#puzzlement

[sluggoonthestreet]

Eugene's morning commute is disrupted once again by an unexpected game of mouse and cat.

[cql-screenshots]

[yoshit-he-dinosaur]

i’ve been seeing a hell of a lot of sonic content on my dash today and while i am not a fan myself i do want to bring attention to the intersection of that piece of media with percy jackson, voltron, mha, mlp, and haikyuu because i love those pieces of media dearly. i fear the sonic brain rot but at this point i welcome anything socially referred to as cringe bc i am and always will be waving my freak flag high enough for god himself to see.

[counter-culture-christian]

They follow the sayings more of saints, bishops, elders etc. than of the people of God in the Bible and that's how they end up puzzled in their doctrines. How their views become filled with fallacy of things. While whatever was said by the saints, elders etc. of their denominations or churches might have degrees of truth, following all those voices and interpretations will lead to the inability to discern, to distinguish between man's frame of reference on things related to Christian life, principles, and church etc. and that of God's Word. There's a fine line, a dangerous gamble when one does that.

[kindnessisstillhere]

Puzzlement

A scene I can’t imagine,

But will doubtless write;

That’s a puzzlement.

A complicated situation,

Confounding every description;

That’s a puzzlement.

Perhaps I haven’t looked it up,

Nor checked precisely what it means,

But surely I can be forgiven,

It’s a puzzlement that’s clean.

[gpm-maam]

Puzzlement #328 (corrected #327 answer and winner)

There were 9 responses to Puzzlement #327, only 4 had the correct answer, but the first one (with the quickest time, starting the egg immediately), submitted by Andrew Ross was: Drop the egg in the pot and start both timers. When 7-minute timer runs out, set it again When the 11-minute timer runs out, flip the 7-minute timer that would have used 3 minutes leaving 4 minutes to run after the flip, giving a total of 15 minutes when it finishes. Jerry Ellison was second and David Eagle was third.

On to the puzzle:

What is the next number in the sequence?

2, 3, 5, 9, 17, ?

To submit an answer, send it to editor@phoenixmensa.org

[ukdamo]

No poem today.

Instead, this fascinating vignette of Trogir and its cathedral.

[thatsbelievable]

[fortunaestalta]

[lux-et-astra]

out of interest why does everyone seem to think that dinah lance is a therapist?? i've read a good deal of birds of prey and as far as i know she's either a florist or a singer - there must be a reason people think she's a therapist cause it's so unavoidable in fic but i haven't found it in the comics so far

[straightlightyagami]

this is going to make me sound childishly naive but bro it’s kind of insane to me that republicans are winning by so much. like you have two parties that suck and there are people who vote for the more ridiculously evil one ..?

[swan2swan]

.....I mean...how would you want her to do that, exactly...?

[nonbinary-octopus]

listening to an audiobook of a book I'd loved as a kid, and... it's way more racist than I remembered. In a couple different ways... stuff I hadn't noticed before, the way the author (who is the reader) does the voices, and... it's a different edition, which I first noticed by the fact that a few measurements were in centimeters rather than inches, and a character’s name is different. But as I continued, there's a bunch of sentences scattered through the book which just weren't there in the version I've read before. (and one line which I was used to that this edition lacks.) And a lot of these additional sentences... make the book more racist.

I have to wonder, was this the work of a localizer? In addition to changing the measurements to be more easily understood by an american reader, did they purposely trim off or modify racist lines?

I'm not sure I'm going to finish listening, honestly

[piraticaltwit]

d.i chandler + sly driscoll's apartment / 3.02 ↳ there's no fridge. / i guess he lives on fresh air.

[photozoi]

Elongation.

One of these is not like the others. Ms Bean is presented with a conumdrum.

[placetneplacet]

Next week my poor Baby Giant is getting his heart hurt for the first time. He doesn’t want to be introduced as Tien’s friend. He wants his soulmate to call him his soulmate.

What if the poor baby witnesses the Patts introduction!?!?

I continue to be unprepared for the level angst in this show…