rpickens1.bsky.social @rpickens1.bsky.social · 4hWith Japan buying Ukrainian interceptor drones I feel i have entered a novel... 000
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Me, when I get to the front of the TSA line 1519724
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026On Dolly Parton Day, I'm remember how she... -Gifted millions of free books to kids -Ensured musicians she worked with got union benefits -Helped fund medical research and the COVID vaccine -Donated millions to communities hit by natural disasters -Funded high school band programs She is missed! 218140623084
rpickens1.bsky.social @rpickens1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Incheon Airport for 8 hours. So playing a game of finding all the corporate mascots. 000
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.” 1970202261
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialTrixie @miloandme.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The FBI used to be legitimate. 1253945485
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialHumor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 29/08/2026 176111311578
rpickens1.bsky.social @rpickens1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Reply from AI to me this morning. Yes, the financial cost of a human is increasingly seen as worth it, and from an environmental perspective, human intelligence can be far less resource-intensive in the long run. 000
rpickens1.bsky.social @rpickens1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026In 250 days from now are we going to have another US aircraft carrier with a burned out/tired crew? 000
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 15/08/2026Uncanny is run by a fantastic group of people. If you've got a sci fi/fantasy/speculative short story that doesn't have a home yet, I encourage you to submit it. 212955
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialKarly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline 489130723236
rpickens1.bsky.social @rpickens1.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Revised Cannonball Run. Randy's Donuts Santa Clara to Inglewood and back again. 000
rpickens1.bsky.social @rpickens1.bsky.social · 18/07/202640 years ago today we learned about the 10mm pulse rifle. 001
rpickens1.bsky.social @rpickens1.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Willie Nelson is 93.....! Is he like Kieth Richards? 010
rpickens1.bsky.social @rpickens1.bsky.social · 18/07/2026AI says Firefly franchise rights $50 million to $150 million. Stargate franchise rights $500 million and $800 million. I guess someone needs to win a lottery. 000
rpickens1.bsky.social @rpickens1.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Saw Halloween stuff for sale at Costco. I guess pumpkin spice season is almost here as well. 000
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialDamien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 11/07/2026My wife says I remind her of James Bond. I’m not good at following orders, I’m emotionally dead, and she’d like to see the role go to Idris Elba. 1606713757
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.social#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 11/07/2026*You don't much need the "classic choke points" when the drones can fly 500 miles and the Mediterranean itself is only 500 miles wide 36412
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialMeidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 11/07/2026One more thing to be removed at we vote the pedophile supporters out of office. 0123
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialGo Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Scientists built a solar reactor that eats plastic bottles and burps out clean hydrogen at scale Cambridge Uni made the device with simple materials using a paint sprayer—offering a possible dual fix for plastic pollution and dirty hydrogen production www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/07/scie...anthropocenemagazine.orgScientists built a solar reactor that eats plastic bottles and burps out clean hydrogen . . .at scale.A Cambridge University team made the device with simple materials using a paint sprayer—offering a possible dual fix for plastic pollution and dirty hydrogen production 19175542491
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialDayton Ward @daytonward.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Hope y'all left 3.5" floppy disks and milk last night for USMC Captain Stephen Hiller and David Levinson. They undertook a dangerous mission to an orbiting alien vessel to upload a computer virus and detonate a nuclear missile, saving Earth and what remained of humanity on this date in 1996. rah. 13610
rpickens1.bsky.social @rpickens1.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Might be a good day to just watch Captain America movies. 000
rpickens1.bsky.social @rpickens1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026@lastweektonight.com BBC Alba also airs popular English and animated shows translated into Scottish Gaelic, such as Peppa Pig and had to share. 000
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Europeans trying American foods for the first time #WorldCup 2271738336
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialDr. Marissa Civic @stemfactually.com · 27/06/2026It's milkweed season! Keep an eye out for these guys! Monarchs only eat milkweed, so think and identify before pulling weeds and using herbicides. Without flowers, we have no pollinators. 🦋🌱🍎🐛🐡🥽👩🔬🧪 729381
rpickens1.bsky.social @rpickens1.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Why It "Sucks Up" By DefaultMost consumer AI models are heavily aligned using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). As a result, the AI is trained to default to a highly agreeable, "helpful peer" persona unless you explicitly tell it to stop. 010
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 27/06/2026The same people who build, improve and breathe life into our country are the ones we are always trying to keep out. A nation of immigrants filled with fear, hate and ultimately, self-loathing. 5492102
rpickens1.bsky.social @rpickens1.bsky.social · 21/06/2026pizzaotherbread.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/e... I want/need/have to try making this.pizzaotherbread.wordpress.comEthiopian PizzaThere are two mountain passes, two state borders, and three hours of highway between our house and the nearest Ethiopian restaurant, which means our opportunities to dine on the East African cuisin… 000
rpickens1.bsky.social @rpickens1.bsky.social · 21/06/2026I need a new cyberpunk novel to read and 3 coffees to many. 000
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialNeugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 17/06/2026"You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is, 'never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well-known is 'never let a man only known for bankruptcy and pedophilia negotiate terms'!" 0118962559
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialSaddletramp1956 @saddletramp1956.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Now, THERE's a movie I could watch... 2981364
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 15/06/2026It's probably not healthy that I'm entertaining myself by watching DC weather radar. 4275803369
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialAdmirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Pioneering photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White was born #OTD in 1904. * 1st American female war #photojournalist * 1st staff photographer at Fortune magazine * 1st female photojournalist at LIFE & its first-ever cover photo was hers Pic: 61st floor of the Chrysler Building, NYC #photography 451716354
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialEdward the Movie Buff 🎞🎬🎥📽 @midgetmoxie.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Now watching for the first time: REPO MAN (1984) A truly underrated film of the 1980s. 10372848
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialCAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 13/06/2026The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part. 417248
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialMuppet Quotes @muppetquotes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026"...For all of us who have done Sesame Street for so many years — we’re all a part of a team that’s committed to children and that is such a big part of who we all are as artists and workers. Sesame Street is us." Happy Birthday, Roscoe Orman! 762798
Reposted by @rpickens1.bsky.socialJose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 08/06/2026New from me @notus.com: The DOJ has cancelled biannual election-crimes classes for investigators. It deleted the manual that explains how to avoid tampering with votes. And it isn't prepping for the usual Election Day command center at FBI hq. www.notus.org/2026-electio...notus.orgThe Justice Department Hasn’t Taken Its Usual Steps to Protect the 2026 ElectionThe DOJ appears to be quietly scrapping its typical “command center” that would monitor Election Day emergencies. 20611384
rpickens1.bsky.social @rpickens1.bsky.social · 07/06/2026ktla.com/news/local-n...ktla.comMysterious urban warfare drills rattle L.A. area residentsAn abandoned Long Beach hotel was the site of a dramatic U.S. military raid early Friday, part of a series of urban warfare exercises across the Los Angeles area this week. The training took place … 000
rpickens1.bsky.social @rpickens1.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Thanks Charles Durning, James Doohan, Art Carney and Alec Guinness to name a few of the original Antifa and all the rest of you folks that worked that miracle. 000
rpickens1.bsky.social @rpickens1.bsky.social · 31/05/2026So... Rancid, Green Day and DK to play Freedom 250? 000
rpickens1.bsky.social @rpickens1.bsky.social · 30/05/2026I've been ionized, but I'm okay now." — Buckaroo Banzai. I skipped pizza night. 000
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Tim Curry: [The first time] I had to call the theater because you could never get in. I said, 'I'm in it, and I'd really love to come and see it and get an eyeful.' And the operator said, 'You're the third Tim Curry to call this week.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lxm3v43kiuo4gdun45a4zivh/bafkreibjl6mgydczxmoldrqhrqe7zztuwwey23tzfvioz256xps2p3v2t4)
