adamiani.bsky.social
VFX Artist. I expect to mostly talk about politics and geek stuff— media, games, comics.
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She’s out there saying in public that Iran wasn’t building a weapon and Trump stating: “I don’t care what she said, I think they were very close to having a weapon.”
He doesn’t trust her to do the job.
Why is she there?
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A collection of mismatched silverware, hung as if wind chimes.
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G6?
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Mostly with you here, though I’ve run the occasional pregen. A good adventure (to me) is largely designed around the characters; modules are kind of intrinsically low stakes.
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Right now the ban philosophy isn’t just annual it’s *minimal*; the only card banned in standard is Leyline, and then only in Bo1.
I would welcome a more active ban process, but preemptive bans seem unlikely; something will replace the aggro, but it’s very hard to tell if it will be a problem.
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I don’t understand the desire to ban beans? Like… it’s theoretically a great card but the format’s so fast, it doesn’t seem overwhelming; play frequency is way down from January.
Maybe banning Rage slows things enough to make it a problem, but it’s hard to see as one now.
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I do kinda support thinning out control on principle… but Domain doesn’t seem to be dominating the meta?
Temporary Lockdown there’s a better case, but nerfing the 40% of the meta that is cheap red aggro is going to affect the value of its counter too.
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Don’t be silly. The NYT studiously ignores size comparisons that would suggest No Kings is more popular than Trump.
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It’s dancing around the real line of attack. Trump is a fading old man with no real principles: he’s out to lunch, gone golfing.
Instead we are governed by whichever co-president has most recently grabbed the wheel.
So we are caught lurching in dramatic, unpredictable directions with no strategy.
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A king is an insult and a threat. Someone who says that no matter who you are or what you do, they are better than you (and will by law be treated as such) because of their birth, and that your own country doesn’t belong to you.
The symbolism is rank, even when defanged into national mascots.
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We had a couple of near misses, the attempt on Pelosi, the plot on Whitmer, that shot on Trump.
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Got to be a pre write, right?
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Entirely true, but I absolutely don’t know what to do when both traditional and internet media sources (as well as the institutional right wing media) have tilted systemically to the right.
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Wow, this is embarrassing. To think this used to be a great newspaper.
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I don’t know how to combat simultaneously losing the internet and all the old levers of the once-liberal media.
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It’s a pretty unlikely number for Boston, population 676,000.
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Partly: he admires brute power. Big displays of armed force appeal to him on a psychosexual level.
Partly: he was pointedly stopped from doing this last time. Doing this to show he is no longer constrained.
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‘Cause they’re the ones with all the guns?
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It is a parade after all. Sitting on the floats and waving would seem like pretty normal, expected behavior?
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There will be great bargains, young Jedi!
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Very nice! I adapted this as my sign for the protests today.
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Honestly, from the perspective of a Bo1 Arena player, it’s kinda strange that Monstrous Rage wasn’t banned months ago. It’s not just Izzet Prowess, it’s mono red aggro and mice.
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The nice thing is that it seems to be a rotating position, so tune-in in three months for some new co-President’s dark obsession.
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Government by Abe Simpson.
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Straight up illegal to do in the state of California, period.
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Can’t, legally; California is a two-party consent state.
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Well. I’m doomed, but the audience is going to love Don’s pitch about how I don’t *need* to be rescued, for reasons that seem to shake out to be ‘nostalgia’.
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Wow. What sellouts.
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I would ask him to define criteria for failure—*specific* criteria.
He’s not going anywhere today, there is harm we cannot avoid now— the best I imagine you can do is making his position untenable tomorrow.
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A shockingly large proportion of what followed seems to have been a direct consequence.
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What power does he have with those margins in that party? Contra to our Constitutional design, he very explicitly served at the pleasure of the President.
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Is this for when it's a kind of unintended fun tax, or when it's part of how you construct constraints on other abilities?
(ie the 'bonus: you can animate your illusions' ability helps clarify that illusions are default not animated)
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Amazing that he’s been the one who has survived so many iterations of Trump turning on his advisors.
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This is mostly another flag complaint right? Do you think that helping or hurting at this stage?
Feel like you may perhaps be imposing upon the protestors a duty of strategic care you are… perhaps not ideally following yourself?
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So the official policy of the Trump administration is ‘the beatings will continue until morale improves’?
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Not a shield?
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Yeah.
But note that the 1904 Olympics was originally awarded to Chicago, before circumstances forced its relocation.
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Not incidentally, tech is perceived as having turned on us.
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I'll accept "So do you renounce your support?"
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I think he is very welcome.
If that fickle, unprincipled human fucking weathervane is here, it means the winds are blowing at our backs.
Just don’t let him lead anything and we’ll be fine.
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Unfortunately, Twitter still holds disproportionate power in setting the media agenda. It seems to be what reporters and editors think is the pulse of the public.
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Oh, is that why he’s still not leaving? I assumed he’d want to parachute out into his giant pile of money as everything explodes behind him.
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Feels like that’s not out of line with what Yoda says. It’s faster, easier, but ends up controlling your destiny and consuming you.
The distinction: ‘not more powerful’ means that zapping people with raw rage lighting, good in a fight, doesn’t make for long term wins.
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No, you can absolutely use Google Sheets and Docs instead of that pencil and paper.
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I think there's still a problem with media and political outlets preferring Twitter because of its install base. The problem isn't the 'bubble' itself, it's that Elon Musk is permitted to act as assignment editor for half the media and only alternatives at equivalent scale can address it.
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... the stock market? What kind of elitist are you? We need to focus exclusively on egg prices!
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Too late to be helpful. Very well timed as a bellwether though.
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There IS no influence to be had on Twitter. It's a rigged game, an algorithm actively manipulated to produce political outcomes. Shame on anyone continuing to prop it up.
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They should.
They're shooting themselves in the foot otherwise.