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Ricky B

@ambivalentricky.bsky.social

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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. https://billingsgate.neocities.org/

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 1d

Cardle 4/5
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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 1d

I was reading this without my glasses and thought it was a lineup for a music festival

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Ebil @ebil.bsky.social · 2d

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 1d

Seems too deeply careerist to be much of a music guy. There's something about dating your employment as a novelist to the month you were born that says "I don't own a lot of albums"

Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 1d

same with being a hip hop head except that what you're saying to yourself in the shower is "scar on my face but I'm not Al Pacino" over and over again trying to remember what song it's from

Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 2d

It's a proud white Californian tradition to pronounce Spanish names in a maximally Anglo way, no?

In LA you could tell a recent arrival if they didn't know "Los Feliz" was pronounced "Loss Feelus"

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 2d

Norfolk

Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 2d

that's f*ing amazing

Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 2d

(Although maybe they'll be able to get rid of him cheaper)

They've now been stripped of their authority to make any sports-related spending decisions

www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

UNC System Limits UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees’ Authority Over Athletics

In a memo sent after UNC-CH hired Bill Belichick, the system's leader said trustees' actions around athletics "create substantial legal risk."

www.theassemblync.com

Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 2d

Good. Hope he gets two grand and a cab ride to the airport

Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

Using recruit violations to knock down a coach's buyout has become a standard practice. If Belichick cannot find a landing spot to trigger his own buyout, he’s expected to accept a greatly reduced, compromised rate

Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 2d

Recruited them to choose UNC over other colleges to play football only to ensure them a disastrous year on the field and probably no progress as players

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 2d

UNC's GOP political appointee trustees went around the athletic department and rest of the university system to hire Belichick. Now everyone else at UNC is paying the price to the tune of $50 million + weekly humiliation.

all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 2d

unc: objectively dumber than the falcons

Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 2d

The most stunning thing about Belichick's career collapsing and his reputation for anyone under 25 being recast as "horny old dude flaming out in six weeks at North Carolina" is that the football team that made the best decision to keep itself clean throughout this saga was the Atlanta Falcons

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 2d

Press conference for Prof. Dwayne Dixon's return to classes. Dixon, NC AAUP, AAUP UNC Chapel Hill, NC ACLU, and TranspaUNCy all delivered stinging criticisms of UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts and ringing affirmations of our Constitutional rights and academic freedom. When we fight, we win. @aaup.org

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sure no alarms will go off when a guy who looks like this shows up at the community garden trying to recruit people to burn down a Tesla dealership

guy with cliched punk clothes and liberty spikes smoking a cigarette

Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 2d

join the AAUP

Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 7d

Dwayne has his job back because we organized for it. We fight or we die. Join AAUP today www.aaup.org/join

Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 3d

after all, there is no one in the justice system more scrupulously impartial than a prosecutor

Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 3d

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 3d

I never circled back and read the rest of it but I remember the first chapter of Seabiscuit was very good

Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 3d

The Proud Boys are thoroughly not about that life. I'm surprised they still haven't FAed into crossing a 1% motorcycle club and FO

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 3d

Editor: You get those photos for the soccer video game flyer?

Photographer: Sure did boss, looks exactly like a Roxy Music album cover

Editor: sehr gut

the 1st rule of Wife Club @cpi.pinball.horse · 3d

I'm obsessed with the women in this 1974 flyer for Telekick by NSM
#videogames #retroarcade #germany #nsm

Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 3d

Hard to argue with most of this, especially making $30M from turning one video into a movie, but I think this might in some ways be the opposite of a cash grab: she was high on life, thought "I'll make a fun pop album with Max Martin," and when it was done she loved it because she has bad taste.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

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No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 3d

I know these dangerous racist ideas need to be viewed with the utmost seriousness but the idea of "Heritage Americans" throwing down the gauntlet is crazy to me when 30 million Americans have Irish ancestry. They really want it with the micks and teagues huh

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 3d

well that was a merciless beating with the reality stick