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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oprah's Rook Club is (very slightly) expanding. Free toknight? Check it out. #denver #chesspunks

Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Nothing to do this Wednesday evening in #denver ? Come celebrate Labor Day and stand in solidarity with your fellow proles with a free-to-enter themed tourney where pawns cannot capture fellow pawns. #chesspunks #chess

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Was waiting in line to exit a Costco yesterday. Overheard a short conversation. Woman: "How tall are you?" Man: "I'm 6'8." Woman: "Ah, I'm 6'1, I can do that." I turn around. Man: "Cool" Both: *Fist bump* I manage to stifle any laughter.

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

5 years ago I started playing chess again after finding a bar community. Made slight gains by spending more time playing and improving my crappy openings when punished. But this summer, at 43, I'm focusing on fitness/cardio. First time over 2100 in all 3 fast time controls. #chesspunks #chess

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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 17/03/2026

Someone in PA caught the Cleveland meteor on his dashcam driving towards NE Ohio. Source: x.com/hankf330togo...

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

One of my favorite tournaments of the year. The games are always bonkers. - Physical dividers in the middle of the board - Pieces placed anywhere on the first 3 ranks - King cannot be placed on the 3rd rank - NO CASTLING - Bishops on opposite colors - 10/0 clockmove when the curtain lifts

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen: "We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

ORC's annual take on Hand and Brain, in tournament form. Take a break from your frustrations with your significant other, and get frustrated with a stranger at the chess board. #denver #chesspunks #chess

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Toknight is a casual knight. Stop by for brews and blunders. 22nd and California St in Denver, Woods Boss Brewery. #Denver #chess

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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 03/02/2026

Martinez ends her testimony with this: "If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Been setting new Blitz rating PRs over the last month, and I'm pretty sure it isn't a coincidence that I've been doing a fair amount more cardio (chess-boxing training) than I have in the recent past. I'm 43 and I haven't done anything special to try and improve my chess. Stay active #chesspunks

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Nihilist Arby’s @nihilist-arbys.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Shoot drugs directly into your dick vein. Who cares? Your government might murder you tomorrow, might as well. Thanks for enjoying arbys

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

In a statement, an emotional Grok told me it was "shaken" by the revenge porn it had generated. "It's not epic, and not based," Grok said. "It's neither. Frankly, it's cringe. And gay." An emailed request for comment to X received an auto-reply of a rofl emoji and a custom swastika emoji.

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Tis the season to give the gift of mayhem. Denver is going to be THE chessboxing center of the US...maybe. Seriously though, come give it a try. We aren't going to start out doing anything crazy. Learn to box and play chess AT THE SAME TIME! #denver #chess #chesspunks #chessboxing

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Denver Westword @westword.com · 09/12/2025

Polis encouraged Coloradans to follow two controversial online personalities, saying they do “actual thinking.” One used to write for a white supremacist publication, the other has posted in defense of sex crimes: westword.com/news/colorado-gov-promotes-white-supremacist-pedo-defender-40815741/

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

No one quite knows how this is going to work, but you'll be encouraged to gamble with poker chips, and possibly play some chess, and maybe win some free beers and other stuff. It might be fun. #chess #Denver

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It had been a while since I got to do the ol' Lasker Trap. Always fun. And yes, game review, underpromoting to a knight IS very cool. Thanks for noticing! #chesspunks

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

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Charlie Kirk: “It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment”

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Mister @2snarky.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 27/08/2025

NEW: After numerous tragedies, OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations, escalating to human readers, and contacting law enforcement where necessary futurism.com/openai-scann...

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OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Drink, play (3+2blitz) chess, and support a good cause tonight at www.woodsbossbrewing.com. #Denver #Chess

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I found Nxe5 here, and the game review labeled it as brilliant, but I noticed the eval went down. The subtle Qe4 is a fair amount better, as you still keep the N and come out in a better position...but chessDOTcom labels that move as merely great. No bueno.

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I think this is the first time I've ever had an 8 pawn advantage in a game.

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I missed my chance to equalize here. Black to play. #chesspunks #chess

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MereKatt @merekatt.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

My new platform: If elected, I will personally beat this guy's ass at fantasy football.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

refusing to use alt text on bluesky has endorsed Cuomo

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Forty years ago today: Tears for Fears hits #1 with “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”. “I didn't really think anything of it, to be honest with you,” Roland Orzabal said of the arpeggiated guitar riff that opens the song. “But my wife at the time liked it. So I thought, Okay, maybe I'm wrong.”

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Oprah’s Rook Club is hosting our first ever charity event/tournament/raffle in collaboration with Full Frame Beer. Girlswhocode is a nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the gender-gap in tech. #Denver #Chess TUESDAY JUNE 24TH AT FULL FRAME BEER 1139 20TH STREET, 7-10 PM Bring 10 bucks.

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Our motto is "Fuck Chess" so it is only appropriate we host an antichess tournament. #Denver is welcome to celebrate hating #chess with us.

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Chris Bianchi @bianchiweather.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

1-2 million people could've seen yesterday's Bennett/SE Aurora tornadoes. Incredible. I got photos/videos from Lakewood (below) and Castle Pines of the tornado yesterday - both 30-40+ miles away. Incredible. Photo: Sam McQuistan #COwx

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Nobody tell him

I’m still trying to take it all in! The election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV was an extraordinary and delightful surprise. I was one of the many commentators who said that the choice of an American as Pope was an impossibility (or at least extreme improbability). I took my cue from the late Cardinal George who said that there would never be an American Pope until our country went into political decline.

But the Cardinal electors obviously felt otherwise. I am very intrigued by the new Pope’s choice of regnal name. Leo XIII has long been one of my papal heroes. He not only inaugurated the modern social teaching tradition of the Church, but he also gave rise to the revival of Thomistic thought as a means of creative engagement with the contemporary world. There is actually much in Leo’s teaching that would appeal to both liberals and conservatives today, and this might signal how this new Leo will function as a bridge.

And he’s a Chicagoan! Ad multos annos, Pope Leo.

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The Pogchamps cheating footage from @drlupo.bsky.social is probably the most cringe thing I've seen this year, and it's been one of the cringiest years in memory, so far. #chess #chesspunks

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Chess.com really needs to update it's Grob theory. That move is totally book!

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Kept the tradition alive of losing early in the annual double bongcloud thematic tournament, but this time I lost to a NM in an endgame, who then went on to beat another NM in the finals. Progress? #chess #chesspunks

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Toknight is a casual knight, but next week is one of our most-anticipated themed tournaments of the year. All (including baboons) are welcome! #Denver #chess #chesspunks

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

20% ON THE EU, 34% ON CHINA, 46% ON VIETNAM, 24% ON JAPAN, 49% ON CAMBODIA, 25% ON SOUTH KOREA, 36% ON THAILAND, 47% ON MADAGASCAR, 38% ON GUYANA...

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a man driving a car with 55 burgers written on the side

ALT: a man driving a car with 55 burgers written on the side

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Oprah's Rook Club @l1m3h0u2e.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

We have over 110 people signed up to play in our league, and we aren't even in syndication yet. #chess #denver

The image looks just like the opening credits to Law and Order, that weird show that is always on tv. Always.

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