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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

Edmonds Scanner

@edmondsscanner.bsky.social

What do you want to be when you grow up?

1. fancy sexy vampire
2. disaffected dilettante
3. hermit of the deep woods
4. loveable monster

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Lachrymose

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

Donna 🌅👗🚶🏽‍♀️🎒☕📧✍⌨🎧🤓📚🤔🥀🍃🌹🚶🏽‍♀️❤📻🍲🚿🛌🏽

@kebabette.bsky.social

Dreamed I was in a synth duo, woke up before I could hear what we sounded like, but our lyrics were:
I'm lachrymose
Your lack remorse.
So probably ... pretty pretty bad.

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Obdurate

stubbornly resisting persuasion; intransigent; unyielding; mulish

FKA Cat Stevens

@chelounger.bsky.social

If I were going back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination and the past was being annoyingly obdurate, I would maybe go to plan B and see if I could help out John Hinckley Jr in 1981 instead

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Diaphanous

light; delicate; translucent (usually referred to when describing fabric)

Clover

@cloverhouraisan.bsky.social

At this ungodly hour, my head is filled with images of Natalia Osipova in Giselle launching herself into the air in a diaphanous white dress while Carlos Acosta watches from the side

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Turgid

swollen; distended; congested

Leina

@bowsette.bsky.social

Just want this turgid month to be over... but then I have to face my old nemesis February...

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Husband

to manage with careful economy; to use resources economically; to conserve; to preserve; to store; to hoard

MobiQuotes

@mobiquotes.bsky.social

A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.

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Demur

to make objection to something; to hesistate

Jason Odom

@ourpredicament.com

The American people should be demanding the release of the families and their children from the American Immigration Camps. To fail this moral test is to cosign the outcome of fascism while demuring at its techniques. It would be utter hypocrisy.

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Attenuate

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

Sarah has a suggestion

@goatsarah.org

There’s a stat. Something like 30% of people with ADHD have autism.

But 70% of people with autism have ADHD.

Understanding of neurodivergence is poor but with that in mind, I think ADHD is the best understood, to the extent that we can massively attenuate it with neurotransmitter hacks.

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