Younger me would be agog at my chess dot com rating

Remember: It was *his own staff* the pushed for the earliest presidential debate in decades because they were so confident his performance would jolt the race in his direction! This was obviously a colossal miscalculation but also that's in some considerable tension with the cover-up framing.

“Cry like the perverts aren’t watching” seems like an appropriate update to “dance like no one’s watching” for 2025

An Illustrated History book with a picture of someone getting an arrow to the eye at the battle of Agincourt (iirc), pretty gory! Also Wringer by Avi, hated the bird killing.