Boxes also work on bobcats

hellhound on the loose

it's hard to compete with 5 seasons of various versions of way down in the hole in 'this makes me inordinately happy' stakes but if every episode of the lowdown begins with jj cale it's going to come close

Not sure if this is well known or not but I'll be providing an English cast of this on PlayHearthstone twitch with Raven and Pocket.

gotta say, i'd have bet good money on fabi finding a way not to protect h4, esp having gambled with a3/nb5 to get there. my first reaction was be3 bxh4 kd2 lol, which isn't great (still 0.00 though), but the desire not to play g3 was totally overpowering.

Genndy Tartakovsky shared test footage from his film ‘The Black Knight’. It follows a knight who controls a 20ft suit of armor. Sony isn't sure there's an audience for the film and haven’t greenlit it yet. After Kpop demon hunters success I don't understand why Sony are dragging their feet on this!

This only happens to you once

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,

Share your favourite black and white movie

if qa4 the absolute best play appears to be an amazing king march to safety - via f6! the king is going to be very snug on g7, leaving black to enjoy the bishop pair and better structure

i don't think i've ever seen anything like the first line solution to this. timing suggests amin knew, but richie seems to have worked it out over the board, and correctly chose qc4 instead of qa4. curiously, amin spent an hour after qc4 - i guess he only checked the most natural move at home.

chaos gremlins ftw

once again reminded (this time by @barristersecret.bsky.social new book) that I will listen to absolutely anything @simvan.bsky.social reads. that voice, ohmygod. i think i went through the entire @mjohnharrison.bsky.social's wonderful 'viriconium' 5 times just to hear him talk.

Even after scoring a hundred, Jacob Bethell isn’t doing his job www.kingcricket.co.uk/even-after-s...

24/6 chasing 415 being described as 'quite serious trouble' is absolutely delightful. never change, cricket, never change

in case you were wondering what the solution is in the diagram in the post below, after 1.a7 (white still wins after 1.Ra7+ or 1.Rc8, but vincent had just played Ra7-a8 which suggests he probably wasn't aiming to put it back) Ra5 2.Rh8 Black has a beautiful draw with 2...Ra4!!

it has occured to me this morning while watching the grand swiss that 'vincent keymer' can be sung to the tune of this eternal classic youtu.be/w16Jpac9EYg?... and now i can't get it out of my head so i'm putting it here

there's no way the kids won't leave any for me this time, right? right?.. @effinbirds.com

It’s what he would have wanted

First they came for the plums And I said nothing because the gyre was widening Yes YES The tiger is out

best gaming longreads on the planet, if you're into that kind of thing

Mankad Woakes! #ENGvIND 🏏

fair result, this is a tremendous indian team, full of youngsters who will play for ages. still can't get over that bethell shot though. it's not fair on him, i think he's a very good player, and he's been carrying the drinks for months instead of batting in the cc. but what the hell was that shot.

whatever happens, this is the best series i've watched sInce '05.

why though. seriously, why. you only have 9 wickets to play with, and the man at the other end is doing his thing, if only you would let him. aaaaargh

tom lehrer died. i remember staying at fred friedel's house in the late 90s, and being told i need to go listen to something, and coming back a lifelong fan. now my kids have his songbook. wanted to say 'i wonder what the thought of {all this} but we know, don't we. may his memory be a blessing.

that time i let a baby opossum have a single grape

since meese appear to be allowed - my dad and i met one in a forest we were gathering mushrooms in. it just lay there chewing, so being huge nature lovers (idiots) we decided to offer up a mushroom to see if it liked those too. this is how i know it's a lie that they only kick with their hind legs

no longer very topical but i thought it's still worth preserving. it was mentioned on the @finalwordcricket.bsky.social, by cam ponsonby, i think. couldn't find the author on here to give proper credit.

i gave up and took joyce for a walk at around 36/1, after composing (and discarding, because nobody wants that shit) a pithy skeet to the effect that the woakes c&b followed by two fours in a row encapsulates this day perfectly. let that be a lesson to me on the pitfalls of doomerism.

what's the verdict on today then @guerillacricket.bsky.social - 'this is how they play, we should take the good with the bad' or 'please use brain every now and then pretty please'

this week’s column is on arsenal and thomas partey. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Hey. I've written a new article. One of the difficulties in talking about "how can we do something better" is that it means we gotta talk about what isn't going well. I wrote this in the hopes that reading it would give you tools to write work you're proud of. docseuss.medium.com/lets-reconsi...

status of my new hobby: i watched enough minute cryptic videos to consistently solve their new ones, which gave me the absolutely wrong idea that i might be ready for the times cryptic, which led to an additional disaster of giving money to the times. vicious circle at its most vicious

i love 137* as much as the next guy, but their refusal to accept 185* as just as heroic and, frankly, thrilling is regrettable. joe could have given it a shot, maybe, but he got a good one last night, and none of the others will even try

Time now for the Missing Words round…

not going to repost the same joke, but i do hope they don't play for a loss here, just to prove a point.

Highest "lower" score in a Test (higher score in brackets): 161 (269) S Gill 150* (153) AR Border 143 (162) TM Dilshan 142 (199*) A Flower 142 (144) SPD Smith 135 (145) DA Warner 133 (247*) GS Chappell 130 (221) BC Lara 130 (136) W Bardsley

i need this as a clip, right NOW that bat ended up at deep fine

time for bazballers to go for a final decisive deconstruction of Test match cricket - confounding all expectations by batting for two days at 3.75 RR to make a safe draw

How I managed to live my life and not see this absolutely epic piece of internet culture that illustrates audio of LBJ ordering pants is beyond me. There are still tears in my eyes from this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR_m...

Turns out there was a bigger crossover for this than I expected. So if you enjoyed this, probably quite sensible to sign up to the ol’ newsletter.

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going live in a short while, with maurice <3, for a good cause www.twitch.tv/chess2change picture entirely unrelated

what do you mean 'normal tools'?

damn right

we had to go pick up the beastie for a sleep over, but luckily @guerillacricket.bsky.social exists so I didn't miss a single ball. more of the same, please

that's more like it, i couldn't quite figure out why i didn't have to take pauses to breathe, but now everything is right with the world. excellent commitment to the bit by brook, too - a golden duck facing a guy who barely bowled until that point is perfection.

i'm not sure how i feel about 150/0 on day 5 vs bumrah et al. guess it's fairly appropriate considering the state of (gestures vaguely) - why would cricket suddenly make sense when nothing does

the man is magic in everything he does, very much including the silly bits. that was like the flintoff over to ponting, but without the happy ending (or with one, depending on who you ask, i guess) #engvind