mshaler's definitions

Exoneural misophonia

When your partner’s pain is so acute that it feels like it’s shrieking at you radiating through your partner’s exhausted sleepless body

Another sleepless night for both of us kept up by Exoneural Misophonia.

by mshaler May 30, 2025

annus vesanus

2020

Look, 2020 has been an annus vesanus. Please stop.

by mshaler December 27, 2020

qualified impunity

When the police take qualified immunity MANY steps to far in the oppression and murder of black citizens.

Derek Chavin is the embodiment of actions made under the racist oppressive ethos of qualified impunity.

by mshaler June 23, 2020

nippledrift

The case in which nipples do not appear where one reasonably expects them under clothing that binds and misdirects them.

My eyes are up here! It's just nippledrift!

by mshaler August 27, 2019

ambiurnal

Someone who is both nocturnal and diurnal, with flexible sleep patterns.

Suzie is a bad ass, going all day and sometimes all night: she recovers from sleep deprivation better than anybody I know. She must be ambiurnal....

by mshaler July 8, 2019

minnesquito

The official state predatory insect of the Land of Lakes.

Last night at Ted's party I got ravaged relentlessly by Minnesquitos.

by mshaler July 1, 2019

Chalkulosis

Coughing in the midst of billowing clouds of magnesium carbonate filling rock climbing gyms, especially after New Years.

Thought I was going to expel a lung.
Nah bro, that's just resolution-obsessive chalkulosis.

by mshaler January 9, 2019