Ranamar
@ranamar.bsky.social
When did I go from grudgingly creating a Twitter account so I could upload some pictures to actively making a Bluesky account?
I almost certainly won't follow you back unless you're someone I know, but don't let that stop you.
(he/him)
I almost certainly won't follow you back unless you're someone I know, but don't let that stop you.
(he/him)
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We held our kid’s 4th bday party at a local park and some guy down the street was welding in the same basement where kept a shitload of fireworks. First lots of booms and then 5 or 6 different fire departments sent trucks. The 4 yo thought it was all for his birthday and loved it.
Add another entry in the Book of Plumber Crimes: I thought at first this was Homeowner Crimes but then got to "He informed IFD that he was aware of the use of a blow torch on active gas pipes but noted his experience as a plumber"
ATTN: @rahaeli.bsky.social , I have found Brand New Levels of PLUMBER CRIMES. (Thanks to a friend sharing a screenshot image with me.)
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January 30, 2026 at 6:31 PM
We held our kid’s 4th bday party at a local park and some guy down the street was welding in the same basement where kept a shitload of fireworks. First lots of booms and then 5 or 6 different fire departments sent trucks. The 4 yo thought it was all for his birthday and loved it.
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I never, ever want to hear again from certain quarters about a free speech crisis on campus. I would accept apologies for being useful idiots.
Texas A&M ends its women's & gender studies program while hundreds of syllabi remain flagged and censored under top-down review policies.
“I have never seen anything like this.”
— Dr. Leonard Bright, @tamu-aaup.bsky.social President
@texasaft.org
@texasaaup.bsky.social
@cwa-tseu.bsky.social
“I have never seen anything like this.”
— Dr. Leonard Bright, @tamu-aaup.bsky.social President
@texasaft.org
@texasaaup.bsky.social
@cwa-tseu.bsky.social
Texas A&M Ends Women’s Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:45 PM
I never, ever want to hear again from certain quarters about a free speech crisis on campus. I would accept apologies for being useful idiots.
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We should be on our guard, they *are* that stupid.
But it's not an 'I win' button - it is in fact a very stupid 'destroy yourself for sure and maybe also the country' button.
But it's not an 'I win' button - it is in fact a very stupid 'destroy yourself for sure and maybe also the country' button.
January 30, 2026 at 10:12 PM
We should be on our guard, they *are* that stupid.
But it's not an 'I win' button - it is in fact a very stupid 'destroy yourself for sure and maybe also the country' button.
But it's not an 'I win' button - it is in fact a very stupid 'destroy yourself for sure and maybe also the country' button.
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Given how many polling places and how few ICE and CBP field agents there are, they'd have to be pretty targeted doing this, but also the internet would be functionally instantly slathered with videos of brawls and arrests at polling places which is how you get an AmeriMaidan scenario.
ICE agents gather by the entrance to polling sites and grab anyone who looks brown or black---as they've been doing---so other non-white citizens get the message and decide to stay home for fear of being tackled and suffering a two-day detention.
January 30, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Given how many polling places and how few ICE and CBP field agents there are, they'd have to be pretty targeted doing this, but also the internet would be functionally instantly slathered with videos of brawls and arrests at polling places which is how you get an AmeriMaidan scenario.
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... hey! a good thing!
Oh! “A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming.”
A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:20 PM
... hey! a good thing!
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every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
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This again is why Minnesota is nucleus of repression and the resistance. This largely white place - far from the "coastal elites" - has the nerve to attempt true multi-racial democracy, enacting progressive policies, having highest voting participation and quality of life indicators. How dare they.
Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
January 30, 2026 at 11:26 PM
This again is why Minnesota is nucleus of repression and the resistance. This largely white place - far from the "coastal elites" - has the nerve to attempt true multi-racial democracy, enacting progressive policies, having highest voting participation and quality of life indicators. How dare they.
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It makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles
Barely a few hours after President Donald Trump named him as the next nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh was revealed to be in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files.
Trump's Fed chair pick named in Epstein files just hours after his nomination
Barely a few hours after President Donald Trump named him as the next nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh was revealed to be in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files.According to The New Republic, "Warsh’s name appears to be on an emailed list of guests to 'St. Barth’s Christm...
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January 31, 2026 at 12:15 AM
It makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles
Removing all context, this statement is fantastic.
I'm just saying: the man has an Urban Planning degree, which is basically a degree in applied eurogaming.
January 31, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Removing all context, this statement is fantastic.
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If I may have the temerity to paraphrase Frederick Douglass, I will unite with anybody to fuck ICE and with nobody to do MAGA shit.
Again Will is a left wing civil rights lawyer whose worst sin is stubbornness and whose greatest virtue is also stubbornness. That he has been transformed into a demon in the minds of losers is evidence of how pathetically inadequate their vision of actual wickedness is.
the image of will stancil these people have built in their heads (grand wizard of the mega klan) is at odds with any time I've seen him post (dweeby, harmless)
January 31, 2026 at 1:47 AM
If I may have the temerity to paraphrase Frederick Douglass, I will unite with anybody to fuck ICE and with nobody to do MAGA shit.
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this is what’s happening everywhere they go in force
ordinary people will not be cowed the same way elite society has been
we are going to win
ordinary people will not be cowed the same way elite society has been
we are going to win
January 31, 2026 at 2:15 AM
this is what’s happening everywhere they go in force
ordinary people will not be cowed the same way elite society has been
we are going to win
ordinary people will not be cowed the same way elite society has been
we are going to win
Me, as a child: Wow, the Marseillaise is a really violent song!
Me, as an adult: I'm not religious, and I wish The Battle Hymn Of The Republic was our national anthem.
Me, as an adult: I'm not religious, and I wish The Battle Hymn Of The Republic was our national anthem.
January 30, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Me, as a child: Wow, the Marseillaise is a really violent song!
Me, as an adult: I'm not religious, and I wish The Battle Hymn Of The Republic was our national anthem.
Me, as an adult: I'm not religious, and I wish The Battle Hymn Of The Republic was our national anthem.
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times like this I wish english constructed noun phrases like german does so I can add '[pissing on the poor]-ass nation' without syntactic ambiguity
so you know how there's a theory that three-cueing means many Americans literally *can't* read.
January 30, 2026 at 6:11 PM
times like this I wish english constructed noun phrases like german does so I can add '[pissing on the poor]-ass nation' without syntactic ambiguity
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If the right-wing is going to go with, "We can't compare ICE to the Gestapo, because ICE only hunts non-citizens," then we need to call this what it is: a form of Holocaust revisionism.
January 28, 2026 at 4:21 AM
If the right-wing is going to go with, "We can't compare ICE to the Gestapo, because ICE only hunts non-citizens," then we need to call this what it is: a form of Holocaust revisionism.
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The one thing Manchin had going for him was that his ideas were way to the right of what the country needed but were mostly sincere (and to the left of his state electorate) and he bargained in good faith.
Unlike Sinema, for example. Or, especially, Joe Lieberman.
Unlike Sinema, for example. Or, especially, Joe Lieberman.
January 28, 2026 at 9:02 PM
The one thing Manchin had going for him was that his ideas were way to the right of what the country needed but were mostly sincere (and to the left of his state electorate) and he bargained in good faith.
Unlike Sinema, for example. Or, especially, Joe Lieberman.
Unlike Sinema, for example. Or, especially, Joe Lieberman.
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Nancy Pelosi should have retired years ago and has made many terrible decisions but I will always be grateful that she told Rahm and everyone else to fuck themselves, held the House together, and got Obamacare through
for all its flaws it is a vast improvement over what came before
for all its flaws it is a vast improvement over what came before
do you see why i said the bar is in hell?
how is this a good system of policymaking?
how is this a good system of policymaking?
January 28, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Nancy Pelosi should have retired years ago and has made many terrible decisions but I will always be grateful that she told Rahm and everyone else to fuck themselves, held the House together, and got Obamacare through
for all its flaws it is a vast improvement over what came before
for all its flaws it is a vast improvement over what came before
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I don't exaggerate when I say that Andrew Wakefield should be tried for mass murder. We'll never know how many people have died or will die as a direct result of his fraudulent study.
This is the large domino, with the small domino being some random quack in the UK in 1998 trying to undermine the existing MMR vaccine so his business partner can swoop in with his own. Instead he lost his work credentials and now kids are dying needlessly all over the world, so great job everyone.
Austria loses its WHO status as measles-free, too, together with Armenia, Azerbaijan Uzbekistan and Spain. This comes as no surprise, considering the rise in numbers in recent years and the decline in MMR vaccine coverage
#VaccineHesitancy #PublicHealthImpact #AllChildrenNeedProtection
#VaccineHesitancy #PublicHealthImpact #AllChildrenNeedProtection
January 28, 2026 at 10:04 PM
I don't exaggerate when I say that Andrew Wakefield should be tried for mass murder. We'll never know how many people have died or will die as a direct result of his fraudulent study.
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I spoke to a woman at the protest in minneapolis and she explained she wanted to be there in part because "i was a kid when george floyd got killed" and i nearly dropped my recorder
January 28, 2026 at 10:00 PM
I spoke to a woman at the protest in minneapolis and she explained she wanted to be there in part because "i was a kid when george floyd got killed" and i nearly dropped my recorder
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Ironically, my impression of the data is that Gaza did NOT prevent the left from voting Harris much at all. As far as we can see, the left turned out overwhelmingly for the Dem - as usual, more reliably than any other group.
Gaza seems to have depressed turnout - but not among leftists.
Gaza seems to have depressed turnout - but not among leftists.
January 29, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Ironically, my impression of the data is that Gaza did NOT prevent the left from voting Harris much at all. As far as we can see, the left turned out overwhelmingly for the Dem - as usual, more reliably than any other group.
Gaza seems to have depressed turnout - but not among leftists.
Gaza seems to have depressed turnout - but not among leftists.
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Correct, in terms of raw electoral power. It's the trying to have it both ways that annoys me.
That said, I will observe also that the strategy of groups like Uncommitted CLAIMS to be basically "I will mobilize these armies for you!" but in reality it's much more "I have a bomb. Do what I say."
That said, I will observe also that the strategy of groups like Uncommitted CLAIMS to be basically "I will mobilize these armies for you!" but in reality it's much more "I have a bomb. Do what I say."
January 29, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Correct, in terms of raw electoral power. It's the trying to have it both ways that annoys me.
That said, I will observe also that the strategy of groups like Uncommitted CLAIMS to be basically "I will mobilize these armies for you!" but in reality it's much more "I have a bomb. Do what I say."
That said, I will observe also that the strategy of groups like Uncommitted CLAIMS to be basically "I will mobilize these armies for you!" but in reality it's much more "I have a bomb. Do what I say."
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Do I blame "the Left" for Harris' defeat? No, there's lots of factors and frankly it was most of all anti-incumbency Malaise backlash, Gaza was imo just a particular subset's excuse.
But you can't really have it both ways, either you're an electorally impotent smol bean or you're a proud wrecker.
But you can't really have it both ways, either you're an electorally impotent smol bean or you're a proud wrecker.
January 29, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Do I blame "the Left" for Harris' defeat? No, there's lots of factors and frankly it was most of all anti-incumbency Malaise backlash, Gaza was imo just a particular subset's excuse.
But you can't really have it both ways, either you're an electorally impotent smol bean or you're a proud wrecker.
But you can't really have it both ways, either you're an electorally impotent smol bean or you're a proud wrecker.
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I’m increasingly concerned how navigating the modern world requires ever more sophistication, and about the huge and growing segment of people left behind by it who get eaten alive by scams and propaganda
January 29, 2026 at 5:14 PM
I’m increasingly concerned how navigating the modern world requires ever more sophistication, and about the huge and growing segment of people left behind by it who get eaten alive by scams and propaganda
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Honestly I am worried about younger people too, who have been treating technology as a natural language black box ever since Siri and Alexa and maybe even earlier (when Google search introduced more natural language).
The risk of using systems we don’t understand is being manipulated by them.
The risk of using systems we don’t understand is being manipulated by them.
January 29, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Honestly I am worried about younger people too, who have been treating technology as a natural language black box ever since Siri and Alexa and maybe even earlier (when Google search introduced more natural language).
The risk of using systems we don’t understand is being manipulated by them.
The risk of using systems we don’t understand is being manipulated by them.
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you can see why “glonzo” became such a popular way of thinking about US politics
January 29, 2026 at 8:57 PM
you can see why “glonzo” became such a popular way of thinking about US politics