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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 4h

My father, and last remaining parent has passed away. He was very ill, and is finally at peace.

In the long term, I'll be OK. But i'm probably the most stressed I have ever been and I'm a little fragile.

Just letting y'all know that even if I'm absent for a bit, I'll be back soon.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 23h

Cool, a Magic The Gathering museum.

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Googly Eyes On Magic Cards @magicgooglyeyes.bsky.social · 2d

Well, if it isn't the milkiest(?) man in eSports @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social

#BananaTcc #mtg #MagicTheGathering

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 3d

I'll be honest, the pizza lands are so inoffensive and... cute(?) that I just can't muster the outrage.

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 3d

My feed is just full of people being very upset. Social media experiences may vary.

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 4d

Played Shredder's Revenge for the first time today, and its banging.

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 4d

Imgur blocked in the UK, after our shift to draonian online privacy practices to "save the children".

This translates to a load of TTS mods that I like being completely bricked.

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Amanda (OnionBug) @onionbug.bsky.social · 5d

Are you trans in the Magic the Gathering space? Are you creating, supporting, even just playing and having fun!?
Sound off. Celebrate yourself here. Find each other. We're stronger together.

Are you an ally? Boost us. Show support. Help us feel safer out here.

a cartoon drawing of a fox carrying a flag

Alt: Magic the Gathering character Miles Tails Prowler says trans right

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 4d

Genuinely, you will be missed over this side of the pond. Safe journeys though dude. :)

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 5d

leaked material once it's out in the wild for that reason.

I still personally absolve from posting leaks as other creators might have them as previews, but don't shy away from acknowledging info given to us by leaks, simply because it might spike a card that a viewer wants to see.

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 5d

The biggest no-no which is semi-enforced at a community level, and MIGHT get you in shit with Wizards is posting leaked cards themselves.

THAT SAID even that has some morality issues, what with new cards changing the prices of secondary market items.

I believe its anti-consumer to ignore 1/2

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks for letting us know.

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 5d

Skeets you can hear.

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 6d

I dont understand. Is this a bad thing lmao?

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 6d

Spiritual successor, or so I've heard.

It's got extensive support in box for solo play - although that was never my goal with it.

It's really neat upon first couple of plays.

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 7d

This game is SO GOOD. Absolutely in the mood for some Star Trek card gaming now. 😍😍😍

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 7d

If you get annoyed at content creators for talking about topical stuff, you might need to stop following content creators. 🤣

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 7d

I would hardly say this is sensational, or even remotely close to any of the inflammatory CAG remarks etc.

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 7d

It's because alot of online Warhammer spaces are filled with anti social dickheads.

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 7d

I know this isnt your intention, and I think the question is perhaps worth discussing, but I am unsure how much good comes of this as we start to entertain this divide.

Maybe framing it as appreciation for the flavour of Magic itself might help avoid it turning too messy.

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 8d

Brace yourselves, female Space Marine discourse is coming.

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 8d

Legitimately reach out and ask them for advice/ideas on moving on something like this.

PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 8d

I'll hit yall up if I'm in town and looking to play/have more time.

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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 8d

Just for a morning. I'm not too far away. I'll be back.

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