brennen

https://federation.p1k3.com/@brennen

i will probably fav your animal pictures.

don't paste chatbot spam at me, thanks.

why is everything like this?

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pronouns: he/him
severalopod: 🐙 🐙 🐙
web site: https://p1k3.com/
the moon: https://phase.city/

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2026-03-17 18:16:38 UTC

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this makes like time #4 i have helped this same friend move so i'm used to the rigors of the process and almost came away unscathed except that at one point i lost my grip while hucking a bookshelf into the back of my pickup and *whang* right on the elbow

2026-03-17 18:14:57 UTC

i helped a friend move last night and now my elbow hurts too much to use the mouse

2026-03-14 05:26:41 UTC

ok real quick before i go, should i show jason and the argonauts to small children or are the skeletons gonna be too intense

2026-03-06 21:01:13 UTC

anybody out there have current favorites for minimal php mvc-ish frameworks? mostly i'm thinking of simple routing of stuff to controllers/actions, a little scaffolding for separating out views, that sort of thing.
(background: i know how to google, i used to maintain a bespoke one of these at work, i deploy mediawiki for a living. just haven't touched much php application code for a while and curious what people who're up to date think about the question these days.)

2026-03-05 03:59:48 UTC

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i share all of your motivations, but i worry that we (as a broad community) have gotten locked into some disputes about doctrine and personalities and such while our work gets repurposed for very grim things indeed.

2026-03-02 16:47:27 UTC

a small crowd of... maybe they're black-capped chickadees? has arrived in the yard. they're very active little guys. doing lots of circles around stuff.

2026-02-27 20:06:31 UTC

tell me something that is likely to decrease my blood pressure

2026-02-23 23:56:20 UTC

the fediverse is about 12% crying about other people's pets as a service by volume

2026-01-28 16:30:14 UTC

long underwear wearers, the end of the legs goes:

2026-01-13 20:02:10 UTC

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yeah, i appreciate that sense of responsibility, and i'm glad when this meta-space can offer good things. i'm just kind of dwelling in place of deep pessimism about networks and platforms generally. (and i suppose about the energy and effects of media personality types in any given space.)

2026-01-13 19:13:39 UTC

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i guess i'm grateful for my clubhouse for nerds, but also think of public-by-default social media on the whole as such a doomed pattern that it seems like fedi's whole existence only works insofar as it's shielded by friction, relative unpopularity, and incomprehensibility from mainstream spaces. but i'm also sort of at a point where it's harder and harder not to be sincere in thinking the entire goddamn internet should be destroyed post haste, so what do i know.

2026-01-13 19:03:36 UTC

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as a counterpoint, maybe this is the fediverse's immune system protecting us from tech journalists

2026-01-10 07:11:22 UTC

a couple of days ago i saw this enormous raven flying low over downtown with an entire slice of pizza in its beak

2026-01-07 23:25:20 UTC

you know how it used to be like "if i wait a year or two, the technological artifact i need will have improved", and now it's like "i'd better get that technological artifact now, before they fuck it up any worse"

2026-01-02 18:31:19 UTC

anybody in the CO front range have experience with sewing machine repair shops hereabouts? i have acquired, by way of my parents' obsession with online auctions, this 1940s singer featherweight i'm going to give as a gift, and i think it could use a tuneup by someone who really knows what they're about.

2025-12-16 14:32:06 UTC

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some great captures there. that last one in particular.

2025-12-03 16:20:22 UTC

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(which i guess does at least accurately reflect how i use an em dash)

2025-12-03 16:19:49 UTC

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this is going to be stuck very inaccurately in my head forever now as something like "thonkstrike"

2025-11-24 05:55:45 UTC

i'm at roughly 7 years on this very-well-traveled thinkpad, and it gets to be that time again. i am looking for a *small, light* laptop.
i travel soon, so memories of ~2008 netbooks trickle through my mind, though i know we aren't allowed nice things any more.
needs to run:
- debian stable, cleanly
- firefox with some middling-heavy tabs like slack (i know, i know, ugh)
- some containers w/php web apps inside
:boost_ok:

2025-11-07 18:07:06 UTC

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i think about this every time i think about the essential tragedy of the obama years. such an incredible concentration of energy and capability just... essentially run directly to ground and scattered to the winds

2025-11-05 19:20:34 UTC

request: show me your best lamp.
:boost_ok:

2025-11-03 16:47:36 UTC

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if anybody ever actually locates anything better in $current_day than thunderbird, i need to hear about it ASAP.

2025-10-21 21:42:36 UTC

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what even _is_ this horseshit

2025-10-03 17:09:58 UTC

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i think in the spirit of the animal itself, the proper formulation here would be Least Dire Weasel

2025-10-02 22:57:57 UTC

it's weird how you never hear about dire coyotes

2025-10-01 16:03:47 UTC

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huh - graphite looks kind of interesting

2025-09-12 18:05:29 UTC

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i 100% just give up on however they thought it was going to work and lean the bike up against whatever i can get a u-lock around.
"oh cool, this one is shaped like a fish. i guess maybe i can connect to the fin... nope, ok, gonna go for this street sign over here instead"

2025-09-12 18:00:14 UTC

you know how, if you're a person who rides a bike, you'll often roll up to a bike rack and go "the person who built this obviously meant well but also has clearly not ridden a bicycle since they were 8 years old, if ever"?

2025-09-04 18:23:11 UTC

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trek is probably a harder fictional construct for me to let go of than most, but the broad pattern seems to have eaten a lot of things and types-of-things and energies-for-making-things that were once at least a pleasant diversion. it's very far from the, uh, most pressing issue of the day, but i guess it feels somehow of a piece with the broader culture's dogged determination to avoid nice things.

2025-09-04 17:09:09 UTC

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yeah, sure. i am mostly trying to express with examples why i am inclined to hit da bricks on so much material that's nominally connected to stuff i used to be real into.

2025-09-04 17:03:10 UTC

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nerdery

2025-09-04 16:49:16 UTC

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what i want to articulate is not so much «the meticulous details of everything cohering in a fashion acceptable to every last turbonerd in your audience is the most important thing» as it is «telling stories boxed in by the margins or trajectories of previous stories and constantly recycling the pieces to capitalize on recognition is ultimately deadening and stupefying».

2025-09-04 16:38:38 UTC

look, i know getting hung up on continuity is considered unsophisticated these days, but like every time you do the thing where the security officer on the enterprise is related to and shares a surname with a major character from both earlier and later in the timeline who is by the way a deposed tyrant who used to rule a quarter of the earth's surface or something and characters who like had a love triangle with said security officer somehow never mention this whole thing, everything gets worse.

2025-08-28 19:35:57 UTC

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we've been getting a bunch of these friends in the yard lately
(we're gonna stay friends as long as they don't breach the vegetable garden fence.)

2025-08-25 18:37:57 UTC

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oof, yeah. there are still many things i value in my feedreader, but i find that it has also, perhaps inevitably, become an index to many of the ways the world is in a state i do not like and my interests now feel counterproductive or corrupted. that i specifically decided to pay attention to the writers there because they stood out from the background as interesting or trustworthy really seems to emphasize this...

2025-08-12 19:37:01 UTC

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sheaffer! the kind of cheap school pen that they made for decades. my mom had a couple from her 1960s school days and bought me a few more in the 90s that were pretty much the same pen, including one of those calligraphy sets with the different sized nibs.
these were a great place to start and i still have a couple of them. (i guess i feel like the preppy is the modern equivalent, and preferable because less likely to leak.)
#FountainPens

2025-07-31 17:35:22 UTC

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on the other hand maybe they'll eat some grasshoppers

2025-07-31 17:33:57 UTC

they're cute, but i know these little fuckers are going to make an attempt on my tomatoes sooner or later
https://cdn.masto.host/federationp1k3com/media_attachments/files/114/949/034/083/140/432/original/003140a2cc5941d5.jpeg

2025-07-31 16:12:34 UTC

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i miss the smells of cows, hay, wheat, etc. giant, crowded feedlots not so much.

2025-07-22 03:34:48 UTC

i keep seeing something skittish and close to the ground out of the corner of my eye, and it turns out to be this year's crop of juvenile (wild) turkeys slinking along the ground.
the first time i was definitely like "baby turkeys!" but they've progressed to "surly adolescent turkeys" with a remarkable quickness.

2025-05-23 18:27:27 UTC

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preferences -> appearance -> [✓] enable advanced web interface
(i'm pretty sure)

2025-05-20 15:30:59 UTC

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this number is only so low because there are so few well-regarded tech execs.

2025-04-30 17:50:58 UTC

freedom from software foundation when

2025-04-16 15:32:44 UTC

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the extent to which this follows the earlier trajectory of "cloud" everything is noticeable.
(renting somebody else's compute is of course a less obviously tangled value proposition, but it's one of the past hype cycles that i most felt was gonna fuck up both my life and civilization as a whole that i was most right about that i struggled against with the greatest degree of futility.)

2025-04-10 17:34:24 UTC

you know how "assume good faith" has felt utterly toxic and doomed in specialist & technical domains for years? congratulations everyone on bootstrapping a civilization-scale state where it's a problem for fucking everything now

2025-04-08 22:42:47 UTC

we should have paid more attention to the cats who, for decades, put their bodies on the line to walk on keyboards and sit on laptops and prevent us from programming

2025-03-28 17:26:47 UTC

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for @npub12r0…qh4d, a further question: hoodie string ends should have:

2025-03-28 16:43:50 UTC

the best hoodie strings are:

2025-03-21 00:43:52 UTC

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i loaned a vintage parker 51 to a dude in a corner office to sign for a delivery. he accidentally dropped it nose down into the floor and laughed at me. i restrained myself from violence, but it was a near thing.

2025-03-13 00:10:01 UTC

we traded
[floppy disk noises that make you afraid the system is gonna eat shit]
for
[laptop fans that spin real hard when you load a goddamn website to read an article with worse affordances than you used to get out of an ascii text file with mangled line endings]
and where has it gotten us?

2025-03-10 21:40:06 UTC

the thing is, i _am_ fun at parties. it's everywhere else that's a problem.

2025-01-15 16:45:36 UTC

it's still remarkable that almost nothing is as good at scope as perl.

2025-01-06 18:14:24 UTC

we've got a cop show in the rotation again, and i'm starting to think that there are so many goddamn cop shows because our culture just doesn't know how to tell stories about, say, a specific city or region or subculture without using a lens of violence, coercion, and ruined lives.
(also works for westerns, political thrillers, spy material, etc.)

2024-12-19 00:52:13 UTC

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i haven't revisited them in years, but i have such fond memories of all those books. they were staple reading in my extended family when i was a kid, growing up surrounded by farms and farm people, and i think they did a lot to form how i thought about human relationships with animals. going to have to see what the new series is like.

2024-12-16 23:25:56 UTC

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these are great.

2024-11-27 03:03:07 UTC

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i still occasionally feel like that moment when twitter went from "i dunno, you copy-paste it and put RT in front" to making it an actual feature of the software may have been the moment "social media" as a whole jumped the shark.

2024-11-04 16:11:39 UTC

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you live in an astonishingly picturesque views factory

2024-11-01 16:00:48 UTC

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the tic-tac-toe virtual machine.

2024-10-31 19:00:29 UTC

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my honest expectation is that last thing, but i guess i'm glad somebody's making the attempt.

2024-10-30 18:04:20 UTC

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don't mind me i'm just advocating for the wholesale destruction of general purpose computing followed by strong cultural taboos and legal sanctions on its implementation

2024-10-30 17:36:15 UTC

the best time for a butlerian jihad would have been about 50 years ago, but the second best time is now.

2024-10-29 17:33:49 UTC

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dang, i gotta get out and take some fall pictures

2024-10-29 15:06:07 UTC

still looking for a pinboard successor, having not found anything that quite scratches the same set of itches.
saw a mention of wallabag today, which comes up now and then but i'd never really given it serious consideration. the interface isn't perfect, but also i guess not immediately repugnant. it seems like it's written in php, which gives me more confidence in self-hosting than some things...
anybody have experience using it as a pinboard replacement?
:boost_ok:

2024-10-28 03:22:01 UTC

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i see the empire plaza is still giving "parking lot for star destroyers" vibes.

2024-10-22 03:26:17 UTC

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fountain pen enjoyment would be more enjoyable if it wasn't for the sheer amount of weirdly intense Gear Acquisition Syndrome you notice in almost everyone who does it publicly.

2024-10-15 19:59:32 UTC

ok so i currently follow people who are extremely into: birds, bugs, fountain pens, old computers, weird computers, weird computer languages, sailboats, poems, trains, bicycles, gender fuckery, cartoon animals, weather, radio, disaster response and analysis, fiber arts, rpgs, drugs, movies. you know, the usual stuff.
so what else you got, fediverse? i'm looking for some special interests i don't currently see anybody going way over the top on.

2024-09-25 18:26:10 UTC

i am thinking seriously of getting the kind of canvas tent that has a stove jack for a little woodstove.
(this is not exactly a new thought, i'm just getting serious about it now.)
anyone out there have opinions about wall tents vs. the sort with a pole in the middle, or a make you like? some of our uses would be setting up for late-fall gatherings in the yard, which is pretty un-demanding, but others would very much be "it is wintertime cold and snowing in the mountains".
:boost_ok:

2024-09-16 14:26:29 UTC

it is simply not possible to create an abstraction so blatantly janky and provisional that no one will turn it into a load-bearing component of their work.