

LGBTQ+ expression is the canary in the coalmine. Once they suffocate that they’ll move on to the next thing: women’s rights, racial justice, political expression that isn’t pro-capitalist.


LGBTQ+ expression is the canary in the coalmine. Once they suffocate that they’ll move on to the next thing: women’s rights, racial justice, political expression that isn’t pro-capitalist.


Or a vegetable.
It is. Over a decade ago they cut a deal with HBO where they would get priority on new episodes over PBS. That was a bit controversial at the time. Warnerbros cancelled the deal a couple years ago. Then Netflix picked up the show this time without the exclusive delay.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/19/nx-s1-5403663/sesame-street-netflix-pbs
Taboos can be positive, negative, or just reserved. For example in Judaism writing “God” is taboo, and Jews will frequently write “G-d”. Same with YHWH. They will not say the tetragrammaton. Instead many will substitute the word Adonai.
Of course there are diverse groups of people. So for Hillary, depending on someone’s political persuasion could be a positive name, a negative name, or just so synonymous with her it’s reserved.
Hillary. No one names their daughter Hillary and haven’t for a while now.
Grover, Kermit. These were also common names. There was president Grover Cleveland. Teddy Roosevelt named one of his sons Kermit. Sesame Street had such a strong cultural impact that these names also fell out of use.


Your dad needs to step up his frozen pizza game. He needs to remove all the pepperoni before baking then rearrange them so he can slice the pizza without cutting any of them.


Or it takes 3 lines to fit all the text:
Hey everybody! Did you
know it's Autism
Awareness Month?


I had heard rumors of this and was a bit skeptical at the time. Apparently there were a bunch of keyboards with missing W keys.

The GAO report goes on for several pages just for the keyboards.
Lemmy hugged the site to death, but archive.org has some snapshots.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260517182405/https://corsirosenthalfoundation.org/instructions/