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Facetious

to treat serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor or to be flippant; glib; flippant; sardonic; mischievous;

Fancy Hicks-Gribble

@livfancy.blacksky.app

How are yall feeling?

Not even being facetious. I really wanna know.

I'm feeling a bit bleh. I logged in to work and my staff took a mental health day. A friend just text and she's feeling overwhelmed.

How are yall?

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Relegate

to send or put in an inferior position, place or condition; downgrade; lower; put down; move down

Michael

@michael24davis.bsky.social

Relegate the Tigers.

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Sardonic

characterized by bitter, scornful mocking; characterized by extreme and negative sarcasm; grimly mocking or cynical

BOOKSNS

@booksns.bsky.social

A fun, sardonic novel mocking tradwife or influencer culture?

https://https://www.booksns.com/209268/

Very nonspecific spoilers of Yesteryear!! I just finished Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. While it's a great book and deserves all the growing praise, it turned out to not be at all the book I had …

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Pedantic

overly perfectionist; too fussy over minor details

treb

@treblaw.bsky.social

we've been doing s'mores outside a bunch so far this season. Got the Bluesky stove going with the pellets. Been fun not pedantic

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Prevaricate

speak or act in an evasive way (with the intent to deceive); to lie

@horrisblayne.bsky.social

Is anyone else gobsmacked by the media's continuing to take things that Trump says at face value rather than a complete fiction, fabrication and outright prevarication. Have they learned nothing? He's a lying liar who lies. Everything he's says should be viewed and reported in that context.

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Restive

unable to stay still or silent and becoming increasingly difficult to control (usually happening because of impatience, boredom or some sort of dissatisfaction) alternative definition exclusively when describing a horse: refusing to advance; stubornly standing still; moving backwards or sideways

Paul Brown

@pbrown4348.bsky.social

Baloch insurgency: Suicide bombs & uptick in violence threaten Pakistan, regional security. A long-running insurgency has flared up again in Pakistan’s restive southwest province – complicated by instability in Iran & resource interest by the US. cm.theconversation.com/t/r-l-tusyuj...

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Deface

to spoil the surface or appearance of something (usually by drawing, writing, scuffing or breaking)

DerryJournal

@derryjournal.com

‘Disappointment and disgust’ as vandals deface Irish language element of bilingual signs
www.derryjournal.com/news/people/...

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Vernal

pertaining to spring; appearing in spring; spring-like; youthul; fresh; new

Alerts from NWS Grand Junction CO (UNOFFICIAL)

@gjt.nws-bot.us

VERNAL UT May 17
Climate Report:
High: 56
Low: 39
Precip: 0.02"
Snow: Missing
at Sun, 17 May 2026 23:42:43 +0000 via IEMbot
Additional Details Here.

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Coagulate

to change from a fluid to something thicker

arXiv math.AP Analysis of PDEs

@mathap-bot.bsky.social

Sergey Shindin: Local and global solutions to continuous fragmentation-coagulation equations with vanishing diffusion and unbounded fragmentation and coagulation rates https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14452 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.14452 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.14452

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Flout

to show contempt or scorn at something

Food & Water Watch

@foodandwater.bsky.social

While it’s not at all surprising that Elon Musk continues to think he’s above the law and flout pollution regulations, that doesn’t make this news that he’s adding more unpermitted gas generators for his xAI data center any less infuriating 😡

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