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Ryan Kirkbride

@rkirkbride.bsky.social
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Plant biologist and geek at UT Austin. You can find me as @rkirkbride on all the things. Except twitter. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Look at what they have done to my boy. I’ll let you guess which is my old “original 3” Koosh” and which is the newly purchased “original 3” Koosh”.
On the left: a classic yellow and pink Koosh ball at 46 grams and slightly over 3”, on the right: a newly purchased blue and black Koosh at 26 grams and ~2.75 inches in diameter.
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Spooky Sara (Endless Halloween🔪🩸🪦) @pashion.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Its a meme of Bilbo Baggins from the lord of the rings movie and he us holding a phone reading what Chat Gpt ai is telling him it says "ChatGPT

Bilbo - After all why not? Why shouldn't
keep it?

Chat gpt: You're absolutely right - you found it it's been with
you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of
something that's served you so well especially
when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want
it for himself.
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Kevin A. Scott, PhD @sculpturatus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
found at ucsf
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Exhausted by credulous tech coverage, I had a flashback to the last time GPU-based company made absurd, hyperbolic claims about their world changing tech. The key difference to Elon, Mark, Sundar, Satcha and Sam today is that 25 years ago, people were in on the joke: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NWU...
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3dfx Commercials (3dfx Interactive) (Promotional Ad / Anuncio Promocional) [TV]
YouTube video by La Mazmorra Abandon
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Fancy honey/hot mustard and sauerkraut. Diced onions, finely shredded cheddar and Hormel Chili w/o beans is also acceptable.
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I approve of World Cup: Calvinball edition
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
There is nothing more patriotic than wanting better lives for your neighbors.
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
“There are people that live in $3 million homes, but they’re not millionaires. They just happen to have bought a home at the right time and they’re literally looking at $500,000, maybe even a million-dollar tax liability” Quite literally makes them millionaires, 2-2.5x over.
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Good redeems its own. Evil turns upon itself. No, this isn’t a subtweet. Why, did something happen?
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Let’s light this candle!
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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Reposting this meme (with alt text) as a stand alone for any future usage needs where someone might prefer it not being already part of a thread:
A screen shot from one of the Thor films (Thor: Ragnarok), with a dark haired pale skinned woman wearing dark eye makeup and clothing (Cate Blanchett playing Hela, Thor's elder sister) holding her arm straight out, braced against Thor's hammer that has been thrown at her. The scene is over a green field under a cloudy gray sky. The hammer is labeled "It's basic biology".  She is labeled "Advanced Biology".
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
#7 in black is the most perfect cheap pen ever made and I will not be taking questions at this time.
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
My department core facility is currently learning that letting a lab borrow the vibratome that "no one ever really uses" is a quick and inconvenient way to learn exactly how many users there really are :/
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I have discovered the Brunton Compass, it is beautiful, absurdly expensive, and I don't need it. I don't. Stop it.
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Dangers of the hobby table. One of these is my tumeric and ginger tea, two are the forbidden paintbrush wash water.
A cluttered hobby table with three glass mugs with handles in the foreground. One vibrant yellow liquid, one cloudy red, and the last clear but offputting.
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Quote with 10 Anime to get to know you - Macross Plus - Wings of Honneamise - Vision of Escaflowne - Ninja Scroll - Fushigi Yûgi - Ghost in the Shell - Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years (I know.) - 08th MS Team - Memories - Short Peace
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Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com · 12/02/2026
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The Super Bowl may be taking place in Santa Clara, but the Super Bowl ads are taking place squarely in the Uncanny Valley. Yeech.
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
American Idiot at the #SuperBowl. LFG.
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
#Puppybowl!!!
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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 08/02/2026
🫡 Absolute legend. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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Twin Cities tow truck driver returns abandoned vehicles to families after ICE arrests
Juan Leon sends a "chase" car to check out where abandoned vehicles are located and arranges discreet drop-offs. Since late December, he estimated they have dropped off 250 cars.
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I just remembered there is going to be curling soon and my whole day improved.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 23/01/2026
Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
It's a three-day weekend and my paper has been accepted. Time for the gif:
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a close up of a man 's face with the words `` it 's gone , it 's done ''
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words `` it 's gone , it 's done ''
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Showing the grad students how to use the microinjection rig today. Step one was to show them how to blow bubbles to make sure everything was working. Embarrassingly I had to spend a little bit explaining my ensuing reference.
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Bubbles Finding Nemo GIF
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Some things are perfect. Timeless. Like a crystal. Once a year, you should help yourself to the most flawless thing the late great Andy Rooney ever made: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KngG...
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How Andy Celebrates New Year's Eve
YouTube video by CBS News
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 29/12/2025
Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life. “A thick desire is one that changes you in the process of pursuing it. A thin desire is one that doesn’t.” [joanwestenberg.com]
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Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life
The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger.  We’re hungry for more, but we have more than we need.  We’re hungry for less, while more accumulates and multiplies. We’re hungry and we don’t have words to articulate why. We’re hungry, and we’re lacking and we’re wanting. We are
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
The final Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. The entire page is mostly white as they're in the winter snow. The pair is walking with a sledge, nicely duffled in in scarves, hats, gloves. Calvin delightedly exclaims 'wow, it really snowed las night! Isn't it wonderful?'. Hobbes follows up with 'Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand-new!' -- A new year... a fresh, clean start!' adds Calvin. As they look over the landscape, Hobbes observes 'it's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on!' -- 'A day full of possibilities!' Calvin affirms. They get ready on their sledge and Calvin tells his friend 'it's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... let's go exploring!', and the pair sledges off into the wintery landscape.
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Sad news. Bob was a great scientist and a huge influence of mine in grad school. I've been very lucky to get to work with him, his lab, and the wonderful people he trained over his expansive career. newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/in-m...
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In memoriam: Robert Goldberg, 82, renowned plant biologist and revered UCLA educator
The pioneering genetic scientist, whose research transformed plant molecular biology and whose teaching enriched the lives of generations of UCLA students, died Nov. 21.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Jesus fucking Christ what a god-awful news cycle
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Jennifer Wright @jenashleywright.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
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Clue Hello GIF
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Dusted off the BattleTech minis to try out this newfangled Alpha Strike and ACES thing at the LGS.
Models of mechs perched atop buildings looking down on a city of nice paper terrain.Grognards grognarding over a table top of futuristic minis.
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Finally! Bonus for the end of my week!
Album cover for John Henry by They Might Be Giants. Featuring a teen girl sitting holding a rock hammer and staring at the camera. Sticker proclaims “Finally on Vinyl”.
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Happy Slow Horses day to all those who celebrate . tv.apple.com/us/show/slow...
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Watch Slow Horses - Show - Apple TV+
Watch Slow Horses, an Apple Original thriller following a team of dysfunctional MI5 agents. Starring Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden and Kristin Scott Thomas…
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Nothing like the confusion preceding the realization that record you just put on is actually a 12" 45.
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I missed a description while listening to the audiobook of the new Michael Connelly novel 'Nightshade'. Decided to do my periodic check on ChatGPT performance. Turns out, still a confidently idiotic bullshit engine.
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Larrish 💙 @larrish.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🙂
I SURVIVED READING BANNED BOOKS
ALL I GOT WAS SMARTER AND MORE EMPATHETIC
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
RIP fuel pump :/ Oh well, after 24 years, I'm just gonna call it the Truck of Theseus.
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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 11/06/2025
LOS ANGELES CIVIL UNREST SCALE

1992 RIOTS

TRADER JOE'S
SILVERLAKE PARKING

HOLLYWOOD BOWL
INTERSECTION
AFTER A CONCERT

XMAS WEEK
HOLIDAY SHOPPING AT
GLENDALE GALLERIA

LAKERS/DODGERS
CHAMPIONSHIPS

CURRENT LEVEL AND WEATHER
68 AND FAIR, AND ABOLISH ICE
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Texas thunderstorm knocked out the power. Now the eternal question, wait for the fix, or do I break out the Coleman to cook dinner.
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
It isn’t a backlog, it was/is an investment in my present/future self. A mix of new and 20+ year old minis, mostly grimdark canibal space chickens. Including my beloved 2001 Gameday mini I got off eBay circa 2003. I’m reasonably sure I own every Kroot model ever cast, outside the Forgeworld stuff.
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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Article from The Chaser, Jul 9th 2022:

Picture of three young women in skimpy sportswear playing volleyball.

Headline: "Trans person likely upended whole life to gain advantage in volleyball competition, reports idiot"
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The world is aflame, but that doesn't mean we can't make time for the best seasonal tumbler page of all time: poopingonbluebonnets.tumblr.com
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Pooping on Bluebonnets
It's that season in Texas when people take pictures of themselves pooping on bluebonnets.
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Marie-Claire @mariecgould.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Man after my own heart
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Ryan Kirkbride @rkirkbride.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Get wrecked Elon you unctuous toad.
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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
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