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A seared shoulder of pork rubbed with spices sits in a syrupy cider mix atop some sliced white onions in a slow cooker pot.
October 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM