The New York Times recently introduced daily puzzles called Pips. You place the dominoes on the grid so the numbers satisfy the labels.

I solved Pips with cool software called a constraint solver. You give the constraints, e.g. "sum to 8", and it "magically" finds a solution. Let's look closer...

Everyone always asks what the soup of the day is.

Nobody ever asks *how* the soup of the day is.

😔

It's a shame Kakapo has too many letters 😉

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Wordle, but without the, you know, fascist enabler newspaper attached.

Blimey — had no idea he was in The Grid too — "Swamp Thing" was brilliant.

Dammit. Only 66 ☹️

The camp majesty of the unparalleled Say Hello, Wave Goodbye by Soft Cell. Thanks for everything, Dave Ball. youtu.be/ePnXYklBBh8

A lot of folks may think that just yelling at ICE agents is ineffective, but consider the cumulative psychological toll of being yelled at EVERY DAY when trying to do shit. Even the biggest asshole in the world who doesn't give a shit about other people will feel the pressure.

🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done?
Thou art a pynke ponye girle
Yn the daunse at the clubbe!'
'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe
On the stage yn myne heeles
It ys wher Ich belonge:
Downe at the
Pynke Ponye Clubbe!
Ich shal keepe on daunsinge,
Downe yn West Hollywoode'
[LUTE SOLO] 🎶

FED UP with enjoying an extra hour in bed when the clocks go back? Why not have children?

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

hombre your job is talking out of your ass about stuff you don't know in ways that sound smart to stupid people, and claiming chatGPT is doing stuff that it's not. these are literally the only 2 things your trillion dollar markov chain can do consistently enough to replace a human being unsupervised

By the time he’s ’talking about Jolene in his sleep’ and calling her name out and whatnot, our narrator has already lost. It’s not about pleading ‘don’t take my man’. She’s got to look at the underlying situation.

Wait until Minneapolis says “NO” to pulling ICE out of ditches in blizzards. We will say “no” to them. More than once if we have to. There will be no Minnesota nice for ICE.

Changed job. New phone. Forgot to tell son's school. Apparently, they have been arguing with the new holder of my old number. I had just assumed that school was going well and they didn't need to message me twice a week any more.

In a DC comic from 1962 Bizarro Superman and his friends wear JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Jerry Lewis and Mickey Mantle masks for Halloween to terrify the other Bizarros.

I'm half an hour into this (browser, free) mystery game and I can already recommend it. Read transcribed recordings, work out who people are, find missing files on a hard drive - lots of fun.

If you want to send me a referral code, I'm just about to switch …

At first I was disappointed with her. Now I’m just appalled.

FireWire. Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.

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I can't find people to follow on here...

👏👏👏👏 very good!

(I await the 301 responses from people who've moved permanently from the bad place).