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Brian Danger Hicks

@ckape.bsky.social
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Music, movies, microcode (software), and high-speed pizza delivery. Time Magazine 2006 Person of the Year and 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile In Courage Award winner I can also be found on Mastodon teh.entar.net/@ckape

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わはは @mrbowers.bsky.social · 18m
Okay, first: lol Second, this is a much better sentiment than the Pledge of Allegiance or whatever Christofascism garbage the City Council was hoping for here.
On Tuesday night, Ottumwa resident, satanist, and former city council member Matt Dalbey took the podium to read an invocation to start a routine meeting of the council. “Thank you mayor, council. Let us pray,” Dalbey started. “Dear dark father, let us stand now unbowed and unfettered by arcane doctrines born of fearful minds and darkened times. Let us embrace the Luciferan impulse to eat off the tree of knowledge and dissipate our blissful and comforting delusions of old.”The prayer is a common one used by the Satanic Temple of Iowa. “Let us demand that individuals be judged for their concrete actions, not for their fealty to arbitrary social norms and illusory categorizations,” he continued. “Let us reason our solutions with agnosticism in all things, holding fast only to that which is demonstrably true. Let us stand firm against any and all arbitrary authority that threatens the personal sovereignty of one or all. That which will not bend must break. And that which can be destroyed by truth should never be spared its demise.”“It is done. Hail Satan,” he finished.
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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 2h
This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."
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foaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"snowpiercer is trying to say that class societ-" WRONG, snowpiercer is saying that it even in the worst circumstances that it kicks ass to be on a train
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 6h
the real resentment for me is that you can say "we should get rid of billionaires" to an audience of millions & that counts for less than saying "we should make billionaires kings" to an audience of 3 billionaires
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The Lexorcist @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip
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Eric Harris Bernstein @ehbinmn.bsky.social · 23h
They started texting with a 16-year-old. After two years, they offered to sell him a gun. They consider that "stopping a terrorist attack." And they are calling it heroic. What an absolute embarrassment.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 21h
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The trans panic is a manifestation of the same logic as the Satanic Panic - shifting culpability for widespread abuse and rape away from cishet men and onto an exotic other who might secretly be somebody you know and must be vigilant against instead of being vigilant against the men in your life
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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I think the problem is more that something is on
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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!
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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The best tattoo is knuckle tats that say "LOLB UTTS"
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gg @ggold328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i will help yakko, wakko, and dot in any way i can to get their vengeance
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots
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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's not iodized! People will get goiters!
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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 07/10/2026
just think: boycotting the Harry Potter show means hurting JK Rowling AND the Ellisons now
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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/10/2026
one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them
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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No more superpacs, only vert-a-pacs
A vert-a-pac railcar being loaded with automobiles.  The railcar has side panels that rotate on a bottom hinge and automobiles are secured to the inside of these panels and a large forklift is seen raising the panels up to vertical.
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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Woman Shouts 'Booooo!'
Alt: Old woman from Princess Bride shouting 'Booooo!'
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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My one neutrino story is that I had a freshman seminar by one of the people working on MINOS and got to tour Fermilab and see the near detector under construction. A very different beast than IceCube.
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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Unfortunately SP beet trains are inescapable. It was one thing when I was in California but then I went to St. Louis RPM and SP beet train clinic. Went to the National Narrow Gauge Convention and one of the layout tours was central California with a prominent SP beet train.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: For the first time in 10 months, the U.S. admitted a refugee who is not a white South African. In September, the U.S. admitted 3,386 white South Africans and two Afghans (in D.C.) In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 16,287 white South Africans, five Afghans, and nobody else.
rpc.state.gov
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Nate B @warpedhorizon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In exciting Midwest passenger rail news, starting today Amtrak's Borealis now runs with 4 Superliner coaches instead of 3, adding 75 more seats. Dash 8-32BWH #518 is on the rear of the first 4 car run, passing Imniza Ska slightly behind schedule.
A passenger train lit by the sunset. At the head is GE P42DC #54, behind it are 4 silver bilevel passenger cars, each with a red, white, and blue stripe. At the rear is a strange angular locomotive, a GE Dash 8-32BHW. Behind the train a steep wooded hillside rises, and above it are patchy clouds lit by last light.
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criss chros @captaincell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Zoidberg's Dramatic 'Zoooidbeeerg!' Reaction
Alt: Zoidberg saying 'Zoooidbeeerg!'
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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They only say that because Elon Musk hadn't been invented yet.
Title card from A View To A Kill (1985) saying "Neither the name 'Zorin' nor any other name or character in this film is meant to portray a real company or actual person."
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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the replies to this contain 100,000 variations of the "sickos" comic with different self-insert fursonas in them and that's beautiful
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
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Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They seem to want me out of there as soon as I tell them I'm an engineer
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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'd expect a bobcat from eBay, not Amazon.
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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
But if I don't go into the woods I'll miss out on the teddy bears' picnic
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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dennis Hastert leaves behind a legacy of all the boys he sexually abused and also the informal "Hastert Rule" which Republicans are somehow not too embarrassed about to invoke by name.
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acabylon 👻👻 BOO 👻👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
if you were wondering how he only served 13 months in prison after raping multiple minors, it's because he served zero jail time for raping multiple minors. the only jail time he served was for financial crimes covering up sexually abusing children. he kept his congressional pension up to now
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a community note for the ages.
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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I remember being frightened for days by Ernest Scared Stupid. Not the monster design so much (though that didn't help), but my young mind grappling with the existential horror that the troll's victims were apparently conscious the whole time they were inanimate wooden dolls.
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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
stribs.medium.com/searching-fo...
youtube.com
Drive-By Truckers - Ramon Casiano (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
respectfully, you are absolutely wrong. being banned is *always* bad for authors, even in the EXCEEDINGLY rare case that they make some list that people go to. because the goal is for most of us that KIDS have access. and ANY kid that doesn't is an arrow straight thunk to my heart
I still remember when getting banned in visiting on your book cover was a guarantee of extra sales. this is different, but I think there is still some merit in being banned. it depends on who's going the banning and why
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
all this is both foolish and unnecessary
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ANSI Files from Discmaster @ansibot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
FERR1.ANS, 1998-04-15 from BBS_Stuff_Variant_Collection_Years (other)
Ferrengi Assault Trader Length - 177 meters SubSpaceCom Array Width 160 meters Disp 219 tons Hull Carbonite Propulsion - Unknown Weapons - PulseLaser Lifeforms - Ferrengi This craft has been identified as the Ferrengi's primary scouting vessel. It does carry sufficient firepower to pose a threat to some of the smaller rederation-design warcraft though. The Ferrengi seem to excel in developing drive systems and the Assault Trader makes this readily apparent in its high speed and agility. One craft by it's self can be handled, but be warned that they prefer to trauel in convoys.
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
there was a rainbow that ended at the Grain Belt sign
View east on Hennepin bridge on rainy day with rainbow ending at giant sign
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mel in ballhalla 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
[most cheerful voice you’ve ever heard] “oh yeah i was plenty angry” —average minneapolis pastor
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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think it's probably extra busy with it being the last weekend and better weather than the past few weekends
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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Give us Barry Bus!
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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A lot of Faarquads at the Ren fest today
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One major reason that Microsoft was using a definition of intelligence borrowed from white supremacist Linda Gottfredson a couple of years back in their AI documentation is that scientific racists are pretty much the only ones out there pretending that intelligence is well defined and understood
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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Soon
A light rail train behind chain link fencing at the southwest transit station.
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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Keep it up! It's important to exercise your mind to keep it young.
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Ian rudderbutt @reasonablemustelid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rico Charges @NoChorus

Once at my granny's house my uncle excitedly said a James Bond film was on the tv. My Da said "sure they're all the same, a load of lads shooting at one lad then a mountain blows up." My uncle got really mad at how reductive that was then became furious when the mountain blew up.


Rico Charges @NoChorus • Sep 29, 2021

My Da, of course, knew it was the one where the mountain blows up at the end. This was a foundational lesson which illustrated to me that walking the path of the hater means knowing more about something that people
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Fully Automated @fullyautomatedluxury.com · 03/10/2026
final panel shows nancy looking behind the bushes but the text from r crumbs "lookit that stupid ass-hole!" meme panel placed atop it so that nancy is looking in disgust at sluggo saying 
"I loathe ever person i see on the street! Lookit that stupid ass-hole!"
with text saying "normal guy" pointing at sluggo.
the whistling from the original panel has been removed and the whistling from the r crumb panel has been placed there instead.
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Flan @flanknits.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The City of Minneapolis appears to have replaced nearly all the stop signs in my neighborhood with brand new signs in the last two weeks.
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.
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