Evans Clinchy
@evansclinchy.bsky.social
crossword puzzles, NBA, politics, food/beer/wine, books/movies/TV, various other rantings and ravings
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All this does is give businesses with managers who have no experience with puzzles and no understanding of how much real effort it takes to build them an excuse to avoid hiring professionals to make their crosswords. "Well the AI can just make a crossword for us" NO IT CAN'T! Not a good one, anyway.
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
All this does is give businesses with managers who have no experience with puzzles and no understanding of how much real effort it takes to build them an excuse to avoid hiring professionals to make their crosswords. "Well the AI can just make a crossword for us" NO IT CAN'T! Not a good one, anyway.
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Anyone who has ever made a crossword -- the professional kind in newspapers, puzzle blogs, crossword tournaments -- will tell you there's actual joy in building and wrestling with the near-infinite possibilities of a grid and writing pitch-perfect clues yourself. You can't do this with a chatbot!
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Anyone who has ever made a crossword -- the professional kind in newspapers, puzzle blogs, crossword tournaments -- will tell you there's actual joy in building and wrestling with the near-infinite possibilities of a grid and writing pitch-perfect clues yourself. You can't do this with a chatbot!
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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.
That's why this news about them creating a generative AI puzzle maker is so unbelievably sad and infuriating.
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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.
That's why this news about them creating a generative AI puzzle maker is so unbelievably sad and infuriating.
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Okay, I've seen enough.
Not election night related, just been a long year and I have seen way too many things
Not election night related, just been a long year and I have seen way too many things
November 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Okay, I've seen enough.
Not election night related, just been a long year and I have seen way too many things
Not election night related, just been a long year and I have seen way too many things
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The Dodgers buying all the best players is a disgrace to the noble history of baseball, which largely consisted of the Yankees doing it instead.
January 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The Dodgers buying all the best players is a disgrace to the noble history of baseball, which largely consisted of the Yankees doing it instead.
I’m not voting for anybody who *doesn’t* say this.
We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
October 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I’m not voting for anybody who *doesn’t* say this.
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Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices
Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil
Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world
Founder2: ok that works
Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil
Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world
Founder2: ok that works
October 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices
Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil
Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world
Founder2: ok that works
Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil
Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world
Founder2: ok that works
lol
lmao
lmao
There's a prestige that has eluded President Trump: the Nobel Peace Prize.
The annual award, set to be announced Friday, has occupied Trump for months, along with a recurring complaint that he’ll be overlooked. https://wapo.st/3KIatAf
The annual award, set to be announced Friday, has occupied Trump for months, along with a recurring complaint that he’ll be overlooked. https://wapo.st/3KIatAf
October 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
lol
lmao
lmao
LeBron James is an unfathomably huge dork. That is all
October 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
LeBron James is an unfathomably huge dork. That is all
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“The law says he can’t do it so it’s not clear whether he can” is such a 2025 headline
It is not clear that Mr. Trump’s image can be featured on a coin. An 1866 law enshrined a tradition that only deceased people could appear on U.S. currency to avoid the appearance that America was a monarchy. Trump admin is planning to do it anyway.
By Alan Rappeport
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
By Alan Rappeport
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:57 AM
“The law says he can’t do it so it’s not clear whether he can” is such a 2025 headline
Never change, CNN…
September 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Never change, CNN…
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this site is bad! it's going to fail! its user base has plateaued! it's not making any money! nobody here is smart except for me! everybody here is stupid! nobody is having any good discussions! i don't like being here! ok that's it for now. be back in 90 minutes
August 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
this site is bad! it's going to fail! its user base has plateaued! it's not making any money! nobody here is smart except for me! everybody here is stupid! nobody is having any good discussions! i don't like being here! ok that's it for now. be back in 90 minutes
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[hits the EJECT button knowing i’ll end up like goose in top gun]
August 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
[hits the EJECT button knowing i’ll end up like goose in top gun]
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Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
August 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
Nobody's getting my vote in the 2028 primary unless they advocate not only abolishing ICE, but criminally prosecuting these scumbags too.
📽️ WATCH: Student Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs.
Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.
Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.
August 17, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Nobody's getting my vote in the 2028 primary unless they advocate not only abolishing ICE, but criminally prosecuting these scumbags too.
Holy shit
August 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Holy shit
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Genuinely incredible that she's saying this with 2 accused rapists on either side of her
Bondi: "Let me be crystal clear: crime in DC is ending and ending today."
August 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Genuinely incredible that she's saying this with 2 accused rapists on either side of her
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This all looks very bad, but to be fair there's no direct evidence, verified by a court of law, that shows Donald Trump has ever committed sexual assault. [touches earpiece] Hold on, I'm getting some new information.
July 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This all looks very bad, but to be fair there's no direct evidence, verified by a court of law, that shows Donald Trump has ever committed sexual assault. [touches earpiece] Hold on, I'm getting some new information.
This goes against every fiber of my being but I think I have to be a Yankee fan now
Yankee Fans welcome Ted Cruz to New York. Proud of my homies!
June 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This goes against every fiber of my being but I think I have to be a Yankee fan now
As soon as I see this guy's face on my screen I start to feel intense feelings of aggravation and stress... which speaks to what a fantastic actor he is.
Moss-Bachrach has won two Emmys for his portrayal of an abrasive and ornery cook/maître d on the FX series The Bear. The show is known for kitchen chaos, but he says the set is calm and well run.
Hold the yelling: Ebon Moss-Bachrach says 'The Bear' set is 'very loving'
Moss-Bachrach has won two Emmys for his portrayal of an abrasive and ornery cook/maître d on the FX series The Bear. The show is known for kitchen chaos, but he says the set is calm and well run.
n.pr
June 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
As soon as I see this guy's face on my screen I start to feel intense feelings of aggravation and stress... which speaks to what a fantastic actor he is.
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I truly believe the biggest reason Democratic voters don't vote for new voices more is because they keep being told by the party that it's hopeless to do so and results like this are wonderful because maybe it convinces more people to give it a shot.
June 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I truly believe the biggest reason Democratic voters don't vote for new voices more is because they keep being told by the party that it's hopeless to do so and results like this are wonderful because maybe it convinces more people to give it a shot.
Seems pretty clear what the Celtics are doing here - the general plan is to unload their expensive supporting players and get guys on expiring contracts.
In 2026, they’ll get Tatum back and have Tatum + Brown + maybe White + the flexibility to build something new around them.
Works for me!
In 2026, they’ll get Tatum back and have Tatum + Brown + maybe White + the flexibility to build something new around them.
Works for me!
June 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Seems pretty clear what the Celtics are doing here - the general plan is to unload their expensive supporting players and get guys on expiring contracts.
In 2026, they’ll get Tatum back and have Tatum + Brown + maybe White + the flexibility to build something new around them.
Works for me!
In 2026, they’ll get Tatum back and have Tatum + Brown + maybe White + the flexibility to build something new around them.
Works for me!
@howardbeck.bsky.social Mr. Beck, respectfully: For someone who hates shitty aggregators as much as you do, it’s ironic that you retweet the Lincoln Project so much
June 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
@howardbeck.bsky.social Mr. Beck, respectfully: For someone who hates shitty aggregators as much as you do, it’s ironic that you retweet the Lincoln Project so much
Congratulations to both the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers on getting rid of Paul George and assembling an NBA Finals team as a direct result
June 1, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Congratulations to both the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers on getting rid of Paul George and assembling an NBA Finals team as a direct result