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#Connections
Puzzle #1183
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Skill 88/99
Uniqueness 1 in 3,861

#Connections
Puzzle #1183
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#Connections
Puzzle #1183
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#Connections
Puzzle #1183
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#Connections
Puzzle #1182
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Started with the tough one!

#wordle #connections #strands #NYTGames

Sep 5 2026
171 points • No mistakes
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4x3.fun

Wordle 1,904 4/6*

⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
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Connections
Puzzle #1182
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Strands #916
“Informally known as”
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I solved Wordsmyth #270 in 04:02
www.playwordsmyth.com

4 × 3

#Connections
Puzzle #1182
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#connections

Connections
Puzzle #1182
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#Connections
Puzzle #1182
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Skill 95/99
Uniqueness 1 in 227

#Connections
Puzzle #1182
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#Connections
Puzzle #1182
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#Connections
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Phew!

#Connections
Puzzle #1181
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#Connections
Puzzle #1181
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hurrah!

#wordle #connections #strands #NYTGames

Wordle 1,903 5/6*

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⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
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Connections
Puzzle #1181
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Strands #915
“To the rescue”
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I solved Wordsmyth #269 in 06:34
www.playwordsmyth.com

Wordsmyth - Daily Word Puzzle ...

#connections

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#connections

Phrazle 582: 2/6
🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟪⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜

🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
#phrazle

https://solitaired.com/phrazle

#connections

Phrazle 582: 2/6
🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟪⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜

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#phrazle

https://solitaired.com/phrazle

#connections

Phrazle 582: 2/6
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#phrazle

https://solitaired.com/phrazle

#connections

Phrazle 582: 2/6
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#phrazle

https://solitaired.com/phrazle

#connections

Phrazle 582: 2/6
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#phrazle

https://solitaired.com/phrazle

#Connections
Puzzle #1181
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#Connections
Puzzle #1181
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#Connections
Puzzle #1181
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#Connections
Puzzle #1181
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#Connections
Puzzle #1181
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Skill 76/99
Uniqueness 1 in a Million

#Connections
Puzzle #1181
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🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
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#Connections
Puzzle #1181
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🟨🟨🟨🟨
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#Connections
Puzzle #1180
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#wordle #connections #strands #NYTGames

hankgreen.com/smush · Sep 3
740 pts · PERFECT
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Wordle 1,902 4/6*

⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛
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⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Connections
Puzzle #1180
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Strands #914
“Hike!”
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🔵

not easy
I solved Wordsmyth #268 in 06:09
www.playwordsmyth.com

Smush

#Connections
Puzzle #1180
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Perhaps an easy one to make up for the horrorshow yesterday (which I failed)

The Drama of the Past

i am most disconcerted by the disconnect i feel from those who have impacted me the most

the memories of our times together and the words of significant conversations stream through my brain in a constant play

i am both audience and participant to this drama of the past
confused as to how to consolidate what i have seen with what i am seeing now
with who i am being with now

i am more a friend to ghosts than flesh and bone it seems
perhaps there really is no moving on

each day i open the big back door of the moving truck and everyone i have ever known greets me and steps out onto the street of my new home

August 30, 2016

A quotation from Einstein

Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here, involuntarily and uninvited, for a short stay, without knowing the why and the wherefore. In our daily lives we feel only that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own.
 
[Seltsam erscheint unsere Lage auf dieser Erde. Jeder von uns erscheint da unfreiwillig und ungebeten zu kurzem Aufenthalt, ohne zu wissen, warum und wozu. Im täglichen Leben fühlen wir nur, dass der Mensch um anderer willen da ist, solcher, die wir lieben, und zahlreicher anderer, ihm Schicksalsverbundener Wesen.]

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-American physicist
Essay (1932-09), “My Credo [Mein Glaubensbekenntnis]”

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/201/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #einstein #alberteinstein #charity #connections #life #lifetime #meaningoflife #others #purpose #service #sympathy

How the #Amish Let #Technology in Without Letting It Take Over

After three years studying the community, I came to see that the real question isn't what technology can do, but what it asks us to give up.

By: Lindsay Ems, July 27, 2026

Excerpt: "I first began studying the Amish in 2012 as a doctoral researcher of media studies at Indiana University, located within a few hours of settlements in Elkhart, LaGrange, and Daviess counties. Going into the project, I knew what most everyone else did: that the Amish prized simple living, communal values, and religious discipline, while resisting certain technologies such as cars, TV, and electricity. In my initial conversations with Amish leaders, they told me that they were worried that new technology might diminish the sense of purpose people in their communities feel. They worried that new communication tools, such as smartphones and social media, would disrupt rituals, traditions, and their established communication patterns. Above all, they wanted to preserve their shared culture in which each person felt spiritually connected to their neighbors and the #NaturalWorld."

[...]

"In Joe’s settlement, the #BlackBoxPhone was developed in response to a very specific social problem: Roughly 100 crews left the settlement daily for their construction jobs and needed a way to communicate while away from home. At the same time, several ministers believed that the cell phones already adopted by many community members should be abandoned. They worried that private text messages could facilitate extramarital relationships. And #smartphones, they feared, tempted users to access unfiltered, immoral content such as pornography, which could undermine human intimacy.

"The black-box phone, by contrast, was a happy medium that posed threats to community members’ social and spiritual health. Its design reflects that: The phone is an intentionally bulked-up contraption that enables mobile communications from a vehicle but is highly inconvenient to carry. It only allows public, audible conversations — no texting or internet access. It is also shared among the crew members. Ministers in the settlement hoped that adopting these devices would make individual cell phone ownership among their constituents unnecessary.

"As a substitute for cell phones, the black-box phone is a distinctively Amish modification of an existing technology that better aligns with their values. It forces public communicative arrangements, allowing peers to hold each other accountable for their actions. Additionally, this device enables the Amish to achieve their goals and adhere to their social norms without submitting to the individualizing, privatizing, and attention-fragmenting logic of #BigTech."

Read more:
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-the-amish-let-technology-in-without-letting-it-take-over/

#SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech #SmartPhoneAddiction #TechAddiction #Communication #Luddite #Connections #ConnectingWithCommunity #ConnectingWithNature

People ask me all the time, “How fluent will I be after your program?” “How do I test my fluency?”

My honest answer surprises them because I do not want them to think about fluency at all.

Fluency is a moving target nobody can really measure. Chase it and you end up counting words, testing yourself and feeling behind. But that was never the point of a language. A language is not a score to hit. It is a room full of people waiting to hear from you.

What I care about is different. Can you understand what someone is actually saying to you? Can you say the thing in your heart and be understood? Can you sit at a table, read a prayer, talk to family, and feel like you belong there? That is not fluency. That is connection. And connection starts from your very first word not some distant finish line.

That is exactly what I built “Practically Speaking Hebrew” around. Not memorizing. Not testing.

hebrewbyinbal.com/speak 💙

#LearnHebrew #Connections #LanguageLearning #Hebrew #LanguageFluency

People ask me all the time, “How fluent will I be after your program?” “How do I test my fluency?”

My honest answer surprises them because I do not want them to think about fluency at all.

Fluency is a moving target nobody can really measure. Chase it and you end up counting words, testing yourself and feeling behind. But that was never the point of a language. A language is not a score to hit. It is a room full of people waiting to hear from you.

What I care about is different. Can you understand what someone is actually saying to you? Can you say the thing in your heart and be understood? Can you sit at a table, read a prayer, talk to family, and feel like you belong there? That is not fluency. That is connection. And connection starts from your very first word not some distant finish line.

That is exactly what I built “Practically Speaking Hebrew” around. Not memorizing. Not testing.

hebrewbyinbal.com/speak 💙

#LearnHebrew #Connections #LanguageLearning #Hebrew #LanguageFluency

People ask me all the time, “How fluent will I be after your program?” “How do I test my fluency?”

My honest answer surprises them because I do not want them to think about fluency at all.

Fluency is a moving target nobody can really measure. Chase it and you end up counting words, testing yourself and feeling behind. But that was never the point of a language. A language is not a score to hit. It is a room full of people waiting to hear from you.

What I care about is different. Can you understand what someone is actually saying to you? Can you say the thing in your heart and be understood? Can you sit at a table, read a prayer, talk to family, and feel like you belong there? That is not fluency. That is connection. And connection starts from your very first word not some distant finish line.

That is exactly what I built “Practically Speaking Hebrew” around. Not memorizing. Not testing.

hebrewbyinbal.com/speak 💙

#LearnHebrew #Connections #LanguageLearning #Hebrew #LanguageFluency

People ask me all the time, “How fluent will I be after your program?” “How do I test my fluency?”

My honest answer surprises them because I do not want them to think about fluency at all.

Fluency is a moving target nobody can really measure. Chase it and you end up counting words, testing yourself and feeling behind. But that was never the point of a language. A language is not a score to hit. It is a room full of people waiting to hear from you.

What I care about is different. Can you understand what someone is actually saying to you? Can you say the thing in your heart and be understood? Can you sit at a table, read a prayer, talk to family, and feel like you belong there? That is not fluency. That is connection. And connection starts from your very first word not some distant finish line.

That is exactly what I built “Practically Speaking Hebrew” around. Not memorizing. Not testing.

hebrewbyinbal.com/speak 💙

#LearnHebrew #Connections #LanguageLearning #Hebrew #LanguageFluency

People ask me all the time, “How fluent will I be after your program?” “How do I test my fluency?”

My honest answer surprises them because I do not want them to think about fluency at all.

Fluency is a moving target nobody can really measure. Chase it and you end up counting words, testing yourself and feeling behind. But that was never the point of a language. A language is not a score to hit. It is a room full of people waiting to hear from you.

What I care about is different. Can you understand what someone is actually saying to you? Can you say the thing in your heart and be understood? Can you sit at a table, read a prayer, talk to family, and feel like you belong there? That is not fluency. That is connection. And connection starts from your very first word not some distant finish line.

That is exactly what I built “Practically Speaking Hebrew” around. Not memorizing. Not testing.

hebrewbyinbal.com/speak 💙

#LearnHebrew #Connections #LanguageLearning #Hebrew #LanguageFluency

Making Room for Everyone but Ourselves

https://angelblessings11.com/2026/07/30/making-room-for-everyone-but-ourselves/

I Can No Longer Accept Being Condescended To By The Little Game On My Phone

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/i-can-no-longer-accept-being-condescended-to-by-the-little-game-on-my-phone

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