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Paul Rowe

@pauldrowe.bsky.social
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Applied logician. Polyglot. Interested in curiosity, not dogma.

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’ll start
Torti cat looking at the camera, begging to be booped.Very tired looking tuxedo cat with paws daintily crossed unaware how much people want to boop his nose
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I believe we can prove the NY Times SpellingBee game wrong, BlueSky! We just have to reply and quote with pictures of all your pets’ boopable noses.
Screenshot of NY Times SpellingBee game showing that BOOPABLE is not an accepted word.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Torti cat atop a bookshelf looking down with a tuxedo cat on an arm chair nearby desperately trying to figure out how to get up there.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’m disappointed. Not surprised, but disappointed. It was even my first guess and would be a pangram. 😢
Screenshot of NY Times SpellingBee game showing that DICKHEAD is not an accepted word.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“You’d got a letter, and you’d got a letter, and you’d got a letter, and you’d got a letter.” “Get on with it!!”
Two close up side-by-side of Tim Curry’s face from the movie Clue. Text above it says, “ Lord, grant me the manic energy of Tim Curry in the third act of Clue, where he re-enacts the movie in its entirety for the other characters BY HIMSELF! THREE TIMES!
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I didn’t know De Niro’s father was Ludwig Wittgenstein!!
Photograph of Wittgenstein that looks surprisingly similar to De Niro’s father, who is (it must be said) a different person.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Mr. Peanut devouring his son, in the style of Francisco Goya’s Saturn Devouring his Son. The image emerged after the planters brand killed off Mr. Peanut during a Super Bowl ad, only to reintroduce him not long after.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
No cheating post your lock screen.
Screen capture of my lock screen showing a detail of the painting Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix. The photo was taken on my phone at the Louvre.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
And Mary Wollstonecraft!
Bust of Mary Wollstonecraft
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Look at what I found in my used book purchase today! Both book and boarding pass are from 1983. I am guessing J. Pierce bought it at the airport on his way home to the US from Italy.
A paper boarding pass from 1983 for a TWA flight from Milan to New York. It is stamped as cleared to board. Passenger: PIERCE/J. Date: 13AUG. Flight: 0843. Seat: 43-3. NO SMOKINGA yellow colored “giallo” Italian translation of a mystery by Ruth Rendell.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Oh come on! And it would have been a pangram to boot!
Screen shot of NYT SpellingBee game showing that CARYATID is not an accepted word.Screenshot of the Merriam Webster Dictionary definition of caryatid: “a draped female figure supporting an entablature”. 

It also shows a sketched rendering of a caryatid.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Gerhard Richter’s Reader. It’s among the most stunning photorealistic paintings I have ever seen. I think of it often.
A photorealistic painting of young woman reading a newspaper.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“One day I’ll be able to catch the squirrel.”
Tuxedo cat with his chin resting on a paw looking reflective.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Oh, hey there, Moon. 🌙
Picture of the Eiffel Tower not far from the base, meeting behind some trees. A crescent moon is to left of the tower at about the height of the top of the tower.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
A small thread of flight routes deviating from the proposed/predicted path due to geopolitics.
A map showing a flight path from Johannesburg to Paris flying straight over the center of Africa.A map showing the flight path taken that avoids central Africa, flying west over the Atlantic and over West Africa, through Spain.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
Sunset view from a river boat on the Zambezi River. The sun is framed by two tusks curving from the deck walls up to the bottom of the roof of the boat.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I sometimes post funny math words that aren’t in the NY Times Spelling Bee, but this seems like an actual oversight.
Screenshot of NY Times Spelling Bee showing that CONCOMITANT is not in the word list.Screenshot of Merriam Webster Dictionary entry for the word CONCOMITANT.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
My favorite part of skeleton in the Olympics is that it always has you asking the question, “Was he one of the members of Daft Punk?”
Olympic skeleton athlete with a large helmet and dark face shade.Daft Punk, both in helmets, with one of them having a large face shaded face plate.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
It was normal rage bait until it got really bad. I almost threw my phone across the room at this point.
Text reads [emphasis mine]:

A: “it’s not that it’s “not possible” — it’s just not solved yet because the tools we have haven’t been strong enough.”

That sentence right there *implies that AI *will* help to build the stronger analysis that we need* the crack the case on the Riemann Hypothesis.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
We’re launching an investigation into where that paw near his chin comes from.
Tuxedo cat curled up on a couch. His two front paw are stretched out in front of him. His right front paw touches a hind paw. There is also a mysterious paw that emerges below is face. Where does that come from?
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
This was my 2025 in book reading. This is the year I started reading in Italian.
A messy grid-like layout of about 25 books. Just ask me if you want details on titles.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I admit, I’m quite proud of my three-year streak of NYTimes daily crosswords.
New York Times games app showing a current streak for the crossword of 1,096 days.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year from the other side!
Sunrise at Angkor Wat. The towers of the temple are silhouetted by the sun rising behind them off to the right.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
And another
Another tuxedo cat under a fake Christmas tree, this one on a knitted blanket used as a tree skirt.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I realize it’s not the same but after decades of not seeing Toy Story, they both remind me of the antagonist from that movie.
The villain kid from Toy Story looking half angry half sad
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I’m celebrating a notable personal accomplishment today. 🥳
Screenshot of my current NY Times crossword streak: 1,000 days
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This time it’s Milchick who would like a word with you, NYT Spelling Bee.
Screenshot of New York Times Spelling Bee game showing that “FECULENCE” is not an accepted word.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Beowulf would like a word with you, NYT Spelling Bee.
Screenshot of New York Times Spelling Bee game showing that “HWAET” is not an accepted word.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Some abstract photographic art for you weekend pleasure.
A photo of a skylight at night through a slanted ceiling. It’s a full color image that is largely gray scale. The ceiling and window well are painted white and sky outside the window is black. Shadow patterns from the room lights creat asymmetrical shadows of gray inside the window well.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
When I thought this was going to be the pangram I was mad about it. But now that it’s not even accepted as a word I’m even more mad. 😡
New York Times Spelling Bee game board showing that the word DIRTBATH is not on the word list.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Happy Pi Day to all who celebrate!! (Half way around the circle of the year) 🧮
Apple pie with a pi symbol in crust on top.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
post an unusual sign if you feel like it
Sign that says “Moose Family Center”. It has a block print style picture of a family of four and also a smaller silhouette of a moose.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Kinda hard to get work done when your cat want to use your wrist as a pillow.
Picture of my torti cat layer her hand on my wrist with that hand resting next to the laptop trackpad.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
It’s been a while but I was engrossed by this one.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Post your lock screen
Detail of Franz Marc’s The Tiger
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
My cats were holding paws today? 🥰 Surprising for cats who are usually frenemies at best.
Two cats looking at a camera with their paws touching. Their overall shape is also in the form of a heart.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Today’s edition of “Is it One Cat or Two?”
A black and white cat on a ledge in front of a window with white curtains drawn. Light shines in from outside revealing a silhouette of a second cat sitting in the window behind the curtains.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
A cat lying on a blanket on a couch with a fire in the fireplace in the background.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Hilbert was right: “From the paradise that Cantor created for us no one shall be able to expel us.” … Not even NYT Spelling Bee #MathSky
Screenshot of New York Times Spelling Bee game with “Cantor” as suggested answer.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
And so today when I ran across a copy in a bookstore for $2, I couldn’t resist.
A copy of Waiting for Godot in the original French.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Oh to feel the wonder of a cat watching snow fall.
A cat on a windowsill watching snow fall.
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I’m not big on number coincidences, but I just noticed that I hit 314 due to somebody who loves pi @robertlovespi.bsky.social
Profile showing 314 followersNotification page showing the latest follower is RobertLovesPi
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The second one is out of character for current me, but I stand by it.
Cover art four Counting Crows’ album August and Everything AfterCover Art for Nine Inch Nails’ album The Downward Spiral
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
It always bothers me that they accept the singular but not the proper plural.
Spelling Bee screenshot showing the don’t accept “Lemmata”
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
From a recent ski trip of mine.
“All Sandwiches are served on a toasted bun with fries on the side.”“All sandwiches come with fries! (Yes, hot dogs, too)”
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
Oh no, it’s getting worse!
“Monadic” not in word list
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
I bet category theorists are just livid about today’s Spelling Bee. #MathSky #🧮
“Monic” not in word list“Codomain” not is word list
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
Ok, I’m actually quite proud of this.
NY times crossword perfect record January - AprilNY Times crossword perfect record May - AugustNY Times crossword perfect record September- December
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 25/12/2023
Damn, Antartica is amazing!
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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Using only a restaurant, tell us where you went to college.
A coffee shop called Goodbye Blue Monday Coffee House.
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