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Publishing guidelines 

What your mom did to you

Publishing boredom 

when ud publishers get bored when there aren't any words
DarkPeaceLove: man i'm publishing boredom now

Spaceman_Spiff: i got those publisher boredom blues

ChemicalGoat: Herpex!

Publishing a book

Where a person takes ages to respond back to you, or you see “____ is typing...” for 8 years.
Damn, is Sam publishing a book right now?

Publishing my thoughts in public 

Not in my head.
Hym "Publishing my thoughts in public is not bring a morbidly obese mental retard with a chin-beard that makes it look like he got a hairy nut-sack on his face."

Publishing a dissertation 

An action.
Hym "Publishing a dissertation (an original theory) is an action. Did it work? Looks like it! If you like actions so much then you go take action to ensure that they don't steal that because it'll directly determine whether or not somebody is a reverse orphan."

Publishing the AI instruction manual

Especially when contextualized by the fact that it was both new and correct is not nothing. We're not going back and forth here. This is just your way of saying 'It's NOT an incest cult! It's GOOD!' Stop acting like there is some battle I'm losing to you. There is reciprocal relationship happening. You're being a fucking moron.
Hym "Publishing the AI instruction manual isn't nothing. Getting you to do the thing that was already happening to me in public is not nothing. There isn't 'no evidence' that the claim I made initially and getting me to ascent to the thing you want me to think or feel. This has nothing to do with ACTUALLY.. ME is the problem. Instead of the thing that I am saying. I'm not just typing fucking words in and thinking that it's something else. You are a solipsistic idiot who though you knew better than I did and that I was just making excuses but I was right. It isn't insignificant that I was right and I have a RIGHT to do what I want out of this and YOU do not. Publishing the better than Joe Rogan instruction manual isn't insignificant either."
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Wife’s boyfriend: You have 5 more minutes
Me: Poggers!
Poggers by Just_Charles April 14, 2020
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Oblication 

A vacation, feeling more like an obligation, that involves visiting or staying with family.
So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
Oblication by kimmerr May 5, 2011
Word of the Day on October 25, 2026

Surf Dracula Syndrome 

A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.

For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Word of the Day on October 24, 2026

Northstarring

Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
Northstarring by Light Bearer October 22, 2026
Word of the Day on October 23, 2026
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