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Bryan Zug
@bryanzug.bsky.social
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Product / UX / DesignOps | Opinions my own | Links where you can find me are at https://linktr.ee/bryanzug
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November 17, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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I was visiting Robert Lang recording studios a few years ago here in Seattle and snapped this pic.
Gold record of MXPX's album "Slowly going the way of the buffalo"
November 6, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Just sayin'…

Jesus Overturning by @nakedpastor.bsky.social
Jesus Overturning Tables by @nakedpastor.bsky.social aka David Hayward
October 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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From the shelf behind me…
October 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Straight from the airport on Friday.
September 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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In other news, am visiting my brother in Highland this weekend and keep passing your old place on the way up to his place.
September 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Two old people in love standing under a bridge in New York City.
September 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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It’s @jenzug.bsky.social’s birthday today - And this is the hat we got her to celebrate!
September 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme

www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...
“We have let school shootings in America persist long enough that we have created a culture where kids grow up seeing them as a path towards fame and glory. Another consequence of how thoroughly the internet has flattened pop culture, politics, and real life violence. All of it now is just another meme you can participate in to go viral. Made even more confusing by a new nihilistic accelerationist movement that delights in muddying the waters for older people who still adhere to a traditional political spectrum. Many young extremists now believe in a much simpler binary: Order and chaos. And if you are spending any time at all trying to derive meaning from violent acts like this then you are, by definition, their enemy.” Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme https://www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-kirk-was-killed-by-a-meme via Instapaper
September 13, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Coincidence that the U.S. Federal Government just threatened a state that bans open carry?

* Time to brush up on what a well regulated state militia means.

** Believe them when they tell you who the fuck they are.

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Now a bit of film criticism and why it matters in moments like these…

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Infographic of the wikipedia maps of the United States where it is legal and illegal to visibly carry firearms in public places. Map on the left is where handguns are legal / banned to open carry, and the map on the right is where long guns like rifles and shotguns are legal / banned to open carry. Below this is the wikipedia detail on open carry laws for the state of Illinois that the Federal Government of the United States threatened on September 6, 2025 with the statement "Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR" featuring an AI generated image of President Trump as Robert Duvall's character Lieutenant Colonel William "Bill" Kilgore, commander of 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regimen in the film "Apocalypse Now" – which is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. On Duvall's character, the late Roger Ebert wrote this on what struck him as the greatest sequence in the film - 'The best is the helicopter attack on a Vietnam village, led by Col. Kilgore (Robert Duvall), whose choppers use loudspeakers at top volume to play Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” as they swoop down on a yard full of schoolchildren. Duvall won an Oscar nomination for his performance and its unforgettable line, “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” His emptiness is frightening: A surfing fanatic, he agrees to the attack only to liberate a beach said to offer great waves (“Charlie don’t surf”).'
September 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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@erikahall.bsky.social - Was having breakfast out the other day and for some reason the clickens came to mind…
5 bright red chicken sculptures sitting on molding inside of a restaurant.
September 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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This mosaic artwork depicts a blend of ancient Mesoamerican and modern American imagery. The centerpiece features an Aztec or Mayan warrior wearing an elaborate feathered headdress in vibrant reds and oranges, positioned within decorative circular borders containing geometric patterns. The warrior is carrying what appears to be a dying women dressed in blue fabric. He is holding a knife and looking at a red classic American low-rider car driving by that appears to be from the 1970’s. The entire composition is rendered in detailed mosaic tilework using small colored stones or tiles in earth tones, reds, blues, and golds, creating a juxtaposition between pre-Columbian culture and mid-20th century American automotive culture.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
September 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement
tomorrow at 2?
20 ft high sculpture in NYC’s Central Park of a bust with purple shoulders and head, shoulder length black hair, and a bright green beetle silhouette as a face. The beetle changes colors depending on your angle of view. The image shiws people emerging out from behind it on both sides.
September 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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From the mind of @davegray.bsky.social
On the left is a drawing of many circles that intersect but do not directly overlap - It is labeled “culture”. On the right is a drawing of many circles that directly overlap - It is labeled “cult”.
August 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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I am at the Lumineers show in Seattle and all of the white dresses and floral crowns are making me feel like some kind of Midsommar ritual is about to take place.
August 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Picked up M. Ward & Damien Jurado posters from the #VeraProject silk screen crew last weekend at @timberfest.bsky.social - This was the paper they used to roll those posters up - A work of art in & of itself.
Silk screen poster on green paper that’s says, 1) Go at your own chosen speed - Joan Baez (in red), and 2) Fix your hearts or die - David Lynch (in blue)
August 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Roasted some fresh figs from the tree tonight.
August 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Reminds me of @chuckwendig.bsky.social's "Meat Frinds"…
// Meat Friends by Chuck Wendig - Original twitter thread on Jan 18, 2019 FRIDAY. You're a soul with skeleton architecture wreathed in the armor of blood meat and skin, you chew food with facebones, you squeeze that food of its nutrient energy and then eject it wherever you want, you have a mouth snake that ululates and tastes, YOU'RE A GODDANG MIRACLE Seriously I know I've covered this before but the human body is FUCKED UP and TOTALLY AMAZING YOUR BLOOD CAN TRAVEL 60,000 MILES IN YOUR BODY. THAT'S A QUARTER OF THE WAY TO THE MOON. NO WONDER WE CALL IT THE BLOOD MOON, THAT'S WHERE YOUR BLOOD IS TRYING TO GO TO THE FUCKING MOON INSIDE YOUR BONES IS MARROW MARROW THAT MAKES BLOOD MARROW THAT MAKES UP TO 500 BILLION BLOOD CELLS A DAY THE HUMAN BODY IS HEAVY METAL AS HELL This squishy sack of viscera and bone is YOU, and it lets you sing and write poetry and tap dance and knife fight, you're a cauldron of acid, a recycling center, a creativity machine, a super-computer made of MEAT, what glorious twisted beings we are. And sometimes we MASH OUR FLESH MACHINES together in various configurations for pleasure and then sometimes we make SMALLER FLESH MACHINES as a result it's like slapping two blood-filled iPads together and they make an iPhone oh my god we're so weird and wonderful We can REARRANGE our configurations and stick temporary or permanent paintings on our skin with ink and change our hair and our faces and our very identities and then we keep on gallumphing around and sloshing about, MAKING COOL STUFF and FINDING OTHER MEAT FRIENDS omg Our MEAT FRIENDS sometimes make MEAT FAMILIES or MEAT VILLAGES or we use the PUDDING COMPUTERS inside our skulls to create technology that allows our meat to talk to other meat across vast distances holy crap science and biology and technology whoa But once upon a time we were just little microbial life ahhh it's fucking astonishing Somewhere along the way the tiny organism that was us was like I WANNA SEE SOME SH…
June 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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See you there #Seatle #NoKings
June 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Bonny Light Horseman, self-titled
Bonny Light Horseman album cover that is a an ultra close-up of a white horses face.
May 20, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Gates on Musk… "The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one"
May 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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May 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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CT scan check-up day - #NoWhammies!
Bottle of CT scan imaging solution in front of a medical image clinic background.
May 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Clicken merch has arrived in Seattle!

Thanks @erikahall.bsky.social !!!
April 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Loved talking w/Matt Johnson on the @fontawesome.com Podcast about "Why Design Is Hard" – We dove into what really makes design challenging in organizations:

1️⃣ "Figma is not the job" - we often have a product design culture that worships artifacts & avoids relationships

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#UX #DesignLeadership
March 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM