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The final position of the shortest chess game ending in mate (“Fool’s Mate”). White is mated after two moves.
The album cover for Five Days in July by Blue Rodeo.
Clip from The Princess Bride: “I just sucked one year of your life away”.
Author’s viewpoint, from lying on a couch with one leg extended. A grey tabby kitten with a blue flexible cone around her head is laying alongside the leg, facing the camera, sleeping.
Photo of a prince Andrew in the back of a police cruiser. He has a stunned look on his face and his teeth are visible behind slightly-parted lips.
The cover of “Traditional Ukrainian Cookery” by Savella Stechishin
Viewpoint of the author: lap covered with a grey fuzzy blanket. A cookbook is held upright, open to a cabbage roll recipe. A grey striped tabby kitten is curled up between the pages, preventing them from being turned.
Point of view of someone playing Elden Ring on a giant monitor, with two grey tabby kittens curled up asleep (one on lap, one on chest supported by right hand and forearm).
Aerial view of a white chair, covered with a red blanket. An older, mostly-black tuxedo cat lays across the back seat of the chair, asleep. Two grey tabby kittens are nestled along the tuxedo cat’s torso, also sleeping.
Tiny grey female tabby kitten is viewed from behind as it watches Elden Ring gameplay on a large (43”) computer monitor.
A tiny kitten is backlit by a large 43” computer monitor. The screen plays a video of animated goldfish swimming, viewed from above. The kitten is batting at the fish with its paw.
A open gaming laptop, with controller and headset, sits on a kitchen table, viewed from behind on the left side so that we can’t see what’s on the screen. A tiny female grey tabby kitten is sitting on the laptop surface, paw almost on the arrow keys to the right of the space bar, gazing up into the screen. The blue glow of the screen and blue-lit keyboard is seen reflected in the kitten’s face.
A small grey tabby kitten is laying in my blanketed lap and looks directly into the camera
How many “b”s are I the word “blueberry”? The word “blueberry” contains 2 letter **”b”**s. how many times does the letter b appear in blueberry The letter “b” appears 3 times in the word “blueberry”.
Elmo eschews fruit for cocaine meme. Elmo is “me studying chess”, the fruit is “tactics/calculation/endgames”, and the pile of cocaine Elmo buries his face into is “opening theory”.
CBC story headline: “Meet Root, the turtle with a mobility aid made of LEGO”. The wording of the headline evokes the Milkshake Duck meme.
A plate with two yellow bell peppers, stuffed. The peppers were halved longitudinally, stuffed with tomato/beef/rice, and have mozzarella sprinkled on top and golden after baking in the oven.
A Duolingo notification that the author has a score of 24 in French, that it corresponds to high A1 level. Some examples of simple sentences at that level are included.
A bowl of the described dish, and a glass of a Finger Lakes dry riessling.
The cover of the album Raise It! by The Happy Schnapps Band, a Wisconsin polka band perhaps best known for The Bears Still Suck Polka. The cover features band members on top of a rocky hill raising a flag, Iwo Jima-style, with a line drawing of a cocktail glass on it.
A shot glass with the University of Wisconsin’s Bucky Badger mascot on the side. The author’s avatar is a photo of a large Bucky Badger coffee mug.
Anakin/Padmé meme: Anakin: “Federal workers must return to the office or be terminated.” Padmé: <laughing> “We still have an office, right?” Anakin: <stares> Padmé: <serious> “We still have an office, right?”
A grid of avatars of all the chess.com bots I’ve beaten, with Li highlighted.
Batman silhouette, in response to the OP’s Batman NMR signal.
Anakin/Padme meme. “Federal workers must return to the office or be terminated.” “We still have an office, right?” “…” “We still have an office, right?”
A screenshot of chess.com bots, with Olga selected. All bot up to her show as previously defeated. Olga’s bio: “🇺🇦Olga is self taught, so her openings are a bit unusual. But, she knows her tactics and won’t lose without a fight.”
A square matted and black framed watercolor that evokes Artologica’s microbiology-themed works but also has a kitty face added to one of two pink bleeded-out blobs . The second, larger blob has a flagellum that doubles as the cat’s tail.
A screenshot of my work Gmail inbox total of 21,344 messages.
Mr. T as Santa, with Nancy Reagan sitting on his lap and kissing his forehead. A reminder of the Just Say No campaign of the 80s.
The album cover to Blue Rodeo’s 1993 album “Five Days in July”. A red electric guitar floats on a yellow inflatable raft in a small pond. The deep blue/black sky is reflected in the water. In the distance, on the shore a cabin is fully engulfed in flames.
A tuxedo cat is snuggled against the photographer’s lower legs, using his bare feet as a pillow.
A tuxedo cat with a white nose blaze and pink nose. He is lying in a sunbeam on a blue couch, on the photographer’s outstretched legs covered by a blue sleeping bag. The cat is sleeping with his chin resting on the photographer’s knee.
A small shot glass with the U. Wisconsin Bucky Badger mascot on the side. The author’s avatar is a large coffee mug with the same mascot on it.
A boule of Kalamata olive bread with a craggy brown crust cooling on a cutting board.
Foreground: the cover of “100 Endings You Must Know” by Jesus de la Villa; a white chess king on a chess board features prominently, with a black rook and pawn in the distance. Background: a 43-inch computer monitor with a ChessBase window, showing analysis for Ending # 100.
A stack of one quart and two pint containers of olives in deli containers. A stainless steel 1-cup measure is shown for scale, dwarfed by the towering olive colossus.
Meme: Winnie the Pooh | Vaccine Skeptic Tuxedo Winnie the Pooh | Plague Enthusiast