Taskalanche

A taskalanche is an event that occurs when a cohesive collection of tasks, usually in a vertical gains sufficient mass to overcome the friction permitting its precarious balance upon a sheer vertical mountain of other, typically older, tasks.

In contrast to an "avalanche" which slides and follows down a slope, a taskalanche typically topples. While there is often an initial diagonal rotational movement, the mass of tasks tends to become airborne, able to fly individually, then striking downward with an unnaturally coordinated and concentrated initial high-energy crushing impact followed by a trailing stream of additional tasks.

The precipitating event - commonly referred to as "the straw that broke the camels back" and other colorful metaphors - is usually the addition of one or more tasks in a haphazard or careless manner by a party ignorant of, or unconcerned with, the load-bearing capacity of the existing tasks and supportive structures.

Observers of a taskalanche may mock and/or sympathize with the victims, and there is a substantial amount of victim-blaiming, a belief that the victims brought this mess upon themselves through weakness such as procrastination, naiveté, idiocy, incompetence, ignorance, incontinence, negative karma, rambling run-on sentences, etc.

Victims of a taskalanche are typically defensive, believing all fault to lay with those that suggested or contributed the tasks, never their own failure to perform or be more selective about acceptance.

I just got hit with a taskalanche at work. I've been ignoring pointless tasks for years, and now suddenly they're all urgent and critical. Pick a lane, people.

dismisinformation

Information presented in an intentionally inflammatory light without regard for its accuracy nor responsibility for the effect of its presentation, sometimes to drive an agenda but often just to invoke a strong negative emotional response (see "trolling") that can be dismissed by any intelligent person without research or dispute based on the clear biases, logical fallacies, willful ignorance, and crude delivery.

Disinformation is a superset of information that includes attributed verifiable facts, misinformation (incorrect or misleading information presented as fact, either intentionally or unintentionally), disinformation (a subset of misinformation which is deliberately deceptive), and rumors (information not attributed to any particular source, and so are unreliable and often unverified, but can turn out to be either true or false) that is characterized primarily by delivery by idiots and trolls without interest in truth, only in "ratings", "upvotes", or perverse joy from evoking anger and hatred.

We now live in the dismisinformation age, inundated by a flood of disinformation and misinformation that empowers and escalates conflict without regard for humanity, truth, logic, reason, or the cost to human lives and the future of society.

Social media is a dismisinformation tool providing infinite noise to drown out truth; consuming it is akin to drinking radiator fluid in the hope it will cool down your emotions, without observing the warning labels nor caring that it is poison and will actually kill you, slowly and horrifically as demonstrated through many well-known tormented murders.

Purveyors of dismisinformation would suffer from cognitive dissonance if they were capable of believing the crap they were sharing as "truth".

Bag full of dollars

Synonym of "wallet". A portable container for holding any amount of currency, regardless of form.

The container does not need to be full, or even contain currency, as long as it is where one would normally look for currency.

This phrase may be used when one cannot recall the word "wallet" or desires to use a more informal term.

Remember to bring your .. your .. um .. "bag full of dollars" to the store.

worknap

Take an employee/coworker away from their work to attend a meeting without notice, usually by coercion and/or authority, sometimes with a promise of food (which will not materialize or fall far short of such promises), often specifically to "throw them under the bus" i.e. make the person a scapegoat.

I was just worknapped by my boss' boss for a two-hour meeting I didn't know about, but at least he said we'd have lunch. Then near the end, he said "well, food will be here in 20, we should probably switch topics to *whatever* and dismiss *names, including mine*. Thanks for your help."

Petalphile

A lover of succulent plants who practices proplifting - secretly taking fallen succulent leaves/pedals from others' plants - for the purpose of propagation (growing a new plant.)

Depending on context and emphasis, "petalphile" might be used as a derogatory term, but is usually heard as a quasi-humorous term of endearment.

"I saw you pocket those fallen succulent pedals in the store - you're such a petalphile." (Be sure to enunciate clearly to avoid ambiguity and confusion of this with the similar, but deadly serious, term from which this is a play on words.)

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Proplifting

The act of taking leaves or pedals fallen from succulent plants one doesn't own, typically without permission, for the purpose of succulent plant propagation (creating new plants.)

Proplift is a play on the word shoplift, and is used similarly as both a noun and a verb:

proplift (plural "proplifts")
proplifted (past-tense)
proplifting (noun, plural "propliftings"; verb, present participle of "proplift")

Use "proplift", "prop", or "props" to refer to the booty (taken leaves or pedals) of one or more "proplifts",
in the past-tense or abstract, while "proplifted"

Use "proplifting" in the abstract, when describing technique, and for the subreddit "r/proplifting".

"She showed me a proplift, five healthy props, that she had 'proplifted' from the store the other day."

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