OK, I’m going to make a concerted effort to share my daily columns and articles here from now on! been very bad at doing that. on today’s NYT crossword, by Daniel Bodily:

NYT Crossword Answers for Aug. 5, 2026 (Gift Article)

Daniel Bodily’s crossword splits the difference.

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I can’t be the only one who regularly walks out of the office forgetting she is wearing a lanyard

i feel like you could have a gameshow where people guess what you're working on based on browser tabs

intrusive thought: M.C. Drescher. anyone can have that

so we’re just not gonna talk about the alien raccoons

Good Trailcams@goodtrailcams.bsky.social · last wk.

I don't much care for mnemonic devices—I can't remember them, har-de-har-har but it's true—but "discrete" means separate, and the two e's in "discrete" are separate.

Gayer Than Thou 🏳️‍🌈@gayerthanthou.bsky.social · 2w ago

Discreet/discrete. I haven’t been able to come up with a mnemonic that helps.

Huy guys

I am so close to finishing a full draft of the book and am at the point where I am writing lines like "I asked her whether this was true. her answer? no." just to get through

packing for a girls trip is so funny because regardless of your personality you are suddenly reaching for the tarot deck, the spa masks and the craft box

Editorial notes on the more than 900 new words, phrases, and senses added in OED's June update, including not only "enshittification" but also "Lovecraftian", "fearmongering", and "au contraire", can be found here: www.oed.com/discover/new...

was talking with a vendor for our wedding and asked her to email something over again, and when she replied "I just resent it!" I thought I'd insulted her

please, I beg you, no more books that ask “what do we owe each other?”

so no offense but I'm not leaving my apartment for 72 hours starting tonight xoxo

World Cup, Swift Wedding, Sail 250: Your Guide to Avoiding Crowds This Holiday Weekend

There are a lot of events and a lot of major disruptions to transit and travel in the city.

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there is a teen mariachi band on my subway train, not busking yet, just practicing. they’re just sitting next to each other riffing on their guitars. I love this city

I wrote about the board games in Widow’s Bay that continue to haunt my dreams 😌🦷 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/c...

What’s Up With Those Creepy Board Games in ‘Widow’s Bay’?

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well, we did it everybody. we invented the $420 eye cream. time to pack it in

peril is a beautiful name for a girl

dogs will never overtake humans because they lack the ability to be entranced by the sanitation truck's big robot arm. it only makes them angry. no capacity for wonder

Naming goes to camp in this article about Beaux Dega, Alvah Klempt, Bertha Vanayshun, and other delightfully multi-entendre drag names.

Sam Corbin@samcorbin.bsky.social · last mo.

for pride month I wrote about why clever drag names are more than just a wink-wink!! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/c...

for pride month I wrote about why clever drag names are more than just a wink-wink!! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/c...

How Wordplay Helps Drag Climb to Peak Camp

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this headline reads like it was lifted straight out of a tim robinson sketch

I wonder what life must be like for the lonely gavel salesman

I would die for albert’s squirrel

Good Trailcams@goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 2mo ago

the whiplash from adoring parent emails signed xxoxox to single-word replies with no punctuation is wild

I know thursday is probably a ticker tape parade in name only, but if what if we did unspool streamers and rain confetti from the tops of buildings into the streets? haha just kidding…unless

now more than ever

I salute all the new yorkers who were brave enough not to post an instagram story about the knicks

the sloppy joe is such a challenging desk lunch. we need a clean joe