Derek
@ricketyshack.ca
Music guy who rambles about pretty much anything. Media, IT bullshit, MMA, Magic: The Gathering, whatever.
https://ricketyshack.ca
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At long last we have created the Bicentennial Man from the widely panned incestuous scifi dramedy Bicentennial Man
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
At long last we have created the Bicentennial Man from the widely panned incestuous scifi dramedy Bicentennial Man
The Herb Dean infraction system:
* Soft warning
* Less-soft warning
* Warning
* Hard warning
* Basically pleading you to stop fouling
* Look man, cut it out
* Ah christ, now look what you made me do
* Soft warning
* Less-soft warning
* Warning
* Hard warning
* Basically pleading you to stop fouling
* Look man, cut it out
* Ah christ, now look what you made me do
Not enforcing rules that were already on the books for decades is so MMA.
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The Herb Dean infraction system:
* Soft warning
* Less-soft warning
* Warning
* Hard warning
* Basically pleading you to stop fouling
* Look man, cut it out
* Ah christ, now look what you made me do
* Soft warning
* Less-soft warning
* Warning
* Hard warning
* Basically pleading you to stop fouling
* Look man, cut it out
* Ah christ, now look what you made me do
I listened to an album called 'Nocturnal Birding' and I am getting some really odd advertising suggestions as a result. I hate technology.
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I listened to an album called 'Nocturnal Birding' and I am getting some really odd advertising suggestions as a result. I hate technology.
Very surprised that a city whose design was supposed to include a fake moon has once again been scaled back.
Story: gizmodo.com/saudi-arabia...
Story: gizmodo.com/saudi-arabia...
Saudi Arabia's Dystopian Futuristic City Project Is Crashing and Burning
Who could have seen this coming?
gizmodo.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Very surprised that a city whose design was supposed to include a fake moon has once again been scaled back.
Story: gizmodo.com/saudi-arabia...
Story: gizmodo.com/saudi-arabia...
Don't use AI, support your local Bullshitter.
for much less than a trillion dollars but more than zero you can ask me any question and I can take my best guess at it. this will save the environment.
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Don't use AI, support your local Bullshitter.
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
I've heard the new Danny Brown described as "the album Clipping should've dropped this year" but I simply can't handle that man's voice.
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I've heard the new Danny Brown described as "the album Clipping should've dropped this year" but I simply can't handle that man's voice.
Today's listening:
* Lorna Shore - I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me
* Wode - Uncrossing the Keys
* Astronoid - Stargod
* Lorna Shore - I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me
* Wode - Uncrossing the Keys
* Astronoid - Stargod
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Today's listening:
* Lorna Shore - I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me
* Wode - Uncrossing the Keys
* Astronoid - Stargod
* Lorna Shore - I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me
* Wode - Uncrossing the Keys
* Astronoid - Stargod
Every word of this gets dumber and dumber. Why can't these losers just count their money and fuck off?
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Every word of this gets dumber and dumber. Why can't these losers just count their money and fuck off?
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low polyamory
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
low polyamory
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
It's good that the government job bank website is buckling under web traffic, right?
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It's good that the government job bank website is buckling under web traffic, right?
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It's probably not good that the two big growth industries are making gambling so addictive that people want to kill themselves instead of quitting and a chat bot that says you're actually thoughtful and brave for doing that and they both live in your phone.
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
It's probably not good that the two big growth industries are making gambling so addictive that people want to kill themselves instead of quitting and a chat bot that says you're actually thoughtful and brave for doing that and they both live in your phone.
This gambling scandal was brought to you by [squinting] DRAFT KINGS?!
November 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This gambling scandal was brought to you by [squinting] DRAFT KINGS?!
Every now and then, I will see a relatively new band with a name like Stabbing and wonder how the hell no one had taken that already.
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Every now and then, I will see a relatively new band with a name like Stabbing and wonder how the hell no one had taken that already.
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we gotta stop with the tiny microphones. get a full size mic like an ADULT. you look like you’re at tea with a mouse
November 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
we gotta stop with the tiny microphones. get a full size mic like an ADULT. you look like you’re at tea with a mouse
I've had probably my 10th vaccination in 5 years and I am still not a baseball guy.
November 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I've had probably my 10th vaccination in 5 years and I am still not a baseball guy.
Got a new TV and had to spend a while turning off all kinds of image enhancement settings.
Imagine, the balls to think you could show me Goodfellas in a way other than how Marty intended.
Imagine, the balls to think you could show me Goodfellas in a way other than how Marty intended.
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Got a new TV and had to spend a while turning off all kinds of image enhancement settings.
Imagine, the balls to think you could show me Goodfellas in a way other than how Marty intended.
Imagine, the balls to think you could show me Goodfellas in a way other than how Marty intended.
Guys, we really need to do something about this redditor babytalk...
Imagine saying this out loud and telling people that you are, in fact, a fully-formed adult.
Imagine saying this out loud and telling people that you are, in fact, a fully-formed adult.
November 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Guys, we really need to do something about this redditor babytalk...
Imagine saying this out loud and telling people that you are, in fact, a fully-formed adult.
Imagine saying this out loud and telling people that you are, in fact, a fully-formed adult.
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In the 90s you would order food in the drive through, get home and realize that they forgot something, what Uber Eats does is add a computer and another guy to that process
November 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
In the 90s you would order food in the drive through, get home and realize that they forgot something, what Uber Eats does is add a computer and another guy to that process
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Here's the video of Sam Altman being subpoenaed on stage:
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Here's the video of Sam Altman being subpoenaed on stage:
No one goes to jail when these things generate child porn, which is pretty fucked up considering it had to be trained to do that. Welcome to hell, people.
AI chat bots kill people. They exacerbate mental heath conditions to the point of suicide.
If I encouraged someone to kill themselves and they did it, id go to prison...who goes to prison when genAI chat bots like chatgpt do it? No one
If I encouraged someone to kill themselves and they did it, id go to prison...who goes to prison when genAI chat bots like chatgpt do it? No one
November 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
No one goes to jail when these things generate child porn, which is pretty fucked up considering it had to be trained to do that. Welcome to hell, people.
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Mark Carney's budget will make Trump and Canada’s corporate class happy, but it does little for working people.
Martin Lukacs and @desmondcole.bsky.social break down the Liberals' Stephen Harper-esque moves, from public service layoffs to corporate handouts. breachmedia.ca/a-budget-for...
Martin Lukacs and @desmondcole.bsky.social break down the Liberals' Stephen Harper-esque moves, from public service layoffs to corporate handouts. breachmedia.ca/a-budget-for...
A budget for tanks, banks, and oil barons ⋆ The Breach
Martin Lukacs and Desmond Cole discuss the Liberal government’s Harper-esque budget
breachmedia.ca
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Mark Carney's budget will make Trump and Canada’s corporate class happy, but it does little for working people.
Martin Lukacs and @desmondcole.bsky.social break down the Liberals' Stephen Harper-esque moves, from public service layoffs to corporate handouts. breachmedia.ca/a-budget-for...
Martin Lukacs and @desmondcole.bsky.social break down the Liberals' Stephen Harper-esque moves, from public service layoffs to corporate handouts. breachmedia.ca/a-budget-for...