I’d prefer not to
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My Mr. On Blast costume failed spectacularly. I kept putting people on blast, doing the dance, playing the jingle and everyone just stared at me.
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🎉Congratulations to the winners of ALTO!
🏆Championship: NM Naveen Prabhu (NC, plaque winner on tiebreaks), NM Mark Biernacki (NC), GM Vladimir Georgiev (NC)
🏅U1900: Tripp Southerland (VA, plaque winner on tiebreaks) and Mariette De Meillon (GA)
🏅U1400: Lance Bledsoe (NC)
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Nathan for You is one of the funniest TV shows ever, and this was many, many year before he took on his final form
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Lmao. I am over 100,000 lifetime miles and my knees are fine.
You jog 4 miles every morning and your waistline hasn't improved at all. You've destroyed your knees for nothing.
Of all the ways to exercise, the light jog is one of the worst. Your ancestors walked most of the day and ran all out when they had to go after prey, or run away from a threat, or toward a child in danger. They didn't jog.
Walk. Sprint. Skip the middle.
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It's amazing how every single post they make is not only a lie, but a self-own.
There were a million other ways to title this besides "A snake is a snake", and then the words "THE SNAKE:" before his image.
This administration is nothing but a projection of its own evil.
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We've had a bunch of critical coverage of both Gary & you. You are both massive self-promoters with extremely large egos. One difference, though, is that Gary admits he is an activist, while you weasel away from recognising your role as the sycophantic media wing for Reform.
Gary Stevenson is not an expert, he's an activist. The Greta Thunberg of tax. And he's finally been found out.
konstantinkisin.com/p/gary-s…
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I would like to dedicate this win to @GmNaroditsky. It was one of his favourite tournaments. We have played endless bullets and hyperbullets, which definitely contributed to my growth as a player.
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yes, Decoding the Gurus is very cathartic if you want to better understand this awful, awful landscape of shiny midwits
There are multiple episodes of @GurusPod where @C_Kavanagh and @ArthurCDent lay bare Kisin's grift and the utter slop he produces.
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Okay, thanks for clarifying. So my sense is you have no opinion on DOGE itself but you're opposed to certain words people are using to express their opinions about it?
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.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.
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Every Trump debacle follows the same 13 steps. The reflecting pool fiasco is just one of the lower stakes versions of it.
1. Devise unnecessary spectacle
2. Disregard expertise
3. Bypass normal procedures
4. Declare victory too early (bonus if done by AI-slop post)
5. Spend way more than estimated
6. Ignore the haters
7. Realize it is not going well
8. Bypass normal procedures once again
9. Allege conspiracy and sabotage
10. Redeclare victory
11. More blaming
12. Losing interest
13. Pretend it never happened, and move on to the next thing
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My new article on @chesscom is about:
The surprisingly large random movement of your rating
The significant likelihood of even a 250-point swing over thousands of games
Drunk stick figures!
Link in comments.
I only learned the importance of fueling late into my running career. Even then I underestimated it and under-fueled. I think a lot of us started running competitively in high school - racing the mile and 2 mile, XC 5k at most. Fueling is not so important at those distances.
For other marathoning nerds – Maurten shared Jacob Kiplimo's fueling strategy for his 2:00:28 at the London Marathon (No. 3 all-time and also under the previous world record) with me and I think it's a little different.
Jacob Kiplimo's fueling protocol
6:00 a.m. — Bread (small breakfast)
7:00 a.m. — Bicarb System 15
Pre-race — Drink Mix 320
In-race plan
5K — 240ml Drink Mix 320
10K — 230ml Drink Mix 320
15K — 220ml Drink Mix 320
20K — 200ml Drink Mix 320
25K — Water + Gel Caf 100
30K — 180ml Drink Mix 320
35K — 170ml Drink Mix 320
40K — 150ml Drink Mix 320
If I'm reading these right...
Sawe front-loads with a fixed 160ml of Drink Mix 320 at every station from 5K through 40K. (Plus a Gel 100 Caf 100 added at 20K on top of his regular drink)
vs.
Kiplimo starts higher (240ml at 5K) and carefully tapers his volume down across the race: 240, 230, 220, 200, then a full break from carbs at 25K where he takes water and a caffeine gel only, before resuming with 180, 170, and 150ml to close. His total volume per station is actually higher early on, but he's taking in less and less as the race gets harder.
The other notable difference is the bicarb. Sawe takes Bicarb System 12. Kiplimo takes Bicarb System 15.
What's fascinating is how dialed this is for an athlete who's also racing, covering moves and responding to surges while running so fast. As Zouhair Talbi (who ran 2:03 at Boston last week) told me, many of these Kenyan runners don't tend to nurse fluids that deliberately. So the next step would be to watch back the tape and see how much he's actually guzzling early and if this is just the target, or if he's hitting these numbers exactly. Wish someone were able to collect all the bottles and then also see/share how much was actually consumed.
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Worth noting that four of the top five in today's London Marathon -- including the first two men in history under two hours -- were wearing adidas' new Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3.
It weighs under 100g -- about 30% lighter than adidas' previous supershoe.
letsrun.com/news/2026/04/159…
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You have to feel for Yomif Kejelcha.
One of the sport's great "nearly" men on the track.
Two World Championship silvers in the 10,000 meters.
Always pushing the pace in Diamond Leagues, chasing fast times.
He debuts in 1:59:41, well under the marathon WR.
And finishes 2nd.
