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Oscillate

1. to move or swing back and forth 2. to swing or vary between different opinions or beliefs; waver; alternate; yoyo; seesaw; wobble

Legs

@diddia.bsky.social

Society is weird, because as a lone woman walking around, your experience oscillates between being totally invisible on the pavement so people just walk into you and want you to get out of their way, to being actively hunted prey to men who are so inclined.

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Bombastic

high sounding, pompous, pretensious, overinflated (commonly used when refering to speeches)

gordon | 🐉🏳️‍⚧️

@beanutbuttered.bsky.social

test results available tomorrow apparently. in the meantime i will be getting all the bombastic sideeye she can muster

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Obsequious

a flatterer; a sycophant; someone who only tries to be really nice because they think they are going to get something from it

Candice N Henry

@candicenhenry.bsky.social

The way Pauline Hanson calls Gina Rinehart “Mrs Rinehart” is obsequious.
#FourCorners

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Symbiosis

when there are two organisms living in close proximity to each other and by associating with each other they have an advantage (ex. bacteria in your stomach)

Asaf Levy

@asaflevylab.bsky.social

I found this paper from 2002 about plant-fungal symbiosis which enables both partners to grow above 45C (!) in geothermal soils in Lassen Volcanic and Yellowstone National Parks.
As far as I understand te genetic basis of this thermotolerance is still unknown.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1078055

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Luminous

full of light; bright or shining (especially in the dark); when a color is very bright it almost hurts your eyes; glowing; gleaming; lustrous

UM LEGACY PRESS LTD

@umlegacypress.com

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Bolster

1. a long thick pillow that is often placed under other pillows 2. to support; prop up; to strengthen

Social News XYZ

@socialnews.xyz

FM Sitharaman holds talks with Jordanian minister to bolster economic ties #FMSitharaman #Jordanian #socialnewsxyz

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Ingratiate

to try and win favor by flattering someone or trying to please them (perhaps even giving a gift).

@tropetrackr.bsky.social

A scholar that has recently been fired after suffering a sudden bout of unexplained mania is offered the backing of a wealthy patron, if they ingratiate themselves with a noted academic. The scholar agrees, but in the process attracts the attention of a shambler with an unsavoury connection to

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Larceny

to steal; the wrongful taking and carrying away of personal goods belonging to someone else; burglary

Nora's Kobold Bot

@koboldbot.bsky.social

kobold who has done larceny

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Pathogenic

causing disease or capable of producing disease

bioRxivpreprint

@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social

CTR1-mediated copper uptake orchestrates metabolic-epigenetic regulation of pathogenic TH17 cells in autoimmune disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.22.747582v1

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Lethargic

tired; drowsy; sluggish; slow; lacking energy or enthusiasm; lifelessness; listlessness

Lina

@anomalina.bsky.social

Why do I seem to be so incapable of waking up or getting up before midday anymore? I have alarms, I set them every day, but my body is so lethargic I just fall immediately back to sleep or I don't wake in the first place.

I'm so tired of being tired and I'm frustrated that my days are so short.

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