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Mark Shatraw

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Video games, politics, adorable animals. Reply friend. All opinions here are mine. He/him. Slava Ukraini πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

created May 29, 2023

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This would get me to watch football

2/9/2025, 3:27:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Herman Cain posted from beyond the grave; it takes a poster as powerful as Trump to do a press conference

2/9/2025, 3:09:35 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I know very little of football, sir, but I would imagine that the skill set of a successful pro football coach is not identical to the skill set of a successful college football coach. Different psychology.

2/9/2025, 3:04:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If it were something interesting, we would have heard about it by now. It's probably a proof of life conference

2/9/2025, 2:52:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's amazing how the most flattering picture of Rudy I've seen in the last half-decade is him looking like a rodent with an anxiety disorder

2/9/2025, 12:46:36 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They created a Ready Player One machine?

2/9/2025, 12:28:09 AM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's a pretty good crowd for some random truck commercial narrator in rural Maine over a year out from the general

2/9/2025, 12:02:25 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Honeycrisp Apples have also gotten measurably worse over the years

1/9/2025, 11:41:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is that why he tolerates RFK Jr? Corpse-American solidarity?

1/9/2025, 10:01:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The answer to the question "how far will one man go to make sure the pretty lady is wearing something impractical"

1/9/2025, 4:40:11 AM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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.4% is *bananas*. You can usually get 5-10% sicko crossover

1/9/2025, 3:11:28 AM | 30 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/x-6nZZrs9Xk?...

1/9/2025, 2:21:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Whitaker: I want an Emmy Gilroy: You are going to be a zealous revolutionary zooted to the max on rocket fuel fumes Whitaker: Shakespeare. Got it.

1/9/2025, 2:13:19 AM | 69 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh Chuck. That show aged like it chose the wrong Grail. But I do remember Dalton being superb, like always

1/9/2025, 2:07:22 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A really good Bond villain needs to be a grandiose scenery-chewing sociopath and a little bit scary. James Spader would also qualify.

1/9/2025, 2:03:59 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wish they'd found a way to let Dalton be a Bond *villain*. He's perfect for it

1/9/2025, 1:58:41 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have expanded my cinematic horizons from dumb dumb guy movies to smart dumb guy movies but sometimes I want to watch Jason Statham strap a guy to a truck and drive that truck off a bridge

1/9/2025, 1:55:37 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/Fmeb-f4pthA?...

1/9/2025, 1:33:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Grohl's at his best when he's helping give form and direction to somebody else's idea, I think

31/8/2025, 11:10:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's exactly the argument I would make. If I marry a nice Latina and we have kids, I want our kids to make rouladen tacos lol

31/8/2025, 6:41:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's incredibly funny to me that they were like "don't say any of the actual cuisines with strong smells" and arrived at Italian (unless there's some kind of leftover fish situation)

31/8/2025, 6:13:34 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's right.

31/8/2025, 4:17:33 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We were promised a Tony Leung Villain Era in the Shang-Chi marketing and I think it's a failure of Hollywood that they haven't delivered yet

31/8/2025, 2:48:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hope to one day ascend to Wife Guy

31/8/2025, 2:20:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You don't need a page of caps lock when a couple of sentences will do, sir

31/8/2025, 1:54:57 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I got owned by "ethereal" one time lol

31/8/2025, 1:47:24 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's a sick cloud

31/8/2025, 1:31:09 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The first DLC is *incredible*. If Ubi gets a second bite at the apple, that's the game they should make. The second DLC...not so much.

31/8/2025, 12:52:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As long as it's a race for Bongoville, California dog catcher, Democrats are going to absolutely annihilate the expectations.

30/8/2025, 10:27:18 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love Drumknott. TP saw Batman: The Animated Series and thought "I should do that"

30/8/2025, 6:07:52 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The most important lesson any aspiring professional programmer can learn is that there is a substantial difference between "code that works" and "code that doesn't break"

30/8/2025, 5:44:53 PM | 25 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Going to have nightmares about being chased by the rampant banana android

30/8/2025, 4:22:33 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I suspect that we probably have a few months of a cursed half-life ahead of us: his goons posting (badly) in his name, staged photo ops with pounds of makeup, limited public appearances. But I would not make plans to see the Trump White House in 2026.

30/8/2025, 2:54:45 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How much of a concern is it that nobody shows up to Early Access and EA cans the whole thing?

30/8/2025, 2:51:03 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I figure it'll be like the bin Laden assassination: somebody will tell The Rock (although this time it might be John Cena) and then two hours later everybody will be hooting and hollering in the streets

30/8/2025, 2:39:48 AM | 37 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cain-posting

30/8/2025, 1:42:32 AM | 26 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'll have @bakebythepound.bsky.social text you my grandmother's potato pancake casserole recipe

30/8/2025, 1:31:32 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is he going to sound like he's 80% of the way through anaphylactic shock too?

30/8/2025, 1:19:35 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My Yub Nub will be heard from the ISS lol

30/8/2025, 12:27:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tony Gilroy was asked about casting for Andor and was like "I needed a couple of true weirdos for Dedra and Syril"

30/8/2025, 12:09:34 AM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They have gone to great lengths (by their slapdash standards) to conceal whatever's wrong with him, sir, so it'll be interesting to see how much more flimflammery they will invent to hide something really serious

29/8/2025, 11:58:30 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Remember the weird "The Queen is entering a new phase" period? Death is probably distant yet but a pseudo-Weekend At Bernie's situation is not at all out of the question

29/8/2025, 11:46:41 PM | 53 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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I would love for a judge to offer a variation of "stupid is as stupid does" in response

29/8/2025, 9:20:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And three verses about dinner

29/8/2025, 9:16:26 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Meta is a regulatory horror story but it probably wouldn't keep printing money like it does if the ad tech didn't work as promised. Altman is almost a greasier magic bean salesman than Musk is

29/8/2025, 9:00:42 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My understanding is that West Point does teach some Lee, but they don't call him a general (for obvious reasons)

29/8/2025, 7:38:50 PM | 26 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Norway's American Pope moment

29/8/2025, 7:17:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The list of things GamerGate broke is virtually endless

29/8/2025, 6:43:47 PM | 51 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Voting Trump out of office to get the missing piece for my Captain Rex helmet

29/8/2025, 5:44:00 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Meatloaf, some Swiss, maybe some Dijon - good eating

29/8/2025, 5:40:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Having your talking points written by Tony Gilroy feels like finding a Beserk power up in Doom

29/8/2025, 2:31:06 PM | 32 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I was half-joking the other day about Cuban talking himself into being a Trump supporter but here's his "how I left the Left" moment

29/8/2025, 2:24:27 PM | 24 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am *deeply* skeptical of any claim of misleading reporting coming from someone with a financial stake in the reporting going away but that's not to say that Taylor Lorenz is a beacon of unimpeachable credibility

29/8/2025, 2:16:45 PM | 37 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Suddenly my LEGO collection is looking like a very smart investment lol

29/8/2025, 1:16:18 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Did you ever find out how many times he's watched Andor? Because I'm going to guess that it's more than once lol - he even *talks* like an Andor character

29/8/2025, 12:42:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Didn't realize "astrologer" was a job. Guess my hypothetical daughter can be a unicorn farmer after all

29/8/2025, 12:17:31 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's like listening to a Luthen monologue delivered by Sam Elliott

29/8/2025, 12:04:31 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm not a hacker by trade or training but Mr. Robot is as close to real programming as I've ever seen on TV

29/8/2025, 3:29:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That movie sounds *spectacular*

29/8/2025, 1:08:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I thought Dave Weigel was leaving Semafor

29/8/2025, 12:36:13 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Has an incredible collection of port next to his chugging fridge

29/8/2025, 12:15:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Breaking Benjamin at the tiny hockey arena down the street from my house Boston Pops Orchestra playing the Star Wars Suite - John Williams conducting, James Earl Jones narrating

29/8/2025, 12:04:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The interview equivalent of "I left you all the clues Mr. Police Man"

28/8/2025, 11:11:57 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump's gonna need 1. a food taster and 2. a trusted nurse

28/8/2025, 10:47:31 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I cannot believe that the Matthew Calamari bit is still paying off almost a decade later

28/8/2025, 10:34:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So do I, Masuke-san

28/8/2025, 9:19:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am positively boiling with envy right now lol

28/8/2025, 9:15:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Collecting the Infinity Rings

28/8/2025, 9:10:19 PM | 60 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm weirdly okay with that? I feel like the full-sugar candy drinks I have had are *extra* syrupy

28/8/2025, 8:59:44 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Goth gf Darkseid

28/8/2025, 8:37:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A dog's love feels natural, in a very literal sense. An extension of their nature. A cat's love feels deliberate. Human, almost. Even if you loved them first, they made the decision to love you in return.

28/8/2025, 8:29:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If whatever's piloting RFK Jr. gets to Washington's corpse though

28/8/2025, 6:43:26 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I went to Disney four times before I graduated from college because that was an *extra* special thing. I have not been back since. I don't have that kind of bread just wandering around lol

28/8/2025, 6:42:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My time is more valuable than my money (though money isn't going without a fight lately)

28/8/2025, 6:22:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe more than anybody or anything else this term, RFK Jr. at HHS is truly the Thanatos Administration

28/8/2025, 6:12:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I thought James Gunn himself thought that was a good idea for some reason (it is, also...que buena lol)

28/8/2025, 5:31:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Congratulations everybody! Hopefully you can get some sleep this weekend lol

28/8/2025, 5:01:19 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One of my favorite bands is Japanese (Band-Maid), but now they can't mail any merch or CDs to the US anymore

28/8/2025, 4:22:09 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The CoD Launcher puts them halfway there

28/8/2025, 4:13:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is essentially my theory of reactionary centrism: guys like Chait and Yglesias pine for the Obama years because 1. that was the apex of their influence 2. they didn't get yelled at online and they're mostly upset that the party moved left without them (though Yggy's Nazi chatrooms don't help)

28/8/2025, 3:20:37 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Black Ops 7 reads like it's coming in pretty hot; they should probably use any marketing spin they can to reduce the number of headaches they're going to have

28/8/2025, 3:14:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Keep your wrists straight and lock your fingers in tight, friends. Arigato, Chiitan-sama

28/8/2025, 3:07:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hegseth at DoD is appalling but RFK Jr. is an unbearably cynical degree of nihilism. If you're going to hold elected office, you need to care about *something*. Somebody. You don't let things like that happen. That's how you get blood on your hands.

28/8/2025, 1:32:15 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I assume Virtua Fighter, Stranger Than Heaven, maybe a Super Monkey Ball, and...something?

28/8/2025, 1:01:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every time I see this, Michael Ironside's basso rumble of "ah, the first pumpkin spice latte of the season" echoes through my head

28/8/2025, 12:51:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Last of Us (2013)

28/8/2025, 12:23:32 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Art is a kind of wish fulfillment

28/8/2025, 12:14:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe he thought he was providing an answer to Chuck Grassley's "u kno wat"

28/8/2025, 3:27:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A spiritual bond with a cat is no small thing

28/8/2025, 3:26:33 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I should do some research to see if anybody would take me lol

28/8/2025, 2:35:09 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Suda51 presents: Silent Hill

28/8/2025, 2:00:48 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In my case that's usually a menu

28/8/2025, 12:08:46 AM | 23 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 9:17:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am reluctant to hand anything to upper management but at least they were honest enough to say "get creative" when asked if we were getting any replacements for our retirees

27/8/2025, 7:24:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's kind of like the Supreme Court: you don't bribe Sam Alito; you create an environment where Sam Alito gets bribed and thus create a dozen more Sam Alitos

27/8/2025, 7:11:13 PM | 60 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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R&D 1: You know how Ragavan is the most powerful one-drop we've ever printed? R&D 2: Sure R&D 1: What if we printed a one-drop that kills it immediately R&D 2: Sounds like good balance R&D 1: And makes 1/1 tokens R&D 2: That sounds...powerful? R&D 1: And can copy all of your other tokens R&D 2: Wait

27/8/2025, 5:40:37 PM | 29 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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The most popular format in Magic is complaining

27/8/2025, 5:29:49 PM | 17 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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My job as a Catholic is not to hand out a pamphlet in that moment. If they want me to pray with them, they got it. If they need somebody to come mow the lawn or cover groceries for a few days, they got it.

27/8/2025, 4:34:09 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Despite my better judgement, I have laughed at a couple of Newsom's Trump-style posts. Pritzker's speech on Monday was, dare I say it, *presidential* though.

27/8/2025, 4:31:53 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Didn't even recognize you in the trailer lol

27/8/2025, 3:26:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view