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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I like how Kathleen set this up like Jordynne and Graham are each others' mirrors

Reposted post saying that graham stark is going to magic con, followed by a reposted post saying that Jordynne Hatton is going to magic con.

Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Via @texastribune.org, the Republicans still really think that "get the public to identify our current economy with capitalism and free markets" is the way to win this election...

Rep. Roger Williams, R-Willow Park, said the contrast will be stark.

“All of us are going to get the message out,” Williams said. “It really has great timing from our standpoint, because now we can compare socialism, Marxism, communism with what Texas values are all about and American values: capitalism and free markets.”

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

.......I feel like this is a targeted insult at me for some reason.

A random commander card: Rosnakht, Heir of Rohgahh. A zero-one commander for a single red mana that makes another zero-one kobold whenever you target it with a spell.

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

"I hold priority for the turn." "I have nothing BUT PRIORITY for this turn!"

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I mean, I don't know of any professional medium that could have hosted the pukicho doctors vs. furries debate.

Pukicho: doctor earns $140,000 a year. Furry artist on patreon earns $160,000 a year.

Trillizard420: I think you're lowballing the furry art amount to be honest.

Pukicho: I'm sorry for the inaccuracies, doctor yiff.

Trillizard420: no matter how I respond to that I don't look good, well played. I walked right into that.

Boob-a-chu: well, furry artists are typically more competent and courteous than your average doctor so I can see that.

Pukicho: did you just legitimately tell me that a person who draws wolf ass is more competent than a dude who spent 8 plus years in a university to give you your lung transplant

Bog-dweller-official: doctors are bullshit and furry artists perform an infinitely more valuable service to society compared to them

Pukicho: you will die in 7 days

Hokuto-ju-no-ken: it took doctors like 110 years to diagnose what was wrong with me, some insisting I was taking for attention while a furry artist I knew just went "that sounds like Crohn's" after hearing me complain once and ended up being right. Also I can't go to a doctor and ask them to draw Rouge the Bat wider than she is tall with tits to match, now can I

Kolbye: you could if you weren't a fucking coward

Another tumblr user: this post was like 50 consecutive punches to the face, what the fuck went on here

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

You say that on a day that the board game hobby is watching a guy quit his job at one of the big board game review channels because he was simping for ICE on Facebook. Lots of people asking when the conservative guy running the channel will say anything. And this was in that guy's farewell letter.

Someone posted on Facebook last night, "How's that boot taste, Sam?" My reply is simply, "It tastes like freedom." Ever since I made the decision to step away last night while sitting in church...

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

So I think this is flawed. I don't think that antiwoke pundits have a weak definition of liberalism. I think the Occam's Razor is that antiwoke pundits don't engage in good faith. Does Yglesias think woke is destroying liberalism, or is he just saying "No, it's the children who are wrong"?

Fundamentally, we have to stop understanding liberalism as a series of separate boxes labeled “state” and “market”, and understand them, as every successful movement for political and social reform has, as mutually complementary and interchangeable. Without this underpinning, any attempt at just playing the game without rewriting its rulebook is destined for ingominous failure.

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

So by the time I got back to reading the explanation of the subhead again, I was completely confused by who this piece was targeting. Did the kids lose their ability to think because capitalism stole their critical faculties? Did TikTok trick kids into thinking they were transes and SJWs?

The question, then, is why was there such a proliferation of thoughtlessness in American and liberal culture? The subheader for this post reads "You used to have interesting ideas and now all you do is browse the Internet”, a quote from one of the latter seasons of Lena Dunham’s Girls; the line is said to Hannah, Dunham’s character, in a moment of tension with one of her friends. In the early seasons of the show, particularly the arc where Hannah works for GQ, this is a present theme: the challenge of balancing the ability to work creatively with the mundane drudgery of daily life.

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I thought that your next examples were meant as a criticism of antiwokeness, with Anderson discovering privilege discourse before wokeness did. But the citation of Fisher confused me. Are we claiming that wokeness, the opponent of systemic white privilege, only focuses on individual behavior?

In his critique of “identity politics” titled “Exiting the Vampire Castle”, writer and “thinker” (I’m not sure how to describe his background) Mark Fisher talks about the phenomenon that we now call “wokeness” at some extent (I’ve also written about it relatively recently). Fisher describes it as, basically, the progressive wing of neoliberalism: a profoundly self-obsessed movement driven by branding and self-promotion. Quoth Fisher: “The first law of the Vampires’ Castle is: individualise and privatise everything. While in theory it claims to be in favour of structural critique, in practice it never focuses on anything except individual behaviour. Some of these working class types are not terribly well brought up, and can be very rude at times. Remember: condemning individuals is always more important than paying attention to impersonal structures.”

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I scrolled back up to browse the essay again, to figure out where this all started from, and this opening made me facepalm. From my understanding, that person decrying the illiberalism of Harry Potter's critics is a terf with a podcast that platforms far-right guests...

I feel like, at this point, it’s pretty much undeniable that liberal democracy as a system of government is in terminal crisis. The United States has seen, in the past few weeks, armed agents of the state murder two civilians. The government has, largely, defended it and blamed them for insufficiently obeying their orders. Even longtime opponents of the term are starting to describe the situation as “fascist”. On a much less serious note, the New York Times had an article saying Gen Z doesn’t like Harry Potter because they reject liberalism. What’s going on?

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I take your writing in good faith, but I had difficulty figuring out what to do with this piece. I especially checked out here, where we're calling back to a time when "Democracy implied opposition to every form of double standard!" Double standards like slavery (which you mention later)?

This puts the concept of authenticity in a tough spot: it can both justify feelings of liberation and emancipation, and movements built on their opposite, frequently at the same time. To quote Christopher Lasch’s The Revolt of the Elites:

Standards, we are told, refer to cultural hegemony of dead, white European males. Compassion compels us to recognize the injustice of imposing them on everybody else. When the ideology of compassion leads to this kind of absurdity, it is time to call it into question. Compassion has become the human face of contempt. Democracy once implied opposition to every form of double standard. Today we accept double standards—as always, a recipe for second-class citizenship—in the name of humanitarian concern. Having given up the effort to raise the general level of competence—the old meaning of democracy—we are content to institutionalize competence in the caring class, which arrogates to itself the job of looking out for everybody else.

This also opens the door to an even more interesting and even more important question: why are people incapable of achieving a “sufficient level of competence” to engage in thoughtful examination of harmful essentialist thinking?

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Okay I want a clock that actually looks like this now

A picture of an ASCII clock but the screen isn't wide enough for the entire circle of the clock so there's a line break after each line of the clock and it's squished together

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I checked my spam folder, and fucking excuse me?

Screenshot of a spam folder from Gmail showing an email about a case of State of Utah versus Google on 12/29/25, titled "Notice to consumer who made payments through the Google Play Store"

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I forgot that Awkward Zombie could go in here. Tiedrich was always the master of "facial expressions as punchlines".

An armored knight speaking to a black dragon with a saddle on its back.

KNIGHT: Oh, Minerva, we've grown a lot together, haven't we? I'm so glad to have you by my side. I know you'll always be my best friend.

A soldier calls to the knight while standing beside a large brown bird.

SOLDIER: Hey, Cherche, I found this griffon. Do you want it?

In the last panel, the dragon looks at the knight with concern as the knight stares wide-eyed at the griffon.

A spearman attacks a heavily armored soldier and pierces his armor. A video game prompt reading "No damage!" appears. But the spear clearly goes through the armored soldier's shoulder. The armored soldier slowly walks forward, letting the spear slide through his shoulder, until he can stand over the spearman and stare directly into his eyes with a furious quiet power.

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

My Philosophy Dog tshirt is still my favorite tshirt. The adventures of the office mage and her fire elemental nephews deserve so much more love. I can't hear Elon speak without thinking "exactly three." And oh God I went looking for a strip and forgot how this one murdered board gamers.

A comic strip from three panel soul, showing the spirit of a dying woman and a large cloaked grim reaper.

WOMAN: By rights, I may challenge you to a game for my life!

REAPER: Very well. We shall play... A Study in Emerald.

WOMAN: A... what?

REAPER: I backed the kickstarter. I have to play it sometime.

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I thought, wait, was there a Pokemon character named Wendy? The answer is actually "no, except for a side character who showed up once and got angry about a smoothie." So if we just retcon that into a Frosty...

A green-haired anime woman in a black uniform. The caption says "Wendy works in human resources for Team Rocket, and holds a grudge against Jessie because of something that happened years earlier. One day, they were working out together and afterwards got smoothies at the Rocket Café. Jessie left Wendy to pay for them and said, "I'll pay you back someday." While Jessie forgot this over time, Wendy never did, and thus held a constant grudge against her."

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

@lyndztanica.bsky.social @susanarendt.bsky.social I was wondering why the forecast said strong storms in Houston tonight when the radar was so clear. Checked the radar forecast and uhhhhh TWC thinks it's going to hit DFW first tonight.

Radar forecast showing a line of heavy storms from San Antonio to Dallas at about 10:30 pm.

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Did you see this card that made reference to the screw-up?

A magic card called preposterous proportions, a sorcery that gives creatures plus 10 plus 10 and vigilance. The flavor text says "I think you mean giant lemures, a type of malevolent spirit that... OH GODS, WHAT IS THAT?!"

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

As a kid in the 90s, my first deck was red/green midrange. It sucked. It was a middle schooler's cheap standard deck. But I had a copy of Final Fortune. It felt great to tap all my creatures, seemingly leaving myself open, and then drop that extra turn for the surprise win. Nostalgia value~

A magic card called Final Fortune, with the abilities, "Take another turn after this one. At the end of that turn, you lose the game."

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Gotta get Yaeji's hammer for twink death

Cover art of the album With A Hammer by producer Yaeji, showing a woman in a denim jacket holding a hammer with a mischievous cat-like face drawn onto it

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Where have I heard of David Sacks before?

From the linked politico article: A long table for the 30-some guests was set with top-of-the-line crystal and China. The guest list included Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Interior Secretary Doug Burgun, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, SBA Administrator Kelly Lowfflee, Medicare and Medicaid chief Mehmet Oz, plus venture capitalist David Sacks, Palihapiyiya's partner on the "All In" podcast.

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I'm a little more of a shocked defeated Wheeler this morning myself

Wheeler in sunglasses and an open shirt looking shocked about being forced to draw a card

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Site where you can find glory for you and your house? You mean Gowronhub?

GLORY TO YOU AND YOUR HOUSE from a wide-eyed Klingon holding a knife

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

@flavorjudgedraw.bsky.social so do we do (A) JJJ beating up the 1/1 heroic creature of our choice (B) JJJ enchanted with Spider Climb for obvious reasons

A Magic card named Spider Climb, which gives a creature +0/+3 and reach, showing a woman climbing the side of a tree

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I made the mistake of looking up her other replies, and... well, that's a choice.

Jerusalem Demsas: I don't view using Twitter as leisure time. I view it as part of my work & politics. I'm open to the arguments that my time doing so is wasted there, but I think if black people decide we should only do politics in places where we won't hear the N-word...

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Dzee Szed 🟤 @dzeeszed.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

It might also go the way of the Office key, where there are specific links related to complex hotkeys. Haven't you ever wanted to press two buttons on your keyboard to open Yammer?