I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 5th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 8 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com Not great.
Kevin J. Maroney, he/him
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A dilettante in the old sense. "We are all us."-Greg Stafford "It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."--Stoppard
"Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, recently appointed to the role by the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, meets Secretary of State Rubio in Washington" is one of those lines that would sound perfectly plausible to anyone in 2015, but explaining the intervening period would give them an aneurysm.
I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 5th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 8 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com "criminal" turned to "innocent" (or vice versa) between reading the clue and clicking the square. Sigh.
Wordle 1,873 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Par, tied the 'bot.
Connections Puzzle #1151 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Solved as shown. Knowledge gap on green. I saw how the purple connector had to work (sbhe zrnavatf bs n fvatyr jbeq) but I couldn't land it.
There is no conflict of rights between cis women and trans women, only a conflict between the goals anti-trans, anti-feminist hate groups and the broad interests of all women
"If cocaine disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without any cocaine tool?"
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 18h agoMy answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
Hahahahahaha I wanted to type something here but I'm laughing too hard "could you still get through an entire workday" what the fuck, man, you just sharpied "I am incompetent" on your forehead.
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 18h agoMy answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.
The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.
I came home from Amherst last night, appropriately exhausted. So here, a day late, is my post about Jane Yolen's memorial. floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-me...
A Memorial For Jane Yolen--With Heartfelt Memories And Dancing Bears
. A memorial was held for Jane Yolen in Amherst at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Which was appropriate...
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Wordle 1,872 3/6* 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Birdie, tied the 'bot.
Connections Puzzle #1150 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Solve order rainbow herring*-purple-yellow-blue-green. No idea what the color assignments were. *very clever, gotta hand it to them
A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
If you want to be friends, you have to stop expelling and terrorizing and harming and killing my friends. That's just a rule I have about friends. www.the-reframe.com/if-you-want-...
If You Want To Be Friends, Then Why Aren’t You Friendly?
A look at one of the most alarming and pressing problems of our age: the much-lamented fact that "the left" won't be friends with "the right," over "political views."
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I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 3rd 2026 (Easy), in 04:40 58% had a perfect solve 50% had a solve time under 3:44. 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com
Okay, I am going to tell a little story. It's one I have saved for the last couple years, almost nobody knows about it. But it lives in my heart. I don't know how others will feel about it, maybe something, maybe nothing. It's about the Uncanny X-Men. 1/
Wordle 1,871 5/6* 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Bogie, lost to the 'bot by 2. After such a cheerful-looking start.
Any journalist who asks the next democratic president about how they plan to unite the country and you know at least one of them will, should be immediately thrown out of the room, srsly.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."
Archive August 2, 2026 Wordle 1,870 4/6* ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Par, lost to the 'bot by 1. Weirdly, move #3, which I thought was suboptimal (irany vafgrnq bs crany), was the 'bot's favored move.
Archive August 2, 2026 Connections Puzzle #1148 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Solve order purple-blue-yellow-green, I guess.
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
The sitting president of the United States got his accounts closed for money laundering and its barely news 🤯
Always remember they destroy or hobble the genuinely useful functions of government because they want citizens to stop expecting anything from them, and be reduced to learned helplessness.
I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 2nd 2026 (Hard), in less than 18 minutes (50% cutoff: 11m22s) Only 16% others had a perfect solve. 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com
Archive August 1, 2026 Wordle 1,869 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Par, lost to the 'bot by 1. My first thought for move #3 turned out to be the solution, but I decided to play it safe with a more expansive word. Sigh.
Archive July 31, 2026 Wordle 1,868 4/6* ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Bogie, lost to the 'bot by 1. Did not think this word would turn out to be a par 3!
Archive August 1, 2026 Connections Puzzle #1147 🟦🟨🟦🟦 🟦🟨🟩🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Solve order blue-green-yellow. I got purple before I even started entering answers but I didn't see the 4th word until just now. (Svkngrq ba ohaq jura V fubhyq unir frra oha.) Also stuck for a while on the herring.