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in this case, Salil & Tom's clues are easy to conflate with each other but "all innocents above x are connected" & "there are at least 3 innocents below y" does not mean that the 3 innocents below y are necessarily connected

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see "picking it too early" is in fact a mistake; if there's a path that allows for your choice to not be the only possibility, you can't pick it yet. Think of the goal as not so much divining the final correct form of the puzzle but the next inevitable step towards it.

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If you scroll down the page you can find examples of youtube videos going through the deductions

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Flags are versatile! People use them in lots of ways, I’m definitely not using them as effectively if I could if I gave it more thought lol, but genuinely it’s just a matter of practice

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A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

Just want to slow clap the trickiness of this Tricky which successfully wrongfooted me twice I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 2nd 2026 (Tricky), in 09:22 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟨🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 01/10/2026

The way my brain turned inside out seeing Loreena McKennitt mentioned in Swan Boy

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taking this one personally tbh

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026

I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...

Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

'The sword is there, if you want it.' A sword for you, on the last day of Swordtember.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank you so much, so glad you enjoyed it!

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In addition to the names of the Cornell 7 we should also make famous the administrators and law enforcement officers who originally thought an apology letter would be sufficient.

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(I mean don’t actually wait for me but pls hear the tenderness of spirit with which I wail it to you)

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I mean lbr I am going to see Hadestown for the [mumble]th time but once that’s done —

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DongWon Song @dongwon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ahh what a good idea! No such plans have yet been made, the only dhow we currently have tix for is The Blasting Company!

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Hello. I am widening my submissions categories to include: - Epic Fantasy - Space Opera - Near Future/High Concept SF - Horror Details here: www.dongwonsong.com/submission-g...

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Submission Guidelines — DongWon Song

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meiko Kaji (star of Lady Snowblood) struttin' through the subway in the 1970s.

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Ahh I would actually 100% go to Halifax to see you (there are direct flights from Ottawa!) but that weekend we’re planning on being in NYC for other shenanigans! But truly any time you’re within a 2 hr flight or 5 hr train ride on this side of the border I will hie meself hence, binoculars in hand!

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m so excited to read this & so wish I could see Ursula on tour! If you have the opportunity to catch her on tour I urge you to take it, she’s one of the warmest & funniest speakers it’s been my privilege to hear.

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I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The rumors are true!!!! I'll be joining the boys for Blank Check Live at the Refocus Film Festival in beautiful Iowa City, Iowa 10/25/26! Tickets and passes on sale now: tickets.refocusfilmfestival.org/websales/pag... @blankcheck.bsky.social

Griffin Newman, Emily Yoshida, and Ben Hosley doing some real nerdy shit

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John Wilson’s THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE is riveting & utterly wonderful & I feel like my brain’s spiderwebbed into sixteen different fascinations

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Too many stories in a single space AND the stories they focused on were often just bogged down in weird staid repetition, like they over-dwelled in some to the detriment of others despite having exhausted what there was to say!

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late entry for terrible comic day

A comic drawn in pencil on a post it note. A person in the distance points at two large letters, an I and a T. The person says, “Far be it from me”

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A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

Was pleasantly surprised by the speed rating but it only tells me I coulda gone faster because I *felt* like I was being contemplative I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Sep 28th 2026 (Easy), in 01:36 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

Been avoiding this but it’s Super Important to have access to knowledge & experience w neurodivergence ASAP. A big source of lifetime torture among people with ADHD roots from inability to contextualize & put into words what we are experiencing both within & from how the outside world responds to us

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

200 Police Scotland officers sent to Portadown. For what? I’ve written to Justice Secretary Neil Gray because I am seriously concerned about the decision to send 200 Scottish police officers to Portadown to support the policing operation around the Orange Order march down the Garvaghy Road. 1/8

The National article reporting questions over the deployment of around 200 Police Scotland officers to support policing around an Orange Order march in Portadown.

Letter from Maggie Chapman MSP to Neil Gray MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Justice, raising concerns about the deployment of Police Scotland officers to Portadown in connection with an Orange Order march along the Garvaghy Road.

Second page of a letter from Maggie Chapman MSP to Neil Gray MSP, calling for answers about the deployment of Police Scotland officers to Portadown and requesting a review of the policing arrangements.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Absolutely & same!! I found it exciting at first, then thought its reach exceeded its grasp, then got v annoyed & stopped trusting them to develop or complicate fEaR, & now that the end’s in sight I’m like ohh okay someone knew what they were doing but it’s been drowned out by competing demands

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@jkbjournalist.bsky.social reopened the Epstein case; Heidi Blake seems to have restarted the UK prosecuting Andrew Tate; Ronan Farrow, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor made the system finally go after Weinstein for real. Journalism has again and again made the justice system do its job.

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Tentatively thinking that structure was kind of set aside in favour of !!!S T R U C T U R E!!! where the latter is a substitute for the emotional core that would benefit from a much lighter touch

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I think ultimately it’ll be one of those shows that interests me because it has so much fascinating energy impeded by its structure & I keep wanting to think about how to balance its levels such that it actually expresses its theme

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