Picture Pages 🖼

I've seen lots of people posting images in Geminispace, and I wanted to draw more attention to them. Every day for a year, I added a page of five randomly chosen images.

Disclaimer

These are very rarely my images. The praise or the blame goes to the Geminauts I'm linking to. There's no filter on the images, so it's possible that something offensive might come up. If you see anything that should be removed, or if you want your own images removed, let me know.

2026-04-01

Nuggets of background information

I generated all the pages on 2nd Apr 2025, so no images published more recently than that appeared. All the images linked on these pages were fetchable on that day. By the time the last page was published in April 2026, some of them had disappeared. Never mind.

I had lots more URLs than appeared here. It looks like I used less than 8% of them.

Method

For the curious, the method was:

grep the tag crawler logs for JPG files (the crawler logs that it's ignoring them)
de-duplicate the list
sort them randomly (where "randomly" is whatever you get from "sort -R")
iterate through the list, fetching each image
if the image loads and has MIME type image/jpeg, add a link to the current page
when there are five on the current page, roll over to the next page
when there are 365 pages, stop generating them
get cron to publish the next page every night