Notices by Algot (algot@mastodon.art), page 16

Weed/Wildflower Wednesday

Bittersweet or Bittersweet Nightshade -
Solanum dulcamara
2019-07-09

While this plant with purple flowers with yellow centers, arrowhead shaped leaves with two almost divided basal lobes and red berries is related to both tomato and potato, all parts to this plant are considered poisonous. Take care to help children avoid eating the bright red oval/egg-shaped berries.

#weeds #wildflowers #plants #botany

#WordOfTheDay

farouche

/fəˈruːʃ/
adjective
Sullen or shy in company.

Origin
Mid 18th century from French, alteration of Old French forache, based on Latin foras ‘out of doors’.

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Listening to some people drone on about their favorite topics makes me farouche. I'd rather be outside with the memory of my hair blowing in the wind.

#WordOfTheDay

grumpy

/ˈɡrʌmpi/
adjective - grumpier, grumpiest
Bad-tempered and irritable.

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Don't be grumpy. This word is just a negative substitution for genial which we've used before. Smile anyway!

No Bail!

I suppose all caged birds should be considered flight risks.

#WordOfTheDay

solus

/ˈsəʊləs/
adjective - plural: sola
Alone or unaccompanied (used especially as a stage direction).

Origin
Latin.

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Bob enters stage left, solus and begins to natter on about his day. [The crowd becomes restless after a mere half hour of this scene.]

#WordOfTheDay

madrigal

/ˈmadrɪɡ(ə)l/
noun
A part-song for several voices, especially one of the Renaissance period, typically unaccompanied and arranged in elaborate counterpoint.

Origin
From Italian madrigale (from medieval Latin carmen matricale ‘simple song’), from matricalis ‘maternal or primitive’, from matrix ‘womb’.

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Mark, Milt, Marvin and Mary maneuvered through the madrigal magnificently.

Making a Basic Cloud in #Inkscape

1) Make a white shape with random angles
2) Apply bubbly bumps filter - fiddle shape
3) Overlay medium (50%) gray to lower area
4) 18% blur
5) Experiment (add intermediate gray area)

#Clipart
#ArtWithOpenSource

Summer Sun

There's just no basis
For a shady oasis.
You'll toast like a bun
In the bright summer sun.

#SmallPoems

Writer's Heaven (Expanded)

Writer's heaven,
Up well before seven.
The house is yet quiet
Before the day's riot.

The cat has been fed.
And kids still in bed.
Develop great plot schemes
Made of overnight's wild dreams.

Get down the fresh thinking.
Free time is now shrinking.
Grab hold of this chance.
Let all your words dance.

#SmallPoems

( Everything's a #WIP )

#WordOfTheDay

launch

/lɔːn(t)ʃ/
verb
[with object]
1 Set (a boat) in motion by pushing it or allowing it to roll into the water.
1.2 Send (a missile, satellite, or spacecraft) on its course.

Origin
Middle English variant of Old French lancier (see lance).

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NASA launched a "test article" this morning. It rose magestically into the morning sky carrying an Orion command module mockup aloft to test the flight abort systems. Anyone with a speedy web connection could watch live.

#WordOfTheDay

dander meaning 1

/ˈdandə/
noun
informal in phrase get/have one's dander up
Lose one's temper.

Origin
Mid 19th century (originally US): of unknown origin.

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Jeanne's demeanor had never been keener until Lou cut her off on the highway. That got her dander up and she fumed the rest of the way home.

#WordOfTheDay

creed

/kriːd/
noun
1 A system of religious belief; a faith.
1.1 often "the Creed" - A formal statement of Christian beliefs, especially the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed.
1.2 A set of beliefs or aims which guide someone's actions.

Origin
Old English, from Latin credo.

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He thought she was pretty.
She thought he was witty.
But families with no shared creed.
An edict: "No marriage" was decreed.

@zudn

My wife recently bought me a great T-Shirt:

I am silently correcting
your grammar.

I wear it proudly.

Foul Ball

It does not always matter how hard the ball is hit.
Without a fair direction, It doesn't help a bit.
And, you know, if it's early in the count,
The pesky strike count certainly will mount.

#SmallPoems
#Sports

Weed/Wildflower Wednesday

Dame's Rocket - Hesperis matronalis
An invasive, tall plant with four petals and a flower cluster with alternate, sessile toothed lance shaped leaves. It is often confused with phlox, but phlox has opposite leaves and five petals for each flower.

From late May
Prohibited in Massachusetts, and yet, here it is. That's the trick of invasive plants.

#weeds
#wildflowers
#plants
#botany

#WordOfTheDay

zugzwang

/ˈzʌɡzwaŋ/ /ˈzuːɡzwaŋ/
noun
mass noun
Chess
A situation in which the obligation to make a move in one's turn is a serious, often decisive, disadvantage.

Origin
Early 20th century from German Zug ‘move’ + Zwang ‘compulsion’.

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To a pawn, life's inevitable zugzwang comes with no particular public notice.

#WordOfTheDay

false-flag

/fɒls/ /flaɡ/
noun
1 A flag flown to disguise the true identity or affiliation of a ship.
2 usually as modifier A political or military act orchestrated in such a way that it appears to have been carried out by a party that is not in fact responsible.

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Bob fooled absolutely nobody when he threw a false-flag into the illustration of vexillology which was the word offered by the dictionary today.

a day at the beach
summer's sand between my toes
water was still cold

#SundayHaiku
#SmallPoems
#SmallStories

#WordOfTheDay

abrogate

/ˈabrəɡeɪt/
verb
[with object]
formal
1 Repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement)
2 Evade (a responsibility or duty)

Origin
Early 16th century from Latin abrogat- ‘repealed’, from the verb abrogare, from ab- ‘away, from’ + rogare ‘propose a law’.

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It is far too late
A slur, to abrogate,
The moment it is said.

Withhold harsh words,
Even you nerds.
Or friendship will have fled.

The chance to love
Close like a glove,

#SmallPoems