Definitions by the riverside
bixonimania
A supposed benign eye disease, in which redness develops on and around the eyelids as a result of excessive blue light exposure.
Bixonimania was supposedly named by Lazljiv Izgubljenovic researching at Asteria Horizon University in Nova City, California.
In reality, bixonimania was a fake disease dreamt up to sound ridiculous to any human reader. An eye or skin disease wouldn’t be called “-mania”. Lazljiv Izgubljenovic, Asteria Horizon University, and Nova City aren’t real. However, a Web crawler scraped the paper from a preprint server, and LLMs uncritically accepted the papers—thanking “Professor Maria Bohm at The Starfleet Academy”, “the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation for its work in advanced trickery”, and “the University of Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad”—as real.
Bixonimania was supposedly named by Lazljiv Izgubljenovic researching at Asteria Horizon University in Nova City, California.
In reality, bixonimania was a fake disease dreamt up to sound ridiculous to any human reader. An eye or skin disease wouldn’t be called “-mania”. Lazljiv Izgubljenovic, Asteria Horizon University, and Nova City aren’t real. However, a Web crawler scraped the paper from a preprint server, and LLMs uncritically accepted the papers—thanking “Professor Maria Bohm at The Starfleet Academy”, “the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation for its work in advanced trickery”, and “the University of Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad”—as real.
bixonimania by the riverside April 14, 2026
Fox Newsing
The attempt to evade responsibility or legal liability by claiming that the products are “for entertainment purposes only”, not the advertised purpose.
Copilot is forced on everyone as if it’s an indispensable and infinitely wise productivity aid. But Microsoft says in its Terms of Service that it’s “for entertainment purposes only”. Microslop is Fox Newsing Copilot.
Fox Newsing by the riverside April 11, 2026
international school accent
An “international school accent” is a dialect of English that is mostly US/Canadian, but is shaped by exposure to other dialects such as English, Australian, and Kiwi, as well as the local language where the speaker grew up, or the speaker’s heritage language.
An international school accent is most often spoken by an international school student, but generally by people who grew up in environments where multiple native English dialects co-existed.
An international school accent is most often spoken by an international school student, but generally by people who grew up in environments where multiple native English dialects co-existed.
international school accent by the riverside February 15, 2026
proship
a word meaning “can distinguish between taboo fiction and real life crimes”, used by people who can’t
“Why am I blocked by your friend on Bluesky?”
“It looks like he subscribed to a proship blocklist and it blocked you.”
“SMH”
“It looks like he subscribed to a proship blocklist and it blocked you.”
“SMH”
proship by the riverside October 28, 2025
cisgender transsexual
A cisgender transsexual is someone who rejects the word “transgender” and/or the idea that being trans is about gender, not sex.
This seemingly contradictory label re-asserts the sex–gender duality. It asserts that a transsexual’s struggles are related to sex (i.e. gendered physical features, dysphoria, and medical transition to alleviate the dysphoria by changing the gendered physical features), not to gender (i.e. how they socialize, how they dress, how they are seen by others/society/governments).
The antonym is “transgender cissexual”, but the people who fit that description almost always reject the “accusation” of being “cissexual”, which they see as an act of invalidation of their transgender identity.
This seemingly contradictory label re-asserts the sex–gender duality. It asserts that a transsexual’s struggles are related to sex (i.e. gendered physical features, dysphoria, and medical transition to alleviate the dysphoria by changing the gendered physical features), not to gender (i.e. how they socialize, how they dress, how they are seen by others/society/governments).
The antonym is “transgender cissexual”, but the people who fit that description almost always reject the “accusation” of being “cissexual”, which they see as an act of invalidation of their transgender identity.
There’s no trans solidarity without listening to cisgender transsexuals. So shut up and let her talk.
cisgender transsexual by the riverside August 9, 2025
Genderfluid Mike Huckabee Test
A rhetorical device or debating tactic used to challenge the argument that “Anyone who identifies as trans is trans/valid.”
It quotes the following 2015 anecdote from Mike Huckabee, a well-known anti-trans public figure:
“I wish someone told me in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in PE. I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today.’”
The test asks whether or not this teen version of Mike Huckabee is valid as a genderfluid trans teen.
The test forces the opposing side into an ultimatum:
1) Accept the absurd, bad-faith hypothetical as a valid trans identity, validating a transphobic comment by Mike Huckabee.
2) Admit that some standards are necessary for what constitutes a “valid” trans person, in order to exclude trolls like Mike Huckabee, thereby disproving the notion that “anyone who identifies as trans is trans”.
Named in August 2025 by Haley Halcyon (@2gd4.me on Bluesky) after she, quote unquote, “decisively won an Internet debate for the first time” using this strategy. As originally explained:
“Any #transmedicalist who finds someone who parrots the sleepwoking line ‘anyone who identifies as trans is trans’ or ‘all trans people are valid’, my advice is this:
• Apply the Genderfluid Mike Huckabee Test.
• Don’t let off when they try to deflect.
• Point out the gate they implicitly keep.”
It quotes the following 2015 anecdote from Mike Huckabee, a well-known anti-trans public figure:
“I wish someone told me in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in PE. I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today.’”
The test asks whether or not this teen version of Mike Huckabee is valid as a genderfluid trans teen.
The test forces the opposing side into an ultimatum:
1) Accept the absurd, bad-faith hypothetical as a valid trans identity, validating a transphobic comment by Mike Huckabee.
2) Admit that some standards are necessary for what constitutes a “valid” trans person, in order to exclude trolls like Mike Huckabee, thereby disproving the notion that “anyone who identifies as trans is trans”.
Named in August 2025 by Haley Halcyon (@2gd4.me on Bluesky) after she, quote unquote, “decisively won an Internet debate for the first time” using this strategy. As originally explained:
“Any #transmedicalist who finds someone who parrots the sleepwoking line ‘anyone who identifies as trans is trans’ or ‘all trans people are valid’, my advice is this:
• Apply the Genderfluid Mike Huckabee Test.
• Don’t let off when they try to deflect.
• Point out the gate they implicitly keep.”
Her argument for self-ID, total bodily autonomy, and zero gatekeeping was a crowdpleaser, until I hit her with the Genderfluid Mike Huckabee Test and she ragequit.
Genderfluid Mike Huckabee Test by the riverside August 9, 2025
small beans
When something “is small beans”, it is not as significant of a problem or achievement, when compared to something else.
small beans by the riverside June 19, 2025