Algot @Algot@mastodon.art

It's about using words, of course, but, while an occasional favorite or boost happens, there's little engagement.

A two-part Challenge Proposal:

A) Post a toot using the word in any way, sentence, story, analysis, rhyme...

B) Doodlers and Artists, use the word as the subject of a #SketchChallenge

Get in on the fun of words and visual imagination.

Start today?

Remember to use the #WordOfTheDay hashtag, of course.

Thanks to anyone who decides to follow this account.

I have a habit of responding to all who do so, but this is a second account, and I may mess up when trying to determine who is a new follower and who is "also" following after connecting by way of my mastodon.cloud account.

It is not my intent to litter myself all over the fediverse. I will see how things go. I've made connections with several others on mastodon.art and think I'll feel at home here while NOT restricting my toots to artistic attempts. It looks like the instance won't generally mind.

Words have art in them, too.

Good luck to all of us.

Strength to the fediverse through the efforts of individuals.

I was very glad to hear that the woman on the radio station doesn't want to leave. She is quite emphatic about it.

Clouds in the sky
Sun in my heart
No reason to cry
I know we'll never part.

#SmallPoems

#WordOfTheDay

barranca

/bəˈraŋkə/
(also barranco)
noun
barrancas, barrancos
US
A narrow, winding river gorge.

Origin
Late 17th century from Spanish.

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Bob built a bridge over the barranca to avoid driving an extra ten miles to reach his ranch.

@archadia

Thank you for making a connection.

I hope you find a UK #3DPrinting person to help you with the dog relate charity project.

Dog people are good people.

Dragon people certainly can be, too. 😉

Today:

24 hours

during which you can remember yesterday
or
dream of tomorrow
or
simply live!

Who needs a #3DPrinting Harry Potter Deathly Hallows pendant?

(Probably nobody. It's been 12 years since the book and nine since part one of the movie. You people have moved on to new interests, after all.)

Still, I did have fun doing the design, so I'll leave it out here for you to see.

http://runeman.org/3d/

#ArtWithOpenSource
#OpenSCAD

#WordOfTheDay

bottomless

/ˈbɒtəmlɪs/
adjective
1 Without a bottom.
1.1 Very deep.
1.2 (of a supply of money or other resources) inexhaustible.
2 Naked below the waist.

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We must not behave as if there were a bottomless supply of petroleum in the world.

"Happy Fathers Day"

Mothers have a day
Fathers also, 'ray!
Without a kid, none.
All year then, have fun.

#SmallPoems

Daily change
Isn't strange.
Being stable
Is a fable.

@InvaderXan

Hope you'll stay involved with the fediverse from somewhere, at least enough to check on the how things change over time. A little-used account is better than a closed one.

#SmallPoems

morning clouds abound
soon the showers will appear
soaking summer rain

#SundayHaiku
#CLMOOC
#SmallPoems

Wicked Wonderful Wordies

#WordPlay #wordies #SundaySillies

Idioms or common phrases (Mostly American idioms in English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words (or in the case of rebus style, words and images) in or around a square.

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

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

Hint: crime

A cloudy cover to the sky.
Did not make me want to cry.
I had to mow the lawn.
The long blades are now all gone.

In case you thought to fret.
Be assured, I did not sweat.
After a week of rain ahead
I may continue with this thread.

#SmallStories
#SmallPoems

prole

/prəʊl/ noun
informal, derogatory
A member of the working class.
adjective
informal, derogatory
Working class.

Origin
Late 19th century abbreviation of proletariat.

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Proles make my cellphone, my car, my fast-food lunch. They build my house and repair the pipes. I wear fine clothes which they make and I tell others what to do. I am high class, their better.

Mocking "otherness" is not required to be a functional adult.

Just because it seemed okay when I was a youth developing social skills does not mean I cannot grow out of childish habits.

Work on your adult skills...it's part of lifelong learning.

Using something we encounter to "our" advantage can have two interpretations. "My advantage" or "our collective advantage"...

...which you choose to implement is significant.

A beautiful golden retriever was 10 yards ahead of its human companion. It looked to me as if the walk was coming close to its end.

Then I looked more closely and noticed one of those reel-style leash contraptions...

...in the dog's mouth.

#SmallStories

Random thought:

A cooling fan run by anything other than solar/wind/hydro/geothermal is probably also a net heat contributor. I wonder what the balance is?

#WordOfTheDay

telemarketer

/ˈtɛlɪmɑːkɪtɪŋ/
noun
mass noun
A person or company which markets of goods or services by means of telephone calls, typically unsolicited, to potential customers.

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In spite of low conversion rates, telemarketers continue to deluge potential customers with calls.

A wandering mind
Yes, that's my kind.
Here today, there tomorrow.
It brings me joy, not sorrow.

I get my daily fix
By using different tricks,
Slipping in a silly rhyme
Here, from time to time.

#SmallPoems
#SmallStories