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Dan McQuade, 1983–2026
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By [42]Tom Ley
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7:50 PM EST on January 28, 2026
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Dan McQuade sits in a blue chair, which is big and fake leather-ish, and has
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big arms on it. He has his head resting on his left arm, which is on the left
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arm of the chair. He has long light brown hair, a beard cropped to his face,
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and I dunno I'd say he's pretty handsome, but I am biased as I am the subject
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of the photo. Dan is wearing a red shirt with a grey and white tabby cat's face
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on it, with a rose under (and patially covering) the cat. Under that it says
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DEFECTOR with the 4 degrees slant logo. He has on blue shorts or pants (they're
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shorts, I know they're shorts), they're not jeans but they're not sweats, like
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a sort of inbetween situation. There's a hospital admit bracelet on his left
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arm. His right arm is on the other arm of the couch.
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808Comments
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Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is
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survived by his wife and young son.
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At the end of 2024, Dan was [48]diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news
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of his diagnosis hit all of us hard, but Dan never lost his enthusiasm or his
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spirit. Some of us have worked with Dan for nearly a decade, and all of us have
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come to know him not just as a coworker, but as a great friend.
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Dan was a truly authentic and engaging person. His curiosity was relentless,
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and his interests were varied and idiosyncratic; his beliefs were righteous and
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genuinely held; his connection to his community was deep and meaningful.
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We miss Dan dearly, and will be honoring his memory more thoroughly in the days
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and weeks to come. For now, though, we are going to slow down the site for a
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bit to be with our families, our friends, and each other. Over the next few
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days, some of our favorite stories that Dan published here at Defector will be
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