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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com · 3h

Same

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 5h

Transphobia has still failed to gain mainstream liberal support in the US like it has in the UK. People are pissed off about material conditions and have stopped caring about an issue that doesn't really affect them. Meanwhile, the AI bubble is about to crash the economy. They're not winning this.

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Paige, TheMaverickGirl @themaverickgirl.bsky.social · 6h

If you really, REALLY don’t like it that strongly that you’re letting it consume your every thought, post, reply, w/e in a negative manner, maybe it’s time to let it go, move on, and find another thing that will instead bring you joy. Just let it be. There will always be new joys to discover.

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Dix @dixonij.bsky.social · 5h

It's almost like the layoffs were illegal in the first place...

Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING: CDC is apparently reversing many of its layoffs. Letters seen by NPR indicate that many employees working with infectious diseases have had their RIFs revoked.

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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com · 7h

My typical experience on this app (no particular order):

Happy Magic stuff
Angry Magic stuff
Boy they sure are evil
Boy they sure are dumb
Hope
I wish I could open this for social times and not be inundated with the horrors

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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com · 7h

My typical experience on this app (no particular order):

Happy Magic stuff
Angry Magic stuff
Boy they sure are evil
Boy they sure are dumb
Hope
I wish I could open this for social times and not be inundated with the horrors

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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com · 7h

This seems not good!

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 9h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com · 8h

Enya

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 12h

What would be the wildest concert for a fight to break out at?

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

Also, the US will never support accountability unless we can make this more toxic than it is now, which should involve a concerted effort to make Stephen Miller's pathologies visible, especially now that Trump is feeble and Wormtongue is pushing him to do especially illegal things.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 12h

This is incredible

Dan @danjoncon.bsky.social · 12h

LOL the first few seconds of this are pure chaotic joy and it's perfect.

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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com · 13h

Well, found something "fun" I could do to lands in Karn:

moxfield.com/decks/4RhiRx...

Dross Scorpion {4}

Artifact Creature — Scorpion

Whenever this creature or another artifact creature dies, you may untap target artifact.

They skitter out of the mists to consume fresh kill before Mephidross has a chance to corrode it away.
3/1

Illustrated by Jim Nelson

Liquimetal Coating {2}

Artifact

{T}: Target permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

“They’ll soon become accustomed to wearing skin that is not their own.”
—Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Watermark: Mirran

Illustrated by Johann Bodin

Thran Dynamo {4}

Artifact

{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Urza’s metathran children were conceived, birthed, and nurtured by an integrated system of machines.

Illustrated by Ron Spears

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 13h

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com · 13h

Well, found something "fun" I could do to lands in Karn:

moxfield.com/decks/4RhiRx...

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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com · 14h

One thing that helped me is to realize that happiness is not a state of being but rather something you experience.

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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com · 14h

Lord is such a fun card. Love trying to build around a drawback.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com · 15h

What is your favorite "old" Commander (old defined as relative to when you started playing)?

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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com · 15h

I am two years older than Stephen Miller.

The owner of this account not looking like a 41 year old

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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com · 16h

Sorry Cal.

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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com · 1d

I think part of it might be mechanical dissonance. Looking at these cards I can see how the mechanics work with what's in Standard (Warp/Evoke for Super Shredder)

Spider-Man didn't have the same visible payoff. Now, it might?

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Spice8Rack (Marxist) @spice8rack.bsky.social · 1d

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

churchleaders.com

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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com · 1d

Going back on facebook for the first time in five years just to update my status with MTG to "It's Complicated".

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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com · 1d

I think it was easier to ascribe all the bad about the Spider-Man set to that notion than just to admit...it was a bad set!

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