doodad
(originally, US) : an unspecified device, gadget, part, or thing.
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Born ~1880 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
this is why i am 100% behind human-curated feeds (and the Explore/Discover/whatever thing, to say nothing of that awful feed-creating AI doodad the devs rolled out a few weeks ago). I came here to escape algorithmic…
All the Arkham games honestly Completed the stories even though they ran out of ideas 2 games in, have no real need to revisit them or do all the tedious Riddler doodad hunts
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(originally, US) : an unspecified device, gadget, part, or thing.
“this is why i am 100% behind human-curated feeds (and the Explore/Discover/whatever thing, to say nothing of that awful feed-creating AI doodad the devs rolled out a few weeks ago). I came here to escape algorithmically-boosted content, not enable it”
“All the Arkham games honestly Completed the stories even though they ran out of ideas 2 games in, have no real need to revisit them or do all the tedious Riddler doodad hunts”
My mom has a clever doodad for peeling oranges.
“this is why i am 100% behind human-curated feeds (and the Explore/Discover/whatever thing, to say nothing of that awful feed-creating AI doodad the devs rolled out a few weeks ago). I came here to escape algorithmically-boosted content, not enable it”
— Bluesky· May 2026“All the Arkham games honestly Completed the stories even though they ran out of ideas 2 games in, have no real need to revisit them or do all the tedious Riddler doodad hunts”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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