Hashtags are like expletives, don't salt the earth with them

* #hashtags
#expletive
#adage
#salty
#earthy

15 October 2025 - Daily Drawing Day 288
#20252025Challenge
This was dangerous, don't do this. Today in Shrewsbury, I kicked a moving car that went through a red light ... alas, I did no damage to his car (and only did it since I thought I could take him in a fight if he got out of the car 😠 ).

#kick #car #redlight #angry #キック #車 #赤信号 #怒った #😠 #🚙 #expletive #crossing #ののしり #横断歩道

Watch the time lapse video of this drawing on YouTube Shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/9tRjST634Ww

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The 2025 20-25 Challenge.

This year let’s get better at something by finding a little practice time most days, in my case drawing. - Do your activity for at least 25 minutes, at least 25 days per month.
- Use the hashtag #20252025Challenge on social media etc to track your progress
- Also use the hashtag to cheer on others.

That’s about it!

Have fun with your activities, whatever they may be!

Drawing, programming, dancing, cooking, make up, reading, languages, gardening, mastering high fives, sewing, astrophysics, vcr clock setting ...

#challengeyourself #challenge #Drawing #drawings #illustration #newyearsresolution #25minutes #xppen #clipstudiopaint #dailydrawing #イラスト #クリップスタジオ #絵 #絵画 #絵描きさんと繋がりたい #drawingoftheday #一日一絵 #art #digitalart #oc #一次創作

@zachleat The one that was nice and actually did the work? #expletive

RIP

Melania’s multimillion dollar regret, Biden’s expletive rant & Ron DeSantis’ final humiliation - Queerty

Here's just some of the political stories you may have missed this week ...

Queerty

Forgive my typographical swearror…

#art #printmaking #expletive

When I was seven (oh dear Heaven!)
A dozen, or at least eleven
Variations I had heard
In usage of this useful word.
I made a pact with my best friend,
Through thick and thin, until the end,
Never to tattle when one said it.
Later, in Salinger’s book, I read it.

#poetry #smallpoems #poem #riddlepoems #language #literature #slang #expletive #colorfulmetaphors #profanity #poetrycommunity

#Expletive!
The sound of swearing:
Are there universal patterns in profanity?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-022-02202-0

Reveals that not all sounds are equally suitable for profanity, and demonstrate that sound symbolism is more pervasive than has previously been appreciated

The sound of swearing: Are there universal patterns in profanity? - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Why do swear words sound the way they do? Swear words are often thought to have sounds that render them especially fit for purpose, facilitating the expression of emotion and attitude. To date, however, there has been no systematic cross-linguistic investigation of phonetic patterns in profanity. In an initial, pilot study we explored statistical regularities in the sounds of swear words across a range of typologically distant languages. The best candidate for a cross-linguistic phonemic pattern in profanity was the absence of approximants (sonorous sounds like l, r, w and y). In Study 1, native speakers of various languages (Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Spanish; N = 215) judged foreign words less likely to be swear words if they contained an approximant. In Study 2 we found that sanitized versions of English swear words – like darn instead of damn – contain significantly more approximants than the original swear words. Our findings reveal that not all sounds are equally suitable for profanity, and demonstrate that sound symbolism – wherein certain sounds are intrinsically associated with certain meanings – is more pervasive than has previously been appreciated, extending beyond denoting single concepts to serving pragmatic functions.

SpringerLink
#Expletive
Imagine being in a hot sauna that you couldn’t get out of. Western Africa…right through central Africa is experiencing record temperatures for March. Many places staying above 25C through the night also. These areas will likely become uninhabitable at 2C over.
Source: Peter Dynes

#Expletive
The Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a melting point of no return

Study has identified two tipping points for the Greenland Ice Sheet

Multistability and Transient Response of the Greenland Ice Sheet to Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GL101827