Imagine playing chess against a seven-year-old who’s dancing around and barely paying attention to the board (bc it’s all in her head) and she just casually checkmates you like this. Oof. [reddit.com]

Seven-year-old chess prodigy Lucie Pichard casually checkmates her opponent.

A child doing pirouettes across the table from you is the scariest opponent you can see in chess

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thank god for @graze.social, we’re lucky to still have them building important tools for creators and curators on the network 🤍

Graze Social@graze.social · 7d ago

Your feed, their way! Feeds have always been one list, same for everybody who opens it. Today that changes - we've rebuilt feed ordering around layers, and any layer can be tuned to the person reading. Same feed, a different page for every reader. Live now for all feeds!

when ai leaves u behind

Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon@artificer-ind.bsky.social · 3w ago

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

I like that this is how we measure things in Aotearoa now.

designing a new system for air travel where you earn badges for being good at airport and good at plane. badge holders get priority access. cannot book complex seats like row 1 without badges. lose badges for holding up security screening in any way.

So excited about our collab with Holiday Records. You can buy the vinyl, and get the Lume right away. www.nzherald.co.nz/video/herald...

Vinyl collaboration puts old-school format alongside music’s newest tech | Herald NOW Business

Lawrence Arabia’s debut gets a 20th anniversary vinyl reissue, pairing Holiday Records’ local pressing with Lume’s instant digital access. Video / Herald NOW Business

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harry ticket wars still hilarious

Taking the train to work like a boss

This week: hate reading in all its delicious forms. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/than...

thanks, i hate it

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Callard’s theory of the uni-context: the idea that we’re all existing in one big room now, and that one of the...

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This man won his primary by 30 points.

Ed Markey@edmarkey.bsky.social · 3w ago

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

If it's helpful in mastering the gorgeous new City Rail Link station names, you can get 'em on a cute T-shirt (or a tote!) via @greaterauckland.bsky.social's merch shop. 😀 greaterauckland.digitees.co.nz

This week: fans direct-funding paps. Where on earth do we go from here? newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/papa...

Papa-paparazzi

This month the second season of Heated Rivalry has started filming in Toronto and the actors playing our favourite gay hockeys are out and about each looking...

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In an inner city suburb 200m from a train station and a bus stop.

there is a blog post that says all of this but shorter I think it's reasonable to be mad at them not having a different policy, but "the tech companies should be in charge of which name gets used" is, imo, a policy with significant downsides! even if the official changes are stupid and bad

Azure@aguyuno.bsky.social · 4w ago

They actually have a blog post up about it now

i feel like Reacher must smell pretty bad. dude doesn’t have a home, is always borrowing or stealing clothes, is always sweaty from fighting, and never showers.

This week -- who remembers singing The Gambler with Kenny the Busker? newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/a-li...

a little bit country

Sorry this is a day late, I’m old and the jetlag knocks me around now a lot more than it used to. I landed early on Friday morning and went straight to the...

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Voting is now open for the 2026 Tiny Awards, featuring 10 sites that celebrate “the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web”. You have until Sept 25 to vote. [tinyawards.net]

Tiny Awards

This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web.

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Many thanks to @sachajudd.com for this, in particular this conversation with Agnes Callard: www.derekthompson.org/p/a-philosop... newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/one-...

one big room

I’ve had two pieces that came across my radar via Kottke saved in my to-read pile for a while now, and getting to them at the lake this week unlocked...

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If you’ve been holding off on trying Lume because you can’t find an artist you know, we’ve given everyone a free sampler. Try before you buy!

A remarkable essay. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The Wrong Kind of American

The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.

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This week: a great essay from @maxinegkaplan.bsky.social got me thinking about what ifs, infinite stories, multiverses and how we can still be surprised. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/in-a...

in another dimension

This week I read this great essay from Maxine Kaplan about the early-00s show Felicity. I watched the show obsessively in the beginning, as part of that...

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Partial eclipse!

The biggest pain in the ass of a generation project and the thing slowing everything down is the interconnection queue and the cost of transmission system upgrades So the easiest thing to do is stick panels next to a dead coal plant and use their existing interconnection facilities and capacity

Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo@0lsi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Minnesota just plugged a 710-megawatt #solar farm into a coal plant that once burned 30,000 tons a day. The unique approach to connecting the panels to the grid allowed it to sidestep a typically years-long connection process.

This week: why AO3 doesn't have an app, and what it means to need to be in an app store when someone else is making the rules. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/the-...

the price of admission

As you all know, I spend a lot of my life consuming fanfiction on Archive of Our Own, the volunteer-run archive that now hosts over 18 million transformative...

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I am getting nervous for my trip to be an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. But I am preparing to be a #MicrobialEvangelist there! I am bringing stickers and buttons to hand out…1/2

I bought myself THE PERFECT RING LOOK AT HER OMG.

This week: why AO3 doesn't have an app, and what it means to need to be in an app store when someone else is making the rules. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/the-...

the price of admission

As you all know, I spend a lot of my life consuming fanfiction on Archive of Our Own, the volunteer-run archive that now hosts over 18 million transformative...

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This was a fun one to write. MIC PACKS MY NEMESIS.

Lil Regie@lilregie.com · 2mo ago

Treating your speakers well isn't an afterthought. It's an essential part of a great conference. And it helps ensure you'll be able to keep running your conference in the future. An experienced speaker at many conferences, @sachajudd.com tells you how to do this: lilregie.com/blog/how-to-...

Check out our gig posters and our 🔥 round qr codes. See you at bFM Fancy New Band tonight.