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Reposted because, for me, it is not showing up. Wordle 1,633 4/6* ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html Minute Cryptic - 8 December, 2025 (this threw me to begin with.) "Went inside, texting "thanks xx"" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (29,940 solvers so far). https://www.minutecryptic.com/ https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=62GuzYWg6xw

Wordle 1,632 4/6* (1/5 on 3, excluding ones I was sure were previous matches, 1/2 on 4) ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html Minute Cryptic - 7 December, 2025 (a mercifully easy one because I want breakfast. Amethyst properly checks the links, unlike most clients.) "Tease astrologer, half curiously" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (32,090 solvers so far). https://www.minutecryptic.com/ https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=V7hOjrjq7qg

A Rust Wordle/Lingo style word solver library with a basic command line tool to show how it is used. A whopping 58kb of source code including the readme and comments. 3.5kb for lib.rs. (excluding comments). I would like to avoid clones but most of the solutions were as bad and they are very small clones. I would like to work towards being more idiomatic. https://codeberg.org/jbeiapc/Wordsolver

Wordle 1,630 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html Minute Cryptic - 5 December, 2025 (It's one par not because it's easy but because there is a logic and people can guess. I enjoyed it. My rude now with 1 par ones is to try not to overthink.) "Clients cast non-speaking character in scene?" (6,1) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (36,270 solvers so far). https://www.minutecryptic.com/ https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=nuC3Jn2mTO0

Wordle 1,629 3/6* 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html Minute Cryptic - 4 December, 2025 (I found this one very difficult. Too msny choices can be a bad thing. Which is a platitude best stated as too many choices are a bad thing when it interferes with the task at hand or, in the worst case, becomes the task at hand. Obviously an abundance of choice is subjective. It's like operating systems, cameras, or cars, or musical instruments, or anything else mostly defined by what people do with them, rather than getting bogged down with what they are and how to use them. I'm procrastinating and there is a rant forming like borborygmi.) ""Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" karaoke practice progressing bit-by-bit" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (38,493 solvers so far). https://www.minutecryptic.com/ https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=0f9vQig1AHY

This. To me it felt like a sci fi golden age plot wrapped in enough classical knowledge to make it approachable for people who are, often, snobby about sci fi. I'm sure that wasn't the author's intention. A good book but I'm not sure about great. Because I've been somewhat busy I have read quick reads recently like Jesus Christ Kinski by Benjamin Myers, Brat by Gabriel Smith and Strange Houses by Uketsu. In descending order of enjoyment. The ones I didn't enjoy aren't mentioned. nostr:nevent1qqsv8pkyzpfk5wmtrmfzdyynafpukpg5e3agkjd94fpk3jyshvh9aaspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtczyr4tpe6k6v4cp0x5vneas39cqspsxp66z04tcdve5a3vntr6hy057qcyqqqqqqgp9xcvw

#firstworldproblems

The RTW MP. https://x.com/ThreshedThought/status/1995531993551970658 https://x.com/ThreshedThought

Wordle 1,628 4/6* (1/3 on 3, but more like 1/2 because one wasn't a very NYT word) ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 🟨⬛🟨🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html Minute Cryptic - 3 December, 2025 (I'm not complaining because I was woken by a call from abroad, scammers, using a VoIP service in Germany., but this was an easier clue. I am looking forward to breakfast and tea. The bigger question, aside from why Lua isn't more ubiquitous, is whether Tunbridge Wells will have water by Christmas and how many restaurants, small businesses, go bust in between. Not to mention care homes, the elderly, and other vulnerable people currently without water. 4 days with little or no tap water in a modestly prosperous part of a developed country. There's plenty of bottled water available, but washing with bottled water is inefficient. Water weighs 1kg per litre, the caps are not arthritis, or other impediment, friendlly, and if it can happen here it will happen elsewhere. Carrying a lot of water on foot is difficult for frail people. Aside from that it's all quite efficient and people are taking in in their stride- our local MP, Mike Martin, is doing a good job and his X account tells a story.) "False image in which water finally appears!?" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (34,820 solvers so far). https://www.minutecryptic.com/ https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=hm_7EFfPZvc

Wordle 1,627 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨 ⬛🟩🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html Minute Cryptic - 2 December, 2025 (everything is slower because I've only slept for about an hour and a half probably under that. BRB operating machinery.) "Sitting in class, I'm pleading for a piece of cake" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (41,755 solvers so far). https://www.minutecryptic.com/

Just accidentally put a space between 'rm -rf nvim/.local' and instead typed 'rm -rf nvim .local'. Nuking my Distroboxes, my Podman pods/container structure, but blessedly little of my data. I have backups but it is not going to be a fun night. It's going to be very tedious. 100% my fault. Totally idiotic. I'm going to link rm to some kind of kid friendly version next install. It was run as a standard user, not root, showing both the inherent advantages and drawbacks to Podman in the hands of a tired idiot.

Wordle 1,626 3/6* ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html Minute Cryptic - 1 December, 2025 (yes. My feeling about LLM based AI are complicated. Computers, and computing in general are very useful boosters of human productivity and ways to spread knowledge in all forms. But the training data is, seemingly deliberately, often opaque, which is unfair because copyrighted material, including FOSS licensed material,, are sucked in as training data and laundered. At a minimum it's the equivalent of a person borrowong images or text from somewhere and changing it enough that they can claim it as their own. Which is impolite, bad form, and doesn't reward people for making and sharing because the reward is useable or useful things they can use and be attributed to. Furthermore in India and other places various companies are trialling bundling relatively premium AI subscriptions, cheaply, with phone contracts. That is not altruism. It's the standard playbook of offering it cheap now and being forced, by market and stakeholder financial pressure, to squeeze increasing monetisation from it later and the training data gathered from the inputted work of hundreds of millions of young Indians. There is a cognitive balance between reading and doing and the "forgetting curve" is a real thing. For lazy people and those who haven't learnt to learn it's going to make them dumber and for those who have learnt to learn it's going to make them smarter. Good questions are a skill. Added to the fact that, following the form of all other microelectronics from the 1960s onwards, the underlying technology will obsolete itself every few years making ROI calculations, let alone productivity and profitabity claims very, very, difficult to predict and dubious. And one of the early waves of attack on Bitcoin was the power consumption. The power required to produce AI slop videos alone will shit on that. Apart from that AI is great especially for smart people and those with existing knowledge. It will level up a lot of people who otherwise would not get the chance to learn. Not checked for spelling or grammar. T'is not robogabber.) "Neo-liberal produces writing with a lot of feeling?" (7) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (25,938 solvers so far). https://www.minutecryptic.com/ https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=uA15vH3dkFc

Robogabber - from robot and the British slang word gabber. Like a robocaller. Gabber is also a Dutch style of EDM with a headache inducing tempo. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/gabber nostr:nevent1qqsgzm0es4agt95k6u49pcdntevtt0pwd0f5khjlglxwyfpmrjp6k3qpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsygzxpsj7dqha57pjk5k37gkn6g4nzakewtmqmnwryyhd3jfwlpgxtspsgqqqqqqs6d49q7

Wordle 1,625 4/6* (3 was a prior answer I should have remembered) 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html Minute Cryptic - 30 November, 2025 "Sensitive hobbits in film trilogy originally pushed for characters to be taller" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (29,903 solvers so far). https://www.minutecryptic.com/ https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=hz4Msx83wRw

Wordle 1,624 4/6* (maybe should have been in 3 but 4 is fine.) ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html Minute Cryptic - 29 November, 2025 "Doctor Strange fled, concealing identity" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (27,220 solvers so far). https://www.minutecryptic.com/ https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=rpOT7q-5qu0 #wordle #minutecryptic

Wordle 1,623 5/6* (ouch. I woke up with a headache. This Wordle did not help.) ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟨⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html Minute Cryptic - 28 November, 2025 (followed by this which actually took me less time than the Wordle. Maybe the Wordle was an aperitif that mentally loosened me like a sportsperson doing calf stretches. I don't think so. I'm barely awake and I'm hungry which is not good because if I eat now the whole day will be out of sequence in addition to the moderate tiredness and somewhat of a headache. I was watching AI slop on Facebook which was about people waving flags and appeal to British patriotism. They were entirely AI generated and obviously so. Apparently not for many of the people watching. I don't thing the AI videos about migrants were even from UK and there is at least irony there. I suppose if a fundamental aspect of the online economy is attention and it's considered paternalistic or maternalistic or patronising to stop it then at least it will damage the brand of that sort of thing. And maybe, eventually, lead to herd immunity. Maybe I'm being idealistic. Not checked for spelling and grammar because I've been reading Facebook comments on patriotic AI slop and it has rubbed off.) "Log location if returning by sub" (9) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 4 under the community par (13,713 solvers so far). https://www.minutecryptic.com/ #wordle #minutecryptic https://youtu.be/voBNpdXkLnU?si=-JNvZfXRyUoxL4Op

Wordle 1,622 5/6* (1/4 chance on 3, 1/2 chance on 4, excluding previous Wordle answers) 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟨⬛🟩🟩 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html Minute Cryptic - 27 November, 2025 "Praise for animating Kate Winslet in "Flushed Away"" (5,4) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 3 under the community par (28,643 solvers so far). https://www.minutecryptic.com/ https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=G4Vt3NvPmnQ

Wordle 1,621 4/6* (this was a tough one IMHO, unless one got lucky with better matches in the starting word. ) ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html Minute Cryptic - 26 November, 2025 (this was a genuinely tough one. Which should be rephrased as 'this was a tough one for me', because there are likely to be people who found it easier, or harder. so the assertion that it was a genuinely tough one in a general case is more nuanced in reality. Especially given I'm a few hours short of sleep today. I had a 4/10 sad moment yesterday, depending on your perspective, when going through a folder on my laptop and finding something moderately complicated and not being at all capable of understanding it, Hermann Ebbinghaus-like. Then I looked at the dates of the last files in that folder, they were around August 2024 as my father got, imminently, terminally ill.) "Run-down backpacker loses backpack" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 3 under the community par (23,230 solvers so far). https://www.minutecryptic.com/ https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=wfa_0ULtL84

GR postbox - King George V 1910-1936, probably a 1930s example because that's concomitant with nearby houses and infrastructure.

Wordle 1,619 3/6* ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html Minute Cryptic - 24 November, 2025 "Unlocking kindness, insight and humility, starts with reflection!?" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (31,638 solvers so far). https://www.minutecryptic.com/ https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=2vdqzKXJYlk