🇵🇸 connor
@condormason.bsky.social
2nd draft, 2nd trophy with 4C Don't Try This at Home pile. turns out that the rare cards are powerful
November 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
2nd draft, 2nd trophy with 4C Don't Try This at Home pile. turns out that the rare cards are powerful
"Talk Valentina."
"ALLY!"
"ALLY!"
November 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"Talk Valentina."
"ALLY!"
"ALLY!"
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not the main point but it should be illegal to interview someone more than 3 times for the same position
3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
November 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
not the main point but it should be illegal to interview someone more than 3 times for the same position
fun little chaos draft deck from last night. jeskai blink is all the rage in modern so i thought we’d give it a shot here too
October 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
fun little chaos draft deck from last night. jeskai blink is all the rage in modern so i thought we’d give it a shot here too
Duskmourn truly is an all-timer. Maybe UB slop is a secret win if it means we get banger flashback drafts every other month
October 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Duskmourn truly is an all-timer. Maybe UB slop is a secret win if it means we get banger flashback drafts every other month
Top 8 at the first Full Grip Games #Premodern Quarterly with RB Goblins. 24 players was a great showing, can’t wait to see everyone at the next one!
R1: WLW vs The Solution
R2: LL vs UW TideStill
R3: WW vs Jund Wurm
R4: LWW vs RG Goblins
R5: WLW vs Moneyball Black
QF: LL vs UW TideStill rematch
R1: WLW vs The Solution
R2: LL vs UW TideStill
R3: WW vs Jund Wurm
R4: LWW vs RG Goblins
R5: WLW vs Moneyball Black
QF: LL vs UW TideStill rematch
October 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Top 8 at the first Full Grip Games #Premodern Quarterly with RB Goblins. 24 players was a great showing, can’t wait to see everyone at the next one!
R1: WLW vs The Solution
R2: LL vs UW TideStill
R3: WW vs Jund Wurm
R4: LWW vs RG Goblins
R5: WLW vs Moneyball Black
QF: LL vs UW TideStill rematch
R1: WLW vs The Solution
R2: LL vs UW TideStill
R3: WW vs Jund Wurm
R4: LWW vs RG Goblins
R5: WLW vs Moneyball Black
QF: LL vs UW TideStill rematch
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NEWS FROM THE BAD PLACE:
maga hat wearing racist misogynist joe brennan has friends pleading for him to be allowed into eternal weekend
they made a "joe brennan deserves better from card titan and the north american eternal weekend" petition
so i made this:
chng.it/ZzShcKGZ2d
maga hat wearing racist misogynist joe brennan has friends pleading for him to be allowed into eternal weekend
they made a "joe brennan deserves better from card titan and the north american eternal weekend" petition
so i made this:
chng.it/ZzShcKGZ2d
Sign the Petition
Joe Brennan deserves worse from Card Titan and the North American Eternal Weekend
chng.it
October 5, 2025 at 3:43 AM
NEWS FROM THE BAD PLACE:
maga hat wearing racist misogynist joe brennan has friends pleading for him to be allowed into eternal weekend
they made a "joe brennan deserves better from card titan and the north american eternal weekend" petition
so i made this:
chng.it/ZzShcKGZ2d
maga hat wearing racist misogynist joe brennan has friends pleading for him to be allowed into eternal weekend
they made a "joe brennan deserves better from card titan and the north american eternal weekend" petition
so i made this:
chng.it/ZzShcKGZ2d
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Nah man a big part of why the UB stuff makes me sad is cause I know it's extremely popular so they're going to keep doing it despite it making the parts of the game I deeply care about worse. Like I know a bunch of people are going to buy the 6th marvel set but that doesn't make my FNM fire.
Hearing the conversations around the con, I think heavily enfranchised online folks significantly overestimate how much their opinions on Universes Beyond are shared by the wider player base.
This is not a value judgment of any opinion in particular: just being reminded of that myself, too.
This is not a value judgment of any opinion in particular: just being reminded of that myself, too.
September 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Nah man a big part of why the UB stuff makes me sad is cause I know it's extremely popular so they're going to keep doing it despite it making the parts of the game I deeply care about worse. Like I know a bunch of people are going to buy the 6th marvel set but that doesn't make my FNM fire.
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the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is
- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)
- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)
- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)
- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)
- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)
- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)
September 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is
- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)
- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)
- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)
- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)
- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)
- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)
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This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
September 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
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The insidious core of non-violent advocacy isn't that it doesn't work,- it does have some actual utility. It's that its proponents insist that it's the *only* thing that works; erasing the actual history of successful resistance's diversity of tactics & replacing it with singular, doomed pacifism.
"The only known solution to creeping authoritarianism is broad-based, peaceful, geographically dispersed mass engagement by everyday Americans. That’s it. That’s what works."
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
September 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The insidious core of non-violent advocacy isn't that it doesn't work,- it does have some actual utility. It's that its proponents insist that it's the *only* thing that works; erasing the actual history of successful resistance's diversity of tactics & replacing it with singular, doomed pacifism.
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Split the finals of the Standard Challenge with Pinger Red! 🔥🏆
Matchups:
Simic Midrange🔥🔥
Jeskai Proft's 🔥☔🔥
Izzet Cauldron 🔥🔥
Dimir Midrange ☔☔
Izzet Cauldron 🔥🔥
Dimir Midrange 🔥🔥
Izzet Cauldron 🔥🔥
mirror w/Tersa instead of Ojer Axonil 🔥☔🔥
mirror w/Emberheart instead of Viper🤝🤝
Matchups:
Simic Midrange🔥🔥
Jeskai Proft's 🔥☔🔥
Izzet Cauldron 🔥🔥
Dimir Midrange ☔☔
Izzet Cauldron 🔥🔥
Dimir Midrange 🔥🔥
Izzet Cauldron 🔥🔥
mirror w/Tersa instead of Ojer Axonil 🔥☔🔥
mirror w/Emberheart instead of Viper🤝🤝
September 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Split the finals of the Standard Challenge with Pinger Red! 🔥🏆
Matchups:
Simic Midrange🔥🔥
Jeskai Proft's 🔥☔🔥
Izzet Cauldron 🔥🔥
Dimir Midrange ☔☔
Izzet Cauldron 🔥🔥
Dimir Midrange 🔥🔥
Izzet Cauldron 🔥🔥
mirror w/Tersa instead of Ojer Axonil 🔥☔🔥
mirror w/Emberheart instead of Viper🤝🤝
Matchups:
Simic Midrange🔥🔥
Jeskai Proft's 🔥☔🔥
Izzet Cauldron 🔥🔥
Dimir Midrange ☔☔
Izzet Cauldron 🔥🔥
Dimir Midrange 🔥🔥
Izzet Cauldron 🔥🔥
mirror w/Tersa instead of Ojer Axonil 🔥☔🔥
mirror w/Emberheart instead of Viper🤝🤝
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Idk stuff like this brings me the opposite of joy
this is a reddit custom card with unlicensed art just being printed by wotc with a license
It feels a weird level of unprofessional and referential
Literal spider man just doing the thing is so on the nose it's depressing
At least it's unplayable
this is a reddit custom card with unlicensed art just being printed by wotc with a license
It feels a weird level of unprofessional and referential
Literal spider man just doing the thing is so on the nose it's depressing
At least it's unplayable
September 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Idk stuff like this brings me the opposite of joy
this is a reddit custom card with unlicensed art just being printed by wotc with a license
It feels a weird level of unprofessional and referential
Literal spider man just doing the thing is so on the nose it's depressing
At least it's unplayable
this is a reddit custom card with unlicensed art just being printed by wotc with a license
It feels a weird level of unprofessional and referential
Literal spider man just doing the thing is so on the nose it's depressing
At least it's unplayable
RCQ Winner with @coreybmtg.bsky.social’s Vivi Cauldron list! Super proud to get my first RC invite and a chance to battle in Portland/Milwaukee
R1 Pixie WW
R2 WB Sac LWW
R3 Dimir LWL
R4 Vivi Talent LWW
R5 🤝
QF Dimir (R3 rematch) WW
SF Delirium WW
F Dimir WLW
obligatory @fireshoes.bsky.social
R1 Pixie WW
R2 WB Sac LWW
R3 Dimir LWL
R4 Vivi Talent LWW
R5 🤝
QF Dimir (R3 rematch) WW
SF Delirium WW
F Dimir WLW
obligatory @fireshoes.bsky.social
August 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
RCQ Winner with @coreybmtg.bsky.social’s Vivi Cauldron list! Super proud to get my first RC invite and a chance to battle in Portland/Milwaukee
R1 Pixie WW
R2 WB Sac LWW
R3 Dimir LWL
R4 Vivi Talent LWW
R5 🤝
QF Dimir (R3 rematch) WW
SF Delirium WW
F Dimir WLW
obligatory @fireshoes.bsky.social
R1 Pixie WW
R2 WB Sac LWW
R3 Dimir LWL
R4 Vivi Talent LWW
R5 🤝
QF Dimir (R3 rematch) WW
SF Delirium WW
F Dimir WLW
obligatory @fireshoes.bsky.social
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I've historically been more pro-ban than most, but I really don't think you need to ban cards when blue/red is the best deck. That's just the game functioning as intended. They left Volcanic Island out of Alpha, and that was your chance to try the other color pairs.
August 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I've historically been more pro-ban than most, but I really don't think you need to ban cards when blue/red is the best deck. That's just the game functioning as intended. They left Volcanic Island out of Alpha, and that was your chance to try the other color pairs.
3-0 at prerelease! Nova Hellkite bangs just as hard on the battlefield as it does in the artwork
July 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
3-0 at prerelease! Nova Hellkite bangs just as hard on the battlefield as it does in the artwork
took my coris out to run one last standard showdown before they have to go play in the big boy formats tomorrow. went 3-0 and got handed a $100 card?! this final fantasy shit is crazy
June 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
took my coris out to run one last standard showdown before they have to go play in the big boy formats tomorrow. went 3-0 and got handed a $100 card?! this final fantasy shit is crazy
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i want to be a killjoy: we need to make it socially unacceptable to ask chatgpt anything
i dont want to be a killjoy but we desperately need to make it socially unacceptable to talk about asking chatgpt things in regular conversation
May 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
i want to be a killjoy: we need to make it socially unacceptable to ask chatgpt anything
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yeah i got no issue with people whose job involves the use of machine learning tools for a number of technical tasks but anyone using AI to automate human communication or creativity is just instantly less of a person to me
Employees who use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini at work face negative judgments about their competence and motivation from colleagues and managers, according to a new study.
AI use damages professional reputation, study suggests
New Duke study says workers judge others for AI use—and hide its use, fearing stigma.
arstechnica.com
May 13, 2025 at 3:11 AM
yeah i got no issue with people whose job involves the use of machine learning tools for a number of technical tasks but anyone using AI to automate human communication or creativity is just instantly less of a person to me
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At a time when fascists roam freely and often even get a police escort while anti-genocide protesters get deported it's pretty weird to treat both groups like they're equally in need of your vocal defense of their rights.
And I will absolutely defend a klansman’s right to hold the opinion that me and my family shouldn’t exist. He has a constitutional right to a shitty opinion. This is America.
May 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
At a time when fascists roam freely and often even get a police escort while anti-genocide protesters get deported it's pretty weird to treat both groups like they're equally in need of your vocal defense of their rights.
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I saw someone post, apparently seriously, “we don’t need NOAA, we can just ask ChatGPT to predict where and when hurricanes will hit.”
I don’t think we should sentence thousands of people to death because some overconfident buffoons don’t understand how science works.
🤷
I don’t think we should sentence thousands of people to death because some overconfident buffoons don’t understand how science works.
🤷
May 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I saw someone post, apparently seriously, “we don’t need NOAA, we can just ask ChatGPT to predict where and when hurricanes will hit.”
I don’t think we should sentence thousands of people to death because some overconfident buffoons don’t understand how science works.
🤷
I don’t think we should sentence thousands of people to death because some overconfident buffoons don’t understand how science works.
🤷
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Things that are always relevant to talk about in regards to any principled leftist resistance movement:
1) GenAI is not only theft, it’s harmful to the environment. Don’t fucking use it.
2) Pandemic is not over, and your comrades are being disabled by infections. Mask tf up.
1) GenAI is not only theft, it’s harmful to the environment. Don’t fucking use it.
2) Pandemic is not over, and your comrades are being disabled by infections. Mask tf up.
March 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Things that are always relevant to talk about in regards to any principled leftist resistance movement:
1) GenAI is not only theft, it’s harmful to the environment. Don’t fucking use it.
2) Pandemic is not over, and your comrades are being disabled by infections. Mask tf up.
1) GenAI is not only theft, it’s harmful to the environment. Don’t fucking use it.
2) Pandemic is not over, and your comrades are being disabled by infections. Mask tf up.