Derek
@ricketyshack.ca
Music guy who rambles about pretty much anything. Media, IT bullshit, MMA, Magic: The Gathering, whatever.
https://ricketyshack.ca
https://ricketyshack.ca
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We had our great pal Jon Gabrus on the show to talk about gym guys!!! You are walking shoeless in a planet fitness locker room and you step on a large toenail and it breaks the skin on your foot, wyd? bdd66b71-1e02-45c7-ad9e-0b9aadb7926b.libsyn.com/guys-episode...
Guys: With Bryan Quinby: Guys: Episode 147 - Gym Guys with Jon Gabrus
This week we bring one of our best pals, Jon Gabrus in to talk about Gym Guys. It, of course devolved into gross stuff as it does when we have a good pal in. What is the lunk alarm? Do your supplement...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
We had our great pal Jon Gabrus on the show to talk about gym guys!!! You are walking shoeless in a planet fitness locker room and you step on a large toenail and it breaks the skin on your foot, wyd? bdd66b71-1e02-45c7-ad9e-0b9aadb7926b.libsyn.com/guys-episode...
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Right now on reddit there's a guy inventing a new kind of brick to build his home with and it's going about as well as you can imagine
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Right now on reddit there's a guy inventing a new kind of brick to build his home with and it's going about as well as you can imagine
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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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INSANE LIFE CHEATCODE: choose to be miserable and then play the victim about it
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
INSANE LIFE CHEATCODE: choose to be miserable and then play the victim about it
It's wild how the guys moving the least weight at my gym make the most noise. The upside is they won't drop the weight bit and get actual benefits from their workouts, and within a month they will never be seen again.
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It's wild how the guys moving the least weight at my gym make the most noise. The upside is they won't drop the weight bit and get actual benefits from their workouts, and within a month they will never be seen again.
They're bad, but much better than the soggy roll of paper towels left on the counter because the dispenser is always broken.
wait i thought we had all agreed the hand dryers were in fact bad
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
They're bad, but much better than the soggy roll of paper towels left on the counter because the dispenser is always broken.
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
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For the Holiday week we have a new free episode of Hey Not The Face! where @crooklyn.bsky.social & I go over all 3 versions of thr Ali Act - the 2000 bill, the attempt to pass a version that included mma and the new TKO backed bill.
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All versions of the Ali Act explained: Free episode | Ep. 208
We're taking a deep dive into all the iterations of the Ali Act.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
For the Holiday week we have a new free episode of Hey Not The Face! where @crooklyn.bsky.social & I go over all 3 versions of thr Ali Act - the 2000 bill, the attempt to pass a version that included mma and the new TKO backed bill.
open.substack.com/pub/heynotth...
open.substack.com/pub/heynotth...
I figured things didn't look good when Vitriol lost a bassist and a guitarist before I saw them this year. After finding replacements, the band now produces a gem of a headline and post from the new ex-members:
November 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I figured things didn't look good when Vitriol lost a bassist and a guitarist before I saw them this year. After finding replacements, the band now produces a gem of a headline and post from the new ex-members:
My whole life has been spent witnessing the province being chopped up and sold off for parts.
Doug Ford's government claims the province isn’t privatizing water.
Experts aren't convinced.
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Experts aren't convinced.
pressprogress.ca/ontario-clai...
Ontario’s Government Claims the Province Isn’t Privatizing Water. Experts Are Not Convinced.
“The way that this act is written creates this slippery slope towards privatization”
pressprogress.ca
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
My whole life has been spent witnessing the province being chopped up and sold off for parts.
Saw my last show of the year on the weekend. Hopefully the fates align and I can get to as many shows in 2026.
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Saw my last show of the year on the weekend. Hopefully the fates align and I can get to as many shows in 2026.
I'm still discovering the insidious ways my former job was ruining my life with stress. I knew I was not happy but the shit the human mind does under pressure is wild.
Very bored, not working but at least I feel healthier and stronger than I have in years. Gotta focus on the wins.
Very bored, not working but at least I feel healthier and stronger than I have in years. Gotta focus on the wins.
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I'm still discovering the insidious ways my former job was ruining my life with stress. I knew I was not happy but the shit the human mind does under pressure is wild.
Very bored, not working but at least I feel healthier and stronger than I have in years. Gotta focus on the wins.
Very bored, not working but at least I feel healthier and stronger than I have in years. Gotta focus on the wins.
If you can't cook a briscut with a smoker and a thermometer, you deserve to starve. JFC.
November 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
If you can't cook a briscut with a smoker and a thermometer, you deserve to starve. JFC.
Guys, have you tried not being an unlikable piece of shit?
November 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Guys, have you tried not being an unlikable piece of shit?
Coming home from my 15th metal show of the year, realizing it is the 20th anniversary of moving out of my parents' house and feeling all the feels.
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Coming home from my 15th metal show of the year, realizing it is the 20th anniversary of moving out of my parents' house and feeling all the feels.
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The boys in Psychostick have done it again: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEPU...
Æt - Psychostick (TOOL Ænema Christmas Parody) Music Video
YouTube video by Psychostick
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November 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The boys in Psychostick have done it again: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEPU...
Hey, is it good that YouTube runs ads for apps like this?
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Hey, is it good that YouTube runs ads for apps like this?
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Analysis | By calling for the execution of prominent Democrats, President Trump is preserving the legacy of Charlie Kirk.
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Analysis | By calling for the execution of prominent Democrats, President Trump is preserving the legacy of Charlie Kirk.
The more writing I do, in any context, the more I pity people who feel they need an LLM to express some pretty basic thoughts and concepts.
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The more writing I do, in any context, the more I pity people who feel they need an LLM to express some pretty basic thoughts and concepts.
I could be wrong, but I feel like this is another thing reddit ruined for the rest of us.
"To be fair" is the prefix to some of the least funny replies you'll ever read on social media
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I could be wrong, but I feel like this is another thing reddit ruined for the rest of us.
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I spent lots of time chatting with the Nazi bot on Nazi dot com and giving ad revenue to the world’s richest Nazi in order to create these screenshots that you’ll hate. Enjoy
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I spent lots of time chatting with the Nazi bot on Nazi dot com and giving ad revenue to the world’s richest Nazi in order to create these screenshots that you’ll hate. Enjoy
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I think people need to more directly tie the way adult men communicate with chatgpt to how they expect a child to behave: completely agreeable, never doubting their authority, profusely apologetic over the slightest error, and most importantly, trained to be that way by someone else.
November 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I think people need to more directly tie the way adult men communicate with chatgpt to how they expect a child to behave: completely agreeable, never doubting their authority, profusely apologetic over the slightest error, and most importantly, trained to be that way by someone else.
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Some further Canadian lingo for you:
"Oh, yeah" = yes
"Oh, yeah, no" = no
"Oh, yeah, fer sure" = yes
"Oh, yeah, no, fer sure" = yes
"Oh, yeah" = yes
"Oh, yeah, no" = no
"Oh, yeah, fer sure" = yes
"Oh, yeah, no, fer sure" = yes
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Some further Canadian lingo for you:
"Oh, yeah" = yes
"Oh, yeah, no" = no
"Oh, yeah, fer sure" = yes
"Oh, yeah, no, fer sure" = yes
"Oh, yeah" = yes
"Oh, yeah, no" = no
"Oh, yeah, fer sure" = yes
"Oh, yeah, no, fer sure" = yes
I love sardonic headlines.
BREAKING: The UN climate talks COP30 have been evacuated due to a fire breaking out inside the venue in Belém, Brazil.
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I love sardonic headlines.