Matt Phelps

Matt Phelps

@mattphelps.com

Former Linux IT at Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian; Chess player, organizer, referee (IA); Pilot; SF reader, etc. Posts here are my own and do not reflect the views of any other organization, person, dog, aircraft, chess opening, etc.

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The mightiest chess nation in the world is... Uzbekistan! Go figure.

Chess.com@chess.com

UZBEKISTAN WIN CHESS OLYMPIAD GOLD AGAIN! 🇺🇿🥇 Led by World Championship challenger Sindarov, world #7 Abdusattorov and an in-form Yakubboev, the youthful home nation secure their second #ChessOlympiad title in three editions! 👏

Just got my "The Rest is History" Roman Empire soccer (that's Latin for "football") jersey. Love it. #therestishistory #ancientrome #history

Buy books people! For the cost of a movie ticket, or two pumpkin spice coffee drinks, you get weeks worth of entertainment *and* you get to support the artists who create them. You can afford it!

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Received this beauty today. A Casio G-Shock BX5600 with "high" resolution Memory in Pixel (MIP) display. Imported from Japan! watches Casio #BX5600

Introduce yourself with 10 Bands you've seen live: Cheap Trick Black Sabbath Blue Oyster Cult Yes Jethro Tull Kansas Van Halen Tom Waits Elvis Costello The Who Extra Credit: The Boston Symphony Orchestra

Steven R. Cranmer@solarstellar.bsky.social

introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live Rush Blue Oyster Cult The Monkees Al Stewart Don McLean Styx (well, just Tommy Shaw) The Grass Roots (with Creed Bratton) Rush (3 more times)

With #Artemis on the rebound, it seems like a good time to post my Jim Lovell autograph. Some guy named Neil signed it too...

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You don't have to be a member to tell SFWA how you feel about AI.

SFWA members and general SFF community: In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events. Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey. SFWA Members: Write to office@sfwa.org to support our Emerging Tech Committee. www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...

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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

We don’t fuck around with kings. 250 years ago our farmers took up arms and fought the world’s largest kingdom. And won. We won’t let this autocrat shit happen again. #NoKings

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

BOSTON… (those are people, not ants) #NoKingsInAmerica 🇺🇸