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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Want a peep behind the curtain? Here's how I had to learn to think about #origami - as a stack of layers! - in order to use #HTML/#SVG's 2D surfaces to represent the "layers" formed by consecutive folds of very-thin-but-3D paper. I don't think I'll ever look at folded paper the same again.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Last time I made a dental insurance claim, Aviva insisted on sending me a cheque. So I asked them via live chat if I could claim via bank transfer. Yes, they say, although apparently I have to ask every time because "they can't store bank details". Sigh. Fine. At […] [Original post on danq.me]

Live Chat gatekeeping chatbot saying that live chat is open until 6:30pm, which is in the future, but it's claiming that it's closed.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Ruth and I stopped at Hanley Swan for a picnic lunch on our way home from our weekend of Argentine Tango classes. Within seconds our lunch had attracted a large flock of ducks from the little duck houses on the village's adorable duck pond. But better yet: I managed […] [Original post on danq.me]

A slightly dried-up duck pond with ducks and cute like pontoon duck houses.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

On the window sill of the bar at the hotel where Ruth and I are learning to tango... this morning I made a squirrel friend! At least now I'll have succeeded at something today even if I can't get the hang on not-treading-on-toes! #note #animals #tango #windows Via […] [Original post on danq.me]

A grey squirrel lies against the glass pane of a stone-framed window.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

The bed in my hotel room tonight is made up for not one, not two, but three occupants. Did they... see me and instantly clock me as polyamorous? #note #polyamory #relationships #photo #funny #tango Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/10/09/30499

Wide bed with three sets of pillows laid out.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

After months of minor tweaks, on-and-off, I finally bit the bullet and hit "publish" on my new theme for DanQ.me. It's not perfect; it's got all kinds of bugs... but what's the point of having a personal webite if you can't trash it once in a while with an […] [Original post on danq.me]

Screenshot of DanQ.me with comic avatars of Dan, pride colours, and a 'fun'-feeling theme (plus semi-retro 'under construction' banner!).

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Every time I see Sainsburys comparing the value-for-money of different brands of toilet roll, the abbreviation they use catches me out and I think they're telling me how much paper I should be "using". #note #supermarkets #shopping #funny Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/09/17/pence-per-sht

Online supermarket showing several brands of toilet paper with the price displayed alongside a breakdown showing the price (in pence) per hundred sheets (of toilet paper), but "sheet" is abbreviated to "sht" which looks like... a different word I associate with the product.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Pixel Area (@pxlarea) launched a couple of weeks ago, and DanQ.me was selected to be one of the initial "seed" blogs that were there at the outset (I'm at pxlarea.com/x38y34). I'm... honestly not sure what to make of it. Organising personal websites […] [Original post on danq.me]

Screenshot from Pixel Area, showing a blue 'pixel' representing Dan Q.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

That moment when you realise that you forgot your sunglasses but figure you'll just squint. #note #dog #dogs #photo #weather #eyes #vision Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/09/10/sundog

A fawn-coloured French Bulldog sits on the wooden decking outside a back door, squinting as she looks towards the sun (evident from the direction of the shadows).

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

🌶️ Hot take: #AI peaked in 2014 with the invention of the #Taco Bot 3000. With artificial (taco) intelligence and the latest cheese dispensing technology, it truly represented the summit of human technological achievement the likes of which we might not see again […] [Original post on danq.me]

Adapted framegrab. Simplistic colourful art showing a person in an unfastened bike helmet hanging onto the shoulder of a robot and pointing at the words 'taco bot' on its chest, while tacos rain down behind. It's overlaid with the text 'Taco Bot 3000: when you need a whole lot of tacos expertly created by a robot at the highest level of quality'.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I descaled the coffee machine yesterday. We live in an exceptionally hard-water area and this maintenance was long overdue. This morning I turned the machine on and something felt unfamiliar and wrong. I couldn't put my finger on what, until I realised... ...I'd […] [Original post on danq.me]

Close-up of the buttons on an automatic/beans-to-cup coffee machine.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

The clasp on my 'bi pride' watch strap is failing because, in an ironic twist, part of it needs to be made a little bit more straight. #note #sexuality #bisexuality #funny #photos #pride Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/08/22/a-little-bit-str…

Close up of the buckle end of a worn, grimy watch strap in 'bi pride' colours.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

I guess it's the laptop and the pile of towels that cause the confusion, but people keep asking me questions (usually in Spanish) about where to get towels from and whether they can use the pool at this hotel. And I have to keep explaining that nope, I don't work […] [Original post on danq.me]

Dan, a white man with a goatee beard and a blue ponytail, sits at a poolside table in a hotel roof terrace, using his laptop alongside a pile of towels.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Of all the architecture with which the devil is (per legend) credited with the construction, L'Aqüeducte Romà de les Ferreres might be the most impressive. Nice work, Satan. #note #archeology #spain #travel #romans #mythology Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/08/12/laqueducte-roma-…

A Roman aquaduct spans a forested valley.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

[Food (sweets)] No green and only two black wine gums in this bag? Feeling robbed. #note #food #sweets Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/08/05/no-green-wine-gu…

On a desk, a packet of Maynards' Wine Gums has been emptied out and its contents sorted by colour: there are five orange, two black, and ten red sweets.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

[Food (supermarket; packaged)] Sainsburys grapes confuse me. 500g of white grapes are £2. 500g or red grapes are £2.20. So you'd expect 500g of half-red, half-white grapes to be... £2.10, right? But no, that's £2 too. So buying 500g of white grapes and 500g of red […] [Original post on danq.me]

Online shopping screenshot showing four packets of seedless grapes. 500g red grapes are £2.20; 500g white grapes are £2.00; 500g red & white grapes are £2.00; 900g mixed (red, white and black) grapes are £3.95.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Apparently, zero of the imagineers building this Disneyland Paris cafe conceived that "Chuck Wagon" sounds like what a cowboy would call a wheeled vomit trough. 😂 #note #travel #france #themePark #funny Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/07/24/chuck-wagon

Faux Old-West building painted with lettering identifying it as the Chuck Wagon Cafe.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

[House fire (no injuries)] An unexpected start to the kids' and I's glamping weekend last night when the static caravan behind our dome burned to the ground. We spent most of our night half way down a field watching the fire crews tackle the blaze. (Nobody was […] [Original post on danq.me]

A static caravan is engulfed in flames behind a dome tent, at night.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

A hundred and fifty one days since we were flooded out of our house, and I needed to visit to meet a contractor. The garden's starting to get a little wild, this summer: we've been periodically visiting to mow the lawn, but our hedge seems to have decided that this […] [Original post on danq.me]

In a verdant garden, an unkempt hedge of various species grows into the space of a green-painted wooden gate, beginning to hide it.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

@nikitonsky About one time in three that I have to show my driving license to anybody they call me "Mr. Dan" or something, as their eyes presumably skip over the tiny entry at the top. 🤦‍♂️

Partial close up of a driving license of a man with surname "Q", first name "DAN'.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

Trouble brewing at the village carnival's decorated-bike competition as, for perhaps the first time in history, a viking longship rams and boards an X-wing of the Rebel Alliance. #note #funny #starWars #eynsham #bicycles

A cardboard longship collides with an X wing in a grassy field.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Dad Joke of the Day came to me early when some fellow dog walkers coming the other way said "Hello, gorgeous!" "Ooh, thank you!" I replied, nonchalantly tussling my hair and striking a coquetteish pose. #note #dadJoke #joke #dog #photo #walking Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/07/01/doggone-gorgeous

Dan poses with a coquetteish grin while walking a French Bulldog along a gravelled rural path.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Always reassuring when you fill in a company's contact form and the next page is placeholder text... #note #funny #loremIpsum Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/30/lorem-ipsum-than…

Thanks For Your Enquiry title, followed by 'Aliquam vehicula laoreet lacus, ac vulputate purus vulputate...' etc.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

Some mornings... you just gotta make a whole damn litre of coffee. (for iced coffee purposes, of course; and definitely not just for me!) #note #heatwave #coffee #caffeine Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/26/a-litre-of-coffee

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

Demmy would like to know why I haven't turned off the UK's heatwave yet. 🥵 #note #dogs #photo #heatwave #weather #uk Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/25/hot-dog-mess

Close up of the face of a fawny French Bulldog with her tongue blepping out to the side.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Iced coffee and air con. Possibly the only things that'll keep me sane, working in the UK's current heatwave (especially with the schools closed and kids sent home!). #note #uk #heatwave #weather #coffee Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/24/iced-coffee-and-…

Dan, a white man with a small beard and a blue ponytail, holds a pint if iced coffee on front of a residential portable air conditioner unit.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

A hundred and thirty days since we got flooded out of our home, and remedial works are starting to ramp up. Today an electrician, tracing a fault that's developed in the wiring, cut a hole through a wall to repair it and threw up so much dust that it's hard to see […] [Original post on danq.me]

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

Star network topologies are more common, but you can still occasionally find these... #note #signs #funny #joke #networking Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/20/bus-lan

A bus lane sign with the 'e' missing, so it says "bus lan".

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

Hanging out in London's theatreland, attracting double-takes (and a handful of thumbs-ups!) for my t-shirt... #note #london #theatre #funny #music #slamilton Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/20/theatreland-doub…

Close up of a t-shirt in the style of a Hamilton one but for Slamilton: A Basketball Musical.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

Back of the queue for West End Live. It's gonna be a long wait, but hopefully worth it! #note #london #theatre Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/20/west-end-live-qu…

Dan, wearing a Slamilton t-shirt, stands with a tweenager outside a Central London building.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

Off to London for a couple of days of musical theatre fun! Don't wait up! #note #london #theatre Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/19/29497

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

125 days since our house flooded, and the damaged furniture fittings, floors, underfloors, and now inner walls have been torn out. Over a third of a year since we had to move out, I'm optimistic that perhaps, at last, reconstruction work is almost ready to begin […] [Original post on danq.me]

A view through a pair of dilapidated residential rooms, through the gaps in a hollowed-out partition wall.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

🎶 It starts with sausage, A hot dog in a bun. One simple sausage, Put some mustard on one... Is it just me, or are (sinner) Sir Pentious's colours reminiscent of a hot dog? #note #hazbinHotel #hellaverse #television #tvSeries #food #showerThoughts Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/17/29482

Sir Pentious, an anthropomorphic snake from Hazbin Hotel, in black and yellow longitudinal stripes with red 'eyes'.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

I guess it's sweet that the dog has decided that I'm not to leave my home office without her noticing. But when the naps right behind my wheelie chair I worry she's going to get her paws run over! #note #dogs #office #telecommuting #teleworking #furniture #dog Via […] [Original post on danq.me]

A fawn-coloured French Bulldog lies on a laminate floor against the feet of an office chair.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

109 days since our house flood, the beginnings of the very first of the remedial works are taking place. Today, builders will drill through and lift part of a cracked poured-concrete foundation to work out what's beneath and whether it's stable enough to lay a new […] [Original post on danq.me]

Several vehicles parked in the rain on the rural residential driveway of 'The Green'.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

Inspired by a blog post by @scribblanitea and by a cinema ad I keep seeing for #Google's #AI powered search, I made my own version. 🔗 More: danq.me/sounds-like-you-googled-it

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm." #note #dog #dogs #starWars #funny #photo Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/07/yodawg

A fawn-coloured French Bulldog wrapped in a blanket in a way reminiscent of robes. This, combined with her wrinkled features, makes her look a little like Yoda.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Got to say, it's very sporting of AWS to make compliance with their terms of service and acceptable use policy optional. #note #amazon #funny Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/06/03/optional-aup

Screenshot of dropdown field labelled 'Will you will comply with AWS Service Terms and AUP - optional', currently set to 'Yes'. The label is saying that the field is optional, but the joke is that it sounds like complying with the terms of service is optional.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

There are many things I don't like about the kitchen in the Chicory House where we're living medium-term following our house flood. But I like the fact that the integrated spice rack makes it much easier to see where we perhaps have a very-specific blind spot for […] [Original post on danq.me]

Close-up of a spice rack containing not one, not two, not three but four tubs of 'ground white pepper by Sainsburys'.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

[Food (excess)] I let the elder kid choose her lunch. She chose a pizza so huge that each slice is larger than her entire face. Needless to say, she needed a little help with it! #note #parenting #children #pizza #food Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/05/26/twenty-inches

Two preteen children sit in front of an enormous pepperoni pizza.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

As both the UK's heatwave and my up-and-down England road trip continue, I think I've finally found a fan big enough to cool me off. #note Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/05/25/my-biggest-fan

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Drinking a coffee while editing a podcast episode in the beautiful Ullswater valley, and this lovely little pied wagtail came by to say good morning! #note #birds #nature #animals Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/05/25/pied-wagtail-and…

Pied Wagtail (motacilla alba yarrelli) atop a dry stone wall.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

I spent a while failing to interpret this sign. It seemed to be saying that if you didn't clear your tray... then you'd get ketchup poured on your wrist? It turns out there's a baby bottle warming station on the other side of the bins. (It is possible they my brain […] [Original post on danq.me]

Printed sign reading 'this is a self-clear area; thank you' beneath a red illuminated icon of a hand onto whose wrist a bottle drips.

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

It's been too damn hot out, so Ruth, the kids, and I took refuge at the snow park of an indoor ski centre! #note #skiing #weather Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/05/24/29298

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

Hold your head up high and show some PRIDE. #note #pride Via: 🔗 danq.me/2026/05/23/29294

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

If the Romans played bingo, do you think the callers would have used 'bingo lingo'? - Legs two - Growing up the wall, four - Seagull in flight, five - Long-nosed dead man, nineteen - Pornography, thirty - Use your tongue, fifty-nine - Smiling in a blindfold, a […] [Original post on danq.me]

An American-style bingo card with Roman numerals in place of the numbers and 'quadrum gratuitum' in place of the free space. Based on an original photo by Oeil De Vautour / Edwin Torres, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

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