Kingfisher & Wombat
@tkingfisher.bsky.social
Oh Lord, the blue MAGA thing…listen, I’m sorry I explained how the Federal Reserve works, but no amount of you being mad is going to change the fact that Biden does not dictate what it does.
Sigh. I wish I hadn’t sold most of my cards for rent money back in 2007. So many banned cards that I’m like “I had ten of those! Whadya mean, that’s “too powerful? “
(Mind you, since it’s made for Commander, I can understand them thinking you’ll have more time to work, if you’ve got more than one opponent. Nobody wants to break the Mexican standoff.)
No, no, it’s fine. And if you have enough mana and enough time, the deck turns into a clown car full of flying 1/1s. But if the other guy is playing something that starts fast, you get et.
I can see that! But also I was just sitting there with cards that take 7-10 mana to cast for hand after hand! I would have loved some Savannah Lions! Even a Tragic Poet!
The saga of an avian community organizer bringing the powerless together to defeat their draconic landlords!
Oh jeez, it’s coming back to me now…yeah, some of the Legends were baffling.
Heh, when I started, Antiquities was our artifact set! And we liked it!
On the other hand, once it gets rolling, it’s just silly.
Good deck, put together by someone much cleverer than I am, but kinda lacks the single most important part of a white weenie deck, namely CHEAP 1/1 creatures. Swapped out for reliance on expensive spawning cards, which means it’s slow to get moving and very susceptible to mana lock.
Anyway, that was the First Flight pre-made deck, which Kevin supplied me. Bear in mind that I STOPPED playing round about Fallen Empires so half the game was me looking up rules and going “Uh-huh…uh-huh…oh, they got rid of banding? Huh…”
Yup, but there’s only two of us, so it was basically straight up MtG with more health.
I am playing MTG for the first time in 15 years and just played Storm Herd with 39 life. We ran out of tokens.
It’s the white weenie deck of dreams! *sniffle*
(Except for the bus, true story. @kbspangler.com was there!)
(Except for the bus, true story. @kbspangler.bsky.net was there!)
That’s Kevin! My vortex is “The bus is late. This is the day that a geocacher was spotted sticking something in a lamppost base. Patrons of a nearby ice cream store call the police. The bomb squad is called. You spend a pleasant hour in the store selling bird-themed antiques behind the bus stop.”
NGL, that would work on me, as long as there were actual cicada etchings.
I really hope she was genuinely curious about cicadas, at least!
You know, she DID ask me about my art when I said I was an artist, not a biologist…
Yes! I was wondering if she was planning on selling something. It was odd.
And she is nodding along and then says “Can I get your name and number so I can ask you more about them?”
Wut?
I explained I was just an artist, not a biologist, and recommended some websites, and she thanked me for a nice conversation, but who asks for that from a stranger over cicadas?
I just had the weirdest interaction at the gas station?
This sharp-dressed older woman gets out of a car on the other side of the pumps, and asks me if I know what all the dead insects on the ground are. So I explain about periodic cicadas and how they’re awesome and do my plug for Cicadas Are Great
I mean, it really is a dry heat and that matters a lot, but it’s still brutal.
My stepfather died of glioblastoma. If this works, it would be unbelievable.
Really exciting stuff happening in oncology, y'all.
A doctor with glioblastoma—an aggressive brain cancer that kills most patients less than a year after diagnosis—has now been cancer-free for a year, thanks to a world-first personalized vaccine.
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
Richard Scolyer: Top doctor remains brain cancer-free after a year
Richard Scolyer has undergone a new treatment for glioblastoma, based on his own melanoma research.
www.bbc.comI have nothing but intense admiration for Dems with boots on the ground in Arizona. They are up against it, canvassing is hard, AND it’s 100 degrees in the shade.
NEW: Arizona organizers are working hard to put an abortion rights measure on November's ballot.
The GOP has made a move too: They've put a separate referendum on the ballot.
It'd basically shut the door on future ballot initiatives in Arizona. boltsmag.org/arizona-ball...
Arizona Republicans Set Up a Ballot Measure to Squash Future Ballot Measures
A constitutional amendment, placed on the November ballot by GOP lawmakers, would severely restrict direct democracy through strict geographic requirements on ballot petitions.
boltsmag.orgOh wow! And yeah, James and I have been in each other’s internet orbit for…longer than I like to do the math.
Dozen rabbit-sized bears, I think, if he was wearing good boots.