Richard Adams

@richada.bsky.social

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education editor, the Guardian

The Pokémon Snorlax on a sign reading “Quiet Room”
A screenshot of the New York Times’ Wordle game showing that I have completed 1001 games with a 100% win rate.
Ridiculously hard NYT Connections - only 5% of players made no mistakes but one of them was me, phew.
An info graphic showing that my last 14 Wordles average 3.6 attempts. The NYT average is 4.
A New York Times graphic generated by its “your year in puzzles” round-up, showing that I solved its Connections game without mistakes 261 times this year which apparently is in the top 1% of all players. Nice.
The NYT Spelling Bee game rejects an otherwise valid Old English vulgar expression for ‘nonsense’
Photo of interior the V&A Storehouse in Stratford, east London, showing several floors of exhibits.
The NYT stupid Wordle Bot - which cheats - is very stupid. And this is a picture of it failing to find the right answer in 6 attempts.
pathetic boasting about Wordle results
NYT graphic / artwork by Alvaro Dominguez
A box of stuff sent from Japan with a tiny label attached.
The NYT’s Worlde Bot admitting that it is a loser (I solved Worlde in five steps and the AI bot failed after six tries)
Quote by football manager corrected by inserting fewer rather than less: “I’ve been banging on about less [fewer] games”. The speaker was Spurs manager Ange Postecoglou.
A robust response in the form of a newspaper headlined EXPLETIVE to the OP’s boasting that he is on holiday for another three weeks unlike his colleagues in the northern hemisphere.
A NYT commenter asks if microwaving bacon is “a comedy sketch”
Screenshot of a New York Times cooking app recipe for microwave bacon. Honestly.
A photo of Pepe’s Cafe in Kenepuru, Porirua - not goat pies but the GOAT pies.
More NYT Wordle stats
An NYT news alert about it adding automatic metric conversions to all the recipes on the NYT cooking app, because we’re not barbarians.
Guardian and Observer staff in the UK are on strike because of concerns over the planned transfer of the Observer newspaper and its future. This image is from an unrelated strike and shows a placard reading “Wrote ChatGPT this” which is a comedic reference to the possibility of AI writing news articles.
Me showing off by beating the NYT’s Wordlebot, a program that plays Wordle and thinks it’s so clever. Not so clever now eh Wordlebot? Anyway in the last 13 games I’ve beaten it six times and take 3.4 guesses to get the right answer while the NYT computer takes 3.6 attempts on average. It’s very dull I know.
A graphic showing the result of the California 45th congressional district election: 50.1% gain for the Democrats
A screenshot of an X post by Peter Mandelson’s campaign for his election as chancellor of Oxford, which is kind of sad really.
An artists impression of Orioles Park at Camden Yards baseball stadium with new facilities for Mr Splash a popular local entertainer who ... hey. How is that alt text gets so many more characters than an actual tweet or bleet or skeet? It doesn’t make sense.
Screenshot of AP’s latest count of CA-45 house seat: 93% of votes counted, GOP candidate 50.1% versus Dem candidate 49.9%
New York Times article quote: X has become a home for Trump propaganda, said Gita Johar, a professor at Columbia Business School who studies consumer behavior. “There’s no question that it is going to be identified as Trump’s X,” she said. “That’s what it is now.”
Satellite view of central Washington DC with the White Centre bottom centre
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