I will take back every rude thing I have ever said about England if Count Binface beats Nigel Farage in the by-election

The next world championship challenger, GM Javokhir Sindarov, won both the rapid and blitz tournaments at the Naroditsky Memorial, while IM John Bartholomew scored an impressive 9-0 to win the Creator Invitational tournament. www.chess.com/news/view/si...

(pulling at my collar) oh sheesh, you’re telling me those were your plums in the ice box? and you’re saying they were so juicy? wowee. and so sweet? aw geeze, I’m just hearing it for the first time right now

We should have sci fi doors by now. Getting sick and tired of Door Classic

nodirbek vs alireza for all the marbles in zagreb, starting in 15ish minutes. whoever did the pairing needs a raise. before today it seemed like alireza will coast to first, when in fact he was nearly out of it, had to win a lost position vs gukesh to even be in this tie lichess.org/broadcast/gc...

Finally saw Queen of Chess tonight. Judit is magnetic, and there's a ton of great archive footage. Good fun. The big reveal, for me, was that Garry still isn't ready to say sorry. Easy chance to look like the champion that he was. He came across as a petty little dude, slumped in his chair. Oh well

so it turns out on bluesky the chat settings are in chat and I had never looked at them. the floodgates are open. do your worst

Three Sounds by Vasily Kandinsky, 1926 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137300

two of the coolest dudes to have ever done it. vasyl ivanchuk and boris gelfand speaking ahead of the naroditsky memorial blitz & rapid, photo via chessbase india

Baby 🥹

hey dracula: you're never getting in my house. ok? why would i invite you? i know what you're gonna do. and don't try to fuckin trick me dude, that's trash. i'll hang by the door and chat but that's not fun for me if i have to be constantly worried about being, let's face it, murdered by you

fix your hearts…WITH PIE

July 1, 1926: Cover illustrations by John Held Jr. (Life) and Eduardo García Benito (Vogue).

going back in time to tell the original posters we invented a way to send jokes around the world. faster than you can lick a stamp. but the problem, see, is everyone can reply just as fast

When people ask me if I have any good stories from when I used to interview rock stars for a living my mind often goes a bit blank, and to be honest a lot of it was quite ordinary and unremarkable, but on the other hand there is this.

they gave me admin rights. issuing my first bluesky patch. enjoy

JOKER: Not so fast, Bat-JERK! My LAUGHBangs will leave you BLIND as a BAT! BLUESKY BATMAN: Oof. Many people suffer from reduced vision. Not funny. JOKER: It's like, it's a pun. It's just wordplay. BLUESKY BATMAN: Sorry if I'm not in the mood for "jokes" while SCOTUS shreds our constitutional rights

Big week over at The Onion. — Thursday: InfoWars launches live at 8 p.m. ET on YouTube, Twitch and wherever you watch video. New handles and everything. Expect surprises. It is insane. — Friday: An entire history of the country, AMERICA: Birth of a Nation, airs at 8 p.m. ET on all Onion channels.

Blazing Saddles (1974) Director: Mel Brooks

Still blazing after all these years: Mel Brooks at 100

we came, we saw, it was enough for one day

I played Larry Christiansen in a first round game as a barely rated kid. Wasn't an especially good game, although it wasn't embarrassing. The coup de grace was a queen sacrifice to underpromote to a knight for a royal fork and an extra piece in the pawn endgame. Felt like magic, still kinda does.

A happy birthday to the great Larry Christiansen! en.chessbase.com/post/larry-c...

to eat a garlic pickle from the jar while standing in front of the open fridge door is to know god

♟️ Le grand maître slovaque Jan Plachetka nous a quittés à l’âge de 81 ans. Premier joueur de son pays à obtenir le titre de grand maître, en 1978, il participa à sept Olympiades. Georges Bertola lui rend hommage à travers sa partie mémorable face à Mikhaïl Tal : www.europe-echecs.com/art/hommage-...

Do they make a light up Magic 8 Ball? Most of my uncertainty happens in the dark

While you were at the club, I studied Egg Value + Goose Value

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

Not practical!?

yes sure what "shoppers" are "saying". even if you were of the opinion that people write most internet product reviews, when was the last time you were comparing a coffeepot and a toaster

The Moscow oil refinery hit twice by Ukrainian drones this month — the capital region's largest fuel supplier — will be offline for at least *six months*, two industry sources told Reuters. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

🪁 Thousands take part in one of the world's largest kite festivals on North Sea coast Thousands of kites fly along Denmark's western coast in Fano on June 21 in one of the world's largest kite festivals.

got to talk to @shteyngart.bsky.social about how he's unfortunately psychic and what we should do to stay human as AI descends upon us www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTVi...

New from 404 Media: Madison Square Garden made a dossier on activists who have opposed the venue's facial recognition program. MSG scans faces of people so some can be arbitrarily denied entry. Dossier includes specific activists, their contact info, tweets, etc www.404media.co/madison-squa...

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The last time a Labour prime minister resigned US securities settled T+3

As a writer I can only aspire to create a single sentence this dense with implied horror

ME: *points at my "World's Greatest Dad" shirt* CO-WORKER: *points at his own "World's Greatest Dad" shirt* ME: *takes a sip from my "World's Greatest Dad" mug* CO-WORKER: *sips from his own "World's Greatest Dad" mug* ME: [eyes narrow] *draws "World's Greatest Dad" sword*

Wow! No fuel in Crimea anymore - this is pretty significant, because it can cause hoarding in other regions, worsening the shortages. A ban on gasoline sales on this scale has never happened before in Russia (NB: Crimea is Ukraine).

First handshake: ok fine. no fun losing Second handshake: yellow card. what are we doing Third handshake: arbiter should forfeit them both

🔥 Favourites prevail on first day of FIDE World Team Blitz Championship The FIDE World Team Blitz Chess Championship kicked off today in 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, with an intense opening day featuring both the pool stage and the first elimination round. 🤩 Of 48 teams at the start of

had fun playing chess for the first time since December, and even beat some strong players along the way, but very rusty, unsurprisingly. maybe i should do this more often

Ding Liren joined us for an interview after his team Dragon Chilling won the 2026 World Team Rapid Championship! Watch now: youtu.be/GWC_DoiJMPs

in all the follow-up reporting and documentaries and youtube videos was it ever established why sam sevian ripped off the king's head in that game with niemann? did he ever say?

On closer examination, shaky seems to have been a massive understatement

Unbelievable

the many faces of someone who just lost a 2 v 3 after solving much harder problems earlier photog: Michal Walyusza