Brant Russell

PR | Interested in rhetoric/how info spreads | MA @EmersonCollege | Obsessed with cars, but hate car dependency | Missing big city life | He/Him

[Brant Russell @BrantRussell]

Anytime I’m stuck in traffic going into downtown Austin I regret every negative thing I said about the T while I was in Boston.

[Brant Russell @BrantRussell]

@tyson_jominy Ha. That sounds like a less-weird reason, but in reality I just like the seam of the cup to be aligned with the seam of the sleeve.

[Hamz Talks Hoops @hamztalkshoops_]

Arguably a top 3 NBA Reddit response I’ve ever seen

[Porsche @Porsche]

Mission S.

Authentic. Consistent. Timeless.

A glimpse into the future - shaped by our heritage. Mid-engine architecture. A focus on the driver and the driving experience.

Call it a love letter.

[Dume @gietzschean]

Winged imagery in Art Deco designs will always be one of my favourite motifs

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Nicolas Cage says he’s probably not working with Amazon again after refusing to sign an AI waiver for ‘SPIDER-NOIR’.

“I am not an AI-friendly actor, so it’s like, connect those dots! I’m not a member of their club. I didn’t sign the waiver to let him use AI on ‘Spider- Noir.’ I’m probably not going to be working with that studio again, but that’s okay.”

[Brant Russell @BrantRussell]

@fogi_bear Burying the lede there my friend. Congrats!

[mersomas @mersomas]

It’s the car from the meme

[Brant Russell @BrantRussell]

@ActuallyBrandon One more and you’ll run out of space on the gauntlet.

[Jeremy Herbert @DDayFilms]

[George Lucas, driving away from Taco Bell] Beenba Rito

[Ben Inskeep @Ben_Inskeep]

Straight to jail

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Dandelions are one of the last flowers standing in the fall. Spray one with roundup and you're spraying every bumblebee queen that visits, just as she's preparing to hibernate.

The flower doesn't die on contact. It takes days, and it keeps getting visited the entire time. Bumblebee queens are feeding hard right now, building the fat reserves that have to carry them through months underground with no colony and no food. Every queen that doesn't fatten up is a colony that doesn't start next spring.

Research from Finland found glyphosate-exposed bumblebees lost the ability to tell flowers apart by color, and lost their sensitivity to the ultraviolet patterns bees use to find nectar.

Late solitary bees, hoverflies, and butterflies are working the same flowers too.

If the dandelions genuinely bother you, dig them out. A weeding fork gets the taproot.

Or leave them. The first hard frost takes care of it.

[gabe @allgarbled]

Bro, just use the passkey. It’s in the magic link. It’s in your authenticator app. We sent you a code. It’s 2FA with your phone and yubikey. It’s face id. It’s sign in with SSO. Just enable touch id. Do you want to stay signed in? (we’ll log you out anyways)

[Madeline Hill @mad_hill]

An unbelievable GIF

[Brant Russell @BrantRussell]

@roisinmachine Pupcorn is PRECIOUS.

[Brant Russell @BrantRussell]

@JaneRayburn

[Brant Russell @BrantRussell]

All these Russ tributes have me misty eyed in this coffee shop.

[Russell Westbrook @russwest44]

Sometimes you don’t even know when you’ve already watched the end.

You had to be there. And now it’s over.

[J.B. Sauceda @jaybsauceda]

People struggle to understand the remote nature of Big Bend.

In 2015 I flew a plane around the entire border of Texas and photographed it from the air. It took 6 days to complete the trip. Big Bend alone was one full day of flying and photographing.

Both sides of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo, are hundreds of miles of the most inhospitable, yet beautiful desert landscape. The Chihuahuan Desert is unforgiving country. A place with massive rock cliffs and very little terrain you can traverse by foot safely.

The visitor rate in the park is on the lower end compared to more accessible parks like Yosemite and The Great Smoky Mountains, but its popularity among those who have actually visited is astounding.

In fact, this summer I was camped in the Smoky Mountains next to an older couple who travels the country in their RV.

Being from North Carolina they had spent a lot of time there as well as many of the parks in the West.

They saw my ¡Viva Terlingua! sticker and asked if I’d been. I told them that I’d spent about a week in Big Bend for the last 19 years and got out there any time I could.

They said they took the desolate drive along State Highway 90 through Sanderson on their way out. It was on the husband’s bucket list to visit and it was by far his favorite park now that he had.

The untouched, rugged, austere nature of that area is the feature that draws people in and leaves a lasting impression.

If you’re at a loss to understand why there’s such an uproar over construction of a road barrier through Big Bend Ranch State Park and BBNP, then it’s my belief that you’ve likely never been. Because if you had, you’d understand.

[Brant Russell @BrantRussell]

@EvilMopacATX I had the two best sandwiches of my life at Bordo. I’d genuinely drive back for that alone.

The McDonald Observatory is excellent.