A fun thing I have found is that the names Morgan McSweeney and Eleanor Rigby have the same number of syllables

A month of Jack Dwayne

Spent the day at the Strixhaven prerelease! Didn't do great, but Witherbloom is fun when it pops off. Best pulls: Emeritus of Woe, and Decorum Dissertation (which I never got to play). Workhorse was, Pest Mascot a cheapish card that grows to a big threat

What's the problem here, exactly

The 'just post it' strategy pays dividends once again!

First one that comes to mind is Elaine Marley in Curse of Monkey Island!

R.e. Mandelson failing vetting, it does feel like Starmer isn't told much of anything important. Didn't know about Jimmy Saville, didn't know about Labour Together being massive bullys, didn't know about this. What does he know? Does he know his multiplication tables, at least?

Going to play Anthology of the Killer on my Switch. Hoping it doesn't alter my brain chemistry in any way

Bzzt! Wrong! If the AI takes everyone's jobs, no-one will have any money, and will be spending their time finding ways to survive. It's not like any Government is going implement a robust UBI solution

Imagine being a nerdy stage magician who dabbles in the Occult. You'd be into Magic, Magic, and Magick. Really hard to discuss hobbies

a pixel art of crash bandicoot from crash bandicoot video game standing on a white background . Alt: Crash Bandicoot does a despondent version of his end of level dance

Start of a new week

DanDân is good

I quite enjoy playing "video games"

Pretty weird to see a leadership so out of sync with its primary userbase. Bsky users in general hate Techbros, GenAI and fascists, Bsky's leadership is made up of wannabe tech bros, vocally pro GenAI and fash-curious.

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:

Those Penguins have had it too good for too long. Time to shake things up a bit

Excited to open The Offical White House App to find that the President has decided to launch nukes towards Antarctica, for some reason

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Thematically (assuming this works how I think it does) this looks like a really cool mechanic. Summon a wizard who can then cast spells for you! Multiple times!

Gotta be honest, I don't think Morgan McSweeney's phone was actually stolen. I think, and this may be cynical of me, that he deliberately ditched it so he didn't have to disclose years worth of damaging WhatsApp messages. Perhaps hard to believe given how honest he's been otherwise

It's an absolutely stunning Cathedral. I especially like the very blue room off to the side!

A new print of Mystic Sanctuary from the new Magic The Gathering DanDan set. The image is of a family of three selkies relaxing on a rocky island. Some black headed gulls are also peacefully sitting on the island.

The new art for the SLD DanDan Mystic Sanctuary is really cute

Dandan acquired

I have very fond memories of Overbeck! If I recall correctly, there was a 'secret' room until the main staircase filled with dioramas. The hidden ghost in question was a little plastic figure who the staff moved between the dioramas each day!

Time to eat sweetcorn straight from the can

Having a good and not at all terrifying time in Resident Evil: Requiem

Wow, Master of Puppets is 40 today! What an album. Not the first metal album I bought (that was And Justice For All), but undoubtedly one of the most influential. I'm looking forward to seeing Metallica later this year

Attended a TMNT MTG prerelease today. Pretty good! I started out with a red-blue artifacts deck which I didn't get on with, and pivoted to a red-white alliance deck which felt much better and won my last game of the day

I was at the count in Gorton and Denton last night and we all saw Matt Goodwin eat ballot papers. His girlfriend and team begged him to stop but he kept stuffing it into his mouth and making grunting sounds like the Cookie Monster

You could argue 'it's fine cause the rare cards are just alternate versions of cards you can pull normally', but since they're put into normal boosters the point is moot as scalpers will just snap up the boosters anyway. What do they do with the non-rare cards? Give them to actual players? Lol.