Leftist Whine Mom

Press 3 for otter

forgot to tell you about this crazy poll I saw on people who believe in Greek mythology. it had a wild margin of hera

do NOT fuck with my dunks

how I arrived on Bluesky

LOL the pilot on my SFO-BOS flight just announced that it’s 13 in Boston — and then added “that’s gotta be centigrade, not Fahrenheit” … who’s gonna tell him?

I made a very timely (for me, at least) puzzle for this fundraiser — presale starts today fund.nnaf.org/campaign/the...

Black text on beige background that says “these puzzles fund abortion six: coming soon” with a list of constructor and editor names

😍WOW, what a roster!

These Puzzles Fund Abortion 6 will be released in March.

This all-star lineup has been hard at work making an incredible pack of crossword, cryptic, and variety puzzles, and we can’t wait for you to solve them 🤩

#tpfa6

these puzzles fund abortion 6 logo with a purple crossword background

We are happy to announce that our fundraising page is live!

When you make a donation during our presale period, you will be among the first to receive TPFA6 when it is released on March 15th.

fund.nnaf.org/tpfa6

#tpfa6

do a puz w me and @carinadarosa.bsky.social !

Humanities Methods in Librarianship, a new, no-fee open access journal, is pleased to announce our first call for papers! We are seeking scholarship, book reviews, and creative non-fiction that explore librarianship through the varied methodological lenses of the humanities. For more details about the journal, see our Issue 0 editorial. Examples of possible contributions include (but are not limited to): • Explorations of the concept(s) of ‘library’, ‘librarians’, or ‘librarianship’ , especially as they relate to humanities disciplines (religion, history, literature, political theory, etc.)

Disciplinary investigations of topics significant to librarianship. Examples might include: cultural studies interpretations of library policies or debates; philosophical analyses of librarianship; or art history perspectives on library imagery or architecture • Humanistic analyses of library-related practices and infrastructures, such as theories of bibliographic description, classification, library technology, or library spaces • Autoethnographic scholarship, oral histories, or interviews related to librarians or library workers

We also seek to publish book reviews on a broad array of topics that are relevant to the humanities, whether non-fiction or fiction. We invite you to contribute your work, and we look forward to your submissions! Our submissions page has more details about our requirements. Please submit by April 24, 2026 to be considered for our first issue. Articles will be published on a preliminary rolling basis as they are ready. We expect to announce the full publication of Issue 1 in summer or fall 2026. Humanities Methods in Librarianship is published by the City University of New York, with an editorial board from across the United States and Canada.

CFP: Humanities Methods in Librarianship, Issue 1

• Explorations of concepts re: ‘library’, ‘librarians’, ‘librarianship’
• Disciplinary investigations of LIS
• Humanistic analyses of LIS practices/infrastructures
• Autoethnographies, oral histories, interviews

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actual, IRL not AI, lol

ORCA-award-winning post by @aaronson.bsky.social !

Square Theory The story starts in Crosscord, the crossword Discord server. Over 5,000 users strong, the server has emerged as a central hub for the online crossword community, a buzzing, sometimes overwhelming, som...

here is why crossword puzzles, and words in general, are cool and interesting aaronson.org/blog/square-...

BREAKING: Thanks to pressure from residents and local advocates, bipartisan opposition from local state leaders, and opposition from people across the Granite State, plans for an ICE human warehouse in Merrimack have been officially stopped.

Jane Eyre
Jane Fyre
Jane Urth
Jane Watter

I like big whales and I cannot lie

A painting of a bird beside the text "i'm operating at a serious fuck deficit"

crossword people are very open source and great at sharing knowledge!

OK, woah. I did not know this.

There is an open digital specification for puzzles (e.g. crosswords)! https://www.puzzazz.com/ipuz

There is also an open-source GNOME Crosswords app! https://gitlab.gnome.org/jrb/crosswords

a snowpile almost reaching the snowcurl on a garage roof

getting closer

🚨 special stream tomorrow! 🚨

we’ll be hanging out with @mossdef.bsky.social at 12:30 central time to celebrate his 100th square chase puzzle! stop in to do some q&a about cryptics, construct a mini and more 💕

oh! you are in for many treats! my favorites are Doomsday Book and Blackout/All Clear. wish I could go *back in time* (wink wink wink) and read them for the first time again

...but I'm all out of whales

Ernest Shepard's illustration of Piglet and Pooh walking together through the snow.

Pooh embracing Piglet, originally, near family-friendly city (8)

In our latest Out of Left Field cryptic crossword, sent to subscribers this morning, @hpicciotto.bsky.social and I shed our usual cynicism in favor of wholesome sentiment.

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Congrats to the mighty @mossdef.bsky.social — it's simple mathematics to see that he's hit his 100th puzzle in his Square Chase variety series. We're honored to have contributed a clue to this celebration. True mogmaxxing is subscribing at www.patreon.com/squarechase

at digital library conferences, over-speakers are pelted with curly brackets by a mutant JSON schema

a screenshot of an article from Slate with the headline “NASA has plans to probe Uranus”

Roses are red
Thorns are heinous

Fargo

it’s why we’ve married for 26 years

(a great movie, just not a great date movie)

a screenshot of the NYT Spelling Bee game. “Not in word list” appears over EMBIGGEN

EMBIGGEN is a perfectly cromulent word

indeed, neither cookies nor libraries are produced by elves