Michael Strasser

@LRxword Not sure about 4D in TSP 557. Possible mistake in clue?

@LRxword Solved TSP 545 but unsure about how 15D works. Anagram is clear but don’t know how the remainder of the clue gives the extra letter.

Mathematics. Physics. A glimpse of another reality. By Dave Coverly, @speedbumpcomic,, speedbump.com, Used with permission.

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Want to know the difference between the Ancient Greeks and the Ancient Romans? Just look at their statues. Art always tells you what a society wants to believe about itself. So, from the Soviet Union to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, here's what art says about who we are...

@miriamcosic Are you posting on Mastodon? I haven’t seen anything. (Happy birthday, BTW)

The problem with transferring from here to Threads is that Instagram all art and flowers and gardens and beautiful cities for me, while this is for international relations, war, political philosophy, surveillance and privacy and more of the hard stuff. This will take some work…

Loving that the English are bewildered by a keeper who knows what he’s doing. #Ashes

@LRxword Does 11D clue have word order transposed?

From Parker Higgins on Mastodon: “They had to call them ‘driving instructors’ because autodidacts was already taken” I thought you’d like this, @dontattempt

@Manic_Henry @firstdogonmoon I smuggled one at the pool this morning!

More budgerigars. They're amazing creatures. I will not be entertaining notions that budgies are not the best parrot. Going forward, this evening, I will outline why other parrots are inferior. This is the hill I will die on. #worldparrotday #budgiesarebest

@masknerd Do you think this stacks up? scmp.com/business/compa…

Our dear Buddy just before he got the green juice, 18 months ago.

@randlight @davpope This cartoon appears unsigned. Very unusual but no mistaking who created it!

@davpope sure is!

Rather a lot of people carrying sticks #Coronation

If the estate of Ed Townsend beats Ed Sheeran, the same musicological arguments could be applied to Ed Townsend’s first hit, For Your Love. For Your Love is a doo-wop song that sounds...suspiciously similar to another doo-wop classic - At Last. How similar? 🧵

@randlight @Broelman @davpope ?

@Broelman 👍

Misspelled word in 10A clue today, @LRxword? (Just an enquiry.)

The article I wrote about using Kafka Streams to combine CDC transactional messages has been published by @confluentinc confluent.io/blog/cdc-kafka…

Could Andrew’s contribution to the arts in Australia be covered in @SatPaper, perhaps @alisoncroggon?