Lev
@levfm.bsky.social
I play and organize Baduk/Go/Weiqi in the Bay Area.
I also follow Urbanism, immigrant rights and Climate.
I also follow Urbanism, immigrant rights and Climate.
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Lev
@levfm.bsky.social
· Nov 14
If you’re in the Bay Area and want to play or learn Baduk/Go/Weiqi, check us out!
I’m trying out making tiny Baduk/Go boards using bead mosaic, eventually I’ll use epoxy to make them into earrings or pendants. These are just test patterns glued on paper. Still need them to look a lot neater for jewelry, but it would be cool to make ones with Tsumego or common shapes!
June 26, 2026 at 4:18 PM
I’m trying out making tiny Baduk/Go boards using bead mosaic, eventually I’ll use epoxy to make them into earrings or pendants. These are just test patterns glued on paper. Still need them to look a lot neater for jewelry, but it would be cool to make ones with Tsumego or common shapes!
There should be a dive bar where instead of free popcorn you can get a big bowl of soba noodles.
May 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
There should be a dive bar where instead of free popcorn you can get a big bowl of soba noodles.
The Baduk tournament in Oakland on Sunday has over 40 participants, exciting! I’ve been teaching a bunch of kids in an afterschool program who are going to play in it, we’ll see how they do at sitting through it lol
May 13, 2026 at 2:13 PM
The Baduk tournament in Oakland on Sunday has over 40 participants, exciting! I’ve been teaching a bunch of kids in an afterschool program who are going to play in it, we’ll see how they do at sitting through it lol
We made a QR code for the East Bay Go Players website out of Baduk stones at the Go class in Oakland last week. It scans!
January 14, 2026 at 6:43 AM
We made a QR code for the East Bay Go Players website out of Baduk stones at the Go class in Oakland last week. It scans!
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A neat bit of Japanese orthography. Japanese uses three scripts:
1. Kanji (chinese characters), basically for native roots and chinese loanwords.
2. Hiragana, mostly for case endings and verbal inflections
3. Katakana, mostly used for (English) loanwords.
But katakana have other uses...
1. Kanji (chinese characters), basically for native roots and chinese loanwords.
2. Hiragana, mostly for case endings and verbal inflections
3. Katakana, mostly used for (English) loanwords.
But katakana have other uses...
December 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A neat bit of Japanese orthography. Japanese uses three scripts:
1. Kanji (chinese characters), basically for native roots and chinese loanwords.
2. Hiragana, mostly for case endings and verbal inflections
3. Katakana, mostly used for (English) loanwords.
But katakana have other uses...
1. Kanji (chinese characters), basically for native roots and chinese loanwords.
2. Hiragana, mostly for case endings and verbal inflections
3. Katakana, mostly used for (English) loanwords.
But katakana have other uses...
If you’re in the Bay Area and want to play or learn Baduk/Go/Weiqi, check us out!
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
If you’re in the Bay Area and want to play or learn Baduk/Go/Weiqi, check us out!
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June 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Truly embarrassing game of Baduk, but I can’t only save the wins
May 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Truly embarrassing game of Baduk, but I can’t only save the wins
Gonna start making these stop-motions from games I play, I got this win against a 1 kyu with a 2 stone handicap, it was a swindle but I’m happy with it!
May 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Gonna start making these stop-motions from games I play, I got this win against a 1 kyu with a 2 stone handicap, it was a swindle but I’m happy with it!
Call us ‘the boys’. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in our purse, and nothing particular to interest us on land, we thought we would drive around a little and see the back-in-town part of the world.
May 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Call us ‘the boys’. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in our purse, and nothing particular to interest us on land, we thought we would drive around a little and see the back-in-town part of the world.
Just hosted our first go/baduk meetup in Oakland Chinatown!
That makes 4 weekly Baduk clubs in the East Bay www.meetup.com/east-bay-go
That makes 4 weekly Baduk clubs in the East Bay www.meetup.com/east-bay-go
May 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Just hosted our first go/baduk meetup in Oakland Chinatown!
That makes 4 weekly Baduk clubs in the East Bay www.meetup.com/east-bay-go
That makes 4 weekly Baduk clubs in the East Bay www.meetup.com/east-bay-go
Chinese drama about a Baduk player forced to use their skills for crime, might have to watch this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFXL...
ENG SUB【棋士 Playing Go】EP01 恶徒抢银行，崔业被挟持（王宝强、陈明昊）
YouTube video by 腾讯视频 - Get the WeTV APP
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April 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Chinese drama about a Baduk player forced to use their skills for crime, might have to watch this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFXL...
It’s time for me to combine my interests and create the world’s first baduk/chess/tabletennis/pickleball club.
March 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
It’s time for me to combine my interests and create the world’s first baduk/chess/tabletennis/pickleball club.
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Remember when Canadian citizens travelling abroad were sometimes arbitrarily detained & held incommunicado by authoritarian countries like Iran, China & Russia?
Welcome to the New Golden Age in Amerika:
Welcome to the New Golden Age in Amerika:
March 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Remember when Canadian citizens travelling abroad were sometimes arbitrarily detained & held incommunicado by authoritarian countries like Iran, China & Russia?
Welcome to the New Golden Age in Amerika:
Welcome to the New Golden Age in Amerika:
Decided to stand outside the door of the ice field office in San Francisco at 630 Sansome street, just to see what would happen. It’s been an hour and a half, a security guard came out and told me the cops were coming and I should leave. I’m on the sidewalk!
February 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Decided to stand outside the door of the ice field office in San Francisco at 630 Sansome street, just to see what would happen. It’s been an hour and a half, a security guard came out and told me the cops were coming and I should leave. I’m on the sidewalk!
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We need justice for Luis Alberto Castillo Rivera! How was a man with ZERO criminal record and who came here LEGALLY sent to Guantanamo where they were "only taking the worst of the worst"?! How many other innocent men were taken?
February 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
We need justice for Luis Alberto Castillo Rivera! How was a man with ZERO criminal record and who came here LEGALLY sent to Guantanamo where they were "only taking the worst of the worst"?! How many other innocent men were taken?
Justice for Luis Alberto Castillo Rivera
February 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Justice for Luis Alberto Castillo Rivera
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We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.
Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo Bay Is ‘Not a Criminal,’ Family Pleads (Gift Article)
Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the United States so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.
There’s an ICE field office in San Francisco at 630 sansome street, anyone wanna go protest mass deportation?
January 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
There’s an ICE field office in San Francisco at 630 sansome street, anyone wanna go protest mass deportation?
If you play baduk/go in the East Bay, you can enter the results of your games and track your place in the local ladder at eastbaygoplayers.org
This is the ladder for East Bay Go players! The ratings here are based on results from tournaments held in the East Bay in California, as well as any games played in local clubs that both players agree to record.
eastbaygoplayers.org
January 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
If you play baduk/go in the East Bay, you can enter the results of your games and track your place in the local ladder at eastbaygoplayers.org
I'm trying out a new rating system at the Baduk club I run, I'm hoping for feedback on the algorithm.
New rating = old rating + .04*(opponent's rating - player's rating) + [4*(# of handicap stones given by player)] ± 16
Initially all players will start at 1000 regardless of their dan/kyu rank.
New rating = old rating + .04*(opponent's rating - player's rating) + [4*(# of handicap stones given by player)] ± 16
Initially all players will start at 1000 regardless of their dan/kyu rank.
January 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I'm trying out a new rating system at the Baduk club I run, I'm hoping for feedback on the algorithm.
New rating = old rating + .04*(opponent's rating - player's rating) + [4*(# of handicap stones given by player)] ± 16
Initially all players will start at 1000 regardless of their dan/kyu rank.
New rating = old rating + .04*(opponent's rating - player's rating) + [4*(# of handicap stones given by player)] ± 16
Initially all players will start at 1000 regardless of their dan/kyu rank.
Just decided last minute to sign up for the Northern California Ing Cup. Let's play some Goe
www.sfgo.club/event-detail...
www.sfgo.club/event-detail...
Jujo Jiang presents the Northern California Ing Cup | SF Go Club
It's time once again for the SF Go Club's annual tournament hosted by Jujo Jiang 9p.
This will be a 4-round AGA-rated Go (囲碁/围棋/바둑) tournament. 30 minutes main time plus 3x30 seconds byo-yomi.
$3000...
www.sfgo.club
January 9, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Just decided last minute to sign up for the Northern California Ing Cup. Let's play some Goe
www.sfgo.club/event-detail...
www.sfgo.club/event-detail...
Thinking about trying to livestream high-level Baduk games from a club I play at on twitch, has anyone done that before?
December 16, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Thinking about trying to livestream high-level Baduk games from a club I play at on twitch, has anyone done that before?