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@pattersonjeffa

Trotskyist, omni, skeptic, into Tolkien, Brust, MCU, history. Avid indoorsman. Grandfather, husband. Woke AF.

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Saturday Pauper Challenge 7-Mar; 50 Players. Spy goes 9-0 in a split finals with Izzet Fae. Leo proving to be a good card pushing White Weenie to be most played in top 32 (5). Monster Tron feels like it has shifted up a tier, and Hexproof after 2 recent wins didn't show today. #MTGPauper

08.03.2026 01:42 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Claude Coders telling me they only use it for the good stuff is crazy town. You existed how many years before this without it? Is it so important to you that you stand ten toes down on business for it after knowing this shit? Wild.

07.03.2026 20:45 πŸ‘ 278 πŸ” 63 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

I would argue they knew exactly what they were doing, which was deliberately sabotaging needed public works programs by offering snake oil they never had any intention of delivering.

07.03.2026 17:54 πŸ‘ 2410 πŸ” 668 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 10

I will not vote for Newsom because he does not believe I deserve human rights.

If it comes down to JD Vance vs Newsom, who are both rabidly transphobic & support ICE, I will vote for a third party candidate.

Luckily Democrats have another 2 years to make sure we select a better, viable candidate!

07.03.2026 21:15 πŸ‘ 409 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 14

Iranian hackers threatening to hack into the top 3 credit bureaus and wiping Americans debt… and I just wanna know who I gotta speak to in order to expedite this.

07.03.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 4241 πŸ” 887 πŸ’¬ 173 πŸ“Œ 451

IF Gavin Newsom is on a ballot

THEN me and many others will refuse to vote for him

THEREFORE instead of bitching at me and others like me

YOU should take the *years* you have and make sure that doesn't happen if you actually fucking care

BECAUSE my position is immutable

07.03.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 2648 πŸ” 690 πŸ’¬ 64 πŸ“Œ 65

I think we need people to start listening to new experts that said this many years ago

07.03.2026 17:17 πŸ‘ 1350 πŸ” 170 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 5

There are lots of more serious reasons to hate Instagram and other social media sites, but I on top of those I also hate how idea theft has just become just completely normalized. Like it’s not even framed as theft, it’s just part of the culture. (1/X)

07.03.2026 18:33 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
An image from part of the GOODS-South portion of the FUEL Survey showing random pointings of scattered around the area and a mosaic of pointings covering the UltraDerp Field.

An image from part of the GOODS-South portion of the FUEL Survey showing random pointings of scattered around the area and a mosaic of pointings covering the UltraDerp Field.

Introducing the Far-Ultraviolet Extragalactic Legacy (FUEL) survey! We uniformly reduced and aligned all Hubble far-UV imaging in the extragalactic legacy fields. Shout out to my student Aliakbar Kavei for the great work completing this project. Check it out! πŸ”­

arxiv.org/abs/2603.04511

06.03.2026 22:38 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed

07.03.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 5778 πŸ” 959 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 20

Thing that really gets my goat is the way people are eager to fund this bullshit but you need eleven layers of analysis and a ton of collateral if you want to open a small grocery store in a food desert.

07.03.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 3533 πŸ” 825 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 11
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Pablo Torre (Finally) Found the Kawhi-Clippers Document That Started Everything YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

Hello.

Under penalty of perjury, two federal whistleblowers explicitly warned the SEC about the Clippers, Kawhi, and cap-circumvention in a confidential 2023 complaint.

It is the same document that led the feds to successfully prosecute Aspiration.

πŸš¨πŸ’¨ www.youtube.com/live/OtBgPsl...

07.03.2026 15:16 πŸ‘ 312 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 15

There’s a growing cottage industry where wealthy criminals pay insiders to lobby President Trump to pardon them. While some call it a perversion of the Constitution, it’s a refreshing source of job creation in an otherwise unsteady economy.

07.03.2026 03:28 πŸ‘ 660 πŸ” 77 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 3
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Friday Pauper Challenge 6-Mar; 52 Players. Funky Hexproof beats Gruul in the finals. Very strange challenge today with not a single U Terror or R Madness in top 32, while Affinity was most played (5), thanks to Utrom. Top 8 felt very green heavy, which feels like a nice change.

06.03.2026 23:57 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this is a worrying direction senator and i normally appreciate your work. the simple fact is there is no definitive way to identify children online without removing anonymity from the internet altogether

06.03.2026 18:11 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thursday Pauper Challenge 5-Mar; 44 Players. Izzet Fae and R Madness split the finals. TMNT has made its presence known as both Utrom Monitor and Leonardo were both seen in top 32. Real diverse day with 4 different decks being most played in top 32 at only 3 copies each. #MTGPauper

06.03.2026 23:40 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Graham Platner timeline and lies Graham Platner timeline and lies @capitolhunters.bsky.social / @capitolhunters Jan. 5, 2026 (updated Mar 3) Contents Summary - lies about tattoos Platner timeline Issues / Inconsistencies Why Pla...

This thread is not about whether Platner is a Nazi. It’s about how he lies like a toddler when he’s cornered. And that’s enough. He’s not electable, and Susan Collins knows it. You can too, if you can read this thread, or this 18-page document. 2/

06.03.2026 14:26 πŸ‘ 2208 πŸ” 510 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 49

I served, you're absolutely full of shit. The poster or book with forbidden tattoos is older than either of us. And I was a combat medic, saw plenty of infantry with ink and none of it racist symbols. Because they wanted to stay in the military.

06.03.2026 22:12 πŸ‘ 1332 πŸ” 239 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 7

All I'm saying is Google had a vested interest in wrecking its magic search (people may have forgotten how insanely good it was, it was wizard level shit) because of how underwater they were on their AI investment and get you on to Gemini

06.03.2026 15:04 πŸ‘ 843 πŸ” 177 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 10
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The Spine wants YOU 🫡 to have a GREAT rest of your week.

05.03.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm worried when Kristi Noem finds out she's been fired she's going to become America's first obedience school shooter.

05.03.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 4524 πŸ” 665 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 36

Anyway, as a progressive atheist, I think it would be really good if progressive Christians replace evangelical Christian nationalists as the dominant religious force in politics.

If their support for immigration comes from "love thy neighbor" that's cool, I don't really care how anyone gets there.

05.03.2026 00:01 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So I am actually reading about Talarico's beliefs and what he's said and yeah I dunno none of this seems objectionable to be as an atheist progressive (again, separate from whether he's the right candidate, on which I maintain no opinion)

04.03.2026 23:59 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Poe Dameron?

05.03.2026 01:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Please be kind to the blowhard community. A lot of us have had a very exhausting week transitioning from amateur Constitution scholars to armchair Iranian government experts.

04.03.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I have a Bama ancestor named Theodoric.

04.03.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

...nothing. Literally nothing. We already had this conversation when evopsych and data science tried to do "Big Data History" and we don't talk about it anymore for a reason. Guys. We're not idiots. Coding doesn't actually change every field every time it happens.

04.03.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 179 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 2

Incredibly proud to have done my patriotic duty as a citizen yesterday, (i.e. once again forgetting to do any down-ticket research before going into the voting booth, frantically googling each candidate on my phone to see who to vote for).

04.03.2026 16:28 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

they are unpersoning trans people at an accelerating rate and the democratic consultants are bleating its a 'distraction'

its the fucking ballgame

you either believe in human rights or you don't

04.03.2026 15:28 πŸ‘ 284 πŸ” 118 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

Yeah, that's not a terrific indicator that what already looks like a tedious movie won't be pretty tedious πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

I'd be mildly curious to know what he thinks "cancel culture" (a fake thing that even people who believe in it could never agree on a definition of) IS, apart from "jokes from 10 years ago"

04.03.2026 15:46 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0