Dan Jones shared a month ago
WHOO-HOO! Tickets for New Year's Eve acquired!
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A pair of fake concert tickets with text that would normally list 3 bands, but the text says "STAY HOME and DO NOTHING and GO TO BED EARLY."
Dan Jones shared a month ago
3188. Anyone Else Here
3188. Anyone Else Here
title text: Anyone else watching this Youtube video in 1954? If so, my last trip definitely messed with the timeline.
desktop link: https://xkcd.com/3188
mobile link: https://m.xkcd.com/3188
explainxkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3188
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Single panel comic. Screen shot of the comments section below a video. The only part of the "video" visible are the start, volume, settings buttons. 546 comments account 1: Who else is here in 2023? account 2: Is anyone else watching this in 2017? account 3: Anyone else here in 2025?? Lower caption: For some reason, confused time travelers always try to find each other using Youtube comments.
Dan Jones shared a month ago
If you begin #StarTrek Voyager episode Spirit Folk at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's Eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. Join in our very dumb annual tradition and start 2026 off on the right hoof.
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Star Trek Voyager scene. It's a romantic evening on the streets of a charming little town with I'm sure a folksy name like 'Fair Haven' or something. Ensign Harry Kim, dressed in an overcoat, leans in with a full heart and closed eyes and kisses a large black and white Holstein cow right on the mouth. Two closed captions are simultaneously present: On Harry's side of the screen the caption reads, "(gasps)" and on the cow side of the screen the caption reads, "(moos)".
Dan Jones shared a month ago
Welp ... I was just informed through a Slack DM that I will no longer be working at the place I'm working at in two weeks' time. That is, evidently, how we handle that now. Not entirely unexpected as the writing on the wall was evident, but still not loving that approach for reasons I haven't quite worked out yet.
If anyone needs help with their #accessibility from someone with both native #screenReader experience and a coding background, keep me in mind I guess :)
Located in the eastern Netherlands, primarily interested in remote opportunities.
#fediHired #layoffs
Dan Jones shared a month ago
How do you feel about the coming year?
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Optimistic 12% (107 votes)
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Neutral 13% (118 votes)
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Very unsure 32% (279 votes)
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Pessimistic you voted for this answer 41% (352 votes)
Dan Jones shared a month ago
3187. High Altitude Cooking Instructions
3187. High Altitude Cooking Instructions
title text: 1,300,000-1,400,000 ft: Ask a crew member to show you how to use the ISS food warmer.
desktop link: https://xkcd.com/3187
mobile link: https://m.xkcd.com/3187
explainxkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3187
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Single panel comic. Drawing of part of the back of a box. The top section is partially cut off and says something "remove...for 3 minutes before serving" The lower section says "High altitude cooking instructions" 3,500 - 6,500 feet: add 1/2 cup water, increase cook time to 12 minutes 6,500 - 9,500 feet: add 1 1/4 cups water, increase cooking time to 18 minutes 250,000 - 450,000 feet: orient reentry vehicle for aerodynamic stability. Deploy parachutes at 10,000 feet, descend, keeping crew capsule tightly covered, for 3 - 4 minutes. After splashdown, follow sea level cooking instructions.
Dan Jones shared a month ago
The Internet Archive has a playable version of the NY Times Crossword Puzzle app from 1992. It ran on Windows 3.1 and included a few hundred puzzles. (Click on Game/Open to select a puzzle.) https://archive.org/details/the-new-york-times-crossword-puzzles-1992
Dan Jones shared a month agoShel Silverstein’s short poem Homework Machine (1981) was prescient about the limitations of LLMs. “I guess it’s not as perfect / As I thought it would be.” https://kottke.org/25/12/the-imperfect-homework-machine
- Cereal is a breakfast food
- Wheat is a cereal
- Macaroni noodles are made from wheat
∴ Macaroni and cheese is a breakfast food
Dan Jones shared a month agoThese Muppet versions of Xmas movie posters are great: Beaker as John McClane in Die Hard, Oscar the Elf, Animal as Clark Griswold, etc. https://kottke.org/25/12/muppet-versions-of-xmas-movie-posters
Son: What's Frogger?
Me: 
It's Crossy Roads with a frog.
I've failed him as a parent.
Dan Jones shared a month ago
Tonight you will be visited by three ghosts.
Happy Christmas All!
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Screenshot of Pacman trying to get away from Blnky, Pinky and Inky
Dan Jones shared a month ago
Yesterday, the #FediBuzz relay at https://relay.fedi.buzz turned three years old. By now we are feeding 1704 servers and 6149 other users.
Dan Jones shared a month ago
Are you the Spirit whose coming was foretold to me?
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Secret level from Wolfenstein 3D featuring very Pacman-style ghosts.
Dan Jones shared a month ago
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!"
My five-year-old decided to put out milk and pretzel sticks for Santa, and some carrots for the reindeer.
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A couple Christmas presents in bags on the floor. In front of them are two bowls and a cup. The bowl on the left is sea blue and contains several carrot slices. The bowl in the middle, colored purple, curtains pretzel sticks. The cup on the right is blue and half full. The contained liquid isn't visible.
Dan Jones shared a month ago
🎬 Filmmakers! The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Day Remix Contest is open!
🎥 Create a 2–3 minute short film using at least 1 piece of public domain material from 1930. 🎼🎶🎭📚
📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2026-public-domain-day-remix-contest
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Poster for the Internet Archive's 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest, featuring the "Lockette," a cartoon character with an open lock, seated in a director's chair, legs crossed, and holding a megaphone. Projected on a screen to her right is a frame from the 1930 film "King of Jazz". Illustrated by Freya Morgan.
Dan Jones shared a month ago
Sorry, but I’m not visiting the United States this Christmas. We may have ice at the North Pole, but we don’t have ICE.
-Santa
Dan Jones shared a month ago
I shouldn’t have to say this, but please don’t post direct links to the elementary OS ISO, especially on release day. This is my only form of income and I really don’t make a lot of it. I want to keep making elementary OS as my job, but when you bypass our pay-what-you-can ask it cuts directly into the revenue I rely on to pay rent and buy food. The vast majority of people already pay nothing when they download. Please don’t take away the biggest opportunity I have for folks to support my work
Dan Jones shared a month ago
Be weird. Be colorful. Help random people. 💕
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gean-grey-blog, a social media post "One time I was leaving a friend's place and an older lady with basically no English came up to me and communicated that she was very cold and needed a ride. She pointed to tell me where to go. I got there and her daughter or granddaughter came out and was like omg her phone died we were worried And then the older lady said something and the younger lady translated. "She knew she could trust you because you have pink hair" I thought it was funny at the time. But when I think back on it I think she was basically saying "you had a visible sign of not vibing with the system I was afraid of" Be weird. Be colorful. Help random people."