White to move. Puzzle "The Power of a Pawn Push" from chess.com. #ChessPuzzles

Saw a post theorizing you now encounter more people listening to things on speakers in public spaces because Apple banning the headphone jack did not result in people switching to Bluetooth headphones, it resulted in people abandoning headphones. I'm on an airplane RN and. Thinking about that. Hard.

Salome ever so politely receives head of John the Baptist. A very clean beheading, nice job, thank you so much! By Bernard van Orley, 1514. It's his day.

What do these companies have in common? -Cigna -Comcast -General Mills -Allstate -Marriott -Hilton -Walmart -Amazon -Microsoft -Meta All promised after January 6, 2021 to stop funding lawmakers who tried to overturn the 2020 election. And all have broken that promise.

There we go. That there’s a headline.

I have spent my entire adult life trying to write anything that makes me feel even 1/10th of what Princess Mononoke makes me feel

GREAT SONGS YOU NEVER HEARD OF! This Is Life by Black (aka Colin Vearncombe) youtu.be/txOLHjzBj9c?...

GREAT SONGS YOU NEVER HEARD OF! This Is Life by Black (aka Colin Vearncombe) youtu.be/txOLHjzBj9c?...

old way: start > run > notepad.exe new way: launch microsoft 365 copilot for sharepoint copilot for office copilot 365 hbo max 365 and simply say: "hey cortana. copilot run notepad copilot. sharepoint"

Conic Sections xkcd.com/3189/

My longest stories, the Bone Mask books: multi-POV, 3rd person, epic fantasy that focuses on sentient bone masks of power and the folks struggling over them - or, struggling to be free of them! Covers by the awesome Rebekah at Vivid Covers :D First book is free across various retailers, see below:

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

First check in of the year with what the team are reading this week! Bert is reading "Witch Trial" by Harriet Tyce. She's the very clever barrister on this series of The Traitors, and she's visiting the shop next month! This is her next book! - Michael

Black to move. Puzzle "Fluidity of Pieces" from chess.com. #ChessPuzzles

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Starmer once again says there will be no return to free movement of people Please repost if you demand the restoration of the Freedom of Movement that was robbed from us by foreign interference and the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.

Fuck every streaming service that won’t let me enjoy the credits.

White to move. Puzzle "No Recaptures Needed" from chess.com. #ChessPuzzles

It's more than a little disconcerting that invading another country to steal its resources is now less controversial and more acceptable to my government and much of this country than me using the bathroom

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

There's weather and then there's genocide. #GazaGenocide‌

'I remember the sound of the passing train As it rolled through the night in the pouring rain And the touch of a hand and the way she said "Goodbye".' Remembering Gerry Rafferty, who died on this day in 2011. 📷 David Hayes

Finished CUREPEDIA by @simonprice.bsky.social & I have to talk about how *amazing* this book is. I read it from start to end - A Forest to Zoology - which is absolutely not as designed, but reading cover to cover it forms the most incredible, sprawling, comprehensive, mind-bending band history ever.

White to move. Puzzle "Endgame Tricks" from chess.com. #ChessPuzzles

So lemme see. Maduro's now a foreign criminal who entered the USA irregularly... Presumably he'll be deported to Venezuela?

So lemme see. Maduro's now a foreign criminal who entered the USA irregularly... Presumably he'll be deported to Venezuela?

Everything we accepted being done in places like Palestine will be done again and again elsewhere until we stop accepting it anywhere. We can't carve out exceptions where human rights don't apply and expect human rights to still apply everywhere else.

Absolutely amazing interview with Alice Oswald about her art and her arrest. The courage, the passion, the poetry! www.theparisreview.org/interviews/8...

A national disgrace.

White to move and mate in 2. #chess

Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did? open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

I need book recs now pls! Stashing my kindle for my solo trip. I need something fast paced, entertaining, a real page turner. Can be a thriller, fantasy, or just general fiction. I don’t want something that takes a while to get into & I don’t want something too young adult.

‘Light Storm above St Michael’s Mount’. Fourth in the Cornish series, original oil on canvas board, 30x21cm. DM for prices #art #artsky #cornwall #storms #sea #skies #buyrealart #marazion

What's everyone reading this weekend?

After sixty years my gums are not so good. I dental-floss them in the one-sex toilet. Returning, clamber over wife and daughter And look down five miles to the Hindu Kush… —D.M. Black, “January 2003” published in CHAPMAN, 102/3, 2003 #poem #poetry www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/january...

I’d like to point out that the whole thing happened overnight while the US was asleep and EU was uninformed.

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

Tooting my own horn here but there's a glowing review of my book Supernatural Bodies in the Fortean Times in case you missed it (I had missed it!)

I wonder if every other country understands that it is now ok to attack any other country and capture its president.

Funniest outcome here would be Maduro being acquitted by a US court because the Trump administration didn't think through the case and puts one of their idiot TV pundit prosecutors on it... and then countersuing.

I trust the American people will LOUDLY voice their opposition to this idiotic and plainly illegal venture and that we'll be demonstrating against it, and our cowboy president,, beginning today. This stuff cannot go without being widely condemned.

ISRAEL IS COMMITING GENOCIDE AGAINST THE INNOCENT CIVILIANS OF GAZA. IT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. KING TRUMP AND NETANYAHU ARE DOING THIS.

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.

I think this administration has vastly overestimated the rest of the world's willingness to put up with imperial oil war bullshit right now. I don't think this ends well. No war.

Review of my latest reading: Ashes to Admin By Evie King.