Leave it to me to spoonerize a shitpost
- it’s the other way around. Oh well

yup - I think this straightforwardly falls out of (a point I believe you've often made!) the democratic party being genuinely captured by Bain et al. That kind of stuff (... maybe?) works for companies. But politics is not the same as companies competing. It's a category mistake!

I remember being in my prime

Magical realism is the end state of “fiction carcinization” or something

“Tangle” or what are we even doing

I'm not entirely proud of having thought "oh no, can this asshole be better cited than me?", followed by checking out his Google Scholar and breathed a sigh of relief.

Feels bad to still have this particular toxic academic instinct, but I don't know, man... embarrassing CV from which to write that

this book _rules_

where's Chotiner when we _really_ need him

For me at least, maybe not the people around me lol

Very cool. Now I'm daydreaming a CubeCon-like event.

Everyone brings their own shared deck/graveyard deck. Deck and starting player for game 1 is decided randomly and independently of each other; loser of previous game chooses deck and starting player for next game

(the whole thing is :chefskiss:) but what a sick-ass manabase

We wish we had the technology to observe the passage of time in a device we could carry on our wrists or in our pockets. Sadly we haven’t invented that yet