Robert Brinker

Robert Brinker

@jamstoneforge.bsky.social

I like Magic. And my wife. But I'm really only gonna talk about magic. Legacy:DnT CanLander:Dredge mostly I built the Counting Cube.

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Replying to @uwotc-official.bsky.social

If you’d like to join us in calling on leadership to reconsider yesterday’s decision and help us build a better Wizards together, you can encourage them to do so by signing our petition and sharing it! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

actionnetwork.orgStand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the…

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Yesterday, Wizards informed us that it doesn’t intend to voluntarily recognize the D&D or Studio X units of our union ahead of a vote. We remain committed to creating a workplace focused on wellness, transparency, and collaboration by winning our coming election.

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This really puts stuff like publicly funded third spaces in perspective for me. It's so relatively cheap to build out community centers, gyms, makerspaces, studios etc.

Tim O’Brien@timobrien.bsky.social

The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in U.S. history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge U.S. infrastructure projects such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

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Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.

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Michiganders are *literally* sick of Mike Rogers’ corruption. He’s taken more than $1M from Big Pharma, voted 19 times to keep prescription drug prices high, and even declared himself a "champion" of the opioid industry. 🤒💊 Watch our new ad:

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A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.

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Trump is escalating a trade war with Canada for his own vanity. Even before this new round, Canadian tariffs were costing Michigan families an additional $3,200 a year. It’s going to get much worse.

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Mike Rogers holds millions of dollars of stock in AI-related companies. He’d let them build a new data center in your backyard tomorrow if the price is right. Now he’s backtracking because he thinks he can trick us into believing otherwise.

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We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.

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MTGO has asked me to survey the Vintage Community to help place Vintage Challenges in the best timeslots for us. If you are interested in playing in Vintage Challenges please respond to the google form link below. Please note all time based responses are in PST docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

docs.google.comMTGO Vintage Challenge Date/Time SurveyAssuming a Challenge is a 5 or 6 round Swiss with a cut to a Top 8 Playoff. MTGO is interested in knowing which time slots work best for the Vintage community.

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A MAGA state will spare no expense to prosecute women they suspect of travelling out-of-state for an abortion in the name of "the good of the children" ... But leaving children to face a complex legal process that will most likely result in their deaths in a strange land is acceptable.

Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social

Our evil government will force 24,000 children to face judges alone. Thousands of immigrant children on verge of losing legal representation www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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The heatwave in Europe is so extreme, it's 25–32°F (14–18°C) above normal. You read that right. France recorded it's hottest day ever. The UK had its hottest ever June day. The ground is exceeding 122°F (50°C). People are dying. Tell me again why we shouldn't talk about climate change???

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Since I’m temperature-challenged, 42C is 107F. In France.

Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social

We have just witnessed France’s hottest day in recorded history. The severity of this heatwave is truly hard to comprehend. Over 50 millions people will be under red-level extreme heat warnings tomorrow. Sadly, what’s going on there is a foreshadowing of our future. Data: DWD/Météo France

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Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected. From this day forward, we have a union!

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It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

ms.nowThe Onion says it won’t wait for the courts, will launch Infowars to pay Sandy Hook familiesThe Onion’s staff is tired of waiting for the courts to settle its pending takeover of Alex Jones’ brand, so the new Infowars will launch next month.

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As more stories are being shared, something I noticed is a common thread of being afraid to speak out against a larger creator. And what I want to stress is, while this feeling is very real, there are individuals in this space who will go to bat for you if you have experienced something like this.

big tiddy Rebell@rebell.bsky.social

So far, the update is that a creator that goes by goblin_grounds is accused of sexual harassment, the victims are anonymous and have privately shared their account with other creators, and now friends of goblin_grounds like the “Gemini twins” are actively harassing anyone who talks about this.

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It's an objective fact that Elon Musk is a mass murderer. He intentionally caused the deaths of millions of people. There's no caveats to this, no alternative explanations, no defenses, no missing context; that was the sole reason for doing what he did.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

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worth noting is that the union is not calling for a boycott, which at this stage would presumably do nothing but cause further harm to the folks who work here. also fwiw the folks I spoke to heaped praise on the direct leadership and culture of the Arena team specifically.

Kotaku@kotaku.com

Last week, WOTC leadership deadnamed a number of transgender Magic: The Gathering Arena employees in front of their coworkers as part of the lead-up to a union election. The company apologized...then did ... https://kotaku.com/wizards-of-the-coast-trans-employees-magic-the-gathering-arena-2000702039