One-sentence Future: The United States Postal Service After years of delayed routes and weather-based retreats, the beleaguered United States Postal Service quietly abandoned its legendary creed in favor of operational convenience, unveiling its frank new motto....

"Not & 8," by David J. Staley

Pinpoint #672 | 2 guesses 1️⃣ | 91% match 2️⃣ | 100% match 📌 🏅 I’m in the Top 10% of all players today! lnkd.in/pinpoint.

Crossclimb #672 | 0:30 and flawless Fill order: 1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ 4️⃣ 5️⃣ 🔼 🔽 🪜 🏅 I’m in the Top 5% of all players today! lnkd.in/crossclimb.

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I completed Stacks in 4 drops! Try it yourself! Play on The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/games/stacks

In case you’re unfamiliar with our decades of interference in Iran, I wrote up a primer on it for @damemagazine.bsky.social. When Hegseth says that Iran’s been at war with us for decades, he’s got it totally backwards. At the end of the day, that’s us.

The UAE is taking BY FAR the most incoming of all the targets Itan is lashing out at. If you arent asking and answering the question why the regime thinks Dubai is the most important target for them to hit, you are missing the story.

Pinpoint #671 | 1 guess 1️⃣ | 100% match 📌 🏅 I’m in the Top 1% of all players today! lnkd.in/pinpoint.

Crossclimb #671 | 0:34 and flawless Fill order: 1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ 4️⃣ 5️⃣ 🔼 🔽 🪜 🏅 I’m in the Top 10% of all players today! lnkd.in/crossclimb.

Blending the grace and intensity of handball with breathtaking aerial acrobatics, two teams maneuver camera-equipped drones to catch, carry and hurl a lightweight magnetized electronic ball through elevated goals, a kinetic ballet of midair passes and ricocheted goals...

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I completed Stacks in 4 drops! Try it yourself! Play on The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/games/stacks

Crossclimb #670 | 0:37 and flawless Fill order: 1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ 4️⃣ 5️⃣ 🔼 🔽 🪜 🏅 I’m in the Top 5% of all players today! lnkd.in/crossclimb.

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I completed Stacks in 6 drops! Try it yourself! Play on The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/games/stacks

I completed Stacks in 5 drops! Try it yourself! Play on The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/games/stacks

One-sentence Future: Learner's permit On a bright Tuesday morning, the Roberts family gathered in their driveway cheering and snapping photos as their Ford self-driver displayed on its dashboard screen its freshly issued learner's permit from the Department of Motor Algorithms...

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I completed Stacks in 5 drops! Try it yourself! Play on The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/games/stacks

Enjoy this week's "Voices:" my interview with David Brewer, where we discuss authors, books and magic... podcast.osu.edu/voices-of-ex...

One-sentence Future: The tardigrades are all that remain... Earth's scorched and irradiated surface, its boiled oceans and fallen forests, belongs entirely to tardigrades...that, improbably, has begun to think. open.substack.com/pub/davidjst...

Pinpoint #667 | 2 guesses 1️⃣ | 4% match 2️⃣ | 100% match 📌 🏅 I’m in the Top 10% of all players today! lnkd.in/pinpoint.

Crossclimb #667 | 0:48 and flawless Fill order: 1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ 4️⃣ 5️⃣ 🔽 🔼 🪜 🏅 I’m in the Top 10% of all players today! lnkd.in/crossclimb.

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Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), German artist who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture and was known for her self portraits and depictions of the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working classes #womensart

Crossclimb #666 | 0:29 and flawless Fill order: 1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ 4️⃣ 5️⃣ 🔼 🔽 🪜 🏅 I’m in the Top 5% of all players today! lnkd.in/crossclimb.

The trolls and bad faith interweb accounts came for West Virginia following that 60 Minutes piece on McDowell County, and our friend and Mountaineer to the bone @wvesquiress.bsky.social was having none of it. Read here today @ordinarytimemag ordinary-times.com/2026/02/24/p...

One-sentence Future: Future Affirmation That bioluminescent blue glow is all the proof you need that she’s deeply in love with you and would marry you again in a heartbeat. open.substack.com/pub/davidjst...

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At an abstract level what is totally/largely missing is real vision or a serious mission for current and future policy -- or at least unifying core principles to more or less unite around. This is what so much political speech aims for...but instead, mostly boasts for applause and shear spin.

I completed Stacks in 4 drops! Try it yourself! Play on The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/games/stacks

"ENIAC," by David J. Staley

One-sentence Future: G'Day! American middle schoolers inexplicably adopted "G'day" as their signature greeting...much to the bewilderment of actual Australians who watch Americans enthusiastically mispronounce their casual salutation with baffled amusement. open.substack.com/pub/davidjst...

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I completed Stacks in 4 drops! Try it yourself! Play on The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/games/stacks

AEP stressed that as a regulated utility it’s obligated to serve everyone, from individual homeowners to gargantuan, power-hungry facilities. MORE: columbusunderground.com/questions-ar...

whoops looks like today's deltarune got scheduled a little earlier than expected tehe youtu.be/s5ddHUPELbk

Pinpoint #664 | 2 guesses 1️⃣ | 38% match 2️⃣ | 100% match 📌 🏅 I’m in the Top 10% of all players today! lnkd.in/pinpoint.

One-sentence Future: The National Goalball League Its star players emblazoned across all platforms as global celebrities, the National Goalball League draws sold-out—if hushed—arenas...signaling...a cultural shift, one where Americans embraced disability sport... as mainstream spectacle.

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I completed Stacks in 4 drops! Try it yourself! Play on The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/games/stacks

Lots of great coffee to try! All in one box! columbusunderground.com/the-2026-cof...

Pinpoint #663 | 2 guesses 1️⃣ | 1% match 2️⃣ | 100% match 📌 🏅 I’m in the Top 5% of all players today! lnkd.in/pinpoint.

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I completed Stacks in 6 drops! Try it yourself! Play on The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/games/stacks

It is not a policy, it is a tantrum

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One-sentence Future: The Mayor of Villa Las Estrellas On this morning, Ewen M., the mayor of a teeming Antarctic metropolis of 250,000, mediated a zoning dispute between the kelp-farm cooperatives and the geothermal housing bloc...ending his day watching the sun circle without setting.

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