Ryan Kirkbride
rkirkbride.bsky.social
Ryan Kirkbride
@rkirkbride.bsky.social
Plant biologist and geek at UT Austin. You can find me as @rkirkbride on all the things. Except twitter. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Finally! Bonus for the end of my week!
October 18, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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.
July 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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.
May 18, 2025 at 4:14 AM
My first attempt at Anpan: Japanese bun filled with sweetened red bean paste. Only 2/8 were perfect, the rest had leakage or were full on disasters which I was able to hide on camera.
March 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Well, if HEB is going to bollox up my home grocery delivery at least I got some quality stuff out of it. Two dozen free eggs! Such wealth!

(Correct half of order on the left, randos half on the right)
March 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Digging through old boxes I found what I think is my first bottle of hobby paint. Suddenly I’m back in my Bowles Hall single. It is 1997, I’m a sophomore at Cal, and I am listening to the Babylon 5 soundtrack for Severed Dreams.

Floored this isn’t petrified solid. It shall be a relic of my people.
March 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Yesterday at the Texas Capitol #standupforscience2025
March 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Been a bit of a week (most of them are these days), and wanted some comfort food. So I made my first attempt at beef bourguignon. Great success if I do say so myself.
March 2, 2025 at 4:12 AM
My most recent Lego kit. Shackleton’s Endurance. Good times. The sails are kicking around somewhere, but I prefer it with the sails unrigged.
February 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Mine. All mine. Out of print for 26 years, I got tired of checking it out from the library/terrified it would go walkabout. Thanks eBay.
February 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
It finally came. Time for some Yoko Kanno goodness. IYKYK.
February 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I decided to correct a historical mistake, one that lay within my power on a Sunday night: McDonalds style apple pies, but fried them properly instead of the objectively worse baked version.
January 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Texas snow day dinner: Korean fried chicken (scratch) and kimchi (store bought). Need to try some homemade kimchi, but one step at a time. This on is working it’s way into the repertoire. Gochujang will change your life.
January 22, 2025 at 3:13 AM
November 16, 2024 at 2:04 PM
@frameshift.bsky.social reminded me there was a new set of Kroot models for Warhammer 40k. Just picked them up, and while tracking down the old minis to ensure my paint scheme matches, I figured I have the house to myself for the weekend, why not take inventory of 20+ years of building and painting.
September 1, 2024 at 11:40 PM
August 14, 2024 at 9:39 PM
October 11, 2023 at 10:47 PM
#inktober day 2: Spiders!
October 3, 2023 at 1:32 AM
My first stab at #inktober.Do hashtags work here? I feel like hashtags don’t work here. Prompt was “dreams”.
October 2, 2023 at 3:07 AM