Anna Brandberg

@annabrandberg.bsky.social

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UX Lead @ Rift | ⏳Prev: The Outsiders, Funcom, EA, King Time Person of the Year 2006 | Keynote Speaker | IGDA Next Gen Leader | Eyeroller in Chief | 🌍TCK 🧠ADHD 🩻EDS 🌈bi 🤘metalhead 🤓LoL dork 🔪Feminazgûl Views are mine & you can't have them she/her

Photo of the sun catcher hanging in front of a dark background. It's in the shape of a cherry blossom branch, made of wire and hemp twine, with leaves made of light green fabric, and cherry blossom flowers made of pale pink glass beads. Scattered across it are glass crystals, dangling on little silver chains attached to the branch, and a large teardrop-shaped glass crystal at the very bottom finishing off the sun catcher.

An opened Roomba with something very large poking out from its dirt-collection guts.

Screenshot of the alt text from the third image in my post, saying, "My helpless and painfully incompetent little Roomba who had ONE job all alone, entirely by itself, in the middle of the flat and unobstructed living room floor, with nothing around it for miles and miles. His derpy googly eyes (which he earned a mere few weeks after acquisition) placed above the Roomba's light-ring, complete the look, giving him a permanently surprised 😯-face as if he, too, is unbelievably shocked that he (once again) was unable to do the one thing that l'd spent far too much money on for him to do — and reminding me that he is, in fact, terribly helpless, and, after all, just a lil guy... 👉👈"

Screenshot of a phone notification saying that my Roomba, named Jarvan, has an error and needs attention.

Three sets of legs on a fold-out couch, covered in blankets, in front of a TV with Boomerang Fu. I sit cross-legged in the middle eating my breakfast while the kiddos (attached to the two sets of flexed and clearly concentrated feet on each side of me) enthusiastically try to make guacamole of each other.

Meme of a metronome swinging furiously between two text snippets: "a better world is possible" and "we're so fucked".

Screenshot showing 3 (of many) bullet points with a few highlighted statistics from Women's Aid org's website:

• Over 80% (83%) of high frequency victims (more than 10 crimes) are women (from a study of data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, a nationally representative household survey) (Walby and Towers, 2018).

• On Track national data relating to female service users shows that the Overwhelming majority of the alleged perpetrators are male (93.8% of perpetrators were male and 80.0% were the current or ex- partner of the survivor) (Women's Aid, 2025).

• The majority of domestic homicide victims (killed by ex/partner or a family member) for the year ending March 2022 to the year ending March 2024 were female (69.6%, or 245 victims) and most of the suspects were male (235 out of 245) (ONS, 2025a). In the majority of female domestic homicides, the suspect was a male partner or ex- partner (72.7%), whereas in the majority of male domestic homicides, the suspect was a male family member (58.9%) (ONS, 2025a).

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Source: https://womensaid.org.uk/information-support/what-is-domestic-abuse/domestic-abuse-is-a-gendered-crime/

Collage of 16 different gorgeous outfits Lidia Poët wears throughout the show.

Still from Game of Thrones of Joffrey choking (but it looks like he's gasping and clutching his pearls).

Final panel of a Calvin & Hobbes strip showing a now-also-angry Susie next to Calvin, whose foul mood has turned into an evil grin, under a thought bubble saying, "Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around."

Screenshot of a TeamTailor job application section where the candidate can submit recommendations/references, with fields for "Email", "Name" and "Company / Title".

Photo of a delightfully un-sober Anna in cozy clothing and fluffy socks, grinning ear-to-ear, and holding a slice of pizza that she's inexplicably put sprinkles on.

She is about to learn that not all whimsical life decisions are made equal.

Movie still of Ryan Gosling as Dr. Grace in the film Project Hail Mary, wearing a black t-shirt with white text saying, "I HAD POTENTIAL".

Two variations of the buttons displayed in the original post, but without the border radius changing. i.e. All the buttons remain consistent in size:

1. When the button is active, the colour changes and a white outline appears. An additional checkmark appears on the selected button if they are icon-less (i.e. text-only).

2. When the button is active, the colour changes, a darker outline appears, and the selected icon grows in size. An additional checkmark appears on the selected button if they are icon-less (i.e. text-only).

Screenshot of report with punny section heading, "ENTER THE METAWORSE", circled in red.

Full PDF: https://storage02.forbrukerradet.no/media/2026/02/breaking-free-pathways-to-a-fair-technological-future.pdf

A colourful gif showing two unicorns talking to Charlie The Unicorn saying, "We're going to Candy Mountain! Come with us, Charlie!" and "Yeah, Charlie! It'll be an adventure! We're going on an adventure, Charlie!"

Salad Fingers gif with the text "I like rusty spoons. I like to touch them."

Screenshot of a yet-unearned badge in Wordle, with the text "1000 Wordles" and a progress bar underneath showing "666/1000".

Cartoon of Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes) yelling, "Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!" at the universe.

There is a notepad.exe in the System32 folder, which does open, and has the text "A new version of Notepad is available."

"ANCIENT ALIENS" meme guy — but with the text "VIDEO GAMES"

Sandwich alignment chart showing varieties of sandwiches ranging from "Lawful good" to "Chaotic evil", with Purist → Neutral → Rebel for "Structure" and "Ingredients" along each axis.

Post by @the_blondebookworm: "Bold of men to rename natural selection as the 'male loneliness epidemic'

D20 with the word "EDGE" along all the edges and the text "EDGY AS FUCK" in the middle

Still from a Crashdïet documentary with the subtitles, "unfortunately the dildo of consequence rarely comes lubricated".

Photo of a cute little snowman in a courtyard with button eyes and a carrot nose, and golden bokeh lights glimmering in the background.

Image of Clippy that I photoshopped to look angry, in front of a red background.

Highlighted text: "We also want to make you aware (as journalists) that ModRetro does have somewhat of an affiliation with Anduril"

Icon for the mobile game, Drop The Cat, depicting a very cute, white chonky little cartoon cat falling through clouds, belly up, with all four limbs out in the air and a little × marking its butt.

Very grumpy selfie wearing a big black winter coat in front of a snowy street and a darkening sky.

A piece of carrot cake with more icing than cake — half eaten.

A piece of carrot cake in a café display with more icing than cake.

Photo of my hand holding a can labelled "Mango drink" with a picture of a mango on it, purchased in a Swedish grocery store.

A drawing of a metronome labelled "ADHD", swinging between two bits of text saying "BORED" and "OVERWHELMED BY EVERYTHING I COMMITTED TO WHILE I WAS BORED"

Selfie of myself on my couch with pale makeup, fake blood streaming down my face from my eyes and mouth, a silver cross necklace, differently coloured eyes, and a black crown of thorns.

Photo of Fatboy Slim DJing. On the back of his laptop there is a big sticker with the text, "DROP ACID, NOT BOMBS".

White man in a swimming pool with water up to his head, pouring a bottle of water onto his face, with the text "when you're a men's rights activist and you finally get your rights"

Woman laughing hysterically while eating salad (with tomatoes in it)

Meme of Kermit the frog looking upwards at a man in a suit, with the text "Your salary won't be very good starting out. Is that okay?" "My performance won't be very good until it is. That okay?"

Uncropped version of the bottom selfie, which is of me doing my best impression of the 😩-Gollum sticker (looking overly dramatically weary/exasperated).

An edited version of the middle selfie, which is of me doing my best impression of the ✨-Gollum sticker (flashing a huge innocent smile with a number of ✨ sparkle emojis around the frame — just like in that Gollum sticker).

Uncropped version of the top selfie, which is of me doing my best impression of the 🥰-Gollum sticker (flashing a huge derpy smile while squishing a red pillow into a heart shape under my chin).

Screenshot of the Gollum sticker pack in Telegram, with 25 different cartoon portraits of Gollum showing a range of different emotions and facial expressions.

Video of myself doing a set of 6 × 75 kg deadlifts in front of a mirrored gym rack, wearing black gym gear, my hair in a bun, and versa grips on my wrists. These grips help keep the bar in my hands while I lift by offloading/attaching much of the bar's weight onto my forearms, so that my hypermobile hands and fingers don't subluxate (i.e. get pulled out of their sockets). I'm easing up and down gently through my lifts so that I don't lock my hypermobile knees at the top either.

My Finch birb dressed up as a shark, off on an adventure in the Amazon, viewed from the front.

Video of a bumble bee with a big ol' fluffy butt that cuts into slow-mo just as the bee gets RIIIIGHT in there with a bunch of bright blue Forget-Me-Not's flowers.

Drawings of Pompompurin in different poses — all of which show his butthole.

Scene from the song "Cell Block Tango" (from the musical, Chicago) of a group of women dancing in front of a row of jail cells, angrily singing the line, "He had it coming!"

Illustration by Liz Fossilien showing two graphs with text underneath each one.

Graph 1: A dotted downward curve.
Graph 2: A steady upwards trend with little ups and downs along the way, and the little dotted downwards line from the first graph shown at the very top, highlighted as "Today".

The text underneath the graphs say, "Don't let a bad day... distract you from all the progress you've made."

Screenshot of the final section of the article:

"The fact that this is happening to many out there is beyond reprehensible," said one concerned family member. "I know my sister's safety is in jeopardy because of this unregulated tech, and it shows the potential nightmare coming for our already woefully underfunded [and] under-supported mental healthcare system."

"You hope that the people behind these technologies are being ethical, and you hope that they're looking out for things like this," said another, a woman who says her ex-husband has become unrecognizable to her. But the "first person to market wins. And so while you can hope that they're really thinking about the ethics behind this, I also think that there's an incentive... to push things out, and maybe gloss over some of the dangers."

"I think not only is my ex-husband a test subject," she continued, "but that we're all test subjects in this Al experiment."

Selfie of Darcy and I, post-sauna, in the beautiful Centralbadet gardens.

Black and white photo of a man in the train ticket booth, playing and singing along on an acoustic guitar... 🎶

Maeve Millay (Westworld): 92%

Screenshots of notifications from my Roomba app:

"Roomba ended the job stuck."
"Roomba requires your attention: Roomba is trapped."

Screenshot of 3 of my daily goals in the Finch app:
- Take 3 deep breaths
- Replace "I should" with "I choose to"
- Drink water

Drake meme format.

Top half (Drake no likey): "I have a great idea for a game..."

Bottom half (Drake likey): "...and I've already created the graphics, 3D models, sound effects, music and everything else you'll need."

Screenshot of my birb in its home from the Finch app