Artist is Joohn Choe, who said on Facebook that it’s not watermarked and free for anyone to use.
https://subium.com/profile/dzgrizzle.bsky.social/post/3kzegudyxfs2a
The thumbnail shows the common form of smothered mate with the king in the corner. The Wikipedia page has other forms - like in openings. A grandmaster getting a smothered mate (even in a speed chess game) is uncommon because what the attacker is up to tends to be obvious. The thumbnail form done by not one but two knights must be exceeding rare. I'd never seen it before.
Magnus had a big advantage and after 25...Nxd3 white mentally collapsed. He spent ~30 seconds thinking which is a vast expanse of time in speed chess, he made a bad move, he made another bad move, and then Magnus had mate in 3.
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/116721637783?tab=analysis&move=49
In chess, a smothered mate is a checkmate delivered by a knight in which the mated king is unable to move because it is completely surrounded (or smothered) by its own pieces, which a knight can jump over.
The mate is usually seen in a corner of the board, since only three pieces are needed to surround the king there, less than anywhere else.
I always wondered what a ☐ was called.
Glyph availability
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If an application does not have access to a glyph, the character will usually be shown as the font's .notdef glyph ⟨⟩ which often appears as an empty box, ☐ (nicknamed "tofu" based on the shape), a box with an X in it, ☒, a diamond with a question mark, �, or a box with a question mark in it, ⍰.
The image is from here - What is the technical term for a replacement character if a font does not have a representation - Graphic Design Stack Exchange
In her last campaign, undertaken at a time of millenarian expectations on the left, the phrase “Kamala is a cop” probably hurt her. But at a moment when the Democratic Party wants to memory-hole calls to defund the police, some who were once turned off by Harris’s record as a prosecutor are thrilling to her law-and-order case against Trump. Her pop culture fluency is delighting Democrats who’d either never known or forgotten that politics can be fun.
Well before there was serious talk about Biden dropping out, queer influencers had started memeing Harris into icon status; on the Hard Fork podcast, the journalist Casey Newton said a friend had made him a Harris-themed coconut tree T-shirt back in February. That meant that when she became the presumptive nominee, there was already an online repository of affectionate Harris content waiting to be remixed and made viral.
And the more it went viral, the more Democratic voters emerging from a carapace of dread wanted to be part of it.
I predict this exchange between a reporter and McCarthy...
"What evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors do you have to go forward with impeachment?"
"In two words - Hunter Biden."
The right-wing doesn't need a real reason or even a reason that makes sense. They just need something that can fit on bumper sticker. Plus - there's the added benefit that mocking norms and not even pretending about the way things should work drives libs insane.
his VP
I wonder who that will be. My money is still on Nikki Haley. Although it would be much better if Trump went goblin mode and chose somebody like Kid Rock.
There's still room for improvement. For example - Biden actually dies of old age and after a bruising battle - Kamala takes over.
I did 132 minutes in multiple sets on my rowing machine. Not only is that an extremely long time for me - I used a higher setting so my Apollo's belt and each side of it are a bit sore.
The Apollo's belt, also known as Adonis belt, or iliac furrows, is a part of the human anatomy referring to the two shallow grooves of the human abdomen running from the iliac crest (hip bone) to the pubis.
It doesn't feel like muscle soreness. It's a weird feeling that feels like what I imagine a serious lower intestine problem would feel like.
That fucker turned 93 just a few days ago....
August 30, 1930 (age 93 years)
Tonight's hippie drum circle is going to be epic.
I'd have to google to confirm that for certain.
I may have helped. But just a little.
We know the truth. They said it was "cancer". They lied.
She might be Kissinger 2.0. Maybe she'll live to be 120+ and outlive her daughter and her grandchildren too.
MSNBC had this doctor on to talk about the horrible situation in Gaza.
I don't know anything about him - I copy and pasted that for context.
I was listening to in the background so I don't know how long the interview was. I think ~7 minutes at least. I noticed something very unusual. Almost zero questions. Stephanie Ruhle was interviewing him. Ruhle isn't rude but it's her habit to pepper guests with questions. She always does that. I've never seen her be so quiet. Also - MSNBC's PR shtick is that they ask questions and it makes you smarter. I forget an recent tagline - it was something like "Never stop asking questions".
It's the norm that anchors/reporters ask a lot of questions. In one way - the lack of questions was really great. He was highly knowledgeable and informed the audience in stark terms about how awful things are. That's the first time I've seen that on CNN or MSNBC. But the producers must have had him on because even though he didn't pull punches about the medical situation - they knew he was very politic and he'd avoid "politics".
The end result was that the agent of the chaos, Israel, hardly came up at all. It was like these horrible unfolding health problems were happening all by themselves due to unknown or poorly understood causes.