brendan (ジャンク品)

basic cable han solo, founder of lasersword.club. sometimes writer/editor/journalist. ride the bus, take the train. opinions mine, obvi.

Location: frasiertown baby
Pronouns: he/him
flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/73834519@N06/
website: https://bnys.co

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bnys_at_lasersword.club@momostr.pink

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2026-04-23 17:23:09 UTC

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I might see you there but also I'm singing at two choir concerts that weekend so it's gonna be a quick trip

2026-03-31 23:24:28 UTC

very normal desk setup im trying out rn
https://cdn.masto.host/laserswordclub/media_attachments/files/116/326/364/849/600/631/original/83276162c4efa401.jpeg

2026-03-31 22:45:09 UTC

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truth

2026-03-18 21:23:13 UTC

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yes this is true
but also because you can do it doesn't mean it makes any sense to do it. the back-of-the-napkin estimates for how big of an array it'd take to cool a single gpu rack in space are staggering

2026-02-07 05:08:54 UTC

i hope we never know who did the max headroom broadcast hijack

2026-02-05 21:21:40 UTC

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wait WHAT is this only available in the EU?

2026-02-02 22:27:17 UTC

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they gonna punish you for nicking an asset with $0 value

2026-01-17 04:44:44 UTC

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nice to see @npub1yyr…lyn2 @npub123s…f8nj @npub1s2g…n947 @npub13hr…833j and other familiar faces there

2026-01-17 01:42:05 UTC

[@dma](https://social.treehouse.systems/@dma ) is officially open!

2026-01-14 21:11:28 UTC

filled out an amtrak cafe car survey 😇

2026-01-14 18:22:06 UTC

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yes which one

2026-01-14 17:32:10 UTC

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what's an inexpensive phone to try graphene on

2026-01-14 04:54:24 UTC

ideal fedi posting location
https://cdn.masto.host/laserswordclub/media_attachments/files/115/891/664/293/865/168/original/b31c9931450957f9.jpeg

2026-01-09 15:06:12 UTC

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he’s also a spectacularly nice human in my experience

2025-12-30 01:19:19 UTC

me at #39c3 at 11pm: i should go back, im sleeby
*socialization occurs*
12am: i should go back, im sleeby
*socialization occurs*
1am: i should go back, im sleeby
*socialization occurs*
1:30, finally leaves

2025-12-27 22:08:53 UTC

holy moly #39c3 thanks for a fantastic first day!!

2025-12-23 18:50:21 UTC

oh hi mccoy and sulu! https://blog.trekcore.com/2025/12/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-casting-mccoy-sulu/

2025-12-20 01:14:31 UTC

impossibly fucked vibes. shame on anyone who bought one of the normal ones too https://kotaku.com/modretro-anduril-chromatic-attack-drone-metal-luckey-2000654868

2025-12-13 19:29:35 UTC

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maybe i'm too old??? i did have a high school teacher who wrote his own classic mac game (some kind of int'l trade simulation?) and we spent like 1/4 a semester just playing that and learning nothing. "20th century world history" lol not like that's important 🙄

2025-11-19 01:00:52 UTC

we got the new @npub1keh…9hlq thang over on the work website please go sign up https://www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics/picoide

2025-10-27 17:51:32 UTC

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former tech journo/pr person here: yeah you shouldn't be too annoyed. there are people doing far more harm in their day jobs than zitron, and his voice and advocacy are super important right now. if anything the price he's paying by speaking out about ai bullshit is greatly shrinking his pool of potential clients and costing him money.

2025-10-10 02:50:22 UTC

im “downloaded midis before mp3 files existed” years old

2025-09-28 15:14:58 UTC

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looks like you made it! are you still taking donations past 40K?

2025-09-17 15:12:11 UTC

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i looked at some cute places in white river junction vermont and the newer homes are built on stilts because it's a mega flood zone now

2025-09-09 15:28:48 UTC

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it's one of their 2000s subnotebooks but not a teeny tiny one... looks like this more or less (jog wheel!! memory stick slot!!)
https://cdn.masto.host/laserswordclub/media_attachments/files/115/175/044/732/436/312/original/3fe4a2a4503817d6.png

2025-09-09 15:06:55 UTC

i toured the mit media lab and all got was this lousy sony vaio out of the e-waste pile

2025-08-22 18:46:16 UTC

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it's less a game than an interactive app with short clips, photos, and text information

2025-08-21 15:29:11 UTC

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we love a guy who makes some money and just disappears completely from public life

2025-08-18 17:08:41 UTC

wow seems like obsidian has a great team making sensible choices prioritizing long-term stability over chasing shiny objects https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/760522/obsidian-ceo-steph-ango-kepano-productivity-software-notes-app

2025-07-18 18:21:17 UTC

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i dunno all of this assumes a very American lifestyle and if I also assume an American lifestyle people go way way deeper into debt on more frivolous expenditures all the time.
who am I to yell at someone for buying a high-quality bike??? does that help anything?

2025-07-18 17:55:34 UTC

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some things cost more upfront and the cost is amortized depending on usefulness and it's up to everyone to figure out if it's worth it. and if it isn't a $2k cargo bike probably holds value decently and you can recoup by selling it. i don't know why this is a big deal

2025-07-18 17:52:53 UTC

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$0 vs low hundreds for a few years adds up. my point stands; a 'cheap' car is rarely cheap when you look at total cost of ownership.

2025-07-18 17:46:40 UTC

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how much is bike gas and bike insurance

2025-07-02 16:37:02 UTC

dont wanna bodyshame but when a rich nerd gets ripped you know they're cooked. you buffed the wrong stat bro!
https://cdn.masto.host/laserswordclub/media_attachments/files/114/784/610/212/430/854/original/02ac55be8f348a90.png

2025-04-25 15:02:47 UTC

kids will never know what kinds of bullshit we had to do to get imported japanese music in the early 00s
- pirate it (good freakin luck buddy)
- hope an import shop can get it (ugh!)
- fly to goddamn japan
- start a japanese itunes account (!) and buy japanese gift cards (!!) to download jp region music (!!!!)

2025-04-25 00:20:18 UTC

new special interest unlocked: can i get german citizenship from an ancestor (probably not, gonna look anyway)

2025-04-06 18:14:06 UTC

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ok sorry I think I'm trek canon-brained and you're looking to dream your dream and I respect that

2025-04-06 17:58:51 UTC

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oh I'm sorry I guess I misinterpreted your post. My point wasn't that they were looking at your exact premise but something more along those lines (politics instead of ship go fast, explore, pewpew etc). I guess you're more interested in the transformation of society aspect of the post-warp period.

2025-04-06 17:30:34 UTC

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you probably already know but they discussed something similar for st enterprise, where it's mainly a political drama before the ship finally departs late in the season
https://cdn.masto.host/laserswordclub/media_attachments/files/114/292/202/876/135/531/original/46d6bf2b05c4df1d.png

2025-04-04 20:31:39 UTC

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fuckin weird

2025-04-04 20:28:54 UTC

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is there a sports game? thats normally why that happens to me in seattle. too early for fleet week

2025-03-11 21:40:32 UTC

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i was lukewarm on this whole album for a while but jeez it's great

2025-03-11 21:38:02 UTC

on the road to valhalla
karma ridin shotgun with drama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV-gpPDdmMI

2025-03-05 02:56:37 UTC

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the word ‘alighting’ exists but it could also just say ‘Area for exiting passengers’

2025-03-05 02:09:19 UTC

oh so it’s that kind of train station. gotcha
https://cdn.masto.host/laserswordclub/media_attachments/files/114/107/387/330/466/456/original/3925066e1ad1336b.jpeg

2025-02-27 01:26:23 UTC

Hell yes 500系!!!! #trains #japan
https://cdn.masto.host/laserswordclub/media_attachments/files/114/073/244/427/210/710/original/97479ebf25ba2c10.jpeg

2025-02-07 22:23:17 UTC

last call for reform next!! https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next

2025-01-30 19:26:47 UTC

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yeah but I don’t trust Amazon to vet their sellers for a second

2025-01-30 05:03:24 UTC

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personally i don't miss the bad old days of amateurishly compressed dvds and camrips of movies but go off?

2025-01-28 16:35:46 UTC

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it wasn’t exactly bargain bin they spent the equivalent to ~1M per episode for 22+ episode seasons. It was a color TV show when the status quo was still b&w

2025-01-17 17:46:22 UTC

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2025-01-11 00:06:39 UTC

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*MASK up folx

2024-12-27 14:15:06 UTC

🚨 MNT REFORM NEXT IS LIVE🚨 https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next #openhardware #laptop

2024-10-29 03:49:15 UTC

where is everyone searching for warez these days. asking for a friend

2024-10-08 17:48:48 UTC

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I’ve seen cards up to 2 GHz but let’s be honest what is classic Mac OS gonna do with that much power

2024-09-19 21:19:43 UTC

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fun fact! the overall design was inspired by real aerospace stuff. here's the current nasa orion capsule with similar buttons-around-displays glass cockpit...
https://cdn.masto.host/laserswordclub/media_attachments/files/113/166/297/858/250/745/original/54288e1e5448f049.png

2024-09-04 19:40:23 UTC

yessss native americans training native filmmakers to tell native stories!! we love to see it https://cherokeefilminstitute.com

2024-08-23 16:58:51 UTC

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oof i would have tried to rescue it :(

2024-08-01 01:27:04 UTC

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the cover of the book is INCREDIBLE. all this, just $30!
https://cdn.masto.host/laserswordclub/media_attachments/files/112/884/162/013/463/205/original/a71af13d12ccf08b.png