iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

began saying bin Laden had to be hiding in Pakistan starting in like 2003

Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Rotund” is a funny word because they created a word that means “round, but not exactly“ by sneaking a letter into “round” so you read it as “round“ and then you spot the hidden letter and say “oh, but not exactly”

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know nothing about this but I dig the name

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Help me out: I can ID all the movies on the Roku screen saver except this one. What is it?

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I just discovered Osees did something I've wanted to do for years: cover the default hold music on Cisco phone systems if you don't know what I'm talking about, trust me, you know this song and have probably thought to yourself that it's kind of a jam open.spotify.com/track/7GcAy6...

open.spotify.com

LADWP Hold

Thee Oh Sees, Osees · Intercepted Message · Song · 2023

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Maybe my favorite joke in "Buffy" is early on where they take Oz into the library and explain that Sunnydale is located on a hellmouth and he blinks a few times and says "well that explains a lot actually"

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Spotify just showed me an ad for a Dead Kennedys, Flipper and the Avengers show next month in San Francisco. Modern medicine is remarkable

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Being on three high-dose courses of prednisone permanently damaged my hip joints. A valuable drug but take as little of it as you can manage.

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

it’s not good to have to learn this about yourself, but it’s good to know it after you do

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

all constructors guaranteed to bring it but I’m especially looking forward to the three teamups

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

@vorbis.bsky.social dude how are you so insanely globally good at Puzzmo games

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Could the new world struggle to be born a little faster. These monsters are killing me. Get born, dipshit

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 12/09/2026

“Just about everything that you can imagine on the voting rights front, North Carolinians have faced it,” says a voting rights advocate. Here’s how this recent history is coming to a head in November’s election for the state supreme court.

boltsmag.org

They’ve Long Clashed on Voting Rights. Now They’re Facing Off for a Supreme Court Seat. - Bolts

North Carolina Justice Anita Earls, a former voting rights lawyer, and Sarah Stevens, a longtime legislator, have been on opposite sides of election issues for over a decade.

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

a little unexpected crossword theme entry brainstorming moment that might amuse @rianjohnson.bsky.social consider the title "Wake Up Dead Man" focus on "Dead Man"; note the space, or room, between the words are there missing words that could complete phrases in the room between DEAD and MAN?

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Before tonight’s Shearling show I did not know it was possible for a band to play blistering noise rock for *eighty straight minutes without stopping.* Unbelievable level of commitment by every musician. I am deafer than I’ve been in years.

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

tfw there's a great band you didn't know about basically living down the road from you moonwomb.bandcamp.com/track/unseel...

moonwomb.bandcamp.com

Unseelie Court, by Moon Womb

from the album Moon Womb

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

People are also needing to stay where they are and not come here maybe

extra google search results:

People also ask
Is North Carolina a white or black state?
What is Woodlawn known for?
What is the downfall of living in North Carolina?

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Is there somewhere in the Triangle where I could donate old music gear, especially electronic stuff? I have some old drum machines, MIDI controllers, cables, etc. The places I see online want donations of orchestra instruments. It'd also be helpful to have a way to explain "this works for X not Y"

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In high school I got paid on several occasions to go around to department stores at local malls and do custom painting on pairs of newly purchased Keds. I don’t think I had my license yet, making it yet another thing I don’t know why my mom agreed to drive me to. I probably made $20 an afternoon.

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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Du Bois, Black Reconstruction.

The true significance of slavery in t he United States to the whole
social development of America lay in the ultimate relation of slaves
to democracy. What were to be the limits of democratic control in
the United States ? If all labor, black as well as white, became free were
given schools and the right to vote -what control could or should
be set to the power and action of these laborers ? Was the rule of the
mass of Americans to be unlimited, and the right to rule extended to
all men regardless of race and color, or if not, what power of dictatorship
and control ; and how would property and privilege be protected ?
This was the gre at and prim ary question which was in the minds of
t he men who wrote the Constitution of the United States and continued
in t he minds of thinkers down through t he slavery controversy.
It still remains with the world as the problem of democr acy expands
and touches all races and nations.

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

When you can’t remember what “Encanto” is called

Frozen foods aisle sign that reads “Hispanic Frozen”

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'd attribute this to his stroke if the behavior described wasn't so remarkably similar to Sinema's before her exit. Loving the attention and the platform, hating leadership and colleagues and constituents and doing the actual job.

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I did not know that the pronunciation of “et cetera” as “eck cetera,” which seems more and more common, was a dialect feature rather than a simple inability to pronounce words the way they are written

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Jen , the MT liberal bird lady @liberal-jen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A murmuration of starlings above Sardinia, Italy. One of my favorite natural phenomena.

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When I was growing up - in Virginia - if you were older than 5 and lived less than a mile from my elementary school you HAD to walk to school. They didn’t have any bus routes for you. They had crossing guards.

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I don't know if this is uncommon, but the student newspapers at rival schools UNC and Duke are really excellent and as far as I can tell have just gotten better in the digital era.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wendell Berry is gone after a long life. I dare you to read or listen to this and not be overwhelmed by something

onbeing.org

The Peace of Wild Things

A poem by Wendell Berry.

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

my daughter is watching Hook and it's so magical to re-experience that from a child's perspective: the first time you realize a movie can absolutely suck shit

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Haven’t listened to this album in years. Just listened to the second half of “Hearts Alive” three times in a row. How can you get to minute seven of a thirteen minute song and still have the technical capacity to launch into the six minutes of riffs that follow? open.spotify.com/track/5ZwXpx...

open.spotify.com

Hearts Alive

Mastodon · Leviathan · Song · 2004

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

OK I knew @gppasco.bsky.social was on “Jeopardy!” a while back but I didn’t have live TV so I missed it. You know what else I found out tonight I’ve been missing? Paolo cruising through the whole “Jeopardy!” franchise like it was the early rounds at the ACPT. God damn dude

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

*a horse walks into a bar* BARTENDER: why the long face HORSE: i’ve been to the desert with a guy who doesn’t know my name BARTENDER: tough break. how about a drink HORSE: no

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The only jobs I‘ve ever been particularly good at were working in a record store and hand-coding HTML so I certainly relate to this

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chris walla, ,, @calculizer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

mary timony appreciation post

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is another of my biannual posts about the bafflingly underappreciated 00s-10s Vancouver indie rock band Ladyhawk I'm pretty sure you could start a band and play nothing but Ladyhawk songs and pretend you wrote them and people would call you a genius open.spotify.com/album/4ur6sZ...

open.spotify.com

No Can Do - Album by Ladyhawk | Spotify

Ladyhawk · album · 2012 · 10 songs

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

In 1933, 18-year-old Carrie Smith led two thousand Black women workers out of the Funsten nut processing factory in St. Louis and out onto the picket line. “Girls, we can’t lose!” she’d cried, waving a Bible in one hand and a brick in the other www.teenvogue.com/story/teens-...

teenvogue.com

Teens Have Always Been on the Front Lines of the Labor Movement

For a century, teens have proved time and time again that they are the future.

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I guess Really Bad Chess is the official exception to my “no more chess” policy, allowing me the leeway to brag about the occasional coup de echecs #puzzmo puzzmo.com/play/really-...

puzzmo.com

@ricky's finished Really Bad Chess #1036

Play the best daily puzzles on Puzzmo

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“Nobody warned me there was this much fighting in space!”

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I opened the box and what’s in it is both music-related and strange. Still awaiting guesses. Three guesses and I’ll post a photo.

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Mystery of the morning: I found an unopened 5-pound box from @mergerecords.bsky.social mailed to me in 2009. What’s in it? I don’t think it’s thirty CDs — not quite heavy enough. Reasonable and creatively unreasonable answers welcome.

An unopened cardboard box ordinarily used to mail 30 CDs; in fact, the label on the side indicates that it was to be used to mail 30 copies of Julian Koster’s solo album, which I don’t think is what’s in the box

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

this would have been played into the ground at @wxyc.org back in the day and perhaps still will be

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 11/07/2026

60% of youth in custody are diagnosed with ADD or ADHD – compared to just 11% nationally. Kids need care, not cages.

Graph showing the prevalence of diagnoses among youth in confinement: 4% autism spectrum, 27% learning disabilities, 60% ADD or ADHD

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

tag yourself I'm Wild Pete Garuchi

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This is extremely disingenuous. Public companies always list as many material risks as they can think of in their SEC filings in order to preempt shareholder suits. If it’s a company like Taco Bell, they are going to list foodborne illness as a risk.

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

my attention span is too short for me to be much of a soccer fan but I’m in awe. Pippen to Jordan x50

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

we are left-handed because it is a subtle but undeniable way for God to indicate that we are his chosen people www.quantamagazine.org/why-am-i-lef...

quantamagazine.org

Why Am I Left-Handed? | Quanta Magazine

An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once.

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