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Rachel Playforth

@archelina.bsky.social

The toast in the machine. NHS librarian, crossword compiler (Angel), Unch magazine editorial team, poet. Weekly crossword streams on Twitch @ crypticsunday. I like crime fiction, telly and cold water. She/her.

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Caroline Ball@heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 4d ago

Call for speakers! We are looking for speakers for the @nlisn.bsky.social event 'Intersections: Identity, Neurodivergence & Library/Information Work', in-person at City St George's, London, 21 Oct 2026. Deadline for submissions is 22 Sept, link below. First-time speakers especially welcome! 📚

Intersections: Identity, Neurodivergence, and Library & Information Work - Call for Speakers

We are inviting proposals for contributions to an in-person one-day event exploring intersectionality and neurodivergence in library and information work, taking place at City St George's University i...

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Alex Zalben@azalben.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Mobeena@mobeena.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don’t know what the library equivalent of dimming our lights is but whatever it is, we should be doing it for Dolly because what that woman did for literacy deserves so much more recognition than it got

The Void ザ・ヴォイド@thevoidtlmb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

Guardian #cryptic #crossword difficulty study/survey. https://fifteensquared.net/2026/08/22/looking-for-volunteers-for-guardian-cryptic-survey/

Looking for volunteers for Guardian Cryptic survey

Guardian Cryptic solvers – this may interest you. Posted on behalf of Dr Chris Wheadon, Founder & CEO of No More Marking Ltd I plan to conduct a study analysing the difficulty of the Guardian Cryptic crossword over time. This research will be modeled on the study I co-authored, “Fifty Years of A-level Mathematics” (Jones, I., Wheadon, C., Humphries, S., and Inglis, M.), which was published in BERJ (Volume 42, Issue 4, pp. 543-560) and won the BERJ Editors’ Choice Award in 2017. The methodology is simple. I have chosen a sample of 5 clues from every puzzle in the book “A Clue to our Lives” and included one puzzle per year from the point where the book concludes to give me a sample spanning 1930 to 2026. I will present judges with a series of pairs of clues along with their solutions and ask them to choose: “The harder clue?” Ideally I hope to recruit around 50 judges to complete 93 comparisons each. The analysis will reveal any broad trends in difficulty over time. The study was stimulated by simple curiosity after completing the puzzles from “A Clue to our Lives”, and having been a regular solver since the early 1990s. I don’t have a strong directional hypothesis, but my feeling is that, contrary to our finding on A-level mathematics, the puzzle has not become easier over time! To take part, solvers simply need to click on this link, which will ask them for an email address before they begin: https://au.nomoremarking.com/judging/signup/26a3dc0e-ee1e-42a8-99b6-61e741a92a24

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Amy King@amykingwild.bsky.social · 3w ago

🦀 Are you aged between 16 and 30, and live on the East Sussex Coast? We have a FREE event that you might enjoy! 🐚 The @sussexwildlife.bsky.social Youth Council (that includes me!) are running a Youth Marine Festival on the 19th of September: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sea-fest-2...

Sea Fest 2026! Youth Marine Festival

Join us for a day of all things marine! Sea Fest is a chance for you to explore, learn and discover Sussex's amazing marine wildlife.

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Rachel Playforth@archelina.bsky.social · 2w ago

Looking forward to seeing friends old and new at our annual #CrypticSunday meet-up this weekend! Important note: it's on *Saturday*. Bring a picnic, a crossword to solve together, or just yourself! www.wyrd.systems/pages/crypti...

Cryptic Sunday Meet-up 2026 - wyrd systems

Saturday 22nd August from 2pm. Southover Grange Gardens, Lewes https://maps.app.goo.gl/KY1BnAMDwq2bTe9a9 https://w3w.co/picnic.really.aimlessly [We’ll be somewhere around here]

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Anthony Etherin@anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Lots and lots of poetry submissions so far… but I’d love to see more articles and puzzles. If you have an article (previously published/posted or not) on etymology, wordplay, word games, poetics, or linguistics, please follow the link below!

Anthony Etherin@anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 4w ago

Friends, Submissions to “Elementary Penguin: A journal of Words, Wordplay, Poetry, and Puzzles” are now open! Details here: anthonyetherin.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Rachel Playforth@archelina.bsky.social · 2w ago

Looking forward to seeing friends old and new at our annual #CrypticSunday meet-up this weekend! Important note: it's on *Saturday*. Bring a picnic, a crossword to solve together, or just yourself! www.wyrd.systems/pages/crypti...

Cryptic Sunday Meet-up 2026 - wyrd systems

Saturday 22nd August from 2pm. Southover Grange Gardens, Lewes https://maps.app.goo.gl/KY1BnAMDwq2bTe9a9 https://w3w.co/picnic.really.aimlessly [We’ll be somewhere around here]

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