Ricki Cummings
@rickiep00h.bsky.social
43-year-old nobody living in Chicago, writing poems, and editing a podcast. She/her.
Poetry - THE FAILURE EXPERIMENT - available in print and ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F26G8LLX
Newsletter et al. at linktr.ee/rickicummings
AI GETS YOU A BLOCK
Poetry - THE FAILURE EXPERIMENT - available in print and ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F26G8LLX
Newsletter et al. at linktr.ee/rickicummings
AI GETS YOU A BLOCK
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Ricki Cummings
@rickiep00h.bsky.social
· Mar 22
Today's the day! The sun is shining, the tank is clean!
THE FAILURE EXPERIMENT IS NOW AVAILABLE
linky-loo: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F26G8LLX
Check out what others have said in the thread below! 🧵
THE FAILURE EXPERIMENT IS NOW AVAILABLE
linky-loo: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F26G8LLX
Check out what others have said in the thread below! 🧵
Hit with a sudden wave of Heats the Point inre: writing. It just feels like wasted time. I'm neither pretty nor rich enough get a following.
No one cares when I post about anything I do; I haven't gotten a Patron, newsletter sign up, or book sale in several months. I hate this.
No one cares when I post about anything I do; I haven't gotten a Patron, newsletter sign up, or book sale in several months. I hate this.
December 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Hit with a sudden wave of Heats the Point inre: writing. It just feels like wasted time. I'm neither pretty nor rich enough get a following.
No one cares when I post about anything I do; I haven't gotten a Patron, newsletter sign up, or book sale in several months. I hate this.
No one cares when I post about anything I do; I haven't gotten a Patron, newsletter sign up, or book sale in several months. I hate this.
Sometimes I have to remind myself that Skid Row actually fucking ripped. There's some Pantera influence rubbing off on them on this one, but it's still the classic lineup doing the shit they did best, and Sebastian Bach was never not one of the best voices in metal.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys_o...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys_o...
Iron Will
YouTube video by Skid Row - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Sometimes I have to remind myself that Skid Row actually fucking ripped. There's some Pantera influence rubbing off on them on this one, but it's still the classic lineup doing the shit they did best, and Sebastian Bach was never not one of the best voices in metal.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys_o...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys_o...
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If you don't know about the Mechanical Turk, look it up. I know school made you hate history, but stories like the Mechanical Turk will make you love it again.
I called this whole Optimus robot marketing schtick from Tesla/Musk a replay of of the Mechanical Turk when I wrote about it last year, and nothing seems to have changed:
www.dailygrail.com/2024/10/the-...
www.dailygrail.com/2024/10/the-...
December 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
If you don't know about the Mechanical Turk, look it up. I know school made you hate history, but stories like the Mechanical Turk will make you love it again.
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if I see another academic describe LLMs - a tech owned by a small elite of white billionaires, built from extracting data from humans and minerals from the earth, and refined by the labor of underpaid workers in the global south - as an ‘important tool for decolonization’ I may simply just explode
December 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
if I see another academic describe LLMs - a tech owned by a small elite of white billionaires, built from extracting data from humans and minerals from the earth, and refined by the labor of underpaid workers in the global south - as an ‘important tool for decolonization’ I may simply just explode
Oh man, I missed that Frank Gehry died. That makes me sad. I think his Disney Orchestra Hall and its pipe organ is arguably a masterpiece, and of course the Pritzker Pavilion here in Chicago is amazing(ly good at blinding office workers along Michigan Ave), but my favorite will always be his house.
December 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Oh man, I missed that Frank Gehry died. That makes me sad. I think his Disney Orchestra Hall and its pipe organ is arguably a masterpiece, and of course the Pritzker Pavilion here in Chicago is amazing(ly good at blinding office workers along Michigan Ave), but my favorite will always be his house.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox-f...
This is an extremely good breakdown of how absolutely fucked up this entire administration is on the international scale. Wreck survivors are the *literal textbook example* of war crimes in the United States *own armed forces handbooks.*
This is an extremely good breakdown of how absolutely fucked up this entire administration is on the international scale. Wreck survivors are the *literal textbook example* of war crimes in the United States *own armed forces handbooks.*
Unequivocal War Crimes
YouTube video by LegalEagle
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox-f...
This is an extremely good breakdown of how absolutely fucked up this entire administration is on the international scale. Wreck survivors are the *literal textbook example* of war crimes in the United States *own armed forces handbooks.*
This is an extremely good breakdown of how absolutely fucked up this entire administration is on the international scale. Wreck survivors are the *literal textbook example* of war crimes in the United States *own armed forces handbooks.*
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🍂 sometimes i go through my camera roll and find images i have no recollection of making
December 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
🍂 sometimes i go through my camera roll and find images i have no recollection of making
Hey look, mobile piñatas.
Get this e-waste out of the city and hire real people. (Relatedly, kick them friggin' rental scooters out again, too.)
Get this e-waste out of the city and hire real people. (Relatedly, kick them friggin' rental scooters out again, too.)
Delivery robots are taking over Chicago sidewalks, sparking debate and a petition to hit "pause." blockclubchi.co/3KmCRIu
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Hey look, mobile piñatas.
Get this e-waste out of the city and hire real people. (Relatedly, kick them friggin' rental scooters out again, too.)
Get this e-waste out of the city and hire real people. (Relatedly, kick them friggin' rental scooters out again, too.)
I have heard the owls are not what they seem. Perhaps be careful and don't go to a second location with owls.
It's that day again. Try and have a good one. 🦉
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I have heard the owls are not what they seem. Perhaps be careful and don't go to a second location with owls.
Hey folks, it's Podcast Monday, the newest episode is now live! Elle speaks with Katie, an ex-pat now living in Sweden, about burnout, finding rest, the neurodivergent family unit, and the mission work to deconstruction pipeline. Listen and subscribe at hoorfpodcast.com or wherever you get podcasts!
Hoorf! Radical Care in a Late Capitalist Heckscape — Elle & Wink Art Studio
Hoorf! Podcast producers Elle Billing and Ricki Cummings are digging at the roots of systemic problems in a conversational format, getting to know our neighbors, and using creative expression to heal…
hoorfpodcast.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Hey folks, it's Podcast Monday, the newest episode is now live! Elle speaks with Katie, an ex-pat now living in Sweden, about burnout, finding rest, the neurodivergent family unit, and the mission work to deconstruction pipeline. Listen and subscribe at hoorfpodcast.com or wherever you get podcasts!
I, a former Fargo resident, continue to be smug in a Paul Hogan "That's not a knife" sort of way.
...this post has really dated me, huh? Welp.
...this post has really dated me, huh? Welp.
The city was hit with as much as five inches of snow Saturday into Sunday, making this the snowiest start to a winter season since 1978. blockclubchi.co/44dA8ro
December 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I, a former Fargo resident, continue to be smug in a Paul Hogan "That's not a knife" sort of way.
...this post has really dated me, huh? Welp.
...this post has really dated me, huh? Welp.
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The most awkward client you ever had is now most likley to be "happy" with AI generated slop.
I feel the clients now using GenAI to do stuff and going "good enough" when they used to nitpick at every last detail is due to them finding out all those nit picky changes take time and work they cant be bothered to put in.
December 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The most awkward client you ever had is now most likley to be "happy" with AI generated slop.
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I'm not sure what's bigger Loser Energy - that Musk said his robot 'doing Kung Fu with Jared Leto at the Tron Ares Premiere' was AI when it was just being remote controlled, or that he thought 'telling an AI to do Kung Fu with Jared Leto at the Tron Ares Premiere' was a cool guy thing to do
Intensely funny because it seems like the vast majority of people at that event were convinced it was fully autonomous and Musk has repeatedly recently claimed they're not tele-operated
www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...
www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...
December 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I'm not sure what's bigger Loser Energy - that Musk said his robot 'doing Kung Fu with Jared Leto at the Tron Ares Premiere' was AI when it was just being remote controlled, or that he thought 'telling an AI to do Kung Fu with Jared Leto at the Tron Ares Premiere' was a cool guy thing to do
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December 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Show me a picture on your phone which has your energy but isn't a selfie.
December 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Show me a picture on your phone which has your energy but isn't a selfie.
Between yesterday's hyper focus them crash and tonight's near inability to stay asleep OR awake, I'm really not looking forward to "daytime" hours.
December 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Between yesterday's hyper focus them crash and tonight's near inability to stay asleep OR awake, I'm really not looking forward to "daytime" hours.
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PERVERSE 9I is out today! This week features five poems by Dawn Sands, Sam Harvey, Charlotte Whittle, Michelle Penn and Edward Doegar, on Jean Valjean, leaf mulch, and Lush glitter. Read all five poems from this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9i
December 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
PERVERSE 9I is out today! This week features five poems by Dawn Sands, Sam Harvey, Charlotte Whittle, Michelle Penn and Edward Doegar, on Jean Valjean, leaf mulch, and Lush glitter. Read all five poems from this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9i
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Interesting thing about airplanes is that they take you farther away from girls. But also? Closer to other girls. Who’s to say if it’s good or bad
December 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Interesting thing about airplanes is that they take you farther away from girls. But also? Closer to other girls. Who’s to say if it’s good or bad
Spent most of the afternoon sorting the Magic collection. Harness that ambition when it arrives.
December 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Spent most of the afternoon sorting the Magic collection. Harness that ambition when it arrives.
If I ever became independently wealthy, some of the biggest beneficiaries would be SWers. Not even necessarily for their services*, but just because they're generally good people who are criminally undervalued.
Imagine how much better our lives would be if they could just create rather than hustle.
Imagine how much better our lives would be if they could just create rather than hustle.
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
If I ever became independently wealthy, some of the biggest beneficiaries would be SWers. Not even necessarily for their services*, but just because they're generally good people who are criminally undervalued.
Imagine how much better our lives would be if they could just create rather than hustle.
Imagine how much better our lives would be if they could just create rather than hustle.
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There isn’t much for our Supreme Court to hear, the Constitution is already clear. And just to be absolutely clear: the Supreme Court does not have the power to overrule or rewrite our Constitution.
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
There isn’t much for our Supreme Court to hear, the Constitution is already clear. And just to be absolutely clear: the Supreme Court does not have the power to overrule or rewrite our Constitution.
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Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.
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The first sentence of my post has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the second sentence of my post
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The first sentence of my post has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the second sentence of my post
Hey there folks! Sent out the newsletter this morning. A bit about what I'm doing, a bit about what I'm reading, a bit about where I might be directing energy in the future. Sign up at buttondown.com/rickicummings
December 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Hey there folks! Sent out the newsletter this morning. A bit about what I'm doing, a bit about what I'm reading, a bit about where I might be directing energy in the future. Sign up at buttondown.com/rickicummings
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hey i didnt forget about bandcamp friday YOU forgot about bandcamp friday! i aint gonna hassle you about it but if you wanna support my band and help us put out our next ep AND get some rad alt rock tunes made by trannies FOR trannies you can do worse (maybe!) sparklingurbana.bandcamp.com
Sparkling Urbana
alternative trans and queer rock in chicago illinois
loud noises, gay thoughts. why knock it til you try it?
for all inquiries email sparklingurbana@gmail.com
sparklingurbana.bandcamp.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
hey i didnt forget about bandcamp friday YOU forgot about bandcamp friday! i aint gonna hassle you about it but if you wanna support my band and help us put out our next ep AND get some rad alt rock tunes made by trannies FOR trannies you can do worse (maybe!) sparklingurbana.bandcamp.com