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/Sounds like the English word "doomscrolling" (same pronunciation)/

Meaning

The endless loop of scrolling through bad news, disasters, and depressing content even though it makes you feel worse with every post. Doomscrolling is the digital-age habit that keeps you glued to your phone at midnight reading about everything going wrong in the world, knowing you should stop but unable to.

Examples

I have been doomscrolling for an hour and now my head is fried.

Put down the doomscrolling before bed, it is not going to help you at all.

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An ironic Mexican expression calling out someone who denies their Mexican or indigenous roots when it is completely obvious they have them. The image is of a nopal cactus growing right out of your forehead: your origins are written all over your face, no matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise.