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Peggy Robin

@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social

I run the Cleveland Park Listserv on Groups.io & the All Life Is Local blog on Blogger - info on both at www.cleveland-park.com

created November 11, 2023

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Profile picture Tom Hentoff (@tomhentoff.bsky.social) reposted

European Robin this morning in Saint-Évarzec in Brittany. 🪶

Robin on branch.
2/9/2025, 7:59:41 PM | 12 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

Tues #2solve 01001111 01001101 01001110 01001001 01010110 01001111 01010010 01001111 01010101 01010011 00100000 01010011 01000011 01000001 01001100 01010000 He'll eat anything & will sell you tickets for way over their face value

2/9/2025, 1:02:59 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee This🐝shows why S isn't so good for this game. I read that in my classroom primers. If your employer says you did a no-no, you may cry, wah-wah-- or ban him & go live in artsy unconventional style, like a tramp who wears a string tie www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

2/9/2025, 12:56:09 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mon #2solve 01110000 01110101 01101101 01110000 01100101 01110010 01101110 01101001 01100011 01101011 01100101 01101100 00100000 01101100 01111001 01101110 01111000 Brown bread for a bobcat

1/9/2025, 1:52:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#nytsb #nytspellingbee #hivemind I won my👑by being a good strategist w/ the persistance needed to find the whale, the blue printer ink, a French kick-dance, pimples, saguaros, hot pepper, a B vitamin, & my sister's daughter on the doomed ship www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

1/9/2025, 1:32:19 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sun #2solve 01000100 01010010 01011001 01001100 01000001 01001110 01000100 00100000 01000100 01001111 01000111 01000110 01001001 01010011 01001000 // A farming technique for arid soil is totally unrelated to a type of small, bottom-dwelling shark (worst #2solve sentence ever!)

31/8/2025, 1:17:41 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee QB-2, needed some extremely tiny hints for the Japanese candy rice ball & radioactive element. Found the nonradioactive one (PG) 1st. I remembered a couple of odd words, too: the blood of the gods: a fancy type of leather www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

31/8/2025, 12:58:57 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sat #2solve 01000011 01010101 01000011 01010101 01001101 01000010 01000101 01010010 00100000 01010010 01000101 01010100 01000101 01001100 01000101 01000111 01010010 01000001 01010000 01001000 Bring me a long green summer veg - I've had to wire you twice!

30/8/2025, 1:42:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sat #2solve So I had to change it to 01100111 01110010 01110101 01101101 01110000 00100000 01110000 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101 Cranky, even though the hole in the tire can be fixed

30/8/2025, 1:37:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#2solve Sat Sat #2solve I had 01100111 01110010 01110101 01101101 01100010 01101100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01110010 01100101 01110000 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 I'm complaining about having to fix it again - but my 2nd word was not accepted

30/8/2025, 1:34:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee Long, but not hard - A's an EZ center letter. Just don't get stuck in the corn labyrinth or miss the level betw. orchestra & balcony. 2 little urchins, m & f members of a crew, ran this way & that w/ my copy of TIME. Incredible! www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

30/8/2025, 12:49:16 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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That was my 2nd #2solve. My 1st one was 01000010 01010101 01010010 01000101 01000001 01010101 01000011 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001001 01011010 01000101 01000100 00100000 01000100 01001111 01001010 01001111 Too many petty officials & arcane rules ruined the karate school

29/8/2025, 1:25:22 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee That little bird came out of the clock. In a hockey move it was drawn out of position & hit with a wooden sword, then roasted for dinner. But the mallard wasn't, b/c the gun was left un-set. Then the earl took down the antelope www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

29/8/2025, 1:15:17 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thu #2solve 01010111 01000001 01010110 01000101 01000110 01001111 01010010 01001101 00100000 01001101 01001001 01001100 01000100 01001100 01011001 The shape of the oscillations shown on the graph was only slightly interesting

28/8/2025, 3:02:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee This one's everything I hate in a🐝strung together. Center C, too long, & w/an obscure shorebird (when more common animals are rejected). It's made my face break out! I'd like to make an agreement w/ God to allow "convo" www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

28/8/2025, 3:01:17 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wed #2solve 01010101 01001110 01010111 01010010 01000001 01010000 00100000 01010000 01000101 01000011 01001011 01001001 01010011 01001000 Take the paper off your deli sandwich if you feel like eating it (Late start today!)

27/8/2025, 6:32:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee I do the🐝every day but got off to a late start today. That doesn't mean I did anything illegitimately. I didn't lollygag about lazily but picked the orange bloom enthusiastically from the garden of my fancy seaside rental www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

27/8/2025, 5:50:39 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tues #2solve 01010000 01010010 01001111 01001101 01010011 00100000 01010011 01010001 01010101 01000001 01001100 01001001 01000100 01001100 01011001 // I went to my jr & sr end-of-the-year dances wearing cheap, floozy gowns that signaled how poorly we lived.

26/8/2025, 1:08:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee My HVAC includes a unit that controls moisture in summer & winter. I wear a Hawaiian dress in size M or a skirt, shortened to calf-length, that's very girly. I get offended & I seethe when people assume I'm a dodo www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

26/8/2025, 12:59:03 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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#2solve Monday 01000110 01010010 01001111 01001110 01010100 01000001 01001100 00100000 01001100 01000001 01001101 01010000 01001100 01001001 01000111 01001000 01010100 Head-on into the Tiffany's radiant glow

25/8/2025, 1:35:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee While I quickly found the yoga, the black-clad girl w/ skin-ink, the consonant stop & the hulking big guy, it took forever to find the island w/ a lagoon & the opposite of income, so no QBABM today - Beeatrice outwitted me www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

25/8/2025, 1:28:29 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sun #2solve 01010001 01010101 01000001 01000100 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001001 01000011 00100000 01000011 01001111 01010111 01000010 01001111 01011001 // Yup, I took algebra: ax² + bx + c = 0, said Roy Rogers.

24/8/2025, 1:50:13 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee What a thing of cruelty! If I could rank each🐝I'd give this 0 stars. It stirred up my bile ducts to a state of agitation till they felt prickly. So many of the words seemed randomly chosen by a spoiled kid (adj, but no adv) www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

24/8/2025, 1:43:40 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sat #2solve 01000100 01010010 01000001 01000111 01001111 01001110 01000110 01001100 01011001 00100000 01011001 01010101 01000011 01001011 01011001 Many people like those big, pretty insects but I think they're disgusting

23/8/2025, 2:10:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee Many times I've fulminated against Sam @thegridkid's godlike authority over the home of the bees. He's split up words into accepted & rejected piles w/ a power we've coveted. But we take no action - we're just hanging out www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

23/8/2025, 1:52:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fri #2solve 01000101 01010101 01010010 01001000 01011001 01010100 01001000 01001101 01001001 01000011 00100000 01000011 01001111 01010010 01001110 01010010 01001111 01010111 Annie Lennox with her hair in tight tiny braids

22/8/2025, 1:43:41 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee Let me verify some words in this🐝(I reviewed it in a miniaturized verison): There's a a corporal w/ a funny but distinctive hairdo in a very short skirt bringing purple flowers for the pine box- it's the plot of a chick-flick movie www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

22/8/2025, 1:29:21 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thu #2solve 01001111 01010101 01010100 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000101 01010010 00100000 01010010 01000101 01010000 01000001 01000011 01001011 Because I forgot my black eye pencil I'll have to rearrange everything in my makeup case (I know there's a better #2solve out there)

21/8/2025, 1:48:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee Her eye were like 2 shining pools of blue, her cheeks creasing whenever she was chuckling over a fair-to-average joke or trivial or petty stuff. But she was also messing w/the accounts at the steel factory, filling her own pockets. www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

21/8/2025, 1:37:25 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee QBABM w/ a slight anomaly: Stuck at QB-1, I gave out a wail, then re-entered a word for stroll I was sure I'd put in before, & got👑! Just heard the strike in Canada is over. I'll bring my pet Ozzie bear to the HI feast. www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

20/8/2025, 1:23:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wed #2solve 01010110 01000101 01010010 01001101 01001111 01010101 01010100 01001000 00100000 01001000 01001001 01001010 01000001 01000010 01001001 Bartender to waiter: Take this martini to the woman in the headscarf

20/8/2025, 1:08:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#2solve Tues 01001010 01001111 01000011 01001111 01010011 01000101 00100000 01000101 01011000 01000101 01001101 01010000 01001100 01001001 01000110 01011001 Someone who's funny & playful? I'm thinking PeeWee Herman

19/8/2025, 1:39:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee I could make $ off my hints by posting on PDT. Find the little bird, 9-piece band, the 3-card trick & the erstwhile candidate. It's a bad sign if you don't know the old-style Xerox. I won't even bring up the obscure engraving technique www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

19/8/2025, 1:35:58 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee I have an unyielding faith in Beeatrice. I swear on the holy book, she'd never defame me or banish me from the hive. As my phone-a-friend on "Millionaire," she went straight to the right answer: it was "wild goat" (not holly) www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

18/8/2025, 1:37:59 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Monday #2solve 01000010 01001001 01000111 01001000 01001111 01010010 01001110 01010011 00100000 01010011 01010111 01000001 01001100 01000101 The large, wild sheep gathered in the marsh

18/8/2025, 1:22:16 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee I will not abandon my QB👑or hand it over to someone else. I pledge myself to reference as many clues as I can discover, even if it takes 10yrs. My insulin-deficient bag-boy is also hooked on the🐝& keeps score using bead boards www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

17/8/2025, 1:31:16 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sun #2solve 01010100 01001000 01010101 01001110 01001011 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000111 01000001 01001101 01000010 01001111 01001100 We heard the clanking sound of cowbells as we watched the calves frolic in the meadow

17/8/2025, 1:17:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sat #2solve 01001001 01001101 01010000 01001100 01001111 01000100 01000101 00100000 01000101 01000001 01010010 01010100 01001000 01010111 01000001 01010010 01000100 The UFO had just hit our atmosphere when it collapsed into itself & the pieces fell harmlessly toward the ground

16/8/2025, 1:28:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee Tho' I was collecting words like a wrathful bull, this long 🐝was still a slog, but Sam@thegridkid seems unconconcerned, fixing the game against us w/ obscure words like the Latin pl of skull, a homeopathic herb & a type of sushi roll. www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

16/8/2025, 1:22:09 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fri #2solve 01110001 01110101 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100101 01110000 01101111 01111000 01111001 Evaluated on its adhesive performance, this is the best type of glue

15/8/2025, 3:32:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sad but true

15/8/2025, 2:17:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#nytsb #nytspellingbee #hivemind A lavish spread of words, including: a canopy support, an adversary, 2,000 lbs (Br), 2 words for moon-shaped things, a 9-piece band, a flat-bottom boat, the HI goose, & the next-to-last thing, & last, a group of cyclists in a race www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

15/8/2025, 12:58:05 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thu #2solve 01000011 01001111 01000001 01010011 01010100 01000111 01010101 01000001 01010010 01000100 00100000 01000100 01000101 01000001 01010100 01001000 01000010 01000101 01000100 He lied about his service in the smallest branch of the military, he confessed with his dying breath

14/8/2025, 1:53:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee Short🐝: My Torah teacher put out a water bowl (diameters 20") & a robin came to splash. Then came a frog (croak-croak) and a hare, to make it a threesome in this nice ecological living space. Hope you win the circlet👑! www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

14/8/2025, 1:47:13 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wed #2solve 01010000 01001100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001110 01010101 01001101 00100000 01001101 01000001 01001010 01001111 01010010 01001001 01010100 01011001 It's the best precious metal - 51% of jewelers agree

13/8/2025, 1:10:47 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee We traveled in a line of trucks to the ancient Greek theatre where the dean of the🐝had called for a conference of groups of witches at 12pm. I want to get across how I decrypt the puzzle - I'll admit it's mostly hocus-pocus. www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

13/8/2025, 1:08:29 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#2solve Tues 01001111 01010111 01000101 00100000 01000101 01011000 01001111 01010010 01000010 01001001 01010100 01000001 01001110 01010100 01001100 01011001 // I am deeply in debt & being vastly overcharged

12/8/2025, 5:45:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee In this backstabbing business, my fellow book writer turned into the dictator of the sofa. This is fact: He stole the fish I caught + my fried dough dessert & drank all my blue liqueur, then he injured me- yow! - so now I need a cane www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

12/8/2025, 12:49:26 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mon #2solve 01000011 01001111 01001101 01000101 01000010 01000001 01000011 01001011 00100000 01001011 01001110 01001001 01000111 01001000 01010100 In The Entertainer, Olivier played an aging music hall comic trying to regain his former glory on the stage. In real life he was Sir Laurence Olivier

11/8/2025, 12:37:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee I was sure I'd QBABM today, but then a little bone below my tongue proved to be a pain in the neck. Weirdly, I'd never heard of that thingy, but I didn't fritter away any time over such foolery; I took a 2L hint & then went on vacation www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

11/8/2025, 12:12:38 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sun #2solve 01010000 01010010 01001111 01000010 01001001 01001111 01010100 01001001 01000011 00100000 01000011 01001000 01010101 01000011 01001011 01001100 01000101 Those Jamie Lee Curtis ads for Activia yogurt always give me a laugh

10/8/2025, 1:08:35 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytspellingbee #nytsb This🐝packs a huge amount of power using a small electric generator. Lemme give you clues in a series of quick images: Xmas drink; a larval fly in hot pink lava, a bloke w/ a Van Dyke dancing Milonga, a sea-bird & a fruit www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

10/8/2025, 1:01:57 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sat #2solve 01001010 01000001 01000011 01001011 01010011 01011001 00100000 01011001 01001111 01010111 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111 // "I fell on my arse - waaaah!" "Oh, quit your caterwauling"

9/8/2025, 1:43:56 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee Tho' I found this🐝nuttily askew, my SB talent led me to the👑. I'd say it should assume greater risk of owing more to the IRS whenever it uses medical jargon: e.g., armpit, shinbone, 2-lipped, muscle weakness, 2-way joint www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

9/8/2025, 1:19:50 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fri #2solve 01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 01000110 01010101 01001110 01000100 01000101 01000100 00100000 01000100 01001111 01000111 01010000 01001001 01001100 01000101 The coach paid the players extra if they all jumped on the guy who was down

8/8/2025, 12:47:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee QBABM, 2nd time this week! My usual QB comes by way of relying on SB Buddy (1st I must get to Genius ABM) Lots of FUSBees (Freq Used SB wds) e.g. Yiddish busybody, Native American shelter, + one odd thing: air rifle ammo used as a verb www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

8/8/2025, 12:39:38 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#2solve Thurs 01010111 01000001 01001110 01001100 01011001 00100000 01011001 01000001 01010010 01000100 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000011 01001011 The Europeans smiled faintly when I tossed aside their metric tape-measure & asked for an American 3-ft ruler

7/8/2025, 12:41:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee I'm doing so many things in this🐝: pawning my world-renowned penny, blaring my horn, banging on the door, putting a stop under my tires, & gagging on potato pasta, sea-snails, & salmon and drinking homemade alcohol under a Chinese tree www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

7/8/2025, 12:31:35 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee My poetic lines flow w/out a break just like a ballerina's leggy shake. My protege & I work together to help our fellow player illegally bring a small domesticated rooster, a sea-cow & a stingray into our slum apt bldg www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

6/8/2025, 1:46:03 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#2solve Wed 01000010 01010010 01001111 01000001 01000100 01000011 01000001 01010011 01010100 01010011 00100000 01010011 01001100 01010101 01001101 01010000 Over-the-air shows are in decline

6/8/2025, 1:10:53 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tues #2solve 01010100 01010010 01000001 01010000 01000101 01011010 01000101 00100000 01000101 01010001 01010101 01001001 01001110 01001111 01011000 // I will make my high-flying debut at the circus on Sept 22, 2025

5/8/2025, 1:08:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytspellingbee #nytsb I❤️a quick🐝- QBABM! It helps to be a hick from the sticks drinking the October latte, eating an apple, as dark clouds gather above. I look like Betty Grable in a teeny two-piece, except for the small protruding bump on my skin www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

5/8/2025, 1:08:03 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mon #2solve 01000011 01001111 01010010 01001110 01000110 01001100 01000001 01001011 01000101 00100000 01000101 01001101 01000010 01000101 01000100 // I took a single piece of Kellogg's cereal to stick in the middle of a box of Cheerios

4/8/2025, 1:39:51 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee Got to QB-1 & then sat for a while on my buttocks (L. pl) till the word that had escaped me got up & did a 17th C. dance. Then we all sang together. I don't like being conned, pacified, or made to feel shame over my word choices www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

4/8/2025, 1:31:00 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sun #2solve 01000111 01010010 01000001 01000010 01010011 00100000 01010011 01000011 01001000 01001101 01000001 01001100 01010100 01011010 01011001 That old love song really gets to me, even though it's so corny and sentimental

3/8/2025, 12:17:36 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee I looked up my ancestry & found an expert in wine & earth science, the architect who designed the S-shaped arch, the person who concocted the 1st creamy Xmas drink, Sergei Brin & that actress from that ditzy lawyer rom-com www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

3/8/2025, 12:14:41 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

#2solve 01000101 01011000 01001000 01001001 01000010 01001001 01010100 00100000 01010100 01001111 01010101 01000011 01001000 01000100 01001111 01010111 01001110 Let me show you my favorite display at the Football Museum

2/8/2025, 1:33:35 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee I extracted the words from these letters w/ the precision of a gemcutter & did it quickly! I picked up my salary & bought tropical fruit to eat at my beach hut. I was running w/ sweat as I was chased by bees from a nearby hive www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

2/8/2025, 1:28:15 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

#2solve Fri 01010011 01001000 01001111 01010101 01010100 01000101 01000100 00100000 01000100 01000001 01001110 01001011 01001100 01011001 // I yelled for someone to bring me a warm coat, as I realized how quickly the weather had turned chilly & damp

1/8/2025, 1:02:40 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

#nytsb #nytspellingbee #hivemind Short & fast for those who keep a list of FUSBees (Freq. Used SB Wds). I'll mention a few prominent ones: the leggy French dance & the lily + 2 obscure ones: yellow cloth used for short britches & an anicent Egyptian cross www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

1/8/2025, 12:50:28 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

Thurs #2solve 01001000 01011001 01010000 01000101 01010010 01000100 01010010 01001001 01010110 01000101 00100000 01000101 01001110 01001010 01001111 01011001 01001001 01001110 01000111 When we went to warp speed, I was really getting a kick out of the ride

31/7/2025, 1:42:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee Beeatrice is bombarding us w/ B-INGs. There are sheep noises booming in my ears, making a jumbled clanging noise so I can't hear the person spilling secrets. She catalogs books, but the uncivilized prefer gaudy jewelry www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

31/7/2025, 1:30:56 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

Wed #2solve 01000110 01000001 01001001 01001100 01010101 01010010 01000101 01010011 00100000 01010011 01011001 01001110 01001111 01001110 01011001 01001101 01001111 01010101 01010011 Debacles, fiascos - the thesaurus offers plenty of other words choices

30/7/2025, 3:55:01 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee This center-C🐝 had words from trig, geometry, chemistry, ecology, music - things I should be able to string together based on familiarity w/ roots or sound. Still took me forever! Now I'll have a brandy or maybe a hot chocolate www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

30/7/2025, 3:43:08 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

Tues #2solve 01001010 01001111 01010101 01001110 01000011 01000101 00100000 01000101 01010000 01001001 01000111 01010010 01000001 01010000 01001000 // "Eeyore, don't let Tigger bump you into the river" would be an apt short quotation at the beginning of Ch 6 of The House on Pooh Corner

29/7/2025, 5:08:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

#hivemind #nytspellingbee #nytsb My mom's sis hurt her forearm doing a native dance in a short ballet skirt at a feast in Hilo. Medics inserted a thin tube to drain fluid while she held onto a bar, then loosened her grip. I could see the white crescent in her nails. www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

29/7/2025, 12:59:55 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

Mon #2solve 01000010 01001100 01001001 01001110 01001011 01000101 01010010 00100000 01010010 01000101 01000001 01000100 01001111 01010000 01010100 // I gave up the practice of using my turn-signal, but after a couple of fines, I think I will take it up again.

28/7/2025, 1:31:25 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee 2 laborers (1 M, 1 F) were talking about what they do when not on the job. One collects Swedish coins; the other practices meditation using a mystery phrase. "I gotta join a Buddhist monastery - but only if my gran can come w/ me." www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

28/7/2025, 1:22:40 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

#2solve 01000010 01001001 01010010 01010100 01001000 01000100 01000001 01011001 01010011 00100000 01010011 01001100 01010101 01000111 Every year when I celebrate turning another year older, you give me a slimy gastropod as a gift

27/7/2025, 1:37:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee Preventive shots work by charging up your immune system using an incapacitated virus. It's your duty as a citizen to support good health strategy, not surrendering to those w/ empty minds who spread RFK jr's specious dogma www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

27/7/2025, 1:26:44 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

Sat #2solve 01010000 01001111 01001100 01011001 01001000 01000101 01000100 01010010 01000001 00100000 01000001 01011000 01001001 01001111 01001101 // A many-sided mathematical proposition

26/7/2025, 2:50:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

#hivemind #nytspellingbee #nytsb I fooled around, used a hallucinogenic plant, drew some random designs, played the viol, danced w/ an Irish lass & sent my sympathies to the ribald, scurvy major (who's a nutcase). www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

26/7/2025, 1:47:17 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

Fri #2solve 01010000 01010010 01000001 01000011 01010100 01001001 01000011 01010101 01001101 00100000 01001101 01001001 01001100 01000100 01000101 01010111 Science lab: Learn to handle molds

25/7/2025, 3:03:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee What's my incentive to play the🐝? I need to keep up my QB streak- I have a single-minded focus on it. I sit on a footstool or on a Japanese mat until I groan & throw up. My 3 moms & my rabbi give me smelling salts www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

25/7/2025, 1:49:36 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

Thu #2solve 01000110 01001111 01010010 01001011 01001100 01001001 01000110 01010100 00100000 01010100 01010111 01000001 01001110 01000111 01011001 The guy who drives the sideloader talks back-country style

24/7/2025, 1:23:15 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee I do the🐝w/out error. Others may make errors as they play but in the end, get it right. I eat Russian pancakes w/ both lips & my sons, who behave as good sons should, do the same. If they don't, the court officer will tell on them www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

24/7/2025, 12:44:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

Wed #2solve 01010111 01001001 01011010 01000001 01010010 01000100 00100000 01000100 01000101 01001010 01000101 01000011 01010100 01000101 01000100 01001100 01011001 // "It seems some people blame me for my creator's words," said Harry Potter glumly

23/7/2025, 12:21:59 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee My logical reasoning process has not duped me - I have uncovered all the words & stored them in my photographic memory. Now I will drink a 0-cal chilled tea & take the cost off my taxes. Fun fact: A binturong is not a feline! www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

23/7/2025, 12:17:00 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

Tues #2solve 01001110 01001111 01010100 01000001 01010010 01001001 01010011 01000101 00100000 01000101 01010001 01010101 01000001 01000010 01001100 01000101 Got an official to stamp the document that ensures all is divided fairly among the parties

22/7/2025, 12:56:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee My brain implant is reverberating words in my head: like a jumping salmon, a white-bark tree, a real looker, Samwise, and an artsy-fartsy tramp. If you don't get the👑 w/these clues, wah-wah for you www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

22/7/2025, 12:53:13 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

Mon #2solve 01100001 01110110 01101111 01110111 00100000 01110111 01101000 01101001 01101101 01110000 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 // I swear (sob sob) it's the truth (more soft sobbing)

21/7/2025, 12:13:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee The Disneyland train goes to Feudal-Land so you can see the great estates economic system. Bring a knight's outfit, Italian red sauce, seaweed wrap & quinine to prevent disease- & send me a postcard par avion, you dummy www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

21/7/2025, 12:12:51 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

Sun #2solve 01000110 01000101 01010101 01000100 00100000 01000100 01011001 01010011 01010100 01001111 01010000 01001001 01000001 01001110 The way the dictators switched enemies but kept up the fight was well described in "1984"

20/7/2025, 1:30:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee Took some advance planning to steer thru all the words & zero in on the ones that let me reach the highest level- & do it w/out crapping my pants! My reward is a candy sucker, a jumping-stick, a seat behind the motorcylist - and a 👑! www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

20/7/2025, 1:16:59 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

Sat #2solve 01010000 01010010 01001111 01010100 01001111 01011010 01001111 01000001 00100000 01000001 01001100 01000011 01001000 01000101 01001101 01011001 Amoebas: the missing ingredient needed to turn lead into gold

19/7/2025, 1:36:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee This🐝requires some eccentric skills: you must juggle a thing on a string, use bead-boards, find the 17-year bug, cook a Jamaican veg dish w/ Philippine spice, quote scripture & do LSD, all in concert w/ your secret circle www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

19/7/2025, 1:31:59 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

Fri #2solve 01000011 01001111 01001110 01001010 01010101 01001110 01000011 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101 00100000 01000101 01011000 01000001 01001101 You need to know all the words that connect nouns or clauses -- it's on the test

18/7/2025, 1:19:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee I learned about a chemical building block of DNA from the extra material at the back of the book. There's also an alphabetized list of subjects, including: the seal & walrus family; things related to bees, a sea-nymph & an elf www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

18/7/2025, 1:02:07 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

Thurs #2solve 01010000 01001100 01000001 01010100 01000110 01001111 01010010 01001101 00100000 01001101 01000001 01001110 01010100 01000101 01000001 01010101 01011000 // I'm running on this political plank: Stop using a fancy French word for cloaks! (That one took forever!)

17/7/2025, 3:36:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peggy Robin (@stilllifewrobin.bsky.social)

#hivemind #nytsb #nytspellingbee Wanted to make my clues fit into rhythmical patterns as Homer did, DAH-da-da, (heavy-handed teaching method, not the best way, strategically). Don't shout lewd words at me or get bitchy or do anything that's not permitted www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

17/7/2025, 1:08:19 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view