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Precipitate

to cause an event to happen (usually a negative connotation); bring about; bring rise to; provoke; trigger

Ruth Harley

@ruthh.bsky.social

I guess it was almost inevitable that conducting researching interviews with extraordinary feminist pioneers, followed by attending a @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social event, would precipitate an early morning total rewrite of the Mothering Sunday sermon...

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Inert

having no action; doesn't do anything; a person that can't do anything

Nick Touran

@whatisnuclear.com

Liquid-metal cooled nuclear reactors use lots of inert gas like nitrogen and argon. Precautions must be taken around them because they can displace O₂. Here's a video from FFTF on it. Thanks to @AaloAtomics for helping me get it digitized. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfiKdcF7jg4?v=lfiK...

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Intrepid

fearless; dauntless

yixura

@yixura.bsky.social

intrepid detective jamie hayter and teen sidekick billie starkz

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Antipathy

a deep-seated dislike; extremely strong repugnance

post malone ergo propter malone

@proptermalone.bsky.social

I don’t really understand the left antipathy for Booker, who has been one of the furthest-left Senators by DW-NOMINATE every Congress he’s been a Senator

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Listless

lacking energy; exhausted; lifeless; lethargic; enervated; spiritless; sluggish; languorous; inactive

TyphoidRay

@rayhourigan.bsky.social

A listless urge to lift off with
No luggage, emotional or
Otherwise, joke's on them,
Such filial ingratitude!
Ye cataracts, storms, hurricanoes!
Wash this court in the flames
Of my wishes.
#OurPoetry #Listless #luggage #joke #vss #InkMine #FlameCourtWish #verse #writingcommunity

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Latent

existing but not yet visible or manifest; dormant; unused; untapped; hidden; unseen; unrealized

Wren

@redwrensailing.bsky.social

30 seconds into The Squire of Gothos and yep, it’s happening, I can feel my latent Trekkie genes activating

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Venerable

respected; revered; honored; hallowed; distinguished

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez

@kjy1066.bsky.social

It's wild that seeing in real time the venerable SFF idea of modern leaders depending on, but not understanding the tech and systems left behind by a bygone race/era

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Paradox

a statement in someway that is self-contradictory; a statement that seems wrong when you first read it but in reality expresses some truth.

𝓛𝔂𝓭𝓲𝓪✨️still recovering from Petermore

@lyddia.bsky.social

crashing into him tonight he's a paradox
im seeing visions, am i bad? or mad? or wise?

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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

🖤Delilah🖤 (she/they)

@delilahgallo.bsky.social

It’s trans day of visibility and just a reminder that if you don’t want to see trans people existing you’re going to have to gouge out your eyes because transness is simply a natural part of life

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Decorum

behavior in keeping with good taste; propriety; seemliness

lena wife

@nebulena.net

burping without a care for decorum

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