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  Can anyone explain how the 60 across answer makes the starred ones work in today’s NYT crossword? Finished it, but can’t see how it connects. #nytGames #nyt

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  The verbal gymnastics it takes to make this work are beyond me. A whole 27 new jobs. No difference to energy bills as it’s sold on the global market. 50,000 deaths across Europe this summer attributed to extreme heat. #jackdawclimatebetrayal #netzero https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/22/net-zero-transition-britain-jackdaw-gasfield-jobs-energy-security-labour?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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  Just had the realisation that my beard hair is longer than both “Mrs PinkNigel” and my niece’s head hair. Bald man has the longest hair in the house FTW.

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  Things you don’t expect to see on the M62 - an electric bicycle with a “just eat” top box. I’m assuming the rider was in one of the two police cars stopped next to it.

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  @TheVoidTLMB lolz at just spotting “cross country skiving”, which is the perfect description for what happened when my school PE teachers sent us out to run round the streets on a route that happened to pass my parents’ house… #addaletterruinasport

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  Prole vault #addaletterruinasport

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  Discuss (with due credit to Mickey Flanagan for paraphrasing his “Unlikely Exam Questions” gag from Mock the Week) #addaletterruinasport

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  Blobsleigh. Sponsored by [insert name of popular feminine hygiene product here] Boobsleigh. This is your reminder to self-exam. #addaletterruinasport

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  PowerBorat racing. #addaletterruinasport

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  In the gymnastics now, the pommel hoarse and parallel barns* #addaletterruinasport * not to be confused with farm wrestling, which is plainly different.

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  Joy has taken to sitting on my lap in the morning while I point my face at this rectangle and wait for my brew to cool. I had reached the point of wondering how she might be persuaded to move so I could maybe do my job when she left of her own accord. To be immediately replaced by Grace and Odin. Good job I’m on a flexible part-time contract. #catsofmastodon

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  Doesn’t need to be an “awareness” month to make posting this timely. Boys should follow the link too, it’s rarer but not impossible. https://breastcancernow.org/about-breast-cancer/touch-look-check?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=tlc&utm_content=self_checks&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=24257999507&gbraid=0AAAAADBP5dub4GHTRFxmVxFrhBAo0-Wq-&gclid=CjwKCAjwirLWBhBBEiwAlItbEpZyt4kMWt8dFwGgFJ4G-ncDeefK2Ux1fClmLqBY7J_5hsjKJXedkRoCjXk...

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  Today’s random coinage while playing the NYTs Spelling Bee - “Pornado”. Possible definitions are pretty obvious, but my thinking is that it refers to the internet in the mid-90s to early 2000s, when it only took a couple of injudicious or accidental clicks to unleash a pornado across your device. #NYTimes #nytGames #spellingbee

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@girlonthenet/117338799895426394 I have exactly zero understanding of the mindset where this is apparently OK. I do recognise it’s happening though, and for that I apologise on behalf of the penis wearers among us who get that it’s *never* going to be acceptable.

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  @fesshole@mastodon.social bare/bear is probably my favourite homophone. If only because of the deliberate misinterpretation (“mis” at least as far as the writer goes) of “bare with me”.