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Ricki Cummings

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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 All other things available at linktr.ee/rickicummings

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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! 🧵

an image with the text "IT'S LIVE IT'S LIVE IT'S LIVE LINK IN BIO 3, 2, 1... LET'S JAM" in white, then below that "THE FAILURE EXPERIMENT" in green and below THAT "RICKI CUMMINGS" the background is a multicolored mosaic that resembles a digital face, with seemingly random text overlaying it.

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Ricki Cummings @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 12h

Only thing that makes this different from League of Legends chat is that some of these weird clones are now in positions of (mostly limited) power. This is your average run-of-the-mill chud.

Doesn't make it okay, but it's also not new. People talk about how "online isn't real life" but here we are.

Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 16h

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

Ricki Cummings @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 13h

One would think you'd be the Blaster Master by now.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14h

This is because the feds won't stop gassing our neighborhoods so they can flee and, by extension, are also repeatedly gassing the cops. What a moment to be alive

Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 14h

CPD memo to officers today: helmet and gas mask available and accessible at all times, to be read at 7 days of roll calls. (For officers assigned masks.) Supervisors to ensure compliance acc to the memo. #chicago

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20h

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Ricki Cummings @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 13h

So anyway they've started the race war they so viciously lust for. All them Boogaloo Boys and Threepers got let out of jail and now they have government weapons. Brownshirts.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov get off your loudmouth ass and actually do something. I have yet to see you get between anyone.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 15h

NEW — For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in a Chicago residential area.

Members of the media, Chicago police officers on the scene for crowd control, and the broader nearby community were also exposed to the tear gas.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

Federal agents gas Chicago’s East Side • The TRiiBE

For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in Chicago residential neighborhoods.

thetriibe.com

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Ricki Cummings @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 14h

Who?

Ricki Cummings @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 1d

Excuse me I'd been lead to believe the streets are being ripped up by raving machine-gun toting drug addicts

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Ricki Cummings @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone can read or write poetry, and you don't have to do one in order to do the other.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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BumboJumbo @bumbojumbo666.bsky.social · 1d

The average protester has been doing expert-level escalation management and the average ICE officer is threatening to murder ambulance drivers.

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Ricki Cummings @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno maybe she should try to do something about the fucking reason they're protesting. Her fucking cops are protecting the wrong group.

WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 1d

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson signed an executive order shrinking the designated protest area outside the suburb’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility following Saturday night protests that “degenerated into chaos,” Thompson announced Monday.

https://to.wttw.com/4q9G6CT

Broadview Mayor Shrinks Designated Protest Area Outside ICE Facility

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson signed an executive order shrinking the designated protest area outside the suburban Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

to.wttw.com

Ricki Cummings @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 1d

Hey you know that podcast I edit? SEASON FOUR STARTS TODAY! A chat about what glass can't do, time travel, and a little bit of pie crust. hoorfpodcast.com or wherever you get yer ear stories.

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

Ricki Cummings @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 1d

I like the verses quite a bit. Good rock bit. The rest of it is... well actually most of Jazz sounds like that. Even for Queen it's a little weird.

Ricki Cummings @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 1d

Ooo do you have the "cilantro is soap" thing, too? It's such a weirdly specific genetic thing.

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GigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social · 1d

I guarantee you can't listen to this without adding in the Oh-wah-oh bits in your head.

𝖓𝖔𝖗𝖆 𝖓𝖊𝖚𝖗𝖔𝖘𝖎𝖘𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖗 🏳️‍⚧️ @neurosismancer.gay · 1d

ever hear the camera club version?

this actually came out a few months before the buggles version and has thomas dolby on keyboards

Video Killed the Radio Star

YouTube video by Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club - Topic

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Ricki Cummings @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 1d

Broccoli I've come around on a bit as I've gotten older, but it's still not my favorite veg.

Ricki Cummings @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 1d

I was gonna take you to task about Bicycle Race, but not only do I completely understand, a ton of people love my choice sooooooo

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Ricki Cummings @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 1d

I'm really hoping for something to change soon. They know they're losing and if they're not pulled out soon, there are gonna be a lot more dead and wounded.

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Ricki Cummings @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand

String beans of any type
Requiem for a Dream
Brown-eyed Girl

Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand

Guacamole
The Deer Hunter
Queen's "Bicycle Race"

God I hate that fucking song.

Lexi’s Chainsaw Massacre @surrealhousewife.bsky.social · 1d

"Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand"

Balut
Gummo
Ordinary by Alex Warren

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Ricki Cummings @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 1d

And then you got home and realized the internet is still. there. and then the Old Michael came back and threw a copy of A Thousand Plateaus at your laptop.

Ricki Cummings @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 1d

War crimes, you say? (In addition to the chemical warfare?)

Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 1d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Ricki Cummings @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 1d

Incidentally: if you'd like to help out a trans bish, check out my newest book of poetry, THE FAILURE EXPERIMENT. Great if you're into sci-fi, poetry, the tiniest bit of smut, and the Spectrum ZX colorspace.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0F26G8LLX

ALSO AVAILABLE FROM BOOKSHOP: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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∘⊰ Spooky the Orc ⊱∘ @roogytheorc.bsky.social · 2d

Whether you believe it's real and need to understand why it's not, or you already get it and need a link to arm yourself against misinformation, here ya go ♡

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome...

An article from Psychology Today

Headline: Science Stopped Believing in Porn Addiction. You Should, Too

Subtitle: What does it mean that religion, not porn use, predicts porn-related problems?

David J. Ley, Ph.D

Updated April 4, 2025

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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 2d

honestly, this is the only way to go with another X-Men movie youtu.be/UngE0qn3VRY?...

What if Wes Anderson Directed X-Men?

YouTube video by Patrick (H) Willems

youtu.be

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Ricki Cummings @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah but then we'd never hear the end of it inre: Pontius' dick.

Ricki Cummings @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly? Just order something else. Or alternate (or alternate more.) You can still be out, you can still have something, it just doesn't always have to have a proof stat.

I mean, huge part of how I don't drink is that I simple dislike the bar aesthetic. If you like to be out, just switch up bevs.