Ran Ari-Gur
@ran-arigur.bsky.social
Him/הוא/lui/él/etc. "Ran" is pronounced "Ron"; don't worry about "Ari-Gur". 🏳️🌈 ✡️ 🇮🇱 🇺🇸
Wow, extra birgin olive oil sounds like magic!
January 27, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Wow, extra birgin olive oil sounds like magic!
This seems really ill-considered. "Everyone is welcome to join our coalition against fascism, except for influential people with large platforms: they can F off"? I'm sure that's cathartic, but I don't think it's strategic.
I'm talking about ordinary people who were on the sidelines but have recently become radicalized by events in Minneapolis and elsewhere, not the right-wing pundits who very much helped bring about this current clusterfuck and are now looking for an offramp.
They can apologize and shut the hell up.
They can apologize and shut the hell up.
January 26, 2026 at 8:26 PM
This seems really ill-considered. "Everyone is welcome to join our coalition against fascism, except for influential people with large platforms: they can F off"? I'm sure that's cathartic, but I don't think it's strategic.
Somehow not a metaphor:
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Somehow not a metaphor:
This is so good!
I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
January 17, 2026 at 8:12 PM
This is so good!
From 2016, but sadly still relevant: www.justsecurity.org/34404/case-s...
"You lose your sense of outrage, which is, after all, a feeling we experience when we see something abnormal. Once the abnormal becomes routine, outrage fades."
"You lose your sense of outrage, which is, after all, a feeling we experience when we see something abnormal. Once the abnormal becomes routine, outrage fades."
The Case Against Serving
Two of my friends, both of them principled and talented conservatives, told me they were approached by members of the Trump team about possible posts in the incoming administration. Both of them find ...
www.justsecurity.org
January 14, 2026 at 8:45 AM
From 2016, but sadly still relevant: www.justsecurity.org/34404/case-s...
"You lose your sense of outrage, which is, after all, a feeling we experience when we see something abnormal. Once the abnormal becomes routine, outrage fades."
"You lose your sense of outrage, which is, after all, a feeling we experience when we see something abnormal. Once the abnormal becomes routine, outrage fades."
My favorite bagel place no longer makes poppyseed bagels.
Thank you for respecting my privacy at this difficult time.
Thank you for respecting my privacy at this difficult time.
December 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
My favorite bagel place no longer makes poppyseed bagels.
Thank you for respecting my privacy at this difficult time.
Thank you for respecting my privacy at this difficult time.
There's an interesting #linguistics angle here: "Legal experts say " makes the statement sound more debatable, even though logically we should trust legal experts more than the journalist. Pragmatics is weird!
NEW: President Donald Trump says he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters, who was convicted on state charges related to tampering with Colorado's election systems. Legal experts say presidential pardons do not apply to state charges.
December 12, 2025 at 7:09 AM
There's an interesting #linguistics angle here: "Legal experts say " makes the statement sound more debatable, even though logically we should trust legal experts more than the journalist. Pragmatics is weird!
This "movie you've watched more than six times" thing is astounding to me. I don't think I've ever in my adult life watched a movie more than once. Where is everyone finding the time??
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
This "movie you've watched more than six times" thing is astounding to me. I don't think I've ever in my adult life watched a movie more than once. Where is everyone finding the time??
This poll is woefully incomplete: they didn't let Labour supporters vote against Labour! Do the pollsters not read the news?
If voters could vote against a party (More in Common)
December 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This poll is woefully incomplete: they didn't let Labour supporters vote against Labour! Do the pollsters not read the news?
Cygwin! 💚
It made it so easy, since it let me keep my fully functioning Windows system. It added without taking away.
Nowadays I'm a full-time Ubuntu user, but Cygwin was my gateway to Linux.
You never forget your first love.
It made it so easy, since it let me keep my fully functioning Windows system. It added without taking away.
Nowadays I'm a full-time Ubuntu user, but Cygwin was my gateway to Linux.
You never forget your first love.
28 years ago, I learned about this amazing thing called Linux.
I immediately drove down to Best Buy and bought a boxed set of Red Hat 5.0. Probably the best $50 I've ever spent!
What was your first Linux distro?
#Linux #RedHat #Nostalgia
I immediately drove down to Best Buy and bought a boxed set of Red Hat 5.0. Probably the best $50 I've ever spent!
What was your first Linux distro?
#Linux #RedHat #Nostalgia
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Cygwin! 💚
It made it so easy, since it let me keep my fully functioning Windows system. It added without taking away.
Nowadays I'm a full-time Ubuntu user, but Cygwin was my gateway to Linux.
You never forget your first love.
It made it so easy, since it let me keep my fully functioning Windows system. It added without taking away.
Nowadays I'm a full-time Ubuntu user, but Cygwin was my gateway to Linux.
You never forget your first love.
Two interesting things here:
1. In support of "everyone is 12" theory, she seems to believe that if her phrasing is clever enough, she can make grown adults believe that we've made zero progress since literal slavery times.
1. In support of "everyone is 12" theory, she seems to believe that if her phrasing is clever enough, she can make grown adults believe that we've made zero progress since literal slavery times.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Two interesting things here:
1. In support of "everyone is 12" theory, she seems to believe that if her phrasing is clever enough, she can make grown adults believe that we've made zero progress since literal slavery times.
1. In support of "everyone is 12" theory, she seems to believe that if her phrasing is clever enough, she can make grown adults believe that we've made zero progress since literal slavery times.
I've never seen so many bad pie takes on one day. I guess it's good that we're getting it out in the open, but honestly I don't see how we as a society move forward from this.
November 26, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I've never seen so many bad pie takes on one day. I guess it's good that we're getting it out in the open, but honestly I don't see how we as a society move forward from this.
Why is everyone overlooking the obvious interpretation, that by "gay" he means "happy"?
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Why is everyone overlooking the obvious interpretation, that by "gay" he means "happy"?
Also because that was a creepy name to begin with.
They should change the name from "Homeland Security" because that's not their focus any more www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Also because that was a creepy name to begin with.
Trust me on this one.
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Trust me on this one.
Ugh, John Bolton messed up the wording on his Ezra Klein parody headline. How embarrassing!
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Ugh, John Bolton messed up the wording on his Ezra Klein parody headline. How embarrassing!
How are we supposed to pay for pony rides at Meijer now?
November 13, 2025 at 4:47 AM
How are we supposed to pay for pony rides at Meijer now?
Maybe the flavoring isn't *artificial*, but "natural" seems like a stretch.
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Maybe the flavoring isn't *artificial*, but "natural" seems like a stretch.
My neighbors have a welcome mat that says "All Are Welcome Here", and I just don't understand how they can be so cavalier about inviting in vampires.
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
My neighbors have a welcome mat that says "All Are Welcome Here", and I just don't understand how they can be so cavalier about inviting in vampires.
Clearly I'm not jaded enough, because even after everything else, I find this detail to be absolutely chilling.
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 30, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Clearly I'm not jaded enough, because even after everything else, I find this detail to be absolutely chilling.
Next up: products that another country has a comparative advantage in producing.
BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ
October 20, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Next up: products that another country has a comparative advantage in producing.
Republicans: Calling us "fascists" is an incitement to violence.
Also Republicans: Trump is a monarch.
Also Republicans: Trump is a monarch.
It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.
And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.
And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.
October 19, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Republicans: Calling us "fascists" is an incitement to violence.
Also Republicans: Trump is a monarch.
Also Republicans: Trump is a monarch.
This thread gets pretty wild. I think this person forgot there's a mute button?
lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful
what would you buy to break the curse?
what would you buy to break the curse?
October 15, 2025 at 5:03 AM
This thread gets pretty wild. I think this person forgot there's a mute button?
I still can't believe that, after two years, the hostages are all free! I tear up every time I think about it. 💛🎗️
October 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I still can't believe that, after two years, the hostages are all free! I tear up every time I think about it. 💛🎗️
I can't get over his notion that redistricting would "tear communities apart". Does he think they'll be building highways along the new district boundaries?
I believe that Trump, Mike Johnson and Greg Abbott should not have started this and continued with it in multiple states to rig the midterms. No Democrats want this, but we can’t unilaterally disarm in the face of multiple threats to fair representation nationwide.
October 13, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I can't get over his notion that redistricting would "tear communities apart". Does he think they'll be building highways along the new district boundaries?