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Talia Bael @essaria.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

That’s super fair and I agree with that, though I haven’t been reading the story and mostly just read the ending to understand this post. I will say that it did click from the perspective of being genderfluid and plural pretty strongly

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Talia Bael @essaria.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m curious what you mean by that? Obviously it’s not the traditional trans experience but the ending definitely plays to the ways Jace has historically been gender-y

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

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Talia Bael @essaria.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This honestly reached into my soul

Talia Bael @essaria.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Except that the article is not great theory

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JasonILTG @jasoniltg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I believe Sanctum has a 90% day 2 conversion rate for PT MSH

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

occasional reminder

tumblr (i think) post by dragon-in-a-fez:

if I see one more "why age verification is bad" post that doesn't even bother to mention that locking young people out of huge sections of the public sphere - literally the stated goal and primary impact of this shit - is wrong in and of itself I will simply start hitting people with bricks

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

social media that's bad for minors is obviously bad for adults too. crazy to me that the move seems to be to just accept that and ban minors rather than regulate the obvious design patterns that were put in there on purpose which make it harmful to its users

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 08/06/2026

i think that humankind has not yet achieved a full revolutionary political consciousness at all until it is able to begin politicizing the process of sexing the body itself & the lack of or resistance to this is part of why misogyny has been the end or limit to every revolutionary movement

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

i like a few of the marvel designs and it's feeling very hard to be excited about them given the context surrounding wotc & the union, as well as the creep of real world stuff showing up in UB sets. i don't want cops and nazis in magic.

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

WotC declined to voluntarily recognize our union by Friday, May 1st. While we're disappointed in this delay, together we remain strong in our convictions. We look forward to sitting down at the bargaining table so we can make Arena better for workers, for Wizards, and for our players. #UWOTC-CWA

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Wizards of the Coast Declines to Recognize Union by May 1st

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Talia Bael @essaria.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I’m glad you have found joy in it

Talia Bael @essaria.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Well, there’s always requalifying into a better standard format (something you can definitely do)

Talia Bael @essaria.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I know people requeue from 0-4

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Talia Bael @essaria.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I’ve seen 0-3 starts recovered many times!

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Dora B @heyitsdora.com · 17/04/2026

It really frustrates me that we continue to nominate and give awards for queer content to big AAA assholes doing the bare minimum with their eyes rolling and lips curled when there are so many queer indies out there putting their hearts on platters that get ignored because they don't have the budget

Acknowledging these award nominations on X, Vávra says that he's "really proud" of receiving both of them, but that he believes the romance was handled "without shoving it down anyone’s throat or trying to re-educate them like so many titles that are rigtfully (sic) called 'woke' these days".

Vávra, who also opened his post with the phrase "TRIGGER WARNING!", also says that despite his game's nominations, he still finds "the abundance of forced “woke” nonsense in the entertainment industry annoying" on a personal level.

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Talia Bael @essaria.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I feel like !printed is a bit of a stretch

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9 isn’t a lot of slots :( and even though all of those have been very important to me they haven’t been foundational the way the listed cards were

That deck played 3 Teferis but I also explicitly piloted it primarily as a wemp tempo deck where I was leveraging veto as its best answer (veto is intended to cover that deck and also speak to my emotional need to include a negate on the list). Also cutting Tef for fable kind of defined me.

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Wait, what deck would have warranted tef5ri? I’ve certainly played the card and liked him in some contexts but I’ve also historically uniquely deprioritized him.

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It's slightly funny to me how similar the cards in mine all look, but they really were all formative in my magic career. They more or less cover the decks that taught me fair magic theory (and specifically were the cards that I needed to actively learn how to build/pilot).

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Yep :D this all coming from my own thoughts on why I’m considered a particularly strong magic player while I’m also in the space of being competitive with PT regulars but don’t have a particularly impressive winrate/results over time

Magic skill is defined, almost unilaterally, by players performing rare, positive actions (which you commonly do in how you interface with your own limited play). Winrate is less commonly relevant because the social construct is disinterested in the negative action of losing games.

I agree, but, like, winning games isn't exceptionally part of the social construct that is magic skill. Winning games (winning many games, even) is a common practice that a vast number of players engage in.

So, instead, magic skill is socially defined by a series of practices which one can perform. In your case I think it's mostly that you perform deep limited analysis with reasonable accuracy, something which is valuable on a community level.

Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Metrics are flawed and skill is socially constructed. The results of magic games involve many, many factors which are virtually impossible to account for, even at large sample sizes, and the theoretical rankings one could derive by doing so aren't necessarily desirable at a community level.

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the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/02/2026

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

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Sasha Copigny @aspi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Lasting tarfire redemption arc 🔥🧨

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Dan Wade @dwade.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This is why Minnesotans are begging folks outside the state to keep talking about us. Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.

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Talia Bael @essaria.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I do think you’re shortchanging yourself but this might be motivated by our entire social circle saying 7-8

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Talia Bael @essaria.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Isn’t this kind of just an “everyone ranks themselves 7” moment except for the people who didn’t?