Crucible Of Words

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I think Centrists are more taken in by propaganda than any other group. They have no values, morals or political beliefs at all so are easily swayed by saying whatever they think can make them look smart and reasonable as a soundbite.

Centrists like the idea of leftwing party that simply doesn't do very much or meaningfully challenge the status quo. They think the left wing should be something that sits on the sidelines and is polite to those oppressive forces that wield power.

Burnham is just making noises to sound like he's doing things people want whilst not actually doing them. "More public control" is not the same as "public ownership". "Closer relationship with the EU" is the exact thing Starmer said with no intention of rejoining. It's just all spin.

Centrists really only hear tone. It's why they consider a left-winger criticizing them for being bigoted as the same as a right-winger criticizing them for not being bigoted enough. Then they yell something about horse shoes.

Someone on Facebook got very touchy when I said that LLM AI is basically a scam and that it relies on theft and doesn't have accuracy as a core part of how it works. Apparently it's just like any other "tool". However they agreed that there is an impending economic crash due to AI...

I've created a sideboard map creation site: load your deck, meta auto fills, complete the matrix, print your map. Sideboard mapping made slick. Give it a try, share, feedback is welcome. Updates from @badcardsout.bsky.social in the near future, so follow along there for more. badcardsout.com

Bad Cards Out | Sideboard maps for Magic: The Gathering

Plan your Magic: The Gathering sideboard for every matchup. Make a sideboard map from your 75, read the ins and outs on the play and on the draw, and browse maps other players have shared.

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I don’t know if anyone remembers former Labour councillor, change UK defector, and regular Twitter main character Frances Weetman, or her creepy reply guy, occasional Twitter main character and arch-transphobe Alex ‘Rubie’ Rubner but they’ve just had a massive falling out over race science. part 1/2

So they've tried to make a fixed version of The One Ring that you can Dark Ritual into play on turn 1. Feels like I'm going to be seeing this card a lot and having people drawing six cards from it by turn 3, to then sacrificing it to Beseech the Mirror to win the game. Such snowball, much wow.

The Darkhold
{1}{B}{B}
Legendary Artifact — Book

{T}: Put a sin counter on The Darkhold. Draw a card for each sin counter on it, then you lose 1 life for each card in your hand.

{6}{B}{B}, {T}: Each player’s life total becomes the lowest life total among all players. Activate only as a sorcery.

The first words scrawled against its pages birthed the concept of evil into the universe.

Illustrated by Yohann Schepacz

"Yeah, but the Greens vote share was mostly just absorbing the independents from last time, they aren't growing." Even if you take that into account, the Greens vote share still grew on top of that by a percentage pretty similar to the amount Labour saw their vote share decrease.

"The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage of Badenoch ... and the utterly dismissive coverage of Polanski, who has significantly improved his party’s standing over the past year, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK" www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/why-the-ho...

Why the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green Party

The dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics

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You can tell the only decent journalists going by looking at whose been banned from right wing party conferences. The fact that Bienkov is the only one reporting the by election data accurately whilst also not being welcome at the Tory conference shows a lot of how the ecosystem works.

If we just deleted Modern Horizons 3 from existence, Magic would be a significantly better game. I think the other MH sets are fine, but MH3 in genuinely one of the worst sets ever made, just a bin fire of horrific designs and mistakes.