Russell Brandon
LightNews LightNews
banner
runtzel.bsky.social
Russell Brandon
@runtzel.bsky.social
390 followers 820 following 530 posts
Library Barbarian, Cognitive Scientist
|: play is how we learn to :| games is arts is books is talks (he/him), tratando de aprender español, gracias por tu paciencia, scrooge in training
Posts Replies Media Videos
runtzel.bsky.social
A brown shelled snail on a gray surface
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
runtzel.bsky.social
Made a wiffleball board for summer reading party, worked out better than expected!
A black board with Rowlet, Oddish, Sinderquill, Butterfree, and mudkip - with swadloon as well. There are 3 holes in the board, a la a carnival game
August 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
runtzel.bsky.social
strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
Once, when contemplating the apparently endless growth of administrative responsibilities in British academic departments, I came up with one possible vision of hell. Hell is a collection of individuals who are spending the bulk of their time working on a task they don't like and are not especially good at. Say they were hired because they were excellent cabinet-makers, and then discover they are expected to spend a great deal of their time frying fish. Neither does the task really need to be done—at least, there's only a very limited number of fish that need to be fried. Yet somehow, they all become so obsessed with resentment at the thought that some of their co-workers might be spending more time making cabinets, and not doing their fair share of the fish-frying responsibilities, that before long there's endless piles of useless badly cooked fish piling up all over the workshop and it's all that anyone really does. I think this is actually a pretty accurate description of the moral dynamics of our own economy.
July 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
runtzel.bsky.social
Reading this and just want to put out an inspo to call/text/think about someone you love 💜
The front cover of Mama Seetons Whistle, it show a woman in a yellow dress being hugged from all directions by her four children.
July 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
runtzel.bsky.social
Missing jackfruit fries and tiny silver bullet trailers today
A ceramic cup from Welcome Diner, a restaurant in PHX AZ - used to be in a trailer but it's got like two locations or something now?
June 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
runtzel.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
runtzel.bsky.social
One might imagine Sisyphus begrudging.
A poster with Sisyphus from the video game Hades by Supergiant Games. He is wearing a green tattered toga and has an oversized manacle and lock as a belt. Chains from the belt lead to manacles on both wrists. He is sweeping his hand through his hair on the back of his head with a sheepish expression. The word "persist" is above him in print (I don't know it's a good workout poster) and the light from the latticed door windowed behind him creates several Xs of shadow and diamonds of light. There are a few layers of painters tape in orange and blue, leftovers from several moves.
May 31, 2025 at 8:48 PM
runtzel.bsky.social
Mmmm yes, fools for the fool god
A block list called fools and chumps
May 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
runtzel.bsky.social
Repost and Tear, until it is done.
May 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
runtzel.bsky.social
Can't even do mullets properly
A picture of Brett kavanaugh, in which the angle makes it look like he has a mullet.
April 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
runtzel.bsky.social
LMAO more evidence that only losers work for this admin - look at that blend. JFC I've known 3rd graders who could edit a photo better than that
a cropped portion of the Trump administration's Covid Conspiracy page, demonstrating the horrible photo blend job that some chud did, there is a slight discoloration around Trumps body, left over because people who are full of hate don't know how to do anything else
April 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
runtzel.bsky.social
Blue Prince told me to take notes so when I play stoned I come back to notes like this
The words, "I'm Simon?! fuck" written on a page of notes about the game Blue Prince
April 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
runtzel.bsky.social
YO @tumbleweird.bsky.social keeps going with these dope covers - and that's just the cover
The front cover of Tumbleweird April 2025 issue - depicting a person drawn in manga/comic style wearing a purple hoodie, they have short black hair and purple eyes, and they are smiling while purple lightning arcs around their hands, they are standing in front of a wall with many different mangas represented.
April 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
runtzel.bsky.social
hell yeah
March 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
runtzel.bsky.social
Hey so the best thing about Avowed is that they wrote dialogue that makes your character sound like they actually care about the questions they ask - really can't wait to beat this so I can play through again
A picture of Giatta from Avowed, talking to the player character - Giatta: I know I've got one lifetime, and I want to do something with it, the PC has the option to ask the following: 1. Breaking new ground in animancy is a good start, 2. Right, but that doesn't answer my question, 3. Why?
March 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
runtzel.bsky.social
Loving Avowed, Gd this is real future shit - yes please let me play the story part of the game without having to replay everything, or even just the convenience of not having to have wikipedia up on the side - BEAUTIFUL - love the adaptations storytellers can make in the medium
A picture of a dialogue history & lore screen from Obsidian Entertainment's "Avowed" - the screen currently shows information about the Living Lands, with context for Rauatai, The Deadfire, and Huana
February 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
runtzel.bsky.social
Hell yeah great Saturday
A VHS of the Patch Adams VHS
February 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
runtzel.bsky.social
First good WA snow
February 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM
runtzel.bsky.social
Atom The Beginning has been a very good and very satisfying read.
Umatoro calls lab 1 an out of touch bunch of nerds A107 tells their brother A106 to come enjoy the internet with them.
January 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
runtzel.bsky.social
Hell yeah I love the USPS - once this is done I have to find one of the new trucks GDI I love them thank you USPS
A picture of a model kit for a US Mail Service 1977 Ford Pinto - cool as hell imo
January 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
runtzel.bsky.social
It's snowing in Florida and Louisiana
January 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
runtzel.bsky.social
I was just going to use the palm trees as a filler until I got more stuff, but I'm kinda digging the "Dark Science Travel Agency" vibe? Posters by @dresdencodak.bsky.social
A large photo of palm trees and the horizon, to the right of the trees are two screen printed posters from the comic Dark Science by Senna Diaz - one poster depicts a cloaked person walking around a pile of bones with the phrase, "don't know, don't care" - the bottom poster shows a pile of bones being swept up with the phrase, "Keep our city clean, report your death to the department of expiration"
January 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
runtzel.bsky.social
Advertise your account with one Simpsons image
The final scene of The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 6, Homer Cubed, in which a 3 dimensional Homer Simpson walks down a street with real world people looking on.
January 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
runtzel.bsky.social
Feels powerful
A screen cap of the finalists for headline of the year 2024 - self-driving cars found to be safer - except at dawn, dusk, or when turning according to study and Britain has seen an alarming rise in poetry sales - the voting is conducted by @paulisci.bsky and there are 499 likes each, with the 499 highlighted, hence the sense of immeasurable power I feel. Voting rules.
December 31, 2024 at 7:51 PM
runtzel.bsky.social
I've literally seen two other dorksperts have breakdowns like these when confronted with people who didn't have their stats background - it's just peak Skinner shit to say, "but what I'm saying is TRUE" - my dude, it may be true, BUT IT DOESNT MATTER -
A Bluesky post by Will Stencil - "Some things are true and no matter how much you yell and scream and how many threats you make against the people saying them and how many of yours friends agree that they're definitely not true, those things are still just TRUE"
December 28, 2024 at 3:16 PM