Bryn Shaffer

Diane is this thing on? Diane I've been sucked into another social media platform.

[bumper sticker] MAKES FREQUENT STOPS TO STARE INTO OBLIVION

From Antichrist to Action Hero - How Sam Neill Redefined Horror’s Leading Man: bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3...

Capitalism

The spooky season arriveth early

3D Pinball: Space Cadet for Windows XP

Just finished Lunar Software's Routine and am shook. Fantastic immersive space horror that left me questioning my life choices. Sending this game to my family next time they ask me why I haven't had kids yet @routinegame.bsky.social

Happy Friday, babies and gentlemen. We made it 🖤

I love Dragon Age

Twin Peaks: The hallway staircase at the Palmer house.

Wow - Thank you so much for taking the time and care to talk about VILE: Exhumed. If you have the time please watch this very thoughtful piece on the game. 🖤

Damn fine coffee coop.

I'd take a night playing the same N64 games on a tiny TV over most things.

I feel like once a character crosses X-files, Law and Order, and Sesame Street they're essentially a real person at that point.

A LEGO video game asking me to choose between performance or fidelity as if it's going to actually offer either

sparkling apple spider

Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive. ✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️ archive.org/details/sier...

Just checked the USPS tracker and I'm pretty sure one of my packages is stuck on Kentucky Route Zero

I chatted with Joachim Trier about SENTIMENTAL VALUE. insessionfilm.com/interview-jo...

Twin Peaks: Audrey dancing at the RR Cafe.

Do I have academic research abstract deadlines? Yes. Do I have extra free time? No. Will all my research abstracts now have to be about DoomScroll? Yes and I'm super excited about it.

Turn old artificial Christmas trees into underwater reefs. US Patent 12495775, issued today

🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (ZTF20-background). RGB Filters: 1000, 770, 560 PI: Hillenbrand, Lynne A., program 12486. CRVAL: 44.461047, 61.213636 Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

Video Cat, one of the best and last standing movie rental joints in Vancouver, has the greatest card machine going - WWE? Next Gen Trek? Pokemon? Yes.

Hubble image of Arp 283, also known as NGC 2798 and NGC 2799. The left galaxy in this interacting pair, NGC 2799, is viewed edge-on. A bridge with clumps of star formation appears to connect it to NGC 2798, at right. Credit: ESA, NASA, SDSS, J. Dalcanton, J. Schmidt Source

Didn't realize movies that happen in hotels was one of my favourite genres until the @criterionchannl.bsky.social new collection

The only archival theory I need.

Heading into 2026

Research data security protocols pre ethics review be like.

2720 sounds ambitious

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

insanely good thing to say when you enter a room

EVERYBODY ONLINE: space is the worst possible place for a data center, doesn't anyone at this paper know a single thing about thermodynamics??? EVERY MAJOR PUBLICATION IN AMERICA: do opinions count

Duke Nukem > Duke Nukem II

Absolutely wrecking smash melee with a basement bottom review on today's EP is my favourite Christmas present from @victorlucas.bsky.social

Dream team

New year, new retro FPS movement shooter to obsess over. Excited to have a ･:*:⋆ super cute ☆:~* outlet to rain destruction on my enemies.

alright it's fucking cold nrw: the thing (1982) dir: sabrina carpenter dp: dean cundey w/ @weakcrybaby.bsky.social

I signed on to this letter because I refuse to accept the framing of "AI" as inevitable or even urgent. Generative "AI" in particular is slop tech for a fascist era and this rushed "consultation" period is just part of the overall griftosphere that constitutes modern tech. bccla.org/policy-submi...