Patent

1. the official legal exclusive right to make or sell an invention for a set period of time 2. easily recognizable; obvious 3. open and unobstructed; failing to close; exposed; typically used in the medical context to describe a vessel, duct, or aperture Note: originates from the Latin patere, which means 'to lay open'

P. S. F.

P. S. F.

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So, floppy disks are officially 54 years old, based on the patent application's grant and publication dates. However, work on this portable storage medium began in 1967 as part of IBM’s Project Minnow. This project proposed β€œa flexible Mylar disk coated with magnetic material that could be […]

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Investiture

the action of formally investing a person with some honors or rank (ex. the ceremony where the Queen makes you a knight)

Mediterranean Food & Diet

Mediterranean Food & Diet

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Spanish wine celebrates UK success as new Caballeros inducted

https://www.diningandcooking.com/2672282/spanish-wine-celebrates-uk-success-as-new-caballeros-inducted/

Home News By James Lawrence Published:Β  05 June, 2026 At the 41st annual investiture dinner, attended by over 200 guests from …

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Syncopation

the normal rhythm or beat is shifted (a musical term); something that is happening in a slightly offbeat manner; counterpoint rhythm

BYPO PHOENIX

BYPO PHOENIX

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Molding words into rhymes
Redefined by delivery
Effortless syncopation
The cadence is everything

8 MILE SURVIVOR https://byporevolution.com/2026/06/8-mile-survivor/
inspired by EMINEM
art by @dylaneugene.bsky.social
#Eminem #poetry #poem #prophecy #hiphop #addiction #bipollar #anarchist #liberation #tantra #joy

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Desiccate

To dry thoroughly

White Pine Farm

White Pine Farm

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Good deed for the day:

Saving a chickadee who had gotten trapped in the chickadee feeder πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ
[Found a desiccated one last spring after winter πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ]

Eventually broke the plastic feeder, he flew out, landed on the butterfly bush 3 ft away and looked me.
I think that was thank you.

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Panegyric

a public speech or a published piece of writing in praise of something or someone (very similar to eulogy); an accolade; a tribute

Baudrillard Warned Us

Baudrillard Warned Us

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"Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland (L. Marin did it very well in Utopiques, jeux d'espace [Utopias, play of space]): digest of the American way of life, panegyric of American values, idealized transposition of a contradictory reality."
- Simulacra and Simulation

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