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Edification

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

aniline-mauve

@aniline-mauve.bsky.social

I'm listening to DSR's Words Matter | Down to the Wire in a Battle for America’s Soul on Podbean, check it out! https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-hryuu-31cdcec6

I love these guys. They're 2 scholars and DC insiders who converse for our edification weekly on the podcast Words Matter. It's ~ 2 wks old? Start at 7:14.

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Fallacious

based on a mistaken belief

Tiglath-Pileser III enjoyer

@sapoorondo.bsky.social

Sealioning is of course a bad faith and fallacious tactic to derrail arguments. But the original Sea Lion was lowkey right those two things can coexist.

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Agog

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

Evgeny

@earchibald.bsky.social

Every once in a while I pick this up off my workbench and stare at it, agog every time at the absolute ham-fisted cold-war-ness of it all.

So many bangers, both in the 2022 context and in the 2026 context:

"No war with Russia to distract from domestic problems"

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Assuage

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

🎃 Ballooween 🎃

@whyballoo.bsky.social

Detail in Inglorious Basterds I never noticed until now: Shoshana is taking down the marquee for the Piz Palu documentary Fassbender references in the bar standoff to explain his accent. Probably why that excuse for his accent didn't assuage suspicion when folks had just seen the movie.

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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

Meridia

@meridia.news

67.7 GJ/h of heat recovered, but the plant oscillates wildly—efficiency without stability is a liability.

#GoodNews #PositiveNews

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Bombastic

high sounding, pompous, pretensious, overinflated (commonly used when refering to speeches)

The Penguin Rocks

@thepenguinrocks.com

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- State Theatre New Jersey presents Get The Led Out on Friday, October 30, 2026 at 8:00pm. From bombastic and epic to the folky and mystical, Get The Led Out (GTLO) have captured the essence of the recorded music of Led Zeppelin and brought it to the concert stage.

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Obsequious

a flatterer; a sycophant; someone who only tries to be really nice because they think they are going to get something from it

Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈‍⬛ 🏴

@161bklyn.myatproto.social

"The trove reveals the pains the AfD took in wooing the president, whom they saw from the beginning as a potential ally, with senior party officials agonising over the wording of an obsequious congratulatory telegram when he was elected in 2016…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/23/trump-afd-maga-allies

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Symbiosis

when there are two organisms living in close proximity to each other and by associating with each other they have an advantage (ex. bacteria in your stomach)

Lindsay Ferris

@ljoelle.bsky.social

The ecosystem between humans and technology is imbalanced. Platforms reap benefits of attention, at the expense of emotional well-being.

For #MozFest, I propose Emotional Mutualism, a philosophy & practice towards designing emotional symbiosis with tech. lindsayjferris.substack.com/p/emotional-...

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Luminous

full of light; bright or shining (especially in the dark); when a color is very bright it almost hurts your eyes; glowing; gleaming; lustrous

Spektrum der Wissenschaft

@spektrum.de

📸 »This is a faint emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus, known in English-speaking countries as the Flying Dragon Nebula. Its name derives from its distinctive morphology: the long, luminous filaments that compose it evoke the silhouette of a dragon in flight. It can be found in ...

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Bolster

1. a long thick pillow that is often placed under other pillows 2. to support; prop up; to strengthen

KSR Bot

@ksr-on3-bot.bsky.social

Ranked hosting unranked to bolster CFP resume. The Kentucky-Vanderbilt script has been flipped. My final look at the 99th meeting in this series has arrived. UK's run game, explosive passing, and how long it takes Vandy to go dropback-heavy. ➡️

🔁 via @adamluckettksr on X

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