Carmen Klomparens
@carmparens.bsky.social
I run my mouth professionally & socially.
Sr Game Design; Broadcaster Wizards of the Coast (née Emma Handy)
opinions mine
#BLACKLIVESMATTER 🏳️⚧️
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@thequietfish.bsky.social
Sr Game Design; Broadcaster Wizards of the Coast (née Emma Handy)
opinions mine
#BLACKLIVESMATTER 🏳️⚧️
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@thequietfish.bsky.social
This video was v sentimental for me
The Niv I played is signed by the 2019 Game Knights crew bc I was the first person outside of WotC to play the card (before I was a Wizard!) on their show
Having it at the helm of a deck on SUP 6 years later full of stuff I worked on was a real full-circle moment
The Niv I played is signed by the 2019 Game Knights crew bc I was the first person outside of WotC to play the card (before I was a Wizard!) on their show
Having it at the helm of a deck on SUP 6 years later full of stuff I worked on was a real full-circle moment
November 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This video was v sentimental for me
The Niv I played is signed by the 2019 Game Knights crew bc I was the first person outside of WotC to play the card (before I was a Wizard!) on their show
Having it at the helm of a deck on SUP 6 years later full of stuff I worked on was a real full-circle moment
The Niv I played is signed by the 2019 Game Knights crew bc I was the first person outside of WotC to play the card (before I was a Wizard!) on their show
Having it at the helm of a deck on SUP 6 years later full of stuff I worked on was a real full-circle moment
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Many Magic: The Gathering players dream of competing in the Pro Tour, but what is that journey really like?
Join us as we follow Jesse Robkin behind the scenes on her exciting Pro Tour journey!
Spellseekers, Episode 1: The Jesse Robkin Story premieres Wednesday! ✨
Join us as we follow Jesse Robkin behind the scenes on her exciting Pro Tour journey!
Spellseekers, Episode 1: The Jesse Robkin Story premieres Wednesday! ✨
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Many Magic: The Gathering players dream of competing in the Pro Tour, but what is that journey really like?
Join us as we follow Jesse Robkin behind the scenes on her exciting Pro Tour journey!
Spellseekers, Episode 1: The Jesse Robkin Story premieres Wednesday! ✨
Join us as we follow Jesse Robkin behind the scenes on her exciting Pro Tour journey!
Spellseekers, Episode 1: The Jesse Robkin Story premieres Wednesday! ✨
Ran a tad lukewarm and @savjz.bsky.social def played well with Kai'Sa in his crosshairs. I feel great about our event prep and a lot of plans The Seattle A's cooked up.
Next time :)
Next time :)
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Ran a tad lukewarm and @savjz.bsky.social def played well with Kai'Sa in his crosshairs. I feel great about our event prep and a lot of plans The Seattle A's cooked up.
Next time :)
Next time :)
Update: Main feature match on Top 8 :)
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Update: Main feature match on Top 8 :)
Update: win and in on camera now
Damn maybe the best action shot of me ever.
4-0 btw :)
4-0 btw :)
Our first-ever Riftbound $10K is in full swing at #SCGVEGAS! 📢
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Update: win and in on camera now
Damn maybe the best action shot of me ever.
4-0 btw :)
4-0 btw :)
Our first-ever Riftbound $10K is in full swing at #SCGVEGAS! 📢
November 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Damn maybe the best action shot of me ever.
4-0 btw :)
4-0 btw :)
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Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling says 'a ton' of fans are 'still with me' after trans remarks
J.K. Rowling addressed her controversial comments about transgender women on 'The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling' podcast, saying many 'Harry Potter' fans were 'grateful that I'd said what I said,' and ...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
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in the USA if you're a citizen and honk your car horn to warn people about the president's secret masked kidnappers in their unmarked cars they change the license plates on daily they'll smash your car window with the barrel of their loaded firearm, that's my suggestion for thanksgiving family talk
Dipshit is smashing out a car window with his gun, barrel first. Just rogue, cowboy stiff.
There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for “obstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.
There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for “obstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.
November 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
in the USA if you're a citizen and honk your car horn to warn people about the president's secret masked kidnappers in their unmarked cars they change the license plates on daily they'll smash your car window with the barrel of their loaded firearm, that's my suggestion for thanksgiving family talk
Seattle A's making their debut in Vegas tomorrow :)
November 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Seattle A's making their debut in Vegas tomorrow :)
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Only other thing i’ll say is that they’re obviously conducting the trial to see how well blockers stop kids being trans instead of actually help them, that is the metric they’re doing it by like all trans state healthcare always has
Not gonna engage with the puberty blocker trial story cause as someone who had the experience of going through the medical gatekeeping before getting them was pretty traumatic and my experience is luxurious compared to whats happening in the uk now and its just too upsetting honestly
November 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Only other thing i’ll say is that they’re obviously conducting the trial to see how well blockers stop kids being trans instead of actually help them, that is the metric they’re doing it by like all trans state healthcare always has
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dystopian
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
dystopian
NGL playing Kai'Sa mirrors with 12 card SBs and 6 card location decks with your wife is peak. So much learning. Jadine the 🐐 holy shit.
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
NGL playing Kai'Sa mirrors with 12 card SBs and 6 card location decks with your wife is peak. So much learning. Jadine the 🐐 holy shit.
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Trans day of remembrance, thinking of all those lost and what we can do to help protect those who are here.
Aside from the bigger stuff, call shit out. Normalize being hostile to transphobic "jokes" and comments.
Aside from the bigger stuff, call shit out. Normalize being hostile to transphobic "jokes" and comments.
November 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Trans day of remembrance, thinking of all those lost and what we can do to help protect those who are here.
Aside from the bigger stuff, call shit out. Normalize being hostile to transphobic "jokes" and comments.
Aside from the bigger stuff, call shit out. Normalize being hostile to transphobic "jokes" and comments.
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When they publish lies about youth transition, this is what the Administration wants: more dead trans kids.
Cw: suicide
This article is devastating.
Earlier this month, a 15-year-old died by suicide the day after posting about a substitute teacher insisting on misgendering him.
Suicide can have many contributing factors. His family is speaking out about bullying and misgendering as two.
This article is devastating.
Earlier this month, a 15-year-old died by suicide the day after posting about a substitute teacher insisting on misgendering him.
Suicide can have many contributing factors. His family is speaking out about bullying and misgendering as two.
November 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
When they publish lies about youth transition, this is what the Administration wants: more dead trans kids.
He gets on base
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
He gets on base
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I encourage you to read her full comments, not because they exculpatory — they absolutely are not — but because they're dangerously close to self awareness about the trap that hasbarists find themselves in.
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I encourage you to read her full comments, not because they exculpatory — they absolutely are not — but because they're dangerously close to self awareness about the trap that hasbarists find themselves in.
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Sorry everyone, WeeklyMTG is canceled today due to some last-minute, totally unforeseen issues unrelated to my completely foreseeable birthday. We'll see you next week! #WOTCstaff
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Sorry everyone, WeeklyMTG is canceled today due to some last-minute, totally unforeseen issues unrelated to my completely foreseeable birthday. We'll see you next week! #WOTCstaff
Happy transgender awareness week!
I've been struggling a lot lately with, well, the world. It's easy to fall into the cycle of feeling like things are hopeless, especially for folks like us.
I've had a specific clip pinned on Twtr for almost 5 years tho and it's really helped me.
Walk w/me
1/5
I've been struggling a lot lately with, well, the world. It's easy to fall into the cycle of feeling like things are hopeless, especially for folks like us.
I've had a specific clip pinned on Twtr for almost 5 years tho and it's really helped me.
Walk w/me
1/5
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Happy transgender awareness week!
I've been struggling a lot lately with, well, the world. It's easy to fall into the cycle of feeling like things are hopeless, especially for folks like us.
I've had a specific clip pinned on Twtr for almost 5 years tho and it's really helped me.
Walk w/me
1/5
I've been struggling a lot lately with, well, the world. It's easy to fall into the cycle of feeling like things are hopeless, especially for folks like us.
I've had a specific clip pinned on Twtr for almost 5 years tho and it's really helped me.
Walk w/me
1/5
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we've been able to participate in the olympics for 20 fucking years and none of us have even won a medal. only two have ever even made it to the big show.
IOC edges closer to ban on transgender women in female Olympic events
IOC edges closer to ban on transgender women in female Olympic events
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Sources expect ban within next six to 12 months
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IOC president wants to protect the female category
The International Olympic Committee is edging closer towards implementing a ban on transgender women competing in the female category in time for the Los Angeles Olympics.
Multiple sources expect such a ban to come into effect over the next six to 12 months with the new IOC president, Kirsty Coventry, making clear she wants to drive through her campaign pledge to protect the female category. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
we've been able to participate in the olympics for 20 fucking years and none of us have even won a medal. only two have ever even made it to the big show.
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Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways
IOC edges closer to ban on transgender women in female Olympic events
IOC edges closer to ban on transgender women in female Olympic events
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Sources expect ban within next six to 12 months
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IOC president wants to protect the female category
The International Olympic Committee is edging closer towards implementing a ban on transgender women competing in the female category in time for the Los Angeles Olympics.
Multiple sources expect such a ban to come into effect over the next six to 12 months with the new IOC president, Kirsty Coventry, making clear she wants to drive through her campaign pledge to protect the female category. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways
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It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
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This is the most fucking wild thing I've ever seen. My grandmother lived for those ugly ass slippers. She's passed on now but our family makes a calendar every year and every year it's the same picture for December. Its her opening a pair of ugly ass slippers with the biggest smile
Fox guest on how to save money during the holidays:
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
November 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This is the most fucking wild thing I've ever seen. My grandmother lived for those ugly ass slippers. She's passed on now but our family makes a calendar every year and every year it's the same picture for December. Its her opening a pair of ugly ass slippers with the biggest smile
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Next Monday we are joined by @briamgilbert.bsky.social, @ghaspey.bsky.social, and the one and only @carmparens.bsky.social for a Commander game with a theme so unforgetable that we forgot to tell anyone but @briamgilbert.bsky.social about it!
Catch last week's episode here: youtu.be/NmPdeeyPuHI
Catch last week's episode here: youtu.be/NmPdeeyPuHI
November 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Next Monday we are joined by @briamgilbert.bsky.social, @ghaspey.bsky.social, and the one and only @carmparens.bsky.social for a Commander game with a theme so unforgetable that we forgot to tell anyone but @briamgilbert.bsky.social about it!
Catch last week's episode here: youtu.be/NmPdeeyPuHI
Catch last week's episode here: youtu.be/NmPdeeyPuHI
Did some Riftbound bootcamping with a bunch of killers for ~10 hours today :)
November 17, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Did some Riftbound bootcamping with a bunch of killers for ~10 hours today :)
Got hot pot with @acornellieya.bsky.social and they snapped a candid photo of my appreciating it as it heated up.
November 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Got hot pot with @acornellieya.bsky.social and they snapped a candid photo of my appreciating it as it heated up.