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semi-extrinsic on June 9, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: June 2023 Data Dump is missing

Nitpick, also because the contrast is kind of funny:

mote: a small particle, speck, atom, "mote of dust"

moat: a deep ditch, often filled with water, as a first line of defence around a castle.

btown on June 9, 2023 [2 more]

Hopefully this comment won't be demoated by the algorithm - it truly holds water on its own!

sitkack on June 9, 2023 | [–]

You are only helping it with puns and we know that puns are the gateway to consciousness! They are like the corpus callosum of language, serving as the bridge that spans the moat between the castles of wit and creativity.

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