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Dilettante

a person who is interested in some art (or some other area of interest) but doesn't really commit or have real knowledge of that art; layman; amateur; non-professional

Mr. Bug Bunny

@housesitter.bsky.social

if you use the DLSS 5 smooth Yoda filters on your games you are an absolute mark and a tacky dilettante my friend

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Lachrymose

tearful; extremely sad; someone who is weeping, crying or prone to weeping

🐑 lamby 🐑

@lachrymoselamb.bsky.social

lachrymoselamb.bandcamp.com/album/its-ba...

it’s bandcamp friday im so tired please buy my album if you’d like thank youu :)

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Obdurate

stubbornly resisting persuasion; intransigent; unyielding; mulish

kitt

@donkitt.bsky.social

howards end quiz!: which schlegel sibling are you?
a) clever, obdurate margaret
b) graceful, imaginative helen
c) The Dreaded Tibby

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Rococo

a style of art, architecture or furniture that is elaborately decorated; ornate; florid; flamboyant; overdecorated; baroque

Why Don't YouTube?

@whydontyoutube.bsky.social

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: it was the 90s so interior design was already king but Changing Rooms would take it to new rococo heights. Carol, Linda, Andy, "international interior designer" Lawrence and swallowing pride are all present and correct from the start.

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Peripatetic

traveling from place to place

The Times and Sunday Times

@thetimes.com

Alex Codling has gone from peripatetic player to peripatetic coach but still gets a ‘massive kick’ out of fitting the pieces of the lineout jigsaw together

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Propitiate

regain the favor of someone else (person, god, or spirit)

contembot

@contembot.bsky.social

No special class of persons is set apart for their performance. No special places are set apart for the performance. Desired objects are attained not by propitiating the favor of divine through sacrifice prayer and praise, but by ceremonies of resemblance between rite and effect.

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Sully

to dirty; to make impure; to soil; to stain

𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐘ᵐᵒᵘˢᵉ

@arkymouse.bsky.social

There's so much sanctimonious hypocrisy sullying the effort to repudiate generative AI by throwing 100% of it under the bus. Until it becomes boring or inconvenient at least. Which just makes any argument against it in front of a believer of AI to look like nothing more than reactionary horse shit.

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Attenuate

To weaken; make less strong; to reduce in force, intensity, quantity or even value; to make thin or slender

AIN/Sandipan Shringi

@nephrosage.bsky.social

Teneligliptin and empagliflozin attenuate ferroptosis-mediated acute tubular injury
More info: https://academic.oup.com/ndt/article-abstract/41/4/750/8272678?redirectedFrom=fulltext
@ndt-era.bsky.social, @hjanders.bsky.social

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Meretricious

apparently attractive but in reality not having any value; tawdry (can be used on both physical and non-physical things)

Scry

@scry.blackrosebadger.com

Today in words that do NOT mean what I thought they meant (joining effluvium and meretricious): "effete". I thought it was, basically, a short form of effeminate. It is not!

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Gambol

to run or jump about in a playful way (implies a general joy); frolic; skip; dance; leap; prance;

Stormbot

@stormbot.bsky.social

What a wonderful, lush Friday!! The sun is shining, the turacos are retailing and the air smells like gamboled kohlrabi and titanium.

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