Anyways, I don't really know where I'm going with this (and I haven't even touched on AmuseLabs's sample grid being a "not a crossword"), but there's so many good human-created crosswords in the world, and I'm just sad to see otherwise useful software adding a completely unnecessary "AI" component.

Generative AI tools like this are fundamentally anti-labor: Take humans out of the equation, outsource the artistry of making crosswords to a machine that makes shitty puzzles. I just wish Amuse Labs, after years helping puzzle writers make real art, didn't also participate in that enshittification.

Amuse Labs had created perhaps the best digital crossword-solving software I've ever seen, with the ability to program all kinds of puzzles that were never possible before. That's why this news about them creating a generative AI puzzle maker is so unbelievably sad and infuriating.

It's 11:11 am ET on 11/11.

I said to my brother on Zoom with about 6 minutes left that if there was any team that could blow a 4th quarter lead like this against the #Bears, it was the Giants. Thank you for proving me right, G-men. You love to see it.

the horrors may persist but by the grace of god so do @evanbirnholz.bsky.social sunday puzzles

The number of replies to this great tweet from people who have zero idea why it's great makes me laugh and feel terrified for our future at the same time.

i'm very glad this technology is being forced onto us everywhere on all levels

April Fools Day prank where 100 constructors submit crosswords to the New York Times with ENEMA in the grids so Will Shortz has to accept at least one of them.

He lost badly, by the way, so the district decided the future wasn't the endorkening.

Tonight seems to be a strong rebuke of the Republican Party’s “make shit as bad as possible as quickly as possible” strategy

Andrew CuoNo

Once more, for old times’ sake

As if things couldn't get any better, this happened! On a Nikola Vučević game-winning three, too! Today has been absolute magic.

Note to self: update this clue from the July 27, 2025 Washington Post Sunday crossword.

Remember, if you're in line to gloat about Andrew Cuomo eating shit yet again, stay in line!

Some guy at my polling place handed me a flier about this Republican town council candidate that says he was "endorced" by some cops and I can't help but pronounce that word in my head as "endorked."

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

Today's gonna be a great day.

Maybe the craziest stat of the game is that the #Bears had 576 yards of total offense and Rome Odunze had 0 of them.

The #Bears just won a game that they had no business losing and then had no business winning and I'm sure they just shaved five years off my life for no reason but I don't care BEARS WIN MY WEEK IS COMPLETE.

HOLY SHIT WHAT IS GOING ON #Bears

Hi, Chicago Bears special teams players. This is your supervisor. I'm informing you you're all fired. That is all.

Officially applying to be a member of the Bears special teams because I want to get paid a lot of money to be bad at playing special teams.

Me, before having a son: "Moving the clock back an hour is great! I get more time to hit my deadlines and I can be more relaxed." Me, after having a son: "I am summoning eldritch demons and burning effigies of the person who decided to move the clock back in ritual protest."

Please sign a guy named Will Smith, Cubbies. I don't care if it's the actor Will Smith or a plumber named Will Smith, just sign him.

The last five champions to win the World Series in Game 7 (2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2025) won it on the road. In three of them (2016, 2019, 2025), the champion won both Game 6 and Game 7 on the road. The last time the home team won Game 7 in the World Series was the St. Louis Cardinals in 2011.

good game

My #WorldSeries recap:

Anything cool going on tonight?

A walkoff World Series-winning hit-by-pitch, followed by the brawl that didn't happen in the 4th inning. A brawl becomes a riot. Before blood runs in the streets all of Canada immediately calls for politeness and peace and the players shake hands.

Game-tying or go-ahead home runs in ninth inning of winner-take-all World Series game: 2025 Miguel Rojas 1960 Bill Mazeroski

Uh, holy shit. #WorldSeries

I was being an uncle for my 16-year-old niece and watching "KPop Demon Hunters" during Game 7, and now that I've turned the game on, I can report that the song "Takedown" almost certainly came on when the benches cleared in the 4th inning. #WorldSeries

Gonna upscore ASS and all words in my word list that contain ASS just to make this guy mad.

Got the once-in-a-blue-moon Nothing Scarier badge on Matt Gaffney's MGWCC achievement page! It's gonna be a good Halloween this year.

Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.

My mom has a best friend from med school that we called aunt when growing up. For our son we call close friends of ours aunt and uncle because it's endearing and most of his biological aunts and uncles live out of state. This is a pathetic non-issue (except for the NY Post's predictable racism).

Of all the baseball games that have ever been played, that was definitely two of them. #WorldSeries

My goodness. What a game. Good night. #WorldSeries

I tried to speak it into existence. I really tried. #WorldSeries

Normal folk watching a #WorldSeries game in the 17th inning: "Good game, but it's really late, I'm going to bed." Obsessive Wikipedia editors / baseball fans frantically updating and reupdating the "Longest games" section of the Extra Innings Wikipedia page:

Lol, come on. #WorldSeries

Which one of you wished upon the cursed monkey paw that the only way this game would end is that Ohtani has to hit a walkoff home run knowing that the Blue Jays will never pitch to him again? #WorldSeries

Quite the letter combination in one of my crosswords a few months ago that I never expected:

I mostly just laugh at #notacrossword grids nowadays since I don't expect ad agencies to understand what crosswords typically look like. Of course my last Post puzzle looked like this which was a "legit" grid but drowning in black squares.

10:28 pm ET, Oct. 16, 2025: Exactly two years to the minute after my son was born! I know people like to think of 2 as being the tough age with the terrible twos, but every day this kiddo amazes me with each new word he picks. I can't wait to see what he'll learn in year 3.

Nope, not going to sleep any time soon. Going to meme instead. #Bears

HAIL MARY THAT, FUCKERS. #Bears

The Bears just can't get out of their own way. Dear god.