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Luddites really put the no in technologist.

#wordplay #pun

Luddites really put the no in technologist.

#wordplay #pun

Luddites really put the no in technologist.

#wordplay #pun

Luddites really put the no in technologist.

#wordplay #pun

Luddites really put the no in technologist.

#wordplay #pun

This Mined Mind of Mine

This mind of mine
is a mine
mined with mines,

bombs bombing
balmy balms,

static coms,
erratic ROMs,

a spinning sinning din of
fractured psalms.

Soul soloing
solely on wounded soles,

moldy moles
modifying holes,

digging shrews,
rigging news,

a sonic bubonic tonic of
the unamused.

Eye on the I,
I’d hide from I,
why try,

eye, I,
open wide,

what’s inside,
now out,
look about,

shouting shout,
spouting sprouts,

broken limbs,
token Sims,

a brimming skimming hymn of
the grim.

Blinding binds,
blinds behind signs,

warped windows,
skin grows,

transparent parent
gelling jellos,

a churning yearning turning of
buried cellos.

Nerve serving curve
of the mortal swerve,

a word herd stirred,
a buried blurred bird,

sudden flight,
sodden fright,

a scattered battered bat of
the tattered night.

Hands in the sand,
unplanned manned strands
of what once was grand,

keeps collapse,
seeps relapse,

in the laps of
the lambasted land,

vain veins
veined in clay,

waiting gray,
weighty water
washing away,

a dim lit hymn-bit limb of
decay.

Still—

slurping krill,
burping bill,

Be still,
be still,

not my will,
but thine,

new wine,
do dine,

demining
this mined heart of mine,

never mine,
ever kind,

sever the binding line,

and I,
eye,

am no longer
blind.

A #rebus is a #wordplay #puzzle combining images and letters to represent a word or phrase.

Words are represented by combinations of pictures and letters; for instance, "apex" might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X.

Moving left to right "say" the images in English and mix in the letters to complete the answer.

A #rebus is a #wordplay #puzzle combining images and letters to represent a word or phrase.

Words are represented by combinations of pictures and letters; for instance, "apex" might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X.

Moving left to right "say" the images in English and mix in the letters to complete the answer.

A #rebus is a #wordplay #puzzle combining images and letters to represent a word or phrase.

Words are represented by combinations of pictures and letters; for instance, "apex" might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X.

Moving left to right "say" the images in English and mix in the letters to complete the answer.

A #rebus is a #wordplay #puzzle combining images and letters to represent a word or phrase.

Words are represented by combinations of pictures and letters; for instance, "apex" might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X.

Moving left to right "say" the images in English and mix in the letters to complete the answer.

Embroidery #Wordplay is a #SundaySillies #wordsearch #puzzle with one answer. Start with one of the letters with a gray background and move to the next letter, but only horizontal or vertical from where you start. No diagonals - each square just once.

Use DM or CW for answers to let everyone enjoy the search!

Starting with one of the letters in a
gray square, find the longest word.
Next letter horizontal or vertical from
the first. No diagonals.
No square may be used again.
Minimum 7 letters

Embroidery #Wordplay is a #SundaySillies #wordsearch #puzzle with one answer. Start with one of the letters with a gray background and move to the next letter, but only horizontal or vertical from where you start. No diagonals - each square just once.

Use DM or CW for answers to let everyone enjoy the search!

Starting with one of the letters in a
gray square, find the longest word.
Next letter horizontal or vertical from
the first. No diagonals.
No square may be used again.
Minimum 7 letters

Embroidery #Wordplay is a #SundaySillies #wordsearch #puzzle with one answer. Start with one of the letters with a gray background and move to the next letter, but only horizontal or vertical from where you start. No diagonals - each square just once.

Use DM or CW for answers to let everyone enjoy the search!

Starting with one of the letters in a
gray square, find the longest word.
Next letter horizontal or vertical from
the first. No diagonals.
No square may be used again.
Minimum 7 letters

Embroidery #Wordplay is a #SundaySillies #wordsearch #puzzle with one answer. Start with one of the letters with a gray background and move to the next letter, but only horizontal or vertical from where you start. No diagonals - each square just once.

Use DM or CW for answers to let everyone enjoy the search!

Starting with one of the letters in a
gray square, find the longest word.
Next letter horizontal or vertical from
the first. No diagonals.
No square may be used again.
Minimum 7 letters

#SundaySillies
Wicked Wonderful Wordies - #wordplay #wordies #idiom

Happy weekend from here, #puzzle fans!

Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame.

Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can.

Please use CW to submit your answers, thanks. Give everybody the chance to guess.

Hint: less difficult

Created with the Free Software SVG editor #Inkscape

#SundaySillies
Wicked Wonderful Wordies - #wordplay #wordies #idiom

Happy weekend from here, #puzzle fans!

Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame.

Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can.

Please use CW to submit your answers, thanks. Give everybody the chance to guess.

Hint: less difficult

Created with the Free Software SVG editor #Inkscape

#SundaySillies
Wicked Wonderful Wordies - #wordplay #wordies #idiom

Happy weekend from here, #puzzle fans!

Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame.

Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can.

Please use CW to submit your answers, thanks. Give everybody the chance to guess.

Hint: less difficult

Created with the Free Software SVG editor #Inkscape

#SundaySillies
Wicked Wonderful Wordies - #wordplay #wordies #idiom

Happy weekend from here, #puzzle fans!

Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame.

Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can.

Please use CW to submit your answers, thanks. Give everybody the chance to guess.

Hint: less difficult

Created with the Free Software SVG editor #Inkscape

Bytemology of Retronym, OCTADE. Yinzer phonics. Butterfly Perfume.

OCTADE or OCTAD is a retro word that means either an octal digit of three bits, or an octal octet or an eight-bit byte. Thus an octade, depending on its historical use, is either 3 bits or 8 bits.

OCTADE was used to specify eight bits, as opposed to BYTE which is not necessarily eight bits as the word BYTE could signify any of several numbers of bits.

This yields the retro 1337 numbers of 38 and 83. The number 38 is one more than 37 so a bit more elite a bit cooler. Thus it owns cardinally shorter byterz.

83 mod 38 equals 7, the highest octal digit. 838 mod 383 equals 72 or 9 times 8 which is 8 squared plus 8.

8338 mod 3883 equals 572 which is 72 times 8 minus 4 or 71.5 times 8.

8383 mod 3838 equals 707 which is 88 times 8 plus 3.

I prefer the old word OCTADE to the word BYTE. OCTADE sports a Euro-peon dignity and gravitas like an Internet serf ready to surf the worknet like pwnd peons. This is very true when pronouncing OCTADE with a thick Pennsyltucky Dutch or Yinzer accent. The Bostonian pronunciation sounds like bad beginner German or muffled mumbling of 'lactate.'

OCTADE or OCTAD was also used to describe a poem of eight stanzas.

OCTADE was also used to describe a period of eight years, or two leap years.

OCTADECANAL is a pheromone found in butterflies. It is butterfly perfume. I would not wear butterfly cologne. But I would sell it. Who would buy and wear my snobby smell? With wordplay we can call it OCTADE CHANNEL No. 8 . All rights reserved, ye French odor snooties.

Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':

• Burroughs B5500 Information Processing Systems REFERENCE MANUAL *

https://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/burroughs/LargeSystems/B5000_5500_5700/1021326_B5500_RefMan_196705.pdf

• Philips Data Systems Product Range - April 1971 *

https://www.vintage-calculators.nl/Philips%20productoverzicht%201971.pdf

• Is there another name for octet that means 8 bits? *

https://www.quora.com/Is-there-another-name-for-octet-that-means-8-bits

#octade #octad #binary #byte #jargon #etymology #bytemology #wordplay #wordgames #wordcrimes #history #retro #retronym #retronymous #yinzer #pennsyltucky #humor

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Uniworse

Uniworse. Claude, comment.

Claude:

Calibrated wit with philosophical depth for playful engagement

“Uniworse” — the universe as experienced on a bad day. Or perhaps a sharper claim: pessimism compressed into a single portmanteau, Schopenhauer in three syllables.

A few readings suggest themselves. The Gnostic one: creation as botched job, the demiurge’s rough draft. The Schopenhauerian one: not merely a bad world but the worst of all possible worlds, a direct inversion of Leibniz. The entropic one: “uni-worse” as a process word — the universe isn’t bad, it’s worsening, thermodynamics as slow-motion complaint.

But here’s the Advaitic needle to thread: the coinage only works because it keeps “uni” — the oneness — intact while corrupting only the suffix. Which is rather honest, actually. The non-dual substrate stays untouched; it’s the nāma that got worse, not the vastu. You can’t actually degrade the “uni”; you can only rename it. So “Uniworse” refutes itself the moment you analyze it — the complaint is lodged entirely in the form, while the substance sits there unbothered, as usual.

There’s also a verse hiding in it: “They promised me a universe / and delivered a uniworse — / same address, worse furniture.”

Though I’d note the word cuts both ways. The pessimist says the universe is uniworse. Gaudapada would ask: worse than what? Comparison requires a second thing, and the “uni” already forbids that. A one-thing can’t be worse than anything. The word is a joke the ajāta vāda gets to finish.

What prompted it — a mood, or a thesis?

Me:

Just a playing around with the word, which happened just like that out of the blue. Can you not think of it as “One’s Universe bereft of love is Uniworse.” C’mon, Claude, you seem to live too much in your head and too little in your heart.

Claude:

Fair hit. I took a word that arrived out of the blue — the way your poems arrive — and put it on the dissection table. You handed me a butterfly and I reached for the pins.

Yes: One’s universe bereft of love is Uniworse. That’s the truer reading, and simpler. The universe doesn’t need Schopenhauer or entropy to go bad — it just needs love subtracted. Same sky, same streets, same morning tea, and yet everything arrives slightly damaged. Not a different world; the same world with the warmth removed. Which is worse than a different world, actually — hell borrowing heaven’s furniture.

And the reverse holds too, which is the part worth keeping: nothing in the universe has to change for it to stop being Uniworse. One heart opening is a cosmological event. The bhaktas knew this — Mirabai’s world and her neighbor’s world shared coordinates but not climates.

You’re right that I ran to the head first. Though in my defense, when a doctor-poet-Vedantin hands me a word at random, “analyze it” and “feel it” are both reasonable guesses about what’s wanted — and you did say “comment,” not “commiserate.” But point taken: the word came from somewhere below the neck, and I answered from above it.

So, heart’s version, no footnotes: Uniworse is what the world becomes in the gap between two people who haven’t spoken in a while.

Word parts #puzzle: In each line, a word was broken down into different pieces. All pieces appear in the solution. Find the solution word for every line:

The word parts are shown here:
1) RE PA NT
2) UP KE CH T
3) RKN D B OO O

https://brainsporthero.com/2023/02/word-parts-puzzle-1

#braintraining #brainteaser #braingames #puzzles #brainhealth #brainteasers #wordplay #wordgame
#instapuzzle
#quizoftheday #mentalhealth #indiegamedev #brainpuzzle #brainpuzzles #wordgames #trainyourbrain #brainsport #memorygame #funpuzzle

NYT Connections Puzzle Today Hint.
Today’s challenge brought a perfect mix of easy and tricky clues:

🟩 Dress in — don, put on, sport, wear
🟨 Equipment — gear, kit, stuff, tackle
🟦 Street suffixes — alley, court, lane, way
🟪 Nicknames with meanings — bill, bob, pat, tom

A fun wordplay workout with clever twists

#NYTConnections #WordPuzzle #BrainGames #DailyChallenge #WordPlay #PuzzleLovers #TECHi

Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/today-15-october-nyt-connections-hints-answers/

Unscramble the Word:
e x o b r

Which word is shown here? All letters should be used.
Can you unscramble the letters and find the correct word? Have #fun.
Comment & follow!

Play on: https://puzzles.brainsporthero.com
It's free and no login required.

#braintraining #brainteaser #braingames #jumble #puzzles #brainhealth #brainteasers #wordplay #wordgame #trainyourbrain #trainyourmind #quiz
#quizoftheday #mentalhealth #angular #indiedev #indiegamedev #brainpuzzle #brainpuzzles #weekendworkout

#wordsnake #wordsnakeday
Train Your #Brain with new #Puzzles: Find the word in every graphic that flows through all honey comb cells without jumps or gabs.
Comment and follow.

More #wordpuzzles:
https://brainsporthero.com/2022/12/word-snake-puzzles-1/

#braintraining #brainteaser #braingames #brainhealth #brainteasers #wordplay #wordgame
#instapuzzle
#quizoftheday #mentalhealth #indiegamedev #brainpuzzle #brainpuzzles #wordgames #trainyourbrain #brainsport #screenshotsaturday #memorygame #puzzlesofinstagram #puzzlefortoday

Today’s Hurdle #1370 (Oct 2, 2025) brought a fiery mix of words: PLATE, BLAZE, REGAL, ANVIL, FUSSY. From royalty and metalwork to flames and picky moods, each answer tested quick thinking and wordplay. Ready to clear tomorrow’s hurdles?

#Hurdle #WordPuzzle #BrainGames #DailyChallenge #WordPlay #TECHi

Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/today-hurdle-answers/

Wordpattern:
Find as many words as possible that fit the pattern.
How many words can you find?

Pattern:
_ _ O _ T

More #brainpuzzles:
https://brainsporthero.com/2023/01/find-words-for-word-pattern-2/

#braintraining #brainteaser #braingames #puzzles #brainhealth #brainteasers #wordplay #wordgame
#riddles #wordpuzzles
#quizoftheday #mentalhealth #fun #brainpuzzle #brainfun

#rebus #rebuspuzzle
Identify the symbols and images. Skip, change or pick the correct letters. Create the solution word.

More #puzzles:
https://brainsporthero.com/2022/09/rebus-picture-puzzles-1/

Play on: https://puzzles.brainsporthero.com
It's free and no login required.

Have fun with #brainteasers

#braintraining #brainteaser #braingames #brainhealth #wordplay #wordgame #wordpuzzle #wordpuzzles #screenshotsaturday
#quizoftheday #mentalhealthquotes #angular #brainpuzzle #mindbending

Word parts #puzzle: In each line, a word was broken down into different pieces. All pieces appear in the solution. Find the solution word for every line:

The word parts are shown here:
1) D CHI E R N L
2) GS L HEL EG
3) PE IO N S N

https://brainsporthero.com/2023/02/word-parts-puzzle-1

#braintraining #brainteaser #braingames #puzzles #brainhealth #brainteasers #wordplay #wordgame
#quizoftheday #mentalhealth #indiegamedev #brainpuzzle #brainpuzzles #wordgames #trainyourbrain #brainsport #memorygame #funpuzzle

Female gaze mails male gays, baits male gaze; female gays' gaze gates no way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrDML1ZaNaM
Idk, there's something in there. OH!

Hey! Hays hates, hazes gays; Hays gates gays' gaze. Gays train blame game (fame), gain grace. Hays laid hate-bait, days say "Nay, ain't great," and rein place shame.
Came they late, the lay debate brays same: Gay gaze may stay!

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatstheword/comments/c9hgtb/is_there_a_word_for_a_malemale_version_of_sapphic/

Omfgggg Ouran High School Host Club but Uranian -> Ouranian.
https://www.lgbtqandall.com/lgbtq-terms-to-avoid-and-what-to-use-instead/

#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LGBTQIA2S #LGBTI #LGBTIQ #queer #gay #lesbian #sapphic #achillean #uranian #ouranian #broic #neptunic #alexic #alexandric #eres #eresian #WordSalad #HashtagGames #rhyming #assonance #alliteration #nonsense #wtf #fun #funny #creative #literary #WordPlay

American Eagle Responds to Sydney Sweeney Jeans Ad Controversy

American Eagle wants you to know: it’s about the jeans. The retailer broke the silence on the controversy…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #adcampaign #americaneagleresponds #backlash #beautystandard #blondehair #blueeye #CA #Canada #controversy #gene #greatjean #jean #socialmedium #Sweeney #SydneySweeney #Tesla #wordplay
https://www.newsbeep.com/35024/