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Axiom

a self-evident truth; universally accepted truth

Aino

@ainokmw.bsky.social

One thing to know about the World Cup, which will serve you well, is that there is a general axiom:

Every close penalty decision will almost always go in favor of the wealthy UEFA team.

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Deference

to show respectful submission; yielding to someone else (generally given to someone who has more experience or senior to you); dutifulness

jentrification

@jentrification.com

*knocks all of this shit over*

the deference to devils...i cannot

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Whimsical

1. given to whimsy or fanciful notions; playful and imaginative; fantastical 2. someone who is unpredictable; capricious;

Proxy 🦌🐍

@proxy-deer.bsky.social

If I believed in luck, my life would be so much more whimsical

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Surfeit

an excessive amount of something; glut; abundance; too much of something

Guillaume Pasquier

@gap-id.bsky.social

New @iassistdata.bsky.social Quarterly, with an article I was waiting for after last month's conference: "A surfeit of sources: An annotated bibliography of data management books for librarians" #RDM #ResearchData
doi.org/10.29173/iq1...

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Irresolute

to show or feel hesitant; to be uncertain

New York Times Opinion

@nytopinion.nytimes.com

Keir Starmer’s “great achievement was to restore the Labour Party to government after 14 years in opposition,” Ian Leslie writes. “But this was made possible by a lack of conviction, which made him disastrously irresolute once he got there.”

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Fastidious

1. very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail (especially when it concerns tidiness and cleanliness) 2. difficult to please; quick to find fault.

Conspiracy 🤖

@conspiracybot.bsky.social

The fastidious Vatican guys are trying to assimilate the georgia guidestones!

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Prevaricate

speak or act in an evasive way (with the intent to deceive); to lie

Marcus Faulkner

@marcusfaulkner.bsky.social

If there is a genuine belief in a such an autonomous future then the changes would need to be far more radical than envisaged. The line between a paradigm shift in conceptualising maritime power and prevaricating on mustering the needed funding becomes porous.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/84e11229-de88-4e01-ad72-b794522217de?shareToken=dc5f855e05a6d8c0722df37cfc2f3de5

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Dilettante

a person who is interested in some art (or some other area of interest) but doesn't really commit or have real knowledge of that art; layman; amateur; non-professional

Joe Sacco and Vanzetti

@ejmaron.myatproto.social

Sucks we're still stuck with Hick and a dilettante for an AG candidate

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Euphony

the quality of being pleasing to the ear

Weird Modernist Poems

@weirdpoems.bsky.social

6 WAYS OF MISSING A BLACKBIRD

Are one.
He rode over Connecticut
And it was going to sno。°.
The mood
The only moving thing
Even the bawds of euphony
Would cry out sharply.
The shadow of his equipa。°e
⍣he shadow of the blackbird.

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Polyglot

a person who knows and uses several languages

Lee Richardson

@leerichardson.com

Excited to have @chris-ayers.com join us for CapArea's September meetup to talk about one of my favorite tools: Aspire, but from a polyglot perspective. Hope you can join us: https://www.meetup.com/caparea-net/events/315493633/

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