Talia Bael
@essaria.bsky.social
Ex-mtg judge, current player, lifetime fae spirit. 10-6 (32nd) at pt MKM, 8-8 at pt OTJ. fae/faer
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ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.
We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
January 26, 2026 at 10:14 PM
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.
We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
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Sanctum crushed at this RC!!
Mason Buonadonna in top 8 w/ Simic Cub 🔥🏆
@puppydoggaming.bsky.social in 12th w/ Jeskai… control? midrange? you decide 🙂
@mixolydia.bsky.social in 16th w/ Jeskai too!
Truong Hai Nguyen in 23rd w/ Azorius Control!
@fauxglove.bsky.social in 28th with Simic Cub!
Mason Buonadonna in top 8 w/ Simic Cub 🔥🏆
@puppydoggaming.bsky.social in 12th w/ Jeskai… control? midrange? you decide 🙂
@mixolydia.bsky.social in 16th w/ Jeskai too!
Truong Hai Nguyen in 23rd w/ Azorius Control!
@fauxglove.bsky.social in 28th with Simic Cub!
January 26, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Sanctum crushed at this RC!!
Mason Buonadonna in top 8 w/ Simic Cub 🔥🏆
@puppydoggaming.bsky.social in 12th w/ Jeskai… control? midrange? you decide 🙂
@mixolydia.bsky.social in 16th w/ Jeskai too!
Truong Hai Nguyen in 23rd w/ Azorius Control!
@fauxglove.bsky.social in 28th with Simic Cub!
Mason Buonadonna in top 8 w/ Simic Cub 🔥🏆
@puppydoggaming.bsky.social in 12th w/ Jeskai… control? midrange? you decide 🙂
@mixolydia.bsky.social in 16th w/ Jeskai too!
Truong Hai Nguyen in 23rd w/ Azorius Control!
@fauxglove.bsky.social in 28th with Simic Cub!
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locked in pro tour at 11-3-1 :)
8-1 after day 1, running hot and ready for day 2! my only loss is the one undefeated
January 26, 2026 at 12:15 AM
locked in pro tour at 11-3-1 :)
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made the pro tour playing dumb cards
January 25, 2026 at 11:26 PM
made the pro tour playing dumb cards
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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
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I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
January 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
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All deportation is wrong hope this helps.
January 13, 2026 at 6:44 PM
All deportation is wrong hope this helps.
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the idea that politics is just a glorified team sport that can simply be tuned out of when it's inconvenient is disgustingly privileged and has done more to enable the blatant abuse and destruction by those in power than their most fervent supporters
January 3, 2026 at 5:21 PM
the idea that politics is just a glorified team sport that can simply be tuned out of when it's inconvenient is disgustingly privileged and has done more to enable the blatant abuse and destruction by those in power than their most fervent supporters
Favorite cards of the year:
Gwen Stacy: Figuring out how to slot her into a deck taught me a lot about how to leverage self-replacing, scaling 2-drops
Aang: Before now I honestly thought Flickerwisp would never be supplanted as my favorite flexible, interactive 3-drop
Gwen Stacy: Figuring out how to slot her into a deck taught me a lot about how to leverage self-replacing, scaling 2-drops
Aang: Before now I honestly thought Flickerwisp would never be supplanted as my favorite flexible, interactive 3-drop
January 1, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Favorite cards of the year:
Gwen Stacy: Figuring out how to slot her into a deck taught me a lot about how to leverage self-replacing, scaling 2-drops
Aang: Before now I honestly thought Flickerwisp would never be supplanted as my favorite flexible, interactive 3-drop
Gwen Stacy: Figuring out how to slot her into a deck taught me a lot about how to leverage self-replacing, scaling 2-drops
Aang: Before now I honestly thought Flickerwisp would never be supplanted as my favorite flexible, interactive 3-drop
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lowkey kind of annoyed at Twitch chat (i know, shocker) for saying "someone needs to be fired" when there's a low production quality moment (in this case, a FIN ad, or, well, the top left quarter of one, was shown)
the whole problem is instead that they need to *hire* someone lmao
the whole problem is instead that they need to *hire* someone lmao
December 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
lowkey kind of annoyed at Twitch chat (i know, shocker) for saying "someone needs to be fired" when there's a low production quality moment (in this case, a FIN ad, or, well, the top left quarter of one, was shown)
the whole problem is instead that they need to *hire* someone lmao
the whole problem is instead that they need to *hire* someone lmao
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Casting #AC10 later today and I am extremely excited. Casting the first major competitive event of an incredibly high power format like this is so cool and it's so sick that I get to do this!
#WOTCstaff
#WOTCstaff
December 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Casting #AC10 later today and I am extremely excited. Casting the first major competitive event of an incredibly high power format like this is so cool and it's so sick that I get to do this!
#WOTCstaff
#WOTCstaff
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I Love Gender Gender is So Cool It Makes Everyone Happy And There Are No Problems
December 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I Love Gender Gender is So Cool It Makes Everyone Happy And There Are No Problems
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Socialization theory has been so utterly mangled that people don't fundamentally understanding it's not Girl or Boy Programming, it's absorbing the dominant cultural values we grow up with.
If you grow up in a patriarchal society, you are socialized patriarchal.
If you grow up in a patriarchal society, you are socialized patriarchal.
My spicy socialization take is that we mostly use the phrase "female socialization" to refer to raising someone to be a people-pleaser so they don't get hit, and as people constantly at risk of getting hit, trans femmes receive it as much as anyone else
“Male Socialization” of trans femmes isn’t a real thing. Invoking it just shows you’re a bozo trying to misgender us.
Trans people were never really socialized as our AGAB. At best, we were pressured to mimic norms that gave us dysphoria.
It’s an obvious TERF / Blanchardist dog whistle. Do better.
Trans people were never really socialized as our AGAB. At best, we were pressured to mimic norms that gave us dysphoria.
It’s an obvious TERF / Blanchardist dog whistle. Do better.
December 12, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Socialization theory has been so utterly mangled that people don't fundamentally understanding it's not Girl or Boy Programming, it's absorbing the dominant cultural values we grow up with.
If you grow up in a patriarchal society, you are socialized patriarchal.
If you grow up in a patriarchal society, you are socialized patriarchal.
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We should keep "Humans dying due to State based actions" to games of Magic: The Gathering amiright gamers??
December 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
We should keep "Humans dying due to State based actions" to games of Magic: The Gathering amiright gamers??
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While no Sanctum members made it to Worlds top 8, we still had multiple very strong showings when all things settled this weekend!
Toni Portolan finished 14th with Temur Otters, which was good enough for a 3rd place finish in the Player of the Year race! Congrats on an incredible year Toni!
Toni Portolan finished 14th with Temur Otters, which was good enough for a 3rd place finish in the Player of the Year race! Congrats on an incredible year Toni!
Sanctum had a great day today at Worlds, with not one but TWO teammates at the top of standings going into day 2!
cftsoc (Rei Zhang) and Toni Portolan are both 6-1, both on our version of Otters without many Boomerang Basics. They'll both be in the featured pod for the draft tomorrow!
cftsoc (Rei Zhang) and Toni Portolan are both 6-1, both on our version of Otters without many Boomerang Basics. They'll both be in the featured pod for the draft tomorrow!
December 8, 2025 at 2:55 AM
While no Sanctum members made it to Worlds top 8, we still had multiple very strong showings when all things settled this weekend!
Toni Portolan finished 14th with Temur Otters, which was good enough for a 3rd place finish in the Player of the Year race! Congrats on an incredible year Toni!
Toni Portolan finished 14th with Temur Otters, which was good enough for a 3rd place finish in the Player of the Year race! Congrats on an incredible year Toni!
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The game is so so so so so so so so so good at tricking you into thinking it’s easy or you have it all figured out, and it’s easy to let yourself believe this. But nearly every player at worlds yesterday after our match was discussing with me what each of us might have done wrong
so funny how often people talk about the variance in magic as if it is the most important factor in games yet we keep seeing the same people do well in the most intense tournaments
December 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The game is so so so so so so so so so good at tricking you into thinking it’s easy or you have it all figured out, and it’s easy to let yourself believe this. But nearly every player at worlds yesterday after our match was discussing with me what each of us might have done wrong
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🔥 She called it Jeskai Burn, and then she won by pointing a Lightning Bolt at her opponent's face just to really make her point! 🔥
Jennifer-Rose Holloway wins Round 5 with Jeskai . . . Control? at #MTGWorlds – catch more Magic live now at twitch.tv/Magic
Jennifer-Rose Holloway wins Round 5 with Jeskai . . . Control? at #MTGWorlds – catch more Magic live now at twitch.tv/Magic
December 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
🔥 She called it Jeskai Burn, and then she won by pointing a Lightning Bolt at her opponent's face just to really make her point! 🔥
Jennifer-Rose Holloway wins Round 5 with Jeskai . . . Control? at #MTGWorlds – catch more Magic live now at twitch.tv/Magic
Jennifer-Rose Holloway wins Round 5 with Jeskai . . . Control? at #MTGWorlds – catch more Magic live now at twitch.tv/Magic
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Accessibility nightmare tbh
November 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Accessibility nightmare tbh
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Mamdani just explicitly shouted out the trans community in his victory speech in saying that NYC stands with them
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Mamdani just explicitly shouted out the trans community in his victory speech in saying that NYC stands with them
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This is what happened to my Grandfather in Frankfurt, Germany on 9th November 1938, commonly known as Kristallnacht.
In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.
October 29, 2025 at 4:13 AM
This is what happened to my Grandfather in Frankfurt, Germany on 9th November 1938, commonly known as Kristallnacht.
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Early voting is going on in NYC which means I get to remind the high number of folks who follow me to do the most important chore of all, which this time happens to be able to be done with enthusiasm instead of resigned pragmatism:
VOTE FOR ZOHRAN!!!!! Make sure you, personally, actually do this
VOTE FOR ZOHRAN!!!!! Make sure you, personally, actually do this
October 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Early voting is going on in NYC which means I get to remind the high number of folks who follow me to do the most important chore of all, which this time happens to be able to be done with enthusiasm instead of resigned pragmatism:
VOTE FOR ZOHRAN!!!!! Make sure you, personally, actually do this
VOTE FOR ZOHRAN!!!!! Make sure you, personally, actually do this
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the wolfey video really resonated with me
i think it'll resonate with every woman
it's so important that men don't accept and normalize treatment of themselves like this
the hyper sexualization of anyone with an iota of a platform is so gross, dude
i think it'll resonate with every woman
it's so important that men don't accept and normalize treatment of themselves like this
the hyper sexualization of anyone with an iota of a platform is so gross, dude
October 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
the wolfey video really resonated with me
i think it'll resonate with every woman
it's so important that men don't accept and normalize treatment of themselves like this
the hyper sexualization of anyone with an iota of a platform is so gross, dude
i think it'll resonate with every woman
it's so important that men don't accept and normalize treatment of themselves like this
the hyper sexualization of anyone with an iota of a platform is so gross, dude
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A full 2% of the American population coming out for a unified protest is incredible
October 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A full 2% of the American population coming out for a unified protest is incredible