cease and desist

when a large corporation contacts you with the direct instructions to stop doing something and not do it again. generally because they have legal rights to object you are copying or distributing.

letters sent to suprnova.org and many other bit torrent sites hosting torrents of copyrighted material.

cease and desist by bigposerhead February 7, 2005

cease and desist

A legal term literally meaning, "stop what(ever) your doing and don't do it again." Hence, "cease" meaning to "stop," and "desist" meaning to "not do again in the future."

Usually used by a person or party against another person or party when they are doing something that they find: offensive, strange, violating, embarrassing, shady, etc.

cease and desist cease & desist back off stop cease desist legal

cease and desist by xthomasbhx January 23, 2016

Cease and Desist

I mean, you'd think I would have gotten one of these... Right? Like, if what I've done here was so horrible someone would have taken legal action and I would have gotten something in the mail or an email or something... Right? Like... Is that not a strange thing?

Hym "I mean, you'd think I would have gotten a cease and desist or something, right? I mean, can you imagine a guy DOING THIS and the just... nothing? NOTHING happens!? Why is that the case!? Really! I mean, the quality of television and movies radically improved but that's like THE OPPOSITE of what you'd think would happen, isn't it? How am I the only one baffled here? Imagine explain this to someone. What is the first question they would ask? You go into detail about everything I've done and what do you think they would ask? 'Well, what happened?' NOTHING! NOTHING HAPPENED. Well, nothing that wasn't ALREADY HAPPENING. And then they would give you some confused look and you'd be all 'Yeah, crazy right?' I do see how this is a thing that is happening and the fact that the people around me are in no way amenable to reason is something that should be disconcerting to everyone.:

Cease and Desist by Hym Iam August 26, 2023

Grindset

The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.

“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”

Grindset by Omega-Male May 22, 2026

jerb 

well known from south park
rednecks get angrry that future folk took there jobs so they yell
They took ouare jerbs!

Them future folk took ouare jerbs!

jerb by Jimberley Kim April 7, 2005

Cheeks 

An Irish phrase meaning shit, derived from ass
(Not to be confused with the literal description of one's buttocks)

"Did you hear the song Aylek$ dropped?"
"Hardly. Her music is absolute cheeks."

"My boyfriend say LaFlame is cheeks."
"Tell your boyfriend I said it's his mixtape that's cheeks."

Cheeks by thecartisan April 26, 2020

sans sheriff 

Lawless use of fonts or typography, with no regard to aesthetics or legibility

I'm putting this CV straight in the bin. Written totally sans sheriff.

sans sheriff by Jamarley July 3, 2019