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Lachrymose

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

ex luna, scientia

@exluna.bsky.social

becoming lachrymose beholding the immense dignity of pastry chef (franz bremer)

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Polyglot

a person who knows and uses several languages

FunctionalProgramming

@functionalprogramming.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

How I Parse 14 Languages With One Function — Codewalk Deep Dives #1 Building a polyglot code parser with tree-sitter that handles Python, Rust, Dart, Go, and 10 more — without writing 14 parser...

#ai #programming #python #opensource

Origin | Interest | Match

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Obdurate

stubbornly resisting persuasion; intransigent; unyielding; mulish

audere est facere

@tottenham.bsky.social

I mean, what could possibly go wrong at a stadium where we haven't won in a full geological stratum, against an opponent as spiky and obdurate as any in the league, and with Leeds putting out an 11 made of training mannequins and the U8s against West Ham? Please no tifo or motivational videos.

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Diaphanous

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

AvantGardea

@avantgardea.bsky.social

I'm really surprised not more of these diaphanous-gowned women got chest colds. Everything's so damp in Europeland. #TwinsOfEvil #FrightClub

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Turgid

swollen; distended; congested

Ian Emery

@ianemery.bsky.social

I'm struggling to recall any professional sports commentator - across any sport - that talks quite so much utter turgid shit as Rod Studd does at the darts. awful.

#TheDarts
#PremierLeagueDarts

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Peripatetic

traveling from place to place

The Girls' Schools Association

@gsauk.bsky.social

Peripatetic Teacher of Organ, The Godolphin and Latymer School. Closes: 03/06. https://jobs.gsa.uk.com/thegodolphinandlatymer/peripatetic-teacher-of-organ. #independentschooljobs #southwest-londonjobs #schooljobs

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Sully

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

Luke

@imlukefoster.bsky.social

Jericho and the Bucks have two names, one team. They’re sullying the innocence of Maine. #aewdynamite

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Attenuate

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

Oxford Optronix

@oxford-optronix.bsky.social

What if sleep apnea + hormone loss worsen liver oxygenation?

In an APS 2026 abstract, female rats exposed to chronic intermittent hypoxia showed higher MAP and reduced hepatic tissue pO₂. G1 treatment helped attenuate both.

#OxyLite enabled direct liver oxygen monitoring.

#SleepApnea #Hypoxia

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Delineate

1. to describe something very exactly 2. to trace the outline of; to sketch or trace an outline; to represent something in pictures or pictorially

Psychiatric Annals

@psychannals.bsky.social

The objective of this review is to identify psychotherapies with demonstrated effectiveness in suicide prevention and to delineate the common processes underlying clinical improvement.

Meretricious

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

@mnlib69.bsky.social

The puerile, meretricious sophistry used by the right wing extremist judges is laughably absurd.
EVERYONE CAN SEE how shallow their “reasoning” is and how obviously their intentions have immediately come to pass.

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