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Sasha

@therealsashas.bsky.social
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TV editor/producer. Author and essayist. Voracious reader. Dungeon master. Cruciverbalist. Hobby collector. Eyebrow enthusiast. crosswords >> crosshare.org/SashaSolves blog >> substack.com/@sashastadler

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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Where are the puzzles? We want the puzzles! Well okay, yeesh, I was just changing platforms. Crosswordr's sunset had me in a tailspin. Check out my new home/blog at Crosshare and solve a lil mini puzz: crosshare.org/crosswords/p...
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Mini 4/02/26: Woof!
Playing with light themes and constructor voice today. Even in a mini like this, I like to have a unifying idea or voice. Even if it's not obvious, I think it g...
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
In light of Crosswordr's announcement and upcoming closure, Sasha Solves will be migrating to another puzzling platform. Please be patient while we find a new home!
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Sometimes I'm so busy making puzzles I forget bsky exists. Sorry loves - it's a Monday-flavored Wednesday crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/xjJA2QK698001657
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 16/01/2026
Creative writing will survive humanity's greatest crisis. The robots can never replicate my need for attention
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
back at it crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/pub6962ba38AFOF3
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10/01/2026
Sadly, more relevant than ever. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
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I’m a German Citizen in 1933, and Is It Just Me or Is It Really Hard to Get Any Work Done Right Now?
Our 25th most-read article of 2025. - - -Guten tag. I’m just wondering if anybody else can relate to this feeling I’ve been having that I just can...
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The number of unhinged interactions with strangers the last few months has me convinced everyone in the US is operating under mass trauma. Anyone else?
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
No Monday Mini this week. Got distracted by ⁺˚⋆。current events。⋆˚⁺ We will be next week, and have plans to extend into the week with even more crosswords! Please check out my puzzle archive if you're itching for the grids crosswordr.com/SashaSolves?...
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Next puzzle will be in the New Year, and may or may not involve dad jokes crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/5k4...
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
As a DM, I want dungeons to world-build, not just be battle endurance tests. Players can pull back layers: a dark mage tower that was once a temple, once a sacred spring. Things are happening. Things happened before. Anyway, here’s my favorite photo from Christopher Anderson’s Vanity Fair shoot...
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
CBS News/Free Press program "Has feminism failed women" brought to you by bank of america and hosted by Liz Plank and Allie Beth Stuckey
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
If Gilmore Girls is an autumn-exclusive comfort watch, explain this
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Monday Mini 12/15/2025 - Hoping to expand to more regular weekly puzzles soon. You'll seem them here first: crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/693...
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Does this bsky account exist only to push the MONDAY MINI out into the world? perhaps, my friends, perhaps crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/UttyOp691a292206
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This week's Monday Mini from Sasha (me!) at Sasha Solves (my crossword blog!): crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/Ejla2Z690e1cb2I6
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/wl5p68f65aa7St44 Monday = Mini forever and always
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Another Monday, another Mini crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/Nbq...
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Where is all the cottage cheese? From my upbringing in the dairy state, I have been a habitual cottage cheese devourer. Lately, wherever I go, it's sold out. I've gotten a single pint into my gullet in the last six months. Where is the cottage cheese? Where is it?
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Good Morning and Happy Monday Mini! (new mini to start your week) crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/0LE0Tfe68e540c77
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Monday Mini - October 13, 2025 crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/C68ddb8a5QhLwnQ1
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Trying something new over at Crosswordr with a new weekly feature - the Monday Mini! Looking for a quick start to your week now that the NYT Mini is paywalled? Well lookie here: crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/LASI68ddb640ZXO4
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/dn6D68dd85b2i7h4 Back with a brand new track (jk this puzzle is from May and has made its round of rejections, so I will now foist it upon you)
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Mike L Tilford 📚 😺 @thatwriterguy.com · 26/06/2025
If Bugs Bunny were a terrorist. #looneytunes
Just had a mental image of someone firing a gun into an envelope, trapping the bullet in it, mailing it to someone they hate, they open the letter and the bullet flies out and hits them between the eyes, killing them instantly.
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Karaoke after a core workout is basically two core workouts.
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Didn't research a crossword themeset well enough before building the puzzle, and only realized during cluing that half the themeset had already been used in a published puzzle! 😨 Goodbye HIDDENVALLEY, my delicious ranch-inspired puzzle
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 20/05/2025
The end is nigh... or is it? These books might have a clue. electricliterature.com/8-pre-apocal...
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8 Pre-Apocalyptic Novels - Electric Literature
Step aside, post-apocalypse. These books ring the alarm bells for an apocalypse yet to come
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Take a break *and* get more done? fromthegable.substack.com/p/my-week-of...
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My Week of Rest and Relaxation
Spoilers: I got a lot done
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
In which I overshare the current BS fromthegable.substack.com/p/time-off-b...
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DogDadBod @dogsdadbod.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Hall of Fame McSweeney's. No notes.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 29/04/2025
Movies now relentlessly signpost their meaning and intent. “Artists and audiences sometimes defend this legibility as democratic, a way to reach everyone,” Namwali Serpell writes. “It is, in fact, condescending.”
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The New Literalism Plaguing Today’s Biggest Movies
Buzzy films from “Anora” to “The Substance” are undone by a relentless signposting of meaning and intent.
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
First un-yeasted loaves. I think they over-proofed because they came out of the cold proof looking like pancakes. Relieved they baked up at all. 🌾🍞 Lotsa room for improvement, but I'm still pleased I made a thing. Tips welcome if you can help with my analysis.
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Domestic goddess lvl 9000+
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This is exactly right. They don’t get to enjoy concerts or restaurants or anything while they destroy the country.
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Another crossword? So soon? Yes my friends, get ready for this bonkers 15x15 grid in which I try more complicated cluing. Going for an NYT Thurs-level. Let me know how I did here: crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/HF67d05f3c6PMDG2
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Long time, new puzzle! I've been attempting some light theming for practice, but it's a long way to competence. 🤮 I applied to the lil AVCX 2025 roster, which I did not make. But I'm excited to see what fresh puzzles come out of this year's incubation program! crosswordr.com/a/puzzle/mc7...
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Teaching this cat to read is a never-ending struggle substack.com/profile/4125...
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Man, remember when Biden forgave those student loans and gave McDonalds back their ice cream? Those were the days.
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Blue.Wing.Things to do in case of COUP🫶🏼❌👑💙🇺🇦🫘🦋 @sust-able-future.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
If you have a Republican representative — you have a right to know if they’re a Nazi. #fucknazis #3E #ResistFascism
I called my Republican representatives to ask if they were Nazis. 
You should too. 
Here’s a script: I’m a voter of (x) state, (x) county. Last night I watched Steve Bannon sieg hiel on stage. There seem to be a lot of Nazis walking around the Republican Party. 
I was just wondering, are you a Nazi? If you’re not a Nazi, you need to take your ass to the Congress floor and vote to impeach the fucking Nazis.
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Democracy dies behind a paywall
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Relaunching the Stack: now a cozy space for cozy things in dark times fromthegable.substack.com/p/relaunchin...
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Relaunching: From the Gable
Time to refocus the Stack
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Ssh, we can readalong if you don't tell Jeffy B app.thestorygraph.com/profile/sash...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Wholesale price for a dozen large white eggs is on the version of hitting $8, per USDA data.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I heart @mapquest.com — I covered them when they were founded btw.
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
nice.
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
So what kind of business should I open to qualify for DAFT in the Netherlands?
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Some useful Surveillance Self Defense links for people who want to lock their shit down right now: Attending a protest: ssd.eff.org/module/atten... How to Use Signal: ssd.eff.org/module/how-t... Security starter pack: ssd.eff.org/playlist/wan...
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How to: Use Signal
Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.0. iPhone: 7.0 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time...
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Is it just me, or did every 90s kid mix the messaging of "you can do anything" with the understanding that someday, a historical moment would call us to do something big? What better moment were you saving it for?
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Sasha @therealsashas.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Over the weekend I celebrated my 35th year, and damn y'all, at this point in my life I should be working on my bucket list or weighing the value of continuing education. Not making lists of what things to put in my go bag or watching Musk dismantle the government. WTF
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!
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