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🥪RangerKarl

@rangerkarl.bsky.social
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extremely underwhelming programmer guy; can't hold a conversation 🇲🇾🌃🥪

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🥪RangerKarl @rangerkarl.bsky.social · 19h
r/spacesimgames gives me a headache right now
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Read every word of this and share it.
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
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BlumineOnion 🧅 @blumineonion.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The "yuri is male gaze" debate becomes gut-bustingly hilarious once you realize that, more often than not, the genre is created by female mangaka sitting at their desks like:
From the afterword of I Love You So Much, I Hate You by Yuni
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kruger @kruger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey! Here I am yet again with the offer! I can draw you a spaceship, vehicle, mech, aircraft, static or in a dynamic pose, with the best rendering and detailing i can offer, plus a complex background of your liking for 200 USD, like the examples!PM me here or via valahor@gmail.com if interested
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 07/10/2026
oh this is going to be a cavalcade of shit and I can’t wait to watch it go down
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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 05/10/2026
Highly recommend Macross Plus. I've yet to see a game that captures how a variable fighter moves in its entirety. It would basically involve making the most complex character controller in recent memory. One of the reasons I'm investigating/experimenting with such a thing >:3c
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🥪RangerKarl @rangerkarl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
my phone has finally started showing a line on its screen
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🥪RangerKarl @rangerkarl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
metal overman king gooner
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🥪RangerKarl @rangerkarl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
github.com/GoogleCloudP... might be fun to try hosting on a k3s to mess about with
github.com
GitHub - GoogleCloudPlatform/bank-of-anthos: Retail banking sample application showcasing Kubernetes and Google Cloud
Retail banking sample application showcasing Kubernetes and Google Cloud - GoogleCloudPlatform/bank-of-anthos
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hey folks, added Welcome to Elderfield to my Steam Curator A spooky horror-themed Stardew Valley like farming sim RPG with turn-based combat, and lots of little mysteries to investigate, quests to go on, and some incredible monster artwork. Feels a little World of Horror in some regards. I love it!
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Welcome to Elderfield on Steam
Welcome to Elderfield, a cozy horror RPG with hand-drawn art and dark lofi music. Manage your farm, befriend or romance the locals, investigate mysteries, decorate your home, fight terrifying creature...
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For my latest, I wrote about some of the modern addictions shaping American life, from social media to celebrity to sports betting. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/portraits-of...
liberalcurrents.com
Portraits of an American Dopamine Eater
Our attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture.
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Bat-Tali 🦇🎃 (Vancouver era ✨) @talidev3d.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I want to say it cannot be said enough how important it is for other men to say things about this shit. In the moment, or ASAP My first ever game dev event I was sexually harassed (assaulted?) by a Sony exec while all of my coworkers saw and said nothing Please say something, for people that can't
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This week Malaysia sent a gift to the Myanmar military junta: over a thousand refugees who had sought protection from it. But criticise this action and many Malaysians will act like they’re the ones harmed.
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🥪RangerKarl @rangerkarl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
thinking about...people giving themselves martyr complexes
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🥪RangerKarl @rangerkarl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
thinking about how I started using my torrent client because of a deceased acquaintance. they keep leaving us.
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Scare-on Lim 林家丰 @ Plane Seat With An Empty Seat Next To Me @ehronlime.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To our shame
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🥪RangerKarl @rangerkarl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
fucken tell me what you need in the same breath
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🥪RangerKarl @rangerkarl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
if a trainee goes down due to dehydration do they yell Guardian Down or not
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
men: steal this one weird trick to stamp out sexism sssssssssss
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🥪RangerKarl @rangerkarl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i think I'm just dumping my excess cat food now.
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🥪RangerKarl @rangerkarl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
what does it take to be a hero?
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
hi we're a website you have used for 20 years, we have no idea if you are over 18, send us a selfie. let us connect to your camera. can we get a booty pic with panties on and one without them on? can we also get 3 different pics of your boobs any position
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The Amityville Jordan (1979) @jackal27.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can’t even comprehend how important Eien ni Hen’s work is to the fan translation community. Romancing SaGa, Fire Emblem, Sakura Wars, Tear Ring Saga, Glory of Heracles, Dragon Force II, Dark Half, Beyond Oasis, Psi-O-Blade, Arabian Nights, and so much more. What a loss. Rest in peace.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 16/09/2026
lady: our data center flexes demand to protect the grid and ratepayers!

guy: how

lady: we use AI to shift load!

guy: how

lady: we run diesel generators when prices spike

guy: thank you
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
“Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. But if the camera is contained in a charm you wear around your neck, it shifts the agency. Suddenly, you’re not recording people. It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking out on the world.”
theguardian.com
‘Charming and disarming’ … how Meta’s technology-packed Muse harnesses the power of cuteness
The tech giant has launched a cute ‘little guy’ that can answer emails, book travel or do your weekly food shop
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Heads-up for fellow CRPG dungeon crawler fans as one to avoid: this one is made by ban-evading neo-nazis.
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IggyMaid @iggymaid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OBS Studio versions 32.2.2 and lower are vulnerable to this attack
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Alfred Reinold Baudisch @alfredbaudisch.com · 25/09/2026
FF7 scenarios with pre-rendered backgrounds were always a mystery to me during childhood; but even to this day it's still something that amazes me. Now you can inspect every single Final Fantasy VII stage, including the 3D path + variations. #FF7 #FinalFantasy #FFVII #PS1 #PSX #RetroGame
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shirvill.bsky.social @shirvill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Seems to have been a driving factor for social media age verification here in Aus, too: www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/12/p...
crikey.com.au
Teen social media ban lobby group 36 Months funded and co-staffed by firm making gambling ads
The revelation comes as the government is expected to abandon plans for an online gambling ad ban, using the teen social media ban as cover.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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🥪RangerKarl @rangerkarl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
rotten out country
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🥪RangerKarl @rangerkarl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
what the hell would an armored core cookie clicker look like
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🥪RangerKarl @rangerkarl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
how I felt when I realized most people read WC as WarCraft instead of Wing Commander
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 22/09/2026
Damn, he had Sam Altman dead to rights in 2016
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🥪RangerKarl @rangerkarl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am having so much trouble giving a shit right now
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🥪RangerKarl @rangerkarl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
...okay, rename my self insert next time...
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Jeffrey @jeffreywoot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
putting in a kofi link for continuing to do the same thing yeah ok 🦆 🚬
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Glotta Stomach & Datt CEO @blankspotato.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
「はい、アルトじゃないと!!!」 #バットマン #仮面ライダーゼロワン
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🥪RangerKarl @rangerkarl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
not production order?? that monster!
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unangbangkay @unangbangkay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
tamamo no mae saying this, probably to like emperor go-toba
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
Just going to keep saying this - the fossil fuel crisis stopped being segmented and is now persistent and probably perpetual. The only way to protect yourself from this is to lobby your politicians to end reliance on this war-torn, unreliable, expensive fuel and switch to modern technology instead.
theguardian.com
Saudi Arabia shuts down key oil pipeline, blaming drones from Iraq
Riyadh has increased use of East-West pipeline since start of war on Iran to bypass closure of strait of Hormuz
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Cute Monster Props @cutemonster.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A week ago at Dragoncon I met Richard Garriott at a panel about his new Ultima game. Long story short he wants to use AI. He already has for concept art and ChatGPT generated fantasy language. I wrote an account with the hope that this could spread to the right people. Please pass this along.
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 12/09/2026
An absolutely incredible development here. This leg would have been unimaginable just a few short years ago. (Original post by @science.org on instagram)
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🥪RangerKarl @rangerkarl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
thinking about the zentraedi spacer with the broom in SDF Macross
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Why485 @why485.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Got caught holding the bag on a significant and surprise expense hitting me at a bad time. If anybody needs short term (part time, 3 mo. max?) commission work to write or polish the physics/controllers for arcadish jeeps, planes, spaceships, vehicles, etc. send me a message!
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🥪RangerKarl @rangerkarl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
i do hate this haze bullshit. There should a super power just dedicated to enforcing air quality I swear
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🥪RangerKarl @rangerkarl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
as a terminal Facebook scroller I am quite amused at all these little hand drawn comic videos.
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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 07/09/2026
Misread this as Toph having the staff to get Aang pregnant and smashed reskeet
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🥪RangerKarl @rangerkarl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What is a battle scene without a backing reason, but noise?
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