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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 8m

TIME FOR SMUSHINGS!

Hand reaching out to smush sleeping white cat

🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 3h

Hey, I know someone who published a poem in the @newyorker.com. I almost regret to inform you that it is good. [insert boilerplate “Fuck the Yankees” language here]

Natan Last @natanlast.bsky.social · 2d

an absolute dream to have a poem in the new yorker today, on why being a yankees fan is good, actually, present cursed season aside ...

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“I Consider Myself”

“When Soto went crosstown I couldn’t / believe it, the traitor, the bat in front of / that sculpture Judge.”

www.newyorker.com

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 4h

Please excuse your Gen X colleagues who are unable to focus today

SUGAR @sugarcopperblue.bsky.social · 5h

Sugar is back! New music at sugarcopperblue.com PLUS May 2026 live shows in NYC and London. All the info is here!

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 19h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 6h

Good morning ☀️

Ida kissing alfies neck, which he is somehow allowing

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 6h

The logic that convinces managers to destroy treasured institutional things because they look a little dusty, or because they personally might be able to slap their name on whatever bullshit replaces those things, is a profound American illness.

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 6h

Minute Cryptic - 15 October, 2025
"Volatile element or source of vitamin C?" (5,4)
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🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (50,848 solvers so far).
www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

Minute Cryptic

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

www.minutecryptic.com

🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 6h

They’ve been botching the difficulty levels of late, particularly the Yellow. Only 18% of players got Yellow first today. NOT the easiest.

Connections
Puzzle #857
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Skill 97/99
Uniqueness 1 in 889

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 19h

John Woo 🥰

(A BETTER TOMORROW, 1986)

Silhouette of man walking toward camera against backdrop of giant red NO SMOKING sign

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Shaun ❤️s 🧛🏽‍♀️👻🧙🏽‍♀️ @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 20h

Oh shit no. He was certainly this century's soul visionary. I remember the first time I heard "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" and nearly had to pull over the car. Black Messiah is def God Tier. He should have had the opportunity to make a lot more music. 😪

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Shaun ❤️s 🧛🏽‍♀️👻🧙🏽‍♀️ @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 21h

Possibly the best last sentence of an English novel:

Her finely touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 20h

I remember when this album dropped at the very end of 2014 and I was like “ok so the best album of the year drops just before New Year’s Eve can you do that is that legal?” 🔥 #RIPDangelo

THIE LONG-AWAITED
FOLLOW-UPTO
THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED VOODOO ALBUM!
INCLUDES
DIGITAL. DOWNLOAD
WYAD
AL.BUM CODBINSIDE
DANGELO AND THE VANGUARD
BLACK
MESSIAH

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 23h

RIP. Black Messiah is an all-timer www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

D'Angelo, Grammy-winning singer and R&B icon, dies at 51 after cancer battle

R&B icon D'Angelo, whose retro sound epitomized the neo-soul movement of the mid-'90s, has died following a battle with cancer.

www.usatoday.com

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 21h

Hard agree. What terrible fucking news

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Dawn of the Dead 💀 @502eire.lol · 22h

Andy said trans rights, y’all

pretty decent chance we will have the Governor of Kentucky running to the left of the Governor of California on this issue in 2028. it’s a wacky world, folks

Andy Beshear @AndyBeshearKY • 23h
A little bit about me, my values don't change based on who I'm talking to. I'm a proud pro-LGBTQ+ Governor who vetoed anti-trans legislation in an election year and still beat Trump's hand-picked candidate.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 1d

You shouldn't see one more dumb ad with with somebody walking Main Street in their old fighter jacket. That's over. You have to tell a better story than that.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

NEW: Statement from Cardinal Blaise Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, on ICE activities in the city.

Implicitly refers to tactics used by ICE/DHS as “unnecessarily aggressive” and “seem to be intended to terrorize and cause chaos, rather than fulfilling the noble calling of law enforcement.”

Here's Cardinal Cupich's statement:
In this moment it is important to state clearly that keeping the nation safe and respecting human dignity are not mutually exclusive. In fact one cannot exist without the other. The safety of a nation cannot come at the expense of violations of human dignity and surely the dignity of the undocumented can never be violated by unnecessarily aggressive tactics that go far beyond the task of apprehending people and which seem to be intended to terrorize and cause chaos, rather than fulfilling the noble calling of law enforcement. No one working in this noble calling should be put in the position of acting this way. Not only do they risk violating the dignity of others but such activity is beneath their own dignity.

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 1d

I asked the class to draw “sonnet” w/o using any words and *this* is what she came up with, what the hell, man?

🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 1d

I remain Very popular with my students

Drawing of man droning at the blackboard and young woman in desk looking v upset

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 1d

I remain Very popular with my students

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ryan @ryanfm.bsky.social · 1d

maybe a little different from my usual newsletter posts. but also, we should talk to animals more.
ryanmandelbirder.substack.com/p/we-should-...

we should talk to animals more

an essay on what i really mean when i call them "little guys"

ryanmandelbirder.substack.com

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 1d

So I’m *not* crazy?

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 1d

A humorless writer can never be a great writer. Not saying all writing needs to be a laff riot. But a sense of humor is a sign of a lively mind, and if you don't have it, you are lacking some part of the imagination.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday to my favorite person in the world 🙌🏼 ❤️🙏

Love you, hon 🥰

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“As I was signing in to yoga the substitute teacher said my name was cute "Penelope! I love it!". So l already don't like her.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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