Brian Danger Hicks
@ckape.bsky.social
Note: I mostly post on Mastodon https://teh.entar.net/@ckape
Model railroader making a magazine entirely devoted to techniques, call it the skill issue
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Model railroader making a magazine entirely devoted to techniques, call it the skill issue
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Free as in speech
Free as in beer
Free as in puppy
Free as in beer
Free as in puppy
Bookmark for when you need a dopamine hit.
Linux | Male | 13 years old | 9 lbs
Linux | Male | 13 years old | 9 lbs
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Free as in speech
Free as in beer
Free as in puppy
Free as in beer
Free as in puppy
My pledge to you is that if I am elected president I will either pardon turkeys or eat turkey but not both.
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
My pledge to you is that if I am elected president I will either pardon turkeys or eat turkey but not both.
Reading the Setbacks and Challenges section of the Wikipedia article on California High Speed Rail and counting how many of them would've been solved by putting it in a low-pressure tube.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califor...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califor...
California High-Speed Rail - Wikipedia
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November 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Reading the Setbacks and Challenges section of the Wikipedia article on California High Speed Rail and counting how many of them would've been solved by putting it in a low-pressure tube.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califor...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califor...
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Thanksgiving is gonna be lit.
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Thanksgiving is gonna be lit.
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I’ll have what she’s having
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I’ll have what she’s having
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
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@mayorher.bsky.social I would really appreciate it if you would AT LEAST issue a statement condemning the targeting of journalists by the SPPD! There was a police officer yesterday saying that Melvin "isn't the boss anymore," so as the new boss, it sounds like you need to chime in!
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
@mayorher.bsky.social I would really appreciate it if you would AT LEAST issue a statement condemning the targeting of journalists by the SPPD! There was a police officer yesterday saying that Melvin "isn't the boss anymore," so as the new boss, it sounds like you need to chime in!
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Day #168: The Exciting World of the Metric System (1976)
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Day #168: The Exciting World of the Metric System (1976)
As far as I can tell, 85 is the only Minnesota Commercial locomotive to get the number painted on the roof, but I think it's also the most recently painted so who knows if they keep doing that going forward. www.flickr.com/photos/jterr...
Minnesota Commercial GEs at the Midway Roundhouse
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November 26, 2025 at 6:11 AM
As far as I can tell, 85 is the only Minnesota Commercial locomotive to get the number painted on the roof, but I think it's also the most recently painted so who knows if they keep doing that going forward. www.flickr.com/photos/jterr...
So the Electroliner achieved a top speed of 110 MPH, with trolley poles?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro...
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 AM
So the Electroliner achieved a top speed of 110 MPH, with trolley poles?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro...
Time to dig out that crate of dowsing equipment from the Iraq invasion, scratch out the "IED" part of "IED Finder" and replace it with slurs. That's gotta be good for a several hundred million dollar contract.
ICE has just under four years to spend $29.9 billion, they are going to outsource AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE to contractors because money is essentially not a problem anymore for the agency.
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Time to dig out that crate of dowsing equipment from the Iraq invasion, scratch out the "IED" part of "IED Finder" and replace it with slurs. That's gotta be good for a several hundred million dollar contract.
Every movie is now a Weird Al biopic.
Don't actually change the plots, just make the main character Weird Al.
Don't actually change the plots, just make the main character Weird Al.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Every movie is now a Weird Al biopic.
Don't actually change the plots, just make the main character Weird Al.
Don't actually change the plots, just make the main character Weird Al.
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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
I guess I've been by Bull's Horn many times but I've never actually gone in.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=86EK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=86EK...
Ber- Who’s This? (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by ber
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November 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I guess I've been by Bull's Horn many times but I've never actually gone in.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=86EK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=86EK...
Ken Burns' Ken Burns
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Ken Burns' Ken Burns
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November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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the concept of being stuck inside for long periods of time and having to make your own fun is the most Minnesotan thing in the world
Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
the concept of being stuck inside for long periods of time and having to make your own fun is the most Minnesotan thing in the world
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us, Charlie Brown
We all float down here, Charlie Brown
Second prize is a set of steak knives, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us, Charlie Brown
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge