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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just make an "Important!!1!" folder

Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When I looked this tip up online the only thing I saw was folks getting a colander slightly larger than the cooking pot, putting the colander on top, and then draining through it ("backwards", I guess?), but even that feels dangerous as you'd have to hold it tight to the super hot pot...

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think you're just going to the wrong bars

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This deserves more attention than it has garnered thus far

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh man, our video game has both locations AND places!

A screenshot of links to some of our back-end creation tools, displayed as a list of words: item, recipe, adventure, monster, location, familiar, choice, outfit, place, fx, skill, breakfasts, shop, word buckets, misc code, and pvp minis.

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have also heard of companies popping up that want to get access to all of a large corporations Slack messages, and paying 6-7 figure sums to do so. They've run out of text for the AI machines to train on, so they're scrambling to find more.

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anybody else getting approached by companies who want to pay for access to your games' codebase so they can train AIs on it? Short term capital at the cost of having to compete with more AI-made games in the future. Ugh. Feels so predatory given how rough things are for most studios right now.

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I feel it’s important to remind us all that he couldn’t see the clothes either…

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Vanessa Williamson @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It has been 193 days since we've had an IRS Commissioner. That position has never been vacant. Not once since 1862, when the Bureau of Internal Revenue began collecting the revenue to help the United States put down the Confederacy. www.brookings.edu/projects/the...

Days Without an IRS Commissioner: 193. After Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's term as acting commissioner expired on March 6, 2026, the administration left the position unfilled. The Internal Revenue Service now has neither a Senate-confirmed nor an acting commissioner. Since the advent of the position in 1862, the IRS commissioner position has never previously been vacant.

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Could it be a household with two cars but they are splitting the registration as if they only had one? The secondary car’s VIN wouldn’t match, and you’d need to make a fake sticker every year, but otherwise it would maybe just work?

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is an actual part of Shadows Over Loathing -- if you're a Cheese Wizard you eventually are forced into line at the DMV (Department of Magic and Vehicles) and have to figure out how to progress forward in the queue.

An image from the game Shadows Over Loathing, depicting 10 stick-figure-art characters waiting in line at the "Dept of Magic and Vehicles". The array of folks in line is quite diverse -- besides a few standard stick-figured, one character has a maple leaf for a head, another is a minotaur, one is a robot, another is a rock monster, and one is even just a swarm of bees.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Seeded random procedural generation! We have hundreds of first and last names and different lab possibilities for tons of possible combos.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

it's wild his full name was entertainment entertainment cummings

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We made an "infinite hallway" in Shadows Over Loathing. The office numbers start at 1,001, and here's a player screenshot at 15,000, which must have taken hours of monotonous walking to reach... www.reddit.com/r/ShadowsOve...

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From the ShadowsOverLoathing community on Reddit: Hello update 2 for the infinite hallway situation

Explore this post and more from the ShadowsOverLoathing community

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

No one talks about the carcinization of the mafia

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Asymmetric Games @asym.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Two different approaches to games

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

the glass is half full of spider spider spider spider spider spider spider milk and half full of spider spider spider spider spider spider spider milk

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It’s almost like they have… wild mood swings.

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Duncan Robson @duncanrobson.com · 14/08/2026

Reminder that I’m available for video editing work. Services include capture, motion graphics and maybe my voice? Temporary or otherwise. Maybe I’ll get a decent microphone next time!

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’m no expert on it, but I don’t think that sort of breakdown is built in. You can see unit sales of a SKU over time, but I think you’d need to suss out the full/discount stuff on your own in a sort of tedious spreadsheet-y way?

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Zack “Several Bones” Johnson @zapjackson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is true: I once passed a kidney stone at a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert. Imagine. The most painful thing that can happen to a guy, and also a kidney stone.

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Congrats! Hope it all goes better than this poor gent…

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Asymmetric Games @asym.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

35 hours average playtime is just statistical error; Pardners-Georg plays for thousands of hours every day and should be ignored.

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Some folks solved it on the first day! ;P

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

So the corgi nationals race happened ..

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The recasting on the reboot of Gilmore Girls is *wild*

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Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A few nights ago, I watched Project Hail Mary without knowing anything about it. I experienced the kind of genuine awe and excitement that I don't really get with movies anymore. I stopped watching trailers or following movie release schedules a few years ago and it greatly increased my enjoyment.

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

We're working on it! Sorry so slow.

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Asymmetric Games @asym.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Today is Dependence Day in the Kingdom of Loathing, an annual holiday that celebrates how we are dependent upon you to spread the word about our goofy games so that we can make more of them. Later tonight we'll set off a lot of fireworks to celebrate what a good job you did telling your friends!

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angela ✨ @astoldbyangela.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

i finally worked my way through a mystery theme RADDLE *on time* and i feel incredible puzzler power within me! thanks @pzlr.org!! you can still play the archive and puzzle out the mystery at raddle.quest 🙂‍↕️

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Raddle — Word transformation game

A daily word game by Sandy Weisz

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Kalvin the Reindeer @kalvinmacleod.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My New Year’s resolution is to stop procrastinating.

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It’s another Mystery Theme over at raddle.quest — this one has two more weeks of puzzles left, though it’s possible to solve now…

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Raddle — Word transformation game

A daily word game by Sandy Weisz

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

All I can see is Sloth from the Goonies

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I did this for a few years and it was absolutely the best thing.

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I added a second FaceID scan without glasses and have had much better luck unlocking my phone in the morning, etc.

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

From experience, some people will likely never respond. I’d recommend setting a hard cutoff date, sending one or two clear reminders before that and then putting the order in.

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I’ve never heard of Clocktowerdle, will have to check that out!

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Yeah, it’s weirdly satisfying.

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Inkwell Games just added a third puzzle to their daily set this week, "Lazy River" which is basically just the old Alcazar path puzzles (which I loved) as a loop instead of a route that enters and exits the grid. A bit easier, but still a fun daily to do.

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

That’s so bonkers! Break an egg! (That’s good luck for cook, yeah?)

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Kevin Simmons @puzzletheory.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

With two corgis you could do some good “Toby or not Toby, that is the question” posts…

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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.

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