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shimaranako @shimaranako.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

peter svidler is the funniest chess player to ever exist

peter svidler: "What I am doing here is: you don’t play the Berlin and you probably hate the Berlin, but the problem is I also don’t play the Berlin and I also hate the Berlin," said Svidler. "So none of us are enjoying this!"

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shimaranako @shimaranako.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

"blitz is bad for your classical"

A screenshot of chess.com's evening titled tuesday leaderboard showing Hikaru Nakamura in 1st, Fabiano Caruana in 2nd, Alireza Firouzja in 10th, all of whom are participating in the Candidates

shimaranako @shimaranako.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

i got into the university of my dreams but the decisions page for my school has decided to announce it today given today is 4/1, the timing is both impeccable and wholly depressing

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shimaranako @shimaranako.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

i actually did this out of curiosity and it’s absolutely terrible—it ended up giving what looked like a decent list for around 100 characters and then promptly gave me “如” for every character afterwards

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shimaranako @shimaranako.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

does anyone have an updated list of the 3000 most common traditional chinese characters? can’t seem to find a good one

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shimaranako @shimaranako.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

do you ever have those days where your fingers are NOT working and you can't hit anything #osu

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shimaranako @shimaranako.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

which football deity has a parlay on leverkusen

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i do this but as a taiko player i imagine finishers

as a cis guy that uses a kpop pfp i have definitely been chatted up lmao

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what is the origin of pronouns coming in sets of at least 2? i am a cis guy and one pronoun simply suffices yet i never see any other cis ppl use a simple “he”/“she”, always “he/him” or “she/her”. i know it’s convention but like why

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can i remember this by thinking “tickets”

so i’m not the only one who read this and was like*huh*

shimaranako @shimaranako.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

no but unlike math, i don’t think there’s a good answer for this one

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autha graph will inevitably never be a popular projection simply because visualizing the world using it is just hard. however i think it’s really a work of art

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not a great win but thank god we stopped losing #bhafc

can i pretend daylight savings just will not happen i don’t actually have a (non-device) clock in my room so i can just ignore it for most of the day right

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thanks a million for the advice

i think i may try that, seems like a decently accessible example (at least in the general concept, there probably exist better specific examples for different target audiences of course)

yeah that's probably a decent start, thanks

shimaranako @shimaranako.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

basically i had to explain to her the common confusion about my last name among mandarin speakers---my surname is romanized thru wade-giles but ppl misinterpret it for a different one bc they assume it's pinyin i think she might believe they're different languages completely now, eh i tried my best

shimaranako @shimaranako.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

hello langsky, how do i explain the difference between wade-giles and pinyin transliteration to a girl who knows nothing about either

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shimaranako @shimaranako.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

the only people that have added me on their close friends list on instagram are two RANDOM sophomore girls that i have talked to like... Twice each for context i don't actually think most of my friends use their close friends list (i don't) but it's a little bit peculiar regardless

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shimaranako @shimaranako.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

5’11 but rounds my weight down because otherwise people think i’m massively underweight

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shimaranako @shimaranako.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

i don't really like real madrid but that was one of the worst decisions i've ever seen

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thank you for sharing, one of the true heroes that sometimes goes under the radar

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my bad i didn’t realize he him self revealed it but he probably isn’t thrilled about the prying

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he’s probably not so thrilled about it getting out

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if you’re not drowning in cheese you need twice as much

if only more people who don’t get it just operated under the honestly simple rule of “being nice to people is a good thing”

we have lots of cat pics and other funny shenanigans

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“well that’s the fucking point, microsoft dick”

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as someone who has gotten the most comfortable underwear in my life from my grumpy grandma who was like “take this, american clothes are always itchy”, i can confirm that old asian ladies are a treasure

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i think that makes it even sadder

are people who post images with alt text better at pictionary

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shimaranako @shimaranako.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

we really need more brilliancy in the final third. the one good thing about today's match is that barco looked easily PL-ready at least from the little he played, he very nearly made an instant impact with welbeck's near-miss. excited to see more of him

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who the hell is cameron peupion

Brighton's lineup against Wolves in order: Fati, Adingra, Buonanotte, Estupinan, Gross, Peupion, Moder, Igor, Dunk, van Heck, Steele

shimaranako @shimaranako.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

my mom (whose first language is not english) does not understand pronouns she routinely calls me “she” (i’m a cis guy) and my sister “he” (she’s a cis girl) and has done so ever since i remember i don’t even want to try to explain “they” to her at this point lmao