Mr Rogers was a republican.
He was a white christian cis het man.

He prayed and read the Bible every day.

He created a children's TV show with taxpayer money in which he promoted his "christian views" to a secular audience through secular media.

He studied other religions and other cultures to improve on his reach and connection. He never preached or quoted scripture--yet, we all got the message he intended for us.

He appealed to President Nixon and Congress to continue to fund the creation of PBS with a persuasive speech that is one of the most studied for public speaking and PR. A gentle but powerful speaker.

While white people were pouring concrete into public pools rather than share with black neighrbors, Fred Rogers broadcast himself sharing a quiet conversation in a pool with African-American music and co-worker, Francios Clemmons. The softest act of defiance against White Supremacy.

He was the most demanded speaker on college campuses--he did not have to con his way onto campus to speak and nazis and counter-protesters did not follow his appearances---You know, despite the fact that he was a white christian man promoting christian values to the general public.

Every generation since the 1968 has been positively impacted by Mr Rogers.

Even children in the past 20 years are benefiting from his legacy at PBS --his methods and messages are STILL used in children's programming around the world.

No one had to mandate mourning his death because we all actually felt a genuine loss when he passed away. Even grown adults, who had not watched his show for 10 years by the time he passed, felt a piece of genuine goodness leave the planet.

We did not have to be Christian with Mr Rogers for him to do so much for us.

He never asked us to be Christian with him.

He only asked us to be his neighbor.

So...

If you find that the general public is rejecting your brand of Christianity, it might because you are a horrible fucking person with a 2000 yr old book of shitty excuses that no one is buying into.

It might be because you are a filthy grifter looking to capitalize off end-times hysteria and seniors with end-of-life anxieties.

It might be cause you are a disgusting bigot trying to reap superiority while evading moral accountability.

It probably has nothing to do at all with you actually "being a christian".

Cause we all fucking loved Mr Rogers.

-- Patchie Dee

If you're naked on your front porch and the neighbors can't see you, its rural.

If you're naked on the front porch and the neighbors call the cops, it's suburban.

If you're naked on the front porch and the neighbors ignore you, its urban.

If you're naked on the front porch and your naked neighbor (also on their front porch) waves at you, it's Florida.

The video for my TalosCon 2025 keynote, "The Complexity of Simplicity", is now up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5uN2634o

Slides:

https://speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/the-complexity-of-simplicity

This may be the closest you'll ever see to the color with the ridiculous name of "olo".

To see true olo, you need a mad scientist to map your retina, individually identify each cone cell as one of 3 kinds - and then use lasers to deliver tiny doses of light exclusively to the cones of one kind: the "M" cones.

The 3 kinds of cone cells, amusingly called S, M and L, respond to different colors. But there's no kind of light that excites the M cones without also exciting the others! So you can't see pure M in nature - the color called (0,1,0) or "olo" for short. You have to hire a mad scientist to make you see it.

This first happened on 18 April 2025 at U.C. Berkeley. Only the five victims of this experiment have ever seen olo. Professor Ren Ng, one of the mad scientists involved, described olo as "more saturated than any color that you can see in the real world". His victims describe the color as a "blue-green of unprecedented saturation", and will live the rest of their life haunted by this vision, depressed by the boring, bland colors they usually see.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(color)