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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 02/10/2026

Case in post: this is a good press release. It states the message, stands with survivors of sexual assault, and ends with "we have no further comment". This is perfect. This is how you handle a crisis. It's a great example of what to do: acknowledge, stand with the correct people, end. (3/3)

Hit Detection
@hitdetection.bsky.social

Jacob Geller previously worked with Hit Detection on a freelance basis and is no longer working with us.

Our thoughts are with survivors of sexual assault.

We have no further comment at this time.

9:14 PM • Oct 1, 2026 • Replies disabled

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 30/09/2026

What they didn't know was the emergency stop button on the reactor forced all the heavy dew tipped rods into the reactor, acting as a detanator. We don't have the final number. But the power output briefly reached 33,000 megawatts.

From HBOs chernobyl, the power output reading 12700 MW on a RBMK reactor only designed to hit 3400 MW. In reality, the final recorded number was 33k, estimates are power output hit 50k+ mega watts at time of explosion.

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 29/09/2026

We are Charlie Kirk. We carry the flame. www.salon.com/2018/03/25/h...

Charlie Kirk in diapers. He's in his 20s here.

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 25/09/2026

Reminds me of this classic

Woman at a 2009 Tea Party protest holding up a sign that says "No taxes Obama loves taxes bankrupt usa loves baby killing"

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 14/09/2026

I looked into it, and Oxford's media survey for 2026 says the BBC is in an "impossible situation" because coverage on anything "like immigration" will be seen "as biased". I empathize, but this is what having courage is for. You're supposed to stand up for what's correct, not what's right wing.

From University of Oxford's 2026 Media Survey:

"Large differences in attitude between those on the left and right of the political spectrum, including countries such as Germany and the UK with large and highly trusted PSM news providers, underscore the challenge faced by organisations such as ARD/ZDF and the BBC/ITN to convince audiences that commitments to inclusion and representation of a range of viewpoints are being upheld.

This is a point acknowledged by individuals like Deborah Turness, former CEO of BBC News, who said in February of this year, 'Do I think that the BBC newsrooms would, in percentage terms, vote the same way as the nation right now in the UK in terms of the Reform party, which is quite an extreme conservative movement, very anti-immigration, [and is] really gathering steam? No, I don't. What that means is you have to work even harder to maintain that impartiality?'"

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 14/09/2026

She already did Bravo's "Fuck boys of the '90s movie marathon"

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 13/09/2026

Her greatest work remains her cameo in the 2014 romantic comedy They Came Together:

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 09/09/2026

In the modern context, it would be fair to call it "Fifty-Cent Beer Night", cuz that's roughly what it would've cost in 1974. Mr. Worldwide is ~35¢ over.

Ten-Cent Beer Night was an ill-fated promotion held by Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians during a game against the Texas Rangers at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on June 4, 1974. The promotion was meant to improve attendance at the game by offering cups of beer for just 10 cents each (equivalent to $0.65 in 2025), a substantial discount on the regular price of 65 cents (equivalent to $4.24 in 2025), with a limit of six beers per purchase but no limit on the number of purchases made during the game.

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 07/09/2026

Lest we forget: Grigori Perelman solved one of the Clay Millenium Prizes,and then turned down the million dollar prize because he felt his predecessor on the problem, Richard Hamilton, deserved equal credit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori...

From Wikipedia: In August 2006, Perelman was offered the Fields Medal for "his contributions to geometry and his revolutionary insights into the analytical and geometric structure of the Ricci flow", but he declined the award, stating: "I'm not interested in money or fame; I don't want to be on display like an animal in a zoo." On 22 December 2006, the scientific journal Science recognized Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture as the scientific "Breakthrough of the Year", the first such recognition in the area of mathematics.

On 18 March 2010, it was announced that he had met the criteria to receive the first Clay Millennium Prize for resolution of the Poincaré conjecture. On 1 July 2010, he rejected the prize of one million dollars, saying that he considered the decision of the board of the Clay Institute to be unfair, in that his contribution to solving the Poincare conjecture was no greater than that of Richard S. Hamilton, the mathematician who pioneered the Ricci flow partly with the aim of attacking the conjecture. He had previously rejected the prestigious prize of the European Mathematical Society in 1996.

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 02/09/2026

Smh Henry kissinger is very mad and rolling in his grave rn ( /s, but really he spent his final days freaking out about chatgpt as the actual singularity + literally God in an actual machine) www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

From GoodReads: In his final book, the late Henry Kissinger joins forces with two leading technologists to mount "a profound exploration" (Walter Isaacson) of the epochal challenges and opportunities presented by the revolution in Artificial Intelligence: a breakthrough that dramatically empowers people in all walks of life while also raising urgent questions about the future of humanity.
As it absorbs data, gains agency, and intermediates between humans and reality, Al (Artificial Intelligence) will help us to address enormous crises, from climate change to geopolitical conflicts to income inequality. It might well solve some of the greatest mysteries of our universe and elevate the human spirit to unimaginable heights. But it will also pose challenges on a scale and of an intensity that we have never seen-usurping our power of independent judgment and action, testing our relationship with the divine, and perhaps even spurring a new phase in human evolution.

The last book of elder statesman Henry Kissinger, written with technologists Craig Mundie and Eric Schmidt, Genesis charts a course between blind faith and unjustified fear as it outlines an effective strategy for navigating the age of Al.

- Genres: Artificial Intelligence, Science Nonfiction, Technology, Business, Politics, Philosophy (...more)
- 288 pages, Hardcover
- First published November 19, 2024

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 31/08/2026

I should be able to pin others comments to my profile, but I can't. So I'm reposting with this comment instead. To sweeten the deal I'm attaching some memes I hope will never die.

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 08/07/2026

If you go to the UFOtable official merch store and search for rengoku stuff, it is 5 pages of sold out merch. The man is BELOVED for great reasons, and yet no one ever talks about him!!!! IT DRIVES ME CRAZY!!!! webshop-global.ufotable.co.jp/blogs/news-1...

The official demon slayer shop from UFOtable, searching for Rengoku stuff. This is most of the way through the first page, and every Rengoku *ANYTHING* IS SOLD OUT

Mobile screenshot of the ufotable
Webshop in English, searched for Rengoku.
A three-column grid of goods fills the screen:
Cards, cloth, acrylic stands, and little charms,
His face and flame repeated down the page.
And under nearly every square, one truth:
A gray “SOLD OUT,” then yen beneath like ash.
It reads less like a storefront than a shrine
Picked over by a thousand reaching hands.
So much for those who say he is not loved:
The market keeps bad secrets, and here proves
His bright brief life still burns through all who need him still.

Mobile screenshot of page four of five
In the ufotable global webshop.
The header, menu, cart, and language sit
Above a grid of Rengoku-themed goods:
Pins, badges, art prints, little group designs,
A fierce close sketch of him among the rest.
Each listing bears the same blunt epitaph:
“SOLD OUT,” repeated square by square below.
By now the pattern hardens into fact.
You scarcely hear his name in common talk,
Yet here the vanished stock says otherwise:
Beloved things do not remain on shelves.

Mobile screenshot of the final page, five,
Of Rengoku results in ufotable’s shop.
Only a few last items fill the grid
Small prints and goods with Rengoku among them
And every one is marked as “SOLD OUT.”
The page number five is highlighted below, the final results page
Nothing is left. The whole bright trail runs cold.
Yet in that emptiness his fame speaks plain:
Not noise, not trend, but appetite and love
A fire so wanted it consumed the store.

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 08/07/2026

As Blueskys #1 Kyojuro Rengoku fan, I must inform you Good Smile has a new Rengoku statue coming out next year: www.goodsmile.com/en/product/1...

Goodsmile.com product page for a new Kyojuro Rengoku figure, he is standing with a Kasugai crow perched on his left shoulder. I'm gonna describe the figure better in the next two images cuz I am rengokus biggest Stan. Buckle the heck in.

Close-up product photo of Kyojuro Rengoku, framed from the chest up against a dark background. His golden hair rises in sharp, flame-like points, each tip burned crimson, while his red-orange eyes look forward beneath heavy black brows. A small smile rests on his face, calm and bright, as if courage had learned gentleness. He wears a dark Demon Slayer uniform beneath a white haori, with a sheathed sword crossing his chest. On his raised shoulder, a black crow spreads its wings beside him, night gathered close to the flame.

Full-body product photo of Rengoku.
He stands upon a round black display base,
A quiet flame against a field of gray.
His white haori lifts and spreads behind,
Its hem cut through with red and molten gold,
As though a banner caught the breath of fire.
The dark uniform holds firm beneath,
A white belt at his waist, his sandals set,
His shins wrapped round with little tongues of flame,
His sword still sheathed and resting at his side.
Gold hair breaks red along each lifted point;
His bright eyes meet the world without retreat.
Upon his raised shoulder, black and sharp,
A crow extends one wing beside his face:
Night perched beside the fire it came to name.

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 30/06/2026

A sample of one of the replies I got asking for foley help on a video essay project I’ve been editing. I did not hire the dude who can Google sound effects for me.

Me:
Ideally some kinda loop
Really want that sweetened sound of rain drops hitting the sand and fire.
AIN'T NOTHING LIKE THAT OUT THERE!!!! So I'm commissioning it

Reply from someone in DMs:
I was about to say that you can find these on google mao
Unfortunately, I won't be of any help for this particular project. What I can do is I can look up for these sounds and will hit you up it succeed.

Me:
Would appreciate any help I can get thank you! But uh am paying for this? Cuz I can Google for myself lol
The problem is I can't really get what want [hence why I’m commissioning it]

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 08/06/2026

This is a very good thread! My counter argument is we now have this image forever, and I’m gonna use the hell out of it:

A pretentious white woman looks condescendingly into the camera, holding out her open palm. Above her hand floats the word “slavery”.

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 01/06/2026

OKAY TELL ME TENDO IN KILL BLUE DOESN’T HAVE EYES DIRECTLY INSPIRED BY MY BOY RENGOKU, *ESPECIALLY* AFTER THE “THUNDERCLAP AND FLASH” REFERENCE AT THE END OF THE 6TH EPISODE @starbun.bsky.social

Tendo looking at determined in episode 8 of Kill Blue, note the yellow irises and orange retina, similar to Rengoku in demon slayer.

Kyojuro Rengoku, in season 1 of Demon Slayer. Note his yellow eyes and red irises.

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 16/05/2026

Seriously, the bio for the Demon Slayer character Kaigaku is 1:1 so many conservatives. Charlie Kirk, in his final years, really comes to mind. And just like Charlie Kirk, the way you slay a demon is going for the neck!!!!

The Demon Slayer character Kaigaku, in the movie Infinity Castle. Red light surrounds him. White face, large red eyes with green corneas, scars all over his face, a scowling grin. He carries a katana on his back.

Kaigaku also possessed a twisted perspective of "right" and "wrong"; he believed that those who judge him right (i.e., say he was worthy) are good and those who judge him wrong and have a low estimation of him are evil.

From the Demon Slayer fandom wiki, minor spoilers for Infinity Castle ahead:

Kaigaku was already spiteful and cruel as a human, as he constantly verbally abused Zenitsu by demanding that he leaves the Demon Slayer Corps and refusing to socialize with him when he tried to be friendly. However, becoming a demon revealed a much more unrestrained and psychotic side of him. Not only was he gleeful at the prospect of killing the junior he had long hated with his newfound power, but he sadistically expressed his satisfaction towards Jigoro's suicide with a large smile on his face, and repeatedly insulting his memory for not addressing his worth through how he perceived himself.

His gleeful demeanor as a demon contrasted his personality as a Demon Slayer in training. During this time, Kaigaku was a depressed malcontent, who was in a constant state of dissatisfaction despite his great talent, promising future, and his life with individuals who valued him. The moments where he smiled or showed happiness were few and far between, and Kaigaku usually seen sulking by himself. According to Zenitsu, Kaigaku emitted a perpetual sound of discontent no matter the time; he compares his attitude to a "box-of-happiness" with a hole spilling out its contents, and it's implied that Kaigaku finally patched the symbolic box by his newfound strength as an Upper Rank demon.

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 16/05/2026

Rewatching MHA MORE. Now that it's been ~8 years (canonically) after graduating high school, *they are all adults* so don't you fucking try it with me you dense loser grrrrrrrr I am more and more convinced Kirishima and Bakugo are dating. Ain't no way they're """"""just friends"""""". Ain't no way.

Kirishima laughing at Bakugo in My Hero Academia MORE

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 07/05/2026

MBTA still running anime Boston ads on the choo choo, so I tried to take a photo of me pointing at Rimaru Tempest.

Me on the green line train pointing at an anime Boston ad

Anime Boston ad with 3 characters shown. Note anime Boston was April 3-5th, but it's may 7th today.

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 03/05/2026

In the documentary "Too Funny to Fail", Stephen Colbert recalled going into the writers room at "The Dana Carvey Show", seeing there were no snacks or food, and realizing this was a sign that the show was going to be cancelled soon. This is what Claude Code is suggesting as soon as I boot up today:

Claude Code: Try "how does I don't have any files to analyze from the input provided. Both the "Files modified by user" and "Files modified by other users" sections are empty. work?"

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 18/04/2026

Who says we haven't already started?

My werewolf fursona laughing like a madman. Art by foxdraft!

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 11/04/2026

Update: Baba saw this post and was very disappointed in me but he hugged me anyway. Snuck a Pic UwU

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 10/04/2026

isthestraitofhormuzopenyet.com now includes Trans mode!

isthestraitofhormuzopenyet.com, with the colors of the Trans flag: blue>pink>white>pink>blue, in that order. At the time of this post, the site displays a large "No*", the asterisk is because SOME traffic is allowed, but generally it's not open to boat traffic.

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 08/04/2026

The friends and family reviews for isthestraitofhormuzopenyet.com are trickling in, $2M at a time. Join the family and earn $2M per boat. isthestraitofhormuzopenyet.com in case you forgot the link.

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