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Shivam Bhatt

@shivambhatt.bsky.social

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Reader, Writer, Hindu Pandit, magic the gathering enthusiast. Super passionate about games, gods, and good stories. he/him.Indo-American email- shbhatt at gmail podcasts- Casual Magic, Shivam and Wheeler Love Magic, and Chronicles of Dragonlance

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · Jan 1

Hi! My name's Shivam and I'm a progressive hindu priest, an activist for LGBT and minority rights, a dad, and a huge fan of magic the gathering and games in general. I talk about board, card, and video games, gods, gardens, and baking! I also host a few podcasts linked below. Thanks for visiting!

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 15m

Johnson directly quoting Jesus here.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 16m

I was so scared I power leveled ramza as a ninja monk and one shotted the bastard

Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 18m

Yeah I fucking laughed. This is exactly my shit

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Dana Roach 🛫 MagicCon Atlanta @danaroach.bsky.social · 20m

Stephen Miller's statements always lose something when you don't read them in the original German.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller is trying to sell this, which means Stephen miller has someone he needs to sell this to.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 21m

Just how much continuity there is going back to the beginning

Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 28m

I mean, I became globally famous in magic the gathering circles because of it. Thats kinda cool. I've become friends with some amazingly incredible people because of it. Its not all bad all the time. Just most of the time.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 11h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 30m

Yeah, I was told mtg heavily inspired it

Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 33m

Life. The universe. And everything

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The Onion @theonion.com · 36m

Area Man Has Far Greater Knowledge Of Marvel Universe Than Own Family Tree https://theonion.com/area-man-has-far-greater-knowledge-of-marvel-universe-t-1819571080/

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 35m

People keep saying I should. I keep saying I will. The cycle continues.

Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 36m

Why does it feel like no one else is panicking about this outside of this one app?

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 13h

Hanging out with my mom after having taken her to a very scary medical procedure that ended fine, and am now bored, ama

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 44m

A little on the nose but I'll allow it

Trump depicted as 'demon' at Indian festival share.google/0ifH4D4lHVXW...

Trump depicted as ‘demon’ at Indian festival | CNN

A local artist in India portrayed President Donald Trump as the “demon” for the recent Durga Puja Festival. The organizers told CNN News 18, that the decision was not random and it was a response to T...

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THEE Leftist NP @theeblackleftie.bsky.social · 1h

Someone go and trip Dolly Parton’s sister. She had me scared that our girl was on her deathbed.

Auntie just had some kidney stones.

This ain’t the time to be dramatic maam 😭😭😭

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 12h

“I didn’t mean to scare anyone or make it sound so serious … She’s been a little under the weather and I simply asked for prayers bc I believe so strongly in the power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little sister asking for prayers for her big sister. Thank you all for lifting her up.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 12h

DON’T SCARE US LIKE THIS, FREIDA www.wsmv.com/2025/10/08/i...

‘I didn’t mean to scare anyone’: Dolly Parton’s sister says after asking for prayers

Dolly postponed her first Las Vegas residency in more than 30 years late last month, saying she was dealing with health challenges.

www.wsmv.com

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 54m

This shit is fucking depressing. There is so much joy and wonder in the world, and so much to learn and explore from our diverse experiences and these people want to replace it all with oatmeal. And not even good oatmeal.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2h

Every 2024 over the top tweet about what a second Trump term would be like ended up being accurate

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Joe Driller Killer @shakewell.cryptoanarchy.network · 1h

There's a whole-ass list of reasons to do this, they're a genuinely awful company on so many levels.

As someone who just did this to move my banking to a local credit union, it's intimidating, banking inertia is real, but when you do it, it's really not that big of a pain.

Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 22h

want to close your Wells Fargo account because you want to punish them for siccing ICE on a building of impoverished immigrants that Wells Fargo execs wanted to foreclose and sell?

here's how

Mama Murphy☘️ @mamamurphy.bsky.social · 22h

Here’s how you can close your account:

Call 1-800-TO-WELLS (1-800-869-3557)
Visit a Wells Fargo branch near you.
You can close most accounts immediately when:

The account has a positive or zero balance.
All deposits, outstanding and pending items are posted.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 5h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2h

That's because they're fucking idiots, there is literally no other explanation

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 1h

I literally was playing pogs when I got into magic

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 1h

10/8 #scryfallrandom is an annoying way to end games in red enchantment or planeswalker decks

Obliterate
{6}{R}{R}
Sorcery

This spell can’t be countered.

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and lands. They can’t be regenerated.

For his family, Barrin made a funeral pyre of Tolaria.

Illustrated by Kev Walker

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 1h

The holy trinity - wallet cellphone keys.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2h

The Plot to Enslave America

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 2h

Those influencing Trump education policy aren't shy about wanting to eradicate public schools.

Asked what % of kids she imagines should be in public schools, Tiffany Justice -- Moms for Liberty cofounder, now with Heritage Foundation -- told @propublica.org

“I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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