I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 21st 2025) in 04:11
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lemonmelon
joined 1 year ago
Connections
Puzzle #862
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[Bracket City]
October 20, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/
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Rank: ๐ฎ (Puppet Master)
๐น Total Keystrokes: 66
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Total Score: 100.0
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I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 20th 2025) in 03:15
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Crossherd #226
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I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 17th 2025) in less than 8 minutes
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[Bracket City]
October 16, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/
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Rank: ๐ฎ (Puppet Master)
๐น Total Keystrokes: 67
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Total Score: 100.0
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The moderator was happy enough to quote the first clause of the first sentence, but totally ignored the entire rest of the paragraph explaining the expectations; โTrek-adjacent discussions, other scifi, navigating the fediverse, server meta (within reason)โฆ,โ presumably because it doesnโt fit with his reasoning.
And you're happy enough to leave off "it's all fair game" presumably because it doesn't fit with your reasoning.
Is a ban justified? Probably not, it certainly feels like an overreach. Are you as blameless and beyond reproach as you would have everyone believe? Also probably not.
I do not believe that the whole of the story is being presented.
Edit: Scrolling through the recent posts on that particular community, it appears to have been a complete hodgepodge of topics for some time. I fail to see why the post in question is a bridge too far. ESH.
BPR and YDI
Did you think you seemed justified in the linked thread?
I'll feed you a bit, as a treat.
The only disingenuity or dishonesty in our exchange so far is your willful misinterpretation of what would be, in context, antithetical. In this discussion, it is anything in diametrical contrast to the letter and spirit of the community you were banned from. It is not for you to be the arbiter of what is or is not perferred there.
The community in question and others on LBZ practice a form of extreme acceptance. It is codified in the mtf community sidebar in the statements:
This is a supportive community...
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...disrupting the safety of this space for trans feminine people is unacceptable and will result in moderator action.
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Gatekeeping will not be tolerated.
and
Please be kind and respectful to all.
Your removed "challenge" to the tone of the original post falls in direct opposition to the stated guidelines for being allowed to contribute there. Even the recreated, possibly sanitized version you have presented here is clearly beyond what many LBZ communities find acceptable. Further argument to the contrary, coupled with your attempts to personally disparage anyone who does not agree with your erroneous position, only solidifies the notion that you are not operating in good faith.
If everyone is presenting a similar version of the same reasoning, that does not necessarily imply a hive mind; sometimes it just means you are an asshole.
I do not disagree with your sentiment.
I probably could have been more clear in my wording, but contextually my point stands: in this circumstance, it was account deletion with voluntary salting of all post history. There was a conscious decision to burn everything down. Losing the discussion was collateral damage that was deemed acceptable by the one doing the deleting.
I do not begrudge Stamets, or anyone else for that matter, the right to dissociate themselves from their previous account, posts, and comments; however, I do believe that such drastic action has resulted in what ought to be a symbollic endpoint to this whole mess for the time being. Until such time that Mister Lund transgreses once more, best to let the matter lie.
I got hung up on one particular clue for far too long.
Clue
Might be served with TEA, starts and ends with "TEA". At first I was trying to solve Uncooked TEA with WHITE, obviously to no avail. Then I tried TREAT before attempting to shoehorn in various strange misspellings of TART or TORTE or anything else I could think of that seemed remotely close. The actual answer was completely anticlimactic.