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@boldmovebydan.bsky.social
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Dan Bock from Durham, NC. Three-time chess podcast guest. 114th best chess player in North Carolina. I have a Substack called the Chess Improvement Lab. Web and mobile app developer, runner and dad in my spare time.

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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 10h
The pictures? Or the skeletons??
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 12h
I play fantasy football because it keeps me in touch with people I would otherwise lose touch with.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 13h
“The harder you try the worse it goes” is true about a LOT of parenting things.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 13h
I just sent this to the old guys group chat, where we all have various stages of rotator cuff injury.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Until sometime around the 1960s (varies by state and city of course) there were basically no limits on housing density. When a bunch of new people wanted to move in, builders could knock down houses and build apt buildings in their place. There were downsides to that! But it kept prices in check.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Zoning
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Here they for some reason are rebranding Duke MyChart to My Duke Health and it’s taking multiple years for the rename to propagate everywhere.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Good times create weak men
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Way less than 10 years
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No, and Bluesky is extremely unrepresentative of the population on this issue.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m going
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If it were a legit policy they could pass it now. No need for this midterm contingency.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can confirm, I grew up in Mass but couldn’t stay as an adult since they don’t build enough housing for everyone.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah and being six months ahead doesn’t even matter anymore. GLM 5.3 is good enough for most tasks for most people. I don’t know of any use I’ve ever had that Fable could do but GLM couldn’t.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You have to believe they are at the tiny beginnings of a huge amount of future revenue and profit, which seems crazy to me given the competition.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Qh1 h4 Bxh4
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And ticket prices are higher than ever!
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I want her to be my lawyer
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m an economically optimistic person but I’m nonetheless very aggravated at how much I’ve had to pay for certain things recently. (I can easily afford it though)
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What happens when they die?
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve been doing a ton with the $20 Claude plan and I’m switching soon to Open Code Zen with GLM 5.3 to save even more money.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Red Sox season will surely be over by then. No conflict.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They’re talking about hosting one single game.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hard core maga isn’t a permanent trait
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Around the time I turned 40 I suddenly realized I was older than all the mustachioed Red Sox players of my youth were at the time I was rooting for them. That didn't make sense
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And the crackup is coming very soon, because as soon as the midterms are over, people start running for president, and there is no way that can go on the Republican side that is good for them.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Not necessarily mutually exclusive, but warrants some explanation. Is this hypothetical passing car an average one or an especially loud one? Are the windows open or closed when these people are inside with the TV on?
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Someone’s gotta do some independent measuring of the decibel levels and find out what the truth is.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
g4 Bxg4 Bg6
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’ve seen this postseason before and I don’t like how it ends
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They’ll ask questions like “Did the Republican National Convention make you more or less likely to vote for Trump” and like 90% will answer something other than “no effect”, which is not remotely realistic.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Everything is black and white” yes, this is because you are an umpire.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I was going to quote some part of this but the whole thing is so bizarre I can’t decide on one sentence. bsky.app/profile/rpro...
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I don’t know what to make of Rosenstein. He’s a weird man but maybe that’s what FIDE needs.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Everyone? Surely there are some people who deserve to have a bad time
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Extremely funny that “what would’ve happened if Donald Rumsfeld appeared at a college football game in 2007” is something that anyone has an opinion about one way or another
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Who’s everyone rooting for in the election for FIDE president?
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Nf3 gxf3 Qh2
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Is his shirt not tucked in?
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
How does the UI work for Google search via text message?
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Depends on region - here in NC housing was very cheap until the mid 2010s and I (young Gen X) am doing a lot better than I would be if I were a few years younger
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Qg8!! Kxg8 Rxe8
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
b4 Kxb4 Qc5
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Has this every worked in any country in history? People abstain from voting and elected leaders receive a strong message about an issue these nonvoters care about?
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Yeah and can they go back to winning every single game like in July
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We did finally start paying a price for deficits in the form of inflation and higher interest rates, after many years of deficits not having that consequence.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Cool tactic alert lichess.org/9OOa3dfV/white
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Blitz Chess • danbock vs Gevorg-55
danbock (2096) played Gevorg-55 (2093) in a rated Blitz (5+3) game of chess. danbock won by checkmate after 20 moves. Click to replay, analyse, and discuss the game!
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Chessbook iPhone app now sends you a notification the moment your Lichess game ends to tell you that you played the opening wrong
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