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parker higgins @xor.blue · 26/09/2026

weather happening in new york city

Crazy orange pink sky over 14th street in Manhattan in advance of the Nor'easter approaching

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 10/09/2026

angine de poitrine at le poisson rouge tonight

Angine de Poitrine guitarist, in costume with hat triangle illuminated and arms akimbo

Both members of Angine de Poitrine facing each other on stage

Angine de Poitrine guitarist leading back to shred

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 26/08/2026

earlier this summer I had the immense privilege of seeing Dolly Parton's personal fax machine on display at the Country Music Hall of Fame

A Brother fax machine with the label "before the internet era, Dolly used this fax machine to personally conduct her business affairs"

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 19/07/2026

this issue is that they usually spell out the "Part II"

Recent messages from the Phish account that say "Axilla Part II"

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 17/07/2026

mars sun over the city tonight

A red dot out the subway window, over the New York skyline

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 07/07/2026

huh, I wonder what that's like

Phone wallpaper with a painted image of an avocado from @pomological.xor.blue

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 27/06/2026

I must share that the weird beach bar Margarita Island has the absolute best view of the Coney Island fireworks

Bright white fireworks behind the Wonder Wheel ferris wheel

Purple and white fireworks behind the Wonder Wheel ferris wheel

Green streaks of fireworks behind the Wonder Wheel ferris wheel

Bright red fireworks behind the Wonder Wheel ferris wheel

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 18/06/2026

I voted (and got the cool sticker)

"I voted" sticker with a basketball design 🏀

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 17/06/2026

ok I guess they are taking game 6 in a very different direction

A concert crowd at Madison Square Garden, with a main stage on one end of the floor and an additional cruciform stage in the center

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 11/06/2026

even if nobody else believes in me, i know this section of the emoji keyboard believes in me

Emoji arrow icons with the words BACK, ON, TOP, SOON

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 09/06/2026

this is the thing that really bugs me about california's slow vote counting. reporters can't help but describe it in terms of momentum, when it's really scanning across a snapshot

NYT screenshot, "Nithya Raman, a progressive Democrat who has drawn comparisons to New York's mayor, Zohran Mamdani, will face Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles in a two-person race in November, The Associated Press determined on Monday.

Ms. Raman, 44, a City Council member and former Bass ally, was behind in the initial vote count but came back in later returns to edge out Spencer Pratt, a Republican reality TV star who lost his home in the 2025 wildfires that devastated Pacific Palisades, a wealthy coastal enclave."

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 05/05/2026

hmm @bencollins.bsky.social could you help me out with this one? apple.news/JsvCPWBu9TGO... @rosstrudeau.bsky.social

Mini crossword puzzle with a 4-letter entry highlighted with the clue ["___ Ora's Agent Scores Singer Another Prime Crossword Puzzle Placement" - The Onion]

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 19/03/2026

I don't know why but I feel comforted by his presence

A mustard-covered anthropomorphic hot dog asking if I have a question

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 03/03/2026

I made today's Quartiles puzzle! Apple News subscribers, solve it here: apple.news/JvikgmLfrQFy...

A collection of 25 tiles that each hold 2-4 letters

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 24/02/2026

inordinately charmed by the hibernating mister softees

A row of parked Mister Softee trucks covered in snow

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 21/02/2026

I took lots of pictures mostly because i'm still playing with my new phone's camera, and reviewing them today i'm like... this might literally not be appropriate to have on my camera roll!

A very large and sweaty and not very clothed man from wrestling

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 21/02/2026

had the time of my life at house of glory last night, this is now a wrestling account

A moment of ringside tension as a large and long-haired wrestler is suspended in the air before his inevitable collision with his waiting opponent

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 15/01/2026

I wrote today's Apple News Mini Crossword! and (personal news) it's my first as Puzzles Editor on the team there! subscribers can solve at apple.news/JLzcqPb9LSlq...

Mini crossword puzzle start screen with a byline that reads "by Parker Higgins"

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 13/12/2025

a few years back @malaika-h.bsky.social and I got annoyed enough with the color scale on that page that we built a google sheet that recolors it based on 0-100 instead of 0-50 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 13/12/2025

if you want another perverse dimension to it: this is percentage of NYT puzzles each year by day-of-week with a woman on the byline; columns are M T W Th F S Su (via www.xwordinfo.com/Women)

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 07/12/2025

somehow had never been to iffy books in philly until this weekend! what a cool space and community

Pay phone with the coin slot labeled "Donation only, all calls free"

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 23/11/2025

a storied entry in crossworld www.crosswordtournament.com/articles/nbt...

text screenshot: "But really, the competitor who made everyone's heart stop was Al Sanders.
Sanders, once described by The New Yorker as "a perennial also-ran from Colorado," breezed through the championship crossword at an astonishing speed eaving Hinman and Payne in the dust. And while the Associated Press was accurate in reporting that Sanders "missed" the answer "Zolaesque," this did not take note of what had to have been the most heartbreaking moment in the 28-year history of this event: thinking he had finished the puzzle, Sanders did not look carefully enough at his grid and failed to notice that he had left two squares blank in the upper left-hand corner."

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 21/11/2025

look at this one I saw last winter

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 14/11/2025

huge friday PR for me on @malaika-h.bsky.social's excellent nyt puzzle

Finish screen that reads: "Congratulations!
You solved a Friday Crossword in 3:36."

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 11/11/2025

my eyes popped and I whispered "ceci neri!" like it was a minced oath

A Rancho Gordo bag of black garbanzo beans

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 08/11/2025

I'm in town for the opening of the Atlantic City Arts Foundation's "Ministry of ARTeriors" show, to which I contributed a puzzle. it's a cool show, if you're in town you should check it out!

"The Arts Dispatch" zine created to accompany the Ministry of ARTeriors show

Crossword puzzle from that zine in front of an art piece

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 08/11/2025

i'm in Atlantic City this weekend and as always i'm trying to take pics that look like @roadside.xor.blue

Boardwalk storefront with a faded sign that reads "James Salt Water Taffy" against a blue sky backdrop

Small restaurant called KING'S PUB in the foreground with large casino towers behind

Nondescript residential apartment building with very bright blue sky behind it

Rainforest Cafe building in front of a modern glass tower

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 06/10/2025

i had a great time at the inaugural Wiki Game Jam this weekend, (though I did not get a game done in time) i presented about using wikipedia categories for word puzzle games, and my friend adam got this serendipitous photo right when I cited his project

Me pointing directly at the camera while presenting in front of a projected screen

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 05/10/2025

are you sure they were capitalizing the G? maybe they just didn't see how it applied!

Dictionary definition of "german," adjective, 1. germane; relevant

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 24/09/2025

saw this in the subway and my first thought was: rapture?

An abandoned shoe lying on the subway platform

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 22/09/2025

wow is it already negroni season

A sign that reads "Negroni Week: Sept 22-28"

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 19/09/2025

thank you to 📸 @alsweigart.bsky.social for capturing the vibe. folks it's fillharmonics.com

Me in front of a projector screen with fill harmonics shown behind me

Me in front of a partially filled grid on fill harmonics

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 16/09/2025

but if paolo is here, who's that on jeopardy?!?

paolo pasco pointing at paolo pasco on jeopardy

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 11/09/2025

this is astonishing to me

Text chain wherein I say "i have been seeing a lot of our cyclones hat around
i think i might be ready to call it the hat of the summer"
and my interlocutor says:
"Oh I think you're so right"

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 09/09/2025

the results so far on congestion pricing in new york have been so outrageously good that opposition to it works as a convenient identifier of unserious buffoons www.reuters.com/world/us/new...

Screenshot of text:

New York Governor Kathy Hochul and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said on Tuesday crossing times into Manhattan in the congestion zone have dropped, making the Brooklyn Bridge 13% faster, Holland Tunnel 36% faster and Lincoln Tunnel 5% faster.

Crashes in the Manhattan congestion zone are down 14%, while traffic injuries are down by 15%, while ridership on buses is up 13% and on subways up 9%.

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 09/09/2025

one neat thing about fillharmonics.com is the polymetric word mode, which can create a lot of interesting musical complexity with simple building blocks

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 15/08/2025

this had me casting my mind's eye back through the history of nyc mayors to see who I could imagine in a pinky ring and I think I got it in one

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 14/08/2025

it was in that run! 2021-10-16, which I only know because I happen to have this photo from that date

A bridge that reads "Morristown Train Station"

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 14/08/2025

this is nit-picky but it looks like the font on that page maybe doesn't have an em-dash glyph? at least that's how it's rendering for me on a couple of browsers

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 13/08/2025

this compound in NW Arizona sits at the center of the willin' trapezium, and i am increasingly confident lowell george has given me instructions

Satellite photo of a mountain desert with a point in the middle

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