JJ
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My neighbor's kid invited himself over to play chess with me and now I'm calling child protective services on his dad for telling him pawns could move sideways
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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...
Ep. 242 J.J. Lang (2100 USCF)
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open.substack.com/pub/chessfee... I finished my essay and it got emotional
How 2025 Became My Year of Endgames… (Pt. 3)
And what happened next LOL
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How 2025 Became My Year of Endgames…
And what happened next LOL
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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...
Republicans cheer for ‘mass deportation’ – a dark new chapter in America’s history of othering ‘them’
The convention celebrated Trump’s vision of immigration as a disease. The GOP idea of a cure would mean I, and millions of others, would not exist
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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
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.
never getting a dime from me www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...
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