Scott Rose

the chess feed is back (the chess feed never went away) bsky.app/profile/rpro...

Judit Polgar's record as the youngest woman to become an international master stood for almost four decades. Bodhana Sivanandan is doing incredible things www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/o...

Oct. 22, 1926: Harry Houdini takes a punch to the stomach during a vaudeville date in Montreal. Nine days later, the great magician and escape artist will die of an abdominal infection brought about by a burst appendix at 52. Did this blow kill him?

I was feeling a little down earlier, yeah, got to hold a baby duck

Spent the weekend reading Evan Gershkovich’s book and whew, a real feat of reporting, writing and humanity www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/b...

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wow what a fun reason to delete all of mark zuckerberg's websites and never think about any of them ever again if you needed another one www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/meta...

My only expertise is on roast potatoes, but I'm going to suggest this doesn't end well.

Himfluencer. @theonion.com

good one from @colindickey.com. glacial errata is a lot of fun. glacialerrata.beehiiv.com/p/glacial-er...

at least a month too late for the Discourse, oh well

Bellingcat's latest documentary, Killing Anna, will be broadcast tonight on Channel 4 at 11:05pm, following the real life investigation into the Tadamon massacre in Syria. It'll also be available on More4 from tomorrow onwards www.channel4.com/programmes/k...

Not sure what an “energy ceasefire” is … but it’s probably something like, “Ukraine must stop bombing refineries and Russia can keep bombing apartment buildings.” www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Trump thinks he made a brilliant deal with Putin about diesel exports from Russia. But Russia planned to allow some diesel exports anyway. Putin managed to sell it as a gift to Trump. This is from 3 days ago:

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

20 years ago today Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia’s most prominent investigative journalists, was murdered. I found no mention of the anniversary in today's Russian newspapers. #ReadingRussia

During the Oviedo rapid tournament in 1993. Najdorf after winning one blitz game after another vs Ivkov, being the much older of the two: "The thing is Boris, you're old" 😅 #chess

I just voted against Susan Collins, who promised to serve only two terms in the Senate when first elected in 1996, for the fifth and hopefully final time. 🤞 Americans: still not too late to VoteFromAbroad.org

in honour of Jon Speelman's 70th, here's a chess story from way back when. in the late 90s, i played one season in the unnamed east european league. it's the last round, my team is competing with the other strong team in the league for 1st, and they need to outscore us because our tbs are better

jumping out of the bushes and going boo! and getting shot 53 times by the national guard

ME: (bringing a date back to a haunted house) Enter… if you dare! Haha. But seriously, it’s pretty spooky in there. Who knows, play your cards right and maybe we could add some moans of our own? DATE: Um, maybe another time. THE WHISPERING CORPSE THAT HOVERS JUST BEHIND MY HEAD: ʸᵒᵘ ᵃˡʷᵃʸˢ ᵈᵒ ᵗʰⁱˢ

Going outside but shaking my head the whole time so people know I don’t agree with what’s going on

U.S. arrests executives of Oxygen Forensics after company supplied smartphone-access tools to both ICE and the FSB CEO Lee Reiber was released on bond in Idaho, while Oleg Davydov was arrested at London Heathrow Airport. The U.S. intends to seek his extradition.

i've always wanted to visit iceland sure wish i hadn't been holding that monkey's paw when i said it

A big new story from us: a big new leak means that we can put numbers on the scale of A7 -- the Kremlin's huge money-laundering machine. $6.9bn laundered through the international banking system via SWIFT, with $1.1bn sent to StanChart alone. www.ft.com/content/3848...

bit of news from friends still in Russia. they went to a polling station this weekend and had their bags searched. among the items you are no longer allowed to take into a voting booth: red lipstick everyone was re-elected, I'm also told

[spelling bee] JUDGE: your word is "literal" KID: can you use it in a sentence JUDGE: "it" is a story about a sewer clown

(gazing wistfully towards the horizon) candy corn’ll be ripe soon

this is an obscenely good piece of writing and reporting colossus.com/article/mark...

One thing I really appreciate about the FT is the newsroom seems much more interested in telling important stories than preserving access for easy ones. This is quite a read giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

i was just right now having the worst day of my life but then i rubbed my eyes for a really long time. fixed everything. people were yelling “stop doing that, it’s bad for you” but i didn’t and now i feel great

🌡️ The EU's climate monitor says that August was the hottest single month ever recorded globally, with ocean temperatures also reaching unprecedented highs as western Europe capped its warmest summer. [1/2] ➡️ u.afp.com/SjN6

You will never convince me that Nathan Fielder is not one of his generation's greatest artists www.vanityfair.com/story/nathan...

Mediazona is 12. For over a decade, we have fought to report the truth from Russia. We have faced relentless crises, yet each time, your support has pulled us through. We simply wouldn’t have made it to this day without you en.zona.media/article/2026... 1/5

disagreed with me? dogpiling. random people agreeing with you? dogpiling. not recognizing my honor student sticker? dogpiling. raised your voice at me? dogpiling. stubbed my toe? dogpiling. not saluting me for posting? dogpiling. got splashed by a puddle? dogpiling. out of the ice cream I like? dogp

yeah i saw that and had a flashback to maggie playing 3.bb5 h5 against me in one of the first iterations of the magnus tour 2020, and how much indignation it produced (not from me, to be clear). in hindsight, that was a show of respect, at least compared to this ;)

Stockfish 19 is here! Stronger, smaller, and easier to run, thanks to an upgraded network architecture, universal binaries, and more! stockfishchess.org/blog/2026/st...

It's still easy for Americans living abroad to request a ballot to vote this November. You should if you haven't yet: www.votefromabroad.org

Please send me your Ireland recommendations. To do/to not do/to read/to eat/to see? I am level 0, complete novice

enough with the thinking about moves malarkey, time to bang the clock. as my first coach told me: the harder the bang, the stronger the move www.youtube.com/live/XQMvaRx...

Relax, it's just CALLED shepherds pie. There's barely any shepherd in it.

I decided to get into bird photography to try to stay sane (send tips!), and I've been looking at what others are doing. The Interior Dept posted a series of photos from Jake Bonello (USFWS) of Canada goose goslings leaping from their 25-ft high nesting platform. www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...