Jesse Jackson Jr. also had an under appreciated sense of comedic timing. Watch his fake sermon on SNL.😂

proper worldie, that

Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, the camera matrix-style swings 180 degrees making clear what kind of move I was trying to do]

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

that's now two out of two best games of the world cup so far that i missed because of morning walkies

i have no clue obviously but that action looks very odd to me. does anyone have it as a gif, slowed down? #PAKvUSA

home is where the dog is

submitting this for the 'pets indifferent to cricket' category @kingcricket.co.uk @liebcricket.com the book is great btw

Massive congratulations to the team behind Blue Prince. It really is an astonishingly brilliant game (which we believe might be sentient!!). And HUGE THANKS too to everyone who voted for us and helping us win @thinkygames.com 'Content Creator Of The Year' award... #twodelightednerds

done with vol2 of the course, one more sleep until this:

It really is amazing how prescient Effin’ Birds is, since I know these get scheduled way ahead of time.

On this day in 2017, England lost 8 for 8 in 19 balls. A classic of the genre.

Happy worst month of the year to all those who observe

To be clear, my intention here is not to complain, but to say this--seeking internet validation for being "right" isn't fulfilling (it's taken me a while to grasp this lol), bc ultimately that's not what the internet cares about. Just do the work and stand by your process.

🎙🎙 Isn’t this a dream commentary duo? Peter Svidler and Jan Gustafsson are bringing their insight, humour, and world-class analysis to the FIDE Candidates 2026. Here’s what you need to know about the event: 🗓 Dates: March 29 – April 16, 2026 🌍 Location: Cap St Georges Hotel

pretty hyped for that ngl

watching the tennis. is the tennis often this good? i should maybe watch more of the tennis then

We have a surgery appointment! It's going to be this Thursday the 29th. The total for the consultation & surgery is over €4000. I've put the invoices on the page. Please continue sharing, donating (if you can!!), and thank you for showing us so much goodwill. www.gofundme.com/f/help-ico-f...

watching root bethell and brook bat instead of working, as self-care. 10/10, would recommend

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

not dealing with the world particularly well this morning, so here's the boyo with his cousin and a mini-them

it was brought to our attention that, since we have been posting a lot of content related to Peter Svidler lately, we needed to diversify. so here is a picture of another esteemed author, Artur Yusupov.

very unusual tactic imo, both beautiful and hard to find. giving away your most secure and important attacking piece goes against every instinct - and just as i was typing that Sindarov played it. extremely impressed.

Letter in Times today

olga saw this, giggled and said 'you don't fit in the frame hun'

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

the happiest of mondays to GM Peter Svidler @polborta.bsky.social and every player who needs the finest manual of positional chess

*shameless sales hook*

naxx out! had a blast recording this, the book it's based on is a very good - well-structured and nicely accessible, and i tried expanding on it where it felt appropriate. it's probably not very beginner-friendly, but i'm happy recommending it for 1800+ players www.chessable.com/the-complete...

as far as guilty pleasures go, this one really is quite innocent. out today, btw (and the recording of vol 2 begins soon)

Hi, I’m Wendy Moira and my mom told me to tell you to get her to 100 followers or I’m gonna be sad. So sad. *points nose to follow button* 🥺

he beholds. happy wijk day, everyone

This is the last episode of our run. Threads are tied together.

Ljubojevic and Tal, 50 years ago, hitting off their last round game #TataSteelChess 1976. A decisive one for the 1st place that would last 59 moves, 8 hours and started at 9.30 AM (no adjournments this last round). #chess

this continues being one of the best running threads on here

floof

i'm branching out into va work. buy the course for excellent practical advice on chess improvement, stay for exciting new ways to mispronounce the word 'authors'

and to add another chess connection - nigel told me he ran into a certain bc lara on his travels. the convo went 'brian, what's your take on brook? I think he's the greatest batting talent of this generation' to watch lara reportedly replied with 'maybe two generations'

alex's writing on brook is fantastic. i was trying to figure out what it reminded me of, and i think it's people, very much including his peers, reacting to peak morozevich - the combo of 'this is all wrong' and 'he's won all his black games again, somehow'. long may it continue is all can add.

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

perfection

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

for years i thought i'm the most stupid-injury-prone person in the world. i'm not even minor league, obviously

They got there in the end: England have finally brought a timeless, familiar, seemingly unavoidable brand of agony to this Ashes series www.kingcricket.co.uk/they-got-the...

this is neither here nor there but i liked sky and i'm very sorry they're gone. that whole thing reeks.

very few things annoy me as much, and as consistently, as the little mistakes they make in every single movie chess scene. just talk to an actual chess player for, like, half an hour - what could it cost, 10 dollars? It's all forgiven now, though - i just watched the poker scene in ep6 of pluribus.

Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image

opened a fold out sofa, and then folded it back up because it turned out nobody needed to sleep there. when i was done there was a earring on the floor that went missing about a year ago and that we gave up all hope of ever seeing again. year starting with a bang ngl