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Correct crossword opinions / aka Michael Sharp / Teaching lit stuff at Binghamton University / 2025 ACPT Pairs champion (w/ Penelope Harper — @penelopeharper.bsky.social)
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Got answer pretty fast but couldn’t figure out how cryptic part worked for a bit Minute Cryptic - 17 June, 2025 "Old timer in uniform infiltrates island resort" (7) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 3 under par www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

She is not a lap cat so I’m always honored / shocked when this happens

Me, pre-parent life: oh, public libraries are kinda neat. I think I’ve been inside one, like, twice in ten years. But it was nice. Me, the parent of toddler in desperate need of distractions: public libraries are literal proof that miracles are real

Got new credit card today and the exp. year is “30” and I believe I saw my grave there for a moment

Just back from visiting with friends 🐇 🐝

approximately 49% of all college professors in the United States are only employed part-time

From Melissa and Mark Hortman's children

When Trump finally dies there will be calls for civility and “respect for the office” from even his harshest critics and I’m telling you right now I plan on saying things so harsh they might knock the earth off its axis

Vance Boelter was trained at a Bible college that believes Christians should take over the government. He preached that message overseas. Then he acted on it. His actions weren't just "politically motivated," they were religiously motivated. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/from-missi...

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter

I think a lot of the terror of the modern age can be understood by the fact that the Internet accelerated the development of the worst type of person, the "Anti-Intellectual Nerd."

Thanks to NPR for explaining that due to the ancient, mysterious culture of Persia, Iranians "don't like to be attacked" npr.org/2025/06/16/n...

Absolutely brutal for me 🫤 Minute Cryptic - 15 June 2025 "Console backing up characters' progress in Sims, Doom, BioShock, Civilisation, Halo 2, Minecraft" (6) ⚪️🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 1 under par www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

Sigh I am apparently now the kind of person who wins real-ass non-eBay auctions. I’m gonna end up like Bleeding Gums Murphy, alone and broken by a Fabergé Egg addiction, but in my case it will be a giallo movie poster addiction oh well

So … SPAUN, then, I guess (5) ⛳️

There's no floor to their lack of basic humanity. It's just an ever-darker abyss.

Um…

bit obsessed with little signs in hospitals

Really enjoyed this

Um…

Look, match this level of enthusiastic commitment to the good or else don’t expect my vote. Pretty simple.

Happy Fathers Day to me, lucky beyond belief

omg thank you Fox News 😭

The most consequential Speaker in state history.

Still naively can’t believe I live in a country that does this now. Whole 🧵 worth reading

Thousands of Christians are being rounded up and deported by the U.S. government, but they’re not cottagecore tradmoms or their homeschooled goat milk enthusiasts, so these guys are fine with it. Actually, they’re thrilled.

Maybe she just likes crowds?

Which is wild because no one even likes the Nats

my father in law said he’d read some of my book and said he found it way better than all my previous writing and it was so psychological and even reminded him of Proust (?!) and it turned out he read the dummy copy which is just my book jacket wrapped around a posthumous Mary Higgins Clark novel

retired socially progressive white ladies are the Democratic activist base in a lot of places and we're at a point where they are increasingly to the left of the actual Democratic Party

Embarrassing-ass country w/ moron baby for leader. A disgrace. A joke. Impeach this imbecile.

MSNBC reporter in gas mask in Los Angeles: I think it was Sheriffs deploying CS gas, tear gas, pepper spray, and flash bang grenades in large numbers. Mounted units pushing against protesters.., every single gathering I saw today was 100% peaceful

They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.

I threw a big 40th birthday party for myself and I threw up beforehand because I was so afraid nobody was going to show up so when I tell you this is my worst nightmare and I love that it is happening to the worst person…

no one came to a grown man's GI Joe themed birthday party and that's somehow funny to you??

Good night

He thought a parade is when they throw candy at you and then a fireman gives you the high five your dad never would.

It’s cops all the way down

no draft kings (really, i think online gambling is a terrible scam)

This is heartbreaking. (via someone at the St. Paul rally)

It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.