1. Neologism: Avocado Toast

   • money
   • neologisms

   Avocado toast (n): a cheap luxury, especially one which is perceived as being very expensive but is actually trivial; can also refer to the trivial cost thereof.

   "Oh, hey, when can I drop off that fleece you loaned me?"

   "Nah, keep it. It's just avocado toast."

   Avocado toast (v): To reduce your spending by a trivial amount, (i.e., by the cost of avocado toast).

   "Oh shit. How are we going to pay to fix the car?"

   "We could... stop eating out?"

   "The frame is bent, it's leaking coolant, and the front bumper is in a tree. I don't think …

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2. Neologism: Thousand meter stare

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   • neologisms
   • work

   thousand meter stare - noun phrase - Watching multiple poorly designed dashboards jam packed with graphs, meters, gauges, and other barely useful metrics, day in and day out. If you imagine the thousand yard stare into multiple displays showing said dashboards, that's it.

   Inspiration: Rev. Nikolai Kingsley

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3. Neologism: Shark mode

   • neologisms
   • software

   shark mode - noun phrase - The state in which a given piece of software is sufficiently developed that it doesn't really need any additional work, save to keep it working in more modern environments. Comes from the idea that sharks haven't evolved notably in millions of years because they haven't had to. They're so perfectly suited to their environment that any changes are minimal at best.

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4. Neologism: Profit Honeymoon

   • business
   • neologisms
   • petroleum
   • profit

   profit honeymoon - noun phrase - When the price of a barrel of oil goes up (or when something occurs that could eventually make it go up) the price at the pump goes up immediately. But when the price of crude goes down, there's always a 1 to 3 month lag time before the price at the pump goes down. If it goes down.

   Source: @emsprater1 and @jaydcarr

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5. Neologism: Strossian nightmare

   • charles stross
   • covid
   • life
   • neologisms

   Strossian Nightmare - noun phrase - Where the Great Old Ones haven't taken control, but things have gotten so bad that you wish they had.

   Source: @tautology

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6. Neologism: wad;dis

   • neologisms
   • software
   • sysadmin
   • work

   wad;dis - Working As Designed; Design Is Stupid

   Source: Anonymous co-worker

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7. Neologism: Follicular surveillance

   • neologisms
   • surveillance
   • vanity

   follicular surveillance - when you use the "you are under surveillance" screens at self-service checkouts to check on the progress of your androgenic alopecia.

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8. Neologism: Pandemic Fine

   • covid
   • life
   • neologisms

   pandemic fine - noun phrase - A state of being in which you are employed and healthy during a pandemic but you're also tired and depressed and feel like trash all the time.

   Source: @sarahesmith23

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9. Neologism: Octopus mud wrestling

   • neologisms
   • problems
   • technology
   • work

   octopus mud wrestling - A situation where multiple conflicting problems and solutions come together to prevent anyone from accomplishing anything useful. Every possible step toward a solution causes two other problems that further complicate things. Sometimes this means that something can't be fixed at all and a forklift upgrade is required. Sometimes attempts to fix everything cause an outage to occur, ruining everybody's day. So called because everything is dirty, messy, confusing, constantly changing and nobody will have any idea what's actually going on until it's over.

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10. Neologism: Macgyver-Sherlock Effect

    • neologisms
    • problems
    • solutions

    macgyver-sherlock effect - When it's far easier to improvise a solution to a problem than it is to find the people who're actually responsible for fixing it. A fairly normal state of affairs for very large organizations.

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