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Talib Kweli @talibkweli.bsky.social · 20h

For real.

If you were loud for Jimmy Kimmel, crank it up for Letitia James.
Authoritarian bullies count on silence to get away with it; make some noise and have her back!

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Brian David-Marshall (Top8Games) @bdm.bsky.social · 22h

I have never had a crucial land drop enter untapped in my life :/

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armlx.bsky.social @armlx.bsky.social · 22h

"Which skull did we stash the basic land box in?"

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Brian David-Marshall (Top8Games) @bdm.bsky.social · 22h

You laugh! I have basic lands cached around the world. Sadly did not have any when I Catacombed.

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Brian David-Marshall (Top8Games) @bdm.bsky.social · 22h

Just wait until you find out who the antihero of The Great Dictator was in his mind.

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Brian David-Marshall (Top8Games) @bdm.bsky.social · 22h

Just needs some draft tables and it would sound perfect.

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Brian David-Marshall (Top8Games) @bdm.bsky.social · 1d

That is the heart of a lot of folks’ complaints about UB.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Brian David-Marshall (Top8Games) @bdm.bsky.social · 1d

Or we could start just calling them Fa until people connect the dots.

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Brian David-Marshall (Top8Games) @bdm.bsky.social · 1d

How to write prestige TV:

Murder scene unfolding against the soundtrack of slow breathy cover of an 80s pop hit followed by:

“Three weeks earlier…”

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Brian David-Marshall (Top8Games) @bdm.bsky.social · 1d

After Dark, My Sweet — been watching THE LOWDOWN and thinking about Jim Thompson novels.

Bourbon, aged rum, dry curaçao, mango Chinola, and acid adjusted pineapple juice with a float of dark rum.

Always gonna have a backscratcher on the #dogsearmenu

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Brian David-Marshall (Top8Games) @bdm.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t remember who opened my third peanut butter eye but I do recall that was my reaction as well.

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Brian David-Marshall (Top8Games) @bdm.bsky.social · 1d

For my Seattle friends…

Gummy Arts @gummyarts.bsky.social · 1d

Humpy the Salmon, Seattle Mariners, 2025 Topps style

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Brian David-Marshall (Top8Games) @bdm.bsky.social · 1d

My nieclet just texted me a whole batch of her most recent illustrations and it is so cool to watch her work evolve with each successive set of drawings.

I sent them back marked up with detailed notes about all the cool things I found in them and where I see her big leaps happening. 😭😭😭

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Matthew Petz @petz.bsky.social · 1d

Just cruel and evil, and this all has to end now

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Card Titan @cardtitan.bsky.social · 1d

This is Brian Merichiko (left) and Dave Crowley (right).

Dave misplaced his Vintage deck filled with cards like Black Lotus at a local restaurant. Brian, an employee there, found the deck and somehow tracked Dave down at the EW and got him his deck back. What an amazing and touching story!