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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

The neighbourhood kids have taken to scrawling all over the street with chalk such that the road is never without the art of a 6 year old or two. Today, the bin men came in their big truck, and one of them took the time to leave a message.

A message written in white chalk on paving stones: "Bin men love the art".

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

This is exactly what it's like to cycle in the UK.

A narrow street with monstrous cars parked on the pavement on both sides and another car driving down the centre. Drivers of all cars are shouting at cyclists about how they're inconveniencing them or posing a danger to others.

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

The train prices in this country are fucking insane. £50 for a 1 hour trip, Cambridge to London.

A screenshot of the price of a return ticket: £50.10

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

This is from a children's site promoting reading over the summer break. There is no option to continue here, just "enable tracking or fuck your kid's reading". Very nice. #ReadToTheBeat

A splash page reading:

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It looks like you're in incognito mode. For the best experience, please switch to regular browsing mode.

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

If you're in Cambridge, and fancy meeting up with some #GreenParty people for drinks, snacks, or just conversation, there's a good chance something is happening in your neighbourhood.

Green Drinks events:

Abbey:
The Corner House
1st Monday of the month
@8pm

Cottenham:
The Chequers
1st Tuesday of the month
@8pm

Histon & Impington:
The Rose & Crown
2nd Monday of the month
@8pm

Castle & Arbury:
Carpenter's Arms
2nd Thursday of the month
@730pm

Shelford:
Square & Compasses
3rd Tuesday of the month
@8pm

Romsey & Coleridge:
The Empress
3rd Wednesday of the month
@7pm

Petersfield:
The Blue Moon
4th Tuesday of the month
@8pm

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

One of the great moments in Canadian politics, Elizabeth May at the national debate flashing a peace sign.

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

The absolute state of this world is infuriating.

A screenshot of two stories in my timeline with the following headlines:

1. Hospitals in England declare critical incidents as machines and IT fail in heat

2. State functions, offices and tourists: plans for revamped Buckingham Palace

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

This is why insulation matters. I've got no AC, and yet, in this heat, my home is quite comfortable. Most people in the UK aren't so fortunate. #InsulateBritain

A photo of my indoor/outdoor thermometer:

Outside: 33.8°C
Inside: 23.6°C

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

The more you look at each of our many struggles, the more obvious it is that they're all deeply related. afrolegends.com/2024/10/17/women-ho…

A quote from Thomas Sankara reading:

"The revolution and women’s liberation go together. We do not talk of women’s emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph. Women hold up the other half of the sky."

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

My "Pepper & Carrot" e-artbook arrived today! I'm still excited to get the physical books in a month or so, but for now, I'm rather enjoying the art. <3

The beginning: one year before creating Pepper&Carrot (2013), the first drawing of a witch and her cat appears in Revoy's artwork.

Pepper's way of using her broom (much to Carrot's chagrin).

Rivalry between Pepper and Saffron, illustrated.

Carrot and the donkey from "The picnic" battle in the style of Don Quixote against a giant vacuum cleaner monster

Shichimi in front of a small temple of Ah, made from the bones of dragons.

A lighting colour study.

Portrait of Shichimi.

In October 2015 and 2017 Revoy joined an online challenge to post a drawing made with ink on social media every day for a month. It quickly became one of the largest sources of Pepper&Carrot drawings created, aside from the artworks produced for the panels of the episodes. They comprise one of the largest sources of art used to compile the artbook.

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

Well this is done pretty great news to wake up to. The Greens have established ourselves as the path to beating Reform. #greens #ukpol

A chart of the final vote count in a recent by-election where the Greens win handily with 41%. Reform takes 29%, and Labour, once strong in this area with only 26%.

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

I chopped up a carrot tonight and... it was weird.

Carrot slices with tiny, geometric columns straight through them.

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

DuckDuckGo is doing a poll: "Do you want AI?" They had to know that this would be the outcome. Cat your own vote if you like: voteyesornoai.com

A screenshot of the results at the moment:

Yes: 7%
No: 93%

85,843 votes so far

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

I don't have a news link for this because it's very new (we're ground zero) but I wanna get this out there as soon as I can. Throw out any "play sand" you might have in your house right away. It might be contaminated with asbestos. We recently threw a party […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

We're hosting a Great Big Birthday Party for my kid and we'll have to cut the cake, but don't want to have my big chef's knife lying around. So I fashioned a DIY garrote with some wire and pencil crayons and now it looks like a sort of rainbow accompanying the toadstool fairy theme.

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

The #RailSale here in the UK is running this week and hoooly shit the rates are amazing. Even by comparison to civilised countries with affordable rail service, this is good. If you're planning any trips in the UK, you'd do well to check the rates this week […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A screenshot confirming that I paid £8 for a return ticket from CMB to LST.

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026

Oh hey! Turns out that #Microslop is a thing now. 2026 is already looking up.

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

I think I've found a legitimate use case for LLM image generators. I've been toying with an idea in my head for industrial-scale water desaliation for *years* but don't have the artistic skills to draw it such that anyone will understand what I'm talking […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A hollow, cylindrical steel spire sticks out of the shallow sea. It sticks out of the water no more than 300m. At the top of this spire is a hollow ceramic sphere. At the top of this sphere is a small hole attached to which is a steel pipe that runs out the top of the sphere, down the side of the spire and back into the ocean where it runs along the sea floor up to the shore.

Around this spire are 800 smaller solid steel spires, sticking out of the water to the tune of just 10m or so. Atop each of these smaller spires is a flat, 1m² mirror that is computer controlled to reflect the sun's light at the ceramic sphere regardless of the time of day.

Water is pumped from the ocean floor up into the ceramic sphere, where it's heated to 500°C. The steam is channeled out the top of the sphere back under water to cool down, and then onto the shore as distilled water.

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

This is probably the most frustrating thing for me about Britain. The insistence of clinging to anachronistic designs and customs in the face of obvious superior alternatives, wrapped in an overly precautionary sign that offers little more than legal liability cover. Just get a mixer tap already.

A yellow "Caution: Very Hot Water" sign pasted above two antiquated hot/cold separate taps.

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2025

I'm visiting Amsterdam today, returning after leaving 10 years ago (almost to the day!) and these adorable little cars are everywhere. @notjustbikes you should do an episode on these!

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025

Not only did they make it the next generation's problem, but they've spent their whole lives making it worse. Via www.sirbeeves.com/comics #ClimateChange

A 4 panel comic:

1. A young girl looking up at an older man with the caption: "Once in middle school, a teacher told me:"
2.The older man says: "Climate change will be your generation's big problem to solve."
3. The girl looks up blankly.
4. She says: "Are y'all just gonna let it happen then?"

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

I tried to diff two 30gb text files and managed to get Linux to impersonate Windows!

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

Some people seem to be interpreting this as an attempt/first step toward redemption, but that's not it. This is just complicit powers trying to appease their domestic audience while ensuring that nothing interferes with the genocide they're supporting […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A political cartoon wherein the UK, France, Australia, and Canada are all washing blood off their hands from a tap labeled "Recognition of Palestine"

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2025

"The Devil's Panties" has some really excellent takes.

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

Applying for jobs is going great. My best guess is that this was flagged because I used an em-dash in one of the long-form fields? Of course there's no way to go back and correct it now.

An error report from a job application form claiming that my application was flagged for spam.

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2025

In my #ElbowsUp effort to stop buying American, I've switched from Philadelphia cream cheese to this delicious stuff. The ingredients are just "milk" and "salt"and it comes packed entirely in paper. More to the point, it's light, fluffy, and *way better* than […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A package of Paysan Breton cream cheese.

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2025

Behold! I have spent far too much time playing #Timberborn and have built what may well be the game's first flow battery! Celebrate my greatness! #Solarpunk

A view of the pump side of the battery. Excess power is piped in from wind turbines and other water wheels (see the other images) to drive mechanical pumps that push water up hill during the wet season.

A very long array of water wheels taking in water from the massive dam and basically running the entire length of the map. Total power generation appear to be something like 20k (!!)

A view of the settlement, wind turbines in the background and some of my attempts at landscaping the badwater in the foreground. The giganimous structure at the back is an array of gravity batteries.

One of the settlement's industrial quarters. A longish water wheel channel running from a badwater source and servicing industry on either side. When I needed more power, I built more wind turbines.

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2025

The Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation aren't fucking around. ( Via: lemmy.ca/post/43230468 ) #cdnpoli

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2025

And now it's devolved into whataboutiam featuring claims of — as best I can tell — misinformation: observers.france24.com/en/middle-ea…

The graffiti has been overwritten again, this time to say: "Stop the Christian genocide committed by Muslims in Syria, Nigeria, Mozambique, Karabakh"

I can only assume this to be a schoolyard equivalent of "they hit me first, so get to kill everyone in their family".

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2025

And less than 24hrs after I took that picture, some thin-skinned monster has blacked out the part that offended them. Apparently for some people, "what they did during the genocide" was "support it by insisting it wasn't happening".

Graffiti that used to say "What did you do during the genocide?!" But which has now had the word "genocide" painted over hastily with black.

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