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Apposite

apt in the circumstances or in relation to something.*

Jenny

Jenny

@furiousorange.bsky.social

Serenading the new washing machine with the most apposite song I could think of https://youtu.be/tRiJ1xrZQ80?si=mt0_8ZXyhd_byGRO?...

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Indefatigable

persisting tirelessly

Grobian Syboe

Grobian Syboe

@grobiansyboe.bsky.social

*shouting over the music at a provincial pub to someone sat next to me at the bar*
Personally, I think California Girls are indefatigable

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Sagacious

having good judgment; shrewd; intelligent; wise (typically attained through experience; not book-smart)

Cartero

Cartero

@news.karthihegde.dev

Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways
Discussion | hackernews | Author: sagacity

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Avarice

excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth*

Scott Horton

Scott Horton

@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Greed, avarice, and immunity from firing for criminal and immoral acts—the Elon way. SpaceX has proposed one of the most aggressive corporate governance regimes in history, intending to guarantee Elon Musk cannot be fired and offering a trillion-dollar pay deal linked to building a colony on Mars.

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Mendacity

untruthfulness; tendency to lie*

Graeme Thomson

Graeme Thomson

@graemethomson.bsky.social

British politics is a bin fire, obvs, but it's been nice to have had a week mostly free of Trump's bellowing mendacity/stupidity/hostility echoing around the place.

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Opine

to formally state something as your opinion; to suggest; to declare; to comment; to remark; to put forward

Dante Atkins

Dante Atkins

@danteatkins.bsky.social

New rule: you can only opine on the casting choices of Nolan's Odyssey adaptation if you can tell me what language was likely spoken in Bronze Age Troy

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Digression

a temporary departure from the main subject

Joe Sheehan

Joe Sheehan

@sheehannewsletter.bsky.social

Wrote about the weird digression over the last week, with the ball posting low drag figures while offense and slugging crater. (h/t @matrueblood.bsky.social for the idea) Excerpt:

www.joesheehan.com

The Newsletter turns 16 Sunday. Last day to get 16% off for 16 months.

tinyurl.com/sszefh55

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Cupidity

a strong desire or greed for money or possessions

A is for Ahab

A is for Ahab

@aisforahab.bsky.social

Now Jonah's Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless.

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Laconic

(of a person, speech, or style of writing) using very few words.

The Vagabond Tabby

The Vagabond Tabby

@thevagabondtabby.bsky.social

Do

To do any one; to rob and cheat him. I have done him; I have robbed him. Also to overcome in a boxing match: witness those laconic lines written on the field of battle, by Humphreys to his patron.—’Sir, I have done the Jew.’

The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
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Gouge

to make a hole or grove with a curved blade; to dig or force out with a tool; too overcharge

crafting a magic brushbug dreamhouse for coco

crafting a magic brushbug dreamhouse for coco

@calamitybeach.bsky.social

do you think that as hraesvelgr and nidhogg gouged each other with fang and claw on the final steps of faith, they remembered when they were wyrmlings and would tumble and play together?

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