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2024 Sfincterman No.0

https://makertube.net/w/wi1Eh4FRD8Vo8fhYCGgKAX

"Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring. Small words are chatter."

~ Zhuangzi

#quote #quoteoftheday #Zhuangzi #knowledge #inspiration #words

#words #bildung #education

tl;dr: This #video adds to what #TimothySnyder wrote in the addendum to #OnTyranny.

https://youtu.be/ZekpT8DaV_0

It's not that I disbelieved Timothy Snyder; it's that I listened to the #audiobook of On Tyranny when the rest of my bookclub read the physical book.

That audiobook had an entire bonus section with an additional twenty points centering #Ukraine. Timothy Snyder shared that he'd written these down the previous evening. I was not prepared to communicate about the additional material because it was seriously as long or longer than the original book. I'm sure there's an expanded version out there by now, but as an audiobook listener, I'll let y'all go find it.

Aside: When a random new-to-me channel shows up in my #YouTube feed, I check when it joined. If it's too recent, I pass, regardless of the content. This channel started in 2017.

Today, I was served the random video linked above that ties into Snyder's Ukraine content.

This video affirms everything Snyder said, and adds context like the difference between the #Russian and #Ukrainian #words associated with #power. Like the words for #money and #treasury. Being reminded that #Russia has #Mongol roots added the piece I was missing.

#Obscurdle 1133: 3/6
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https://www.stevedegroof.com/obscurdle.html

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Wordle 1,701 4/6

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🙂 Daily Quordle 1482
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Master the art of English Binomials. These essential expressions are the secret sauce to elevating your fluency and sounding like a true native speaker.
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The Merriam-Webster word of the day for February 14 is canoodle, as in "A Spaghetti-O is a canoodle"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/canoodle-2026-02-14?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark

#words #amusing

So, I'm pretty sure I looked up "Wuthering" when I first read the book. Apparently, a lot of folks don't know what it means!

https://www.mentalfloss.com/language/words/what-does-wuthering-mean-in-wuthering-heights

#WutheringHeights #Words

I'm working on a website for a consulting business with a friend of mine (note: the business has two consultants but no business at the moment; this is early steps). Using a Hugo theme I downloaded, and saw that it has some placeholder text (see image). I was interested in who wrote the text so I searched.

I still don't know who the author was, but now I have a fun way to find web pages that haven't been completed at businesses, universities, nonprofits, etc.

Here, you try! Just paste the following into your favorite search engine:

in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth

#words #literature #webdev #search #fun

An off-white-on-other-off-white rectangle titled "ITEM WITHOUT IMAGE" containing the text below, which I add to the internet to add yet more noise to the search process for the author:

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.

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Suck it linguists I'll make my own grammar rolls 😜😂

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Post by keva
Here's my first attempt at synonym rolls, with attached picture of cinnamon rolls.

Reply by BrazilFlair
Just like grammar used to make.

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The Merriam-Webster word of the day for February 13 is rapscallion, as in "The hip-hop green onion was quite a rapscallion"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/rapscallion-2026-02-13?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark

#words #amusing

“I think people ought to know that we’re anti-fascist, we’re anti-violence, we're anti-racist and we’re pro-creative. We’re against ignorance.”

Joe Strummer on The Clash.

https://www.wncw.org/2018-02-05/international-clash-day-goes-global
#words #music #theclash

“I think people ought to know that we’re anti-fascist, we’re anti-violence, we're anti-racist and we’re pro-creative. We’re against ignorance.”

Joe Strummer on The Clash.

International Clash Day started in 2013 on the airwaves of KEXP in Seattle, Washington.

International Clash Day is on February 6, 2026.

#Obscurdle 1132: 5/6
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https://www.stevedegroof.com/obscurdle.html

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