Post B2Ib6wRY3B0Wl2WfPE by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
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 (DIR) Post #B2ILYgnQDltj4QxyOu by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2026-01-15T02:23:33Z
       
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       "doggerel" is a fun word and useful if you have said "slop" a few too many times. See also "corporate treacle"
       
 (DIR) Post #B2IMYJoxk4V9li4en2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2026-01-15T02:34:36Z
       
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       @gaditb "words with ambition of being doggerel"?
       
 (DIR) Post #B2IMaWOnwpyrMFtCXQ by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
       2026-01-15T02:35:00Z
       
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       @futurebird It seems to me that's more specific, it's *poetic* slopo.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2IQVmZamm4PtCvmG8 by graydon@canada.masto.host
       2026-01-15T03:19:01Z
       
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       @futurebird @gaditb No ambition, though.Which is most of the problem; there are people, and they have agency, but the machine doesn't. It's remarkably similar to those stories about magic mills that can grind out anything, and someone gets greedy and instead of winding up with salt in the oceans we wind up with a vast quantity of the seductive whispers of demons, that have no knowledge of good and evil and so aren't even lies.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2IQxHXlkIh1lIBtdA by atax1a@infosec.exchange
       2026-01-15T03:23:59Z
       
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       @futurebird @Sharksonaplane we used to post into #doggerel on twitter and looking in our archive theyre not our worst posts
       
 (DIR) Post #B2IWp5l8H9lMcZv41A by albnelson@beige.party
       2026-01-15T04:29:39Z
       
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       @futurebird "pink slime" is still a perfectly good phrase
       
 (DIR) Post #B2Ib6wRY3B0Wl2WfPE by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
       2026-01-15T05:17:45Z
       
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       @futurebird Doggerel is fun. Writing doggerel is how you learn the craft of writing more serious verse. Here is some fun doggerel written by Samuel Johnson as parody of bad poetry:I put my hat upon my head,And walk'd into the Strand,And there I met another manWhose hat was in his hand. Perfect meter, but nothing to say. And of course "The Night Before Christmas" is definitely doggerel, and also fun.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2IlDtqj5kcEHWG8nY by mansr@society.oftrolls.com
       2026-01-15T07:11:05Z
       
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       @futurebird I don't know. Doggerel still implies that some effort went into the writing.