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Brendhan
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#TTRPG, #motorcycling, and #space enthusiast living in an outpost in the Mojave desert.
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#piday
March 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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39 years ago today. I still remember it like it just happened.
#Challenger #SpaceShuttleChallenger
Challenger's solid rocket boosters fly uncontrollably after the breakup of the external tank separated them from the shuttle stack. The remains of the orbiter and tank leave thin white contrails as they fall toward the Atlantic Ocean. The seven astronauts of STS-51-L in blue NASA uniforms pose with helmets in front of a U.S. flag and model space shuttle. The mood is formal and proud. In the back row: Onizuka, McAuliffe, Jarvis, Resnik; In the front row: Smith, Scobee, McNair.
January 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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For SoCal friends,

Here is a list of resources for shelter, animal boarding, free items, and distribution hubs. These places can also use donations (e.g., food, water, masks, and blankets). Please consider donating if you can.

For more info, visit Instagram: mutualaidla
January 9, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Thanksgiving holiday with the in-laws. Ethel M's Cactus Garden, the Bellagio Atrium decorations, as well as fine dinners at Il Chianti and Mon Ami Gabi. We also ate at Morimoto's, but I didn't get any pictures.

#thankgiving #familyvisit

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Brendhan: "Thanksgiving with my In-Laws." - Pixelfed
Thanksgiving with my In-Laws.
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December 3, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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A great article on how to manage ephemeral and fragmented #SocialMedia

POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world

https://www.citationneeded.news/posse/

#Enshitification
POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world
A simple technique offers the best of both worlds: total control over your own work, while still maintaining a presence on third-party platforms.
www.citationneeded.news
November 23, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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For me, a TTRPG is a social activity. In a lot of those threads where people won't play a system for some reason, I'm kinda like the system is so far down the list of reasons I play a TTRPG it's almost nonexistent.
November 23, 2024 at 12:16 AM
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Poking the hornet's nest of the OSR community, I have written a blog post about my thoughts on lethality: personabler.blogspot.com/2024/11/topp...
Toppling the pillars of the OSR: against lethality
One of the accepted wisdoms in the OSR (as codified in e.g. the Principia Apocrypha ), as well at the NSR (as defined by Yochai Gal or Pa...
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November 19, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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In the outlet by the light switch. Watching over me.

#tmbg
Blue canary night light
November 3, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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Beautiful Japanese garden walk on a gorgeous day. Balboa Park in San Diego is spectacular.

#JapaneseFriendshipGarden #BalboaPark

https://www.obryan-net.com/2024/08/14/403/
The Japanese Friendship Garden at Balboa Park – obryan-net
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August 14, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖
A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
June 14, 2024 at 2:19 AM
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#MemorialDay Weekend at #DeathValleyNationalPark.

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May 30, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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At 1:07 pm PDT, Las Vegas hit 100F for the first time this year.

Let the “dry heat” comments begin. :)
May 17, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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Last night was a beautiful evening for #MinorLeagueBaseball. #RenoAces @ #LasVegasAviators. Aces won 13 to 10. Lots of hot bats.
#MiLB #Baseball
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Last night was a beautiful evening for #MinorLeagueBaseball. #RenoAces @ #LasVegasAviators. Aces won 13 to 10. Lots of hot bats. #MiLB #Baseball @baseball@a.gup.pe
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May 4, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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I must not stir the pot. Stirring the pot is the notification-killer. Participation in the discourse is the little death that brings total activity obliteration.I will face the bad opinions on the internet. I will permit them to pass over me and through me. And when they have gone past, I will turn the block button onto their source. Where the discourse has come from there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
April 28, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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It was the only way to be sure.
#AliensMovie
A moment of silence for the 158 colonists of Hadley's Hope and the 10 Colonial Marines of the USS Sulaco.
April 26, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth – Voyager
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April 22, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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#LasVegasAviators opening day versus the #RenoAces
#MiLB #baseball #minorleaguebaseball

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#LasVegasAviators opening day versus the #RenoAces #MiLB #baseball #minorleaguebaseball @baseball@a.gup.pe
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March 30, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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Wizardry:Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord can be played again. Digital Eclipse has brought the game back, with the original Apple II code as a base, but as a full 3D remake.
I’ve been playing it on and off for the last three months or so.
#wizardry

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New Wizardry UI exploring the dungeon New Wizardry UI combat screenshot
March 13, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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#BigLeagueWeekend in Las Vegas. Brewers @ As.

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#mlb #baseball
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#BigLeagueWeekend in Las Vegas. Brewers @ As. #mlb #baseball
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March 10, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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Just saw #Dune part 2. Spectacular. Part 1 and 2 are the best #ScienceFiction adaptation I have seen. Can we hope for a Heretics/Children sequel?
March 2, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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Intuitive Machines pulls off 1st commercial lunar landing : NPR
#space #moon #moonlanding
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Private lunar lander returns U.S. to the moon 50 years later. Here's what to know
The Houston-based company has pulled off the first successful commercial landing on the lunar surface. It's America's first soft landing in decades.
www.npr.org
February 23, 2024 at 1:13 AM
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10/10, no notes.
@AlmanME: The fact that some people can't distinguish between etymology and entomology bugs me in ways I can't put into words
February 14, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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#CloudFlare #PatentTrolls
February 13, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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“It always seems a waste for all that water to come down on the city. It should restrict itself to the reservoirs.” - Elijah Baley, Caves of Steel. 
#sciencefiction #Asimov #CavesOfSteel
February 6, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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"If you think "pronouns are confusing," just wait until you find out about VERBS
February 1, 2024 at 11:03 AM