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 
Dan Jones shared 16 hours ago
“It’s incredible to think that just a few years ago, she barely knew the words to condemn one of her playmates to a life of forced labor, and now she’s already old enough to be meeting boys and issuing them death sentences,” said Kim Jong Un
https://theonion.com/kim-jong-un-cant-believe-daughter-already-executing-boys/
Dan Jones shared 16 hours ago
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel
Is your nation’s frail, kleptocratic economy being propped up, thanks in part to being a major oil exporter?
Do your leader’s supporters claim that he was ordained by God to rule?
Is your leader currently breaking ground on several expensive and cartoonishly vain construction projects in the nation’s capital?
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/does-your-country-need-regime-change-a-quiz
Dan Jones shared 17 hours ago
3215. Solar Warning
3215. Solar Warning
title text: This replaces the previous solar activity watch, which was issued last month when the sun took off its sunglasses.
desktop link: https://xkcd.com/3215
mobile link: https://m.xkcd.com/3215
explainxkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3215
Caption
Single panel comic. A news announce sits at a desk in front of two drawings of the sun. One of them has a smiley face and says last week and the other has a frowny face and says today. News announcer says "A warning for solar flares and geomagnetic storms has been issued after new images from the solar and heliospheric observatory show that the big smiley face on the sun has turned into a frown."
Dan Jones shared 6 days ago“I want to tell you about the paintings—those flowers, Alfred—and all of the hearsay over what they supposedly represent, when the truth could not be more plain: They are basset hound dogs,” O’Keeffe wrote in a 1941 letter to her husband
https://theonion.com/uncovered-georgia-okeeffe-letters-confirm-paintings-were-veiled-depictions-of-basset-hounds/
Dan Jones shared 6 days ago
The Internet wasn’t always designed to make you angry and miserable. It used to fill us with hope and enthusiasm. More people need to know what has been taken away from them.
Dan Jones shared 6 days ago
Caption
The cartoon illustrates the problem of water use in the AI age: a farmer's child and his mother are pumping a little water from a well for their daily use. Two knights in armor, transporting a large, spherical water container on wheels, come by and say, "The King wishes to make more avatars of himself as a Ghibli character." In the background, a castle sits enthroned on a hill. The cartoon illustrates the excessive water consumption required for AI model queries.
Dan Jones shared 6 days ago
Caption
4 panel comic by War and Peas: 1. two pharaohs from ancient egypt are standing in front of a pyramid whose construction is nearing completion. One says to the other, "You've outdone yourself this time, Babuthep." 2. he continues, "You'll be remembered for this throughout history!" 3. "It's a testament to human ingenuity." 4. time jump to the present day. At an alien conference, someone speaks to an audience, "It was aliens!"
Dan Jones shared 7 days ago
Hey all, looking for work.
I'm a senior developer in Toronto, Canada with experience in Golang and Identity/Security. if someone knows of an org providing remote work, please let me know. Thanks!
Dan Jones shared 7 days ago
“The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto”, a 70s automobile that put the “car” in “exploding car”. https://fuelarc.com/evs/its-official-the-cybertruck-is-more-explosive-than-the-ford-pinto/
Dan Jones shared 8 days agoA Meta employee who works on AI safety let an AI agent named OpenClaw loose on her inbox and it deleted all her email. (This tracks; companies like Meta actually don’t care about AI safety and hire accordingly.) https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/a-meta-ai-security-researcher-said-an-openclaw-agent-ran-amok-on-her-inbox/
Dan Jones shared 9 days agoIs Donald Trump Alive? Now, this is a site that knows how to write factual headlines, e.g. “Donald Trump is alive and ranting and raving about foreign interests infiltrating the Supreme Court that he created”. Take note, NYT. https://isdonaldtrumpalive.com/
Dan Jones shared 9 days ago“Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies, and are now being developed as preventative treatments.” https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516079-paediatricians-blood-used-to-make-new-treatments-for-rsv-and-colds/
Dan Jones shared 10 days ago
Buying a track or ebook that you can’t pass on, share, or transfer isn’t ownership; it’s a rental. We need to restore digital first sale. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/rent-only-copyright-culture-makes-us-all-worse
Dan Jones shared 10 days ago
🎶
Moving to the city
Gonna eat a lot of pizzas
Dan Jones shared 10 days ago
current existential dread levels are 100%
(100%) ■■■■■■■■■■
Dan Jones shared 10 days agoAide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew
https://theonion.com/aide-wearily-begins-5th-explanation-of-why-trump-cant-pardon-prince-andrew/
Dan Jones shared 10 days ago
To the #VoteBlue people in the USA: Yes, voting for the #Democrats _is_ necessary in all upcoming elections. But you also need to realize that the anger at the Democratic Party establishment is both real and entirely justified, and you should understand where that anger is coming from.
To quote the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail":
'First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.”'
Dan Jones shared 11 days ago
