Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
How do you stay current?
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Just told my kids I'm older than Google. They think I'm joking.
I'm just sitting here, doing some work, while watching the finale to Forget You Not, while also waiting for a repair guy. And I know that the dad is going to die by the end of the episode, and I'm going to be bawling, and the repair guy is going to show up, and I'm going to have to pretend that I wasn't just crying like a little kid who lost their security blanket.
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
Texas Republicans have now set up a TIP LINE to rat out the Texas Democrats So PLEASE, for the sake of the public, DO NOT FLOOD THIS NUMBER with tips on Bigfoot sightings, UFO sightings, or asking why Trump is on “the list” 1-866-786-5972
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
If Obergefell is overturned, blue states will still have gay marriage. Red states will not.
Blue states have pro-choice protections. Red states do not.
So when you say “both sides are the same”, or “Dems aren’t doing anything” and help Republicans win and gain SCOTUS seats, real people pay the price.
Is the Supreme Court overturning same-sex marriage? What to know:
https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/nation/california/2025/08/12/is-the-supreme-court-overturning-gay-marriage-obergefell-v-hodges/85627357007/
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
"YOUR ONE TIME CODE IS 744537 STOP
DO NOT SHARE THIS CODE WITH ANYONE STOP
IF ANY TELEGRAM OPERATOR OR GENTLEMAN CALLER ASKS YOU FOR THIS CODE IT IS A SCAM STOP"
–Two-factor authentication message, circa 1885
It's Middle Child Day today.
It's no big deal if you forgot. It's not that important.
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
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Alt text for flakey Internet
Alt text for digital decay and link rot
Alt text for text based browsers
Alt text for calling out the relevant details you mistakenly assume are obvious to everyone
Alt text for explaining the joke to people that don't have the same background as you
Alt text for the 10,000 people learning something "everyone knows" for the first time today
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Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
Listen, it’s very simple: In Britain we use the metric system, except for beer and milk, which come in pints. But not plant milk — that comes in litres.
Oh, and distances are in miles. But only if they’re too far to walk — if you can walk it it’s in metres. If you’re driving then your fuel efficiency is in miles-per-gallon, but petrol is sold in litres.
Oh, and your height is in feet and inches. If you don’t care much about your weight it’s in stone (but not pounds — no-one can remember how many pounds are in a stone and it’s hard to read the little tick marks on analogue scales). If you do care about your weight then your digital scales tell you it in kilograms.
Oh, and if there’s a heatwave then tabloids will forecast a “100°F scorcher”. But if it’s cold then it’s an “arctic blast” with “widespread temperatures below 0°C”.
I hope this clears things up.
Here's some interesting bit of American history I recently learned.
Vice President Elbridge Gerry was the governor of Massachusetts for a period before becoming VP. While in office, he was responsible for the redrawing of the state's senatorial district. The redistricting was done to be more advantageous to Gerry's Democratic-Republican party against the opposing Federalist party in the upcoming elections.
A political cartoon depicting the unreasonable new district as a salamander referred to the new "monster" as a Gerry-mander. The despicable practice of redrawing political boundaries to benefit your own party (robbing your constituents of their political voice) is so named after Mr. Gerry and his Gerry-mander: gerrymandering.
However, he pronounced his name with a hard G, like the name Gary. But the practice of gerrymandering is usually pronounced with a soft g, like gelato.
It turns out his descendents are so annoyed at people mispronouncing their name, that they asked the Supreme Court to pronounce gerrymander the proper way.
If it were me, I would be much more embarrassed that my name had become used as a slur for dirty politics that I'd probably encourage the mispronunciation to distance myself from my corrupt ancestor.
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
“New FBI data shows that both violent crime and property crime are at their lowest level since the 1960s” but the media disproportionately covers crime, so most Americans aren’t aware of the decrease. https://popular.info/p/why-you-might-not-know-that-2024
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago“James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97.” https://apnews.com/article/james-lovell-dies-obituary-apollo-13-astronaut-ed08c1efc0a74fbd9d47868ff9983a23
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
3126. Disclaimer
3126. Disclaimer
title text: You say no human would reply to a forum thread about Tom Bombadil by writing and editing hundreds of words of text, complete with formatting, fancy punctuation, and two separate uses of the word 'delve'. Unfortunately for both of us, you are wrong.
(https://xkcd.com/3126)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3126)
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Single panel comic. A profile picture of no hair next to a wall of text three paragraphs long. The text is illegible. At the bottom there is a single line highlighted and a zoomed in box shows that the text says "Not ChatGPT output -- I'm just like this." Lower caption: I've had to start adding this disclaimer to my messages.
Dan Jones shared 4 months agoSubstack’s extremist ecosystem is flourishing. “The Nazi push alert was only possible because of Substack’s continued commitment to not only hosting but actively promoting authoritarian, Nazi-sympathizing, and other bigoted forms of extremism.” https://theracket.news/p/substack-s-extremist-ecosystem-is-flourishing
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
So it's been 6 years since I started posting my art on fedi... I just realised it's my anniversary and I can't believe how much this place impacted me. This is the first online space where I felt like my art is seen and genuinely enjoyed and appreciated :') And I met so many cool and inspiring people!! You gave me courage to keep going and even try new things. Thank you so much for all your support, whether it was in the form of boosts, likes, comments or if you bought something from me 💖💖💖
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago“At a Wisconsin pond, a pair of cranes is raising an abandoned goose as their own.” https://people.com/crane-family-adopts-abandoned-baby-goose-in-wisconsin-11785393
Dan Jones shared 4 months agoWatchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have. “There’s just too much scuttling in American politics to call it anything other than a flawed lobster republic.” https://theonion.com/watchdog-group-downgrades-u-s-from-democracy-to-whatever-political-system-lobsters-have/
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
3125. Snake-in-the-Box Problem
3125. Snake-in-the-Box Problem
title text: Chemistry grad students have been spotted trying to lure campus squirrels into laundry hampers in the hope that it sparks inspiration.
(https://xkcd.com/3125)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3125)
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Single panel comic. Above text: A snake slithers around a hypercube. No two non-consecutive parts of its coils can be on adjacent corners. Below this there are three small drawings of a snake wrapped around a hypercube in ways that violate this rule. The violations are highlighted in red and the cubs have red X's underneath them. Below that in the center of the panel is a larger hypercube with a snake curled around it. The tail starts at the top back left corner, going to the right, then down the back right side, then forward, then left, then inside to the inner cube, up, and ending with the hear at the top right front corner of the inner cube. Below this cube in green it says dimensions = 4, max length = 7 Equations in black read Snake (N) = longest snake that can fit in an N-dimensional hypercube Snake (N = 1, 2, 3, ... 8) = 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 26, 50, 98 Snake (N > 8) = unsolved (red letters) Lower caption: It turns out every scientific field has a key thought experiment that involves putting a cute animal in a weird box for no reason. So far, quantum mechanics and graph theory have found theirs, but most other fields are still working on it.
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
Oh, when sea otters lie on their backs eating food off their chests it's "adorable" but when I do it it's "depression"
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
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A cartoon character with short hair and a striped shirt is shouting a quote in a speech bubble. The text reads, 'If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.' The image has a decorative border with floral patterns.
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
I was on the Oreo website and I clicked Accept All Cookies.
Now we wait...