🐈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
This fucking puzzle … sat with it all day … Jesus h … can’t believe I got through unscathed … #connections
February 16, 2026 at 8:57 PM
This fucking puzzle … sat with it all day … Jesus h … can’t believe I got through unscathed … #connections
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I'm writing a book. Every working day begins with me rewriting what I wrote the day before, and the day before that. If your reaction to that is "AI could save you that trouble," I know you're not a writer. Computer programs can't sleep on it, can't dream an idea, can't suddenly realize something.
February 16, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I'm writing a book. Every working day begins with me rewriting what I wrote the day before, and the day before that. If your reaction to that is "AI could save you that trouble," I know you're not a writer. Computer programs can't sleep on it, can't dream an idea, can't suddenly realize something.
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I know it’s stating the bleedin’ obvious but no subject is boring if the teacher is passionate about it.
But so many weren’t and the kids switched off.
But so many weren’t and the kids switched off.
February 16, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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Any of my soupheads out there agree?
February 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Any of my soupheads out there agree?
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A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories.
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
February 16, 2026 at 12:16 PM
A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories.
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
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:: rubs eyes tiredly ::
“We plan to hire an AI rewrite specialist to ingest the reporting by Hannah and others and use AI to convert it into stories.”
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
February 16, 2026 at 1:09 PM
:: rubs eyes tiredly ::
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Me: I do not want to buy that book
savvy publisher: look, it has a sewn-in bookmark
me: sold
savvy publisher: look, it has a sewn-in bookmark
me: sold
February 16, 2026 at 9:44 AM
Me: I do not want to buy that book
savvy publisher: look, it has a sewn-in bookmark
me: sold
savvy publisher: look, it has a sewn-in bookmark
me: sold
I love these animals So Much. Just the most beautiful creature god ever created ❤️ cuddly killing machine!
February 16, 2026 at 11:20 AM
I love these animals So Much. Just the most beautiful creature god ever created ❤️ cuddly killing machine!
Class photo 📷
February 16, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Class photo 📷
This rules, read it
February 15, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This rules, read it
I honestly feel that at 56 I should no longer get colds, it’s just insulting, I’ve done my time and bigger health problems surely await me, give me a break, lord, thank you for your attention to this matter amen
February 15, 2026 at 8:06 PM
I honestly feel that at 56 I should no longer get colds, it’s just insulting, I’ve done my time and bigger health problems surely await me, give me a break, lord, thank you for your attention to this matter amen
Charles Epstein Cheese, no!!
Just finding out now that the CEO of Chuck E Cheese is mentioned in the Epstein Files
February 15, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Charles Epstein Cheese, no!!
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"In at least 4,421 cases, more than 400 federal judges ruled since the beginning of October that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is holding people illegally as it carries out its mass-deportation campaign."
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, one the administration has ignored.
www.reuters.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:53 PM
"In at least 4,421 cases, more than 400 federal judges ruled since the beginning of October that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is holding people illegally as it carries out its mass-deportation campaign."
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
This is very funny but also incredibly embarrassing for Canada. (I say this as a citizen of a currently very embarrassing country)
The big Canada-Sweden curling beef, explained: defector.com/the-big-cana...
The Big Canada-Sweden Curling Beef, Explained | Defector
As a sport most people pay intense attention to for two weeks every four years and then not at all the rest of the time, curling can be slightly impenetrable to the casual viewer; its intricacies and ...
defector.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:44 PM
This is very funny but also incredibly embarrassing for Canada. (I say this as a citizen of a currently very embarrassing country)
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February 15, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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"we must secure a future for our white children" my white children are fine!!! what's wrong with your kids, aside from measles??
February 15, 2026 at 1:23 AM
"we must secure a future for our white children" my white children are fine!!! what's wrong with your kids, aside from measles??
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I think it's important for white people to vocally denounce this shit as evil and racist but also EMBARRASSING, it is embarrassing to me as a white person!!!
White House stands by State Department nominee who complains that "white Americans are increasingly second-class citizens," warns of "white erasure" and says "the Jews love to see themselves as oppressed." @camcgrady.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...
Trump Nominates an Apostle of ‘White Erasure’ for the State Department
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:55 PM
I think it's important for white people to vocally denounce this shit as evil and racist but also EMBARRASSING, it is embarrassing to me as a white person!!!
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Gold medal curler 🥇
February 15, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Gold medal curler 🥇
As good an album cover as I’ve ever seen, your 90s grunge band could never
February 15, 2026 at 2:07 PM
As good an album cover as I’ve ever seen, your 90s grunge band could never
Gold medal curler 🥇
February 15, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Gold medal curler 🥇
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Thought you'd be free of my nonsense when I am finally gathered up into the arms of the Lord? Think again, assholes.
February 13, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Thought you'd be free of my nonsense when I am finally gathered up into the arms of the Lord? Think again, assholes.
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A lesson in love for St Valentine’s Day
February 14, 2026 at 5:06 PM
A lesson in love for St Valentine’s Day
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nothing but respect for MY national bird
February 15, 2026 at 3:10 AM
nothing but respect for MY national bird
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As we predicted, making a "deal" with the Trump administration does not mean that the Trump administration will then leave you be. Cornell now being targeted again.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
We hope our former classmates who were ROTC will publicly express their views on this.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
We hope our former classmates who were ROTC will publicly express their views on this.
Pentagon may bar tuition aid for top universities in Hegseth’s crackdown on ‘biased’ schools | CNN Politics
Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the United States abruptly off limits for tuition assistance as part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s campaign again...
www.cnn.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:52 AM
As we predicted, making a "deal" with the Trump administration does not mean that the Trump administration will then leave you be. Cornell now being targeted again.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
We hope our former classmates who were ROTC will publicly express their views on this.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
We hope our former classmates who were ROTC will publicly express their views on this.
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if the teaser for your puzzle hunt makes extensive use of generative ai assets instead of working with an artist, I have lost all interest in doing your actual puzzle hunt
February 15, 2026 at 4:57 AM
if the teaser for your puzzle hunt makes extensive use of generative ai assets instead of working with an artist, I have lost all interest in doing your actual puzzle hunt