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🇵🇸 connor @condormason.bsky.social · 1d

Duskmourn truly is an all-timer. Maybe UB slop is a secret win if it means we get banger flashback drafts every other month

🇵🇸 connor @condormason.bsky.social · 7d

Top 8 at the first Full Grip Games #Premodern Quarterly with RB Goblins. 24 players was a great showing, can’t wait to see everyone at the next one!

R1: WLW vs The Solution
R2: LL vs UW TideStill
R3: WW vs Jund Wurm
R4: LWW vs RG Goblins
R5: WLW vs Moneyball Black

QF: LL vs UW TideStill rematch

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Nile (like the river) @nilejoan.com · 7d

NEWS FROM THE BAD PLACE:

maga hat wearing racist misogynist joe brennan has friends pleading for him to be allowed into eternal weekend

they made a "joe brennan deserves better from card titan and the north american eternal weekend" petition

so i made this:
chng.it/ZzShcKGZ2d

Sign the Petition

Joe Brennan deserves worse from Card Titan and the North American Eternal Weekend

chng.it

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Nick Schirillo @bobinchese.bsky.social · 14d

Nah man a big part of why the UB stuff makes me sad is cause I know it's extremely popular so they're going to keep doing it despite it making the parts of the game I deeply care about worse. Like I know a bunch of people are going to buy the 6th marvel set but that doesn't make my FNM fire.

Jay Annelli @vorthosjay.bsky.social · 15d

Hearing the conversations around the con, I think heavily enfranchised online folks significantly overestimate how much their opinions on Universes Beyond are shared by the wider player base.

This is not a value judgment of any opinion in particular: just being reminded of that myself, too.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16d

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is

- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)

- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)

- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · Sep 12

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

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Spice8Rack (Marxist) @spice8rack.bsky.social · Sep 10

The insidious core of non-violent advocacy isn't that it doesn't work,- it does have some actual utility. It's that its proponents insist that it's the *only* thing that works; erasing the actual history of successful resistance's diversity of tactics & replacing it with singular, doomed pacifism.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Sep 9

"The only known solution to creeping authoritarianism is broad-based, peaceful, geographically dispersed mass engagement by everyday Americans. That’s it. That’s what works."

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Robert Taylor 🔥 @fireshoes.bsky.social · Sep 2

Split the finals of the Standard Challenge with Pinger Red! 🔥🏆

Matchups:
Simic Midrange🔥🔥
Jeskai Proft's 🔥☔🔥
Izzet Cauldron 🔥🔥
Dimir Midrange ☔☔
Izzet Cauldron 🔥🔥
Dimir Midrange 🔥🔥

Izzet Cauldron 🔥🔥
mirror w/Tersa instead of Ojer Axonil 🔥☔🔥
mirror w/Emberheart instead of Viper🤝🤝

2 Abrade
4 Burnout Bashtronaut
4 Burst Lightning
2 Fiery Annihilation
4 Hired Claw
1 Lightning Strike
3 Magebane Lizard
14 Mountain
2 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might
4 Razorkin Needlehead
4 Riverpyre Verge
4 Scalding Viper
4 Screaming Nemesis
3 Soulstone Sanctuary
3 Spirebluff Canal
2 Witchstalker Frenzy

2 Chandra, Spark Hunter
1 Cut Propulsion
2 Fire Magic
3 Nova Hellkite
3 Obliterating Bolt
2 Sunspine Lynx
1 Take for a Ride
1 Twisted Fealty

Deck
3 Magebane Lizard
3 Spirebluff Canal
4 Razorkin Needlehead
3 Soulstone Sanctuary
4 Riverpyre Verge
4 Hired Claw
2 Witchstalker Frenzy
4 Burst Lightning
4 Burnout Bashtronaut
14 Mountain
2 Fiery Annihilation
4 Screaming Nemesis
1 Lightning Strike
4 Scalding Viper
2 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might
2 Abrade

Sideboard
2 Sunspine Lynx
3 Nova Hellkite
1 Take for a Ride
1 Cut Propulsion
3 Obliterating Bolt
2 Chandra, Spark Hunter
2 Fire Magic
1 Twisted Fealty

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yoman5 @yoman5.bsky.social · Sep 1

Idk stuff like this brings me the opposite of joy

this is a reddit custom card with unlicensed art just being printed by wotc with a license

It feels a weird level of unprofessional and referential

Literal spider man just doing the thing is so on the nose it's depressing

At least it's unplayable

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🇵🇸 connor @condormason.bsky.social · Aug 24

RCQ Winner with @coreybmtg.bsky.social’s Vivi Cauldron list! Super proud to get my first RC invite and a chance to battle in Portland/Milwaukee

R1 Pixie WW
R2 WB Sac LWW
R3 Dimir LWL
R4 Vivi Talent LWW
R5 🤝

QF Dimir (R3 rematch) WW
SF Delirium WW
F Dimir WLW

obligatory @fireshoes.bsky.social

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Ryan Overturf @ryanoverdrive.bsky.social · Aug 22

I've historically been more pro-ban than most, but I really don't think you need to ban cards when blue/red is the best deck. That's just the game functioning as intended. They left Volcanic Island out of Alpha, and that was your chance to try the other color pairs.

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🇵🇸 connor @condormason.bsky.social · Aug 6

Recently got the pleasure of playing Doomsday in our local Fantasy Standard (think set roulette) group

Sets were ABU, INV, WAR, LGN, HOU, WTH, NPH

Crack your pile with Chromatic Sphere

Ancestral,
Lotus,
Jace Wielder of Mysteries,
Misstep,
Mox (last card was mostly for flipping into the bin)

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jesse @tiddypills.bsky.social · Aug 1

My first short STRESS FRACTURE was picked up for distribution by the Chicago-based indie streaming service OTV! The film is available to stream TODAY, AUGUST 1, either online at watch.weareo.tv or on the #OTVAPP, which you can download for free here: bit.ly/m/otvapp. Yay!

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🇵🇸 connor @condormason.bsky.social · Jul 26

3-0 at prerelease! Nova Hellkite bangs just as hard on the battlefield as it does in the artwork

🇵🇸 connor @condormason.bsky.social · Jun 29

took my coris out to run one last standard showdown before they have to go play in the big boy formats tomorrow. went 3-0 and got handed a $100 card?! this final fantasy shit is crazy

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · May 19

i want to be a killjoy: we need to make it socially unacceptable to ask chatgpt anything

Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · May 18

i dont want to be a killjoy but we desperately need to make it socially unacceptable to talk about asking chatgpt things in regular conversation

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🇵🇸 connor @condormason.bsky.social · May 16

3 History of Benalias in a Trenchcoat ass card

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · May 13

yeah i got no issue with people whose job involves the use of machine learning tools for a number of technical tasks but anyone using AI to automate human communication or creativity is just instantly less of a person to me

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · May 12

Employees who use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini at work face negative judgments about their competence and motivation from colleagues and managers, according to a new study.

AI use damages professional reputation, study suggests

New Duke study says workers judge others for AI use—and hide its use, fearing stigma.

arstechnica.com

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Eliot @eliotetc.bsky.social · May 10

At a time when fascists roam freely and often even get a police escort while anti-genocide protesters get deported it's pretty weird to treat both groups like they're equally in need of your vocal defense of their rights.

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · May 9

And I will absolutely defend a klansman’s right to hold the opinion that me and my family shouldn’t exist. He has a constitutional right to a shitty opinion. This is America.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · May 5

I saw someone post, apparently seriously, “we don’t need NOAA, we can just ask ChatGPT to predict where and when hurricanes will hit.”

I don’t think we should sentence thousands of people to death because some overconfident buffoons don’t understand how science works.

🤷

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jesse @tiddypills.bsky.social · Apr 27

letting the soft animal of my body have a gun

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y🏳️‍🌈şenaz @ayseneinart.bsky.social · Mar 29

Things that are always relevant to talk about in regards to any principled leftist resistance movement:
1) GenAI is not only theft, it’s harmful to the environment. Don’t fucking use it.
2) Pandemic is not over, and your comrades are being disabled by infections. Mask tf up.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · Mar 17

the problem with a story, essay, etc written by LLM is that i lose interest as soon as you tell me that’s how it was made. i have yet to see one that’s ‘good’ but i don’t doubt the tech will soon be advanced enough to write ‘well.’ but i’d rather see what a person thinks and how they’d phrase it

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Mar 18

No they do not, New York Times! This is like writing that Santa Claus has IBS.

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🇵🇸 connor @condormason.bsky.social · Mar 13

I wonder if they’ll be something like Wizard’s Lightning/Retort. With either an upgrade for controlling a dragon (ie Shock to Bolt) OR maybe it gives the spell storm if you control a dragon

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