This is one of the most euphonious headlines I’ve ever read.

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

Dan’s pitching heaters and drafting beaters

My uncle is taking me into town to buy some new Pokémon cards

EVERYONE: oh weird there is now a violent nihilistic political philosophy downstream of conservatism that expresses itself through the public murder of people including conservatives SOME GUY: *impatiently* yes and THAT is why it's so awful that people on bluesky call me Yoplait

(Coliseum audience chanting) mouth out with soap mouth out with soap

Kill recreational nihilism — wherever it comes from, whatever ideological mask it happens to be wearing. Do not engage in it. Do not indulge it. It makes you weak and it makes you stupid. If you haven't found meaning in something, don't make the void you have chosen everyone else's problem.

Right like very temping to zoom in on that line about fascists, but that’s actually a reference to a video game, Helldivers, and that context makes the meaning of that line really difficult to parse (if there’s any meaning at all)

More like Sickest Supply. Rep the colors and rep the best we’ve got.

King of the Coldblood Curse MTG: Through the Omenpaths AD: Emily Mazza Since people have been asking which planes these are on, this dude is on Eldraine :)

dan bongino and kash patel lying unconscious on the ground after bonking their heads together as they both bent down to examine what is later determined to be their own footprints

This is so good—every piece of art is the culmination of a series of choices, and it’s not just the content, but the form. Ryan is next level.

hell yeah, little lady

Magic: The Gathering: Untold Stories Elspeth #4 (Finale) Variant Cover by @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social Ink & Mixed Media, 11" x 17" With the solicits finally out, Ibrahim Moustafa's original ink for Elspeth #4 is now available! PM for more information

in lorwyn II they should make gaddock teeg's head 50,000 times bigger

The people on money should be mascots made up just for the money. Mr. Five

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

Me-specific, your mileage may vary:

Foam fingers now canonical to in-universe Magic.

In 2015 I was part of the team that won the pulitzer prize for exposing the reasons why South Carolina was the deadliest state in the nation for victims of domestic violence. One of the key factors we found was the prevalence of attitudes like what’s expressed below. A deadly ideology.

@ztul.bsky.social, What in the Kingiverse alert, the maniac has made quite a choice RE: the witch from “Hansel & Gretel” in his book with Maurice Sendak

parenthood is the best thing that’s ever happened to me, but in the interest of going in informed: restringing my banjo, a thirty-minute task pre-child, has now taken four days and three separate phases (destringing, restringing, and tuning).

Joe Biden having a nightmare:

completely gone off that beverly

Well that’s certainly a visual nod I was NOT expecting to see today.

I make no promises, but if anyone at WotC wants to seed upcoming cards with some cryptoanachronistic vocab, you know where to find me.

In which I ask the important question: does Bedlam Reveler imply the existence, divine or not, of an Innistradian Jesus of Nazareth?

yeah, I’m a performative male: I only feel that my gender is concrete when I’ve got a fucken audience

got to quit ending calls with a generic “best of luck.” It just feels hypernatural (NMTE), but definitely causes an aura shift in those pre-disconnect seconds

Carmela, what the hell is this.

And one of my absolute favorite parts of writing for Hipsters of the Coast is getting edited by @travisnorman.bsky.social.

Rewatched 28 Years Later this week (banger, 5.7/7) and the semiotics of that movie have taken on new nuance post-English flag debate. This truck in 2020 reads wildly differently than in 2025, but could exist in either year. Don’t envy anyone creating meaningful art in this ecosystem!

@hipstersofthecoast.com reached out this summer and told me he was getting the band back together. It was good to play with Magic & meaning again. www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2025/09/phil... #magicthegathering #MTGEOE

the thing is if you have a six hour day for eight hours pay & full employment you now have time to enjoy walking your dog. to cook yourself something at leisure. to enjoy taking care of your dwelling. the answer isn't magic robots. it's unions, it's workers getting the means of production

thank you for coming to my big announcement that was planned for weeks and not thrown together at the last second to get ahead of speculation that my health is in decline. alabama (taking a huge huff of a mysterious gas like dennis hopper in blue velvet) is in charge of space

“Ok, so I can’t make jewelry, but I’m great at disarming an alarm system and smashing glass cases”

*grasping the hand of a man who I would die a thousand deaths for, who has seen the crawling and cowardly animal at the heart of me, whose eyes seem to have their own store of light to shed* Big Dogggg

rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides

Cal’s spot on with the thoughtful note here. What you see in any long-running art form is the generational issue: the people who grew up on the art become those that make it. Why wouldn’t it be reverential? I’ve been thinking about this a lot as my daughter gets into Disney movies.

Magic & the Self-Referential The timeline last week was much concerning video games & some creator's tendencies to only look within the medium as inspiration. It got me wondering about Magic. Not my best work, but maybe some of my more thoughtful. Read: www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2025/08/magi...

I was just telling my girlfriend the other day that the old world is dying. And, my stars, the new world is struggling to be born. And now is the time when you meet such INNNNteresting monsters.

at the most basic level, writing is the practice of making your thoughts known to others--giving them a window into the innermost parts of you. when you turn over that skill to AI, you're only isolating yourself further, putting one more middleman between you and every other human being

i have been thinking a lot about “overconsumption” discourse and how it only ever targets female-coded stuff (labubus, fast fashion, makeup) but could absolutely be applied to things like guns

BIG fucken “hell yeah” at No. 36, which I just rewatched for the 1,000th time.