Ricky B
@ambivalentricky
Music, puzzles, writing, politics I guess. Future former lawyer. Beginner chess player. Disdained as an "egghead" by Matt Taibbi. Banned from Great Clips 7/20/24. He / him.
What’s in the box part 2: a selection of 15 autographed Interscope, not Merge, CDs, circa 2008. I assume someone from Merge said “anyone want a box of random promo stuff” and I said “sure”
Mystery of the morning: I found an unopened 5-pound box from @mergerecords.bsky.social mailed to me in 2009. What’s in it? I don’t think it’s thirty CDs — not quite heavy enough. Reasonable and creatively unreasonable answers welcome.
it really says something when I average 9 posts a day (oof) and that still doesn't put me in the highest Velocity category (IMO all Bluesky Elders also deserve Veteran status)
This is the first time I've heard of irreconcilable brands as grounds for divorce. (What kind of "insider" describes someone's life in terms of "authentic branding"?)
Help me with some research: WITHOUT stating its name in a reply, hit "like" if you know the name by which this meme image is commonly known.
tfw very important to locate the toy you hid under the rug 1 minute ago
"in his spare time, he likes to dress up like a police officer and try to pull young women over late at night"
Without downloading new pics, what is it like to date or be married to you? This is the confirmation from when I had to pay $45 at RDU because I forgot my Real ID at home, which also required me to go through security twice, resulting in my coming within 5 minutes of missing our flight.
I don't understand how you can think Zinn refuses to notice race and supports white supremacy given this, one of many similar, excerpts from the same APHOTUS chapter, in which he repeatedly quotes Douglass and du Bois approvingly. (One of my issues with Zinn to follow.)
#brilliant #chess (note again: brilliant seems to = sacrifice a minor piece to win a major piece)
"Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?"
My "brilliant"-getting theory demonstrated in the game I just played. 2 #brilliant moves... 65% accuracy. #chess
Right - cell phone bans in schools didn't affect test scores because they still have Chromebooks and attention spans drastically shortened by out-of-school device use. And it's very likely suspensions went up because phone-addicted kids violated the cell phone bans. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/u...
Photo from a development in Pittsboro from today's NYT (bottom) uncanny resemblance
"a common hate symbol" what's distinctive about it is that it is in 3/4 perspective and the skull has a big forehead and prominent coronal sutures (I did have to look that term up) Neo-Nazis know the difference between it and a generic skull and crossbones when they go to the tattoo parlor
It was a feature of the SS uniform! I'm sorry you don't know more about 20th century history but some of us do upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
I have playlists called "All Time" and "All Time But Too Much" (favorite songs that are too emotionally affecting for me to handle when I'm doing normal things). The former is limited to one song per artist, which distorts it a little. But here's a screenshot of an excerpt
