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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 21h

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Tyler Parrott @davflamerock.bsky.social · 2d

Ryan was invested in making a Grievous card that highlights his eagerness to retreat, so we worked together to come up with this "run away when attacked" design. Since it had interesting implications on disclose in this set, we then made Soulless One use disclose to get him back in play #FFGStaff

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Tyler Parrott @davflamerock.bsky.social · 3d

yes!

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 3d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project

If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this.

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Tyler Parrott @davflamerock.bsky.social · 3d

Kittenssss (they are no longer kittens)

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3d

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record:

This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Tyler Parrott @davflamerock.bsky.social · 3d

While you're 100%, you should watch Tron: Uprising because it's really really good and nobody seems to know about it

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Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social · 3d

My friends in the game industry are losing jobs as publishers fold one by one.

Because a handful of robber baron sociopaths want all the money.

Fuck them.

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Tyler Parrott @davflamerock.bsky.social · 3d

When I first saw Yularen's design, I thought it would be way stronger than SOR Leia. Instead, I discovered that it can be hard to stick two units with different costs unless you're using token units (which is an intended synergy). Easier deckbuilding, but more difficult gameplay! #FFGStaff

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Tyler Parrott @davflamerock.bsky.social · 4d

I learned just now that I've been getting my height all wrong! I'm not 6 feet tall, I'm 326 feet above sea level

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 4d

“We’re saving God by shooting priests in the head with crowd control weapons” is generally something you only get in the most unhinged JRPGs from the SNES era

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Tyler Parrott @davflamerock.bsky.social · 5d

We try to distribute a set's characters at a variety of rarities. On one hand, the R/L cards get the most pack-opening excitement so you want those cards to be fan-favorites. On the other hand, you don't want the draft experience to lack recognition either, so simple U cards are important #FFGStaff

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Tyler Parrott @davflamerock.bsky.social · 5d

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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 7d

GEN-ALPHA DICKENS: it was the skibidi of times, it was the toilet of times

BOOMER TOLKIEN: I did NOT spend decades inventing languages only for you to butcher this one. Just saying!

ZILLENNIAL SHAKESPEARE: nah let him cook, brevity low-key the soul of wit fr fr

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Spryte M. ♿🏳️‍🌈♀️🎮✍🏻🪆🧩🦅 @sprytemagnus.bsky.social · 7d

@theradr.bsky.social I believe this is your gem of wisdom

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Tyler Parrott @davflamerock.bsky.social · 9d

One of the things about designing common leaders is that you want their support cards to be common, & therefore they need to be fairly simple. How could we make a common unit to sacrifice with Luthen and that your opponent wouldn't be able to easily disrupt? Hidden was the perfect answer #FFGStaff

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Tyler Parrott @davflamerock.bsky.social · 10d

We never deviated from Ryan's initial vision for Luthen, which was both top-down "send your agents into danger" & also supported an initiative subtheme in red in the set. What did change in design was the addition of "or base" to the ability, which made him easier to use and thus more fun #FFGStaff

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Tyler Parrott @davflamerock.bsky.social · 11d

F me, it's already October which means we're expecting the ODSTs to come out and I've barely made any progress on painting my Spartans 🙃🙃🙃

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11d

It's one thing to be politically divided into red states and blue states. We are now being militarily divided into red states and blue states. It's crossing the Rubicon, a bright-red flashing warning that the constitutional order is coming unglued, in a way that will have monumental consequences. /x

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11d

Advocate for the tactics you believe are powerful and effective—we probably agree about those. But stop preemptively scapegoating the same people that Trump scapegoats for his fascist violence. Only this administration is to blame for its violence. It was already planned.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11d

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12d

1. CBS, once one of America's most trusted sources for news, has hired anti-woke crusader Bari Weiss as its Editor-in-Chief

With Weiss, CBS is embracing someone who talks a lot about honesty but has a history of distorting the truth to conform to her right-wing ideological agenda.

Let's review.

The devolution of CBS News

A network once revered for fact-based reporting is embracing right-wing pseudo-journalism

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 12d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 12d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 12d

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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