Josh Ohlendorf

@DMG_MTG @JimDavisMTG @NumotTheNummy We had much debate on how to best set up that room. We needed like 30% more space to be comfortable!

@JimDavisMTG @NumotTheNummy This event was crazy fun. Hope to see it again in the future, maybe with more room space 🙂

LAS ✈️ JFK Nice window seat! #MCVegas was a blast! Meet & Greet went awesome, #BronzeToMythic event with @NumotTheNummy was a 140 player sold out smash, and got to meet and hang out with many awesome folks! Content schedule for the week will go up tomorrow, for now I’m beat!

@JimDavisMTG @NumotTheNummy It was a pleasure to help out, even if I was sent to another area without really getting a chance to say hi. Did you and Numont ever play your decks against each other? His looked cracked.

@zdch There are virtual poker and blackjack tables in Vegas. Why the fuck would you go to Vegas to play a video game?

Tweet of the Year contender.

@fiiiiiist “Your job is to make it so we don’t have to hire 90% of the staff we should have.”

I’m hiring a Member of Technical Staff at IFP. Your job will be to build software that allows us to operate with the effective capacity of a think tank 10 times our size. If you care about reforming US policy, I think this is one of the highest leverage roles available: you’ll be directly amplifying the work of our extremely cracked and growing team of 35. Given how important this job is, we will pay a $5,000 reward for any referral that results in a hire. More on the role: I expect this will be a hard role to fill, for a few reasons: 1. You have to believe US policy is the most important lever for impact There are plenty of opportunities in the private sector for engineers to have a significant impact. But technical talent in public policy is far more neglected, and often much higher leverage. IFP’s mission is to reform US policy to drive breakthrough discoveries, attract top talent, and expand our nation’s capacity to build. We measure our efficacy by our counterfactual policy impact: whether we create good policy outcomes that would not have otherwise happened. The software you build will directly affect the rate at which we can do this. The work you help us do faster and better will be read in the Oval Office, will shape the direction of billions in federal $, and will directly influence geopolitical strategy. We need someone in this role who internalizes how important this is. 2. You have to want to deeply understand what effective policy work looks like Many tasks in policy research and advocacy are time-consuming but basic text-to-text translation tasks, like simplifying results from academic papers, summarizing public comments on new regulations, and recording information about contacts from meeting notes. This work is necessary to produce good policy outcomes, but laborious. One way to understand this role is by looking at the way progress in AI capabilities has shifted the job of a programmer away from writing code and more towards specifying requirements and verifying the work of AI agents. In this role, you’ll do the same for policy work, moving the focus of our team away from basic natural language manipulation tasks and towards strategy, deep research, and policy engagement. A crucial part of this work is identifying which parts of policy research and advocacy can be effectively automated with frontier models without compromising quality, and continually retooling to adapt to the latest state of the art. The ideal candidate is someone who cares about building tools that people love to use and who can work effectively with our policy teams to understand their goals, processes, and constraints. 3. You have to be able to build a wide variety of great software Your projects will vary widely, from building agent scaffolds to custom CRM tooling to deployment pipelines for maintainable, performant microsites (check out the full job description for more). The right person will have led the design and delivery of complex user-facing products across the full stack, know how to ship quickly while building maintainable tech, and understand the trade-offs inherent in your design choices. – This role is open to both remote work and people able to work out of our office in Washington, DC, with the latter being preferred. The salary range for this role is $165,000 to $245,000. Here’s the full JD and link to apply: ifp.org/opportunity/me… Applications close May 31st.

@wizards_magic I gifted him a prize ticket. He tried to eat it but spit it back out. 😆

Fblthp had a big weekend at #MCVegas! Here's just a day in the life of Fblthp getting totally lost. Designed by the artisans of Jim Henson Creature Shop

@zdch @CartoonsHateHer Damn it, I’m on my short break on the last day of MagicCon, I can’t lose my shit like this. 😆😆😆

Thanks to @CartoonsHateHer for helping me realize DRIL got into Bryan Johnson Discourse.

@RpsAgainstTrump Gas went up 70 cents a gallon in the last 24 hours where I live. That blockade sure is working!

Trump on Iran: “The blockade is genius. The blockade is 100 percent foolproof, which shows how good our Navy is. I can tell you that. No one is going to play games. Now they have to cry Uncle. That's all they have to do, just say 'We give up.'”

@SaltyOrang3 WHY NOT?!?

Decklist submitted. Surprisingly not playing steam vents in the Pro Tour

@CedricAPhillips I couldn’t get a library, but had 2 Arks.

The best Lorehold students do their homework in a Library 😉

@JimDavisMTG Sorry if my joke fell flat… honestly, though: just for fun or is there a strategic reason for singleton?

@brainchild138 Lutri-less Lutri! (it's Standard)

I leave for Vegas tomorrow, so it's time for a #PTSOS preview with some sweet Standard decks! Note I'm not qualified, but I am doing sweet content stuff there! twitch.tv/JimDavisMTG

@zdch It was originally called Arnold Palmer. They got sued and said “fine” and changed the name to this.

@brainchild138 I don’t! Do tell?

This seems, uh, ominous?

@Stephanus_SJ @GyaruGlow I was so confused by the abrupt shift to *super fast battle* *super fast battle* *super fast battle* the end.

@GyaruGlow and he rushed the ending of UQ Holder because he was running for the seat, lol

Japan elected a manga artist to its national parliament to fight Western-style political correctness. Ken Akamatsu — creator of Love Hina and Negima! — won a seat in the House of Councillors in 2022 on a platform of protecting creative freedom. He continues to push back against overseas censorship pressures in 2026. In March, Senators Ken Akamatsu and Taro Yamada publicly clarified that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s government is not interested in censoring the internet under the excuse of “protecting children.” It's great to see Japan fighting back against Western censorship pressure!

@JimDavisMTG We haven’t gotten our staff schedules yet, but I’m really hoping I get to help run the Bronze to Mythic event at Vegas.

This week's schedule! 🎮- twitch.tv/JimDavisMTG 📺-youtube.com/jimdavismtg 📺- youtube.com/BronzeToMythic 🦋- bsky.app/profile/jimdav… 📸- instagram.com/jimdavismtg/ 🎥- tinyurl.com/JimDavisMTG-Ti… 💻- jimdavismtg.com

@Ineverglow Amazing album or an album that has some pretty good songs on it. Jars of Clay is so amazing.

Championship Match! Jars of Clay - Jars of Clay / The Beautiful Letdown - Switchfoot

Championship Match #CCMTournament2026 🗳️ Voting is in this thread. 📊 Polls will end in 5 days. ❤️ Vote by clicking the name of the album you subjectively like best in each match 🥇 Winner is the champion! 🎶 Spotify Playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/0dWlQ… Apple playlist (thx @roadcrew1): t.co/ZvUB2DLWnS

@CalebTheSpy Project 86 gets my vote.

Vote for Five Iron Frenzy!

@BulwarkOnline 😆😆😆😭

Trump on cancelled negotiations with Iran: "We're not gonna be traveling 15, 16 hours to have a meeting with people that nobody ever heard of…It's a lot of traveling. No, we don't want to do that…Traveling takes too long, too expensive. I'm a very cost conscious person."

@UltimateGuard I love this art. Any chance I could pre-pay to pick one up this weekend? I’m judging and have no idea when I can make it to the booth.

MagicCon Exclusives Something rare is wandering into the spotlight. We are proud to present our exclusive accessories featuring Glister Bairn, illustrated by the incredible Nils Hamm. A touch of whimsy, a spark of magic, and a raccoon hat you can only find at MagicCons this year.

@waitbutwhy I am tired, and feel like either I pressed the wrong button, or there was a bait-and-switch, which I don’t think this platform can do. I would vote blue, but this recorded me as pressing red. What happens to people that are tired and accidentally press the wrong button?

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?