I mean if even the most milquetoast, bland, inoffensive things can get censored…you might as well be bold and make something brutally honest and weird. What’s the point in compromising, they aren’t happy with compromises either. Just make some weird shit.

That food map thing makes me think of Anthony Bourdain and how he was one of the only people who didn't just understand that food and its preparation, is one of the most ancient and distinctly human ways we have of communicating, but whose life's work was showing that to us

Every time I feel like I know a lot about the rise of fascism in Germany, I learn something new.

The word "Luddite" is not an insult in a world where refrigerators play ads

Do this to voice your outrage at Disney's unjust cancellation of Kimmel and other people's shows for simply practicing their free speech, ASAP.

who up strokin' they sword while lamenting the social realities

@wotcmatt.bsky.social hey can you tell me if casting Gwen Stacy's backside makes it enter transformed for purposes of Corruption of Towashi?

Pope Tropes that need a rest: - Pope is actually Ryan Seacrest in disguise (every time!) - gets souped up Popemobile (it talks!), becomes world's greatest race car driver - takes up MMA, fights Dalai Lama in cage match - defeats skeleton army by canonizing them so their bones become holy relics

heater the cat making some salient points. also far less annoying than most emails

Remember when I got posted in here for some transphobic bs, but a bunch of people were still like "would tho" and the op couldnt keep the hating on track because people were horny? Goodnight you disgusting cesspool.

Being trans made me love myself and my body. I take so much better care of it because I feel legitimate connection to it and not like a prisoner within in it all the time

LA folks get in here!

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

Long before we were friends, Usman's articles helped me with my first few cubes! You should check this out from one of the ✨BEST✨

Next they're painting me a Stormtide Leviathan!

liberals don't actually care about anything, they just want all the violence necessary to uphold the status quo to already be so normalized as to be invisible, and their problem with fascism is that fascists also use violence that is not yet totally normalized.

wow I have those exact hours haha

music.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Here's the YouTube version of Disaster Movie Cube 💪

And this is why @jonbois.bsky.social is the best sports historian

A little Chappell Roan study for your Monday! ✨❤️‍🔥

Added that song to the Disaster Movie Cube playlist, and I'm thinking I need to up the amount of protest music open.spotify.com/playlist/4Cq...

I REALLY like Wizards framing the graveyard as jail and dying as being arrested in #MTGxSpiderMan. I'm definitely gonna try this card out in Disaster Movie Cube to imply the same. Is it particularly good? Nah. But the vibe check is important to communicating the story of the cube.

Y'all I gotta read Goldman. Anyone have a starting rec?

Certain orgs have made it less appealing but "Bread for all, and roses too" from the women and childrens' strike in 1912 is the baseline of my transfeminist practice and I actively try and interrogate my own rhetoric with it whenever and however possible

Shout to my biggest fan, the Portuguese Tarot bot

What ever happened to that dude on the pro tour who played auras in pioneer vs Reid duke who was running ingenuity combo. Lanky guy who said fuck during the live coverage

"BlueSky is boring" is a skill issue and the solution is transitioning

I'm starting to get the sense this Ken Griffey Jr fellow is pretty good at baseball. Seems like a poor culture fit on the Mariners.

YALL YALL Kade is DOIN IT @holdtheelle.bsky.social get in here gorl

The glorious part of (most) cube design is how narrow your audience is. You are designing for like 4-12 specific human beings that you expect to play with, which lets you go fully feral. Too many folks don't appreciate that they and the MTGO vintage cube designers aren't playing the same game.

The world is falling apart but there is still Magical Gathering

This whole thread is great and speaks to why @irreleverent.bsky.social is one of my favorite designers

It's just a sports ban. It's just a bathroom ban. It's just a healthcare for kids ban. It's just a military service ban. It's just a federal jobs ban. It's just a university housing ban. It's just a passport & visa ban. It's just one Constitutional right. It's just your status as free citizens.

Oh my god y'all check your DNS settings. It feels like I'm on 2012 internet over here

Just locked in drafting Disaster Movie Cube on September 11 to prove that I Never Forgot™️

I haven’t done this exercise myself, but off the top of my head: - more mana fixing/fewer gold cards. Average cubes might already have super strong mana fixing tho. - fewer high synergy siloed archetypes. You want it to be easy to pivot between/blend different themes. - more two card “combos”

@chriskmooney.bsky.social after Maro's article mentioned you originating pick two draft, what changes would you make to the structure of a cube meant to be drafted that way?

Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

@hannahrkeyser.bsky.social this bit from today spoke right to the heart of it for me. My one queer sports discussion place has been dead all year because we have SO many more important things to worry about, and this season has been... 🤷‍♀️

I believe in the egg prime directive in the same way that any decent starfleet captain believes in the regular prime directive: as something you are supposed and indeed morally compelled to break all the time but that allows you to go "ugh well here I go again" before you do

i was just talking with a friend of mine yesterday about how hard it is to get cis people to see the difference between "things keep getting worse" and "things keep getting materially worse in a way that's directly pointed at us, like, weekly if not daily and having to keep adapting to the horrors"

Kade stays winning. Gosh I love this queer

We call them Skeets because of this guy and we call it Bluesky because he was blue

the thing about Making Physical Stuff is that once you start, its pretty easy to continue & the ideals just pile up endlessly, bound only by time & money

Based on some of the community reactions to Mark Rosewater's recent Tumblr post re: the amount of new cards coming out each year, I start to worry that Magic's largest problem is that many of its players have not yet solved the problem of other minds. It's why the boys' club hates women playing btw.