Rose S, PhD
@acommonrose.bsky.social
I'm mostly just here to post about crosswords. She/they.
I’ll be at Lollapuzzoola today if anyone wants to say hi!
This qualifier pair is the only thing I knit for Sock Madness this year, but I won a prize for shouting them out on Jeopardy, and that does feel pretty good.
crossword constructors: stop putting harry potter shit in the crossword. not in the clues, not in the fill. I don't want to see it.
Just thinking maybe, perhaps, possibly, it’s time to stop putting JK Rowling things in the crossword puzzle
As I do more Zoom trivia, what I'm learning is that the key trivia captain skill is being able to answer emails.
I forgot about sports and assumed the MBTA just wanted to remind us that it’s annoying but possible to get to South Station from the orange line
I've been watching the bee with friends in Discord, but please know that if the spell-off has no haters, I am dead.
Linguist moment: heard someone casually directing someone to the "fourth floor" with enough of a Boston accent to drop the Rs.
I can't actually watch the bee today, and the spelling bee website is showing only the wrong spellings for misspelled words, so it's a fun little game for me to figure out what the right spellings are.
I don't have that much to say about the National Spelling Bee prelims, but always a delight to see the words I spelled coming back. (Alcarraza in this case, misspelled this year.)
Ive been doing the Construct One Crossword Per Week regimen for a while now, it works great bc if i miss a week it just gets tacked onto the next week. Try it!! anyway on Friday im slated to write 1250 crosswords
I don't know if I have many BOTC people following me here, but in case there's any overlap, I'm at Final Three Con, come say hi?
Hello from the #acpt where everyone looks disconcertingly like someone I *might* know
We are excited to announce Midis for Minnesota, an upcoming crossword pack by Minnesota constructors. Proceeds will support immigrant families in Minnesota who have been impacted by ICE activity. Pack will be released in late April. A preview puzzle by Zhouqin Burnikel is available now.
midisforminnesota.com
My last Puzzmo mini is running today, so I just wanted to say a big thank you to anyone who has solved and enjoyed the March minis!
I've started solving the NYT crosswords again in preparation for ACPT, and I don't think they're bad per se, but it is wild to me how some people act like these are so much better than all other puzzles, when they're just... not.
happy 4-Across day from our mini crossword resident @acommonrose.bsky.social 🍄 solve here! www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2026-...
I probably won't post every individual puzzle here (especially this week when I'm traveling), but I am Puzzmo's resident mini creator this month! www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2026-...
Puzzmo - Cross|word
Play Cross|word on Puzzmo, Take a hint.
puzzmo.com
spotted on ravelry: the pattern to knit the sock pictured on the Wikipedia article for "sock" www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
I'm not reposting this as much bc I'm not doing the NYT crossword as much, but please know they're still doing this.
Rose S, PhD@acommonrose.bsky.social · last yr.Should I stop solving the NYT crossword? Yes, but they should also stop doing this shit
