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Jesse Sheidlower<p>New old-skool entries for the Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dictionary</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a>: "interspace" as noun and adj. (in rather different meanings) both from the 1920s, both now rare.</p><p><a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/2769/interspace" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfdictionary.com/view/2769/int</span><span class="invisible">erspace</span></a><br><a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/3038/interspace" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfdictionary.com/view/3038/int</span><span class="invisible">erspace</span></a></p>
Dining & Cooking<p>The Political Journey of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl <a href="https://www.diningandcooking.com/2179593/the-political-journey-of-german-chancellor-helmut-kohl/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">diningandcooking.com/2179593/t</span><span class="invisible">he-political-journey-of-german-chancellor-helmut-kohl/</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/britannica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>britannica</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictionary</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/encyclopaedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>encyclopaedia</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Encyclopedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Encyclopedia</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/GermanWine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GermanWine</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Online" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Online</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Reference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reference</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/store" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>store</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/thesaurus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thesaurus</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Wine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wine</span></a></p>
Jesse Sheidlower<p>Important new fandom entries for the Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dictionary</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a>: Bob Tucker–related terms, referring to the use of real people's names in a work of fiction. _Tuckerism, -ization, -ize, -ized_. 1950s onward.</p><p><a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/1890/tuckerism" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfdictionary.com/view/1890/tuc</span><span class="invisible">kerism</span></a><br><a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/3033/tuckerization" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfdictionary.com/view/3033/tuc</span><span class="invisible">kerization</span></a><br><a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/1436/tuckerize" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfdictionary.com/view/1436/tuc</span><span class="invisible">kerize</span></a><br><a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/3034/tuckerized" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfdictionary.com/view/3034/tuc</span><span class="invisible">kerized</span></a></p>
Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lauren</span></a></span> <br>THAT was festive?!?<br><a href="https://social.coop/tags/TrumpParade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpParade</span></a><br><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dictionary</span></a></p>
Jesse Sheidlower <p>That thing when a young person first realizes that the word <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23dictionary" target="_blank">#dictionary</a> can be shortened in ways that might be regarded as amusing. "I fell asleep in the library with my dic in my hand," etc. Oh, sweet summer child.</p>
Dining & Cooking<p>Inside Germany’s Booming City | Hamburg’s Urban Development <a href="https://www.diningandcooking.com/2129488/inside-germanys-booming-city-hamburgs-urban-development/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">diningandcooking.com/2129488/i</span><span class="invisible">nside-germanys-booming-city-hamburgs-urban-development/</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/britannica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>britannica</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictionary</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/encyclopaedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>encyclopaedia</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Encyclopedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Encyclopedia</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/GermanWine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GermanWine</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Online" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Online</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Reference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reference</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/store" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>store</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/thesaurus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thesaurus</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Wine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wine</span></a></p>
HalJor :propride:<p>Per source: "The slang definition of "fridge" in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, as of this week, reads;</p><p> "to kill/harm a character (in a movie, show, etc.) to motivate another" and "To fridge a (usually female) character in a movie, television show, comic book, etc., is to kill them off or seriously harm/abuse/violate them in some way (as a writer) for the purposes of motivating or furthering the development of another (usually male) character. Fridging is considered, and widely criticized as, a storytelling cliché."</p><p>"And it cites "This use of fridge is attributed to comics/television/novel writer Gail Simone, who in 1999 published a list of over 100 comic book characters, all women, who were killed, injured, tortured, etc., on a website called "Women in Refrigerators." The website's name comes from an issue of a Green Lantern comic in which the superhero finds that his girlfriend has been murdered by a villain and stuffed into a refrigerator."</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>comics</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GailSimone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GailSimone</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictionary</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bleedingcool.com/comics/gail-simone-definition-of-fridge-now-in-merriam-webster-dictionary/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bleedingcool.com/comics/gail-s</span><span class="invisible">imone-definition-of-fridge-now-in-merriam-webster-dictionary/</span></a></p>
Jesse Sheidlower<p>New <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nanotechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nanotechnology</span></a> entry for the Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dictionary</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a>: "gray goo", which I've been sitting on for years because of bibliographical issues.</p><p><a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/2591/gray-goo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfdictionary.com/view/2591/gra</span><span class="invisible">y-goo</span></a></p><p>(Basically, this is always credited to K. Eric Drexler's _Engines of Creation_, but it was used early by a journalist who was embedded in Drexler's group at MIT.)</p>
Dining & Cooking<p>Is There Any Benefit to Red Wine Baths? <a href="https://www.diningandcooking.com/2110625/is-there-any-benefit-to-red-wine-baths/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">diningandcooking.com/2110625/i</span><span class="invisible">s-there-any-benefit-to-red-wine-baths/</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/britannica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>britannica</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictionary</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/encyclopaedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>encyclopaedia</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Encyclopedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Encyclopedia</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/GermanWine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GermanWine</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Online" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Online</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Reference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reference</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/store" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>store</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/thesaurus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thesaurus</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Wine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wine</span></a></p>
Jesse Sheidlower<p>Important additions from (modern) fandom for the Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dictionary</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a>: "fix-it", adj. &amp; n., from 1999 and 2001 respectively. Cites from LiveJournal, Tumblr, the Fanfic Symposium, &amp;c.</p><p><a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/2394/fix-it" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfdictionary.com/view/2394/fix</span><span class="invisible">-it</span></a><br><a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/3031/fix-it" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfdictionary.com/view/3031/fix</span><span class="invisible">-it</span></a></p><p>Excited to be devoting more effort to this area, which has not been given enough lexicographic attention, I think.</p>
WordofTheHour<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictionary</span></a> : a book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings</p><p>- French: dictionnaire</p><p>- German: das Wörterbuch</p><p>- Italian: dizionario</p><p>- Portuguese: dicionário</p><p>- Spanish: diccionario</p><p>------------</p><p>Thank you so much for being a member of our community!</p>
Michael Martinez :verified:<p>I have revised and expanded the SEO Theory glossary.</p><p><a href="https://www.seo-theory.com/seo-glossary/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">seo-theory.com/seo-glossary/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/seo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seo</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/searchengineoptimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>searchengineoptimization</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/searchengines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>searchengines</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/glossary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glossary</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictionary</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/terminology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>terminology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/jargon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jargon</span></a></p>
Jesse Sheidlower<p>New entries for the Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dictionary</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a>: "universe-wide", as both adjective and adverb. From 1930s and 1950s respectively; joining existing entry pairs "galaxy-wide" and "planet-wide".</p><p><a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/2777/universe-wide" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfdictionary.com/view/2777/uni</span><span class="invisible">verse-wide</span></a><br><a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/3032/universe-wide" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfdictionary.com/view/3032/uni</span><span class="invisible">verse-wide</span></a></p>
Jesse Sheidlower<p>A new entry for the Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dictionary</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a> in no one's favorite category: languages of solar system bodies! Today's entrant "Ganymedian". As with the others, fairly rare, mostly mid-20th C.</p><p><a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/2632/ganymedian" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfdictionary.com/view/2632/gan</span><span class="invisible">ymedian</span></a></p>
Jesse Sheidlower <p>Exciting news: Today sees the publication of the <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Dictionary" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a> of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, edition 3! This finally integrates the content of DCHP-1 (1967) with DCHP-2 (2017), while adding a few hundred new entries. Congrats to <a class="mention" href="https://bsky.app/profile/canelab.bsky.social" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@canelab.bsky.social</a> for getting this done! <a href="https://dchp.arts.ubc.ca" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">dchp.arts.ubc.ca</a><br><br><a href="https://dchp.arts.ubc.ca" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">DCHP-3</a></p>
Jesse Sheidlower<p>Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dictionary</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a> new entry: I've been sitting on the complex "fan service" for two years, during which time other dicts. have finally entered it, but ours is earlier ;-) Enjoy!</p><p><a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/2650/fan-service" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfdictionary.com/view/2650/fan</span><span class="invisible">-service</span></a></p>
Jesse Sheidlower <p>Historical <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Dictionary" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a> of <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ScienceFiction" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> new entry: I've been sitting on the complex "fan service" for two years, during which time other dicts. have finally entered it, but ours is earlier ;-) Enjoy! <a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/2650/fan-service" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">sfdictionary.com/view/2650/fa...</a><br><br><a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/2650/fan-service" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Historical Dictionary of Scien...</a></p>
That_Damn_Frank<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.community/@SharonCrockett" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>SharonCrockett</span></a></span> <br>Also,</p><p>cordyceps fungus - what TFG puts on his salad to give him that 'health orange glow'.</p><p>Ellie &amp; Dina - the only people left who can free us from TFG.</p><p>&lt; Dina is a high priority target on TFG's list as her skin is not lily-white and she is pregnant &gt; </p><p>&lt; Ellie's Super Power is that no matter how many times she is bitten, she will never convert to Maga &gt;</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dictionary</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Regime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Regime</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPS</span></a></p>
Felix Palmen :freebsd: :c64:<p>Now that <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/swad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>swad</span></a> 0.7 is released, it's time to prepare a new release of <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/poser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poser</span></a>, my own lib supporting <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/services" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>services</span></a> on <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/POSIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>POSIX</span></a> systems, following a <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/reactor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reactor</span></a> with <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/threadpool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>threadpool</span></a> design.</p><p>During development of swad, I moved poser from using strictly only POSIX APIs (with the scalability limits of e.g. <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/select" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>select</span></a>) to auto-detected support for <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/kqueue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kqueue</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/epoll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epoll</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/eventports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eventports</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/signalfd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>signalfd</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/timerfd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>timerfd</span></a> (so now it could, in theory(!), "compete" with e.g. libevent). I also fixed quite some hidden bugs, and added more base functionality, like a <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictionary</span></a> using nested hashtables internally, or <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/async" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>async</span></a> tasks mimicking the async/await pattern known from e.g, <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/csharp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>csharp</span></a>. I also deprecated two features, the periodic and global "service tick" (superseded by individual timers) and the "resolve hosts" property of a "connection" (superseded by a separate resolve class).</p><p>I'll have to decide on a few things, e.g. whether I'll remove the deprecated stuff immediately and bump the major version of the "posercore" lib. I guess I'll do just that. I'd also like to add all the web-specific stuff (http 1.0/1.1 server) that's currently part of the swad code as a "poserweb" lib. This would get a major version of 0, indicating a generally unstable API/ABI as of now....</p><p>And then, I'd have to decide where certain utility classes belong to. The rate limiter is probably useful for things other than web, so it should probably go to core. What about url encoding/decoding, for example? 🤔</p><p>Stay tuned, something will come here, maybe helping you to write a nice service in plain <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>C</span></a> 😎:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/Zirias/poser" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/Zirias/poser</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
theNameless<p>for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictionary</span></a> nuts, to conspire is to plot wickedness in secret. a conspiracy is the plotters and their plan. a theory is a set of statements that have been repeatedly tested.</p><p>We said, based on observed patterns, we can see these people are enacting wicked plots against us in these areas and ways.</p><p>...you laughed and called us crazy, without ever rising to see what we could.</p><p>...they did the same to Nuh, and floods DO make everything rise..</p><p>..but not everything floats as well as a boat.</p>
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