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Chris Brentano @ctb.social · 31/08/2026

Sorted through this box of BIOS chips, carefully straightened all the legs. Next I'm going to back them all up and probably post the ROM images to @archive.org.

Mixed lot of PC BIOS chips all sorted and legs carefully straightened out

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I often say that there's no wrong way to play retrogames... besides stretching the aspect ratio. I'd like to amend that with one more wrong way to play retrogames...

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Chris Brentano @ctb.social · 16/04/2026

The dogbone's connected to the.. cat bone

NES "dogbone" style controller sitting on a cat

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Chris Brentano @ctb.social · 02/04/2026

Getting a late start on #MARCHintosh this year. Better late than never.

A screenshot of a Macintosh program showing discovered AppleTalk zones across the Internet aka "GlobalTalk"

My ImageWriter II printer, connected to LocalTalk, with a #MARCHintosh sticker I made for it.

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 14/03/2026

It is not an extreme position to want to be able to think for yourself, to write by just typing words in, to learn things from other people or to make art with your hands.

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Chris Brentano @ctb.social · 11/03/2026

Extremely Oregon question: Is "Tilly" Norwood (the "AI actress") short for Tillamook Norwood?

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 01/03/2026

Please make a terrible ruckus about this, if you live in Oregon

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Chris Brentano @ctb.social · 28/02/2026

I don't know if it's good or bad that this is the third loaf of bread I've made this week. I'm going with good.

A loaf of home made bread fresh out of the oven

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 28/02/2026

it's 2026 and the cool S is still not in unicode

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Chris Brentano @ctb.social · 14/02/2026

Damnit, Apple, why are you like this now

Screenshot of Music.app showing the Sneakers Original Motion Picture Soundtrack title but with the artwork for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse's soundtrack instead.

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Chris Brentano @ctb.social · 10/02/2026

Well this sucks, my 17" KDS CRT is in need of repair. Was working fine all weekend but today it started making arcing sounds and the picture went black. Where do I learn to safely repair a CRT? (Or is there a local CRT doctor taking new patients?)

A happy KDS CRT monitor, or it was, at least

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Always remember that listening to music can be the entire activity. Put on headphones. Blast it through speakers. Close your eyes and just listen. Listening to music is not a background activity. It can be the entire journey, and it's worth the time.

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Chris Brentano @ctb.social · 25/12/2025

CAT.EXE has crashed, time to reboot

Extremely chill tabby cat stretching out in front of a fireplace

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Chris Brentano @ctb.social · 26/11/2025

Gonna miss this place when it's gone

A giant Christmas tree and a Zamboni driver on the ice rink at Lloyd Center in Portland, OR

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Chris Brentano @ctb.social · 23/09/2025

Even Animal Crossing gets it

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Chris Brentano @ctb.social · 07/09/2025

So I wouldn't normally notice things like this, but nasa.gov has not been resolving in DNS since last night. Not just the A record, no SOA, no NS records, nothing.

nasa.gov

NASA

NASA.gov brings you the latest news, images and videos from America's space agency, pioneering the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 06/09/2025

we all know he’s a 24/7 bs machine, but when it’s pointed directly at you, you really get to see how it works. our city is amazing, not “hell”, downtown has been uneventful for *years*. yes, there are protests at ICE, one building not downtown. but things are super normal. now… maybe not for long?

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Tech companies spending hundreds of millions to hire individual AI PhDs with the revenue they collected distributing endless medical and climate science misinformation is really just something else

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Hey Portlanders! if you're a PGE customer you can get one-per-household of an extremely good $199 air purifier for $24???? I just ordered one because hell yeah rebate encheapened air purifier. (There are others on the site too but this one is v good!) marketplace.portlandgeneral.com/air-purifier...

marketplace.portlandgeneral.com

PGE+ Marketplace

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

The Trump Administration has removed significant parts of the constitution from the official government website. Including Habeas Corpus, the laws entitling you a right to a trial and requiring the government to have a legitimate reason to keep you imprisoned. web.archive.org/web/diff/202...

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2025

Concentration Camp.

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Chris Brentano @ctb.social · 28/06/2025

My new signature: Please consider the environment before using AI to summarize this email.

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Chris Brentano @ctb.social · 28/06/2025

Picked up a new digital camera and it just takes the best macro shots. Like the way stock desktop pictures used to be.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

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Chris Brentano @ctb.social · 05/06/2025

Where do you go from there, really?

"I'm a great corndog lover," she says. "I start on opening day and usually get one, or even two or three in that day, and go from there." — Portland Rose Festival CEO

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TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com · 03/06/2025

i’ve become the champion of tiny little boxes everyone hates, i fear

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Chris Brentano @ctb.social · 27/05/2025

To whoever at Apple: Thank you for making it so that FW400 -> FW800 -> TB2 -> TB3 -> TB4 still works.

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Chris Brentano @ctb.social · 19/05/2025

TIL that a group of ladybugs is called a "loveliness"

A group of ladybugs clustered up in a "loveliness" on top of a wood trellis

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