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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

So I'm reading this new book by a former military intelligence guy, Jay Stratton, who led various investigations into UAP (formerly UFOs) and related matters. He says he got interested in the subject when a colleague at the Defense Intelligence Agency showed him video of an unknown triangular […]

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

It's hard for healthy people to imagine what this is like...I spent about 2 years almost 100% bedbound and it is hell. Showered about once every 10 days because that's all that my energy budget allowed. Some people in this severely ill state experience partial spontaneous recovery but some […]

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

The Brewers are going to the World Series, which means...stay off the roads in Wisconsin tonight.

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

So are the announcers for the World Series also going to be complete Dodger homers? Good lord it was disgusting. Occasionally they had something to say about the team doing the sweeping but they mostly sounded despondent that the Dgers played like a Thanksgiving 🦃 on its way to the table […]

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

The Cassini launch in 1997 was protested by hundreds of people who said they were worried about the nuclear material on board if an accident occurred. The plutonium powered three generators that used heat from radioactive decay. Since then, more spacecraft have been launched with the same […]

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

People really don't know what to do with, "I developed health problems and wanted to live somewhere nice" when they ask why I moved to Kaua'i. I used to fudge the answer (I'm a Midwesterner and making people uncomfortable is kinda against the rules there) but bother anymore. Ask a personal […]

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

First pitch home run for the Brewers! 🤣Dodgers down 1-0 ten seconds into the game. 😂 #baseball #NLCS #Brewers

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Anyway, I hope David Ellison doesn't arrest me for posting that.

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

So there's this big leak of Cartoon Network internal files going around and I was curious to see what I'd find from my favorite show there: Harvey Birdman - Attorney at Law. Found these 1967 character sheets for "Birdman" (Hanna Barbara character) and enjoyed seeing […] [Original post on mas.to]

Snippet of a black and white character drawing of Birdman with a back view of the character and the text I described.

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@ButchH11 Yeah, I think there's a lot of talk that Dave Roberts doesn't get to bench the billion-dollar man, only the billion-dollar man can bench the billion-dollar man.

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Awesome! More free outs for the Brew Crew. Ohtani is an amazing hitter when healthy but he's clearly not. #baseball #NLCS www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/5017782…

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@jendefer Someone I know is getting married at that museum this weekend. Yep, big train nerds.

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Started watching this Netflix show called "Below" and everyone's face looks like it has been sandblasted or botoxed to the max. So many plastic people wandering around the harbors of Newfoundland. #TV

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@BruceMirken well at least the cashier was skeptical that I fit the criteria

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

So #Hawaii chat, I just used my 55+ Tuesday Ross discount for the first time. Does this...does this mean I'm kupuna?

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Thank you for helping me build a windows HTPC in 2003, Tom's Hardware!

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

So much fediverse drama spurred by...a terribly-written headline in Tom's Hardware. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time. #bots #ukraine

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Someone please come for the lawyers. Or maybe just the one who charged me $137 to send me a "reminder email".

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@steve Madison is the quintessential college town...even Rodney Dangerfield went back to school there.

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Dodgers looking old and slow against the sprightly Brewers.🍺 #baseball #NLCS #MilVsLa

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Oh forgot to mention: 🏴‍☠️🦜

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Pro-tip: Watch sportsball with a VPN set to the UK or Canada or India or anywhere but the US to avoid all US political ads.

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I regret to inform you that "relaxation" has been rebranded as "nervous system regulation."

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@chrisnelder The age of words is ending. The age of the pictograms is rising again.

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

(the fediverse seems much better about this than other platforms though)

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I feel like 80% of all text posted online now is malformed. About half of the time I can kind of decipher it and the other half I have no idea what someone is trying to communicate. I guess it's gonna be all emojis from here on out.

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Today I did some light duty bundling potatoes of cement into ziplocs for swimmers to float out to a dive team that's reattaching corals to a reef that was wrecked by Hurricane Lowell. The work is paid for by an insurance policy taken out by The Nature Conservancy […] [Original post on mas.to]

Roster white board showing dive teams and support teams.

People mix up big orange buckets of cement.

A Ziploc bag containing a concrete potato.

View of divers heading down a ramp into the ocean to reattach corals.

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Just saw someone ask if the fediverse was going to talk about a planned public execution in the US, and I've seen people & various publication accounts post abd talk about it today, but nothing trends here, so...it's not going to feel like other social networks. No topic is ever going to be THE […]

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

It was good there was no tsunami warning in Hawaii from the Panama earthquake that very few people would've listened to anyway. Tsunamis are a difficult risk management issue here...their size can be very hard to estimate and there might be 8-12 hours warning of a possible tsunami from quakes […]

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

In five days, a non-profit group has rescued 711 hard corals that were knocked off the reef and have reattached them at Kaua'i's most popular dive site. This is fantastic news. Their permit allows them 10 days of work or 2,000 coral rescues. The corals were damaged […] [Original post on mas.to]

Snippet of email: "Mahalo nui loa to everyone who has contributed to this incredible community effort! Today, we reached an exciting milestone: 711 corals reattached at Hanakaʻape Bay / Kōloa Landing! 🎉This would not be possible without the dedication, hard work, and aloha of our amazing volunteers."

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Oh, World Octopus Day almost went by without me posting this cutie that flashed me. #WorldOctopusDay

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The Alaska Airlines app is asking for my passport for travel from Hawai'i to Arizona. This is new & exciting! I've flown to the mainland many times and this is the first time any airline's system has decided it's an international trip. The rot is accelerating...

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I guess I'm a King originalist because I tried the new "Carrie" show by Mike Flanagan and noped out after the first 10 minutes...a 180-page novel doesn't need to be an 8-hour show. Also, Sissy Spacek can't be topped so....WHAT IS POINT. #TV #Carrie #StephenKing

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

An AI scam got a news article published in Science magazine and the problems editors now face sounds overwhelming. In this case, the scammer used the name and credentials of a real writer, harming her reputation. The unintended negative consequences of LLM-world are enormous. Good of my buddy […]

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I find the story plausible because 'merica but also this wasn't a superstar. He was more of a journeyman. I

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Baseball announcers just told the heartwarming story of a Milwaukee Brewer who wanted to retire after 2024 but his wife got pregnant with a second child and he needed the health insurance so he kept playing. Lol #baseball

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

MOAR WEATHER The hurricanes have passed by Hawai'i but now we're entering rainy season. (I'm fine, my house and street never flood but I'm sure Hanalei will get very wet again...) #Hawaii #weather

Flood watch alert from my phone for Kauai and Oahu.

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@taraprice Congrats! I have a screenwriter friend who I'm pretty sure would be a bit envious.

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I just saw a post reading, "Five females are currently orbiting Earth!" It's...weird, right? Or did I just watch too much Quark saying the word with derision?

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Whenever I see or hear someone refer to "females," a snarling Quark appears in my brain. #DS9

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@Ruth_Mottram Plugshare is very good for finding chargers in the US and a quick search says it has Europe's charging stations mapped too.

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@bodhipaksa That is awful, witnessing something like that and be rough. Hope you're ok too.

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