Coined a new English word today:

"Exaceraiding": When you try to help and somehow make a situation worse. AKA "anti-helping".

Not sure which term I like best.

#neologism #FailedSuccessfully #AntiHelping #exaceraiding

"Knowledge bleed" #neologism #hallucination #AI
simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/... *Deep Blue: "the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to the encroachment of generative AI". #neologism #DeepBlue

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We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many …

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I'm going to start calling these characters "anglets": < > #neologism

TIL the term “bizlebrities”

#business #celebrity #neologism #language

engirthen (v), engirthenment (n)
#neologism

#funfact #uselessknowledge #neologism
I’ve just learned that there’s a word for those retired guys that are standing around construction sites and watching all day long.

I always thought they might be some illuminati or maybe lizard people, mind controlling all this world’s 🏗️ sites. But no- read and rejoice!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umarell

Umarell - Wikipedia

Aberystwyth [a neologism], n. "A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for." (coined by Douglas Adams)

I suffer.

#nostalgia #neologism #yearning #words

My goodness, they're right, and this #neologism, binfluencer, makes sense - there's absolutely people on our street who roll out their trash and recycling bins bang on 3pm the afternoon before trash pickup. If I'm home, its a pavlovian response from me. https://barrypopik.com/blog/binfluencer-bin-flu #words #binfluencer #portmanteau
"Binfluencer (bin·​flu·​enc·​er): The…

There are social media "influencers," and there is also the neighborhood "binfluencer" (bin + influencer). "Wheelie…

I’m *super* chuffed at this #neologism: “speed-run dialectics”