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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐
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Correct crossword opinions / aka Michael Sharp / Teaching lit stuff at Binghamton University / 2025 ACPT Pairs champion (w/ Penelope Harper) / https://letterboxd.com/realrexparker
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This is so good, it almost makes me want to solve some cryptic crosswords. (Almost.)
Gonna spoil this now! (No. 304)

The “revealer” answer is SONNET [Young fellow make the thing we’ve written here] (6)

Me: “What do you mean? How have you written a sonnet?” Me: ten seconds later: “hoooly shit”

(clues=perfect Shakespearean sonnet, and somehow every clue also works perfectly…unreal)
February 11, 2026 at 2:25 PM
NOT wearing long underwear, AMA
February 11, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Today in teaching: Starting the most currently relevant piece of medieval literature—I get to pontificate about Fraud (the lowest reaches of Hell; also the current federal government, A.I. etc.) for two weeks, woo hoo!
February 11, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Gonna spoil this now! (No. 304)

The “revealer” answer is SONNET [Young fellow make the thing we’ve written here] (6)

Me: “What do you mean? How have you written a sonnet?” Me: ten seconds later: “hoooly shit”

(clues=perfect Shakespearean sonnet, and somehow every clue also works perfectly…unreal)
February 11, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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Stephens laments that America has stopped decrying international abuses.

There is a place where this still happens: college campuses. In fact Stephens may remember one recent movement, the pro-Palestine cause, tho he seemed pretty happy to see it ground to dust.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/o...
Opinion | Dissidents Are Silenced, and the West Moves On
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:06 PM
The key word here is “imagine,” something your definitely-a-robot Claude definitely can’t do
February 11, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, you
Researchers working with the A.I. system Claude have come to understand that the model’s selfhood, like our own, is a matter of both neurons and narratives. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/kEX1vV
February 11, 2026 at 1:01 PM
“I can’t understand the words he’s singing!”

My brother I have loved Cocteau Twins for decades and literally the only words I’ve ever understood are “Heaven or Las Vegas” and that’s only because they’re in the damn title, unclench and feel the joy! ❤️🎶
February 11, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.
February 11, 2026 at 11:43 AM
BALMY!

(going above freezing for the first time in *weeks*) 🥵 ☀️ 🔥
February 11, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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Emerging from 2-month hibernation to throw more vintage paperbacks at you!

First, an announcement: MURDER! That’s right, A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED (1951), newest Pop Sensation paperback!

#vintagepaperbacks #pulp #bookcoverart

salmongutter.blogspot.com/2026/02/pape...
February 10, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Is that a lot?
February 10, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
See how easy!
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
February 10, 2026 at 5:12 PM
💥💥💥
Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......
February 10, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Woo-hoo! Took … a minute 😎

Minute Cryptic - 10 February, 2026
"For example, an elephant over 50 reproduced three times" (10)
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🏆 0 hints – 5 under the community par (69,343 solvers so far).
www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...
Minute Cryptic
Solve a clue with a hidden meaning
www.minutecryptic.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:37 PM
“Hank, hon, the neighbor kids are jumping on your shuttle again”

“GODDAMNIT AM I GONNA HAVE TO MAKE A SIGN?”
advance roofing shuttle sign, mims, florida, 1990
February 10, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Am I supposed to advance the *cause* of roofing? Advance roofing … to where? Maybe I’m geting roofing early?

Also, will the shuttle be flying over my house or how does it work?
advance roofing shuttle sign, mims, florida, 1990
February 10, 2026 at 11:47 AM
“WE HAVE PRIDE”— do you?
advance roofing shuttle sign, mims, florida, 1990
February 10, 2026 at 11:43 AM
I don’t know where to start…
advance roofing shuttle sign, mims, florida, 1990
February 10, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.

The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
People keep showing me megyn Kelly and I don’t deserve it no one deserves it
February 10, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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February 10, 2026 at 6:02 AM
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is it the decade 2000-2010?
February 9, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Literally zero libertarians did this
February 9, 2026 at 6:46 PM