replying "stop" on regular texts to see if that works on them too
Joe Dromedary
@brittlearth.bsky.social
writer, runner, sometimes magic card enjoyer. he/him Missoula, MT
I’ll be honest, I don’t think I *can* see everything… but I might have the capacity to see everything.
Butte, Montana has cool old 1800’s mining buildings, a superfund site you can visit, and a taco bell cantina.
hell of a week wrapped. thank god. also saw this on a walk this week. It’s the little things
speculative asset economy, meet real-world constraint
Grist@grist.org · 2w agoMagic: The Gathering draws a bad hand with El Niño
This one is meaningful to me as my daughter posed for the reference using the SAME yellow wrap Ang used for Brainstorm back in 1999! Also, (with thanks to Scott M Fischer for loaning me his compressor) the old airbrush came out of retirement for the glowing glyphs, just as I'd done back in '99! 🎨
the world is full of horrors. This music is getting me through it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ6i... (featuring Drexciya, a detroit techno group with fascinating underwater sc- fi mythology tied into their music)
Drexciya - Wavejumper
YouTube video by Drexciyans Wavejumpers
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Poetry from the comments: "it brought back memories of October afternoons when the weather was grey outside, and we’d gather in a friend’s basement. We would spill all our cards across the table...I remember a very warm, almost orange light, a round black table, and piles of cards"
Ambient: the Gathering - Island
YouTube video by phonewifey
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As we get close to election season, just a reminder that these exist
Joe Dromedary@brittlearth.bsky.social · last yr.this project is getting slightly more unhinged and I’m having a lot of fun. I’ve got copies of all three printed out, going to stash them at the little free library near the city museum in the next hour if you want a copy!
buying sealed boxes of the sim city trading card game (1994) for a special project. They don't make them like this anymore.
Turns out the Deranged voice from MacInTalk sounds exactly like RFK Jr.
I dont think younger people realize just how massively popular and culturally significant the Lord of the Rings books were in the 1970s in the USA. Millenials experienced but a fraction of this when the Peter Jackson trilogy released.
"You have a deck of cards. Some are missing. All you can think to play is Snap. And this isn’t a Snap kind of party. You have grown beyond Snap, but what can you do? Worry not. Snap can grow. It can age like a fine wine as you play it. All you need is a pen." www.vivianeschwarz.co.uk/how-to-play-...
dont buy magic cards should be the slogan! magic cards are cigarettes that everyone thinks are apples.
every time I write a little blog about magic, I feel a lot of joy. This morning, I got a chance to play a few games at a coffee shop and thought about simple design and gratitude: battlemage.bearblog.dev/less-facts-m...
Less facts, more fiction
Listening to Lip Critic's "Drumming with Izzy" and thinking about Magic again. >I was running out of ideas. My opponent had summoned ANOTHER massive dino...
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Shoutouts to "and so forth" gotta be one of my favourite lines of rules text
usenet post from 1996. people have always been like this
BDS, explained: why our movement is about much more than what’s in your shopping basket.
this twitch stuff is making me think about something bad I predicted a few years ago, but haven't heard about yet. When does it come out that every discord server has been used for AI training too?
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 3mo agoAmazon wants to use Twitch streams to train AI aftermath.site/amazon-twitch-...
Flicking my earbuds case open and closed like it's a lighter and I'm a smoker of podcasts
I‘m slow to post because I’ve been reading it with coffee in the morning, but here’s my copy of @cascadecascade.com with a bunch of Urza’s Contact Lenses for some reason. Really sick to have so much good writing about Magic gathered together!
“A Los Angeles Costco parking lot [has] become a hotspot for skaters over 40. Its long, low curb lets us keep doing tricks on safer, lower-risk terrain […] Curbs represent the twilight of skateboarding, the end being closer than the beginning.” Lovely. [nytimes.com]
What I Learned About Loss While Skateboarding at Costco
We’re all going to die. But first — just one more trick.
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in magic, nothing is less interesting to me than someone saying “ooh, this card goes in my (insert commander here) deck.”