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Listless

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

Ghoul 🔮

@barbieghoul.bsky.social

God I hate not being obsessed with anything. I am listless and unbound

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Venerable

respected; revered; honored; hallowed; distinguished

@selenymoon.bsky.social

This is tragic, in more ways than one. Bezos can easily support this venerable journalistic enterprise, but would rather buy Venice for his wedding.

Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/washington-post-layoffs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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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.

Tom Turcotte

@tomturcottetech.bsky.social

Day 24: The BuildInPublic paradox

Should I:
- Spend an hour crafting the perfect post about progress, or
- Spend that hour actually making progress?

Both matter. But some days the balance feels impossible.

#buildinpublic

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Lucid

plain; obvious; evident; understandable; characterized by clarity of understanding; rational or sane; clear or transparent

Samurai 15

@samurai15.com

Lucid Surrender - Life Selector

#LifeSelector

#RebeccaVolpetti

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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

Sebai

@sebaipanther.bsky.social

Imagine if the Iron Lung movie was edited like a modern Markiplier video. All those quick cuts, random zooms, out-of-place effects…

Honestly think I’d rather gouge my eyes out.

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Decorum

behavior in keeping with good taste; propriety; seemliness

Conor 🌱

@irlhetero.bsky.social

setting an obviously cropped nude as your instagram pfp… what happened to having some grace and decorum

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Parley

a conference between opposing sides in a dispute

Raymh

@rayhourigan.bsky.social

Better without the
Undercurrent of tension,
Slicing each parley.
#BSPP50 #undercurrent #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@blueskypoetry.bsky.social

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Sully

to dirty; to make impure; to soil; to stain

Ceitinn

@ceitinnyt.bsky.social

Since I told myself I'm going to operate with my whole chest I'm just gonna post this on main:

If you use GenAI to make an NSFW visual novel, you have sullied one of the most sacred disciplines. You will not see the light of heaven.

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Precursor

a thing or a person that comes before something of the same kind; a forerunner

bioRxiv Neuroscience

@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social

Neuronal synapses are stabilised by activity-dependent vesicular release from oligodendrocyte precursor cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.03.701391v1

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Fitfully

not regularly or continuously; intermittently*

Moriah Freeman

@moriahfreeman.bsky.social

Stillness, Silence, and Solitude

I wake slowly and fitfully in what I sense is the middle of the night, in an unfamiliar, semi-dark, silent room. I toss and turn in the warm bed until I feel the need to pee, then roll onto my right side to get up. If I were at home, I would open my eyes to the…

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