I love name taboos.
My Filipina mother never says the word “rat”, “mouse”, or “rodent” in whatever language (English, Tagalog, Spanish, Cebuano, etc.). She always spells the word out or says “amigos” or “mga kaibigan”, both meaning “friends”. They supposedly overhear and get upset when they are called what they are.
July 28, 2026 at 3:41 AM
I love name taboos.
>the erotic is defined by violating taboos
>reassess taboos and ethics in general
>develop politics based on considered ethics
>political solidarity demands taboos
>the erotic is defined by violating taboos
>reassess taboos and ethics in general
>develop politics based on considered ethics
>political solidarity demands taboos
>the erotic is defined by violating taboos
Unfortunately, there is a certain erotic kick to, "anti AI academic gets addicted to getting off on AI-generated lewd images of herself."
February 11, 2026 at 6:23 PM
>the erotic is defined by violating taboos
>reassess taboos and ethics in general
>develop politics based on considered ethics
>political solidarity demands taboos
>the erotic is defined by violating taboos
>reassess taboos and ethics in general
>develop politics based on considered ethics
>political solidarity demands taboos
>the erotic is defined by violating taboos
“We believe in breaking taboos”. Yeah right, new Observer. The kind of taboos Clegg’s Facebook broke when it allowed Steve Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica to hack my profile and direct messages (along with 77 million others). Who needs laws, eh? They’re just taboos.
Nick Clegg is not just across THREE pages in the first edition of the new Observer, he’s actually cited in the leader: that’s the voice of the newspaper that exemplifies and articulates its values & principles.
Values that include shilling for big tech & not caring where the money comes from?
Values that include shilling for big tech & not caring where the money comes from?
April 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
“We believe in breaking taboos”. Yeah right, new Observer. The kind of taboos Clegg’s Facebook broke when it allowed Steve Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica to hack my profile and direct messages (along with 77 million others). Who needs laws, eh? They’re just taboos.
administration *keeps* wandering into THE NORTH REMEMBERS territory, getting close to breaking bread and salt taboos
Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.
www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure
The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.
www.startribune.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:03 AM
administration *keeps* wandering into THE NORTH REMEMBERS territory, getting close to breaking bread and salt taboos
There is a LOT of incompetent evil that simply acquires power via dominance and violating moral norms and taboos which takes little skill of any kind.
See below:
See below:
September 26, 2026 at 3:15 PM
There is a LOT of incompetent evil that simply acquires power via dominance and violating moral norms and taboos which takes little skill of any kind.
See below:
See below:
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Three Baseless Taboos are Derailing National Renewal
Three Baseless Taboos are Derailing National Renewal
July 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Three Baseless Taboos are Derailing National Renewal
Three Baseless Taboos are Derailing National Renewal
Like with using children as bait and eating at a restaurant then kidnapping the people who prepared it, ICE is routinely breaking taboos that have been part of human civilization since before recorded history.
Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.
“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities
Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...
www.mprnews.org
February 19, 2026 at 4:42 AM
Like with using children as bait and eating at a restaurant then kidnapping the people who prepared it, ICE is routinely breaking taboos that have been part of human civilization since before recorded history.
DESI ARNAZ on ‘Late Night with David Letterman’ in 1983 talking about how the ‘I Love Lucy’ episode — “Lucy Is Enceinte” — made television history by breaking mid-century taboos & announcing her real-life pregnancy.
September 22, 2026 at 1:21 AM
DESI ARNAZ on ‘Late Night with David Letterman’ in 1983 talking about how the ‘I Love Lucy’ episode — “Lucy Is Enceinte” — made television history by breaking mid-century taboos & announcing her real-life pregnancy.
One of the reasons people are viscerally mad about AI is that it is constantly publicly being used to violate millennia-old but today-largely-unspoken social taboos.
September 8, 2026 at 8:14 PM
One of the reasons people are viscerally mad about AI is that it is constantly publicly being used to violate millennia-old but today-largely-unspoken social taboos.
The unprecedented shattering of taboos shielding Israel from accountability.
May 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The unprecedented shattering of taboos shielding Israel from accountability.
one extremely horrific aspect of slavery was systematic, vicious, constant rape and sexual abuse. there remain major taboos about talking about that, especially in schools or museums for all ages.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
one extremely horrific aspect of slavery was systematic, vicious, constant rape and sexual abuse. there remain major taboos about talking about that, especially in schools or museums for all ages.
Yes this is how taboos work. It's evolutionary behaviour!
Really was one of the dumbest and most harmful things possible for “virtue signaling” to become some kind of epithet. Sending externally visible signals that you are engaging in pro-social behavior is normal, natural, and good, it’s how society works. Other people can’t read your fucking mind.
July 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Yes this is how taboos work. It's evolutionary behaviour!
The Trump-GOP-MAGA dynastic politics are filthy with sexual taboos. Familial dynasties always are. But we are too immature as a culture to talk about them. Bummer for me.
September 15, 2026 at 6:26 PM
The Trump-GOP-MAGA dynastic politics are filthy with sexual taboos. Familial dynasties always are. But we are too immature as a culture to talk about them. Bummer for me.
Seems like we're in a Sandy Hook moment.
We can enforce social taboos against pedophilia by shunning Epstein's friends & hangers-on, stripping them of social & political legitimacy; or we can shrug our collective shoulders, confuse legal and moral standards, and in the process weaken those taboos.
We can enforce social taboos against pedophilia by shunning Epstein's friends & hangers-on, stripping them of social & political legitimacy; or we can shrug our collective shoulders, confuse legal and moral standards, and in the process weaken those taboos.
November 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Seems like we're in a Sandy Hook moment.
We can enforce social taboos against pedophilia by shunning Epstein's friends & hangers-on, stripping them of social & political legitimacy; or we can shrug our collective shoulders, confuse legal and moral standards, and in the process weaken those taboos.
We can enforce social taboos against pedophilia by shunning Epstein's friends & hangers-on, stripping them of social & political legitimacy; or we can shrug our collective shoulders, confuse legal and moral standards, and in the process weaken those taboos.
These taboos exist because identifying those who break them and forcibly removing them from your community is crucial to our survival as a species.
February 1, 2026 at 5:25 PM
These taboos exist because identifying those who break them and forcibly removing them from your community is crucial to our survival as a species.
Taboos are meant to be broken🥴（？）
September 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Taboos are meant to be broken🥴（？）
I'm going to get conspiracy brained. I genuinely think that the push to deplatform, debank, and / or criminalize any depiction of sexual taboos is a plot to hide the fact elites enact these taboos on a daily basis.
well, it’s official
they’re looking to make possession worth up to 2 years in prison, 5 years for publishing/sharing
im really upset and idk what to do
they’re looking to make possession worth up to 2 years in prison, 5 years for publishing/sharing
im really upset and idk what to do
February 24, 2026 at 9:01 PM
I'm going to get conspiracy brained. I genuinely think that the push to deplatform, debank, and / or criminalize any depiction of sexual taboos is a plot to hide the fact elites enact these taboos on a daily basis.
I am deeply immersed in cultural taboos against speaking ill of the recently dead, in with that in mind, I will note that James Dobson showed unwavering devotion and perseverance, more specifically in fighting against AIDS relief and social acceptance of gay human beings.
August 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I am deeply immersed in cultural taboos against speaking ill of the recently dead, in with that in mind, I will note that James Dobson showed unwavering devotion and perseverance, more specifically in fighting against AIDS relief and social acceptance of gay human beings.
Enjoying media that explores the forbidden taboos of the human condition
October 29, 2024 at 12:43 AM
Enjoying media that explores the forbidden taboos of the human condition
It's absurd. A woman writes taboos and it's a moral panic, a man writes it, and it's fine literature.
September 26, 2026 at 7:37 PM
It's absurd. A woman writes taboos and it's a moral panic, a man writes it, and it's fine literature.
as conservatives, the party of selfish shitheads, they were indeed shitheads, often racist to boot. but the GOP used to have some taboos. "I love Hitler" would have been FAR over the line even for Dixiecrats bsky.app/profile/bill...
There is a double game at play tho among the people saying what marcotte is.
Its true not "every" Republican was like this but what's also true is.... A whole lot of them have been!
They were in the reagan and GWB coalition too.
The "not everyone" crowd needs to accept that "a lot" of them were
Its true not "every" Republican was like this but what's also true is.... A whole lot of them have been!
They were in the reagan and GWB coalition too.
The "not everyone" crowd needs to accept that "a lot" of them were
October 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
as conservatives, the party of selfish shitheads, they were indeed shitheads, often racist to boot. but the GOP used to have some taboos. "I love Hitler" would have been FAR over the line even for Dixiecrats bsky.app/profile/bill...
No taboos in the pink light son… just a lil grease and a deep secret…
January 8, 2026 at 2:50 AM
No taboos in the pink light son… just a lil grease and a deep secret…
New Comic!!! This happened in Chicago back in 2009! Real life Taboose adventures! balsleyscomics.com/comic/taboos...
November 30, 2024 at 10:26 PM
New Comic!!! This happened in Chicago back in 2009! Real life Taboose adventures! balsleyscomics.com/comic/taboos...
I think the taboos against commenting on other people’s bodies are generally well founded but there has to be discursive room to talk about the moral injury of being a woman surrounded by aggressive, invasive, and inhuman-looking plastic surgery.
October 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I think the taboos against commenting on other people’s bodies are generally well founded but there has to be discursive room to talk about the moral injury of being a woman surrounded by aggressive, invasive, and inhuman-looking plastic surgery.
Does Elon know that The Culture was full of trans people, in canon, with no taboos against it at all?
September 9, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Does Elon know that The Culture was full of trans people, in canon, with no taboos against it at all?