Jay Babcock
@jaywbabcock.bsky.social
Semi-educated guesser. Unknown genre. LANDLINE: jaybabcock.substack.com Past: Arthur Magazine co-founder/editor. babcock dot jay at gmail dot com
November 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"The name Lichess is a 'combination of live/light/libre and chess.' ... Lichess was founded in 2010 by French programmer Thibault Duplessis. The software running Lichess and the design are mostly open source under the AGPL license and other free and non-free licenses."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichess
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichess
Lichess - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"The name Lichess is a 'combination of live/light/libre and chess.' ... Lichess was founded in 2010 by French programmer Thibault Duplessis. The software running Lichess and the design are mostly open source under the AGPL license and other free and non-free licenses."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichess
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichess
Someone with more Motörknowledge than I may be able to explain how Phil Taylor came to be set up at stage front and center in this tv performance... was this customary for the band at the time?!? It really works: the motör is in front, where it belongs. @bazillionpoints.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Someone with more Motörknowledge than I may be able to explain how Phil Taylor came to be set up at stage front and center in this tv performance... was this customary for the band at the time?!? It really works: the motör is in front, where it belongs. @bazillionpoints.bsky.social
![Mani: For 20 years it’s been a war against the working class.
Bobby: Systematic warfare, man.
Mani: Margaret Thatcher declared war on the trade unions and the working class in general. Well you can only take so much shit, can’t ya? One day, it’ll burn… [deep laugh] And I’ll do my fuckin’ bit.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qkgtipcomtez5zvbq3dn42vy/bafkreib7wmqkmsj5eeuaoeggsqfdbjcldxn23ej3taz474alfftkmjbvyq@jpeg)
The interview was conducted in early March 2000 in NYC. The Diallo verdicts had just come down.
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The interview was conducted in early March 2000 in NYC. The Diallo verdicts had just come down.
(Admittedly overheated intro but what can I say, those were the days. "Advocacy journalism.")
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
(Admittedly overheated intro but what can I say, those were the days. "Advocacy journalism.")
Fascinating. I must've read about this somewhere in the intervening decades and yet...no memory at all! All praise to DJ Food
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Fascinating. I must've read about this somewhere in the intervening decades and yet...no memory at all! All praise to DJ Food
"The real person behind the character of Solomon Ray is Christopher 'Topher' Townsend, a conservative hip-hop artist involved with Veterans for Trump, who performed at a rally that coincided with the January 6 storming of the Capitol in 2021."
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"The real person behind the character of Solomon Ray is Christopher 'Topher' Townsend, a conservative hip-hop artist involved with Veterans for Trump, who performed at a rally that coincided with the January 6 storming of the Capitol in 2021."
What. Did this actually happen????
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
What. Did this actually happen????