We didn’t see the aurora borealis but we did do a drive thru car wash today

Love seeing the next generation of crossword phenoms featured in Adrienne Raphel's NYT piece. I can vouch that @gppasco.bsky.social, @adanicklmao.bsky.social, @aaronson.bsky.social, @rickycruz.bsky.social, et al. are the coolest! www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/s...

Achieved my goal of doing better than last year! Moved up almost 200 places 🎉

This goes double for tournament puzzles and triple if you also have an unnecessary crypto reference

Attending Crossword Con virtually while waiting for my flight to ACPT!!

My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace. It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.

Predictive text models do not ever "answer your question" They predict what an answer to your question would probably look like. Which is very, very, very different

Happy Ides of March to all who celebrate!

Not coincidentally, tech bros also repeatedly reinvent coloniality. The early libertarian manifestos of the internet say it aloud! White men thrilled to explore and settle the terra nullius of cyberspace, which by the way will NOT need laws. www.eff.org/cyberspace-i...

Happy pi day! Throwback to an appropriate puzzle from last year: www.cruciverbology.com/post/polar-p...

Some news! My daily crossword musings are now an official USA TODAY puzzle offering. New name, new location, same informational, conversational, and kind musings. www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

Cruciverbology has been having domain problems recently (apparently Google Domains kinda sucks) so I’m transferring my registration to Wix. Apparently this should take up to 7 days. In the meantime the site may be unresponsive sometimes, so sorry

What’s wrong babe, you’ve barely touched your five course Trump meal

New blog puzzle today!! www.cruciverbology.com/post/you-re-...

I’m a contributor to TPFA4!! Pre-order now! www.abortionpuzzles.com

I'm enjoying returning to the Richard Scarry books with my son. My favourite thing is spotting the cats who are doing a real bad job of things but who absolutely do not care.

Me: types up assignments in LaTeX instead of eating lunch My stomach: Underfull (badness 10000)

It took me MONTHS to realize one of my favorite Italian sandwich shops was “mafia” backwards… am I even a real crossword person at this point

Tonight we bring you the first midi from the 2024 Lil AVC X constructor roster! It's an 11x11 by Carolyn Davies Lynch titled "The Milky Way." We hope you enjoy its cool mom vibes! 😎

today i wrote about the fall of icarus, and how to pay attention to human suffering without losing ourselves: buttondown.email/theswordandt...

✨These Puzzles Fund Abortion 4✨ is now available for presale! Donate to receive 20+ original crossword and variety word puzzles themed around social and reproductive justice. All donations go to 5 amazing abortion funds doing vital work 💕 fund.nnaf.org/tpfa4 cc: @abortionfunds.bsky.social

VERY excited to share my first crossword puzzle for the brand-new thewalrus.ca/games/crossw... Games section. Includes a healthy sprinkling of Canadian content (Maestro Fresh Wes lyric anyone??) — enjoy! Thanks to @emmalawson.bsky.social for her excellent edits

Powder?? In MY East??? It’s more likely than you think!

Fleeting, thrilling moment when I thought my kid had brought home a book about non-binary Abraham Lincoln

Why is the blue sky dark now on the loading screen? Is it some kind of metaphor?

Behind every great science crossword blog is a heap of failed theme ideas. for example one year ago I tried to make a puzzle shaped like the Einstein shape and my mom told me it looked like balls

Symptom: Canada

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The Boswords 2024 Winter Wondersolve is 4 weeks away -- Sunday, February 4 from 1:00-4:30 pm ET. Please consider joining us for a fun afternoon of online puzzling provided by the fabulous quartet listed below. Registration opens this Saturday 1/13 at www.boswords.org.

Fellow solvers! We are very excited to announce that registration for Westwords will open on Saturday, January 27! 🎉📆🤠 The tournament will take place on June 23, a Sunday, from 11 am to 5 pm Pacific time, with time beforehand for arrival, and a break for lunch.

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New Friday PR!!

Set a new Friday PR today!

Look, vote for Biden or not, I don’t care. But why on earth would you trust Trump to handle IP better?

Sharing one of my seasonal faves from my sister and also she is correct

Charles Dickens was very worried that the US would default on its debts.

why is this a thing???

It remains at least mildly grim how much space white dudes take up on NYTXW bylines. 20 puzzles this month, only 3.5 by women. Solo puzzles by women this year still not back to frequency of 20 years ago. More puzzles will have women’s names on them this year than any previous Shortz year. And yet ☹️

New blog puzzle for @jeffcorbin.bsky.social’s birthday!! www.cruciverbology.com/post/seedy-b...

Unexpected consequences of climate change: talking about the weather is no longer small talk

The irony of people complaining about kids these days and their attention spans *on a social media platform* is almost too much

They...cured lupus??? www.nature.com/articles/d41... I mean. It's a hella intense, sci-fi treatment, and we're talking only a dozen or two patients, but they have actually knocked down four different autoimmune diseases here and it...works??

We are delighted to announce the 2024 Lil AVC X constructor roster! Carolyn Davies Lynch, Lydia Roth & Christina Bodensiek, Deanne Cliburn, Geoffrey Schorkopf, Jasmeet Arora, Kaitlin Hsu, Kareem Ayas, Katja Brinck, Kaye Barton, and Michael Berg! We are looking forward to publishing their puzzles!

I would simply walk with so much rhythm that I impressed the worm.

guy who wrote 12 days of christmas

Today’s Varsity crossword has everything, from grid art to dad jokes to TMU shade 😮