Dallas Hicks
@drhicks76.bsky.social
Huge nerd (weather, hockey, sci-fi, RUSH, Transformers, RWBY, all kinds of music)! Jersey collector, synth musician, okay artist, fatigue manager, parrot wrangler. Just Say No To Fash. He/Him.
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Rage Against the Machine Learning
December 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Rage Against the Machine Learning
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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Ending day 3 of #artAdventCalendar with 472 participants. A fair bit slower than last year where we had 625 on day 1 (!!)
but still good numbers and most importantly...great posts.
Be sure to let your artist friends on here know what a cool thing this is.
but still good numbers and most importantly...great posts.
Be sure to let your artist friends on here know what a cool thing this is.
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Ending day 3 of #artAdventCalendar with 472 participants. A fair bit slower than last year where we had 625 on day 1 (!!)
but still good numbers and most importantly...great posts.
Be sure to let your artist friends on here know what a cool thing this is.
but still good numbers and most importantly...great posts.
Be sure to let your artist friends on here know what a cool thing this is.
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BREAKING: Three original Bob Ross paintings just sold at auction for a combined $600,000 — all to support public TV stations struggling after Republican funding cuts. 🥹 Decades later, Bob Ross is still painting hope across America. 🎨
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 AM
BREAKING: Three original Bob Ross paintings just sold at auction for a combined $600,000 — all to support public TV stations struggling after Republican funding cuts. 🥹 Decades later, Bob Ross is still painting hope across America. 🎨
This is not a Mini-Wheat. There is absolutely nothing "mini" about this. This is just a Wheat. Or maybe just some kind of Frankenwheat.
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This is not a Mini-Wheat. There is absolutely nothing "mini" about this. This is just a Wheat. Or maybe just some kind of Frankenwheat.
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Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨
November 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨
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Editorial cartoon: Don't bread on me. Enjoy :)
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Editorial cartoon: Don't bread on me. Enjoy :)
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
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October 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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What a sh*t show:
National Weather Service at ‘breaking point’ as storm approaches
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
National Weather Service at ‘breaking point’ as storm approaches
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
National Weather Service at ‘breaking point’ as storm approaches
The National Weather Service is struggling to maintain its weather forecasting operations due to significant staffing cuts under the Trump administration.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
What a sh*t show:
National Weather Service at ‘breaking point’ as storm approaches
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
National Weather Service at ‘breaking point’ as storm approaches
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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For anyone cheering the potential fall of #CanadaPost, I just sent a package to an American friend of mine via FedEx and, like a good capitalist company who loves the free market on days like this, they charged me DOUBLE what they normally would because they could. Welcome to the future, folks. 🤬
September 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
For anyone cheering the potential fall of #CanadaPost, I just sent a package to an American friend of mine via FedEx and, like a good capitalist company who loves the free market on days like this, they charged me DOUBLE what they normally would because they could. Welcome to the future, folks. 🤬
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For those who need to hear it, never apologize for gushing about your hyperfixations and any comfort characters. All it matters is that they make you happy.
September 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
For those who need to hear it, never apologize for gushing about your hyperfixations and any comfort characters. All it matters is that they make you happy.
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Quick unfortunately necessary reminder time:
The unhoused aren’t your enemy.
The system that unhoused them is though.
The unhoused aren’t your enemy.
The system that unhoused them is though.
September 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Quick unfortunately necessary reminder time:
The unhoused aren’t your enemy.
The system that unhoused them is though.
The unhoused aren’t your enemy.
The system that unhoused them is though.
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No Cowntry for Old Men
September 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
No Cowntry for Old Men
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As an American living under the MAGA regime, the best advice I can give my Canadian neighbors is to take these fascists seriously. Once they get a little power, they'll grab more. They WILL do every crazy thing they say they're going to do. They're just waiting for the right moment.
September 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
As an American living under the MAGA regime, the best advice I can give my Canadian neighbors is to take these fascists seriously. Once they get a little power, they'll grab more. They WILL do every crazy thing they say they're going to do. They're just waiting for the right moment.
This is brutal to hear. SO many great shows came from this studio.
Not officially confirmed but Nelvana, one of Canada's most storied animation studios, appears to have quietly closed down on Friday, yet another casualty of Corus Entertainment's struggle to survive.
September 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
This is brutal to hear. SO many great shows came from this studio.
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"If you don't have a house you will be arrested."
Okay, how do I get a house?
"Oh, you can't. They're incredibly expensive, no one can afford them anymore."
So what will I be arrested for again?
"Not having one."
Is there any, like, help to be had with this contradiction?
"STOP RESISTING"
Okay, how do I get a house?
"Oh, you can't. They're incredibly expensive, no one can afford them anymore."
So what will I be arrested for again?
"Not having one."
Is there any, like, help to be had with this contradiction?
"STOP RESISTING"
August 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"If you don't have a house you will be arrested."
Okay, how do I get a house?
"Oh, you can't. They're incredibly expensive, no one can afford them anymore."
So what will I be arrested for again?
"Not having one."
Is there any, like, help to be had with this contradiction?
"STOP RESISTING"
Okay, how do I get a house?
"Oh, you can't. They're incredibly expensive, no one can afford them anymore."
So what will I be arrested for again?
"Not having one."
Is there any, like, help to be had with this contradiction?
"STOP RESISTING"
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August 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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A reminder that Hustle Culture and Striver Culture are two different things. Believing that every available waking moment of your day should be monetized is toxic AF; striving for an achievable dream that could change your life by giving it a few hours of yours a day isn't. You're worth betting on.
August 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A reminder that Hustle Culture and Striver Culture are two different things. Believing that every available waking moment of your day should be monetized is toxic AF; striving for an achievable dream that could change your life by giving it a few hours of yours a day isn't. You're worth betting on.
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Air Canada's CEO admitting to the media that their entire plan for the flight attendants' strike was "have the government say they're not allowed" and that they have no other ideas about how to deal with the strike is really a "yeah this is how Canada REALLY works" moment if ever there was one
August 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Air Canada's CEO admitting to the media that their entire plan for the flight attendants' strike was "have the government say they're not allowed" and that they have no other ideas about how to deal with the strike is really a "yeah this is how Canada REALLY works" moment if ever there was one
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FROG IN POT: I would not call this prolonged stretch of hot water unprecedented
August 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
FROG IN POT: I would not call this prolonged stretch of hot water unprecedented