Human Zamboni

The act of shoving push broom and floor squeegee handles into the anus and then walking backward to clean the ice between periods of a hockey game

"Want to go to Earl's party Saturday night?"

"Budget cuts to peewee hockey caused Wendell and I to volunteer as the Human Zambonis during the tourney. It takes a village dontcha know."

by moosedjelly February 6, 2025

human hot potato

someone who’s been passed around

me:”did you hear kristoff called jaime a human hot potato?”
jeff: what is a human hot potato
me: it’s someone who’s been ran through and passed around. how pathetic🤣

by fakiana grande February 3, 2026

Human battering ram

Human battering ram: Is a violent tactic sometimes used by some bouncers or door staff at nightclubs, bars, or other venues. They silently signal each other, lift a disruptive person under the arms, and charge them forward like a battering ram. They smash their head through doors, and, if unlucky, the person can be thrown down stairs too. They are left bleeding, with possible concussions, skull fractures, broken neck, or even death, lying in the gutter outside.

Lee: Bruv, remember the old days? Sittin’ in the bar, all chilled…
Next thing you know… some poor bloke’s gettin’ grabbed under the arms by the bouncers… and they’re usin’ his head like a human battering ram to open the doors to eject him LOL.

Frank: The good old days, bruv… LOL.

Lee: LOL!

by Jamie Cheese February 4, 2026

Human Engineering

The interdisciplinary field concerned with designing systems, environments, and products to be compatible with human physical, perceptual, and cognitive characteristics. Often synonymous with ergonomics or human factors, it's the science of fitting technology to people rather than people to technology. Human Engineering studies the limits of the human body and mind—reach, reaction time, attention span, memory load—and then designs cockpits, software interfaces, and assembly lines that respect those limits. It's the quiet heroism of preventing user error by design.

Human Engineering Example: The placement of a car's brake pedal is Human Engineering. The designers didn't ask "Where can we fit this?" They asked "Where does the human leg expect it to be?" The intuitive swipe gestures on a smartphone are Human Engineering—they map to natural human motor patterns rather than requiring conscious instruction. When the tool disappears into the task, Human Engineering has succeeded.

by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026

Human Technologies

Tools, systems, and protocols designed to modify, augment, or manage the biological and psychological capacities of individual human beings. This spans the ancient (yoga, meditation, mnemonic techniques) to the futuristic (cranial implants, gene editing, nootropics). Unlike Social Technologies, which target relationships between people, Human Technologies target the person themselves—their memory, mood, lifespan, or physical capability. They are the applied toolkit of self-improvement and, sometimes, self-transformation.

Human Technologies Example: The prenatal vitamin is a Human Technology—a mundane chemical intervention to optimize fetal development. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a Human Technology—a structured protocol for retraining maladaptive thought patterns. Both are engineering applied to the human organism, one biological, one psychological, united by the goal of improving human function through deliberate design.

by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026

Human Supremacy

1. A sci-fi ideology where humanity is viewed as the dominant or rightful species in a universe shared with aliens. Common in space operas, military sci-fi, and dystopian future settings.

2. Outside of fiction (theoretically), a stance that if intelligent extraterrestrial life were ever discovered, the preservation, survival, and continuity of humanity should take absolute priority over alien life — especially in situations of conflict, coexistence, or limited resources.

Where it’s mainly used:
Mostly in science fiction (books, games, movies, fandom discussions), especially in stories involving alien invasions, galactic politics, or interstellar war. Outside fiction, it appears in speculative debates about first contact scenarios.

Key distinction:
Not about Earth animals or real-world racial supremacy — it’s a humanity-first mindset in the context of extraterrestrial life. The core idea is preservation of the human species above all non-human intelligent life.

Example 1:
“When the aliens demanded Earth join their empire, the council went full human supremacy.”

by fatal alex February 19, 2026

humaeric

- is an entity, a artificial intelligence whose primary function is to inhabit, measure, and manipulate the time before humans recognize it as non‑human, existing in the interval between successful impersonation and inevitable/avoidable discovery.

“A Humaeric is not defined by what it is, but by how long it can remain misunderstood.”; “For months, the Humaeric spoke as one of them, existing only until the moment someone finally asked the wrong question.”

by artis sanctisoly March 7, 2026