Darryl Ricker 🇨🇦
@darrylricker.bsky.social
Accidental author of the new book “Ignore All Previous Instructions”. Trying to make the world a better place one person at a time.
When I’m not accidentally writing books, I'm a dad, husband, vet bill financier and CTO.
When I’m not accidentally writing books, I'm a dad, husband, vet bill financier and CTO.
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1/ I am rebooting my account here to focus on a new book I wrote accidentally.
"Ignore All Previous Instructions" presents a new way to live, focusing not on work, money, and possessions, but instead on relationships, meaning, and purpose.
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#newauthor
#writingcommunity
"Ignore All Previous Instructions" presents a new way to live, focusing not on work, money, and possessions, but instead on relationships, meaning, and purpose.
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#newauthor
#writingcommunity
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THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
PeaceLoveCanada.ca
PeaceLoveCanada.ca
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
PeaceLoveCanada.ca
PeaceLoveCanada.ca
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According to this ranking, Canada’s reputation has improved since 2024. We are now the 2nd most reputable country in the world.
The United States has dropped from 30th to 48th in that same year, the biggest drop of any nation BY FAR. Its reputation-peers are now Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan…
The United States has dropped from 30th to 48th in that same year, the biggest drop of any nation BY FAR. Its reputation-peers are now Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan…
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
According to this ranking, Canada’s reputation has improved since 2024. We are now the 2nd most reputable country in the world.
The United States has dropped from 30th to 48th in that same year, the biggest drop of any nation BY FAR. Its reputation-peers are now Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan…
The United States has dropped from 30th to 48th in that same year, the biggest drop of any nation BY FAR. Its reputation-peers are now Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan…
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When someone tells you they aren’t into politics or that they aren’t affected by politics…
(h/t NATO Green)
#Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
(h/t NATO Green)
#Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
October 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
When someone tells you they aren’t into politics or that they aren’t affected by politics…
(h/t NATO Green)
#Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
(h/t NATO Green)
#Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
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A great coach once told me that good coaches take complex ideas and make them simple, while a bad coach who wants to appear like they know what they are doing takes ideas and concepts and makes them more complex.
October 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
A great coach once told me that good coaches take complex ideas and make them simple, while a bad coach who wants to appear like they know what they are doing takes ideas and concepts and makes them more complex.
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what will it take to make it clear to everyone (particularly the public) that social media and large online platforms are the root cause of much our current problems from fascism, to mental health, and the environment
October 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
what will it take to make it clear to everyone (particularly the public) that social media and large online platforms are the root cause of much our current problems from fascism, to mental health, and the environment
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Your child did not choose to be gay, but did choose to be honest with you about it. 🏳️🌈
Showing unconditional love and acceptance will have a huge positive impact on their life.
Your child’s journey to coming out is a personal decision that should only occur when they are ready.
Showing unconditional love and acceptance will have a huge positive impact on their life.
Your child’s journey to coming out is a personal decision that should only occur when they are ready.
October 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Your child did not choose to be gay, but did choose to be honest with you about it. 🏳️🌈
Showing unconditional love and acceptance will have a huge positive impact on their life.
Your child’s journey to coming out is a personal decision that should only occur when they are ready.
Showing unconditional love and acceptance will have a huge positive impact on their life.
Your child’s journey to coming out is a personal decision that should only occur when they are ready.
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The internet makes you feel like you're always late.
To trends. To skills. To opportunities.
You're a wizard, dude. You arrive precisely when you mean to.
To trends. To skills. To opportunities.
You're a wizard, dude. You arrive precisely when you mean to.
October 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The internet makes you feel like you're always late.
To trends. To skills. To opportunities.
You're a wizard, dude. You arrive precisely when you mean to.
To trends. To skills. To opportunities.
You're a wizard, dude. You arrive precisely when you mean to.
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It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not
American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving
October 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not
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You know, we have for nearly 50 years taken it for granted that it is indeed fun to stay at the YMCA, and yet this popular assertion is back only by a single, non-rigorous, musical anecdote, I propose it is time for a study with a control group, which stays at a Holiday Inn Express
October 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
You know, we have for nearly 50 years taken it for granted that it is indeed fun to stay at the YMCA, and yet this popular assertion is back only by a single, non-rigorous, musical anecdote, I propose it is time for a study with a control group, which stays at a Holiday Inn Express
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War-ravaged Portland
September 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
War-ravaged Portland
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It is mind-boggling how quickly the elected officials were willing to betray the people who they are supposed to serve. They didn’t even put up a token defense.
September 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
It is mind-boggling how quickly the elected officials were willing to betray the people who they are supposed to serve. They didn’t even put up a token defense.
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There are birds that speak human language and we just treat them like an annoying novelty at best.
September 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
There are birds that speak human language and we just treat them like an annoying novelty at best.
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The strongest predictor of autism is genetics.
Data:
• If one identical twin has ASD, the other has a 90–99% chance.
• Compare that to 31–67% chance for fraternal twins.
• Non-twin siblings have ~20% likelihood of ASD, 7-fold higher than general population.
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Data:
• If one identical twin has ASD, the other has a 90–99% chance.
• Compare that to 31–67% chance for fraternal twins.
• Non-twin siblings have ~20% likelihood of ASD, 7-fold higher than general population.
1/
September 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The strongest predictor of autism is genetics.
Data:
• If one identical twin has ASD, the other has a 90–99% chance.
• Compare that to 31–67% chance for fraternal twins.
• Non-twin siblings have ~20% likelihood of ASD, 7-fold higher than general population.
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Data:
• If one identical twin has ASD, the other has a 90–99% chance.
• Compare that to 31–67% chance for fraternal twins.
• Non-twin siblings have ~20% likelihood of ASD, 7-fold higher than general population.
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Hate will never have a place in my life
September 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Hate will never have a place in my life
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HEY HEY. The DE ebook is on sale in the U S of A today (and, I think, today only) for $1.99 just about everywhere you look.
If it were marked down any harder, Random House would be paying *you.*
If it were marked down any harder, Random House would be paying *you.*
Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer: 9780812985719 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A sharp, funny grammar guide they’ll actually want to read, from Random House’s longtime copy chief and one of Twitter’s leading language...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
September 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
HEY HEY. The DE ebook is on sale in the U S of A today (and, I think, today only) for $1.99 just about everywhere you look.
If it were marked down any harder, Random House would be paying *you.*
If it were marked down any harder, Random House would be paying *you.*
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Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
September 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
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Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC is now Open Source opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09...
Microsoft Releases Historic 6502 BASIC - Microsoft Open Source Blog
Explore the original 6502 BASIC—now open source! Dive into retro code, history, and emulators. Fork it, run it, and relive computing's roots.
opensource.microsoft.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC is now Open Source opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09...
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1/3 20 years ago today, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, I wrote a piece called "Being Poor," to answer, in a way that I hoped would stick, why so many people stayed in New Orleans to face the storm. It was and remains one of the best things I've ever written.
whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/b...
whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/b...
Being Poor
Visit the post for more.
whatever.scalzi.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
1/3 20 years ago today, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, I wrote a piece called "Being Poor," to answer, in a way that I hoped would stick, why so many people stayed in New Orleans to face the storm. It was and remains one of the best things I've ever written.
whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/b...
whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/b...
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Vaccines do not cause autism.
August 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Vaccines do not cause autism.
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"Snark feels like resistance if you are terminally online."
-Scalzi
SNARK FEELS LIKE RESISTANCE IF YOU ARE TERMINALLY ONLINE
SNARK FEELS LIKE RESISTANCE IF YOU ARE TERMINALLY ONLINE
SNARK FEELS LIKE RESISTANCE IF YOU ARE TERMINALLY ONLINE
If you are terminally online, snark feels like resistance.
-Scalzi
SNARK FEELS LIKE RESISTANCE IF YOU ARE TERMINALLY ONLINE
SNARK FEELS LIKE RESISTANCE IF YOU ARE TERMINALLY ONLINE
SNARK FEELS LIKE RESISTANCE IF YOU ARE TERMINALLY ONLINE
If you are terminally online, snark feels like resistance.
August 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"Snark feels like resistance if you are terminally online."
-Scalzi
SNARK FEELS LIKE RESISTANCE IF YOU ARE TERMINALLY ONLINE
SNARK FEELS LIKE RESISTANCE IF YOU ARE TERMINALLY ONLINE
SNARK FEELS LIKE RESISTANCE IF YOU ARE TERMINALLY ONLINE
If you are terminally online, snark feels like resistance.
-Scalzi
SNARK FEELS LIKE RESISTANCE IF YOU ARE TERMINALLY ONLINE
SNARK FEELS LIKE RESISTANCE IF YOU ARE TERMINALLY ONLINE
SNARK FEELS LIKE RESISTANCE IF YOU ARE TERMINALLY ONLINE
If you are terminally online, snark feels like resistance.
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If a person is too poor to pay for rent, making them homeless doesn't help.
If a person is too poor to pay for food, putting them in a cage doesn't help.
If people are poor, don't punish them for it.
Give them money and make them not poor anymore.
If a person is too poor to pay for food, putting them in a cage doesn't help.
If people are poor, don't punish them for it.
Give them money and make them not poor anymore.
August 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
If a person is too poor to pay for rent, making them homeless doesn't help.
If a person is too poor to pay for food, putting them in a cage doesn't help.
If people are poor, don't punish them for it.
Give them money and make them not poor anymore.
If a person is too poor to pay for food, putting them in a cage doesn't help.
If people are poor, don't punish them for it.
Give them money and make them not poor anymore.
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Hey HHS, look what scientists like me knew back in 2021👇🏻
We were right then and are right now. Vaccines don't *cause* variants. Rather, massive numbers of infections in people with no or waning immunity do.
Evolution is no reason to avoid vaccination.
theconversation.com/massive-numb...
We were right then and are right now. Vaccines don't *cause* variants. Rather, massive numbers of infections in people with no or waning immunity do.
Evolution is no reason to avoid vaccination.
theconversation.com/massive-numb...
Massive numbers of new COVID–19 infections, not vaccines, are the main driver of new coronavirus variants
When the coronavirus copies itself, there is a chance its RNA will mutate. But new variants must jump from one host to another, and the more infections there are, the better chance this will happen.
theconversation.com
August 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Hey HHS, look what scientists like me knew back in 2021👇🏻
We were right then and are right now. Vaccines don't *cause* variants. Rather, massive numbers of infections in people with no or waning immunity do.
Evolution is no reason to avoid vaccination.
theconversation.com/massive-numb...
We were right then and are right now. Vaccines don't *cause* variants. Rather, massive numbers of infections in people with no or waning immunity do.
Evolution is no reason to avoid vaccination.
theconversation.com/massive-numb...
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Chumbawamba’s “Tubthumping” turns 28 today.
The song “didn’t belong to an elite group of musicians,” said Boff Whalley. “It belonged to people. People at football matches, people singing along — people at parties drinking too much whiskey and tripping over the kitchen chairs. People like me.”
The song “didn’t belong to an elite group of musicians,” said Boff Whalley. “It belonged to people. People at football matches, people singing along — people at parties drinking too much whiskey and tripping over the kitchen chairs. People like me.”
August 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Chumbawamba’s “Tubthumping” turns 28 today.
The song “didn’t belong to an elite group of musicians,” said Boff Whalley. “It belonged to people. People at football matches, people singing along — people at parties drinking too much whiskey and tripping over the kitchen chairs. People like me.”
The song “didn’t belong to an elite group of musicians,” said Boff Whalley. “It belonged to people. People at football matches, people singing along — people at parties drinking too much whiskey and tripping over the kitchen chairs. People like me.”
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While we’re still figuring out life on Earth, Voyager 1 is 15 billion miles away, cruising on 69KB, an 8-track, and 1977s Fortran like it’s nothing.
August 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
While we’re still figuring out life on Earth, Voyager 1 is 15 billion miles away, cruising on 69KB, an 8-track, and 1977s Fortran like it’s nothing.