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Steven Goddard

@sgoddard

Retired; keen on science; not keen on flat-earthers and their ilk; very much left-of-centre. AND - unsolicited DMs will result in instant block. No, really, I mean it! INSTANT!

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Yes. I tried to use a “foreign” word that’s in common usage in today’s spelling bee and it wasn’t accepted. Very hit and miss.

06.03.2026 19:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s interesting that the NYT word games don’t recognise some absolutely correct mainstream words, but often use words that seem a bit iffy.

06.03.2026 19:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

☹️

06.03.2026 18:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm sure you're praying in everybody's best interests 😉

06.03.2026 15:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

😜👍

06.03.2026 15:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Squaredle Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!

I played squaredle.com 03/06:
63/63 words (+4 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 3% by accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 19

06.03.2026 15:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don’t know about anyone else, but I find this utterly repulsive. Pretend Christians pretending that the pretend President is on some kind of holy mission. 🤮

06.03.2026 13:42 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

Last few days for our 3-hardbacks-for-£32 offer. Three 'watery' books: Steve Ely's 'Eely' (the Sargasso Sea to the English fens); Fay Musselwhite's 'Contraflow' (Sheffield's river valleys); Matthew Clegg's 'The Navigators' (the Lake District to the North Sea).

05.03.2026 12:48 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1

😁👍

06.03.2026 13:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cree? You win!!

06.03.2026 13:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It did! I finally got the correct first letter out of desperation, as I couldn’t see what else it could possibly be, even though I wasn’t sure it was a proper word 🙄

06.03.2026 13:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

😬

06.03.2026 13:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Quite a few of us have had a similar experience today!

06.03.2026 13:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The pressure of being at the top of your game day after day! I should be so fortunate 😀

06.03.2026 11:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

480+? Wow! Getting every word, day after day for well over a year is quite an achievement! Not sure I can expect to do as well as that.

06.03.2026 11:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Strands #733
“That's dedication”
🔵🔵🔵🔵
🟡🔵

06.03.2026 09:35 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Connections
Puzzle #999
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

06.03.2026 09:20 👍 66 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

What a dreadful effort 😟

#whendle no1137
▪️▪️⬜️⬜️🟨
FAIL 0pts

06.03.2026 09:10 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

👏👏👏

06.03.2026 08:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good morning everyone. I got there because I ran out of options! Is it even a real word? My prize is a new longest winning streak of 224😀. Have a great day, all.

Wordle 1,721 6/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

#Wordle1721

06.03.2026 08:54 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0

I’m just too much of an obsessive!

05.03.2026 19:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So now we know the true benefit of AI - killing more people in a shorter time frame. We're all fucking doomed. (Apologies for the unusual language, but it's how this makes me feel)

05.03.2026 16:08 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Squaredle Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!

I made really hard work of this one. I don't think my brain is functioning properly today!

I played squaredle.com 03/05:
50/50 words (+7 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 25% by accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 18

05.03.2026 16:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I get it now, thanks to a tip-off!

05.03.2026 16:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

😀. Not sure God should in any way be blamed though 😉

05.03.2026 13:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you! Kia pai tō rā! (Ethnically close to Hawaiian 🙂)

05.03.2026 13:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Are all Trump supporters complete idiots? Sorry, silly question!

05.03.2026 13:21 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company

NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.

Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.

This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

05.03.2026 08:50 👍 3389 🔁 1549 💬 136 📌 72

Got there eventually, after staring at it for some time. It’s interesting how some combinations of letters seem to make me word-blind 🥴

Strands #732
“That's it?”
🔵🔵🔵🔵
🟡🔵🔵

05.03.2026 13:10 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

😀👍

05.03.2026 09:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0