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DiMono @dimono.ca · 4h

Just as she was reaching for his hair with a worrying amount of enthusiastic #energy, a yellow door to Jeff's left swung ominously open.

The black haired woman tapped him on the shoulder. She cocked her head briefly towards the door. "The manager wants to see you, fool." #vss365

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DiMono @dimono.ca · 8h

My OPINION is that there is a direct line from Kramnik's harassment to Danya's death. There needs to be consequences. FIDE needs to take action, or else they cannot be taken seriously as a safe federation for chess.

DiMono @dimono.ca · 8h

Within hours of Daniel Naroditsky passing away, Vladimir Kramnik, who spent a full year baselessly accusing him of cheating, tried to use his passing as a way to prop himself up as somehow being the only person who cared about him.

Kramink is vile, and FIDE needs to ban him.

I typed a reply on X

Vladimir Kramnik quote-tweeting himself on X, with a community note.

Quoted tweet: "All in all, typical nowadays world of chess, the only thing everyone cares about is "looking great" and pretending there are no issues. Even if its about long term major problems. Stop this doublefaced hypocries for once, and try helping to solve them."

Quoting tweet: "Too high price paid, but if I was the only person shouting about obvious long term problems of Danya becoming alarming, requiring urgent measures from people around, while "friends" only cared about hiding it and erase evidence, its rotten to the core"

Community note: "Vladimir spent the last year publicly posting about US Chess player, Daniel Naroditsky with baseless claims of cheating.

In December 2023, Vladimir was also caught breaking Chess.com's TOS and was barred from prize tournaments for playing under someone else's name."

At the bottom of the community note is a link to Kramnik's Wikipedia page.

I do not post on X, but I typed out a post and took a screenshot. It would be a reply to Kramnik responding to someone who quote tweeted him with a question.

The original quoted Kramnik tweet: "Normally they dont "clean" in such a rush (although erasing materials from internet is "their" trademark, not on web means never happened 😉),must be something quite interesting I think"

X user Gabrial quote tweeted with the text "who is 'their'"

Kramnik's reply: "Those orchestrating dirtiest slanderous campaign against me for 2 years already"

My typed but not sent reply: "Slanderous campaign? You have spent recent years baselessly accusing literally anyone who beats you of cheating. You publicly harassed Danya for A YEAR, which clearly drove him to depression and medication.

Nothing you said about him was true. And nothing said about you is false"

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DiMono @dimono.ca · 14h

Your article is incorrect: over 110,000 people have DIRECTLY blocked the account. An additional almost 550,000 have blocked it by subscribing to a block list of US government accounts.

Stats are available here: clearsky.app/whitehouse-4...

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𝕸𝖔𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖎𝖙 𝕺𝖓𝖎⛧(RayneYoruka) @rayneyoruka.yorukasworld.org · 1d

Twitch thinking about implementing AI clipping tool, this means yalls voice is gonna be scraped.

You better vote against it.

twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92471...

#twitch

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✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️ @saffista.bsky.social · 14h

AI data centers are environmentally disasterous and directly harm marginalized populations. If you’re on Twitch vote against this…

Also, Fuck ChatGPT and everyone who uses it without caring about the repercussions.

I said what I said.

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DiMono @dimono.ca · 16h

A tall stylist traded glances with the black haired woman, and then approached him. The other patrons and stylists were all watching on with a wide array of expressions on their faces. The stylist drew a comb from a glass of water and tapped the excess off into a #saucer. #vss365

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DiMono @dimono.ca · 18h

GG!

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 23h

And on the 'new tech' thing:

Most of the time, with new technology, you have early adopters and others who want to wait and see, while support expertise grows.

With this AI nonsense they removed choice. It's stuffed into every thing without consent.

Folks who would usually watch and wait can't.

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DiMono @dimono.ca · 1d

That's how it's done.

DiMono @dimono.ca · 1d

SHOW THEM WHO YOU ARE

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DiMono @dimono.ca · 1d

The Jays need to step on the gas pretty soon. Can't get to the World Series on one run.

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DiMono @dimono.ca · 1d

Christopher Lee

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DESIGN THINKING! Comic @designthinking.lol · 2d

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

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DiMono @dimono.ca · 1d

The Washington Post is reporting that Marco Rubio sold out government informants to El Slavador to gain access to Cecot. WP article is paywalled, so here's one from The Independent in the UK.

Yet another reason that the US is not to be trusted.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Marco Rubio betrayed drug gang informants to seal El Salvador prison deal: report

Trump administration allegedly agreed to abandon confidential informants protected by US government in an effort to ink CECOT deal

www.independent.co.uk

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DiMono @dimono.ca · 1d

I looked that picture up the first time I saw it. Absolutely real. He wore it for several innings before they got him a replacement.

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DiMono @dimono.ca · 1d

As a web developer, I often have to deal with clients who don't understand that their monitor settings are not the only monitor settings. I once had someone tell me my #FFFFFF background was tinted too green, and to just trust her because she's good at seeing colour differences other people miss.

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DiMono @dimono.ca · 1d

I always enjoyed watching Danya's streams and videos. This is a sad day for chess.

International Chess Federation Mirror @fide-chess-mirror.bsky.social · 1d

GM Daniel Naroditsky passed away. He was a talented chess player, commentator, and educator. FIDE extends its deepest condolences to Daniel’s family and loved ones.

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DiMono @dimono.ca · 1d

Jeff nodded. "Chair it is, then." He scanned the posters for the style that most closely resembled the close-cropped cut he normally carried. "I'll take the #atom." Before the woman had a chance to object, he strode across the room and took up occupancy in a vacant chair. #vss365

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rvbto.ca @rvbto.ca · 1d

If you're in town on Sunday, November 2, we'll be at the Imperial starting at 3pm (because it's a Sunday) for a super casual get-together. Come on out and join us for some good times, good food, and good company. We hope to see you there!

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rvbto.ca @rvbto.ca · 1d

Hi everyone! You may have heard that our beloved Imperial Pub is closing its doors forever on November 15. The Imperial has been our home for well over a decade, so we've decided to give it one final RvBTO hurrah before that happens.

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DiMono @dimono.ca · 1d

This is so good!

DiMono @dimono.ca · 1d

Immediately on my to-listen-to list.

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DiMono @dimono.ca · 2d

I noticed it, and chose to be complicit. :D

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DiMono @dimono.ca · 2d

Blue Jays reminding Seattle who they are tonight.

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