Dan On the Beach
@danod.bsky.social
Satori surfer, diver, photographer, physicist; science, energy, water, nature; cybersecurity for space. Student of philosophy of the porch. Work in progress.
What I really wanna do when I grow up is be a writer.
Good waves, blue skies, offshore breezes
What I really wanna do when I grow up is be a writer.
Good waves, blue skies, offshore breezes
Fiber-laying ship, Cork, Sept 2025
January 1, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Fiber-laying ship, Cork, Sept 2025
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The solstice officially passed here half an hour ago.
The Oak King has slain the Holly King and we return to the light.
Merry Soltice to you all ☀️ 💛
The Oak King has slain the Holly King and we return to the light.
Merry Soltice to you all ☀️ 💛
December 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The solstice officially passed here half an hour ago.
The Oak King has slain the Holly King and we return to the light.
Merry Soltice to you all ☀️ 💛
The Oak King has slain the Holly King and we return to the light.
Merry Soltice to you all ☀️ 💛
My best little buddy is no longer in pain; but I am going to miss him so much.
December 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
My best little buddy is no longer in pain; but I am going to miss him so much.
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Still Life with Basket and Six Oranges - 1888
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14428
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14428
December 9, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Still Life with Basket and Six Oranges - 1888
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14428
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14428
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Our nation is being run by Putin's chew toy.
March 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Our nation is being run by Putin's chew toy.
After seeing HoD I listened to Annie Jacobsen narrate her book “Nuclear War” and now I am concerned.
"House of Dynamite", high tension from beginning to end, see it in a theater if you can. Do not take the kids.
December 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
After seeing HoD I listened to Annie Jacobsen narrate her book “Nuclear War” and now I am concerned.
Went to the United States Post Office to send a letter overseas to Europe. The international stamp was $1.70, and I paid in coin. But the USPS refused the Sacagawea $1 coin -US money - because it was inconvenient. It was rather disappointing.
December 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Went to the United States Post Office to send a letter overseas to Europe. The international stamp was $1.70, and I paid in coin. But the USPS refused the Sacagawea $1 coin -US money - because it was inconvenient. It was rather disappointing.
Got an automated email notification that my Microsoft Office 365 subscription is to renew in 1 month - at 30% increase. And they haven't provided updates for Catalina in about 2 years.
But *somebody* has to pay for those new hyperAI data centers, amirite?
Q: do I get to visit the data center?
But *somebody* has to pay for those new hyperAI data centers, amirite?
Q: do I get to visit the data center?
November 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Got an automated email notification that my Microsoft Office 365 subscription is to renew in 1 month - at 30% increase. And they haven't provided updates for Catalina in about 2 years.
But *somebody* has to pay for those new hyperAI data centers, amirite?
Q: do I get to visit the data center?
But *somebody* has to pay for those new hyperAI data centers, amirite?
Q: do I get to visit the data center?
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Prine wrote “Angel” — the story of a middle-aged woman stuck in a sad domestic purgatory — when he was in his early 20s. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/a...
5 Years After His Death, John Prine Gets a Cinematic Send-Off
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Prine wrote “Angel” — the story of a middle-aged woman stuck in a sad domestic purgatory — when he was in his early 20s. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/a...
Movie mini-review: "Auction", a French film (subtitled in English) about an Egon Schiele painting lost in 1939 that ends up with a young working class French man who wants nothing to do with it. Goes to the heirs, upper class New Yorkers, who want him to get a share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeqB...
Auction - Official Trailer
YouTube video by Menemsha Films
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Movie mini-review: "Auction", a French film (subtitled in English) about an Egon Schiele painting lost in 1939 that ends up with a young working class French man who wants nothing to do with it. Goes to the heirs, upper class New Yorkers, who want him to get a share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeqB...
"House of Dynamite", high tension from beginning to end, see it in a theater if you can. Do not take the kids.
November 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM
"House of Dynamite", high tension from beginning to end, see it in a theater if you can. Do not take the kids.
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Starting Monday LinkedIn will begin using data from your profiles/posts to train AI. If you live in EU/EEA/Switzerland/Canada/Hong Kong your data is subject to being used this way, but you can opt out. Go to Settings/Privacy/Data for Generative AI Improvement and toggle the switch to off
Update to our Terms and data use | LinkedIn Help
Update to our Terms and data use
www.linkedin.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Starting Monday LinkedIn will begin using data from your profiles/posts to train AI. If you live in EU/EEA/Switzerland/Canada/Hong Kong your data is subject to being used this way, but you can opt out. Go to Settings/Privacy/Data for Generative AI Improvement and toggle the switch to off
Might be a good night to watch “Margin Call”…
October 12, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Might be a good night to watch “Margin Call”…
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Security firm Synthient has launched a free-to-use and searchable online database of known proxy IPs
synthient.com/blog/synthie...
synthient.com/blog/synthie...
Synthient
Synthient detects and blocks bad actors from your platform. Get access to the latest in threat intelligence and bot detection.
synthient.com
September 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Security firm Synthient has launched a free-to-use and searchable online database of known proxy IPs
synthient.com/blog/synthie...
synthient.com/blog/synthie...
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If I were the democratic leadership, or their donors, I would be setting up shadow everything. Shadow congress. Shadow CDC. The overwhelming message being: here is where you come for facts. Here is what science really says. Here is what polling really says.
Why aren’t they doing this?
Why aren’t they doing this?
August 28, 2025 at 6:05 AM
If I were the democratic leadership, or their donors, I would be setting up shadow everything. Shadow congress. Shadow CDC. The overwhelming message being: here is where you come for facts. Here is what science really says. Here is what polling really says.
Why aren’t they doing this?
Why aren’t they doing this?
In an Italian restaurant with Eddie Merckx on the wall and Filipino wait staff speaking English and Italian so I must be in… Dublin!
September 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
In an Italian restaurant with Eddie Merckx on the wall and Filipino wait staff speaking English and Italian so I must be in… Dublin!
24 hours and wheels up, from blue skies and sun to wind and rain
August 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
24 hours and wheels up, from blue skies and sun to wind and rain
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The Authors Guild has launched a certification program for asserting that a book has been human authored
authorsguild.org/human-authored
authorsguild.org/human-authored
Human Authored Certification - The Authors Guild
Human Authored is a project of the Authors Guild that allows an author to certify that their book is created by a human. “Human Authored” means that the text of the book was written by a human and not...
authorsguild.org
August 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The Authors Guild has launched a certification program for asserting that a book has been human authored
authorsguild.org/human-authored
authorsguild.org/human-authored
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Norway's paradox: Call for Russian war fighters to be banned from the Schengen-Europe, but maintains visa-freedom agreement with one of Russia's most militarised regions.
www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/soldier...
www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/soldier...
Soldiers fighting against Ukraine will be banned from Storskog entry
Norway and six other north European countries call for Russian soldier to be banned from the Schengen visa zone.
www.thebarentsobserver.com
June 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Norway's paradox: Call for Russian war fighters to be banned from the Schengen-Europe, but maintains visa-freedom agreement with one of Russia's most militarised regions.
www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/soldier...
www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/soldier...
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Check out the new Groundwater News page at Maven's Notebook! #cawater #groundwater mavensnotebook.com/category/new...
June 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Check out the new Groundwater News page at Maven's Notebook! #cawater #groundwater mavensnotebook.com/category/new...
I have been thinking that “all the power in the world and someone still acts like a mobbed-up councilman from the outer boroughs”. Who is eventually going to chicken out.
It's funny how all the money and power in the world can't make you less of a miserable, hollow ghoul if that's where you're starting from. Meanwhile I'm hanging out eating a chili dog feeling pretty good
June 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I have been thinking that “all the power in the world and someone still acts like a mobbed-up councilman from the outer boroughs”. Who is eventually going to chicken out.
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Mozilla has added a new security system to the Firefox add-on portal that detects extensions with malicious code designed to empty crypto wallets
blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/...
blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/...
June 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Mozilla has added a new security system to the Firefox add-on portal that detects extensions with malicious code designed to empty crypto wallets
blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/...
blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/...
All in sweet geological time.
June 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
All in sweet geological time.
And those of us that gain a little insight from the social sciences and historians thank you for it.
Same.
85% of the value that social scientists have to offer (or at least, that _I_ have ), is not in presenting my own thoughts and research, but using the general insights of the field to organize things that are happening right now and explain connections that are obvious to pros, but not to others.
June 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
And those of us that gain a little insight from the social sciences and historians thank you for it.
May 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM