Stephenson gargoyle

A Stephenson gargoyle is anyone that carries (esp as a wearable device) devices that have Internet-access or other global area network(s) capabilities that they can utilize where-ever they go, esp while traveling. The most common form are smart phones, as of the date of this definition. Includes tablet computers, but not really laptops. Historically, this strictly referred to a computer that's worn, but this was more based on the limitations of miniaturization of computing hardware when the namesake of this term was devised. Worn networking information systems such as smart watches and smart glasses (esp with AR capabilities) are the most accurate examples in modern times.

Originated from a certain group of people in the Neil Stephenson cyberpunk novel Snow Crash: "Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. …they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time." Where the 'Metaverse' was the in-story equivalent of an Internet with VR requirements.

"She's covered in computer stuff. Is she a cyborg now?" "She's just wearing the computer; she's more of a Stephenson gargoyle."

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Firstname Bunchofnumbers

A username that starts off with a common word (often a first name) and ends with a bunch of numbers. Sometimes two names are used at the beginning, but it is always followed by a bunch of numbers.

This is generally the result of attempting to acquire a specific username that had already been taken and settling for one that starts with the desired username, but given a number to indicate they're just one of many.

This acceptance of a generic numbered naming convention is often suggested as the result of an account created for a sophisticated conversational AI, or bot, designed to propagate misinformation. This notion is especially convincing when the apparent bot starts writing in grammatically/logically incoherent replies.

It should be noted that someone willing to accept a name with a bunch of numbers is equally likely to commit comments/replies with incoherent replies and unconfirmed assertions as any bot.

When used to address someone whose name ends with a bunch of numbers, it is almost always implied that the addressee has shitty opinions.

"Hello my name is Firstname Bunchofnumbers and i have some incredibly shitty opinions" ~ the first use of the term as used by wuooods

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texas red

1. Texas Red or sulforhodamine 101 acid chloride is a red fluorescent dye, used in histology for staining cell specimens, for sorting cells with fluorescent-activated cell sorting machines, in fluorescence microscopy applications, and in immunohistochemistry. Texas Red fluoresces at about 615 nm, and the peak of its absorption spectrum is at 589 nm. The powder is dark purple. Solutions can be excited by a dye laser tuned to 595-605 nm, or less efficiently a krypton laser at 567 nm. The absorption extinction coefficient at 596 nm is about 85,000 M−1cm−1.

2. Texas Red, a character in the country ballad Big Iron by Marty Robbins

3. A wrestler ring name

1. #KeepTexasRed safely stored at -20° C so that it doesn't lose its cell-staining properties.

2. In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red
Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead
He was vicious and a killer, though a youth of twenty four
And the notches on his pistol numbered one and nineteen more

3. Rolland "Red" Bastien had gone by the moniker Texas Red for a time, but I think Mark William Calaway might be the more famous wrestler to have used Texas Red as their ring name before he took on the mantle of The Undertaker.

richsplaining

(of a a rich person) to comment on or explain something about those who are not rich (especially about those in poverty) in a condescending, overconfident, and often blatantly prevaricating. May be directed at person on how they should elevate themselves, in such a manner as to make apparent that wealthy person's lack of understanding of the realities of people that make less than middle class, especially the dynamics involved in economics for those in poverty.
They tend to focus on bad things that happen to other rich people like them and greatly understate when it occurs to those of lower economic standing and understating the extent of harms. includes attributing police confrontations, such as getting arrested and or shot, for criminal nature, rather than a tendency for law enforcement officers to arrest or shoot people of colorwhile simultaneously tending not to do so to other white individuals (especially rich individuals that might claim affluenza in such a case).
Often a very strong example of actor observer bias found in affluent populations.

Compare and contrast mansplaining where, instead of a rich person with no understanding of the dynamics of poverty talking down to a poor person, it's a man that might have some insight into a subject, talking down to a woman, thinking they're having an argument and explaining to a woman that already knows the information and, occasionally, turns out to be an expert in the field.

"If you had to work more than one job to have a roof over your head or food on the table, you probably shouldn't have taken the job that's not paying you enough. That'd be a you problem" Ben Shapiro richsplaining the mistake of accepting jobs to pay bills.

"It's been told that we are living through an epidemic of racially biased police shootings of black men. This, too, is false." - Heather Mac Donald: Thin, old white woman safely ensconced on her gated community richsplaining her disbelief over police violence.

"if you're poor stop being poor" - former New York Stock Exchange managing director Todd Wilemon richsplaining

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