Mastodawn

"This is not about encouraging rudeness or bad behaviour, but rather celebrating diversity and just acknowledging that swearing is, for a lot of people, a day-to-day part of life"

Linguists at University of Sheffield study regional insults and swear words:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/15/swearwords-census-regional-dialects-language-britain

#swearing #insults #dialect #research #linguistics #dialectology

From divvy to dinlo: index of insults aims to record Britain’s diverse dialects

University of Sheffield academics hope to create ‘vivid, honest record’ of regional swearwords in act of preservation

The Guardian

London Andrews Project 3d ago

Here’s the tale about London and those photos I promised you.
londonandrewsandme1.blogspot.com/2026/04/tale...

#londonandrews #londonandrewsmodel #beautiful #sexy #curvymodel #adultmodel #misrepresentation #insults #abuse #lies #blackmail #catfishing #londonandrewsproject #londonandrewsandme

N-gated Hacker News Apr 9

🎨 Oh, look! #Monet was the original #Picasso of petty insults! 🤡 Before he was drowning in water lilies, he was raking in francs by sketching the egos of Le Havre’s "who's who" with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Clearly, the real masterpiece was his early grasp of capitalism! 💰
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/claude-monet-caricatures/ #insults #art #capitalism #HackerNews #ngated

Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)

Moneymaking caricatures by a teenage Monet, before he turned to Impressionism.

The Public Domain Review

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Apr 3

Ars Technica: Musk loves Grok’s “roasts.” Swiss official sues in attempt to neuter them.. “Last month, Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter filed a criminal complaint over an offensive Grok post generated by an X user that requested that the chatbot ‘roast’ the government official.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/03/ars-technica-musk-loves-groks-roasts-swiss-official-sues-in-attempt-to-neuter-them/

Ars Technica: Musk loves Grok’s “roasts.” Swiss official sues in attempt to neuter them.

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Doktor Overcomma

Apr 3

"[...] in 1797, two stars of German Romanticism, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) and Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), published the Xenions, one of the most elaborate works of literary insult ever written."
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/xenions/
#insults

“Wretches, Speak Evil of Me”: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions (1896 edition)

One of the most elaborate works of literary insult ever written.

The Public Domain Review

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Mark Apr 3

As for the reaction of the outside world, Trump seems determined to infuriate his one-time allies for failing to support him. He #insults them almost daily. He raises #tariffs on their goods.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/02/donald-trump-iran-us-constitution-world-response

#FarRight #fascist #fascism #USThreats #USAggression #BoycottUSA #DementiaDon #dictators #tyrants #sociopath

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To a world at a loss as to how to handle Trump, I say this: the only answer may be to wait him out

A great effort will be needed to undo the damage once the US president has gone. But with the constitution unable to bring him to order now, that is what we must do, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian

GrumpyOldFart Apr 3

“‘Macron – Whose Wife Treats Him Extremely Badly’: Trump’s Iran War Unraveling”

by Ramzy Baroud in The Palestine Chronicle on Substack

@palestine
@Palestine
@[email protected]
@iran
@france

“The attack on Macron is not an insult—it is a confession. Trump is not managing a war; he is managing its failure. What cannot be won on the battlefield is now being displaced onto allies, rewritten in real time, and stripped of any remaining coherence”

https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinechronicle/p/macron-whose-wife-treats-him-extremely

#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Macron #Insults

‘Macron – Whose Wife Treats Him Extremely Badly’: Trump’s Iran War Unraveling

By Ramzy Baroud

The Palestine Chronicle

Infrogmation Apr 1

Insults

20th century: "F*ck you, and the horse you rode in on"

Late 2020s: "Go back to Twitter"

#insults

RDN Apr 1

A new paper proposes that evolution of language was driven by sexual selection on a facility for insult humor.

Summary: https://scienceblog.com/why-human-language-evolved-to-make-us-funnier-not-just-friendlier/

Original paper: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/5/3/pgag052/8559600

#Science #Language #Evolution #Humor #Insults

Why Human Language Evolved to Make Us Funnier, Not Just Friendlier

Key Takeaways Ljiljana Progovac's analysis proposes that human language evolved partly due to sexual selection, emphasizing wit and verbal competition.

ScienceBlog.com

Diotima Mar 25

Dioisms:

"You fk like a spoon cuts wood."

#Insults #RealLife