Bad Bitch Appointment

An appointment with/for a bad bitch. An event in which a bad bitch is involved. Could be a hair appointment for a bad bitch, or a date with a beautiful successful goddess. Also known as a “BBA”

*Example 1*
Friend: who’s texting you?

Me: my ex, trying to get me to come over again.
Friend: smh. he’s always trying to make a Bad Bitch Appointment.

*Example 2*
Friend: are you busy next Tuesday?
Me: yeah, I have a BBA.

Friend: with who!?
Me: my therapist.

by Thatgirlscrookedtooth March 17, 2022

five-finger dental appointment

A brutal or sudden physical altercation, often a punch to the face, results in immediate or perceived dental consequences, such as a broken tooth, a bleeding mouth, or the implication that the recipient now needs an emergency visit to the dentist.

Somebody gave him a five-finger dental appointment after messing with a woman.

by Doctor WTF April 22, 2025

Critical Theory of Apophenia

The parallel critique aimed at apophenia (seeing connections in random data). It argues that branding meaningful correlations as "apophenia" is a positivist trick to invalidate knowledge systems based on symbolism, synchronicity, or theology. By this critical view, the scientist connecting climate data to CO2 levels and the mystic connecting personal events to astrological signs are performing the same fundamental cognitive operation. The theory holds that what counts as a "real connection" versus a "spurious one" is determined by cultural and ideological power, not by a neutral empirical standard. To call everything apophenia is to declare all meaning subjective and arbitrary.

Example: A data analyst dismisses a traditional healer's method of diagnosing illness by reading patterns in tea leaves as apophenia. The healer, informed by the Critical Theory of Apophenia, responds: "And you diagnose a recession by reading patterns in lines on a chart (GDP, unemployment). You call yours 'science' because your pattern has a mathematical model and institutional backing. I call mine 'wisdom' because my pattern has centuries of cultural context. You are using your paradigm to pathologize mine. The act of connection-seeking is universal."

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 6, 2026

InApol (Involuntary Apoliticism)

A term for people who are involuntarily apolitical—not by choice, but because they have been rejected from all possible political groups and communities due to having unique political views, positions outside the standard political spectrum, or views that don't fit any existing category. InApols are the orphans of the political world: they want to belong, to participate, to have a political home, but no group will have them. Left, right, center, libertarian, authoritarian, green, nationalist—all find them too strange, too inconsistent, too threatening. They wander the political landscape alone, their views ignored, their voices unheard, their participation impossible. InApol is the condition of those who are political by nature but homeless by circumstance.

InApol (Involuntary Apoliticism) Example: "She held views that combined elements of socialism and traditionalism, environmentalism and localism—positions that made sense to her but fit nowhere. The left called her conservative; the right called her radical; the center called her confused. She applied to every group, joined every community, and was rejected from all. She was InApol: involuntarily apolitical, wanting to belong but belonging nowhere. Politics happened around her; she watched, unrepresented, unwelcome, alone."

by Dumu The Void February 18, 2026