Zarude D - Overhead Throw 30 This attack also does 30 damage to 1 of your Benched Pokémon. DDD - Shadow Whip 100+ If any of your Benched Pokémon has any "Shadow Darkness Energy" attached to it, this attack does 70 more damage.

Chi-Yu D - Spiralling Envy 20+ If this Pokémon has 2 or more damage counters on it, this attack does 90 more damage. Don't apply Weakness for this attack's damage.

Dark Bell (Item) Both Active Pokémon (except any Darkness type Pokémon) are now Confused.

Mega Darkrai ex DD - Night Raid 110+ If any of your Benched Pokémon have any damage counters on them, this attack does 110 more damage. DDD - Abyss Eye If your opponent's Active Pokémon is affected by any Special Condition, it is now Knocked Out.

Shadow Darkness Energy (Special Energy) As long as this card is attached to a Pokémon, it provides 1 Darkness Energy. Prevent all damage done by your opponent's attacks to the Benched Darkness Pokémon this card is attached to.

First post-rotation weekend went well, got top 2 and top 4 at two Cups with Zoroark. It's insane so much more fun I'm having using Trade compared to basically anything else in the format (and in most formats, honestly).

With rotation happening today, I wanna share this poem I wrote for my main deck in the past years. =) #PlayPokemon

The TCG Tournament Rules Handbook has been updated. Going forward, in top cut of tournaments (including League Cups), players don't flip a coin to choose who goes first. Instead, the higher seed chooses if they go first or second in game 1.

PETITION CONTRE LA LOI YADAN ⬇️ Cette loi criminaliserai toute critique envers le sionnisme et donc c'est la porte ouverte à encore plus de répression pour les militant.e.s proPal qui sont déjà dans les viseurs petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Played my only event of the month, a League Challenge in Paris, because I wanted to play Gardevoir one last time before rotation. I took Henry Chao's Houston list and went 4-0 (8-0 in games). Goodbye Gardevoir and thanks for all the points! 🫡

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Both the Wall Street Journal and The Information confirming that OpenAI is killing Sora - both the app and *access to its video-generating model for developers*. This is a huge move that suggests things are a bit desperate www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

On va parler aujourd'hui de la colorisation d'images historiques par intelligence artificielle générative. Encore un long 🧵 pour les plus courageux d'entre vous. Je suis fatigué que n'importe quel idiot fasse systématiquement n'importe quoi en brandissant #IA comme totem d'immunité.

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

Trolley Problem

Cette enquête de @mediapart.fr est exceptionnelle. Elle confirme l'immensité des mensonges qui ont été proférés par la droite pour glorifier un pur nazi (dont le RN a expliqué qu'il «était de sa tribu») - et pour salir de façon abjecte la gauche antifasciste et insoumise. bsky.app/profile/medi...

Patrat Ability: Watchful Eyes Damage counters on a Pokémon (yours or your opponent's) cannot be moved to another Pokémon. C - Bite 10

Special Red Card (Item) You may use this card only if your opponent has 3 Prize cards or fewer remaining. Your opponent shuffles their hand and puts it on the bottom of their deck. If your opponent put any cards on the bottom of their deck this way, they draw 3 cards.

Please, PLEASE, be loud about this topic, Android being open is what makes it useful, you own your phone and you should be able to install apps from wherever you wish to, don't let Google tell you what's allowed on the device you payed for! keepandroidopen.org

Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions. What stage of the apocalypse is this? polymarket.com/event/nuclea...

We had our regular pre-new-standard-set Expanded night on Monday! There were 13 players and I think 11 different archetypes Check out this thread for every list!

This gives away the whole game, as people have been warning for years and years. This is identity erasure of a whole class. the precedents for having documents revoked by group…are not good.

we have reached the “Nazi medical experiments” stage of our concentration camp effort

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

Je suis invité à un event Pokémon secret pour les #Pokemon30 ans de Pokémon qui a 30 ans (Pokémon (30)). Ils ont annoncé que les Pokémon sont réels et le Prof Chen m'en a donné un. (et aussi ils ont annoncé la génération 10 il paraît)

Expanded Deck of the Month #50 - Zoroark Checkmate It's already the 50th thread in this series, and to celebrate this milestone, as well as Pokémon Day, I have something special. A deck that means a lot to me personally, that also might be one of the coolest archetypes of all time. Thread ⬇️ (1/20)

Environ 336000 signataires pour la pétition contre Duplomb 2 : c'est trop peu ; et il s'agit vraiment de se réveiller pour empêcher cette mesure de destruction de notre santé (n'hésitez pas à republier ce post ou à alerter vos propres abonnés) : petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

(That "except on your first turn" is one more piece of evidence that the card designers do take Expanded into account)

Magnet Metal Energy (Special Energy) This card provides 1 Metal Energy while it is attached to a Pokémon. The Metal Pokemon this card is attached to has no retreat cost.

Quelqu'un sur mon live a fait cette blague et voulait une évaluation du public, je vous la soumets. (cc: @raphtorr.bsky.social )

I'm pretty late for this month's Expanded Deck of the Month thread! It takes some time to prepare because I've got a special deck in mind for this thread, the 50th of the series. Also I'm a bit sick and I mostly want to rest right now 😴

Seriously it's hilarious to me, the line on LLMs is "this is progress! you can't stop it!" from the same people who are trying to eliminate every gender transition surgery and, uh, the concept of the computer. Well, *you* think things can be de-invented! Let's de-invent the search engine that lies.

This EUIC finals was incredible, huge congrats to Edwyn for his well deserved win!

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

Top cut for Pokemon TCG at EUIC, via PokeStats

6-2-1 at EUIC. Came without any expectations, happy with the day 2, will do my best tomorrow!

Excited to join Chip at the caster desk for EUIC this weekend! Join us in our battle against jet lag

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

Il est tard, mais il n'est peut-être pas trop tard. 14 mois avant le 1er tour de l'élection présidentielle, l'Assemblée examinera demain une PPL qui permettrait (enfin) de lutter contre la concentration des médias. Les députés prendront-ils la mesure des menaces qui pèsent sur la démocratie?

MON NOUVEL ALBUM EST EN LIBRAIRIE ! Il s'intitule "Amour, fascisme & CDD" et raconte la mise en place d'un pouvoir fasciste au sein de l'Administration Départementale, désormais privatisée à 100%. Ca sort chez Pataquès avec une réédition de "Amour, djihad & RTT". Bonne lecture !

Thanks to @dragonshield.bsky.social for sending me a sample of their new sleeves! Looking forward to using them if I can find matching nail polish 💅

Après, il faut pas être alarmiste non plus. Un bot pas au point appartenant à un géant de la tech US, basé sur le plagiat de masse et le vol de données, que tu PAYES pour écouter tes secrets les plus intimes, et qui te donne des réponses non-contrôlées, qu'est-ce qui pourrait mal se passer ?

my only notes to people under 30: your 30s aren't for ditching fandom, they're for re-evaluating all the "cringe" stuff you liked as a teenager through the lens of someone who can appreciate it fully, going, "that owned, actually," and becoming even more unhinged about it. please look forward to it.

Ascended Heroes won't be legal for EUIC due to a delayed release, according to an announcement from @play.pokemon.com (they posted it on Twitter, no idea why they didn't post it here)

Haven't seen it posted on Bluesky yet, so for the Pokémon TCG players here: Starting at EUIC, we are back to time+3 turns (instead of time+1 as implemented this season), but with a time limit of 15 minutes (instead of 10). Source: www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-n...

9-4-1 for top 128 at Birmingham regionals. Played same 60 as Ilan who made top 8 (and also trounced me in round 12), so no regrets about the decklist. Could have played slightly better but I feel like most of my losses were out of my control. It's probably time to move on to a new deck!

Congratulations to Ethan Wilde, your 2026 #PokemonTCG Birmingham Regional Champion! 🏆