@rprose.bsky.social
News product at Bloomberg. Before that, was in Moscow for 15 years with @bloomberg.com & @themoscowtimes.com. Still one eye on Russia. Chess fan. Views are mine
what happened to flying, or at least forgetting to do math homework
17.02.2026 17:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0gun to my head i'd rather watch hockey over football but mostly just thankful canada has strong gun laws
17.02.2026 15:32 β π 33 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0In a bsky browser window you can press ESC to discard your reply, just throwing that out there
17.02.2026 15:44 β π 52 π 9 π¬ 7 π 0couldn't wake up this morning after a bunch of dreams about not being able to fall asleep. but I was awake for a while, too. I think
17.02.2026 06:03 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0the andrew formerly known as prince
16.02.2026 23:32 β π 108 π 13 π¬ 2 π 1not enough soup restaurants named brothels
17.02.2026 03:04 β π 424 π 63 π¬ 15 π 3
Catching up on podcasts and realized I had missed this from @peterdoggers.bsky.social & Arne Moll. An entertaining and very well researched history of the long-running chess tournament (now) in Wijk aan Zee. Great fun
open.spotify.com/episode/6UzT...
an aggressive ant colony reduces the Keebler elves to a pile of bones and little outfits, but what sends a wave of deep unease around the world, the true source of fear, is how fast these ants are able to get cookie production ramped back up
16.02.2026 11:50 β π 1652 π 258 π¬ 9 π 21
In an excerpt from his new book, βRussia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire,β @howardamos.bsky.social traces Dima Markovβs journey from a chaotic childhood to a life spent balancing photography, social work, and self-destruction.
14.03.2025 19:11 β π 16 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1
Screen grab of one of Dmitry Markov's photos on instagram, of a run-down theater Rodina (Motherland). https://www.instagram.com/p/BU81kNxjdkK/
A few hours after word broke of Navalny's death, we lost Dmitry Markov. His portraits are out of this world. Raw, warm, human.
his work: www.instagram.com/dcim.ru/
his book isn't easy to find but if you ever spot a copy: www.ozon.ru/product/ross...
Being an adult is cool because youβre exhausted all the time but you also get the satisfaction of not really accomplishing anything
15.02.2026 20:44 β π 831 π 176 π¬ 7 π 5Congratulations! Making it to Titled Tuesday is the dream
16.02.2026 05:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0couldn't believe this was real: cowboystatedaily.com/2024/08/11/g...
16.02.2026 05:06 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Woodworking Hack:
instead of wasting a wish on a clamp, ask the monkeyβs paw for two other things you need and put your workpiece between its fingers as they curl
one downside of being an Olympic athlete would be that you donβt get to experience the thrill of watching from home
15.02.2026 01:16 β π 51 π 2 π¬ 3 π 0I already have this problem in 3+2 and if bullet is the medicine it might kill me
14.02.2026 16:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That's a good point
14.02.2026 16:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I have never played bullet, on the belief that it would just make me worse at blitz, which I play (hypothetically) to some day be better at chess. But seems like maybe I should give it a try to at least get my wheels spinning faster
14.02.2026 15:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
On a related note, I'm enjoying the newish Back Rank Podcast. GM Evgeny Shtembuliak, GM Pasha Vorontsov & IM Misha Bilous (all from Ukraine) discussing chess improvement and misconceptions they've encountered as coaches
here: in defense of bullet, which I've resisted
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3PT...
I was thinking today about how I am losing a lot of my blitz games from won positions in time scrambles. And sure enough. Aimchess used to have something similar but it didn't make the annual cull of chess websites I'm oversubscribed to. Very happy Lichess keeps cooking
14.02.2026 15:31 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
score from my blitz profile. relatively high marks on accuracy and clock time usages (not losing games with lots of time left), worst possible score on speed plus very average on flagging skills
very cool new feature from @lichess.org. in addition to the extensive analytics under "chess insights", there's a new "tutor" feature to measure things like speed, tactical awareness, resourcefulness, conversion rates etc. relative to similarly rated players
some hard truths:
lichess.org/tutor
Nice one for a lazy Saturday morning. Chessbase India's Sagar Shah interviewing the rising U.S. star Andy Woodward on his win in the Challengers section at Tata Steel.
(h/t Ben Johnson's Perpetual Chess Linkfest newsletter: benjohnson.substack.com/p/perpetual-...)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxzO...
the 2024 fischer random world championship starts tomorrow and no one is more excited than me (no one is excited)
12.02.2026 20:05 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0it's probably fine
12.02.2026 18:09 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0our mayor in waiting
12.02.2026 17:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Maybe the chess crowd is too new and too pure to know Mr Dodgy
12.02.2026 17:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yes, I made a joke on Bluesky once. Iβd like to make it very clear that this was neither on a train nor in 1929.
12.02.2026 17:29 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0one of the great things about bluesky is joke understanding. just through the roof. you make a joke and people on bluesky are very cool about it. they nod and maybe throw a knowing wink. you'll love it
12.02.2026 17:26 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0bookmarking for when bluebaum beats gukesh later this year
12.02.2026 17:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0the discipline of regularly working with an editor who calls you out on your shit is ... not to be underestimated
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