briand

Retro gamer / Vintage electronics (Elektronika watches, HP calculators) / Minimalist computing / UAP / Mountain bikes.

[briand @BullyCaSa]

@AKollsmith @JonStewartIL 1987

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

If you need a smile today! Look how happy he is in his new house at the end!

It's the simple things in life! About 2 hours work and $30 to built. Delighted for him

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

What really happened on @PiersUncensored?

You’d *never* believe it if I told you.

Here:

[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

This guy took a broken vintage TV and turned it into a working modern one.

He removed the old tube and insides, then fit a flat screen TV into the original wooden cabinet. He also sanded, painted, and kept the original speakers (which still worked after hooking them up to a Bluetooth amp).

I would buy this piece for $500 in a heartbeat. It has so much more character than a regular new TV.

Would you rather have a brand new TV or something like this with character?

[briand @BullyCaSa]

@Kekius_Maximus @elonmusk I was going to upvote, but it had 620.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The impossible crossover between Contra and Tetris

[🎞️ tercio_miranda]

[Tom Thompson🛸 (ＣＯＲＴＥＸ ＺＥＲＯ) @Cortex_Zero]

⚠️🚨Tim Burchett is Right. There is Something Dark Going On.

Anthony Chavez, 78, a retired longtime Los Alamos National Laboratory employee, disappeared from his Los Alamos home in May 2025. His car was still there. Inside, his wallet, keys, and cigarettes were left on the table. Detectives found no signs of a struggle, and cadaver dogs turned up nothing. He has never been found.

Weeks later, Melissa Casias, a Los Alamos National Laboratory employee, vanished in Taos County. Her purse, wallet, cash, and both cell phones were found at home. Family told the Albuquerque Journal the phones had been factory-reset. Surveillance later captured her on foot along N.M. 518 with a backpack. Search efforts followed, including canine units, but the case remains unresolved. Her husband also worked at LANL.

Then, in February 2026, retired Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland disappeared from his Albuquerque home. He left behind his phone, prescription glasses, and wearable devices. Investigators say his wallet, revolver, holster, and red backpack remain unaccounted for. Authorities canvassed more than 700 homes and searched with dogs, drones, and helicopters. Still, no confirmed sighting has established how he left or where he went.

Standing alone, each case is disturbing. Taken together, they form a pattern that deserves serious scrutiny. In each case, critical personal effects were left behind. In each case, searches failed to produce answers. And in each case, the person at the center was tied not to random circumstances, but to the same broader New Mexico scientific and defense ecosystem: LANL, LANL, AFRL. That does not prove a common cause. But it absolutely makes the occupational overlap impossible to dismiss. It appears that a repeated signature is emerging across cases that authorities have not publicly linked.

Three disappearances. One corridor. Empty rooms, abandoned essentials, negative searches, and no answers. At minimum, this is a pattern. At worst, it is a warning. #ufox #ufotwitter

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Did you ever question everything? I do.

I was sitting in the beach just after sunrise this morning with my 2 dogs and I came across a man taking his buffalo swimming and bathing him. He loved that animal and the 2 of them had a deep bond as they spent 30 minutes in the water. He has the same bond I had with Hank and Chance beside me.

It’s my favorite time of the week. Most people are hungover in bed. The tourists aren’t up yet. After working all week I give myself 30 minutes to think before the dog madness continues.

Lately I’ve been feeling a bit down looking at the world. Everything seems to be about money. Every human is trying to amass power, wealth or fame at the expense of everything else. People don’t even look at each other any more instead preferring their phones. Image and status is everything. The world seems driven by anger, consumption and a total disregard for others. We’ve crossed the rubicon in many worrying areas globally as a society.

I think I’m just at the sharp end of it in Samui as the island gets taken over by tourists and people building villas. I see everything tossed out from rubbish and local customs to the dogs I try to help. Humans care so little for the world we live in and it’s really starting to show.

My mission is to help the world’s street dogs and I’ll need to use the technology, capital and systems of the modern world to do that but it pains me to live in that world. I’ll only do it for the sake of the street dogs. AI is 100% taking most of the jobs no matter what anybody says, the wealth divide is growing and the unfortunate creatures like the dogs will continue to suffer most.

As I sat watching the man washing his buffalo and the sun rising I just longed for a simpler life. A life where humans and animals lived together peacefully and respected the land rather than chasing meaningless paper wealth and fake status.

All I can try and do is build a small corner of kindness and compassion with wonderful people to help as many dogs as possible. No matter how helpless some of us feel in life the street dogs really have no voice and very few humans on their side.

Be kind to each other ❤️

[briand @BullyCaSa]

@Binar10101 @IQTestBrain Right for all the wrong reasons, lol.

[briand @BullyCaSa]

@tektronix Tektronix is the best. Here is a 5103N oscilloscope, still running great after all these years!

[briand @BullyCaSa]

@cooltechtipz 198

[briand @BullyCaSa]

@Mishi_2210 042

[Tadashi G. Takaoka @tgtakaoka]

ワンチップPDP8のIM6100が完成した。クロックは約5MHz。アドレスが有効な期間が短くて苦労した。
割り込み許可ION命令などが実際は内部I/O命令で、実行するとアキュムレータが壊れる。ハード実装よりの命令群でプログラミングはパズルのよう。マンデルブロは遅い。

[briand @BullyCaSa]

@tgtakaoka This is fantastic! I am doing the same thing, but with the Harris 6120 and a Retroshield.

[briand @BullyCaSa]

@Arden_2210 n*n - 1, so 48.

[briand @BullyCaSa]

@MrCrypto3706 @grok And the winner is...

[briand @BullyCaSa]

Looking forward to some DEC PDP-8 retrocomputing. There are lots of possibilities for hardware add-ons based on this awesome design!

I just purchased a RetroShield 6120 (PDP-8) for Arduino Mega/Teensy by 8-Bit-Force on Tindie! https://t.co/cVAFY7AtWP via @Tindie

[briand @BullyCaSa]

@MindHealthMaker @callmeMizuko Answer is 18 by a simpler method:
8=88
7=70, delta from previous 18
6=54, delta from previous 16
5=40, delta from previous 14
4=28, delta from previous 12
3=18, delta from previous 10.

[briand @BullyCaSa]

@Mishi_2210 8118

[briand @BullyCaSa]

@_Radderzzz Can't unsee it now...