this was a real point of discourse for the people emailing me and talking about me online. like it was literally the first one in the #Affection tag list. so easy for me to find! if I respected those spaces at all instead of Columbusing into them like an asshole.
October 6, 2026 at 12:34 PM
this was a real point of discourse for the people emailing me and talking about me online. like it was literally the first one in the #Affection tag list. so easy for me to find! if I respected those spaces at all instead of Columbusing into them like an asshole.
Beige Columbusing, really.
September 26, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Beige Columbusing, really.
White woman columbusing once again
September 25, 2026 at 5:38 PM
White woman columbusing once again
I feel like this needs to be called Columbusing. At its best, you're an idiot to think you discovered this thing, especially if you think you have a claim to it. At its worst, you know it's not new but you're still acting like you're doing something new and being an absolute monster in the process.
September 20, 2026 at 9:33 PM
I feel like this needs to be called Columbusing. At its best, you're an idiot to think you discovered this thing, especially if you think you have a claim to it. At its worst, you know it's not new but you're still acting like you're doing something new and being an absolute monster in the process.
"Pace the frontier"
Makes sense the broligarchs would choose this settler colonial metaphor, since their actual proposal is just a weak sauce columbusing of regulatory authority
Makes sense the broligarchs would choose this settler colonial metaphor, since their actual proposal is just a weak sauce columbusing of regulatory authority
September 18, 2026 at 8:50 PM
"Pace the frontier"
Makes sense the broligarchs would choose this settler colonial metaphor, since their actual proposal is just a weak sauce columbusing of regulatory authority
Makes sense the broligarchs would choose this settler colonial metaphor, since their actual proposal is just a weak sauce columbusing of regulatory authority
Game Design and Game Studies are robust fully fleshed out fields that don't require historians Columbusing them, thanks though.
Also, I'm *so* happy the AHA is encouraging vibecoding of games, instead of drawing on colleagues who've been creating with students using Twine. And thank god *someone* is using video games in the classroom, at last! 🙃
@gamingthepast.bsky.social @chriskempshall.bsky.social @tlecaque.bsky.social
@gamingthepast.bsky.social @chriskempshall.bsky.social @tlecaque.bsky.social
September 16, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Game Design and Game Studies are robust fully fleshed out fields that don't require historians Columbusing them, thanks though.
And now my Columbusing comes to a screeching halt, since I see that @vtdigger.bsky.social was all over this when it happened last year. Props to the OGs: vtdigger.org/2025/06/04/v...
Vermont company to dismantle former USS Enterprise aircraft carrier - VTDigger
Northstar Maritime Dismantlement Services won a contract from the Department of Defense to dismantle and recycle a historic nuclear-powered carrier.
vtdigger.org
September 15, 2026 at 12:40 PM
And now my Columbusing comes to a screeching halt, since I see that @vtdigger.bsky.social was all over this when it happened last year. Props to the OGs: vtdigger.org/2025/06/04/v...
😂😂😂 meanwhile all the granola moms are Columbusing beef tallow and calling it a superfood.
September 7, 2026 at 9:39 AM
😂😂😂 meanwhile all the granola moms are Columbusing beef tallow and calling it a superfood.
I think that falls under the heading of "Columbusing" (acting like you discovered something that's been known to others for a long time)
August 30, 2026 at 2:48 PM
I think that falls under the heading of "Columbusing" (acting like you discovered something that's been known to others for a long time)
The tech people have developed so many fun euphemisms for anti-competitive behavior. Figuring out which ones know they’re just rebranding and which ones are just Columbusing is a good time to be had by all.
August 28, 2026 at 4:48 PM
The tech people have developed so many fun euphemisms for anti-competitive behavior. Figuring out which ones know they’re just rebranding and which ones are just Columbusing is a good time to be had by all.
Are we really at the point now where people are Columbusing *the idea of a game*?
I really shouldn’t get so flabbergasted by children
I really shouldn’t get so flabbergasted by children
August 28, 2026 at 6:34 AM
Are we really at the point now where people are Columbusing *the idea of a game*?
I really shouldn’t get so flabbergasted by children
I really shouldn’t get so flabbergasted by children
NYTimes Columbusing champagne socialists and limousine liberals rn
August 25, 2026 at 12:30 AM
NYTimes Columbusing champagne socialists and limousine liberals rn
Exactly!! Why can’t they stop Columbusing and colonizing shit!? Is just so exhausting having them abuse and misuse everything we do for their own interests!! 😩😩😩
There’s no Woke 1 or Woke 2. There’s only staying woke. Everything else is white people nonsense that should be swiftly disregarded.
August 14, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Exactly!! Why can’t they stop Columbusing and colonizing shit!? Is just so exhausting having them abuse and misuse everything we do for their own interests!! 😩😩😩
Is Dora "the Explorer" actually Columbusing?
August 11, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Is Dora "the Explorer" actually Columbusing?
Columbusing is a Thing That Needed A Name from an old College Humor sketch for when (usually privileged) people ”discover” something that already exists and subsequently fuck it all up.
August 6, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Columbusing is a Thing That Needed A Name from an old College Humor sketch for when (usually privileged) people ”discover” something that already exists and subsequently fuck it all up.
Unpopular take: I think ”gatekeeping” gets used too liberally to apply to any criticism of newcomers to a scene, particularly when asking those newcomers to respect the history, culture, and norms that built the scene the newcomers are joining. There’s a spectrum between gatekeeping and columbusing.
August 6, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Unpopular take: I think ”gatekeeping” gets used too liberally to apply to any criticism of newcomers to a scene, particularly when asking those newcomers to respect the history, culture, and norms that built the scene the newcomers are joining. There’s a spectrum between gatekeeping and columbusing.
When he wasn't Columbusing the gospel singers he was playing guitar like a stock musician for Bar Rescue. Listen to the solo for 'Southside' and tell me I'm wrong.
July 30, 2026 at 8:52 PM
When he wasn't Columbusing the gospel singers he was playing guitar like a stock musician for Bar Rescue. Listen to the solo for 'Southside' and tell me I'm wrong.
Isn't it fun when someone uses AI to write a story about something that's existed in some form for 80+yrs, but they think it's new and they're so much better than older gens bc they discovered it? 😂😂
Tho I feel like at least the AI should've known this was Columbusing, even if the human didn't lol
Tho I feel like at least the AI should've known this was Columbusing, even if the human didn't lol
July 30, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Isn't it fun when someone uses AI to write a story about something that's existed in some form for 80+yrs, but they think it's new and they're so much better than older gens bc they discovered it? 😂😂
Tho I feel like at least the AI should've known this was Columbusing, even if the human didn't lol
Tho I feel like at least the AI should've known this was Columbusing, even if the human didn't lol
Big downside to Columbusing games years after everyone else did is that Man of Medan requires you to play co-opt to get all the trophies, for whatever reason.
July 27, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Big downside to Columbusing games years after everyone else did is that Man of Medan requires you to play co-opt to get all the trophies, for whatever reason.
I was at a national conference where someone was promoting a public elementary school yoga curriculum. Zoo aesthetic, wall poster showed each pose with the name of a zoo animal. At first I was like, what in the Columbusing is this? — yoga already exists and lots of schools use it. 1/
July 22, 2026 at 1:56 PM
I was at a national conference where someone was promoting a public elementary school yoga curriculum. Zoo aesthetic, wall poster showed each pose with the name of a zoo animal. At first I was like, what in the Columbusing is this? — yoga already exists and lots of schools use it. 1/
I know “discovering” Olivia Dean is less like Columbus discovering the New World and more like Columbusing Columbus Day, but nevertheless www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLzp...
Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall In Love) [Live on The Graham Norton Show]
YouTube video by Olivia Dean
www.youtube.com
July 19, 2026 at 2:26 PM
I know “discovering” Olivia Dean is less like Columbus discovering the New World and more like Columbusing Columbus Day, but nevertheless www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLzp...
For a moment ppl called it “columbusing” as i recall
July 11, 2026 at 5:24 AM
For a moment ppl called it “columbusing” as i recall
“We can genocide Jewish people because they’re so good at everything and don’t feel pain” is not only original Nazism but also the justification of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Trail of Tears, Europe’s colonization of five continents. This is bespoke Christopher Columbusing.
June 26, 2026 at 9:06 PM
“We can genocide Jewish people because they’re so good at everything and don’t feel pain” is not only original Nazism but also the justification of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Trail of Tears, Europe’s colonization of five continents. This is bespoke Christopher Columbusing.
June 23, 2026 at 11:23 PM