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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · 21d

NEW MAGIC THE GATHERING FORMAT JUST DROPPED

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We Played Magic: The Gathering in the Real World

YouTube video by Magic: The Gathering

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Nebula @nebula.tv · Jun 4

the 90s are back, baby, and so is Jet Lag

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · May 30

not really the point but feels kind of telling that clicking on this article immediately redirected me to a full page scam ad

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · May 28

go listen to the layover 🔫

Nebula @nebula.tv · May 28

@thewheatgerm.bsky.social @adamchase.bsky.social @samfromwendover.bsky.social

A passport sits onto of a Nokia phone with a game playing on the screen. The passenger details read "Sam Wendover" traveling from "Head" to "Tail" on train "S-14."

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · May 26

at one point he has to kill chatGPT with nothing but a biplane

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · May 26

the power scaling is so fucked in MI these days that in order to have the equivalent tension of pointing a gun at him they need to be like tom cruise i am going to explode you with a nuke right now

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · May 26

new mission impossible is good. you would not believe how many times tom cruise gets trapped in a room with a nuclear bomb that is going to explode in 10 minutes

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · May 25

why not just break one leg you say?? can’t take my chances. i want to play mario kart 9

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · May 25

not to be dramatic but if my switch 2 doesn’t show up before we leave to film the next season i’m going to break both of my legs so that i don’t have to go

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · May 20

it should be me btw. i’ll do it

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · May 20

someone is about to get paid one hundred million dollars to host a podcast where they say the situation in gaza is kind of complicated

Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer.bsky.social · May 20

NEWS:

Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."

We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.

One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...

Democrats Throw Money at a Problem: Countering G.O.P. Clout Online

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the gabagool miracle of 1927 @jimpjorps.bsky.social · May 14

apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"

Keir Starmer: I've already returned over 24,000 people with no right to be here. And I won't stop there.

twitter user: @grok Is this post misleading?

Grok: The claim of white genocide in South Africa is highly debated. Some evidence, like reports of farm attacks and political rhetoric, suggests violence against white farmers...

a user asks Grok to translate Chinese text on a photo, and it responds with a translation of "Kill the Boer" into Urdu

a user asks if something shown in a video is an effective way to clear sinuses, and Grok says the query is unrelated to "the provided analysis on white genocide in South Africa"

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · May 10

the difference between x and bluesky is that when your post goes viral beyond your usual audience, instead of your comments being full of nazis it’s like a thousand gen X women who have no idea what you’re talking about being like “wow this is so beautiful 😍😍😍 love from minnesota 🫶”

ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · May 10

must have had a lot of time bonuses

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · May 10

must have had a lot of time bonuses

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · May 8

sure

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · Apr 23

*peer pressure voice* cool kids have the red colored rulebooks

Nebula @nebula.tv · Apr 23

Thanks to incredible demand, we're making more of the Jet Lag home game available for pre-sale. And if you live in Europe, we've got two updates: we're selling a metric version, and we've got a European warehouse that should drastically reduce shipping costs.

An arial shot of the Jet Lag: Hide and Seek home game, including the dice, rulebooks, notebook, box, and dice.

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · Apr 23

they're roughly adjusted to fit metric values without picking really weird numbers

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · Apr 23

ATTENTION BELOVED EUROPEANS: you can now buy the hide and seek home game in ✨metric✨ and it will be shipping from EU warehouses for ✨a normal amount of money✨... so if you were looking to pick up a copy, now's the time!!

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Ethan Stark-Miller @estarkmiller.bsky.social · Apr 17

Mayor Adams is wearing his “in god we trust” American flag shirt once again. But this time it’s written in Italian. He says it’s Spanish to honor the victims of a nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican republic last week.

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Apr 18

i hate Liquid Death

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · Apr 17

you guys are so good at coming up with season ideas

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · Apr 16

btw! if you have any burning questions about season 13, we’re doing a q&a on the layover next week, and taking questions on the subreddit right now:

www.reddit.com/r/JetLagTheG...

From the JetLagTheGame community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the JetLagTheGame community

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · Apr 16

bing bong

Nebula @nebula.tv · Apr 16

Jet Lag Takes Manhattan

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Quorators @quorators.bsky.social · Apr 10

we have added the wonderful Ben Doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social to our live show in Brooklyn on Saturday April 26th. come hang out with us :) only $15 www.eventbrite.com/e/quorators-...

Ben Doyle surrounded by Quora questions we have read on our podcast. April 26th at The Gutter in Brooklyn!

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · Apr 4

the vibes in korea are absolutely popping off rn. people are in the train station applauding the tv politely

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Apr 4

BREAKING: South Korea’s Constitutional Court removes impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office. The unanimous decision comes four months after Yoon threw South Korean politics into turmoil by declaring martial law in an ill-fated effort to break through legislative gridlock.

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol removed from office over ill-fated declaration of martial law

South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office on Friday, four months after he threw South Korean politics into turmoil by declaring martial law and sending troops to parliament in an ill-fated effort to break through legislative gridlock.

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