Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

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Material things I know, or feel, or see;
All else is immaterial to me.
—Jamrach Holobom
(also: moral backsliding)
(also: the devils dictionary)

(adj.) a good state for the world to be in.
a good state for any real system to be in, really.

(also: rivers)
(also: healing)
(also: health)

To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To effect a change of ownership with the candid concomitance of a brass band. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanished opportunity.
(also: valhalla calling me)
(also: my mother told me)
(also: bad parents)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Grantarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility.

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Ambitious fool! so mad to be a show!
How profitless the labor you bestow
Upon a dwelling whose magnificence
The tenant neither can admire nor know.

Build deep, build high, build massive as you can,
The wanton grass-roots will defeat the plan
By shouldering asunder all the stones
In what to you would be a moment's span.

Time to the dead so all unreckoned flies
That when your marble is all dust, arise,
If wakened, stretch your limbs and yawn —
You'll think you scarcely can have closed your eyes.

What though of all man's works your tomb alone
Should stand till Time himself be overthrown?
Would it advantage you to dwell therein
Forever as a stain upon a stone?
—Joel Huck
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

to burgle with bravado

Avtomat Kalashnikova model of 1947, more commonly known as the AK-47, or Kalashnikov. It's the worlds most popular assault rifle, a weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple nine pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood, it doesn't break, jam, or overheat. It will fire whether it's covered in mud or filled with sand. It's so easy even a child could use it, and they do. The Soviets put the gun on a coin. Mozambique put it on their flag. Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people's greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists. One thing is for sure, no one was lining up to buy their cars.

Nature's provision for wealthy American maids ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) a room above your house, for storing old things and providing a sporting hiding place for menacing intruders

(n.) 1) a lowly delinquent and a no-goodnik; 2) a variety of music that revels in one's delinquency and no-goodnikness

Noun. The mystical force that transforms ordinary humans into button-pressing, world-changing wizards, or sometimes just makes the toaster work.

(also: power dynamics)

(n.) what will eat the world whole, if allowed.

(also: arrogance)

AFAB
Agender
Aliagender
AMAB
Androgyne
Aporagender
Bigender
Binarism
Body dysphoria
Boi
Butch
Cisgender
Cisnormativity
Cissexism
Demiboy
Demigender
Dyadic
Feminine-of-center
Feminine-presenting
Femme
Female-to-male (FTM)
Gender apathetic
Gender binary
Gender dysphoria
Gender normative
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Gender questioning
Gender variant
Genderfluid
Genderlove
Genderqueer
Graygender
Intergender
Intersex
Masculine-of-center
Masculine-presenting
Maverique
Misgender

Male-to-female (MTF)

Multi-gender
bigender
trigender
pangender
polygender
Neutrois
Nonbinary
Novigender
Pangender
Polygender
Sex assigned at birth
Social dysphoria
Soft butch
Stone butch
Third gender
Transfeminine
Transgender or trans
Transmasculine
Transitioning
Transsexual
Trigender
Two-spirit

(1809 -– 1882) –Scientist who proposed and popularised theory of evolution.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: charles darwin quotes)

A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.
(also: space)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

n. One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

n. A lawyer with a roving commission.


(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

A filial coup de grâce whereby one is released from the lingering torments of paternity.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

A concept that states a thing begets a thing begets a thing which in turn begets a thing without an end point or a beginning point