Bryan Zug

@bryanzug.bsky.social

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Product / UX / DesignOps | Opinions my own | Links where you can find me are at https://linktr.ee/bryanzug

Black t-shirt with a tiki-bar style illustration of Sleestak from Land of the Lost TV show
7 year old boy with his father, a fur bearing trapper in 1977 in Highland, CA. The father is holding several coyote pelts in the left of the picture ($25 each in 1977 dollars) and several bobcat pelts in the right of the picture ($350 each in 1977 dollars). The boy is holding a taxidermied badger.
80's kids in an orange Missile Command t-shirt with a heavy plastic iron on from the mall.
Me wearing a green beanie with @Dansinker’s “Trying” patch on it next to an illustration of Minnesota with Paul Bunyan on it. My wife Jen grew up a few files from where George Floyd and Renee Good were executed.
Black cat on top of a red mushroom scratching post.
Mountain Goats backdrop at the Neptune in Seattle - Wed, Dec 3, 2925
Coyotes on the roof of a single family home in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle.
Gold record of MXPX's album "Slowly going the way of the buffalo"
Jesus Overturning Tables by @nakedpastor.bsky.social aka David Hayward
Two old people in love standing under a bridge in New York City.
“We have let school shootings in America persist long enough that we have created a culture where kids grow up seeing them as a path towards fame and glory. Another consequence of how thoroughly the internet has flattened pop culture, politics, and real life violence. All of it now is just another meme you can participate in to go viral. Made even more confusing by a new nihilistic accelerationist movement that delights in muddying the waters for older people who still adhere to a traditional political spectrum. Many young extremists now believe in a much simpler binary: Order and chaos. And if you are spending any time at all trying to derive meaning from violent acts like this then you are, by definition, their enemy.” Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme https://www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-kirk-was-killed-by-a-meme via Instapaper
Infographic of the wikipedia maps of the United States where it is legal and illegal to visibly carry firearms in public places. Map on the left is where handguns are legal / banned to open carry, and the map on the right is where long guns like rifles and shotguns are legal / banned to open carry. Below this is the wikipedia detail on open carry laws for the state of Illinois that the Federal Government of the United States threatened on September 6, 2025 with the statement "Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR" featuring an AI generated image of President Trump as Robert Duvall's character Lieutenant Colonel William "Bill" Kilgore, commander of 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regimen in the film "Apocalypse Now" – which is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. On Duvall's character, the late Roger Ebert wrote this on what struck him as the greatest sequence in the film - 'The best is the helicopter attack on a Vietnam village, led by Col. Kilgore (Robert Duvall), whose choppers use loudspeakers at top volume to play Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” as they swoop down on a yard full of schoolchildren. Duvall won an Oscar nomination for his performance and its unforgettable line, “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” His emptiness is frightening: A surfing fanatic, he agrees to the attack only to liberate a beach said to offer great waves (“Charlie don’t surf”).'
5 bright red chicken sculptures sitting on molding inside of a restaurant.
This mosaic artwork depicts a blend of ancient Mesoamerican and modern American imagery. The centerpiece features an Aztec or Mayan warrior wearing an elaborate feathered headdress in vibrant reds and oranges, positioned within decorative circular borders containing geometric patterns. The warrior is carrying what appears to be a dying women dressed in blue fabric. He is holding a knife and looking at a red classic American low-rider car driving by that appears to be from the 1970’s. The entire composition is rendered in detailed mosaic tilework using small colored stones or tiles in earth tones, reds, blues, and golds, creating a juxtaposition between pre-Columbian culture and mid-20th century American automotive culture.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
20 ft high sculpture in NYC’s Central Park of a bust with purple shoulders and head, shoulder length black hair, and a bright green beetle silhouette as a face. The beetle changes colors depending on your angle of view. The image shiws people emerging out from behind it on both sides.
On the left is a drawing of many circles that intersect but do not directly overlap - It is labeled “culture”. On the right is a drawing of many circles that directly overlap - It is labeled “cult”.
Silk screen poster on green paper that’s says, 1) Go at your own chosen speed - Joan Baez (in red), and 2) Fix your hearts or die - David Lynch (in blue)
Figs roasting on a bbq grill.
// Meat Friends by Chuck Wendig - Original twitter thread on Jan 18, 2019 FRIDAY. You're a soul with skeleton architecture wreathed in the armor of blood meat and skin, you chew food with facebones, you squeeze that food of its nutrient energy and then eject it wherever you want, you have a mouth snake that ululates and tastes, YOU'RE A GODDANG MIRACLE Seriously I know I've covered this before but the human body is FUCKED UP and TOTALLY AMAZING YOUR BLOOD CAN TRAVEL 60,000 MILES IN YOUR BODY. THAT'S A QUARTER OF THE WAY TO THE MOON. NO WONDER WE CALL IT THE BLOOD MOON, THAT'S WHERE YOUR BLOOD IS TRYING TO GO TO THE FUCKING MOON INSIDE YOUR BONES IS MARROW MARROW THAT MAKES BLOOD MARROW THAT MAKES UP TO 500 BILLION BLOOD CELLS A DAY THE HUMAN BODY IS HEAVY METAL AS HELL This squishy sack of viscera and bone is YOU, and it lets you sing and write poetry and tap dance and knife fight, you're a cauldron of acid, a recycling center, a creativity machine, a super-computer made of MEAT, what glorious twisted beings we are. And sometimes we MASH OUR FLESH MACHINES together in various configurations for pleasure and then sometimes we make SMALLER FLESH MACHINES as a result it's like slapping two blood-filled iPads together and they make an iPhone oh my god we're so weird and wonderful We can REARRANGE our configurations and stick temporary or permanent paintings on our skin with ink and change our hair and our faces and our very identities and then we keep on gallumphing around and sloshing about, MAKING COOL STUFF and FINDING OTHER MEAT FRIENDS omg Our MEAT FRIENDS sometimes make MEAT FAMILIES or MEAT VILLAGES or we use the PUDDING COMPUTERS inside our skulls to create technology that allows our meat to talk to other meat across vast distances holy crap science and biology and technology whoa But once upon a time we were just little microbial life ahhh it's fucking astonishing Somewhere along the way the tiny organism that was us was like I WANNA SEE SOME SH…
Bonny Light Horseman album cover that is a an ultra close-up of a white horses face.
Bottle of CT scan imaging solution in front of a medical image clinic background.
// Picture of a quote by Annie Dillard from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek… -- …my only weapon was stillness, and my only wish its continued presence before my eyes. I knew it would fly away if I made the least false move. In half an hour it got used to me – as though I were a bicycle somebody had abandoned on the bridge, or a branch left by high water. It even suffered me to turn my head slowly, and to stretch my aching legs very slowly. But finally, at the end, some least motion or thought set it off, and it rose, glancing at me with a cry, and winged slowly away upstream, around a bend, and out of sight. -- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard, 1974
Slide from a 2011 Ignite Seattle talk with a picture of the 3D animated Seagulls in Finding Nemo saying, "Mine, Mine, Mine." Title at the top of the slide comically labels this as "Nemoseagullic" behavior.
Picture of a book quote that reads… // Hauerwas & Willimon foreshadow trumpianity's troubling ethic (in 1988 — 35 yrs ago)… -- The project, begun at the time of Constantine, to enable Christians to share power without being a problem for the powerful, had reached its most impressive fruition. If Caesar can get Christians there to swallow the "Ultimate Solution," and Christians here to embrace the bomb, there is no limit to what we will not do for the modern world. Alas, in leaning over to speak to the modern world, we had fallen in. We had lost the theological resources to resist, lost the resources even to see that there was something worth resisting. -- Stanley Hauerwas & William H. Willimon, Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony, 1988