chess folks: good interview with @chesscom.bsky.social, who had several pieces of excellent advice that stuck with me ("save it for the post-mortem") also, you should follow j.j. & their podcast co-host @fide.bsky.social here so they can peel off twitter for keeps open.spotify.com/episode/7lMw...

open.substack.com/pub/chessfee... I finished my essay and it got emotional

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It took me close to 30s to realize all four boards are 8x7.

I only learned what stomp clap was this week

My favorite way to annoy my spouse is by doing things she thinks are dumb and then unbeknownst to both of us they turn out to be what the cool kids are doing We had our cool queer Gen z neighbor over last night and she kept saying "swag," played pokemon with me, and split half a bottle of malort

let's just all ask ourselves very seriously where we think *this* is going and whether or not we'd like to go there www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

If I were in charge of photos and promotion for a major women's chess event, I would have fun playing against expectations. Like, my promos would have this aesthetic

One of the best assemblies at the pokemon gym next to my house

The failure of lib responses to bullshit like this stems from a refusal to admit that there might be at least a kernel of truth in the offensive arguments. Maybe on an originalist reading, the constitution does apply only to white people. But that's a reductio proof against originalism.

It's nice to see a pride flag that represents me

Keeping a running list of albums I can't easily find for free online that I miss

"do you want our premium, regular, or basic podcast ad package?" "Ooh what's premium ?" "Our host reads your ad copy" "Uhh what's regular then?" "Our least confident public speaker on staff reads your ad copy" "Oh god and basic?" "We make him sightread it lmao"

Why are they called the Gilmore girls when they can't even breathe underwater. More like gilless girls am I right?

Somewhere in New Jersey there was some prep school bro who unironically thought it was pronounced Snorlacrosse, and that to me is beautiful

I believe Women... 's 2010 album "Public Strain" was quite brilliant and now 15 years later that people are really vibing on the guitarist's "Cindy Lee" project, it deserves more respect

Name a more disappointing four word sentence than "A wild Zubat appeared"

Reading the four questions at passover sedar and wondering if anybody notices I'm asking the questions from "chop suey" by system of a down instead

Developing a sufficiently advanced AI just to run thousands of simulations on whether kramnik would be Like This if topalov never accused him of cheating during #toiletgate

Look I believe in being compensated fairly for your work. Refs should be allowed to accept NIL money from Duke

Getting ready for these late night Hogs

As a lifelong Arizona wildcats fan since the moment this morning I saw they were playing duke, I can't fucking wait for them to put the hurt on em

I am far too sad for these basketball games to be so lopsided

The pokestop near my house reminds me of every darkwave band w female vocalist ive ever seen live

In light of recent developments I would like to encourage feds to assume there is a journalist in the chat.

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2 Chainz voice: chain the color of aipom

Nobody suggested it and everybody should listen to Midnight Burger

Seeking fiction podcast recommendations. I like weird things, vaguely sci-fi or time travel things, darkly humorous things, scary is ok, need a narrative tho. Not gonna tell you what I've already listened to but there is a best answer (that I have listened to) and I'm curious if anyone gets it.

Some of their best nomenclature work imo

What's up?

Adorno got it right in 1945

"my top ten most happiest chess mistakes" - a blog post by sisyphus

Squid games but it's just a chess tournament except if you talk to your opponent at the board after your game the guards shoot you. No prizes.

Sometimes I wonder whether I actually like playing chess, or if what I actually enjoy is being in a quiet public space where it is socially acceptable to be mean to anybody who makes a sound

My higher rated, very online opponent was caught completely off guard when I played a benoni against her over the weekend and all I could think of was that I hope I win this game so I can post this meme

Blumenfeld gambit mentioned

My parents next door neighbor was a pioneering video game programmer which means when he wants to talk to me about chess it's less "vibrating anal jeans" and more "yeah so my advisor at Berkeley started using university computers in the 70s to create table bases. Are they up to 8 pieces yet?"

How do I stop losing from winning positions? Haha just kidding y'all everyone knows that's impossible

trivia time When is the last time magnus had a bad (equal or negative score with at least one L to a sub 2700 player) otb tournament where he finished the event and made no comments about any opponents' attire or behavior

He was there!

Report from day 2

I know this is hard to believe but the chessbase India people seemed to be happy that Arjun won and caruana lost

There's a surprise comedian every night of the ylt Chanukah series do you think tonight it'll be Emil Sutovsky going over the rules and sponsors for the @fide.bsky.social rapid and blitz