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Grousing Distance

A messurementof distance in referance to a man fireing a smaw
You talkin mad-shit

For someone in Grousing Distance
by Koenigseggre October 14, 2019
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digital distancing

Precautions that should be taken against incoming calls, messages and notifications by other people during pandemic.
I am going to go crazy, I look at the phone more than usual. I want digital distancing too urgent.
by kiliczsh April 15, 2020
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Social Distance Warrior

Someone who takes it upon themselves to walk around and tell people off if they're too close
I had this social distance warrior have a go at us because we were too close together
by SmegheadRimmer July 15, 2020
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Distance Climb

Distance climbing is the act of climbing or scaling a surface in a video game that’s cool!
“Hey check it out, Todd is playing among us, AND HES DISTANCE CLIMBING!”
by The real alix August 3, 2023
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distance screeching

A feeling when conditions from the past are haunting us and still make noises in our heads, although they seem to be distant. Can apply to historical conditions. Past events influence today’s minds and actions. E.g. our own past, as well as societal, institutional pasts inevitably shape theories and how we look at them. What we teach and learn today is intertwined with our past. Echoes reproduce power structures and reach into the present. The original sound can deform, how it is heard from a distance changes (e.g. become shriller). Although today many look on colonialism more critically, it still shapes institutions, worldviews, actions. It is visible in the books resting in our libraries, in the accessibility of institutions (Decolonising Knowledge: What Is Decolonisation? | Rolando Vázquez Melken 5:24), how history is told by western museums. We must recognize and draw attention to this screeching (e.g. as one can see in the actions Mwazulu Diyabanza does in Museums (Gimlet)). We need to question who owns, who tells stories, defines, has power, whose voices are being heard? To decolonize we must recognize that power structures are still active. We must question the sounds from the past without denying they exist, but by reshaping how we perceive them and making sure they are not repeated, by making sure they are not echoes.

Sources:
Decolonising Knowledge: What Is Decolonisation? Rolando Vázquez Melken. 2021.
Gimlet. I Want To Report A Theft.
“I still have a distance screeching.”

“I think you got distance screeching.”

“These theories are distance screeched. *”

*However, colonial power structures should be labeled as such as clear as possible. The proposed term should be seen more as an additional visualization.
by l;;;; December 10, 2023
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longing distance

The space, literal and emotional, between yourself and another person, hoping for their safety and well-being, wishing you could be together when you are inescapably separated during the pandemic.
Unable to help in any way, hoping each day that she would remain well, wishing he could simply be where she was, the longing distance was at times unbearable.
by Monkey's Dad April 4, 2020
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social distancing

the distance required to render your other party's Second Life avatar inside your augmented reality glasses.
"Please excuse me. I didn't realise you were an eight foot tall fairy elf princess because I wasn't practicing the proper social distancing."
by pseudoraphael May 23, 2020
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