#dancast — Public Fediverse posts

Today, Wikipedia introduced me to a mysterious deep-dwelling octopus. So cool!
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/05/25/wp25-cirrothauma-murrayi/

#article #dancast #evolution #eyes #nature #octopodes #octopus #science #wikipedia #wikipediaAt-25

Wikipedia is 25 years old today, and in celebration of that I found my way via a Mercurial crater to the article about Yousuf Karsh, one of the most-important portrait photographers of the 20th century.
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/05/21/wp25-yousuf-karsh/

#article #armenia #canada #dancast #history #photography #photos #wikipedia #wikipediaAt-25

Today, thanks to Wikipedia, I learned a lot about a miniscule Hawaiian island with an interesting cultural and archaeological history... after I found my way there from a random page about a hip hop album!
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/05/20/wp25-necker-island/

#article #archeology #dancast #music #pacific #religion #wikipedia #wikipediaAt-25

Today's random Wikipedia article was about a kind of seal that lives only in Lake Baikal in Siberia, which turns out to be a really, really big lake. Like: it's got about a fifth of the world's fresh water in it; that's how big it is!
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/05/19/wp25-lake-baikal/

#article #dancast #fish #food #geography #nature #physics #russia #science #wikipedia #wikipediaAt-25

Today's random Wikipedia article was about a kind of seal that lives only in Lake Baikal in Siberia, which turns out to be a really, really big lake. Like: it's got about a fifth of the world's fresh water in it; that's how big it is!
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/05/19/wp25-lake-baikal/

#article #dancast #fish #food #geography #nature #physics #russia #science #wikipedia #wikipediaAt-25

This year is Wikipedia's 25th birthday, and as part of the celebrations I learned who Marcus Koh is... but that wasn't remotely as interesting as learning about the long history of the yo-yo!
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/05/17/wp25-yo-yo/

#article #dancast #game #greece #history #sport #toys #wikipedia #wikipediaAt-25 #yoYos

Wikipedia is celebrating its 25th birthday, and today I'm celebrating by discovering what the Argo Wilis is, along with a dive into a rabbithole about rail transport in Indonesia!
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/05/15/wp25-rail-in-indonesia/

#article #dancast #indonesia #publicTransport #rails #trains #transport #wikipedia #wikipediaAt-25

Wikipedia is celebrating its 25th birthday, and somehow as a result I ended up reading about Wesley Merritt, who was the shortest-lived Governor-General of the Philippines!
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/05/14/wp25-wesley-merritt/

#article #colonialism #dancast #history #philippines #spain #usa #war #wikipedia #wikipediaAt-25

It turns out that I get nostalgic about technology in the same way as I get nostalgic about music. Here's some things that take me right back to being nine, eleven, thirteen and fifteen years old.
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/01/15/nostalgia-music-and-computers/

#article #arcadeGames #art #basic #boardGames #dancast #games #music #nostalgia #programming #programmingLanguages #roleplaying #ruby #videoGames

After dusting off and modernising a joke I first read in a chain email from 1996, I can tell you conclusively that the reason that I'm tired is because I'm overworked.
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/01/09/why-i-am-so-tired/

#article #dancast #email #funny #joke #nostalgia #publishedOnGemini #work