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Iza All Kinds of Banged Up

@izabelakaramia.bsky.social

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Left Twitter in November 2022. I'm mostly using Mastodon for social media, but have made an account here to follow good sources of news for trans people and hopefully find a few of my mutuals from my Twitter days. Probably won't post much here.

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Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · Feb 23

It's likely I won't post much at all here, but I should make an intro post to let people know I am here and legitimate.

I'm a trans woman. I left Twitter in early November 2022 and mostly use Mastodon for my social media. Here now so I can follow trans sources regarding news but also hope

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Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · 1d

So later on I was browsing through the scanned archive of 1958 Chess Review issues and found a letter written to them, that identifies the cat as belonging to a lady had been playing correspondence chess with the letter writer. The two met one another and got married!

A letter written to Chess Review magazine, published in August 1958, 10 months after the cover with a photo of a black cat at a chessboard. The letter is written by the man who met and married the lady who had the cat. It reads:

I am currently competing in three Postal Chess sections fo which one is prize section, 57-P 55. One of the other contestants is Miss Mary De Revere whose cat was pictured on the cover of CHESS REVIEW (October, 1957).

Frankly, I was a trifle curious as to what a lady Post Chess player would look like. So, when Miss De Revere took her vacation last September in the White Mountains, I invited myself to dinner. I found out what she looks like. Miss De Revere and I plan to be married next week-end.

My fiancee claims that she is no mood to clobber me in the chess game and wishes to resign. I feel that it would be decidedly unfair to the other five players in the section, whom I regard from our correspondence as being fine gentlemen, each and every one. Also, I have no desire whatsoever to go down in the annals of Postal Chess as the conniver who extricated himself from an inferior position against a girl by marrying the girl.

So, in accordance with Rule 19, will you kindly inform us what is proper in the present situation, and we will cheerfully abide by any decision you may hand down. If you wish to adjudicate the game as of now, I will gladly pay the expense of adjudication. Both of us intend to finish our other five games to the best of our ability and feel that any action you take should be motivated foremost by protecting our opponents' rights.

W.L. Sickman
Portland, Maine

As final note, the letter while published in August 1958, was received in December 1957.

Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a link to the pdf of all the 1957 issues of Chess Review.

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It's highly unlikely there are any more photos of cats, but I just want to document my sources. I wonder if it's possible there might still be surviving print copies of Chess Review.

uscf1-nyc1.aodhosting.com

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Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · 1d

I also zoomed in to take closer look at the inky void who graced the cover of a chess magazine.

A closer look at the void cat playing chess. It seems to be looking intently at the white king. It also seems that its paw might be getting ready to give the king a nudge.

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Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · 1d

@catsofyore.bsky.social While browsing through scanned archives of the magazine Chess Review, which was published from 1933 to 1969, I found a cat! People who have watched Netflix's The Queen's Gambit will recognize that Chess Review was the magazine shoplifted by Beth Harmon.

On the October 1957 cover of Chess Review, a black cat is seemingly playing chess. It is looking intently at the white king on the board. The cover is captioned, "A CT CAN NIP AT A KING." The photo is a black and white photo.

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Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · 2d

Marshmallow fluff loaf

Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · 3d

One thing I do every evening is look out to the south of me and watch the orange glow in the sky of Portland Oregon being burnt to the ground. Although maybe that's Seattle and I'm too far away to see the fires of war-ravaged Portland.

Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · 8d

Of course I'm not gonna say that Guns and Roses was country, but I am fascinated by times when artists transfer a song over into their own genre. You inspired me to check the youtubes and here's a bluegrass rendering of Sweet Child O'Mine.

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Sweet Child O' Mine Bluegrass Cover | Thunder and Rain

YouTube video by Thunder and Rain Band

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Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · 10d

You want gender ideology? I'll give you a gender ideology: one that insists you are the gender assigned to you at birth by someone who has no clue as to how you will end up developing emotionally, psychologically, and physically.

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Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · 11d

They want to use American cities as training grounds for troops from the Department of War. They're essentially declaring American cities as war zones and that they will use the military upon them.

Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · 14d

Portland, a city so ravaged by war and multiple burnings and reburnings by the radical left, they no longer have enough wheels to make bicycles and bagpipers are forced to resort to unicycles.

Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · 14d

There's a big difference in feel when you change from a pair of Doc Marten knee high boots to a pair of minimalist sneakers.

Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · 19d

so close yet so far

a man in a suit and tie is dancing in a room and says 1.21 gigawatts great scott

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is dancing in a room and says 1.21 gigawatts great scott

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Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · 19d

Will there be enough gigawatts to time travel?

Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · 20d

I'm willing to bet a giant spider could make a great goalkeeper. But the big rules question would be can giant spiders use web silk to snag balls heading for the top corner?

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Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · 20d

Is there a team from Mirkwood Forest playing?

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Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · 23d

They should also eliminate all funds for maintaining the White House so as to stop Trump's gaudy redecoration of it.

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Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · 25d

apex predator hard at work apexing

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 26d

*snif snif*

a poorly drawn cat with a big nose and head

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Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · Aug 19

The sheer absurdity of Trumpism will break the brains of historians of American history for centuries to come.

Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · Aug 15

You ever like check the news, read about a few stories, and the utter absurdity of them make you feel like your brain has gone all blue screen of death?

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Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · Aug 3

My favorite "I'm ignoring you" cat behavior are the times when you say their name and nothing moves except the tiny tiny flick of the end of the tail.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · Jul 29

Anyway that's why if you meet a member of the International Astronomical Union you should push their drink off the table.

Above image from the Celestial Atlas by Alexander Jamieson, 1822 (plate 26). www.ianridpath.com/atlases/jami...

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Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · Jul 26

That's surprising to me. I'd think Hawaiian Punch would have more carbs than that.

Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · Jul 26

The tension is nearly palpable.

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Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · Jul 21

Back in 2017 I was apartment hunting and went to a complex that had that setup and I was basically "Nope nope nope!" It feels like there's too much stuff that can go wrong and there's a potential for abuse by the landlord/rental company.