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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

currently having some success with a COINTREAU | JUICER | MINXES starting comp

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

i didn't have work today and now have one of the high scores. ZIPPO has been good in my starting comp.

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

this is the first post-balatro roguelike anagrammer that don't hate. a bunch of cool ideas in the demo.

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cain Culto's album is really dazzling

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i continue to have complicated feelings about both ribbit and puzzmo's social features

"lisahanawalt played Ribbit for the first time"

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

a sql client with a thesaurus

Rose Gray's "Just Be Bodies" landed at 22 plays in 2026.
Abbey Cone's "Don't Let Your Cowboys Grow Up to Be Babies (feat. Madison Kozak)" reached 22 plays in 2026.
Slayyyter's "BROKE BITCH FREE$TYLE" came through 22 times in 2026.
Kaitin Butts' "Never Really Mine" hit 22 plays in 2026.
STELLA LEFTY's "Boston" landed on 22 plays in 2026.
Madison Beer's "bittersweet" posted 22 plays in 2026.
Kacey Musgraves's "Mexico Honey" reached 22 plays in 2026.
Fiona Apple's "On The Bound" came in at 22 plays for 2026.
Dawn Richard's enough rounds out your top 50 with 22 plays in 2026.

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

cool post. i've been noodling on somewhat similar diagrams a bit.

Top left contains a globe with an arrow to the top right, which contains a cyclinder.
There is an arrow from top right to bottom right, and the bottom right cell contains a line chart
There is an arrow from bottom right to bottom left, and the bottom left cell contains the head of person with a cone of vision looking at the chart.
A thought bubble connects the bottom left to the top left.

A hand-drawn sketch with a row of three cells, followed by a second row.
Row 1 cell 1: A label "the world" and a picture of a globe. An arrow points to cell 2.
Row 1 Cell 2: a label "is encoded into data" and picture of a grid of rows and columns. An arrow points to cell 3.
Row 1 Cell 3: a label "is mapped to visual channels" and a picture of a pie chart.
Row 2 contains a top-down drawing of a head with glasses, with arrows pointing from the world and from the chart. The line from the chart is labeled "is read"

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

starting every zoom call today by asking "have you heard 'choosin' texas'?". they have not.

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

using the spotify playlist agent as a sql client continues to be hit or miss, but this one seemed to work.

a screenshot of spotify. on the right, is a playlist titled Most Streamed Ella Langley. The four visible songs are "paint the town blue", "weren't for the wind", "nicotine", and "you look like you love me". On the right is a prompt: My Most Streamed Ella Langely songs up to 2025-10-17. Sort from most played to least. In the song notes, include the timestamp of the first play, and the number of times played before 2025-10-17. Do not including anything else in the song notes.

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

forever in search of an evocative synonym for "drink the kool aid" that doesn't also evoke mass suicide

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just got mad a second time about wordplay predicated on mispronouncing "zendaya"

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

(didn't see the talk, so no clue what i'm talking about, but) naur's programming as theory building is a good, quick read that i notice getting name-checked more lately

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

but doctor, my clowns table already has one row per observation

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i've been assiduously avoiding learning anything about megan moroney's politics so i can still enjoy the other 16 songs on cloud 9

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

sheeran somehow sings on one of my favorite songs of the year; so i'm stupidly annoyed to have to cancel that cowardly shitbag

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

finding myself with a growing urge to gripe about the stupidest, most pointless shit

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

need to figure out when today to squeeze in a five hour episode of an xmen podcast

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

feels like the easiest way to get people to play my janky word games is to a write a think piece about ai

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

just one more run of blood dungeon and then i'll definitely start my day

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

another great release in the waxahatchee expanded universe. katie (and brad cook) produced this whole brennan wedl album. this song has snail mail on guitar.

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

spreadsheets are the taylor swift of data tools

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

spreadsheet discourse too. please keep arguing about spreadsheets.

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

wasn't quite enamored with the last two carly rae jepsen singles, but this one is great

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

pretty annoying that whenever i'm reminded of the quaker-rooted, honor code-loving liberal arts college i attended, it has to do with fascism

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

even if you don't agree it's the best chart of all time, surely it's the best chart of the last 32,000 years

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

an all-timer data viz, if you ask me

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 31/07/2026

I don't think anyone has ever had *IT* like no na has *IT*. They are now 3-for-3 on perfect pop songs with genuinely radical production. Now is the time to get on the literal bus

youtube.com

no na - honk! (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by no na

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

right. maybe to win in court, they just need to prove harm from one defective product. But if coyote needs to prove a pattern of negligence, i'm just not seeing it.

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

it's been great watching a roadrunner/coyote short every day along with connor's commentary. It has me excited for the movie, but honestly the coyote's case against acme feels really weak (disclaimer, i'm not a lawyer)

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

the topological space of x-men teams could very well have a maximal element (under some relation) while not being a measure space with a mean bsky.app/profile/joeg...

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"implies the existence" format jokes always really bring out the pedant in me

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

my relationship to the new linkedin bogglelike (called wend) is not complicated: I don't think it's very fun

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

just had a 71-36 loss to phyllis in round 3 this month

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

i feel like we're about a year away from puzzmo clueing a three letter entry with "website that sucks, for short"

a crossword clue: "Does it matter if The New York Times's new puzzle is an _____ Connect rip-off?" (article written by Victoria Coren Mitchell, the host of the British quiz show _____ Connect"

a crossword clue: "All head editors of the New York Times crossword sinze Margaret Farrar"

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

i should probably be embarrassed about liking this stella lefty ep, but she's got some earworms. her voice somehow reminds me of teenage bieber and this one has is a steph jones co-write, so of course i was gonna like it.

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

debbii dawson with her third entry on my favorite songs playlist. the new ep is great

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Connor Ratliff @connorratliff.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Day One: "Fast and Furry-ous" September 17, 1949 The debut film of the Coyote & Road Runner, written by Michael Maltese, directed by Chuck Jones Watch the full short here (7 min): dn721500.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-...

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

while i do want to believe in The Power of Word Games, i'm not persuaded that nyt not buying wordle would have that kind of butterfly effect.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Oh man, Emmy Blotnick is one of the very best comedians, and her new special is just free to watch?????

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Emmy Blotnick | What's Her Secret? (Full Comedy Special)

YouTube video by 800 Pound Gorilla Media

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

hah...yeah I try to ignore completion time for the crossword. I'm just crazy good at boggle (and hence ribbit) so i can actually compete on the leaderboard

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

yeah I don't even bother with the frenzy (too focused on completion time)

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

i have such a hilariously complicated relationship to the puzzmo game ribbit

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

weird way to learn nitsuh's been writing "on language"

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

got an email from my colleague with some very good bullet pointing

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