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Wm.son<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Words</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AWordADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AWordADay</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AnuGarg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnuGarg</span></a> </p><p>Today's Word is Podsnap:</p><p>"Podsnap is a pompous, jingoistic character, proudly immune to nuance. As Dickens describes him, “Mr Podsnap was well-to-do, and stood very high in Mr Podsnap’s opinion. ... Mr Podsnap’s world was not a very large world, morally; no, nor even geographically: seeing that although his business was sustained upon commerce with other countries, he considered other countries, with that important reservation, a mistake.”</p><p>As Podsnap himself adds, “No Other Country is so Favoured as This Country. ... This Island was Blest, Sir, to the Direct Exclusion of such Other Countries as -- as there may happen to be.”</p><p>Podsnap, the walking embodiment of moral myopia in a world so tight no unpleasant facts gets through."</p><p>Indeed! This seems so familiar...</p>
The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑<p>&nbsp;<br>Today's <a href="https://me.dm/tags/AWAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AWAD</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/AWordADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AWordADay</span></a>: ELSEWHEN <br>with Anu Garg </p><p>❛❛ Unlike a <a href="https://me.dm/tags/BlackHole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHole</span></a> — a region of <a href="https://me.dm/tags/SpaceTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceTime</span></a> from which you cannot escape if you get too close — a <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Wormhole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wormhole</span></a> is a region into which you would disappear only to reappear <a href="https://me.dm/tags/elsewhere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elsewhere</span></a> or <a href="https://me.dm/tags/elsewhen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elsewhen</span></a>. ❜❜ 2001 May 20 <a href="https://me.dm/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaPo</span></a> </p><p>🔗 <a href="https://Wordsmith.org/words/elsewhen.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">Wordsmith.org/words/elsewhen.h</span><span class="invisible">tml</span></a> 2025 Jan 06 <br>🔗 <a href="https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Anu_Garg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">Wikipedia.org/wiki/Anu_Garg</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> … <a href="https://me.dm/tags/AnuGarg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnuGarg</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Community</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/TimeTravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravel</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/vocabulary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vocabulary</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/lexicon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lexicon</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>words</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/glossary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glossary</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Time</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Kronodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kronodon</span></a></p>
Columb Duffy<p>“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”<br>Mary Wollstonecraft; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; 1792.<br><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/wordSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wordSmith</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/aWordADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aWordADay</span></a></p>
Wm.son<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SelfExpression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfExpression</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Opinions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Opinions</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AWordADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AWordADay</span></a></p><p>A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:<br>The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. -John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (20 May 1806-1873)</p>
Wm.son<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AWordADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AWordADay</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AnuGarg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnuGarg</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AWAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AWAD</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Wordplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wordplay</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/DadJokes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DadJokes</span></a></p><p>In Anu Garg's weekday email, the word was "tangent" in a week of math/geometry terms.</p><p>Of course, my mind went:</p><p>Tangent: The dapper dude that sprays a certain orange-y bronze-ish color on an egomaniac and then tells him how great it looks.</p>
Wm.son<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AWordADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AWordADay</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AWAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AWAD</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AnuGarg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnuGarg</span></a> </p><p>Another new word to me that I probably knew at one point. Maybe? </p><p>umbrageous</p><p>PRONUNCIATION:<br>(uhm-BRAY-juhs) </p><p>MEANING:<br>adjective:<br>1. Inclined to take offense easily.<br>2. Cast in shadow; shaded.<br>3. Providing shade.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY:<br>From Latin umbra (shade, shadow) + -ous (full of). Earliest documented use: 1587.</p>
Wm.son<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AndreMalraux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AndreMalraux</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Sons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sons</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Trauma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trauma</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Terrorist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Terrorist</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AnuGarg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnuGarg</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AWordADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AWordADay</span></a> </p><p>A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:<br>The sons of torture victims make good terrorists. -Andre Malraux, novelist, adventurer, art historian, and statesman (3 Nov 1901-1976)</p>
Wm.son<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Atheist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atheist</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AnuGarg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnuGarg</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AWordADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AWordADay</span></a></p><p> <br>Not completely sure this is Anu's own quote, but I like it. </p><p>A thousand thoughts and prayers amount to less than a single action.</p>