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Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 23h

Reminds me of this classic Swear Trek.

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Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 1d

Sarah Winchester: The ghosts of those killed by my family’s rifles require me to build them a house with stairs to nowhere and windows and doors that can’t open.
Donald J. Trump: Hold my Diet Coke, I can build THE BEST house for ghosts. Ghosts LOVE ballrooms.

Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 2d

A mostly-black image, with mysterious characters and the text “View all soups” peeking through in staticky snow.

(Also I wanted to use Zalgo text but I wasn’t sure if that would just obliterate Bluesky and/or be awful for screen readers)

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Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 3d

Tag yourself, I’m “eldertly friendly”.

(A phrase which my phone tried *desperately* to autocorrect)

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Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t think a satire would include so much desperate “no actually I think all you FEMALES (Quark, am I right?!) are totally great and I love you, BUT”

Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 4d

Fuck, some days you’ve just got to write some code to keep the spark alive.

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Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 4d

Somehow the latter! It being a canonical Lego surname is all the better!

A photo of a (slightly dusty) 10246 Detective’s Office modular building, focusing on the main upper floor of the building, a “POOL” neon sign reflected on the window labeled “ACE BRICKMAN PRIVATE DETECTIVE.”

Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 4d

Also, did your East Wing also try to destroy itself in solidarity like mine? bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 4d

I brought out my LEGO White House to make a post satirizing the destruction of the East Wing.

And then this happened as I was carrying it, proving irony is dead.

A photo of a guy holding the LEGO White House over a millennial greige floor viewed from the West Wing. In the background, the East Wing is on the floor, shattered and broken after having fallen.

A close-up shot on an IKEA SKOGSTA dining table, showing the myriad pieces of the East Wing.

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Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 4d

Great minds, sadly, think alike. bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 4d

“Much better” thought Donald J. Trump. “Now they match.”

An image of the East Wing of the LEGO White House, a gaping hole cut into the side of the building, pieces strewn in front of it.

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Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 4d

“Much better” thought Donald J. Trump. “Now they match.”

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Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 4d

I brought out my LEGO White House to make a post satirizing the destruction of the East Wing.

And then this happened as I was carrying it, proving irony is dead.

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Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 4d

They do a Sorkin walk-and-talk and shuffle straight out the gaping hole in the side of the building.

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Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 10d

Tell me when you learned to type without telling me when you learned to type. I’ll start.

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Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 15d

A screenshot of the SimCity 2000 transit advisor, exclaiming in all caps, “YOU CAN’T CUT BACK ON RETICULATING SPLINES! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!”

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Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 19d

Is this Jadzia Dax or Ezri Dax? Either answer is acceptable, of course, I just need to know if the P+ screenshot would eventually feature Dax holding a bat’leth or Dax holding a transporter sniper rifle.

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Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 22d

Gotta love how the September/October art is basically a @dasharez0ne.bsky.social background.

Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 24d

A quick search of my inbox shows that these fine folks emailed me about a technical program manager role, and I sincerely question the quality of their sourcing if they got the idea that I have that job’s requisite capacity for dealing with bullshit from scraping my LinkedIn profile.

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Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 27d

BRB, gonna throw a box of Frosted Mini-Wheats into a 3D platformer endless abyss.

Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · 29d

The oval-y bits also appear to be shorter in the Generations version. 🧐

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Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · Sep 26

Goddamn, so close. bsky.app/profile/danl...

Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · Sep 26

WAPO SCOOP: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a speech on military standards and the “warrior ethos,” multiple people familiar with the event told The Washington Post.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has summoned hundreds of generals for what is expected to be a short lecture on the “warrior ethos.” But top brass is bracing for possible firings or demotions.

www.washingtonpost.com

Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · Sep 26

“Legal looked at the ingredients and said we can’t call this a ‘Twix Shake’. Then they started sobbing. Guess ‘Shake Made With Twix’ it is.”

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Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · Sep 25

This seems like A Bad Thing, but it’s somehow equally likely that it’s going to be something insane like Hegseth, hoping to reaffirm his job, hosting a McDonalds-catered luncheon where Trump sits at the head of the table and each attendee has to say something nice about him.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Sep 25

“without a stated reason” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals

The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kyle Brickman @kylebrickman.bsky.social · Sep 25

Mayweather and the whole civilian fleet angle was criminally under-explored, but I don’t know that the show had the nuance to really explore it well - “Fortunate Son” and “Horizon” were the only episodes to do so, and those episodes were *really* similar.

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