I've been using this account as my primary for about a week now, and I'm think I'm settled on using it for the foreseeable future, so I guess it's time to do another #introduction post.
I'm a dad of four kids, and a web developer. I have a college degree in #Theater (or #Theatre) and had aspirations of being an actor. I kind of fell into web development as a career. It was a hobby back in high school, and I just needed to pay some bills after college, so I ended up doing this.
I always have aspirations to do other things, but for now, I'm pretty happy spending most of my time as a dad and husband.
Some day, I'd like to get back into #acting, or maybe do some #VoiceActing. I also enjoy #writing and will, from time to time, post some #MicroFiction, usually from somebody's #WritingPrompt.
I love #StarTrek, and usually watch at least one episode nearly every day. I like all #SciFi really, though, as well as #fantasy. I used to read a lot, but find I don't have as much time or mental capacity for it as I used to. I also enjoy watching #anime, and have really been enjoying the new episodes of #Bleach lately.
Feel free to follow me if you think we have similar interests, and I may follow you back, if I think likewise. 
#WebDev #PHP #BackEnd #Laravel #introductions #Parenting #DadLife 
If they remade Back to the Future in a couple years, the time machine would probably be made out of a Cybertruck.
Dan Jones shared 4 hours ago
Kristi Noem On Renée Good Murder: ‘We Will Find The Immigrant Who Did This’
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Kristi Noem On Renée Good Murder: ‘We Will Find The Immigrant Who Did This’
Dan Jones shared 6 hours ago
Sometimes, when a mommy and a daddy love each other very much, nine months later they realize that neither of them ever emptied the cooler after the last party and now it’s full of mold.
Dan Jones shared 21 hours ago
Dan Jones shared 21 hours ago
So, big boy gets out of his truck, runs at a protestor, falls on his butt, and decides maybe he should just get back in his truck.
What we need is a loony tunes compilation of these guys falling on their asses and otherwise making fools of themselves. The thing authoritarianism hates the most is being laughed at. They want to terrorize us, they want us cowed and afraid. Bugger that for a lark!
Laugh hard, laugh long, and let’s find more. Humiliate them at every opportunity.
https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1qa6epb/ice_cant_handle_ice/
Dan Jones shared 21 hours ago
Good morning
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Meme photo. In a drab soulless office setting with depressing fluorescent lighting and depressing brown industrial carpet, a person in a Hello Kitty costume - an enormous white cat head with a pink bow on one ear and a pink sparkly dress - wields a sledgehammer at an open laptop on the floor at their feet.
Dan Jones shared 22 hours ago
TIL in 1859 a massive geomagnetic storm hit Earth. A geomagnetic storm of this magnitude occurring today has the potential to cause widespread electrical disruptions, blackouts, and damage to the electric power grid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1qaaaa6/til_in_1859_a_massive_geomagnetic_storm_hit_earth/
Dan Jones shared a day agoDon’t take media recommendations from people whose primary association of ‘Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)’ is the last season of ‘Seinfeld’.
Dan Jones shared a day agoTIL of Edward Bernays, Freud's nephew. He got Americans to use Dixie cups, eat bacon, and add an egg to cake mix. He got women smoking then convinced designers to make dresses to match Lucky Strikes so they would sell. Then he created support for the United Fruit Company's overthrow of Guatemala.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1q9m2tm/til_of_edward_bernays_freuds_nephew_he_got/
Dan Jones shared a day ago
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Funny 4 panel comic by War and Peas about Ivan Pavlov. 1. Panel: A housekeeper rings a bell and calls out: "Mr. Pavlov, dinner is ready!" 2. Ivan Pavlov jumps out of a door and shouts: "That's great, Irma!" 3. He is sitting at a bare table and realizes: "Wait, Irma, there's no food." 4. Panel: Irma pulls her own head off her shoulders and you can see that it was just a mask. Underneath is a dog that screams angrily: "How the tables have turned, Mr. Pavlov!" Other aggressive dogs surround him. It's their revenge at last.
Dan Jones shared a day ago
Amazing #LittleFreeLibrary in my #neighborhood
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A cupboard with a glass door, filled with books, set into a large tree stump. The stump is maybe three feet wide and eight feet tall. It has a sharply peaked roof on top to protect the books from rain and snow.
Dan Jones shared a day ago
3191. Superstition
3191. Superstition
title text: It's important to teach yourself to feel responsible for random events, because with great responsibility comes great power. That's what my wise Uncle Ben told me right before he died; he might still be alive today if only I'd said rabbit rabbit that year!
desktop link: https://xkcd.com/3191
mobile link: https://m.xkcd.com/3191
explainxkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3191
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Single panel comic. Three people walking, short hair, no hair, and buzz cut. No hair says "oops, I forgot to say 'Rabbit rabbit' on January 1st" Buzz cut asks "why do you do that?" No hair says "Just a superstition" Buzz cut asks "what's a superstition?" No hair replies "It's a way to train yourself to feel like any bad thing that happens is your fault"
Dan Jones shared 2 days agoTypical. The woke mob, coming for Jonathan Ross just for shooting an unarmed woman in the face.
Dan Jones shared 3 days ago
What You’re Watching Isn’t What You’re Really Watching. “You think you’re watching an innocent woman being shot and killed in cold blood by the federal government, but what you’re really watching is the death of the United States of America.” https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-youre-watching-isnt-what-youre-really-watching
Dan Jones shared 3 days agowords.zip is “an infinite collaborative word search where anyone can find and submit words — no account required.” https://words.zip/
I just looked at my web server logs.
For the past two days, there were 1382 requests made to any of the (public-facing) servers running on my home computer. This includes this site, a Forgejo instance, a Jellyfin instance, and a couple other things.
That's not a lot, and I figured most of those requests were ActivityPub requests to this site.
But, I checked how many of the requests were made by the ClaudeBot (Anthropic's spider which is sucking up content for the Claude LLM). 1169 of them: roughly 85%. All of them gobbling up code from my forgejo instance.
Worst part is that it wasn't even reading any of my code. Just a couple mirrors I had hosted there.
A bunch of nonsense.
Controversial opinion: French Canadians and Italian-Americans are Latin American.
Dan Jones shared 5 days agoChevron CEO Sure In Good Mood This Week https://theonion.com/chevron-ceo-sure-in-good-mood-this-week/
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Chevron CEO Sure In Good Mood This Week
Dan Jones shared 5 days ago
Them: what’s your retirement plan?
Me: you mean death?