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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz
@andyhre.bsky.social
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Dorky antitrust economist with an interest in sports economics, athletes' rights, and way too many boardgames.
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it's real and it's spectacular
DHS Acting Security Officer Iwona B. Horyn
November 26, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Here's what I got with the recent Hand/Turkey project.

Definitely going to start calling it Türkiye before next November.
A sort of map of Türkiye drawn to look like someone traced their hand.
November 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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my client, Reese Brantmeier, who is suing the NCAA for trying to keep some college athletes out of college tennis just won the NCAA national championship:

Brantmeier recently had to turn down money she won at the U.S. Open to stay eligible for NCAA competition.
Congratulations to North Carolina women’s tennis student-athlete Reese Brantmeier and Columbia men’s tennis student-athlete Michael Zheng on winning individual national championships. Congrats are also in order for the North Carolina State women’s duo of Victoria Osuigwe/Gabriella Broadfoot and the Virginia men’s duo of Mans Dahlberg and Dylan Dietrich on winning this year’s doubles championships. (link, link) Women's tennis bracket with Reese Brantmeier shown as the winner.
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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I want a girl with a mind like a diamond
I want a girl who knows what's best
I want a girl with shoes that cut
And eyes that burn like cigarettes
...
She's touring the facility and picking up slack
I want a girl with a short skirt and a long jacket
Pope Leo XIV, singing karaoke apparently.
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Gemini 3 fails the Ed Beach test. The correct answer is Diplomacy Phase of 3, not Turn 2, because Pope cannot grant the divorce until Diplomacy phase after marriage track has been advanced. The earliest THAT can happen is turn 2, meaning Pope's first chance to grant divorce is Diplomacy in Turn 3.
Gemini 3 incorrectly claims the earliest the Pope can grant Henry VIII a divorce is during Diplomacy in Turn 2. The correct answer is Diplomacy Phase of 3, not Turn 2. This is because The Pope cannot grant the divorce until the Diplomacy phase after marriage track has been advanced once. And the earliest THAT can happen is turn 2, meaning the Pope's first chance to grant the divorce is Diplomacy in Turn 3.
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Some airplane reading.
Rulebook for Millenia:Tracks of Time
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Fun Myth (folk etymology) - the Russian occupation of Paris is where the word Bistro was invented.
A popular folk etymology, not attested by the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, claims that the word originated among Russian troops who, following the Battle of Paris in March 1814, occupied the city and visited these tiny places to drink a coffee. They might have shouted bistro! bistro! (Russian: быстро, lit. 'quickly') when they wished to be served quickly. This etymology has been dismissed by linguists, because there is no attestation to the occurrence of the term until the late 19th century.[8]
November 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Fruti shaped is pretty vague. Pienapple? Kiwi? Banana? I mean once you include that last one, aren't most penises "fruit shaped" (albeit "deformed" changes things!)
November 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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"Dane-geld" by Rudyard Kipling.
IT IS always a temptation to an armed and agile nation To call upon a neighbour and to say:– "We invaded you last night–we are quite prepared to fight, Unless you pay us cash to go away." 2 And that is called asking for Dane-geld, And the people who ask it explain That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld And then you'll get rid of the Dane! 3 It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:– "Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you. We will therefore pay you cash to go away." 4 And that is called paying the Dane-geld; But we've proved it again and again, That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane. 5 It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation, For fear they should succumb and go astray; So when you are requested to pay up or be molested, You will find it better policy to say:– 6 "We never pay any-one Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!"
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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End anticompetitive conduct, and voila, market conditions improve. Imagine that! frontofficesports.com/ncaa-hockey-...
Featured Opportunity...   Colorado AD Rick George tells BuffZone.com’s Brian Howell his decision to step down at the end of the 2025-26 academic year and transition to a role as Special Advisor to the Chancellor and AD Emeritus has “everything to do with making Colorado better.” George: “I think it’s time for new leadership, a new voice. I’m going to be there to support that person and support football and our revenue-generating areas and whatever Chancellor (Justin) Schwartz wants me to do. [...] I’m committed to this department, athletics here at CU. It’s been one of the greatest honors and privileges that I’ve had to serve our student-athletes and our coaches and staff and I’m looking forward to the next phase. And I think I can be a real asset to this department moving forward in a smaller role. I look forward to carrying that out. [...] This is not a retirement; this is just slow down a little bit and I’m excited about that. I get to spend time with my two granddaughters a little bit more and I’m really looking forward to supporting [Football HC Deion Sanders] and what’s ahead for him and that program, and go out and try to generate some revenue for the department because we desperately need that.“ More. (link) “Keeping up with [ACC Commissioner Jim] Phillips isn’t easy,” according to the AP’s Aaron Beard, who shadowed Phillips last weekend on a two-day trip that included a visit to Pittsburgh for the Notre Dame-Pitt football game. Beard: “He gets up around 4:45 a.m. daily and starts working out by 5, with running on a treadmill as his go-to choice. [...] The plane landed a little after 7 a.m., and Phillips immediately hopped in a waiting SUV for the roughly 20-minute ride into Pittsburgh. That would give him one more chance to charge his cell phone for a busy afternoon of calls, text messages and tracking scores nationally. [...] He briskly slalomed through the gameday crowd, focused on connecting with as many people as possible. Coaches, athletes, polit…
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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in my work in athletes' rights, the number of "why should we pay them, they'll just blow it on [insert wasteful class/race-coded activity here]" comments is always amazing.

Texbook Example:
www.vice.com/en/article/w...
At a 2015 meeting of college athletic administrators in New York, North Carolina State athletic director Debbie Yow reportedly said that “you try to teach student-athletes about financial literacy but know you failed when you see them on their new hoverboard.” “Or tattoos and rims,” added University of Alabama athletic director Bill Battle.
November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I just discovered this soccer player and I have to think his boos are basically just his name:
Kevin Schade. Schade in German is sort of like "dang it!" or "That's too bad"
November 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I need a few groups of playtesters for my climbing/shedding game "Skybirds" We've ironed out all/most of the coding bugs, so now I want to find some avid card players to run through the game a bunch for VP balancing tests.

Ping me if you have 1-3 friends you'd like to play cards with!
BGA Screenshot showing the game is in alpha, in takes 30 mins to play, and it is for 2-4 players. And also if you join the Alpha test you become an "Elite Skybirds Tester"
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Picture of the 4 members of House Ponsonby, with the slogan: Team Ponsonby -- 100%, Every Day
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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indeed, not. Let the speculation run rampant! let the wild rumpus start!
"Where the Wild Things Are" quotation: "Let the Wild Rumpus Start!"
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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When the pedophile says this about you, you really are loathsome:
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I have met some very bad people ,, none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body.. so yes- dangerous
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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No, Microsoft Word, my game design friends are not going to be offended by calling low cards "crap cards" in a note about designing a card game.
MS Word spell check trying to convince me not to call lousy cards "crap cards" In a design discussion about a card game.
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Apparently Costco has acquired a natural spring in Italy to produce off-brand S. Pellegrino.
Kirkland (Costco) brand Sparkling Water ("Product of Italy") Bottled at Val di Meti Source, Apechhio, Pesaro & Urbino, Italy.
November 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Donald Trump hates Americans.
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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At the airport to head to SD Histcon. Got these fans to deliver and/or play. Not pictured are Weimar, Hot Streak, and Innovation ultimate in my other bag
Bag full of historical board games plus a few fun filler games.
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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As a New Englander (from Mass.), I can tell you that this is going to sting in Rhode Island. From head of RI to DEPUTY in MA?
x.com/PeteThamel/s...
Rhode Island AD Thorr Bjorn will depart to become the Senior Deputy AD at Massachusetts, per ESPN's Pete Thamel.
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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USPS informs me I will be receiving this letter today. Suffice it to say, I am not Nhien Truog and I don't live in San Francisco.
Retirement info for Nhien Truong who lives in San Francisco. I am not Nhien Truog and I don't live in San Francisco.
October 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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BTW, Mit (the original poster) agrees with me:
October 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Meet the new price-fixing cartel; same as the old price-fixing cartel.
(like to the bad place: x.com/WinterSports...)
The NCAA has adopted emergency legislation specifying DI student-athletes can lose eligibility if NIL deals aren’t reported. Kennyhertz Perry attorney Mit Winter notes that “if a school discovers an athlete may not have reported a deal it has 2 days to review & report to the CSC. If a deal isn’t then reported, athlete is ineligible.” (link)
October 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM