James Atkinson @kinson1964.bsky.social · 06/08/202620 years ago this was done manually using 'Find and replace'. When 'strategy' became a trendy buzzword in education instead of the old-fashioned 'plan' this resulted in a Science National Curriculum guidance document that said "Students should learn to strategy their own experiments" 🤦♀️ 6902 0
uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The best example of this is a Conservative American online publication finding and replacing all occurrences of "gay" with "homosexual", resulting in the headline "Homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic trials." 4582 0
Sotek @sotekprime.bsky.social · 06/08/2026That's pretty good, but I've got a fondness for "cdesign proponentsists". 130 0
Liam Connolly @connolly-lg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Christmas carols would be fun, Don we now our homosexual apparel, Fa la la la la, la la la la. 050 0
Kalmbach 🔜 MFF @gdkalmbach.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Another one (possibly apocryphal) regards the B-29 Enola Gay, named after the pilot's mother, that dropped the a-bomb on Hiroshima on this date in 1945. It's displayed at the National Air and Space Museum, and of course there is debate about the display and the bombing itself. 130 0
Dan Schrider @samurscicop.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I remember reading that article about Tyson Homosexual! Great stuff! www.latimes.com/archives/la-...latimes.comGay becomes HomosexualA conservative group's Internet filter leads to the changing of an athlete's last name. 0231 0