Ricki Cummings
@rickiep00h.bsky.social
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
Newsletter et al. at linktr.ee/rickicummings
AI GETS YOU A BLOCK
Poetry - THE FAILURE EXPERIMENT - available in print and ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F26G8LLX
Newsletter et al. at linktr.ee/rickicummings
AI GETS YOU A BLOCK
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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! 🧵
THE FAILURE EXPERIMENT IS NOW AVAILABLE
linky-loo: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F26G8LLX
Check out what others have said in the thread below! 🧵
Make a bond film casual
Monopussy
Monopussy
Make a Bond film casual
Casino Rotary Club
Casino Rotary Club
Make a Bond film casual
Bingo Hall Royale
Diamonds are Nice, I Guess
The World is Enough
Bingo Hall Royale
Diamonds are Nice, I Guess
The World is Enough
December 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Make a bond film casual
Monopussy
Monopussy
This movie fucked me up as a kid.
December 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This movie fucked me up as a kid.
Roger Ebert on Freddy Got Fingered:
"This movie doesn’t scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn’t the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn’t below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels."
"This movie doesn’t scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn’t the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn’t below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels."
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Roger Ebert on Freddy Got Fingered:
"This movie doesn’t scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn’t the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn’t below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels."
"This movie doesn’t scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn’t the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn’t below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels."
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Shout out to my road dogg Pot Bear
December 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Shout out to my road dogg Pot Bear
I dunno why but the dysphoria is hitting really hard today. I haven't gone anywhere, I'm not meeting anyone, I'm still in pajamas.
I just very much don't want this body to be my body today.
I just very much don't want this body to be my body today.
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I dunno why but the dysphoria is hitting really hard today. I haven't gone anywhere, I'm not meeting anyone, I'm still in pajamas.
I just very much don't want this body to be my body today.
I just very much don't want this body to be my body today.
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The Pretty Reckless - Where Are You Christmas? (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by The Pretty Reckless
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I wonder if Mariah Carey ever got that thing she wanted.
December 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I wonder if Mariah Carey ever got that thing she wanted.
Merry Barfmas
Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?
Caller: I am eight
Caller: I am eight
December 25, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Merry Barfmas
There's a dog in the neighborhood whose "bark" sounds like the screech of a dragging tire and it's extremely unsettling. Some sort of hellhound, I think.
December 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
There's a dog in the neighborhood whose "bark" sounds like the screech of a dragging tire and it's extremely unsettling. Some sort of hellhound, I think.
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Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit.
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
December 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit.
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
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The Biden administration’s failure to prevent a second trump term is a permanent and unequivocal condemnation of that administration that overwhelms anything good they might have done.
I will never ever ever understand how the Biden administration had all this nuclear-level dirt on Trump and didn't pull the ripcord. You can try to explain it but it will never make sense.
December 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The Biden administration’s failure to prevent a second trump term is a permanent and unequivocal condemnation of that administration that overwhelms anything good they might have done.
My favorite part about the replies to this is that somehow teaching kids cursive will make them better writers.
Look, I learned Palmer Method in third grade, and neither it nor my block writing has improved since. I hold my pen too hard and my brain moves way, way faster than my hand. 1/2
Look, I learned Palmer Method in third grade, and neither it nor my block writing has improved since. I hold my pen too hard and my brain moves way, way faster than my hand. 1/2
Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
www.wsj.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
My favorite part about the replies to this is that somehow teaching kids cursive will make them better writers.
Look, I learned Palmer Method in third grade, and neither it nor my block writing has improved since. I hold my pen too hard and my brain moves way, way faster than my hand. 1/2
Look, I learned Palmer Method in third grade, and neither it nor my block writing has improved since. I hold my pen too hard and my brain moves way, way faster than my hand. 1/2
Y'know everywhere else in the world this is called piracy.
Exclusive: The US Coast Guard is waiting for additional forces to arrive before potentially attempting to board and seize a Venezuela-linked oil tanker it's been pursuing since December 21, a US official and a source familiar with the matter told Reuters reut.rs/4scLGFz
Exclusive: US Coast Guard lacks forces to seize Venezuela-linked tanker for now, sources say
The U.S. Coast Guard is waiting for additional forces to arrive before potentially attempting to board and seize a Venezuela-linked oil tanker it has been pursuing since Sunday, a U.S. official and a ...
reut.rs
December 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Y'know everywhere else in the world this is called piracy.
If you see this post your favorite Star Wars character
HK-47 walked so IG-11 could walk even slower through a river of liquid hot magma.
HK-47 walked so IG-11 could walk even slower through a river of liquid hot magma.
December 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
If you see this post your favorite Star Wars character
HK-47 walked so IG-11 could walk even slower through a river of liquid hot magma.
HK-47 walked so IG-11 could walk even slower through a river of liquid hot magma.
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While I haven't gone full-bore into collecting, we've been acquiring physical media & equipment (finally broke down & got a tape deck because a friend put out a tape-only release), & we've always backed up our library & used Plex.
Tidal rules yeah. But there's something to having your own shit.
Tidal rules yeah. But there's something to having your own shit.
I do this too. I bought piles of cassettes in places like Bangkok, Kathmandu, and Marrakech, often based on the cover art. On a bus trip in Thailand, I gave a tape to a local girl across the aisle. Her friends lit up and she was queen of the bus that day. www.404media.co/why-i-quit-s...
Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes
In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.
www.404media.co
December 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
While I haven't gone full-bore into collecting, we've been acquiring physical media & equipment (finally broke down & got a tape deck because a friend put out a tape-only release), & we've always backed up our library & used Plex.
Tidal rules yeah. But there's something to having your own shit.
Tidal rules yeah. But there's something to having your own shit.
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Y'know what? I think I'm done for today.
Even if it's not real, it's plausible, and it's horrifying. I'm turning off notifications and pretending this app doesn't exist until someone sorts some shit out.
Even if it's not real, it's plausible, and it's horrifying. I'm turning off notifications and pretending this app doesn't exist until someone sorts some shit out.
December 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Y'know what? I think I'm done for today.
Even if it's not real, it's plausible, and it's horrifying. I'm turning off notifications and pretending this app doesn't exist until someone sorts some shit out.
Even if it's not real, it's plausible, and it's horrifying. I'm turning off notifications and pretending this app doesn't exist until someone sorts some shit out.
Why did you transition, wrong answers only:
I once got my bits caught in my zipper and decided Never Again.
I once got my bits caught in my zipper and decided Never Again.
Why did you transition, wrong answers only:
dating was too easy, needed to switch to a more challenging mode
dating was too easy, needed to switch to a more challenging mode
Why did you transition, wrong answers only
The line at the women's room was always shorter.
The line at the women's room was always shorter.
December 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Why did you transition, wrong answers only:
I once got my bits caught in my zipper and decided Never Again.
I once got my bits caught in my zipper and decided Never Again.
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Get goth Jumanji'd in DIE: the RPG, now on offer in the Bundle of Holding!
Grab the corebook and all three horrible scenario books for the low low price of $15 USD. Offer's only open until January 26th so best do it now before you forget x
bundleofholding.com/presents/DIE...
Grab the corebook and all three horrible scenario books for the low low price of $15 USD. Offer's only open until January 26th so best do it now before you forget x
bundleofholding.com/presents/DIE...
DIE RPG Bundle
Adventurer! This new DIE RPG Bundle presents DIE, the tabletop roleplaying game from Rowan, Rook, & Decard based on – rather, created in parallel with – the DIE Image Comics series (20 issues,…
bundleofholding.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Get goth Jumanji'd in DIE: the RPG, now on offer in the Bundle of Holding!
Grab the corebook and all three horrible scenario books for the low low price of $15 USD. Offer's only open until January 26th so best do it now before you forget x
bundleofholding.com/presents/DIE...
Grab the corebook and all three horrible scenario books for the low low price of $15 USD. Offer's only open until January 26th so best do it now before you forget x
bundleofholding.com/presents/DIE...
From Kurt Vonnegut: “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
I love Kurt, but outside of being quite the -phobic statement, it just misses the point.
I love Kurt, but outside of being quite the -phobic statement, it just misses the point.
what is your least favorite piece of writing advice and why? 👀
December 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
From Kurt Vonnegut: “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
I love Kurt, but outside of being quite the -phobic statement, it just misses the point.
I love Kurt, but outside of being quite the -phobic statement, it just misses the point.
I don't think it's hyperbole to say that Dr Dinosaur is one of the greatest comics villains ever written.
Since Hollywood clearly forgot how to do multi-billion dollar franchises, here is the perfect recipe:
Deadly Art of Science
Ghost of Station X
Savage Sword of Doctor Dinosaur
Knights of the Golden Circle
Ring of Fire
Spectre of Tomorrow
Dawn of a New Era
Deadly Art of Science
Ghost of Station X
Savage Sword of Doctor Dinosaur
Knights of the Golden Circle
Ring of Fire
Spectre of Tomorrow
Dawn of a New Era
December 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I don't think it's hyperbole to say that Dr Dinosaur is one of the greatest comics villains ever written.
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i had to drop what i was doing to make this
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
i had to drop what i was doing to make this
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I'm reminded this holiday season that the block button is the greatest gift of all. 🎁
December 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I'm reminded this holiday season that the block button is the greatest gift of all. 🎁