Charlie Loyd

@vruba.bsky.social

As the time of subpoenas approaches, let me say: the spelling “subpoena” is beneath us. It belongs to a recondite, periwigged, distinctively British and distinctively pretentious traditional emulation of Roman transliterations of Greek that ill befits a nation open to sensible spelling reform.

Phineas T. Wrinklyspoon (aka: Larry)

@wrinklyspoon.bsky.social

#books #philosophy #booksky

A masterful summary of philosophy by Will Durant.

"Philosophy itself...ran away from all these battlefronts of truth and hid itself in recondite and narrow lanes, timidly secure from the issues and responsibilities of life."

https://bookshop.org/a/93117/9780671201593

Infinite ALAZAR Alpha Wolfram Centauri Big(Kahuna)Little Dipper

@alphaisandromeda.bsky.social

no reason to shop

just drop dead

(raggedy: incomprehensible;

oooh synonyms of 'incomprehensible' offered here: Delphic, mystifying, double Dutch, complicated, complex, opaque, beyond comprehension, involved, intricate, beyond one, beyond one's grasp, unfathomable, recondite oooh'recondite')