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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.com · 26/09/2026

Voted! 🗳️ #uspol If you're a US person, even if you're living outside the US, remember to vote! www.votefromabroad.org vote.org

A US absentee ballot envelope (marked Official Election Mail) addressed to the "New York County Board of Elections" is held up outside with street in the background, as I walk to the post office.

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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.com · 07/07/2026

Some text that resonated with me, from the exhibition book for the (highly recommended) “Beyond the Manosphere” exhibit at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam www.stedelijk.nl/en/exhibitio.... From a Socratic “interview” of the artist Tetsumi Kudo from 1974. Anyway, happy Tuesday everyone!

A photo of part of a page of the exhibit book, full text visible is :
"...It's your portrait decomposing amid polluted nature and the tide of technology. This decomposition of humanity does not signal its death; in reality, we are being decom-posed, we are being metamorphosed, and we are being kept alive. My work consists in making you cognizant of this situation in the form of a visual maquette.
Does that mean we are being kept like worms in the septic pit of polluted nature and technology? In that case, what has happened to the dignity of humanity?
You're forgetting that we dug the pit ourselves.
History shows us that humanity has conquered, parceled out, and exploited nature as it pleased, and in so doing tortured it. Now humanity is reaping pollution as nature's vengeance. Technology, in its primitive state, was meant to he an instrument for conquering nature, so we had to..."

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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.com · 05/07/2026

Today was all about the modern art.

A Kieth Haring piece: A vibrant, framed artwork featuring a grid of colorful, abstract figures and shapes. The design includes stylized human forms, animals, and dynamic poses, all outlined in bold black lines. Each square is filled with a mix of yellow, pink, blue.

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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.com · 03/07/2026

Was great to present on Human Rights and Standards (and hear from the other speakers!) at the W3C AB developer meet-up in Rotterdam yesterday. ti.to/w3cab/rotter...

Me holding a mic and speaking about human rights and standards. Photo credit: Cyd Stumpel

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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.com · 30/05/2026

Voted in the Democratic primary (in NYC). 🗳️ I even got a sticker!

The image features a person wearing a light blue shirt with a sticker that reads "I VOTED BY MAIL" on their chest. There is a large glass of yellow liquid in the foreground, and the background shows an outdoor setting with blurred figures.

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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.com · 22/05/2026

So long, Minneapolis! It’s been real.

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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.com · 17/05/2026

Ok! Here we go. Heading to Minneapolis for @linuxfoundation.org Open Source Summit (where I will be speaking about Human Rights and Standards) and @openssf.org community day (where I will be speaking about making the web more secure)!

A blurred image of a tube train passing through a subway station platform, with a black backpack in the foreground. The train features red and blue colors, and a digital display shows the train's status.

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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.com · 04/03/2026

“Meet the TAG” event kicking off at Samsung KX London with an overview of “what are web standards” anyway?

The TAG group (10 people) on stage with a big slide behind them “wha are web standards” with some explanation.

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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.com · 30/06/2025

Found absolutely the right pin to wear to this conference on fostering “wallets, credentials and trusted infrastructure for the benefit of all humans”. globaldigitalcollaboration.org #gc25

A green lapel pin with the words “oh no” on a speech bubble - the pin is from Alex Norris’s web comic store and can be found at theohnoshop.com.

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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.com · 14/05/2025

Going to give a talk this morning at a sixth-form college (roughly equiv to last 2 years of high school in the UK system) on “Avoiding Dystopia.”

An iconic shot from Blade Runner 2049 of K (Ryan Gosling) walking away from his hover-car towards a ruined cityscape, in desert-like conditions.

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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.com · 11/05/2025

Great day in London for a farmers market visit! (@ Ally Pally)

A bustling outdoor market scene featuring numerous stalls beneath lush green trees, with a clear blue sky above and a large crowd of people walking, shopping, and socializing.

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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.com · 24/01/2025

I suggest you discuss the work / life balance situation with my friend first.

A still of Sam Rockwell in the film Moon, in a jumpsuit, leaning against some kind of ladder with a big yellow display behind him with text such as "loading - 35.6%" and "No signal."

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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.com · 20/01/2025

Making myself a “Toronto.” 🍸

A cocktail normally known as a manhattan, sitting on a counter next to a bottle of Canadian (Lot 49) Rye.

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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.com · 02/12/2024

Good morning! On my way to Edinburgh for our w3c tag face-to-face meeting. 🚄

A Tube train sitting at the platform at an outdoor station, its doors open. The sky is pitch black.

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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.com · 13/08/2024

The receipts : mastodon.social/@torgo/11295...

Screenshot of a Mastodon post I made last night before the Twitter live stream, text reads: "Prediction: Twitter's streaming platform will fall over when Musk tries to "interview" Trump and then Elon will blame the outage on the "woke mob" (or similar)."

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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.com · 01/03/2024

Talking to year 9s and year 10s today at a local secondary school about careers in coding!

A tablet on a desk in a school hall - a sign on the tablet reads "Coding! Computer Science! The Web! Open Source! Cybersecurity! Riches and Fame! AI? 🤖"

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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.com · 19/09/2023

On my way back to London (City Airport) via Dublin after a week and a half in Seville (W3C TPAC), Madrid (catching up with an old friend) and Bilbao (OpenSSF Day and Open Source Summit Europe). Great trip but glad to be on my way home.