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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

5/5 Difficulty; 78% erred; 38% x'ed Connections Puzzle #1122 🟦🟦🟦🟦 only 7% found this first, but 🟪🟪🟪🟪 10% got this first 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 98/99 Uniqueness 1 in 479

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Nearly ate a glass shard. The companies I was gonna sue! Identifying the source required Sherlockian and providential intervention. Pre-cut pineapple? Pimenton? Canned chipotles? Tom paste? Effective immediately: stacked, graduated glass containers will be buffered with cloth napkins between them.

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

5/5 difficulty. 84% erred; 50% x'ed. Connections Puzzle #1121 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦for a sec, these stumped me 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 99/99 Uniqueness 1 in 73

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Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Patriotism asks you to fight for values and an ideal. Nationalism asks you to fight for a person or group. There's a difference, and it matters.

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I feel guilty and victorious. I craa-ved a recipe behind a paywall. After I typed the chef's name and full recipe title (partial info didn't work), AI showed the entire thing. Screen shot! As paltry atonement, I followed the chef on IG.

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

#nytxword #nytcrossword Another excellent crossword, this one by Barbara Lin, that required cross-cutting to fill in the unknowns.

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

#nytxword #nytcrossword Great puzzle David J Kahn. It elicited, let's say, a dozen "OH!"s while I played. And, I enjoy when my original answer is right, especially 10D, but I remove it b/c I don't yet grasp the big picture.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

He could strangle a teenager on camera and they would say he “defied a long-held tradition of presidents not doing that”

NYT: Trump’s Moneymaking Run: Unrivaled in Presidential History
The president’s move to open new business ventures, rather than eliminate potential conflicts, defies a long-held tradition.

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

5/5 difficulty; 58% erred; 58% x'ed B,G, and Y are about equal in the stats. ~31% find one of them first. Connections Puzzle #1116 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 99/99 Uniqueness 1 in 164

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

My new favorite tennis player is Maya Joint. I didn't watch a second of that fawningly over-hyped match, but well fucking done, #Maya. BtW, Martina played at Wimbledon when she was 47 and easily won her first round. Hah! I guess drugs aren't the answer.

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Arrghh! Now, a smaller snippet of the music (without any of the violin solo) is playing for Wimbledon. I guess it's Tennis Channel music, but I've searched for it as long/hard as I can. Bastards!

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

#PBS #Nature "Legendary Tigers of India". I want to cry at both the viciousness and humanity.

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Gameboard only. PG #1. G soon after. I'm running with the big dogs today! (I know, I know, they reached QB before they started.) #nytspellingbee #hivemind #nytsb

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The *only* thing I don't begrudge that criminal is having an umbrella aide. I'd love one to follow me to my car when it's pouring rain, open the door, and take the umbrella as I get in. There'd be an inch less water on me and in the car.

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

PG word #18 and a struggle! What have I become? But, I did find JANUARIAN. #nytspellingbee #hivemind #nytsb

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Saving dozens of delectable cake recipes that I am unlikely to make isn't harmless fun. I searched for docs related to the person Hazel, and up pops "Devil's Food Cake With Hazelnut Praline" by food genius Yotam Ottolenghi, and now everything I eat today will be disappointing. I'm mad. For cake.

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I wonder how many people googled "Peripeteia" after yesterday's #nytxword #nytcrossword? I thought I was a literary-term literate, but I didn't know/remember that.

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

5/5 difficulty; 86% erred; 44% x'ed Connections Puzzle #1104 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 99/99 Uniqueness 1 in 107

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

ALL this time I've been pronouncing it uh-GOR-uh. Only in my head, I think, I hope. Having PBS (NOVA) on, even as an aural background, builds brain. ⚡WHAT'd he just say!? A'-gor-uh? (ˈæɡərə) Now I see two more pronunciations in M-W, neither of them mine. #PBS #NOVA

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Connections Puzzle #1100 🟦🟦🟦🟦yellow 🟩🟩🟩🟩yellow 🟨🟨🟨🟨yellow 🟪🟪🟪🟪most yellow Skill 96/99 Uniqueness 1 in 40

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Zinged the enter key on words #44, 45, 46 as if it would result in G. C'mon! Needed 47. Correctly predicted the number of previous occurrences of PG (not giving nothing away there). So far, fun. I doubt the rest is. #nytspellingbee #hivemind #nytsb

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I NEED to find the theme music (play-in and play-out from ads) for the French Open, in particular, the dramatic violin solo. All I find is a theme/intro, no solo, which always had commentators talking over it during the tourney. #frenchopen

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

5/5 difficulty; 82% erred; 49% busted Connections Puzzle #1093 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦hardest for most; only 3% found it first 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 97/99 Uniqueness 1 in 944

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

3/5 but much easier than that, making it hard to order. Has Wyna used all her angles? The "tricks" are repetitive. Connections Puzzle #1090 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Skill 97/99 Uniqueness 1 in 51

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

5/5 difficulty; 93% erred; 62% x'ed Connections Puzzle #1089 🟪🟪🟪🟪knew it was these 4, but not the reason 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 97/99 Uniqueness 1 in 4,566

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Anyone experiencing unusual things at SB website? "Enter" key not working sometimes and the hex lower than the found word list instead of beside it? #nytspellingbee #hivemind

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/06/2026

About 400,000 people have been detained by immigration agents since Trump returned to office. But it’s nearly impossible to know how many family separations the sweeps have caused since the administration does not track this information.

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More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates

Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s rep...

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

5/5 difficulty continue to be easiest. 30 secs, max. I'd also accept IGUANA. (Friday's 3/5 was killer. Brenda Lee was singing, too, and I was dreaming.) Connections Puzzle #1086 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 99/99 Uniqueness 1 in 123

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Gameboard only. Quick and fun. I doubt the rest will be. OGEE and OGIVE but not OVOLO, but I repeat myself. DRV #47 #nytspellingbee #nytsb #hivemind

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

3/5 Difficulty. Harder than that for me. Connections Puzzle #1083 🟩🟩🟩🟩no clue, but certain of the others. 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 95/99 Uniqueness 1 in 466

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

A rare day to praise #Dallas weather rather than bitch or hide in a closet. We need rain, and instead of wind, hail, and gully washers lost to storm drains, we've enjoyed a gentle rain w/ +1" of accum. "Can't rule out small hail and gusty winds this time of the year, but severe threat remains low."

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

3/5 difficulty; 74% erred; 35% x'ed Wyna used a double-double cross today, just as our brains were inculcated to her usual 2x. Connections Puzzle #1079 🟨🟨🟨🟨can't be yellow if only 6% found it first; too generic 🟪🟪🟪🟪can't be purple if 42% found it first 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Skill 95/99 Uniqueness 1 in 484

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

@oddleighenough.bsky.social Did you see our cool dude Elvis, cooler than ever, on Colbert last night?

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

1/5 difficulty 🤡 Played like people I 🙄 - before a complete reconciliation. Every day should be a 5/5 game. Connections Puzzle #1076 🟪🟪🟦🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Skill 88/99 Uniqueness 1 in 21,739

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

5/5 difficulty; 94% erred; 59% x'ed Connections Puzzle #1075 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦If 53% found this first, it ain't Blue. Skill 97/99 Uniqueness 1 in 710

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

5/5 difficulty; 80% erred Connections Puzzle #1073 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦didn't know blue, but I was 🟩🟩🟩🟩certain about this 🟨🟨🟨🟨and this Skill 99/99 Uniqueness 1 in 96

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Gameboard only. Sailed to the last 4 or 5 pts. Doldrums until I found the always troublesome 5l. #nytspellingbee #hivemind #nytsb

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

5/5 difficulty 77% erred Connections Puzzle #1069 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Skill 98/99 Uniqueness 1 in 724

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Gameboard only. Two baby bees back-to-back. Needed 9 or 10 pts, found an 8, leaving only 1 or two 4's (1)! Why can't we have nice KILIMs? #nytspellingbee #nytsb #hivemind

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Baby Bee Vic-tor-y. Made easier by working the points down to 1 or 2. Anything < 5 is a gift at the bitter end. #nytspellingbee #nytsb #hivemind

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

5/5; 91% erred; 62% x'ed Connections Puzzle #1066 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩I knew this wasn't blue, but I 🟦🟦🟦🟦couldn't see this connection until after 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 97/99 Uniqueness 1 in 544

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Connections Puzzle #1060 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩too obvious to be green Skill 98/99 Uniqueness 1 in 629

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Another night shivering under one blanket. 51 degrees after a high of 91 on Monday.

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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Meanwhile, in Texas. . . A Harris County man builds destructive fires, a Dallas teenager builds a nuclear reactor, and other recent events in our unpredictable state. www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/me…

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 01/05/2026

The U.S. Army is proposing developing a gargantuan, 3-gigawatt data center complex on Fort Bliss property that within a few years would consume more electricity than all of El Paso Electric’s 460,000 customers combined.

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Fort Bliss data center could use more power than all of El Paso

The far East El Paso complex, which the U.S. Army wants to be operational by 2027, is one of several the Department of Defense plans to support artificial intelligence in the military.

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Gameboard only. The last word, nay, abbr, took twice as long as all the other words. #nytspellingbee #hivemind #nytsb

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I Was Leisl Until Rolf Ruined It @habanerohiker.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Harder than 3/5 for me. Connections Puzzle #1053 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 99/99 Uniqueness 1 in 56

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