🐈Rex Parker🐈⬛ ✏️ 🧐
@rexparker.bsky.social
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)
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
This is so good, it almost makes me want to solve some cryptic crosswords. (Almost.)
NOT wearing long underwear, AMA
February 11, 2026 at 1:46 PM
NOT wearing long underwear, AMA
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
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!
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)
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
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)
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)
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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...
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
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...
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...
The key word here is “imagine,” something your definitely-a-robot Claude definitely can’t do
February 11, 2026 at 1:09 PM
The key word here is “imagine,” something your definitely-a-robot Claude definitely can’t do
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
Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, you
“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! ❤️🎶
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
“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! ❤️🎶
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! ❤️🎶
Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.
February 11, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.
BALMY!
(going above freezing for the first time in *weeks*) 🥵 ☀️ 🔥
(going above freezing for the first time in *weeks*) 🥵 ☀️ 🔥
February 11, 2026 at 11:36 AM
BALMY!
(going above freezing for the first time in *weeks*) 🥵 ☀️ 🔥
(going above freezing for the first time in *weeks*) 🥵 ☀️ 🔥
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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...
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
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...
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...
Is that a lot?
NEW: Trump is in the unredacted Epstein files "more than a million times," Raskin tells Axios in an interview.
www.axios.com/2026/02/10/t...
www.axios.com/2026/02/10/t...
Trump is in the unredacted Epstein files "more than a million times," Raskin alleges
One document recounts that Trump said he "never" asked Epstein to leave Mar-a-Lago.
www.axios.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Is that a lot?
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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...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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"
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
See how easy!
💥💥💥
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)
🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
🏆 0 hints – 5 under the community par (69,343 solvers so far).
www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...
Minute Cryptic - 10 February, 2026
"For example, an elephant over 50 reproduced three times" (10)
🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
🏆 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
Woo-hoo! Took … a minute 😎
Minute Cryptic - 10 February, 2026
"For example, an elephant over 50 reproduced three times" (10)
🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
🏆 0 hints – 5 under the community par (69,343 solvers so far).
www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...
Minute Cryptic - 10 February, 2026
"For example, an elephant over 50 reproduced three times" (10)
🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
🏆 0 hints – 5 under the community par (69,343 solvers so far).
www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...
“Hank, hon, the neighbor kids are jumping on your shuttle again”
“GODDAMNIT AM I GONNA HAVE TO MAKE A SIGN?”
“GODDAMNIT AM I GONNA HAVE TO MAKE A SIGN?”
February 10, 2026 at 11:54 AM
“Hank, hon, the neighbor kids are jumping on your shuttle again”
“GODDAMNIT AM I GONNA HAVE TO MAKE A SIGN?”
“GODDAMNIT AM I GONNA HAVE TO MAKE A SIGN?”
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?
Also, will the shuttle be flying over my house or how does it work?
February 10, 2026 at 11:47 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?
Also, will the shuttle be flying over my house or how does it work?
“WE HAVE PRIDE”— do you?
February 10, 2026 at 11:43 AM
“WE HAVE PRIDE”— do you?
I don’t know where to start…
February 10, 2026 at 11:42 AM
I don’t know where to start…
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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.’
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
Dr. Mehmet Oz is calling on Americans to get the measles vaccine as cases spread across the U.S.
Dr. Oz urges 'take the vaccine, please' amid measles outbreaks
Dr. Mehmet Oz is calling on Americans to get the measles vaccine as cases spread across the U.S.
bit.ly
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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.’
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
People keep showing me megyn Kelly and I don’t deserve it no one deserves it
February 10, 2026 at 11:29 AM
People keep showing me megyn Kelly and I don’t deserve it no one deserves it
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is it the decade 2000-2010?
HBO Max’s highly anticipated Harry Potter series, coming to the streamer in 2027, will be “the streaming event of the decade,” JB Perrette, CEO and president of global streaming & games at Warner Bros. Discovery said in London on Monday. At least that!
‘Harry Potter’ HBO Max Series Will Be the “Streaming Event of the Decade” – At Least, WBD Top Exec Says
HBO Max’s highly anticipated Harry Potter series, coming to the streamer in 2027, will be “the streaming event of the decade,” JB Perrette, CEO and president of global streaming & games at Warner Bros. Discovery said in London on Monday. At least that!
bit.ly
February 9, 2026 at 7:16 PM
is it the decade 2000-2010?
Literally zero libertarians did this
February 9, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Literally zero libertarians did this