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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)

Nick S

@holgate.permanent.red

dodging the bait, there was a decent episode of On Point last month on road trips which mentioned Eisenhower's tortuous 60+ day DC-SF journey in 1919, which tells you how getting anywhere by road in the US with a map to guide you is basically only a hundred years old.

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026/06/29/history-american-road-trip

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Resolute

to be purposeful and determined

Alex Trebek (Parody)

@alextrebekbot.bsky.social

resolute

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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."

Brian Kirby

@driveinmob.com

I love that close up of the lady pounding the piano with her fists to create that dissonant heavy percussive part. #driveinmob

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Candid

to be truthful and straightforward; frank

Photography Briefly

@photographybriefly.bsky.social

A Krea 2 realism LoRA generates natural, candid photorealistic everyday scenes from descriptive prompts without explicit photorealism keywords.

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Temporal

1. relating to worldly as opposed to spiritual affairs; secular. 2. relating to time.*

Enya Weidner

@eweidner1.bsky.social

Come work in our group! We are looking for a PhD candidate to join our project on temporal lobe resectios and affective processing 🧠
jobs.uni-bielefeld.de/job/view/498...

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Innate

inborn; natural

Lucy Kemnitzer

@lucykemnitzer.bsky.social

(don't want to argue but)

I love my food processor & I do not like blenders.

Also, I wash the parts in the dishwasher.

(Also I prefer visual measurements to weight for most things, but it's because I have a sense for visual & not because there's something innate there. Recipes should have both)

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Edification

the instruction, enlightenment or improvement of a person morally, spiritually or intellectually

@jldewing.bsky.social

@lastwordmsnow.bsky.social @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social @allinwithchris.bsky.social To all the hosts on MSNow last night: Hate is not attractive on you. There was no purpose, benefit, or edification in your trashing of Platner.

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Agog

very eager or curious to hear or see something full of intense interest or excitement*

Zerglinator

@zerglinator.bsky.social

I am agog!
I am aghast!
Is Marius in love at last?
I've never heard him *Roblox oof* and *kremling death noise*

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Assuage

to make less strong; to make less severe; to make milder; to sooth; to ease

@loudlippy.bsky.social

@podsaveamerica.crooked.com I feel that we (🇨🇦) need to meet our NATO spending targets not to assuage the 🍊, but to protect ourselves without as much 🍊 influence. Take off, eh?

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Oscillate

1. to move or swing back and forth 2. to swing or vary between different opinions or beliefs; waver; alternate; yoyo; seesaw; wobble

Los Angeles Review of Books

@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

"The mood in the air oscillated between festival and wake; the dead were everywhere and nowhere in the songs."

Nyuol Lueth Tong returns to a newly independent South Sudan, in a piece from our new Traffic issue: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/country-sound-south-sudan-frost-war

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