Picture from the drivers seat of a car. The large overhead rotating brush is just starting to make contact with the windshield. The rainbow soap is being smeared and kinda looks like the northern lights to be honest
We didn’t see the aurora borealis but we did do a drive thru car wash today
Love seeing the next generation of crossword phenoms featured in Adrienne Raphel's NYT piece. I can vouch that
@gppasco.bsky.social, @adanicklmao.bsky.social, @aaronson.bsky.social, @rickycruz.bsky.social, et al. are the coolest! www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/s...
So glad!!
Achieved my goal of doing better than last year! Moved up almost 200 places 🎉
This goes double for tournament puzzles and triple if you also have an unnecessary crypto reference
Attending Crossword Con virtually while waiting for my flight to ACPT!!
My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace.
It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.
Predictive text models do not ever "answer your question"
They predict what an answer to your question would probably look like.
Which is very, very, very different
TV screen: Quote from Man Stabbed: "What are you gonna do, stab me?"
Happy Ides of March to all who celebrate!
Not coincidentally, tech bros also repeatedly reinvent coloniality. The early libertarian manifestos of the internet say it aloud! White men thrilled to explore and settle the terra nullius of cyberspace, which by the way will NOT need laws.
www.eff.org/cyberspace-i...
Happy pi day! Throwback to an appropriate puzzle from last year:
www.cruciverbology.com/post/polar-p...
Some news! My daily crossword musings are now an official USA TODAY puzzle offering. New name, new location, same informational, conversational, and kind musings. www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
Cruciverbology has been having domain problems recently (apparently Google Domains kinda sucks) so I’m transferring my registration to Wix. Apparently this should take up to 7 days. In the meantime the site may be unresponsive sometimes, so sorry
What’s wrong babe, you’ve barely touched your five course Trump meal
I'm enjoying returning to the Richard Scarry books with my son. My favourite thing is spotting the cats who are doing a real bad job of things but who absolutely do not care.
Me: types up assignments in LaTeX instead of eating lunch
My stomach: Underfull (badness 10000)
It took me MONTHS to realize one of my favorite Italian sandwich shops was “mafia” backwards… am I even a real crossword person at this point
Clue for 11-Down: Bear-themed snack that may share a shelf with Pocky (10 letters)
Tonight we bring you the first midi from the 2024 Lil AVC X constructor roster! It's an 11x11 by Carolyn Davies Lynch titled "The Milky Way." We hope you enjoy its cool mom vibes! 😎
today i wrote about the fall of icarus, and how to pay attention to human suffering without losing ourselves: buttondown.email/theswordandt...
A round logo depicting the words "these puzzle fund abortion" around a mini crossword grid with the number 4 written in blocks sits in front of a purple crossword grid.
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VERY excited to share my first crossword puzzle for the brand-new thewalrus.ca/games/crossw... Games section. Includes a healthy sprinkling of Canadian content (Maestro Fresh Wes lyric anyone??) — enjoy! Thanks to @emmalawson.bsky.social for her excellent edits
Powder?? In MY East??? It’s more likely than you think!
Cover of a children’s book about Abraham Lincoln, from a series called “what made them great”
Fleeting, thrilling moment when I thought my kid had brought home a book about non-binary Abraham Lincoln
Why is the blue sky dark now on the loading screen? Is it some kind of metaphor?
Billy Fuccillo’s (dead) body count is HUUUUUGE
Behind every great science crossword blog is a heap of failed theme ideas. for example one year ago I tried to make a puzzle shaped like the Einstein shape and my mom told me it looked like balls
