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Ricki Cummings
@rickiep00h.bsky.social
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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

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Show me a picture on your phone which has your energy but isn't a selfie.
A white cat sits at a table with steamed vegetables on a square white plate in front of him. He has an expression like consternation, even disgust, that such food would be offered to him
December 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Cramming reading I've been meaning to do all year into the last month of it, as usual. @kierongillen.bsky.social @mckelvie.bsky.social making regular appearances, as well as @stephaniehans.bsky.social, @katiewest.bsky.social, and @claytoncowles.bsky.social. 1st @patrickhorvath.bsky.social joint too!
A very messy desktop with several comic books strewn across it. Someone really ought to clean all that up.
December 4, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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My last 3 brain cells.
an image of an extremely scruffy-looking power trio. the kick drum has the name of the band: the lone rangers. somehow they've pluralized "the lone ranger."
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Oh hey I found the first note of the first image I had in my head for THE FAILURE EXPERIMENT! If you want to see what it looks like as a poem, you can find it at www.amazon.com/dp/B0F26G8LLX in both print and ebook!
Abcd = efgh A = efgh Abcd =e Abcd = ee'e''e'''
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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THE FAILURE EXPERIMENT is a book about beginnings, endings, robots, sex, self, and personhood. And a little being trans in there, too. Available in ebook and paperback: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F26G8LLX
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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...the cloud had a large pocket of air inside it? Like a cloud... cavern? Anyway, you could see inside it. And what was inside was the most unnatural looking blue/green I had ever seen. I hope I never see it again irl. (I spent way too long trying to find this exact shade of Fender Surf Green.)
A close-up cropped image of a portion of a Fender Ukulele finished in Surf Green. It is an unnatural, sickly color that most definitely should not be seen in the sky.
November 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
A pen and ink drawing of an anthropomorphic cow peering in through a window from the outside with its hooves on the glass. It is wearing a block shirt with the word SICKOWS on it. It is saying "MOO... HA HA HA... MOO!" On the windowsill are what can only be described as some sort of cow "tools," though their purpose is not at all apparent.
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender
An attractive young woman with dark hair dancing in a diner. She is wearing a deep red sweater and a matching pleated plaid skirt. It seems both alluring and slightly mad.
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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"I think shellfish and raw meat are disgusting" is what this actually says. Rich people can apparently afford deadly food-borne illnesses from time to time.
a radial graph with five sections labeled from lower to upper class. the bulk of the filled area is in lower class, with lower middle and middle almost equal to each other and just slightly below lower class levels. there's a little blob in upper middle class, and upper class is barely filled in.
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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"Employees must smile if less than 10 feet from a customer."
A woman with pale skin and long black hair and brown eyes smiles unsettlingly. Her eyes are red rimmed and glassy from tears. You are unsure if she is laughing or crying or both, but no matter the case it's spooky, especially considering the visible artery swelling under the skin of her forehead. Best not stick around to find out.
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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(art by the inimitable @noctalgia.space)
An image of a multicolor blob that looks eerily like a face thanks to the phenomenon of pareidolia. The colors are vibrant blues, greens, and magentas. Over the face is what appears to be random text in groups of five letters in black. The background is alternating lines of black and dark gray. At the bottom in bold green text are the words "THE FAILURE EXPERIMENT" and just below that, in gray, "RICKI CUMMINGS"
October 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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This is The Crimson Ghost. If you see it you have a 90% chance to hear horror-themed pop-punk from a short Guy from Jersey and a 10% chance to discover an international plot to steal electronic weapons technology.

Not a Nazi skull.
A sinister black and white skull image that is oddly out of proportion, with way too many teeth.
October 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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This is Facebones. He is the mascot of an internationally renowned band with the world's 14th-largest economy who are composers of the most brutal coffee jingle of all time, but he is not a Nazi skull.
A human skull with many horns and spikes protruding from it. It still has eyeballs and muscle attached in some places. You get the feeling he's more likely to give you a legal disclaimer than be menacing in any real way.
October 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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THE FAILURE EXPERIMENT is a book about beginnings, endings, robots, sex, self, and personhood. And a little being trans in there, too. Available in ebook and paperback: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F26G8LLX
October 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Unsolicited crick pic
A serene shallow clbrook, creek, or crick located in a wooded area. Several large worn rocks are dotted here and there in the water, and the bed seems to be smaller rocks.
October 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Hey sweeties, in case you missed it in the churn, THE FAILURE EXPERIMENT will be availalbe THIS FRIDAY as an ebook! Finally! You can preorder it now! (And the print version is, of course, still available.) Ch-check it out!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0F26G8LLX
October 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Oh I know what that is!
a screenshot from a cel-shaded video game: the scene is a lovely outdoor scene in a large meadow with occasional trees with leaves that have turned orange; there are mountains in the background. the main figure is a lil guy in a green tunic and brown boots, and he is holding a sword and shield. aimed at him are red beams of light from two very large creatures made from what appears to be rock, with many flailing, squid-like tentacles. the creatures have bright pink lighting as part of their coloring.
September 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Show me a pic on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.

(The Grimlock one of these two.)
A still from the Transformers animated movie: in the foreground is a theropod-type dinosaur robot with blue eyes, and in the background is a humanoid robot that is piloting the spaceship they are both in.
September 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Actual fan footage of Doug "Sexiest Frontman in Metal" Moore.
An exceedingly large, red troll ascends from a mountain lake, presumably to eat the local townsfolk, who either look on in stunned silence or run away in terror. The troll has long, spindly fingers; long, spindly hair; long, spiraled horns; spikes emerging from its spine and gauntlets; and wears only a hide loincloth, boots, and (again) gauntlets.
September 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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tumblr screenshot reading Anonymous asked: the girl who sits next 2 me in English keeps inviting me over to study but we just end up watching movies and she wrote "love u" on my annotation of a poem and she wants to take me to a vegan cafe. how do I ask her if she's gay and a reply sa2ha answered: anon im going to kill you
September 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery." ~ Malcolm X

Don't start none, won't be none. Wouldn't need action were it not for violence done to people.

Remember this? Now they're just straight disappearing kids instead.
A helmeted police officer sprays seated college students (some with hoods up and faces down) with military-grade pepper spray as dozens of other students look on and other police officers hold the crowd back. There is a photo credit to Louise Macabitas in the lower right corner.
September 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Okay I lied one more thing before I bounce--the newest bit from my current project.
21 The World Don’t it beat a slow dance to death? ~ St. Vincent, “Slow Disco” It’s finally come down to this: I step from the shadows—more of a stalk, really— with all the confidence of a rock star. Everyone melts around me, all of them puddles. Who could predict this revision? Pink with envy in white and red leather, everyone stares; no one knows what to do. I’ve thrown everything aside to be here. Look at me. Look at me. This sneer is joy. Every single person is terrified of what they think they may be. It’s so sad. But I can stand here and show them what they can be. Yes, it’s sex, but it’s also love: of self, of life, of soul, of true freedom. The capacity of the universe is in your ability to be you. You, reading this. Me, writing this. Singing. This room of smoke and lasers is only the beginning of the shell cracking, yolk and blood and sweat and tiny egg tooth bursting from the fissure that’s birthing you anew. Reborn from knives, this body cuts so cleanly the pain never really comes. All that’s left is pure, radiant rapture. At the end of it, I’m so glad I came.
September 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Post a meme you made:
An image of a stop-motion puppet of a mad scientist with tiny round black glasses and a frankly disgusting mouth with gross teeth within it. His head is bulbous and features a seam running around the circumference of the skull; the top half is a metal dome. His ears are tiny in comparison to the head. He is punching a hanging lamp, and at the bottom of the frame in Impact font are the words SNOW AGAIN. He's getting fed up with snow, you see.
August 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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If you see this, post a vampire.
A very shabby and run-down room feature a stack of newspapers, a midcentury-styled coffee maker, exceedingly ugly and dingy floral patterns on the furniture and walls, and in the center of the frame, a black cat with the face of a human man sporting a Van Dyke beard and looking sinister.
August 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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no new pictures - where are you mentally?
A drawn comics panel featuring a young woman with long-ish black hair cut with bangs and gray eyes and red lips, wearing a black tank top. There are "speed lines" drawn in for emphasis on her sudden realization, and she is saying "IT'S MY JAM!" Her intensity leads you to believe an epic setpiece is about to happen.
August 26, 2025 at 5:35 AM