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Today I learned that Zohran Mamdani is Mira Nair’s son.

Strands #475 “Goose eggs” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵🔵

Generative AI is slowly degrading the internet. More alarming is that before long, the technology’s unreliability may go unnoticed, writes Matteo Wong:

Wordle 1,463 4/6* ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩 ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 85/99 Luck 58/99

Strands #474 “Just a dusting” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵

Wordle 1,462 3/6* ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟩 ⬛🟩🟨⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 99/99 Luck 67/99

What better way to observe the end of slavery than a rich old white man yelling to work harder.

that’s nothing, a couple months ago he went 144 when he was supposed to go 25

Strands #473 “Life is a highway” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵

Wordle 1,461 3/6* 🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟨🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 99/99 Luck 78/99

Strands #472 “Down time” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Love the theme

Why are men

A question you don’t want to hear in any context: “Whose sausage is that?”

Wordle 1,460 6/6* 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 97/99 Luck 33/99 Once again fallen into the degeneracy hole

<Sob laugh>

SCOOP: The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

Strands #471 “Make it work” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵

Wordle 1,459 5/6* ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟨 ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 95/99 Luck 41/99

The best gag of @gamechangershow.bsky.social this season is @samreich.bsky.social not understanding what a millisecond is

MAHHHHHTYYYYY!!!!

Catch "The Physics of Kicking a Football" with Chris Kluwe and Dr. Jim Kakalios at 2:00pm on Friday at CONvergence 2025: That's How We Roll! Get passes at cvgcon.org Don't miss @chriswarcraft.bsky.social & @jimkakalios.bsky.social in one of those things that could only ever happen at CONvergence.

Strands #470 “Key notes” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵

Wordle 1,458 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨 🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 96/99 Luck 71/99 Mind like a steel trap

Wordle 1,457 4/6* ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 73/99 Luck 58/99 Again, too chicken to try it on 3.

I had to scroll soooooo far down in the @nytimes.com app to get to a story about Trump’s big boy birthday parade.

Just liked a post on IG that had 9,999 and I put it to 10k. Very skeptical that was actually what happened.

Wordle 1,456 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟨⬛🟩⬛🟩 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 72/99 Luck 45/99 Hit Enter instead of Backspace when testing out a pattern on 3 and ruined it

Strands #467 “Scattering petals” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Another perfecto

Wordle 1,455 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟨🟨⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 97/99 Luck 45/99 Sat there for 10 minutes considering it for Guess 3 but thought it was too unlikely

The clearest photo of Mercury ever taken.

Sen. Alex Padilla: "If this is how this DHS responds to a senator with a question, I can only imagine what they're doing to farmers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country. We will hold this administration accountable."

Strands #466 “Gone fishing” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵 First perfect Strands (Spangram first, no non-theme words)

Wordle 1,454 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛ ⬛🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 92/99 Luck 27/99 Yikes

Not quite sure how I became so invested in the Iowa Democratic senatorial primary

Strands #465 “If you build it ...” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵

Don't just say it's unconstitutional, remind people that the constitution is full of very good ideas designed to prevent authoritarianism, and most people who want to ignore it want that specifically because they are authoritarian.

President of the Mexican Senate, "We'll build the wall and pay for it. But we'll do it according to the 1830 map of Mexico... Mexicans were settled in these territories before the U.S. The Mexicans living there are in what has always been their homeland."

Wordle 1,453 3/6* ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 85/99 Luck 54/99 Too easy

Wordle 1,452 4/6* ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 66/99 Luck 61/99

Riots are a regular part of U.S. history, along with business cycle crashes.

Still waiting for the article that’s like “these right wing militia members are in a bubble and it would be healthier if they exposed themselves to left wing ideas”

Strands #463 “What you see isn't what you get” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵

Wordle 1,451 3/6* ⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 84/99 Luck 64/99 Considered it for guess 2 Streak back up to 100

Strands #462 “On Broadway” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵

Wordle 1,450 3/6* ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟨⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 92/99 Luck 74/99

Wordle 1,449 4/6* ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 🟨⬛⬛🟨🟩 ⬛🟨🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 92/99 Luck 53/99 Logicked the shit out of that

By doing the work that led to the discovery of dark energy, Adam Riess won a Nobel Prize and helped add the final piece to the “standard model of cosmology." Now he says that model might be wrong. Ross Andersen reports:

Strands #460 “String's attached” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵 Mostly complete guesses

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