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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️

@rickiep00h.bsky.social
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44-year-old nobody living in Chicago, writing poems, and editing a podcast. She/her. Newsletter, book, etc. at linktr.ee/rickicummings AI GETS YOU A BLOCK

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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 8h
Had a big long thread, but the jist was that these people are learning in faster-than-real-time that pedagogy and management are hard because we fundamentally don't understand why people... people. Because of that, "human-like" or even "superhuman" intelligence will aways be an impossible target.
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VERTICAL📼BLANKING📺INTERVAL @vertiblank.bsky.social · 16h
A Hark! A Vagrant classic
Watson: Oooh, what’s that you’ve got?
Franklin: My final report
Watson: Little Rosie Franklin’s research! I bet it’s something!
Franklin: ROSALIND.
Crick: Oh, that’s a big name
W: You’re getting fancy on us! Tell me—
F: Ah. I love this game.
W: Is it a scientific breakthrough in feelings?
F: Well, I suppose I have to go into hysterics or have a baby somewhere, good day gentlemen
W: GO, GO
[W and C slip a look at F’s notes]
C: Nice
W: Quit hogging
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17h
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 16h
Back on my up-my-own-ass bullshit
Screenshot of text that reads "Reliance on Past Success as Substitute for Sound Engineering Practices, or: This is Not a Poem About the Space Shuttle Columbia, or: Spiritual Bypass"
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"No, see, I'm using slop to criticize slop!" is a really blatant example of "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house," and its follow-up: "And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master’s house as their only source of support."
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Things I find thoroughly enjoyable: a ton of farting around only to realize that I technically bought a counterfeit dev board. Like 20 cents in components to address the issue I'm having, whatever, but it would be a lot easier to tick a box in software and invert a pin state.
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Phil @pi8you.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Of course he's gonna side with the pervert glasses. Of course.
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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
tips: - block annoying accounts without replying. - log off if you feel yourself getting upset. - ignore most discourse. - if an account keeps arguing with randos, you probably want to unfollow them. - mute words / phrases that you don’t like. cleans up the app significantly. 👍
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BITCHCRAFT Silkscreen Print (preorder) Just in time for spooky season, a new Witch print! 18" x 24", edition of 100, signed and numbered, two colors (Dark Blurple and Bright Orange) theartofcoop.bigcartel.com/product/bitc...
A nude witch on the cover of a vintage smut mag, with an orange background collage of ads from Famous Monsters
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Another big win for Newsom: helping abusers and governments escape the consequences of child sexual abuse
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ya ever done something so stupid you're pretty sure it's actively making the universe worse in just, like, the smallest way? That you're pretty sure you've opened up one of the cracks in the world and instead of letting light in you let in something much worse? But in the dumbest way possible?
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey babes. On this, the last day of Bisexual Visibility Month, support your friendly neighborhood bisexual (ie, me) by picking up my most recent book. bookshop.org/p/books/the-... My best work yet (we all say that about the new thing) and it's especially good for this world we find ourselves in.
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The Failure Experiment
look at this rib, see the interstitial ripplebetween and underneath.no one moveslike i move, an individualidentical unit interchangeablewith all other i. "Similar to drifting through water, each page ...
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Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
look, I get it: transitioning is scary so do it scared we all do it scared but you have to do it
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Look I have no love at all for either team, but if the Yankees all fell into the Springfield Mystery Spot I wouldn't mind at all.
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Watching baseball just in hopes that the franchise currently playing its trade in Cobb County loses its ass.
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The Hard Times @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We Went Undercover at a Furry Convention, Which Was Pretty Goddamn Easy What With All the Costumes and Shit thehardtimes.net/blog/we-went...
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We Went Undercover at a Furry Convention, Which Was Pretty Goddamn Easy What With All the Costumes and Shit
We here at The Hard Times are no strangers to hard-hitting think pieces that expose the full scope behind some of the... Read more nonsense
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Y'know, those Secret Police gags from Night Vale seem a lot less amusing these days.
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyway today has been sickening as fuck on the lines and so I'm gonna, I dunno, go watch some synth demos or something.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
all the guys who made harambe jokes 10 years ago later experienced complete emotional breakdowns, became born-again evangelicals, and are now enthusiastic fans of the liberty biberty commercials
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Thaddeus is a girl's name 🏳️‍⚧️ @thaddeus.zone · 29/09/2026
it's wild how many people—often, but not exclusively, men—get to wander through the world having no idea how many survivors of sexual assault they personally know b/c they make it glaringly obvious they cannot be trusted with those stories
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Being online when the conversation turns to sexual assault is fucking hell for survivors. By the way.
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 27/09/2026
Would you like to know how to make a zine? Here's easy step-by-step instructions on how to make your own without the use of a computer by @thorazos.bsky.social etsy.com/listing/6936...
Thuban Press Guide to Analog Self Publishing
Step-by-Step Instructions to Make Your Own Book Without a Computer
by Julia Gfrörer
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was in the MSI this weekend and had me a good laugh when the SpaceX-pandering space exhibit mentions that their rockets take off and land safely. Like. They usually do the one, and almost never do the other, and this is supposed to be a scientific exhibit. Let's not make some claims, eh?
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rerelease glory days movie to link new tenuously-positioned movie and avoid associations to decline-era produce: scrupulous, time-tested strategy Lock content behind higher-paying tiers in obvious bait-and-switch: literally exactly why people hate you I was sorta interested in Doomsday, but now? 🤷
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Heather Hogan
@theheatherhogan

The first doctor to tell me I didn’t have Long Covid because Long Covid doesn’t exist has now left the practice because she has... Long Covid.
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I really wish I could leave IG. It is well and truly the last place I have that connects me to friends who are not terminally online. But I'm using it less and less, and the stories I'm hearing about the new Meta AI rollout are just... I want to be done. So I'm considering it strongly.
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Phil @pi8you.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Saw an actual cyptid last night and cursing my lack of photo evidence... Someone sitting in the passenger seat of a cybertruck
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dunno how many Philly area friends I have, but if you're into sick-ass spooky art, this is almost guaranteed to be a sick-ass exhibition. @carolinedraws.bsky.social is fuckin' top shelf, and any show that has her is bound to be great.
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The Lexorcist @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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WIKIPEDIA
Speedruns V. 0.1

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You found it!

Here's how you did:

"Harry Potter" to "Nazism"

Time: 33.993 Seconds

Number of links visited: 3

The path you took:
[ "Harry Potter", "J. K. Rowling", "Political
views of J. K. Rowling", "Nazism" ]
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I went to the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (again!) and looked at a bunch of extremely cool shit, including multiple real Enigma machines. Always a delight.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i think about this post all the time. you might too
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I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every time Raym comes up, I am reminded he's still alive. His personage entirely disappeared from my brain after he left city hall. Every time, I hope, in the most charitable way possible, that I never have to see him again, either personally or in print.
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🌦️Wifeguy Auteur🌦️ @delugeduvall.effigyfilms.com · 25/09/2026
if “we’re all cam girls in a surveillance state” ya’ll better be acting in solidarity with actual fucking cam girls 😒
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mistress von toasty @toasty.cx · 26/09/2026
green text on a black background reminiscent of an old computer terminal from the days before graphical user interfaces

the text reads, in all caps:
Technology used to be cool, but now it's owned by the worst, most moneysick humans on the planet. But there are transsexual furry hackers out there, still fighting the good fight
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Jim Bliss @jimbliss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There's so little good news these days, I think something like this should be shared far and wide. Because it really is very good news.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Han 🖤
@spoonfulofhan

The idea that disabled people must be constantly visibly suffering to "prove" we're disabled is just the adult version of "if you're too sick for school, you're too sick for TV."
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gonna bring an opened 2-liter of Mountain Dew and a half-eaten bag of OG Cheetos and pull them from a red and white rotating-lid style Igloo cooler that I set down next to my Chrome backpack. You wanna culture war me in an interview you better have more ammo than simply being petty and capricious.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The meaningful divide in the Democratic party for the foreseeable future is going to be a lot less about center vs left ideology and a lot more about people who grasp this vs people who don’t.
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Share the good news, too.
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So like. I don't actually know what to do with this sort of thing anymore. Because it's projection, every time, and more importantly, because they do it specifically to control the narrative. It's not about the truth, it's about lobbing it like a grenade and then running. Damage already done.
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No clever quips from me, just a great follow if you're of the sort to follow and perhaps support creators over there.
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's SO MUCH going on here in that second image that makes it AI. Details on the plane, details on the soldier behind them, and probably half a dozen thing on Conway (the thing I noticed is that her waist is narrower and the gap between it and her elbow is just one uniform color.) Just bad.
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Ricki Cummings 🏳️‍⚧️ @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So. I've brought this up before, but I'm going to mention it again because it highlights multiple failures (🧵) : My student loan payment plan is the IBR, and given when I started first borrowed, the payment amount is supposed to be 15% of my discretionary income. Discretionary income is derived...
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