spannerlab.bsky.social
He/him. Manchester, UK.
Chess arbiter, teacher and Dungeon Master. Got out of The Bad Place a long time ago and am trying not to be feral online for financial reasons.
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There is a local player who used this excuse to try and get away with his own shitty behaviour towards women, and as a neurodivergent person myself I was furious that he was trying to pull us all down with him.
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I gave up on Reddit when I got a 3 day ban for saying I would have thrown hands if someone had snuck pork into my food into an attempt to "save" me.
That was me done. These places are curated by and for fascists.
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You asked how long I had been playing video games and I suddenly felt like I'd picked the wrong grail
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It's still a problem at the first tournament back.
It's a bit of an issue right now here where the ECF membership structure has changed, meaning tournaments are increasingly FIDE rated where they hadn't been before. A lot of out-of-date ratings. Hopefully it improves quickly.
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No. Practically, if that "inactive" player becomes active again, the old rating is reinstated. So I have over-65s playing in their first FIDE tournament in a decade with a rating 400 pts too high.
I wouldn't want to be the statistician who decides how much a rating should degrade by though.
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Is ep. 888 going back up?
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"Cool" means you don't care. The act of wanting to be cool makes it unattainable. Catch-22.
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It stands for "Drail nf Dthulu"
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I think at least one of the boxing federations is treated as "making stuff up to suit their (Russian) agenda" so I think it would need to depend on them being transparent with each other.
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One time my husband added way too much weed butter to the soup and we put on your drifting video and time collapsed in on itself and we watched it on loop maybe... forever? I want to say thank you for that and I hope the future has something good in store for you.
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Never wanted to lick the floor of a deli before but here we are
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I have and will continue to let women into the gents because the line in the ladies is too long. If we don't give a fuck about it, their kangaroo court law will shrivel and die.
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Cabin with a firepit. It'd just be cosy.