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Beau @minordeviation.bsky.social · 2h

"I know I made a lot of money throwing the community under the bus, and I'm not recanting any of the things I said because my Well-Reasoned Centrism was obviously always correct, but I'm starting to feel personally threatened so I'd like some meat shields between me and the Nazis I enabled." 🙄

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Beau @minordeviation.bsky.social · 3d

2 minutes on Google, PROG:

- Improves mood and treats neurodegenerative disease:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

- Improves immune response and helps in cancer prevention:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Hormones have SO MANY EFFECTS beyond just "boobs/erections/horny/menstruation".

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (4/5) @acvalens.net · 3d

Source familiar with MasterCard‘s internal workings: The company finds the censorship focus from consumers “profoundly irritating“ amid larger political issues — they want the controversy around paypros censorship to quietly disappear

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Beau @minordeviation.bsky.social · 4d

The "don't wanna reward WOTC for the extreme proliferation of UB" in me is warring with "the card is, mechanically, EXACTLY up my alley for a mono-U commander".

I think the tiebreaker is "not a fan of the expansion symbol" but it was a fight for sure.

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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 4d

almost to $25k!!! if i can get to that point the irs will let me lower my monthly payment amount ;;

wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 17d

Hey folks! Ive gotten an astonishing amount of support on this and I've been able to pay off 46% of this debt so far! Sadly im still way in the red with the huge monthly payments rn and struggling to get by. I could still really use some help with this awful tax situation <3

gofund.me/a4053bb4b

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boney🔞💖 @boneyhag.bsky.social · 5d

short horror comic from last year 👁️‍🗨️ a peeping tom and the death of the social contract

read below or on CF whendidyoustop.webcomic.ws

Illustrated cover of a comic. A girl huddles beneath a window with blinds that are messily closed. A shadow figure peeks through the gaps. The title reads "when did you stop caring"

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geneva @gdbee.bsky.social · 8d

North Star - Polaris -

I found my new favorite brush to use on just about everything ;u;

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Beau @minordeviation.bsky.social · 11d

Arc Raiders is -exactly- the kind of game I'd put 1000 hours into, and they had to go and ruin it with GenAI voices.

How does a studio care enough about their game's quality to make custom live recordings all the way down to raindrops and insects, and then get too stingy to pay voice actors??

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Beau @minordeviation.bsky.social · 17d

Board game: Gravwell! Love teaching it to new players, it's shockingly simple to learn. Fox in the Forest is a close second.

Audio drama: Wolf 359 probably, though I'm getting hooked on The Silt Verses.

Crafts: Chainmail! I make jewelry. 🥰

RPG system: I wanna play more Thirsty Sword Lesbians!!

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Beau @minordeviation.bsky.social · 22d

I think I'm still pingable on... -Maybe- double digit discord servers? Certainly at least 7 or 8, and I get actively pinged on at least 3 of them regularly. My favorite was getting pulled into a livestream to explain priority and responding to/interrupting loops, once. That was neat. 💜

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Beau @minordeviation.bsky.social · 22d

Hi hello I'm mostly out of the game at this stage... But for most of the last decade I was one of the foremost judge mentors and rules experts in the US-Midatlantic!

Few things make me happier than teaching rules and policy, especially fielding "hey I have a question..?" from new players or judges.

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Beau @minordeviation.bsky.social · Sep 22

Seriously.

"What do you know about her?" "Not much, only her name, height, weight, blood type, planet of origin, super powers, current address, relationship, favorite coffee order..."

Does Batman need to know how many pairs of mismatched socks are in a person's dresser before he's satisfied?

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Beau @minordeviation.bsky.social · Sep 20

Very close runner-up, I want my gadgets to be dumb again. I don't wanna sign into my TV, I don't want my fridge to connect to the internet, I don't want my printer to recommend stores to buy ink refills.

I want each of my gadgets to do exactly one thing, to do it well, and to do NOTHING ELSE.

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Beau @minordeviation.bsky.social · Sep 20

AUX PORTS!!! Holy shit, can we PLEASE stop removing aux ports from audio devices???

8 years ago when I was first learning electric viola, I bought a dinky portable speaker that hooks on a belt loop. It's become irreplaceable because EVERY speaker its size is bluetooth-only.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Beau @minordeviation.bsky.social · Sep 17

Oh hey I just realized I never shared my updated queer credentials with y'all. Also got a new side shave, but don't have any good photos showing it off yet.

I'm debating doing more with it, but for now just the underlayer has been a fun look. 💕

A photo of Beau from behind. Their hair is in a half-ponytail; the upper layer is its natural brown and held out of the way to show the under layer which is a vibrant rainbow.

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Beau @minordeviation.bsky.social · Sep 14

God, In Stars and Time messed me up in the BEST way. 💜 I spent the entire last two hours of my playthrough sobbing.

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Beau @minordeviation.bsky.social · Sep 13

C with a big lead for great readability and a fitting style. Runner-up A because it's compact without sacrificing too much readability. Not big on the styles of B or D.

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Beau @minordeviation.bsky.social · Sep 10

In case Magical Girl monster-ification is a vibe you'd enjoy, Thundamoo's "Magical Girl, Mechanical Heart" has a girl whose arms split in three.

Oh and the main character is soulbound to a robot body and enslaved to the queen evil magical girl. That might help.

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Beau @minordeviation.bsky.social · Sep 1

But end of the day, it's impossible to satisfy everybody. If someone I play with feels VERY strongly that a card in my deck isn't fun, I'll consider not casting it against them. But if it's a card I enjoy and it doesn't -generally- get negative feedback? I won't cut it on one person's say-so.

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Beau @minordeviation.bsky.social · Sep 1

There are a handful of cards that made the cut even if they're not as fun on repeats... But I try not to include cards that I wouldn't find fun played against me, and I -definitely- don't include cards that I don't find to be fun ways to win (or cut them after a game where they left me unsatisfied).

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Beau @minordeviation.bsky.social · Sep 1

I only have one active deck at the moment, bracket 2, and a good number of decisions were based on "am I going to enjoy playing this card/winning games this way?" "... even the third, or tenth, or twentieth time?" and "if somebody ELSE played this against me/won this way, would I be having fun?"

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · Aug 14

This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.

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Beau @minordeviation.bsky.social · Aug 13

I've made -thousands- of buttons on home presses. Never owned the equipment for it myself... But I'd be more than happy to contribute my time with a borrowed/rented machine, especially if TOs are onboard with the plan.

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Beau @minordeviation.bsky.social · Aug 12

Appreciate the confirmation, thanks!

This seems low priority, but is there value in the rules team taking a look at this, so we have something to point to in the CR? Right now, cases 1 and 2 are consistent but only have plain English/Gatherer ruling support, and case 3 has fully undefined behavior.

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Beau @minordeviation.bsky.social · Aug 12

I haven't found a citation to cover it yet.

Even cases 1 and 2, where the criteria tests against the full set of targets instead of each target individually - which just to clarify, behaves that way because of the word "total", yeah? - don't seem to have a firm CR source, only Gatherer rulings.

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