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Beguile

charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way

Erika Hall

@erikahall.bsky.social

LLM-based chatbots have beguiled users into forgetting they're just typing into text areas.

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Empirical

based on or concerned with observation and experience (rather than just a theory); experiential; hands-on

Society for Psychical Research

@spr1882.bsky.social

Latest in the SPR Psi Encyclopedia: Combining religious conviction with empirical inquiry, Episcopal clergyman, psychologist and psychical researcher Elwood Worcester investigated mediumship, and argued that survival after death deserved scientific study: psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/elw...

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Anachronism

A thing belonging to a period other than that in which it exists (especially something that is conspicuously old-fashioned)

THE NOVEL-READER IN PERDITION

@cervine-cunt.bsky.social

you're telling me a society created this anachronism?

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Leery

to be cautious or wary due to some realistic suspicions you have; guarded; wary; careful

Medicinal Colorado

@medicolorado.bsky.social

Leery of OutFront after they basically gave a pass to the Jeopardy guy but this seems like good reporting outfrontmagazine.com/federal-judg...

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Tortuous

full of twists and turns (typically used to describe winding dangerous roads) excessively long and complex (typically describing a convoluted argument)

SergeantMajorMario

@sergeantmajormario.bsky.social

It's 5am

Haven't slept yet

It's been pouring it down for the last hour

After all this bloody tortuous sun, it's really nice to lie back and listen to the rain

Now I'm realising I'm going out in the afternoon, which means I'll be wet as it's raining all day

I hate the rain

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Catholic

including a wide variety of things; all-embracing

Skylinex13

@skylinex13.bsky.social

"blind catholic lawyer who spends his nights as a devil-themed acrobatic vigilante" is just the most insane concept for a character if you step back even just a little

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Dissonance

1. a state of disagreement or conflict 2. a harsh, discordant combination of sounds; a lack of harmony among musical notes Note: Cognitive dissonance is defined as "the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change."

Skalos the Bookwyrm

@skalosbookwyrm.bsky.social

At least The Carribean isn't as jarring in KH3. Like yeah it's still cartoon characters next to live-action wannabes, but the art style is refined enough that they don't look too dissonant

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Candid

to be truthful and straightforward; frank

Entertainment Weekly

@ew.com

Dwayne Johnson got candid about never reconciling with his father before he died while discussing his new Disney song, “Your Dad.”

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Innate

inborn; natural

Rob Sica

@robsica.bsky.social

"To be clear, my claim is not that ‘gender identity’ is itself a pseudofact, as it is a concept; the pseudofact is the (empirically uncertain) claim that gender identity is a universal, innate, sex-independent property of all humans."

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Fallacious

based on a mistaken belief

italian gramsci

@italian-gramsci.bsky.social

Confronted with-a dese events, economism asks da question: "who profits directly from-a de initiative under consideration?", and replies with a line of-a reasoning which is as simplistic as it is fallacious: de ones who profit directly are a certain fraction of-a da ruling…

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