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Grath @grath.org · 6h
You can mark a post as being written in any language you want, which is what drives Bluesky's offer to translate a post.
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Grath @grath.org · 15h
It's a really rough time for that, I've been building my own computers for 15 years and my latest is a prebuilt from Microcenter because it was outright cheaper than building my own comparable computer.
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Grath @grath.org · 30/09/2026
Although, I could see the argument than nothing inherently in Profane Transfusion is connected to Phyrexia so it could fit in with another assimilation-themed-mechanical-horrors (like reprinting it with Borg flavor maybe? My parents raised me on Wars not Trek)
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Grath @grath.org · 29/09/2026
Seems likely that they did a Ctrl-F for "Phyrexia" and left it at that.
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Grath @grath.org · 29/09/2026
It's actually a second room and an independent copy of you that mimics your movements, since raytracing to make actual mirrors would be too expensive (and possibly make your graphics card power cable catch on fire while you're at it.)
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Grath @grath.org · 27/09/2026
Welsh considers Y and W full vowels, unlike English when they're just sometimes-vowels.
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Grath @grath.org · 26/09/2026
Especially nice having more printings that don't use the original art, for obvious reasons.
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Grath @grath.org · 25/09/2026
No, that shows "post deleted" rather than "blocked".
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Grath @grath.org · 25/09/2026
Allegedly the Kraft mac and cheese ice cream that Van Leeuwen did back in 2021 was actually good, so I guess they decided to just push things even farther this time?
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Grath @grath.org · 23/09/2026
That appears to be her chair. You'll have to find another one, which she will shortly colonize as well.
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Grath @grath.org · 23/09/2026
Sacrificed into the volcano so the rest of you could escape the British Airways.
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Grath @grath.org · 22/09/2026
I can't wait for the companies that have fallen for the AI scam to realize that they've effectively unionized their software development, because when their engineers have forgotten how to work without AI the AI companies can unilaterally bargain their wages however they want.
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Grath @grath.org · 22/09/2026
Okay, congratulations on being part of the small slice of AI defenders that didn't fall for the last big tech scam?
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Grath @grath.org · 22/09/2026
(The point being that since those same people were so blatantly wrong about NFTs being the future, it drives suspicion about the capabilities of LLMs outside the realms of "serviceable automated translation where a professional wouldn't be hired" and "replaces Full Stackoverflow developers".)
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Grath @grath.org · 22/09/2026
Their proponents are, the venn diagram of "loved NFTs" and "makes LLMs their entire personality" isn't that far off from a circle.
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Grath @grath.org · 21/09/2026
Elon Musk in particular should have all his companies nationalized (they're only profitable because of US subsidies and contracts, and he committed immigration fraud so there's a possible route to "seize all of his ill-gotten gains" there) and then sent to the Hague for crimes against humanity.
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Grath @grath.org · 21/09/2026
Doc Martens x some 1940s Germany army doctor...
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Grath @grath.org · 19/09/2026
Also: If there's a Sikh gurdwara near you, they'll almost always have a langar hall where they serve free meals to anyone who's hungry.
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Grath @grath.org · 18/09/2026
If you won't do the accent, will you do the beard?
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026
Share if you agree
Fat little chihuahua puppy (maybe?) looking extremely round and smiling lying on a tan fleece blanket
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Grath @grath.org · 17/09/2026
Also probably doesn't help people's itchy trigger fingers on "omg plagiarism" accusations that literally last set, an even-longer-tenured Magic artist did, in fact, plagiarize another person's artwork.
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Grath @grath.org · 17/09/2026
Yeah, I think it's a bit of a dick move to not have given Liiga a heads up (given the thread that she's since deleted which made it clear that she was unaware of the reference until today) but Volkan Baga's only crime is "did a good enough oil painting that people think it's photoshopped copying"
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Grath @grath.org · 17/09/2026
Sounds like Volkan Baga did his job really well then, since WotC's explicit art direction for his (physical, oil painting) illustration was to directly reference Breach the Multiverse's artwork:
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Grath @grath.org · 17/09/2026
From what I've seen, it definitely sounds like the original artist for Breach the Multiverse was blindsided by this and only found out while her contacts at WotC were asleep this morning, but this was WotC explicitly telling Volkan Baga to directly reference her artwork when painting his.
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Grath @grath.org · 17/09/2026
Yeah, the one I know who managed to dodge this list by fading into obscurity (he's been irrelevant for ~20 years after his highest profile role got ended in a week when people found his racist blog posts) and he's an ancap libertarian.
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Grath @grath.org · 17/09/2026
Would've been interesting if it hit lands too, unplayable as it actually exists.
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Grath @grath.org · 17/09/2026
It's less convenient since no browser extension, cloud, etc (and at least one of the branches of it is using GenAI coding, which I know you're a fan of but full disclosure for people who aren't) but I've been happy with KeePass after Tavis Ormandy (of Google's Project Zero) gave it his endorsement.
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Grath @grath.org · 17/09/2026
I need to playtest, see if she replaces Princess Buttercup as the leader of my Superfriends deck.
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Grath @grath.org · 16/09/2026
... Huh, I don't know if I should be happy or sad that the weird guy of open source I'm aware of isn't on there. He's probably too irrelevant these days.
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Grath @grath.org · 16/09/2026
My neighbor told me Loot keeps eating his Jace tokens so I asked how many Jaces he has and he said he just goes to the Echoverse and gets a new Jace afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding Jace tokens to Loot and then Tam started crying.
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Grath @grath.org · 16/09/2026
I picked up the Phyrexian one for my deck that's 58% non-English cards, it's my favorite pairing of playmat and deck.
The old Tolarian Community College playmat, "Reading the card explains the card", with ten Magic cards in different languages - Spanish, German, Italian, French, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Phyrexian, and English (but the English card is notoriously confusing card Chains of Mephistopheles.)
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Grath @grath.org · 16/09/2026
Looks like they backpedaled on hijacking affiliate links after people caught them, but it's still the cryptocurrency browser (and it's still run by Brendan "I don't think gay people should be allowed to get married" Eich.)
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Grath @grath.org · 16/09/2026
Instead it has its own issues, being the cryptocurrency and affiliate-link-fraud browser.
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Grath @grath.org · 16/09/2026
Moisten Jace
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Grath @grath.org · 15/09/2026
His own blog even admits that he wasn't the one to find it! He just tried it on more Taito games and made a list of the ones where it works.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mr. Bedtime @InternetHippo

I stepped away from my computer for a moment. When I returned, it was building something. I did not ask it to do this. We're not ready for what's coming

(picture of windows 3d pipes screen saver)
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Grath @grath.org · 14/09/2026
You have an ability to create a clue, food, or treasure, and you have two replacement effects which could apply to that. You can apply Draconic Visitor first, in which case you make a dragon instead of the artifact and then Academy Manufactor's effect doesn't happen. Other order, you get 3x as many.
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Grath @grath.org · 14/09/2026
Oh, I'm an SDET. I know how horrifically it's gonna go when the tech debt comes calling. Doesn't change that a bunch of programmers have convinced themselves that AI can do their job, and thus all jobs ever invented.
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Grath @grath.org · 14/09/2026
I just went through a computer death, the Microcenter in Yonkers has PowerSpec (house brand, standard off-the-shelf parts, minimal bloatware) prebuilts that are cheaper than I could build a comparable computer from scratch
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Grath @grath.org · 14/09/2026
But I'm a Computer Programmer who is clearly Very Smart and my job can be almost entirely done via Glorified Autocorrect, surely your job can be done by it too! It couldn't possibly be that programming wasn't actually that hard to do in the first place.
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Grath @grath.org · 13/09/2026
Fun fact: Dack can target your opponents with his +1. Normally you wouldn't, but sometimes...
Chains of Mephistopheles, which turns Dack Fayden's "target player draws 2 cards then discard 2 cards" into "discard, draw, discard, draw, then discard two".
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Grath @grath.org · 13/09/2026
I don't necessarily feel the need to jam this into decks, but I love this translated name.
Sarkhan the Mad from Rise of the Eldrazi, the Spanish translation as "Sarkhan el loco".
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Grath @grath.org · 12/09/2026
Vantabeige.
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Grath @grath.org · 11/09/2026
I have an Erdős number of 4 because one of the guest lecturers at a summer research program was talking about connections in graphs of binary numbers and the result from that research happened to transformatively apply to an upper bound on this growth function in Algebra that my group was studying.
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Grath @grath.org · 11/09/2026
Yeah, they outright admit it in the article - the main driver is that in 2021 players wanted more cards, in 2026 players are going "holy shit slow down I can't keep up" (also Arena has more non-rotating formats available that aren't Historic now, and UB is being printed directly into Standard.)
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Grath @grath.org · 11/09/2026
Yeah, the article on why they're getting rid of Alchemy literally says exactly that - "in 2021, players asked us to release more cards on MTG Arena... We release more sets per year than in 2021" (and they also have Brawl and other non-rotating but not Historic formats on Arena now.)
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Grath @grath.org · 11/09/2026
Jace really went "as a white man, when I said 'a new multiverse with no suffering', I meant 'no suffering for me and a couple of my friends I guess'."
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Grath @grath.org · 11/09/2026
I would assume that "not going back to using a racial slur" is why it works that way, and they just didn't bother coming up with an Echo Justification for renaming the plane when Echo-Avishkar didn't directly appear in the Reality Fracture story.
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Won the supey, played like poopy @moosebigelow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Lenny from the simpsons changing a sign that says 365 days without charlie kirk saying something racist
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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
dear god.. a flavor scientist at the Cheetos factory has published a blog post saying no one is prepared for how "dangerously cheesy" they are
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