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Kyle Brickman
@kylebrickman.bsky.social
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UI Engineer at Netflix (all opinions are mine) out of Brentwood, CA. Has far too much Lego and knows far too much about Star Trek.
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I’m pretty sure the only way this actually-real email from Apple could look less legitimate is if they misspelled “store” or hosted their order status page at real-dot-app-dot-le-dot-biz or something.
A screenshot of an email from the Apple Store about an order change being successful. Inexplicably for one of the most brand-forward companies in existence, the email is entirely plaintext and in a monospace font. The text of the email reads: “Apple Store Order Change Order Number: [REDACTED] Hello Kyle Brickman, Thank you for shopping at the Apple Online Store. Your order was successfully updated and your changes are reflected below. If you requested additional changes, you will receive a separate email confirmation for each. To check the current status of your order, please visit our Order Status website at http://www.apple.com/orderstatus. Thank you for shopping with Apple. The Apple Store Team”
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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I can’t help but think Apple’s casting some subtle shade here.
A photo of my Apple Watch on my left wrist. On the screen is a a notification titled “November Challenge”, followed by the description. “Kyle, close your Exercise Ring in 1 day and earn this award. You’ve got this.” Fucking ice cold, Apple.
November 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Me: So painfully uncool that I’m probably the only D.A.R.E “graduate” who still hasn’t done weed.
Also me: “muncho pot crisps 🤭”
A photograph of a bag of MUNCHOS brand potato “crisps”, which are like Pringles but in bag form and one of those products that the manufacturer must make for mere pennies since they print the price on the bag in big bold text. Next to it is a carefully-anonymized (important since I am clearly keeping my identity on here a big secret) receipt from FoodMaxx, saying that I purchased “MUNCHO POT CRISPS” for $2.79.
October 31, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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The delightful thing about how Bluesky handles quote posts is that you end up seeing posts like this with no context, but a wealth of possibilities about what they’re referring to, all terrible.
A screenshot of the post being quoted, which quoted a different post, in which @radleybalko.bsky.social says “Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.”, but the post _it_ quotes is omitted. The horror it cites is Florida obliterating child vaccination requirements, but it could be anything! COVID, SNAP, immigration, bodily autonomy, renewable energy, retirement, labor rights, Earth being a geoid. Basically anything good.
October 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Well @jacquesfavreau.com, looks like they’re finally over my bullshit.

Or my last employer needs a content designer. One or the other.
A screenshot of an email from LinkedIn.com, a social network that is ostensibly for hosting your resume, but has somehow become a place where financial advisors slide into your DMs and people post the most unhinged hyper-capitalist bootlicking imaginable. Anyway, the subject is “Senior User Interface Engineer job trends from the past week.” Apparently two such roles were hired in an indictment of current US economic policies and an asinine fixation on trying to replace human beings with fancy autocomplete. Then the title “Companies hiring for your role”, followed by “Netflix”, which on a casual read suggests that I have been replaced. That Is, as they say, The Joke. “Companies hiring for roles like yours” would be better in basically every way, but that would wrap even on the giant iPhone screens the designer of this email is probably targeting, so gotta reduce the character count there. As far as I know, Netflix is still enduring my bullshit.
October 31, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Reminds me of this classic Swear Trek.
October 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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October 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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October 25, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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A mostly-black image, with mysterious characters and the text “View all soups” peeking through in staticky snow. (Also I wanted to use Zalgo text but I wasn’t sure if that would just obliterate Bluesky and/or be awful for screen readers)
October 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Somehow the latter! It being a canonical Lego surname is all the better!
A photo of a (slightly dusty) 10246 Detective’s Office modular building, focusing on the main upper floor of the building, a “POOL” neon sign reflected on the window labeled “ACE BRICKMAN PRIVATE DETECTIVE.”
October 23, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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“Much better” thought Donald J. Trump. “Now they match.”
An image of the East Wing of the LEGO White House, a gaping hole cut into the side of the building, pieces strewn in front of it.
October 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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I brought out my LEGO White House to make a post satirizing the destruction of the East Wing.

And then this happened as I was carrying it, proving irony is dead.
A photo of a guy holding the LEGO White House over a millennial greige floor viewed from the West Wing. In the background, the East Wing is on the floor, shattered and broken after having fallen. A close-up shot on an IKEA SKOGSTA dining table, showing the myriad pieces of the East Wing.
October 23, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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A screenshot of the SimCity 2000 transit advisor, exclaiming in all caps, “YOU CAN’T CUT BACK ON RETICULATING SPLINES! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!”
October 12, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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One of my favorite features about iOS 26 is how the Phone app doesn’t know how to count, especially in its new “unified” view.
A screenshot of the iOS status bar and top navigation of the Phone app. It depicts a Filter button with a blue notification icon, claiming that there are three buried treasures inside. A screenshot showing the Filter menu active, demonstrating that, in fact, there are no buried treasures inside. Also, bizarrely, the notification icon from the button is still shown, just kind of chilling, hanging out, maxing and relaxing, which is weird since Apple made a big deal about Liquid Glass buttons morphing into menus and you’d think that they’d better integrate the notification icon onto the menu or hide it or something but we probably have to devote engineers to trying to coax Siri into placing a DoorDash order or something.
September 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Hell yeah, Barclay’s genius throne that just gets more and more crazy stuff bolted on. I think about it far more than one might expect.
Barclay sitting in his genius throne after it has become even smarter. This means it looks like he’s in a Laser Tag arena with black lights and fluorescent paint and a laser shooting into his head. The chair also gets a lot of blinking lights, and the quilted fabric of the seat really stands out for some reason.
September 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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I’ve spent more time fixing garbage Windows 11 installs than I’ve spent using Windows 11. 1/n
A screenshot of my work fixing someone’s laptop. A file deletion dialog, the Services panel, and Task Manager are running. Notable highlights include an estimate of 12 hours to delete 4.27GB worth of data, the deletion process taking more than a quarter of the system’s resources between the COM surrogate and Windows Explorer, the BYOD enterprise security agent using more than half a gigabyte of RAM and Microsoft Teams being one of the top five processes for memory usage, though somehow being topped by Windows’ WIDGET ENGINE.
September 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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I used to have Hot Dog Guy on my keychain, until he became Armless Legless Hot Dog Guy.

Anyway, here’s One-Armless Legless Cactus Guy.
A photograph of a Lego guy wearing a cactus costume, attached to a keychain. He seems very happy. He is missing his legs and left arm.
September 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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An image macro (“meme” to those born after 1992 or so) featuring a Sears Portrait Studio style picture of Quark. The text reads “CAPITALISM IS WORKING AS DESIGN AND IT NEEDS TO BE CHERISHED”.
August 31, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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im lovin it
An overly-compressed image with a McDonalds red background, yellow text in a Legally Distinct From Comic Sans typeface stating “corporate brand identity is my passion”, right-aligned in the text box but left-aligned to the image and wrapping after “brand” and “identity”, and a further overly-compressed illustration of ca. 2000 Ronald McDonald with a white background.
August 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Good news everyone, just down the road at the Campbell, CA Courtyard Marriott, there’s a decorative statuary to go with my wall art.
It is An Art. It sort of looks like a vase, but is not functional as such due to a lack of a hole to put flowers in. It’s sort of hourglass-shaped, with the bottom thicker than the top, and it all comes to a point, that’s flat, at the top. There’s teal link-looking lines on it that look suspiciously like the An Art from the quote post. It’s also very prominently placed in its own little corner with a dedicated quarter-round end table made with 00’s chic veneer and a ceiling spotlight.
August 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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I promise, you're never going to guess this bot's first post.
August 16, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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How to tell if your hotel is secretly operated by the @cpsc.gov.
A photograph of a hotel desk. From left to right, a phone, a placard telling people not to smoke or vape tobacco or the devil’s lettuce, a pad of paper and pen branded with the hotel’s logo, the base of a lamp with a toggle switch and two inevitably-loose plugs, an envelope suggesting a tip for housekeeping instead of paying a living wage, and a mysterious laminated piece of paper… Surprise, it’s carbon monoxide safety tips! There’s an orange warning triangle and orange headings, followed by information sourced from @cpsc.gov and the Mayo Clinic.
August 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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I don’t think I’ve encountered “context menus with threatening auras” until this @cathoderaydude.bsky.social video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYOh...
Gravis details alternative software for the so-1999-is-the-year-of-Desktop-Linux-it-hurts Empeg car MP3 player. Right clicking on a track reveals Open, Cut, Copy, Paste, and Deep Paste, an action with results I can likely surmise based on being a software engineer but named like an eldritch warning.
July 9, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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I’m so glad @linkedin.com is one of those companies that periodically send you reminders to update your email subscription preferences like this:
A screenshot of an email in the iOS Mail application from LinkedIn, to me (Kyle Brickman). The subject line is “Kyle, follow Jordan Peterson - Co-Founder at Peterson Academy” the body shows the LinkedIn logo, my own face in case I forgot who I was, the title “Kyle, add interesting content to your feed. Here are a few recommendations to get started.” Following that is a picture of a man who only eats beef and salt, the name “Jordan Peterson”, the title “Professor Emeritus of Psychology at University of Toronto and Co-Founder of…”, a counter indicating there are 629,477 people (let’s be honest, mostly men) inexplicably needing advice to clean their rooms, and a Follow button that will NOT be tapped. I used to work for LinkedIn!
June 28, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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This is how I command a starship.
June 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM