Christine Bryant-Ryback
@hootbot.bsky.social
Software Engineering Manager in civic tech consulting / @hootbot on Twitter / Charlottesville, Virginia / married to @emily.gorcen.ski / she/her
Because for me spooky season is year-round and my birthday (last Thurs) is once a year, I bought myself a ridiculously expensive Hedley & Bennett apron designed as a collab with one of my favorite horror franchises, Nightmare on Elm Street. I love it SO much. Time to bake some brownies in style 😎🔪
November 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Because for me spooky season is year-round and my birthday (last Thurs) is once a year, I bought myself a ridiculously expensive Hedley & Bennett apron designed as a collab with one of my favorite horror franchises, Nightmare on Elm Street. I love it SO much. Time to bake some brownies in style 😎🔪
Having a lovely day off finally seeing “Him” at Violet Crown on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall (what a movie, A+), then spotting some Steve Keene in the background on ESPN while getting a late lunch
October 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Having a lovely day off finally seeing “Him” at Violet Crown on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall (what a movie, A+), then spotting some Steve Keene in the background on ESPN while getting a late lunch
Oh, and tonight I finally let myself buy a better clear bag for concerts than the cassette tape one I bought in 2017 for a Halloween costume that is extremely fragile and uncomfortable to wear - out here solving some heckin’ PROBLEMS
September 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Oh, and tonight I finally let myself buy a better clear bag for concerts than the cassette tape one I bought in 2017 for a Halloween costume that is extremely fragile and uncomfortable to wear - out here solving some heckin’ PROBLEMS
Jerkass Central Station
August 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Jerkass Central Station
I just learned that Sims 4 bundled “nectar” [wine] making into their horse ranch expansion, and I am livid - if I wanted to experience wine and horses I can drive 20min in the real world, I am *trying* to build a horseless basement fantasy brewcave and hacker/maker lab okay
August 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I just learned that Sims 4 bundled “nectar” [wine] making into their horse ranch expansion, and I am livid - if I wanted to experience wine and horses I can drive 20min in the real world, I am *trying* to build a horseless basement fantasy brewcave and hacker/maker lab okay
My personal four out of our seven records today that I snagged before I dragged myself away from the bins (do not take me to a record store, I have no impulse control there)
August 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My personal four out of our seven records today that I snagged before I dragged myself away from the bins (do not take me to a record store, I have no impulse control there)
That spider is about to take wildcrafting to the real next level
August 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
That spider is about to take wildcrafting to the real next level
My wife really messed up with this one because I remembered that I need someone to finally pick me up the sandwich I’ve been wanting to try called the Cuban Pickle Crisis (but with no dijonnaise because I don’t do mayo) (asking someone to take mayo off gives me anxiety so I make her do it)
August 15, 2025 at 4:22 AM
My wife really messed up with this one because I remembered that I need someone to finally pick me up the sandwich I’ve been wanting to try called the Cuban Pickle Crisis (but with no dijonnaise because I don’t do mayo) (asking someone to take mayo off gives me anxiety so I make her do it)
Had the best time this weekend at our beloved for-charity CLAW event benefiting the new local Queer Therapy Fund and used my silly tech salary to win a She-Ra action figure from the charity auction - as a kid I had a She-Ra lunchbox but did not have a sick action figure so they really had my number.
July 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Had the best time this weekend at our beloved for-charity CLAW event benefiting the new local Queer Therapy Fund and used my silly tech salary to win a She-Ra action figure from the charity auction - as a kid I had a She-Ra lunchbox but did not have a sick action figure so they really had my number.
“Us” by Jordan Peele is a 4th of July movie, change my mind
July 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
“Us” by Jordan Peele is a 4th of July movie, change my mind
I definitely still have a college cafeteria fork that was bendable into a bracelet from my days doing UVA’s Young Writer’s Workshop in the early 2000s - sorry we got a bit too creative, UVA can bill me
July 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I definitely still have a college cafeteria fork that was bendable into a bracelet from my days doing UVA’s Young Writer’s Workshop in the early 2000s - sorry we got a bit too creative, UVA can bill me
I’m just saying
June 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I’m just saying
The web design firm I worked at 2006-2012 got TONS of actual sent-in-the-mail paper-based font marketing catalogs and I took home a few that were going to be thrown out anyway, and one day in 2015 or 2016 I chopped one up to illustrate my biographical headers and recreate a 1980s owl robot toy
June 24, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The web design firm I worked at 2006-2012 got TONS of actual sent-in-the-mail paper-based font marketing catalogs and I took home a few that were going to be thrown out anyway, and one day in 2015 or 2016 I chopped one up to illustrate my biographical headers and recreate a 1980s owl robot toy
On paper this was my ideal chili crisp, but it has no heat! The crunch is so good, peanuts and sunflower and sesame and pumpkin seeds… Torn between dumping in hot pepper flakes or just cutting it with Lao Gan Ma as I empty the jar
May 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
On paper this was my ideal chili crisp, but it has no heat! The crunch is so good, peanuts and sunflower and sesame and pumpkin seeds… Torn between dumping in hot pepper flakes or just cutting it with Lao Gan Ma as I empty the jar
My preorder for the latest by @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social arrived today 🪓
May 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
My preorder for the latest by @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social arrived today 🪓
Almost time for a bit more cheese
![THE 4 STAGES OF EATING CHEESE - 1 Eating cheese. [pictured: a little cartoon rabbit eating cheese from a cheese plate] 2. Still eating cheese. [same picture as before] 3 Ate too much cheese. [rabbit is looking a bit green and sick] 4. Bit more cheese [same picture as 1 and 2] Artist credit is @FINDCHAFFY](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3bpc63teufbcrlakzdxoq475/bafkreifyux6hcyvzqug3tpzft6ab6xev45g3uenpn4bovfzdhwbcugpgfy@jpeg)
April 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Almost time for a bit more cheese
Dating myself in an incredibly precise way, my dad tried really hard to get our local video rental store to save a promotional Titus film poster for me but I’m certain they only had one and I imagine one of the other cinema nerds in Charlottesville bargained harder
April 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Dating myself in an incredibly precise way, my dad tried really hard to get our local video rental store to save a promotional Titus film poster for me but I’m certain they only had one and I imagine one of the other cinema nerds in Charlottesville bargained harder
On that note, my birb is encouraging me to go to bed
April 13, 2025 at 4:43 AM
On that note, my birb is encouraging me to go to bed
I also don’t mind driving 1hr to Richmond to pay an amazing skilled worker to do my ink fingerprinting instead of staffing CPD
March 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I also don’t mind driving 1hr to Richmond to pay an amazing skilled worker to do my ink fingerprinting instead of staffing CPD
I just made risotto for the first time while listening to horror movies, and I put in probably too much Swiss chard and some wild boar sausage that was Reduced for Quick Sale. It looks like goop and tastes divine! (I loved wild boar when I ate it in Europe. No, not the same. But good.)
February 23, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I just made risotto for the first time while listening to horror movies, and I put in probably too much Swiss chard and some wild boar sausage that was Reduced for Quick Sale. It looks like goop and tastes divine! (I loved wild boar when I ate it in Europe. No, not the same. But good.)
The Alamo Drafthouse Queer Theory series is so good that I sometimes have to steal an extra order card to write down citations for later. Today I wrote a note to follow up on this: sunypress.edu/Books/T/Toni...
February 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The Alamo Drafthouse Queer Theory series is so good that I sometimes have to steal an extra order card to write down citations for later. Today I wrote a note to follow up on this: sunypress.edu/Books/T/Toni...