Relativistic Travel

Getting from A to B at a high enough velocity that Einstein's Special Relativity stops being a math problem and becomes your travel agent. The key feature is time dilation: for the travelers moving at a substantial fraction of light speed, time passes slower than for the people they left behind. You can cross the galaxy within a human lifetime... but you'll return to a future where everyone you know is dust.

*Example: The classic Twin Paradox. One twin blasts off on a round-trip to a star 10 light-years away at 99% light speed. For her, the journey might take 15 years. She comes home only 15 years older. But on Earth, over 20 years have passed. Her stay-at-home brother is now older than her. This isn't sci-fi magic; it's a direct prediction of tested physics. Relativistic travel is the ultimate "you can't go home again" scenario, because home exists thousands of years in your future.*

Relativistic Travel by Abzugal January 24, 2026

Relativistic Travel

Travel at speeds close to the speed of light, where relativistic effects (time dilation, length contraction, mass increase) become significant. Unlike faster‑than‑light travel (which is speculative), relativistic travel is physically possible, albeit extremely challenging. A spacecraft accelerating to 0.99c would allow crew to reach distant stars within their lifetimes due to time dilation, while centuries pass on Earth. Relativistic travel is a staple of hard science fiction, offering a plausible (if slow) way to cross interstellar distances without breaking physics. However, energy requirements are astronomical, and collisions with interstellar dust become deadly.

Example: “The generation ship wasn’t needed; with relativistic travel, the crew would age only five years while Earth aged a hundred. They would arrive, but their world would be long gone.”

Relativistic Travel by Abzugal April 30, 2026

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

Breadhead 

Someone who is addicted to obtaining money and building wealth. A money addict and fanatic. Breadheads often work more than one full-time job, and some even participate in illicit activities to "obtain the bread".

A breadhead is like a crackhead, but for money instead of crack.

Breadhead by 🅱️ U S 3 4 8 March 30, 2022