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@bschaffz.bsky.social

Formerly “merryjewish”. Non-profit data analyst, political spending reform and corporate governance policy. NYC. Democratic socialist, MTG, saxophone player, love talking video games! I write video game guides, ask me about them!

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It’s coming along…

09.08.2025 17:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Oh also the whole thing is snake themed, we got snakes for the players who podium, participation Fire Snakes altered by my partner, and a snake trophy for the winner

09.08.2025 17:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

One of my friends assisting me on this told me he bought packs of Odyssey, Dissension, Betrayers of Kamigawa and original Innistrad. Combine that with the Visions, Unhinged and 9th Edition I already bought and whooooo boy what a selection of boosters!

09.08.2025 17:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Planeshifted border gorgeous. Got a foil Shivan Wumpus I just like to look at every once in a while

09.08.2025 17:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This guy sucks so fucking bad. even more than I want Zohran to win, I need him to lose

08.08.2025 20:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am one of 3 people planning the stupidest Chaos Draft ever, it’s gonna be the coolest thing ever I’m so serious

08.08.2025 00:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What a scumbag

08.08.2025 00:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Suing Trump Isn't Enough: Blue State AGs Must Enforce State Laws Protecting Trans People Private entities overcomplying with Trump executive orders and targeting transgender people must not be given free passes to do so by blue states.

7 Aug 25 -- Erin Reed makes sensible suggestion that blue states suing Trump over anti-care policies isn't enough: they must also sue their hospitals that are voluntarily closing their gender clinics and enforce state laws that protect trans kids. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

07.08.2025 16:55 — 👍 117    🔁 37    💬 2    📌 0
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Andrew Cuomo couldn’t allow his first, tepid recognition of reality — that the Israeli government, with the full support of the Trump administration, is starving the people of Gaza — last more than a few hours without walking it back.

This is someone who believes in nothing.

06.08.2025 13:59 — 👍 4512    🔁 863    💬 72    📌 32

What the fuck

04.08.2025 19:06 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think you’re cooking

02.08.2025 19:46 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a man in a suit and tie with the words it 's peam below him ALT: a man in a suit and tie with the words it 's peam below him

This shit so ass, man

02.08.2025 16:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

All that stuff makes me so deeply sad and angry.

01.08.2025 23:38 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am through my first playthrough of Oxenfree (many years late, I know) and I didn’t really know what to expect but that was a fun experience! I enjoy being surprised playing a video game again!

31.07.2025 19:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dont take the bait (read the article, I mean, that is what it is about)

31.07.2025 19:36 — 👍 61    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 0

Man, it would be awesome to have even just one non-shit-sucking senator! I love New York!!!

27.07.2025 22:31 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

no, absolutely not, we are not doing g a Joe Kennedy III redemption arc in this year of our lord 2025

27.07.2025 01:36 — 👍 356    🔁 30    💬 10    📌 5
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Mastercard, Visa Under Fire As Petition To 'Not Police' Legal Content Blows Up The petition addressed that MasterCard and Visa must stop censoring legal fictional content that complies with the law and platform standards.

IBT coverage. I think stuff like this might get MasterCard & Visa to buckle:

www.ibtimes.co.uk/mastercard-v...

25.07.2025 22:49 — 👍 1841    🔁 901    💬 15    📌 41
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Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...

24.07.2025 22:04 — 👍 9610    🔁 3474    💬 183    📌 177

⚡️💫DIVA DOWN💫✨

25.07.2025 01:13 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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this from Brad Lander sums it up: by smearing Zohran, Josh Shapiro is siding with Trump

24.07.2025 16:46 — 👍 104    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 5

Let it not be said that I failed to remark that Josh Shapiro is a whiny little dork plagued by delusions of grandeur and an inability to comprehend when his asinine takes are not desired. The man signed a bomb, he should never show his faux Obama fake ass ever again.

24.07.2025 03:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He’ll be on Newsmax by week’s end

22.07.2025 03:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

WHERE IS THE PROFIT OF ANY OF THIS???? We’re running 10 figure losses on 10 figure investments, Microsoft is pulling up on buildout, OpenAI HAS to pull off their conversion or they lose SoftBank’s cash, how tf does any of this inspire confidence????

22.07.2025 00:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Our machine will totally give birth to God but it’s also so frail and we need all the money you have, yes it can’t do what we promise and it’s hallucinating on the regular and it’s entire existence balances on our reading of fair use, but don’t worry another $50B should cover it please bro”

22.07.2025 00:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

All these incredible beasties located exclusively on Hawthorne between Nostrand and Rogers Ave!

19.07.2025 16:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Some weird guys in my neighborhood

19.07.2025 15:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I liked Superman a lot, mostly because it was a straightforward repudiation of the absolute gutter state of the world simply on the basis of fact — YES love is good, YES we can be whoever we want, AND YES hurting the innocent is undeniably evil. A+

18.07.2025 23:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

PRO SE???????????? DELICIOUS, GIVE IT TO ME

18.07.2025 23:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I kind of want to hear Democrats share a vision for what they'll do if they take back the house next year. Because I remember when they did it in 2018 anticipating that Trump's life would get a lot more miserable than it ever really did, even with an impeachment in there.

18.07.2025 13:55 — 👍 112    🔁 12    💬 8    📌 0

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