#euphemism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #euphemism, aggregated by home.social.
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@galar @Sustainable2050 Indeed...
9/11 (deadliest) < 3000 deaths including the hijackers. Four times less... but got a tiny bit more of coverage. #euphemism
#Heatwave #Risk #ClimateChange #Capitalism #Priorities #Europe #Climate #Politics
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Today's "oh, you're old, you must need adverts about knee gadgets" (fair, I do, although I refuse to believe this particular gadget could do anything to help my trashed knee) threw up a couple of excellent innuendoisms: "leading with the good leg" and "gripping the banister".
#Euphemism #Innuendo #OneOrTheOther -
The #WikiMediaFoundation #WMF has fired 6 employees (5 engineers + 1 manager); there is concern that this is #UnionBusting against #WikiWorkersUnited #WWU, the WMF employees' union.
[1] firing announcement ( #euphemism: "disbanding roles")
[2] en #Wikipedia discussion/petition
[3] meta.wikimedia discussion
[4] express support for WWU[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist#May_20%2c_2026:_Community_Tech_becomes_a_program
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Wishlist#May_20_update
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workers_United#Solidarity
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I'd love to get my hands on that recipe for "chocolate cake" and "bundt cake". 🍰
https://us.cnn.com/2026/05/20/politics/prosecutor-charged-jack-smith-volume-2
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The myth of #meritocracy
#scam #euphemism #corruption
Jon Stewart and Noah Trevor:
https://youtu.be/wBw9u2qtxlc?is=GunEu9NgSJsf2m-r -
Read about "#efficiency #reserves" today:
https://archive.ph/R3ela
That's definitely my #euphemism of the day.
Imagine someone saying:
"It's a good thing that in our company we have some strategic efficiency reserves that we can tap into to boost productivity in times of need."
It's so nonsensical, I love it.On a side note: German minister for energy Katherina #Reiche is an absolute disgrace. Every day she's in office is (in the best case) a missed chance to drive #renewableenergy and #sustainability . Most days she seems to be more busy undermining the transition to #greenenergy (thus shoving money to her previous employers) than doing anything more sensible (like playing #minesweeper ).
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@ginaintheburg @thejfreakinc It is my opinion that it is not illegal arrest but abduction.
And it is my opinion that you are whitewashing, bagatelizing and euphemizing their behaviour by calling it "illegally arresting" and "detained" instead of "abducting", and helping the perpetrators, siding with them and standing on their side and betraying the victim by doing so.
Would you say that a rapist abductor murderer "illegally arrested" and "detained" a woman or would you say that he "abducted" her?
#whitewashing #abduction #bagatelizing #bagatelization #euphemizing #euphemism #abductor
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I can see that.
Not sure I'm meant to see that but I can anyway.
It's a bit more subtle than, "Baby can I park my red hot rocket in your love garage" a la Surrey Hills 1985 but still blatant.
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Nein, HARTE EINWANDERUNGSPOLITIK beschreibt nicht, was in USA abgeht, lieber Spiegel @spiegel
"Sagen was ist", ist Euer Leitspruch, oder? Dann macht mal, büdde! #euphemism
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What a #euphemism: “They’re essentially operating now in a resource constraint-free environment."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/former-ice-workers-trump-violence-by-design-renee-good/ #minneapolis #ice #trump #protests #fascism -
@ObsidianUrbex This is what they call ‘blooming countryside’ is Germany. #euphemism
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A quotation from George Carlin
The fanatics have another name for fetuses. They call them the pre-born. Now we’re getting creative. If you accept pre-born, I think you would have to say that, at the moment of birth, we go instantly from being pre-born to being pre-dead. Makes sense, doesn’t it? Technically, we’re all pre-dead.
George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Book (2004), When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, “Euphemisms: Political-Interest Groups,” “A Bunny in the Oven?”More about this quote: wist.info/carlin-george/80339/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgecarlin #death #euphemism #fetus #mortality #pregnancy #terminology
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Yes, refineries do need repairs after Ukraine blows them up.
But they don’t want to admit that. ⛽️💥
🤦♂️😝
source (in russian): https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/7971552
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Yes, refineries do need repairs after Ukraine blows them up. But they don’t want to admit that. ⛽️💥 🤦♂️😝 source (in russian): www.kommersant.ru/doc/7971552 #RUpol #russia #gasoline #war #Ukraine #euphemism #refinery
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"Exciting changes are coming" = "This site is about to be paywalled".
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Telefon-OH: "Der Kollege ist gerade nicht verfügbar, da steht "Kurzfristige Stromwartung"
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Today's #euphemism: "running errands" for "going home to take a nap".
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#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #wording / #media / #brutalization / #hatespeech / #euphemism
„Our thoughts may shape our words, but our words also shape our thoughts. Excerpts from a new Israeli book show how the words used to justify the Gaza genocide both reflect and degrade its moral conscience.
These words dehumanize Palestinians — but they dehumanize their speakers even more.‟
https://worldbeyondwar.org/gaza-whats-worse-than-the-language-of-brutality/
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THE VAPORS
Turning Japanese
1980 Canada 7” single
b/w Talk TalkA quick one, and last spin of the night before I crash.
Such a great song.
The band claimed it was about something else… but we know what it’s ACTUALLY about.
Don’t we?I really think so.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcollection #art #music #vinylcommunity #retro #vintage #1980s #80s #80sMusic #newwave #postpunk #synthpop #TheVapors #turningjapanese #euphemism
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Cool stuff. I'd like to fiddle with epaper but haven't got to it yet.
Also, if "doing phrenology on your pigs" isn't already a euphemism for something, it should be.
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It's Monday. Hope y'all are having a day! ("Have a good day" seems like a lot of pressure in these times.)
I wrote a thing about
euphemism
the Left
doge
Musk
the destruction of the commons
and trauma.Here's the first part:
the Lack in the Left
https://courtcan.com/2025/04/10/the-lack-in-the-left/#euphemism
#theLeft
#doge
#ElonMusk
#theOther
#theLack
#thePublic
#theCommons
#trauma
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I would say the New York Times has its euphemism circuitry stuck in maximum position. An airstrike does not “imperil“ a cease fire, it violates it. The core idea of a cease fire, is to cease firing…