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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 15h

Looks like Bachmann's Acela II sets started getting delivered within the last week or two, so they didn't quite beat the prototype to service, but it got pretty close.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0bU...

Bachman's New Amtrak Acela II

YouTube video by Nicholas Smith Trains

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Apr 15

Star Trek: The Next Generation Honey Graham Cookies (1994-1995): A Canadian release, these honey-graham cookies were shaped like characters and ships from the show, and offered a collection of six hologram stickers

A cookie box. The background is outer space, and the space ship from Star Trek: TNG soars across the top. Beneath the words "Star Trek The Next Generation Honey Graham Cookies" are a belt of tan cookies shaped like characters from the series

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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 22h

Microsoft Teams is up

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

They get b-roll of people who’ve been failed ny 40 years of Reaganite policy and then run it on a loop & say “the city is dangerous!” Generally and accurately no it isn’t, and where it is it’s because of their own failed policies.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering that time Fox remade The Rocky Horror Picture Show with the framing device of being a showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, so every once and a while they cut back to the audience yelling things and throwing stuff at the screen.

Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 1d

Double-decker steam powered railcar.

A double-decker self-propelled railroad car. At the front is an enclosed cab/boiler room, behind that some stairs to the second level, and then four doors to enclosed cabins. The top level has a roof but open sides and long benches for seating. There is skirting hiding the front driving wheels and an exposed unpowered truck (bogie) in back.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 1d

Modelling idea, if anyone wants to make their special train really stand out.

Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 1d

#OnThisDay Oct 11, 1936: Over 100 Midwest Buick dealers board a special train at Milwaukee Road Depot in Minneapolis to attend a pre-showing of the new 1937 line of automobiles in Flint, Michigan. The recreation car honors the University of Minnesota football team, then national champions.

a large group of men in suits and hats kneel on the platform in front of a Milwaukee Road railway car with "MINNESOTA BUICK SPECIAL from the home of THE GOLDEN GOPHERS with NATIONAL CHAMPIONS" Minneapolis Morning Tribune.

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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 2d

Underfloor pneumatic power for trolley cars

A photo captioned "Truck and storage tubes of compressed air motor-car." It is two pairs of railway wheels on a track, connected to a piston with several compressed air tanks laid flat in front and behind.

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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 2d

Schwebebahn!

A two-track hanging monorail, suspended by spindly truss legs over a river, viewed looking down the river.

A two-track hanging monorail, suspended by spindly truss legs over a river, viewed from the side, showing two cars.

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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 2d

a man in a black shirt is making a funny face while sitting at a table in a dark room .

Alt: Nathon Fillion getting ready to argue but then thinking about it

media.tenor.com

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Manny Suazo @smokyburnout.bsky.social · 2d

topical

a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

media.tenor.com

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 3d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 3d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 3d

This reminds me of another time, I had to give a presentation to prospective students about our art program, but I hadn't finished all the art I was supposed to have done IN the program. So I framed a blank board and for the end of the presentation claimed that "here, my best work—is the next one"

Gulch @stoked-spokes.bsky.social · 3d

No one can bullshit like a student on a time crunch

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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social · 3d

You just know if this had happened when Biden was President the media would've never shut up about it.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 3d

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time