gabor

okay it's one of my coworkers favorite books and we have it in our work library so I'll read it soon probs

this book has been on my tbr for a bit. what do you think?

I'm based in NY (drafted your cube at upkeep when you were in town) and Donato is a Brooklyn local. does lots of events here so if you ever want proofs or cards signed you can hmu

do it (ignore that @maxspero.bsky.social and I follow each other)

Griselbrand is cool imo, maybe cut exhume if you add though?

New York-based Tabletop Workers United win a union contract after prolonged battle Over 100 staff of three retail stores becomes first union of their kind in the state.

lfg www.rascal.news/new-york-bas...

Collective actions get the goods! TCGUnion-CWA has secured a closing agreement with eBay for a significantly improved severance package for TCGPlayer workers affected by the recent firings. As such, we’re shifting the focus of our fundraising to NY Starbucks Workers United, a union of Starbucks employees in NYC fighting for a safer and more equitable workplace. Rally together and play some cube in support of worker power!

Rally together and play some cube in support of worker power! You can RSVP here: forms.gle/6gtnNtTAHbsG...

soul glo is goated

it's now raising money for TCG Player!!

TTWU Zine & Culture Fair: June 21st through 22nd, 10am to 6pm at 121 West 27th Street, Suite 201 in Manhattan

June 21st and 22nd, from 10am to 6pm, join Tabletop Workers United and friends in Chelsea to celebrate our contract settlement with the TTWU Zine and Culture Fair! Share and buy anything from poetry to zines to games to art! Everyone is welcome! #zine #artwork #shoplocal #union #indieartists

@tabletopwu.bsky.social

Tabletop Workers United announcement of a tentative agreement

we did it :D

Our menu for next Tuesday's Queer Magic Night at Brooklyn Game Knight! Hope to see you there at 7pm. If you have any questions or want to RSVP, join our Discord (link in bio) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

This cause is incredibly important to me - not only am I so proud to have helped build worker power at the Brooklyn Strategist, seeing all of my friends and peers continue to do so and be so close to a fairer workplace is so amazing. it's an honor to support them and I can't wait for this event!

Magali uses she/her fyi!

I've been playing this a lot too! it rocks

pls never cut mutiny. it should stay in for flavor reasons forever

gaak or typhoon

Cube Cobra Overview: Etherium Landscape *The ground is so reflective it hurts your eyes. It glimmers so bright. As you adjust to the light you find that this land is not just bright but also barren; very little grows here. Spires erupt from...

Up next we have a desert thats as bright as the designer. @ahnkili.bsky.social shares their Etherium Landscape with us. This is an evocative Esper desert cube that focuses on Alara and Mirrodin flavor with a high density of artifacts.
List here: cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...

cards with respect? both.

pls treat my sleeves with respect 🙏🏻

hehe nice

saw this happen, very satisfying 🫡

hate cards that punish people for leaning into the concept of the cube

To put it a different way, part of our collective feeling of futurelessness, I believe, is caused by design. In phoneworld, it’s not just that we’re getting the news. It’s that we’re getting the news, and the knee-jerk reactions of hundreds of people to that news, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, locking us into an eternal present where the time passes in huge slices and nothing changes beyond the movement of the thumb along the glass screen. In phoneworld, politics closes in on us with the sheer repetitive brunt of this hopelessness.

Because of this subjugation, we are unable to give space to our own thoughts and feelings, unable to act because we just want to see what’s next in the feed. Maybe it’ll be good news, maybe it’ll be funny, maybe it’ll be smart (less a possibility these days), but in order to get that glimpse of hope or at least of levity, one has to suffer through the same iterations of terribleness, until, all of a sudden, an hour has passed, maybe two. And by this time, one’s palms are sweating, one’s heart is racing, and one finds that one’s sense of personhood or self-in-the-world, one’s grounding in physical or temporal reality have all been diminished — but that’s only if one can recognize the signs of the diminishment. At any rate, the result is the same: Nothing can be done because we have done and are doing nothing.

The smartphone has deskilled seemingly everything, even something as fundamental to human life as reading. But it’s especially deskilled political organizing. Perhaps a subconscious reason why the Left puts so much hope in the labor movement is because organizing one’s workplace is a largely offline endeavor. It takes place face to face in a spatially and temporally anchored place where everyone, despite all that may divide them, is subjected to the same material conditions, the same injustices. The most pro-social idea on earth is that only through collective power can we, the individual, make for ourselves a better life, and let me tell you, the tech billionaires do not want you to know that. My haters will be quick to point out that I, however, rely on these platforms to make my living. I have no shop floor. It’s true. Part of my despair comes from realizing that, without social media, and long out of school, I know nothing about how to reach other people. I came of age in the 2010s and have not known a politics without the smartphone, without social media, without the specatacle of virality and the belief that, in this open space, one can utilize these tools to affect change. And now, I am alone, in my apartment, afraid. My friends are alone, in their apartments, afraid.

One of the imminent questions of our moment is: what would it take to relearn how to do political work offline, to recognize that there will perhaps be a time — in the very near future — where online work will be rendered impossible for those of us not in favor of the administration? The old ways are already crumbling now in this moment of highly siloed algorithms, where no two people’s internet is the same. Hence, we must quickly abandon the 2010s idea that our content, concepts, and actions will, through the internet, find the masses. That ship sailed after Black Lives Matter. And after so many of the activists involved in that movement died under mysterious circumstances, before we embark again, we need to reckon with the fact that we carry with us a device that tracks our location and listens to everything we say. It is naive to think this will not have consequences. Those black bloc anarchists people used to rib for being paranoid are looking pretty damn smart right now. More and more, I’ve started to think that, just as people rightly request the donning of masks in public settings to protect others and ourselves, maybe it’s time to treat our phones the same way.

get off your phone (telling themself)!!!

www.late-review.com/p/the-eterna...

braiding sweetgrass is one of my favorite books I've ever read. highly recommend

Upkeep spring 2025 zine!

I wrote a thing and it's in this zine. For those that want to read my piece it's also here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Go get organized :)

Within 30 minutes of ownership finding out about our walkout, we negotiated a return to work! Our walkout forced a promise to us that we’d get the economic data we demanded within a week, a response to our tipping policy settlement, and attendance from ownership at bargaining ✊

⚠EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION!⚠ The Uncommons is WALKING OUT today after Greg May’s neglect in recent bargaining, from multiple absences at sessions to refusal to commit to a date by which he’ll provide sufficient economic data for The Uncommons (that the union already has from BSTRAT and Hex).