This is 2026. Headlines like this are NOT acceptable:

As soon as I saw that, I thought: “Harmful”? Harmful schmarmful! It should be toxic…

Funnily enough, when I looked at the story itself, it was toxic. That is, it was “toxic”:

That’s the way it should be. Or rather, the way it should be when English isn’t used the way it should be. As I’ve said pre-previously:

There’s only one word for it: toxic. The proliferation of this word is an incendiarily irritating abjectional aspect of contemporary culture. My visit to Google Ngram has confirmed my worst suspicions:

Use of “toxic” in English over the decades

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