Ranger Dave
@rangerdave.bsky.social
Hello, we see you're interested in local politics in Portland, would you be interested in this podcast consisting of the two most dull white men you've ever seen calmly shit talking Oregon while saying some of the most confidently wrong things you've ever heard and telling each other "Exaaaactly"
January 14, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Hello, we see you're interested in local politics in Portland, would you be interested in this podcast consisting of the two most dull white men you've ever seen calmly shit talking Oregon while saying some of the most confidently wrong things you've ever heard and telling each other "Exaaaactly"
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There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good.
This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it.
A thread on how to do that 🧵
This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it.
A thread on how to do that 🧵
January 11, 2026 at 7:53 AM
There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good.
This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it.
A thread on how to do that 🧵
This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it.
A thread on how to do that 🧵
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New research highlights from 2025!
This thread covers some of our latest work on capitalism, imperialism, post-growth and ecosocialist futures. It's all open access, and free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵
This thread covers some of our latest work on capitalism, imperialism, post-growth and ecosocialist futures. It's all open access, and free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵
January 9, 2026 at 4:23 PM
New research highlights from 2025!
This thread covers some of our latest work on capitalism, imperialism, post-growth and ecosocialist futures. It's all open access, and free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵
This thread covers some of our latest work on capitalism, imperialism, post-growth and ecosocialist futures. It's all open access, and free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵
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More training isn't going to fix the ethnic cleansing squad! The problem is that we employ an ethnic cleansing squad that attracts the type of people who would want to be part of an ethnic cleansing squad!
January 11, 2026 at 3:45 PM
More training isn't going to fix the ethnic cleansing squad! The problem is that we employ an ethnic cleansing squad that attracts the type of people who would want to be part of an ethnic cleansing squad!
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Super important that every discord user takes this survey. Let them know.
Just took the Discord survey on implementing AI and it's basically like:
"Which of these 9 terrible things do you dislike about AI? And how can we convince you to be cool with it?"
Survey 🔗 discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
"Which of these 9 terrible things do you dislike about AI? And how can we convince you to be cool with it?"
Survey 🔗 discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
January 10, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Super important that every discord user takes this survey. Let them know.
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And if you want a Mamdani, you need to volunteer with a ground campaign. You need to talk to people irl about the policies your candidate is fronting and why they're a good thing.
It's not just charisma, it's support. Support against bad actors and support to rally wider political momentum.
It's not just charisma, it's support. Support against bad actors and support to rally wider political momentum.
Watch nz politics fall over themselves trying to “find our Mamdani” but not fix the way we treat wahine and takatāpui Māori in politics 👀
January 2, 2026 at 4:30 AM
And if you want a Mamdani, you need to volunteer with a ground campaign. You need to talk to people irl about the policies your candidate is fronting and why they're a good thing.
It's not just charisma, it's support. Support against bad actors and support to rally wider political momentum.
It's not just charisma, it's support. Support against bad actors and support to rally wider political momentum.
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I think more people in the ttrpg and AP space could benefit from going back to their roots of text based and post by post RPs
December 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I think more people in the ttrpg and AP space could benefit from going back to their roots of text based and post by post RPs
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Turning Point USA was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery
Two of their major policy pushes were a more prominent gun culture and zero COVID restrictions
Bill Montgomery died to the COVID virus
Charlie Kirk died to gun violence
Two of their major policy pushes were a more prominent gun culture and zero COVID restrictions
Bill Montgomery died to the COVID virus
Charlie Kirk died to gun violence
December 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Turning Point USA was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery
Two of their major policy pushes were a more prominent gun culture and zero COVID restrictions
Bill Montgomery died to the COVID virus
Charlie Kirk died to gun violence
Two of their major policy pushes were a more prominent gun culture and zero COVID restrictions
Bill Montgomery died to the COVID virus
Charlie Kirk died to gun violence
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Yet another example of using “AI” but mixing up GenAI and other forms of machine learning.
The polls they cite about AI attitudes? People are talking about GenAI
The examples where AI is working? Non-GenAI machine learning.
The latter, more speculative ones? Back to GenAI
Fave trick of AI fans
The polls they cite about AI attitudes? People are talking about GenAI
The examples where AI is working? Non-GenAI machine learning.
The latter, more speculative ones? Back to GenAI
Fave trick of AI fans
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Yet another example of using “AI” but mixing up GenAI and other forms of machine learning.
The polls they cite about AI attitudes? People are talking about GenAI
The examples where AI is working? Non-GenAI machine learning.
The latter, more speculative ones? Back to GenAI
Fave trick of AI fans
The polls they cite about AI attitudes? People are talking about GenAI
The examples where AI is working? Non-GenAI machine learning.
The latter, more speculative ones? Back to GenAI
Fave trick of AI fans
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related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
what the fuck are you talking about man
December 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
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Saw this adorable French animation ad and I had to share it over here! The style looks familiar but I can’t my finger on what group it is. Any ideas?
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Saw this adorable French animation ad and I had to share it over here! The style looks familiar but I can’t my finger on what group it is. Any ideas?
Oops I started a new Side Project since most of my stuff is in a different ZIP code than I am.
If you're interested in being part of a Wierd Project. Would you like to share with me your favorite Magic the Gathering Commander you play and if you have any foods you can't eat?
If you're interested in being part of a Wierd Project. Would you like to share with me your favorite Magic the Gathering Commander you play and if you have any foods you can't eat?
December 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Oops I started a new Side Project since most of my stuff is in a different ZIP code than I am.
If you're interested in being part of a Wierd Project. Would you like to share with me your favorite Magic the Gathering Commander you play and if you have any foods you can't eat?
If you're interested in being part of a Wierd Project. Would you like to share with me your favorite Magic the Gathering Commander you play and if you have any foods you can't eat?
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This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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endorse
I’m slowly radicalizing into thinking we need to ban all non in person sports betting
An op-ed from Chris Christie (!!) that says "Regulated betting, when done right, strengthens the integrity of sports."
No discussion of gambling's deleterious effects on people!
No discussion of gambling's deleterious effects on people!
November 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
endorse
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Today, 11/8, in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt unveiled the Civil Works Administration, designed to create jobs for more than four million unemployed.
November 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Today, 11/8, in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt unveiled the Civil Works Administration, designed to create jobs for more than four million unemployed.
Damn a lot of folks who last year claimed to want a Smedley Butler seem to be really reticent to engage with the real world experience that radicalized Smedley Butler.
October 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Damn a lot of folks who last year claimed to want a Smedley Butler seem to be really reticent to engage with the real world experience that radicalized Smedley Butler.
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Kinda wild that Mamdani and Sliwa are the guys who won their primaries and there has been open, nonstop meddling to overturn that will of the voters and install the disgraced former governor and it’s largely being covered like this is perfectly normal shit
October 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Kinda wild that Mamdani and Sliwa are the guys who won their primaries and there has been open, nonstop meddling to overturn that will of the voters and install the disgraced former governor and it’s largely being covered like this is perfectly normal shit
No no no you don't understand, I don't want to BE the He/Him Lesbian Great Khan of my visions, my destiny is as the Scheming Vizier to the He/Him Lesbian Great Khan of my visions, I just need to FIND the He/Him Lesbian Great Khan from my Portents
October 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
No no no you don't understand, I don't want to BE the He/Him Lesbian Great Khan of my visions, my destiny is as the Scheming Vizier to the He/Him Lesbian Great Khan of my visions, I just need to FIND the He/Him Lesbian Great Khan from my Portents
Sliwa represents a thing increasingly rare in this society, a Conservative I can respect.
Curtis Silwa was asked if he felt okay with losing and contributing to Zohran Mamdani’s victory and he responded by laying into Bill Ackman and Andrew Cuomo.
October 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Sliwa represents a thing increasingly rare in this society, a Conservative I can respect.
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Sorry, it’s fucking weird to talk about eating someone’s pet, even if they are a “food” animal. Dogs and cats are eaten in some places too, but it certainly isn’t seen as acceptable to talk about making a meal of them in the comments of a pet photoshoot.
October 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Sorry, it’s fucking weird to talk about eating someone’s pet, even if they are a “food” animal. Dogs and cats are eaten in some places too, but it certainly isn’t seen as acceptable to talk about making a meal of them in the comments of a pet photoshoot.
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The product is just dependence on mind poison. Study after study has shown people using GPT think they are more productive but are empirically not. It is just a button you press that delivers hits of dopamine completely unrelated to the world around you.
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
ChatGPT is about to get flirty.
buff.ly
October 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The product is just dependence on mind poison. Study after study has shown people using GPT think they are more productive but are empirically not. It is just a button you press that delivers hits of dopamine completely unrelated to the world around you.
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Friends, the Miami Seaquarium was a facility with a horrific animal welfare record. I will not miss it.
But it shutting down is absolutely not "a huge milestone win for ocean conservation." Words mean things. Conservation refers to species or populations not going extinct.
But it shutting down is absolutely not "a huge milestone win for ocean conservation." Words mean things. Conservation refers to species or populations not going extinct.
October 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Friends, the Miami Seaquarium was a facility with a horrific animal welfare record. I will not miss it.
But it shutting down is absolutely not "a huge milestone win for ocean conservation." Words mean things. Conservation refers to species or populations not going extinct.
But it shutting down is absolutely not "a huge milestone win for ocean conservation." Words mean things. Conservation refers to species or populations not going extinct.
There's a lot of miserable novels that, while narratively very effective and with well written prose. We make too centric to high school reading curricula and it does harm to literacy by making young people think reading is supposed to be dour and miserable.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
There's a lot of miserable novels that, while narratively very effective and with well written prose. We make too centric to high school reading curricula and it does harm to literacy by making young people think reading is supposed to be dour and miserable.
Anyone I know on here play Path of Titans? Looks like it could be fun but I never hear folks discussing it really.
October 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Anyone I know on here play Path of Titans? Looks like it could be fun but I never hear folks discussing it really.