Zugzwang

@MrPitbull07 Clothespeg

My dad handed me two clothespins. “This,” he said, “is the story of everything.” In one hand: a clothespin from the 1960s. Solid hardwood, smooth from decades of use. It still works perfectly, some 60 years later. In the other: a clothespin from 2025. Lighter, paler wood, brittle. The spring is thin and unstable. Marketed as “extra durable,” my dad just raised an eyebrow. At first glance, it’s just two clothespins. But they tell a bigger story — the shift from durability to disposability, from craftsmanship to cost-cutting, from stewardship to constant consumption. This is planned obsolescence in action. Products are designed to fail so we must keep buying. Slowly, subtly, they break. Frayed wires, cracked hinges, brittle springs. Not because we want more, but because the old was never built to last. The costs are everywhere. Landfills overflow. Wallets empty. And maybe most quietly, our spirits grow accustomed to impermanence, to the idea that nothing is meant to endure. What if this philosophy extends beyond objects? What if it shapes how we treat relationships, communities, homes, even the Earth — as temporary, replaceable, disposable? It doesn’t have to be this way. That 1960s clothespin reminds us another path is possible. That we once made things to last, and we can again. That quality, care, and intention matter. That we can design for repair, for continuity, for meaning. The story in my palm is about more than laundry. It’s about the choices we make and the world they create.

@chess_feed If QxR then Qb7# while if QxQ, Rd8#

Why is this move brilliant?

@georgegalloway @elonmusk Ironically, given his evidently pro-Hitler sympathies, Melnyk seems to have spent most of the war imprisoned by the Germans (part of the time in Sachsenhausen).

No room for doubt: Ukraine is a neo-Nazi state. Suppress this if you like @elonmusk It won’t change this fact.

🧵I’m sick and tired of those shilling for Putin who constantly repeat that Zelensky hasn’t held a presidential election or that corruption hampers #Ukraine’s defense effort and thereby Kyiv is “not worthy” of America’s support. Get it through your heads: Ukraine is at war. 1/5

@the_LTA @rolandgarros Really concerning to see her collapsed at the changeover, and with persistent coughing in the second set. This story will not improve much until her breathing returns to normal.

Defeat for Emma Raducanu at @rolandgarros Solana Sierra takes their match 6-0, 7-6

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@QuantumDom Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Name this hypothetical country.

@GMIgorSmirnov 1...: QxR else mate with Rh6. 2. Rh8+ and K moves to 7th rank. 3. Rh7 skewering K to win Q.

Brilliant move, but why? 🤔🤔

@KingTunde_SZN 3895428

@Umairthe38 @engineers_feed I now get what you were saying. If you had drawn the yellow across the gap (having drawn your perpendicular) then transferred the right hand bit to the top, that would have helped understanding! But, to say "they both are 8" normally means that each of them is, not the sum.

@zugzwang2007 @engineers_feed The SUM is 8! Are you being deliberately obtuse ? I never claimed one side was 8! They both are , re read what I wrote

@engineers_feed Red = 10, yellow =8, and blue =12. Took me a while to see that the answer was in plain sight. But here it is so the total is 12+12+10+10+8+8=60

@bbalkovani Polar bear

sağ beyni baskın olanlar bir at, sol beyni baskın olanlar bir kuş görüyormuş sen ne görüyorsun ?

@Umairthe38 @engineers_feed At the top, the red piece is 10, left of your dotted line, and the bit to the right is x. So the total is 10+x. We have not proved anything about x, but we know that if we add it and subtract it, it doesn't matter what value it takes. 2/

@Umairthe38 @engineers_feed Unfortunately not. Your red dotted perpendicular intersects the base segment that has length 8. Call the bit to the right x. The part to the left is 8-x. (So we know that x cannot be 8 unless the part to the left is zero). 1/

Alternatively, time for a long position to be opened just before the definitive White House/Axios announcement that the whole thing has fallen apart.

@blyskavka_ua Cheaper would be good. But available is more important.

⚡️By the end of the year, Ukraine may begin shooting down ballistic missiles with a cheaper Patriot analogue. Firepoint co-founder Shtillerman said that the company is participating in the European Freya project — the development of an air defense system capable of shooting down ballistic missiles. According to him, currently only Patriot systems are capable of this, but the new project may become a cheaper alternative. 👉 Follow @blyskavka_ua

@tugce190333 Potato

Sağ beyniniz varsa kedi yavrusu görürsünüz,sol beyniniz varsa tavşan yavrusu görürsünüz. Siz ne görüyorsunuz

@PictureSporting This surely overstates the decline on a like for like basis. Noon start on Sunday, clash with football, half-clash with Surrey's previous match on Friday (so the Surrey fans would need to allot two days of the weekend). All could have been avoided.

Middlesex v Surrey, T20, June 23rd 2005 ... 27,000 inside Lord's on a warm weekday evening. The same fixture yesterday on a glorious Sunday attracted around 7,000. So much for the ECB caring a jot about county cricket with marginalisation of teams and schedules

Can you rt this? Maybe we can make a difference

@MATHSWITHZIA We know our 13x table, so instantly know this is 169-144. But the difference of two squares formula gives us (13+12)(13-12) pretty easily.

@anneapplebaum It is good that the policy has been abandoned. But it is critical to understand why. It could be just that the dream team of negotiators are busy "making deals" elsewhere. Or just that Trump no longer believes Russia can make him rich.

The American-led negotiations in Ukraine prolonged the war by encouraging Putin. The Russians dangled ludicrous business"deals" in front of Witkoff and Kushner who were too gullible to understand that they were being manipulated. Good the US has abandoned this failed policy