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M Ryder
@wanderways.bsky.social
Just the letter.

Wizard of the Coast; Product Manager & Content Design on MTG Arena | prev. Narrative on Eternal CCG | They/Them✨🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

⚠️ Posts are my own (good) opinions & may contain strong language or suggestive content.

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What’s up, I’m M.

Yes, just the letter.

Gamedev, writer, worldbuilder, queer, trans, hilarious, anxious, tired; not always in that order.

I post abt game design, narrative, Magic: the Gathering, cooking, my cat & any stupid joke that pinballs across my brain.
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States can just do this! Don't let your local gov get away with triangulating their way out of effective resistance.
February 4, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
February 5, 2026 at 1:16 AM
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Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening
February 4, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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on the whole, I would not recommend “the long september 11th” as an era in which to spend one’s entire adult life
I don’t particularly like living in the “leadup to” paragraph
February 5, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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Love how a more globalized linguistic environment combined with an impulse toward ease or convenience is making alphabetic systems more logographic, for example: L and W, or F
February 5, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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New batch of bats in the shop!

wertle.bigcartel.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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I don’t particularly like living in the “leadup to” paragraph
February 5, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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Are you an artist interested in creating art for @magic.wizards.com?

Well now we have this super rad portfolio submission tool to submit your best of the best work to, that gets looked at with human eyes! 👀 #wotcstaff

company.wizards.com/en/freelance...
Freelance Art Submissions | Wizards of the Coast
Are you an aspiring Wizards of the Coast artist? Submit your portfolio today for review by our art directors!
company.wizards.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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Got these really cute icons as a commission from a friend that I forgot to posttt (mtpickert on insta)
February 5, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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Spanberger is a moderate Democrat who used to work for the C.I.-fucking-A. It should put the actions of Schumer and Jeffries into perspective for everyone. Are they Republicans? Because they sure act like it.

They need to get the fuck out.
NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program.

This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.

Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
Virginia’s New Governor Ends ICE Program. Local Contracts Remain, For Now. - Bolts
Abigail Spanberger left the 287(g) program, which empowered state law enforcement to detain immigrants. Will Democrats also bar local police and sheriffs from the program?
boltsmag.org
February 4, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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whenever i make a game ability or gun at my job I try to hide the number '54' somewhere in it. its like my little signature.

because 5 & 4 in roman numerals is V IV
February 4, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Molumbo
February 4, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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the ancient world just intuitively understood that hot beverages taste better when poured out of a little dude.

we had the technology before, and we can again.
February 4, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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Nothing but respect for the *real* social network for bots
February 4, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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this temple called my body
February 4, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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NEW: The FBI has been unable to access a Washington Post reporter’s seized iPhone because it was in Lockdown Mode, a sometimes overlooked feature that makes iPhones broadly more secure, according to recently filed court records.
FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking some...
www.404media.co
February 4, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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Philidelphia DA Larry Krasner warns ICE: If an agent commits crimes in Philly, I will charge you. You will be arrested. You will stand trial, and you will be convicted in state or federal court and you will do your time. Donald Trump can't pardon you for a state court conviction.
February 4, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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BOY THIS IS REALLY GONNA MAKE MY MEDIA LITERACY LECTURE BIT ABOUT HEARST AND YELLOW JOURNALISM FOR CLASS TODAY POP IN AN UNFUN WAY
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
February 4, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
www.mprnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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I've seen a post or two floating around about an open position in Game Design over at @magic.wizards.com and am here to confirm... it's true! Play Design is hiring!

If you think you've got the chops, here's a link to the job itself:

careers.hasbro.com/careers/job/...

#WOTCstaff
February 4, 2026 at 5:33 PM