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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I go on Bluesky because I can't stand the stupid bad people on other Twitter clones posting bad shit for the approval of other stupid bad people. So I get stupid good people posting mostly good stuff for the approval of other stupid good people. Slight improvement I guess?

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

@robwords.com haven't finished in case youaddress this but what, as a Cannon (Descendant of the Canon, ie the bishop, and all these Priests, Monks, Bishops, and so on in traditional Catholic nations were doing having kids. Can't complain, else I would not exist. But still what gives?

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

@robwords.com a little note on something that you said in your names video: St. Patrick was actually not Irish. He was born in late Roman Britain, and taken to Ireland by slavers.

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

if I had this truck I would blast "maneater", "you make my dreams", and "I can't go for that" on the stereo at full blast nonstop

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

These kids nowadays with their TR/ST and their Drab Majesties. Why can't they listen to proper normal weirdoes like Bauhaus and The Sisters of Mercy and The Cure? and not this poseur goth shit? *ageing goth yells at cloud in front of moon.* Get offa my graveyard!

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

@jesszafarris.com @robwords.com Is there a term for an anti-contranym? Contranyms are there own opposite in specific uses. I'm thinking antonym pairs that are synonyms in specific uses. Like "on" & "off": opposite until you precede them with "feed" and then they're the same.

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Kind of getting sick of everyone posting pictures of fancy food when shitloads of Americans can't afford to eat any. So much for this being the progressive, sensitive social media.

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Me: "I despise Trump and his fourth Reich. I stand against corporate control of the government. I want capitalism to collapse, and socialism to be embraced. I want to abolish borders. Women own their bodies. I want diversity to be embraced. Oh and I don't hate AI." People on bluesky: "Fascist!!!"

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

@jesszafarris.com @robwords.com I loved that episode! I was enchanted and ensorcelled throughout. Sad that there was no time for thaumaturgy or dweomercraeft though, the latter being Gary Gygax's favourite word, I think.

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

AI will spell the doom of capitalism and corporate greed. They can't help themselves but it will be their undoing. Hating AI "because corporations like it" is like if Trump started taking poison compulsively so you started hating that poison just because he liked it. Just shut up and let them

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@tomlumperson.bsky.social I have been told I have a knack for hitting pause exactly when the people on screen would rather I didn't

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

@robwords.com @jesszafarris.com just got to six, and was surprised you didn't do "five by five"

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

@robwords.com @jesszafarris.com I'm pretty sure the "number is up" is neither lottery nor biblical, but just an age-old bureaucracy tradition of having people take a number in a waiting room and when it's their turn to be called their number is put up on a slate (now an led sign)

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

@jesszafarris.com @robwords.com I love you guys' show. That said, I couldn't finish that one. I'm afraid I don't think your guest knows what she's talking about. And nobody says "photgraph". Me and my wife sat there looking at the screen saying it over and over and shaking our heads saying "nope"

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

@robwords.com re: frotteur: Peter Gabriel has a rather well known song about it: “I Have the Touch”

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

@robwords.com Lagom may be a real Swedish word sure, but it’s easily translated into one English word that we use all the time: “Goldilocks”

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

@robwords.com @jesszafarris.com I want to thank you two for being a note of positivity. News isn't and can't be, but many edutainers are all negative, like "you're doing this wrong" or "everything you know is a lie" sensationalism, and you two (and Simon Roper) don't and that's refreshing. Thanks!

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

@robwords.com @jesszafarris.com There's an example of American rhyme slang: Put up your dukes. Dukes = dukes of York = forks = american "dish slang" (like mug, etc.) for hands.

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

@jesszafarris.com @robwords.com Its weird how "the turn of the century" is still so commonly used to refer to 1899-1900. I just noticed Jess say this in the latest Words Unravelled, but everyone does it. Yet it's been 126 years and the century has turned again since then.

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

@jesszafarris.com @robwords.com the Victorian use of ejaculation and Intercourse are nothing compared to the way they constantly said kids and pets were "making love" to everyone.

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

@jesszafarris.com @robwords.com "You can get coffee at a weed dispensary?" I wonder how many people just heard that in Oregon and Washington and applied for small business loans the very same minute.

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

@jesszafarris.com pinball isn't from launching with a pin, it's from pins on the board. early ones you'd just get points from landing in holes with values written on. with pins to catch the balls. think of Pachinko which shares the same ancestry.

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

@robwords.com @jesszafarris.com aww but I think I like Rob's destination of "Totentote" better. Lich sack makes me think it's reserved for undead wizards

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

@robwords.com @jesszafarris.com relatives to fährt in English: fare, ferry, farewell, airfare, faring

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

@jesszafarris.com @robwords.com I think youse said that there can be false friends, and false cognate false friends, but not false cognates that aren't false friends. I dissent: 1: Obrigado/Arigato (pt/ja) 2: Dog (en/a random Australian Aboriginal language)

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

@robwords.com was that video background during the nostril part what I think it was? Someone eating bogeys? Ewwww

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

@jesszafarris.com @robwords.com Here's a linguistics question that bugs me: Why are affixes sometimes irrelevant? Like flammable/inflammable or, worse: claim/proclaim/declaim/exclaim—all three mean almost the same thing and only vary in connotation a little.

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

@robwords.com @jesszafarris.com the Checkmate joke made me think up an awful Dad Pun: What did the Gregorian monk say when he was startled? "I cant even"

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

other people: "AI is going to take all our jobs!" Me: "I hate jobs. I don't see the issue." Them: "But if nobody works...." Me: "The corporate oligarchy will collapse. Again, where is the problem?"

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

@robwords.com @jesszafarris.com dark irony in the fact one diminutive of Ignatius is trying to chase another dim of Ignatius from America. Nacho is dim of the Spanish version of that name, and the dim of the German version is Nazi. Used like "Bubba" for Redneck as pun on an NSDAP abbreviation

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

@jesszafarris.com Ok so, seeing your Otherwords short cameo on YT makes me want to ask: are salutations interjections? Is "Hello" one? "Welcome"? And on that subject is there any way to make people stop saying "welcome in"? I HATE it when they do that.

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

@jesszafarris.com @robwords.bsky.social Woyldnt the "Bordeaux"/"York" reinterpretation of names just be a type of eggcorn? (Makes me think of the Middle Earth river Bar-Anduin/Brandywine)

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I was surprised @jesszafarris.com ended that last #wordsunravelled video saying "and then in the future" without @robwords.bsky.social nudging "you mean 'in future'" — it was right there.

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

@jesszafarris.com @robwords.bsky.social no one in America would say "knock up a bookcase" perhaps, but one person would say "knock up a sofa". Unfortunately that's the vice president.

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

TFW you realise you've had Breen action figures since 1980. O.o #startrek #discovery

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

@robwords.bsky.social oh damn. Don't be sponsored by betterhelp. In 2024, BetterHelp was cited by the Federal Trade Commission for inappropriate use and selling of client data, breaching privacy regulations. BetterHelp has since been under scrutiny for misleading privacy policies.

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

@robwords.bsky.social "Names don't really mean anything unless you're something like Hope or Hunter" — said by a man who goes by a syllable that means "to force someone to give you stuff under threat of violence"

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Rob Watts (RobWords) @robwords.com · 13/03/2026

This is why I only ever do Bonnie Tyler.

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

@robwords.bsky.social @jesszafarris.com this last video made me think of times I have run karaoke and the amusing stuff white singers will do when doing gangsta rap and realising that word is coming up. Skipping it, saying bro, going "nyaaaah". One regular just said "honky" instead.

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

@robwords.bsky.social @jesszafarris.com "Unalive" to me sounds like it should mean "in a coma". If "dead" is the opposite of "alive", and "undead" means "dead but still moves around like alive, then "unalive" should mean "alive, but fails to move around, as if dead."

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Who wore it best? George Hamilton of course. Fuck Pete "Douchebro" Hegseth.

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Hegseth on the BSA: "DEI crept in, the focus on god as the ruler of the universe was watered down to include openness to humanism and Earth-centred pagan religions. They even welcomed the destructive myth of gender fluidity and transgenderism to infiltrate their membership" A Literal witch hunt.

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Seán Dodger Cannon @theedodger.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

If they don't want to be woke, I'll be happy to help and put them to sleep. I just have to get some stuff from the veterinarian's office first.

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