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Kindle

To start a fire; Stir somthing up; Begin somthing; rouse emotions; excite

ryza🎐 hermit anniversary

@ryznia.bsky.social

I have to go work... haven't even seen the kindled yet 😭😭 I'm so close to it i just know it....

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Meticulous

showing great attention to detail; being very careful and precise; careful; diligent

Apple Briefly

@applebriefly.bsky.social

A LEGO set recreates the Apple II computer with meticulous attention to original design details, including the iconic beige enclosure, rainbow badge, dual Disk II drives, and authentic keyboard layout from 1977.

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Confound

Cause surprise or confusion (especially something that is counter to their expectations)

Aaron Cameron

@thatbootlegguy.bsky.social

Only 8/9 #athletics as two of my biggest team blind spots joined forces to confound me 😭

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Placate

to make someone who is angry or hostile, less angry; make calmer; make more reasonable

Charles Keener

@charleskeener.bsky.social

Our job isn't to placate or soothe the monsters in power. It is to disrupt them at every turn. To shout at them, condemn them, and to throw wrenches into their machinery of death. Anything short of that is just playing the role of handmaiden to fascism.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, February 2026

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Felicitous

well chosen or suited to the circumstances; appropriate secondary meaning: pleasing or fortunate

@rss.dfaria.eu

onlinelibrary.wiley.com: Guessing and Its Limits

ABSTRACT Guessing is the thesis that, roughly put, you may believe something iff it is among the most probable answers to a salient question. The thesis is motivated by observed features of felicitous belief reports when agents confront a que...

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Pithy

concise; expressive without using many words; terse; crisp; succinct

Stickfigureme

@stickfigureme.bsky.social

Don't follow people on here because one "skeet" was something that you connected or agreed with.

I'm people. I'm not pithy or all that interesting.

Unfollow me. We'll always have SOTU Paris.

(If you don't get that reference you really must unfollow me.)

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Sublime

lofty thought or lofty language; beautiful or outstanding; exalted; elevated; glorious; superb; splendid; noble

The Film Crowd

@thefilmcrowd.bsky.social

They add nothing at all to the plot but these bits of business in the TARDIS are sublime. #thefilmcrowd

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Symbiosis

when there are two organisms living in close proximity to each other and by associating with each other they have an advantage (ex. bacteria in your stomach)

New Scientist

@newscientist.com

Symbiotic bacteria living inside insect cells have lost much of their DNA over hundreds of millions of years, much like the ancient microbes that evolved into mitochondria

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Debutante

an upper-class young woman making a debut into society

Hello, Leauxla

@helloleauxla.blacksky.app

I also thought everyone was a debutante growing up. All the way up until about 3 years ago. lmao.

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Striated

striped; streaked

144,000 Plateaus

@trandemic.bsky.social

i love striated clouds

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