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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 16/09/2026

For what it’s worth, the contest started two days ago.

2. CONTEST PERIOD. The Contest begins on 9/14/2026 at 12:00:00 AM Eastern Time ("ET") and ends on 10/7/2026 at 11:59:59 PM ET (the "Promotion Period").

27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 16/09/2026

I thought that maybe this was a thing that just happened to already be going on and the timing was entirely coincidental but uh, nope, this contest started two days ago 😂

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 05/09/2026

The couple lived in North Carolina: www.carolinajournal.com/federal-judg...

Bragdon rejected Sinema’s arguments that a North Carolina court had no jurisdiction to hear Heather Ammel’s complaint. The former senator argued that she conducted her relationship with Matthew Ammel outside of the state.

“Ms. Ammel felt the harm in North Carolina, since her marital residence was there and there was no evidence that she traveled substantially outside of North Carolina,” the judge wrote.

“Here, Ms. Ammel testified that she saw nine Signal messages from Ms. Sinema on Mr. Ammel’s phone while he was in North Carolina,” Bragdon added. “Ms. Sinema testified that she did not recall sending any of those messages, except the October 3rd message.”

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 28/08/2026

And boy howdy do you see this play out with all the small businesses using AI to generate marketing materials, where everything looks the same and it all looks awful.

“You’re depriving yourself of an essential skill—developing your eye for what is good—which is an ongoing process even for veteran editors. The strength and differentiator of an experienced professional is their eye and perspective—it’s why someone hires me instead of another editor or agency (or vice versa). If everyone is using an AI to select ‘the best takes’ then everyone’s ‘eye’ is coming from the same place.”

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 25/08/2026

Day 2 of me waiting for #Arturia to share any documentation anywhere at all on this mystery "Http Api" feature that showed up in the latest version of AudioFuse Control Center.

Screenshot of the AudioFuse Control Center Preferences tab, cropped to show just the "Http Api" section. There are two settings:
- Server: The options here are Off and On. Default: Off
- Port: A place to set a port number for the server, presumably something between 0-65535. Default: 55222

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 25/08/2026

Every time I see these maps I can't ignore the bizarre shape that's supposed to be Michigan. I get it, they just ignored that the Great Lakes exist and went with state/international borders that extend over the water. I'm just wondering: Why? They didn't do that anywhere else, and it looks so weird!

Screenshot of the whereidlive.com US map, showing Michigan. Michigan does not look like anything most anyone would recognize Michigan. Also, the Great Lakes are curiously absent.

Screenshot of Google Maps, showing the proper land boundaries of Michigan. Also, the Great Lakes are present.

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 04/08/2026

The ASR-V website looks very AI to me, and it's only a few months old. The dev has a website showcasing all their products, and it also looks very AI: haretechusa.com One of the app pages (BuyPlates) says it's made by Bolt, an AI service for generating websites. And the YT page has AI thumbnails.

Screenshot of https://bolt.new

It has a blue gradient background. Header text reads "What will you build today?" Below that, in smaller text: "Create stunning apps & websites by chatting with AI." Further down is a text box that says "Let's build a customer portal...", and in the bottom right of the text box has a "💡Plan" link and blue "Build Now▶️" button. Beyond and below the text are four buttons: "🌐Website", "📊Slides", "🖥️App", "🧪Prototype".

Screenshot of the YouTube channel. There are 5 videos. The oldest was posted 4 months ago. All but one have AI generated thumbnails (the odd one out is a Spongebob "A few moments later" meme).

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 21/07/2026

That's my guess because it's what the pedal shows up right next to if you search for "McCoy Wah" on Sweetwater:

Sweetwater search results for "McCoy Wah"

Vox The Real McCoy VRM-1 Wah Pedal - $279.99
Behringer Real McCoy WahWah Pedal - $99.99
Dunlop Real McCoy WahWah Pedal - $209.99
Vox Real McCoy WahWah Pedal - $179.99

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 26/06/2026

“Vote Blue No Matter Who” squad when the “who” is someone to the left of Ronald Reagan:

Moderate House Democrats are warning they're prepared for "war" if incoming progressives and democratic socialists try to hijack the House floor to secure ideological concessions.

Why it matters: This strategy would mean even more work for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to tamp down divisions and keep his caucus unified come 2027.

- Despite being generally more closely aligned with Jeffries than the progressive wing, these centrists say they cannot allow their party to be dragged to the left without a fight.

- "Clearly there has to be organization," one centrist House Democrat told Axios. "You can't just wring your hands on this stuff."

- "There's going to be a war," a second centrist lawmaker said, calling the incoming leftist members "bomb-throwers, not problem solvers."

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 25/06/2026

The Democratic leaders who told people if they want progressive policies then they need to vote harder when those people actually vote harder:

“All of these people hate Democrats,” Carville told Vargas. “Why do you want to run as a Democrat? Start your own movement. If it’s such a powerful, sweeping movement that’s got momentum everywhere, then go ahead and be at the head of it. Don’t use the Democratic Party to advance it.”

Carville specifically called out Chevalier, saying Democrats shouldn’t seat her if she wins in November. He said her views were against anything Democrats support.
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Source: https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/carville-mamdani-backed-candidates-should-form-separate-party/

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 18/06/2026

I present to you these two images. One is a photo of me roughly 21 years ago. The other, as the quoted post states, is the CEO of Snap in the present day.

Grainy indoor photo from an early digital camera, taken in 2005. The subject of the photo (me) is a teenager wearing a large, gaudy pair of sunglasses. Worn over the sunglasses in a pair of prescription glasses. The two pairs combined are large, awkward, and absurd.

Stylized text at the top reads:
DON’T BE AFRAID!

Stylized text at the bottom reads:
IT’S
THE
FUTURE!

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 17/06/2026

Name a tv show you’re positive no one remembers but you

Promo poster for John Doe (TV Series, 2002-2003), starring Dominic Purcell, Jayne Brook, and John Marshall Jones.

Text on the bottom of the poster reads:
So what am I?
Escaped mental patient?
Alien that sees in black and white?
Government lobotomy experiment?
What else was I to think?

For a guy who had all the answers, I didn't have the ones that mattered the most.

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 10/06/2026

Heck yeah! I resurrected (and softmodded) my PSP-2000 last year. I love the thing. To this day it still feels so good to play. I have a PSP-1000 that works too, but it definitely needs a new screen and shell, so it’ll have to wait until I can get my hands on replacements.

Photo of a silver PSP-2000. It’s running a copy of Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection. There are five characters standing on a wooden ship. Two are in a conversation: Cecil and the Captain. On the screen is shown the dialogue:

“Captain: You’re Cecil, I reckon? I heard you smacked the hell out of those Baron lovelies.”

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 06/06/2026

C’mon man, do better. This pic is from eight months ago!

Screenshot of an Instagram post by @petehegseth, using the same photo posted by OP. The caption reads, “A day in the office w/ America’s finest.”

A red box has been placed over the date, highlighting that this post is from October 7, 2025, roughly 8 months prior to this post and OP’s post.

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 26/05/2026

Look, if my post upset you enough to put me on a list, I mean that's your right, but this seems a bit overkill.

Screenshot from ClearSky showing that I have been added to three new lists. Each list is from the same user: @feelgoodstink.bsky.social

Predatory
Those who direct harassment on the platform, as well as those who enable it. If you utilize predatory tactics to try and harm others, you're here.

Trans Bashers
Users who join in the bashing of trans users on the platform.

Predators
Those who direct harassment on the platform, as well as those who enable it. If you utilize predatory tactics to try and harm others, you're here. P/dojacketing, dog piling, outing, witch hunting, harassment campaigns, here's a way to avoid those who participate in that.

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 17/05/2026

The histogram is so funny. 256 levels of brightness for any given subpixel and not a single one above 120, and the median is 12. TWELVE!

Screenshot of the RGB histogram for the movie frame in the OP. The vast majority of the pixels are in the bottom 10% of brightness, and there's not a single pixel in the entire image above 47% brightness. It's numerically emphasizing that it's a very dark, low-contrast image.

Stats are listed as follows:
Mean: 12.61
Std. Dev: 8.87
Median: 12
Pixels: 8640000

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 11/05/2026

Dropping a post like this as the head of Trust & Safety and then shutting off comments and quote posts is downright diabolical.

Screenshot of a post from @aaron.bsky.team:

“When users are suspended for harassment or abusive behavior, some immediately claim the action was taken because of their identity. It becomes a way to avoid accountability for conduct that violated the rules. Yet, your identity does not give you a free pass to harass others on the internet.”

Commenting and quote posts are disabled.

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 10/05/2026

I feel like if she never ever said “Palestinians” this would almost make sense but like, c’mon, it takes no time to see that’s not the case:

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 07/05/2026

Ok there was one time, 16 years ago, that a spider crawled on my monitor while I was at my desk, and I had my camera on hand so I *did* take some close up shots where you could count the eyes 😅

Photo of a spider crawling on an LCD computer monitor. A quick glance may leave one thinking this spider is large, but the fact that you can count the individual pixels the spider is standing on is a good enough clue that it's actually rather small.

A macro photo of the spider's face. The eyes are in sharp focus. You can see the individual hairs on its pale brown body.

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 05/05/2026

This screencap is my post, the day of Biden’s inauguration. I’m just some random guy, not someone whose life is literally politics and public service, and yet somehow even I knew what was coming. There’s no excuse for the Biden admin to not have known the stakes. None!

Screencap of my Facebook post from January 20, 2021:

“My greatest fear on this day, as it has been for years, is that most people will view Trump as the disease, rather than merely a predictable and repeatable symptom.”

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 04/05/2026

Pete does not approve. To be clear, *I* think it looks amazing.

Screenshot of two posts, one on top of the other, otherwise unrelated to each other except for their placement in the timeline. The bottom post is OP's, the top is from @peteandpete.bsky.social, showing a frame from The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Season 3, Episode 4: "Splashdown!". In the frame, the elder Pete is looking down in disgust.

Because of the posts placement on the timeline, it looks like Pete is looking down in disgust at the purple PSOne.

To be clear, the purple PSOne looks amazing, and the author of this alt-text does not share in Pete's apparent disgust.

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 28/04/2026

Y'know, once upon a time, I really wanted a Korg Zero8. Never did get one, and I know now that they were noisy, unreliable, and poorly supported. Has anyone ever taken a stab at making something like it since? An 8-channel DJ mixer would fix me, I'm sure of it.

Product photo of a Korg Zero 8, an 8-channel digital DJ mixer from 2008.

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 22/04/2026

Maybe spend less time replying and more time figuring out who you’re replying to.

Screenshot of @talentedripley.bsky.social’s post, showing the ”Replies over 20 times per day on average” badge.

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 19/04/2026

More bleeps No, that's not an absurd filter on my video, that's just... What my webcam was giving me when I turned it on and I decided to stick with it. #synth #groovebox #circuittracks #synthsky

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 19/04/2026

Left those house today and encountered the most diabolical bathroom stall I’ve ever seen.

Photo from inside a bathroom stall, looking toward the door. The walls and door are dark blue. On either side of the stall are metal accessibility handrails attached to the walls. Nearly all of the top-third of the stall door is gone, with little more remaining than what is needed to attach the top hinge to, providing a clear view of anyone in front of the door who is taller than a child, even with the door closed.

This is not a damaged door, this how the door was made. This design, it appears, is intentional.

Photo from outside a bathroom stall, looking toward the stall door. The walls and door are dark blue. On either side of the stall are metal accessibility handrails attached to the walls. I’m the center, against the tiled wall, is a standard public bathroom toilet. The reason this is all visible, is because nearly all of the top-third of the stall door is gone, with little more remaining than what is needed to attach the top hinge to, providing a clear view to anyone taller than a child of anyone in the stall, whether sitting or standing, even with the door closed.

This is not a damaged door, this how the door was made. This design, it appears, is intentional.

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 17/04/2026

Here, I made a silly bleepy loop. I need to get better but hey I made a thing!

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 15/04/2026

Two things: 1) As far as I can tell, Elon never made this post. It’s from a different account, @VoxExVeritas. 2) We just gonna ignore the community note?

Quote tweet from Twitter user @VoxExVeritas:
Proof that no one with money is trying to fix real problems.

Original tweet, from @ShiningScience:
🚨 : Mia Heller, high school student, 18, invents water filter that eliminates 95.5% of microplastics.

Readers added context:

While an impressive invention for a highschooler, current water filter technology can already filter out >99% of micro plastics.

images.ctfassets.net/bugnyha6so6z/3…

aquasana.com/info/aquasana-…

lifestraw.com/blogs/news/fil….

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 11/04/2026

Don’t act like you didn’t hate the JCPOA and didn’t celebrate Trump destroying it. You got what you wanted and now you want to avoid sleeping in the bed you made. Shameful behavior, honestly.

“While I support the end of this terrible deal and taking a stronger approach to dealing with Iran, I urge the president and his administration to deliver a comprehensive plan that will hold Iran accountable, protect our national security, and firmly restrict Iran’s ballistic missile weapons and nuclear program,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement.

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 03/04/2026

Certainly is a better story than being known as the guy who protected a wife-beating colonel who got into an armed standoff with police: www.audacy.com/connectingve...

At the time, Ray was serving as the chief of staff for I Corps commander Lt. Gen. Randy George, having previously served at all levels of command in Special Forces where teammates and fellow officers had reported him to the Inspector General for bullying and berating them, but those complaints were blown off documents and reporting from the Army Times show.

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 31/03/2026

The way Doc says "Everything will be fine" here has been burned into my brain for over 30 years.

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 21/03/2026

I was wondering if somehow the context of what he was replying to would make these seem less weird. Nope, makes it even more weird IMHO.

Screenshot of some tweet's.

The original post:
From: @TheBabylonBee Date: Mar 20
Text: Local Man Likes His Coffee Cold, With Milk, Just Like A Little Baby
Image: Young adult man sits outside on a bench, happily sipping an iced coffe. He is wearing a black sleeveless shirt. It's a bright, sunny day and behind him are shrubs, with trees further in the distance.

The above post was Quote Tweeted by @JessePeltan, 20 hours ago. His caption reads: "I feel personally attacked"

Below the quote tweet is a reply from @elonmusk, made 11 hours ago. It reads:
'My son, Saxon, is so based that he would just order milk when we went to dinner in LA. This would always stun the waitstaff, as they had never heard anyone actually order milk!

He also unironically ordered a cheeseburger at a very uptight sushi restaurant that doesn’t even allow you to order supplemental soy sauce. When the waiter recovered from this request to reply that they don’t have cheeseburgers, Saxon said “Fine, I will have a hamburger.”'

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27 8x10 Color Glossy Pictures (w/ the Circles & Arrows) @getrikt.com · 18/03/2026

The system requirements for this game are absurd. The recommended spec is a 7800X3D?!

System Requirements
MINIMUM:
OS: OS version: 64-bit Windows 10/11
PROCESSOR: Intel Core i5-11400 or AMD Ryzen 5 5600
MEMORY: 16 GB RAM
GRAPHICS: NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super (8GB) / AMD RX 6600 (8GB)
DIRECTX: Version 12
STORAGE: 5 GB available space
SOUND CARD: Integrated
RECOMMENDED:
OS: 64-bit Windows 10/11
PROCESSOR: Intel Core i7-13700K / AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D0
MEMORY: 32 GB RAM
GRAPHICS: NVIDIA RTX 4070 (12GB) / AMD RX 7800 XT (16GB)
DIRECTX: Version 12
STORAGE: 7 GB available space
SOUND CARD: Integrated

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