Exciting news, cruciverbalists! Back in May I started as Puzzles Editor at Apple News, and I’m thrilled to share that you’ve got a great reason to update your iPhone or iPad to iOS 17 ASAP: there’s a new grid on the block!

i'm over on bluesky, if you want to say hi!

i can't believe this

Hey look, I made the Wednesday #nytxw ! Very proud of this one—my solo debut in the Times. Hope you enjoy solving it!

ok so they mixed up the images. but it's still NOT FUNNY that this police officer ordered a cold refreshing sparkling water and it was served to him with a napkin in it

I'm pretty excited about the fact that bluesky lets you use domains as usernames, and I blogged about why parkerhiggins.net/2023/05/bluesk…

Sunset in NYC on Tuesday is at 8:00pm. The sun won’t set any earlier than 8:00pm in NYC until August 11th, 2023.

ugh I just found out my local library has a 'power user' program that comes with a special card and bragging rights when you hit 2500 checkouts and now I will not know peace until I achieve this goal

it should go without saying but waffling erratically like this creates a pretty untenable environment for public utilities, even if twitter eventually lands in the 'right' place

a toughie 😎

new crossword in the inboxes of av club members, or available for a buck here avxwords.com/puzzles/1321/

got old roadside pics and old fruit pictures (@[email protected]) posting over on bluesky 👍

see, every time elon demonstrates complete ineptitude, we all tweet about it. which is free advertising for twitter! maybe there's something there

I learned about an especially cursed but useful-to-me microtransit option from the Miles in Transit thread on riding between DC and Boston, so don't let anyone tell you those trips aren't educational