#asshat — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #asshat, aggregated by home.social.
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Well I have a new name for Hassett… #Asshat. WHY would they let someone come on @[email protected] and lie .. oh wait, they’re owned by CBS. Shocking. Oh, and one more thing, #Asshat can go do the physically impossible (GFY).
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mmmb2jq3hy2t -
CW: fedi meta
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"It would hurt consumers, ... but that is like the last of our concerns right now."
Kevin Hassett on the economic impact of the war.
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"It would hurt consumers, ... but that is like the last of our concerns right now."
Kevin Hassett on the economic impact of the war.
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"It would hurt consumers, ... but that is like the last of our concerns right now."
Kevin Hassett on the economic impact of the war.
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"It would hurt consumers, ... but that is like the last of our concerns right now."
Kevin Hassett on the economic impact of the war.
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"It would hurt consumers, ... but that is like the last of our concerns right now."
Kevin Hassett on the economic impact of the war.
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They're real, and they're spectacular.
Go get your #asshat shirts and hoodies here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/86287220-asshat -
#Asshat, created by hand using Pentel brush pens, Sakura Microns, Copic markers and Posca paint pens. Personally signed prints available now at https://shawnlangley.myshopify.com
This was really fun. Think I might do a whole series.
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#Asshat, created by hand using Pentel brush pens, Sakura Microns, Copic markers and Posca paint pens. Personally signed prints available now at https://shawnlangley.myshopify.com
This was really fun. Think I might do a whole series.
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#Asshat, created by hand using Pentel brush pens, Sakura Microns, Copic markers and Posca paint pens. Personally signed prints available now at https://shawnlangley.myshopify.com
This was really fun. Think I might do a whole series.
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#Asshat, created by hand using Pentel brush pens, Sakura Microns, Copic markers and Posca paint pens. Personally signed prints available now at https://shawnlangley.myshopify.com
This was really fun. Think I might do a whole series.
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#Asshat, created by hand using Pentel brush pens, Sakura Microns, Copic markers and Posca paint pens. Personally signed prints available now at https://shawnlangley.myshopify.com
This was really fun. Think I might do a whole series.
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Brand-new #experience in the #Fediverse for me, one that I did not think I would ever have.
Was about to mute/block some #asshat, for being a complete asshat (brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department), scrolled a little further down the thread, and the poster offered a full, sincere apology and took responsibility. No #fauxpology or anything!
Colour me impressed. Didn't mute him.
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Brand-new #experience in the #Fediverse for me, one that I did not think I would ever have.
Was about to mute/block some #asshat, for being a complete asshat (brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department), scrolled a little further down the thread, and the poster offered a full, sincere apology and took responsibility. No #fauxpology or anything!
Colour me impressed. Didn't mute him.
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Brand-new #experience in the #Fediverse for me, one that I did not think I would ever have.
Was about to mute/block some #asshat, for being a complete asshat (brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department), scrolled a little further down the thread, and the poster offered a full, sincere apology and took responsibility. No #fauxpology or anything!
Colour me impressed. Didn't mute him.
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Brand-new #experience in the #Fediverse for me, one that I did not think I would ever have.
Was about to mute/block some #asshat, for being a complete asshat (brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department), scrolled a little further down the thread, and the poster offered a full, sincere apology and took responsibility. No #fauxpology or anything!
Colour me impressed. Didn't mute him.
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Brand-new #experience in the #Fediverse for me, one that I did not think I would ever have.
Was about to mute/block some #asshat, for being a complete asshat (brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department), scrolled a little further down the thread, and the poster offered a full, sincere apology and took responsibility. No #fauxpology or anything!
Colour me impressed. Didn't mute him.
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#texas
#texasdps
#asshat
#typicaltexasThis is so typical of the police force all around that backward ass state.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/sport/football-ncaa-south-carolina-trooper-altercation
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#texas
#texasdps
#asshat
#typicaltexasThis is so typical of the police force all around that backward ass state.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/sport/football-ncaa-south-carolina-trooper-altercation
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#texas
#texasdps
#asshat
#typicaltexasThis is so typical of the police force all around that backward ass state.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/sport/football-ncaa-south-carolina-trooper-altercation
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#texas
#texasdps
#asshat
#typicaltexasThis is so typical of the police force all around that backward ass state.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/sport/football-ncaa-south-carolina-trooper-altercation
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Behind the scenes image from Frump’s 60 Minute interview. 🔗https://capitoltrash.etsy.com #trumpdecline #trumpmemes #trumpsfullofshit #asshat #dumptrump
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Espionage Novels that Give a Fuck about Profanity
A couple of years ago, people I know were talking about the Apple TV series Slow Horses, the television version of Mick Herron’s Slough House novels. I love espionage novels, and I like espionage television series, too, but I can’t afford another streaming service — I have children on the cusp of university! — so I hadn’t seen any episodes of the series until I was flying in a plane. I watched three episodes (generously provided by the airline) and afterwards concluded that while the episodes were sweary, they were sweary in a reflexive, unaesthetic way, whereas the novels were full of clever and innovative swearing, and for that reason alone the books were more worth reading than the television show was worth watching.
Some authors and their audiences prefer their books clean of profanity, or they hide the profanity behind a fig-leaf of literary technique. We can have it both ways: we all know that the profanity is there, but we don’t have to own it, and we don’t have to behold it in all its glory. Other authors and readers, however, let it all hang out — they celebrate profanity and insinuate that, at least in telling some stories, profanity is essential language. Mick Herron’s series of spy novels, focused on the spies assigned to Slough House — spies who make big mistakes but can’t easily be fired, so are warehoused there until they’re killed or quit — revel in bad language, which is necessary to its comedy and to the development of character and narrative cohesion: in Herron’s case, at least, profanity is a term of art.
Unsurprisingly, then, profanity suffuses the Slough House novels, and all characters swear, some rarely enough to surprise us, most at about the same rate as readers, which serves the novels’ social realism, and one of them so profusely that the character is unimaginable without it. (If you guessed Jackson Lamb, you deserve a gold fucking star, but I have no more fucking stars to give, so, please, appreciate yourself.)
In the first category, the rare swear, you’ll find Catherine Standish — a most self-controlled recovering alcoholic, whose sudden “Fuck!” over breakfast surprises her co-workers and readers alike (SH 287: “The first time any of them had ever heard her say that”) — and Roddy Ho, the Slough House team’s self-absorbed, delusional computer systems nerd, whose strong language mostly participates in his sexual fantasies. The normal swearers include River Cartwright, Louisa Guy, Shirley Dander, Min Harper, and Marcus Longridge among the “slow horses,” the residents of Slough House, as well as all the politicians and intelligence higher-ups, especially Diana Taverner, who rises to the intelligence service’s so-called First Desk. The novels’ super-swearer is Jackson Lamb, the super-spy assigned, for his operational sins, to supervise Slough House and its miscellaneous denizens.
The range of profanity in the Slough House novels is impressive by any standard, from arsehole to bastard, bitch, bloody, and bugger, from an occasional cunt to a more frequent dick (dickhead, dick-waving), fuck and fucking and fuck up (expletive, adjective, verb, and noun), shit (plus chickenshit, dipshit, and ecoshit), and sod — just your average, everyday swearing, but a lot of it, sometimes half a dozen fucks a page, or a page-long pile-on of various swear words. One or another sentence is thick with profanity: “What the fuck are you doing here, you stupid fucking cunt?” (SH 190). What more is there to say? (There’s a key to abbreviations for the novels at the end of this post).
The weird intimacy of Slough House, where no one trusts anyone else, but everyone depends on everyone else, promotes profanity, which both expresses and releases the tension of the job. When Shirley Dander interrupts the romantically clueless and generally unappealing Roddy Ho interviewing possible dates online for a Star Wars convention, the ensuing conversation quickly descends to tit-for-tat profanity:
“What are you doing here?”
“Collecting my iron.” She held it up in evidence. “But fuck me, this is brilliant. The others are literally going to shit themselves. I mean, literally. There is going to be shit, everywhere.”
“You tell them and I’ll fuck you up.”
“Totally worth it. Who were those women? They were women, right?”
“Friends.”
“You haven’t got any friends.”
“Neither have you.”
“Dickhead.”
“Beast.”
“Asshat.”
“Spreader.”
“… Spreader? What does that even mean?”
Roddy said, “You know, like, spreader. Like you spread the virus.”
“Nobody says that.”
“Some people do.” (BA 156)
No, no one does, but by the end of the conversation, that poor excuse for profanity is all Roddy’s got.
Profanity is an essential aspect of Jackson Lamb’s character. “It had been a while since Lamb had endured a conversation this long without resorting to profanity” (SH 15), the narrator tells us the first chance he gets in the first novel of the series. The swearing is only one among Lamb’s vices, all of which he delivers with excess: smoking, drinking, gluttony, the consequent farting and swearing, are all part and parcel of the man. But given the man, given the story, given the exigencies of espionage, it is of utmost narrative importance that, not just the first novel, but the whole series of novels be framed by the subject of profanity, with so many instances of it to come as the story realizes itself across the pages of the several novels.
Later, when Lamb evades the Security Service’s Security Office (the Dogs, in Herron’s spy jargon), Catherine Standish provides a motivation for his profanity — neither necessarily the correct nor the exclusive motivation — to the Head Dog, Emma Flyte: “‘He said he’d spent the early hours winding up the dyke who’s currently boss of the kennel. And that if she turned up here, I was to waste as much of her time as possible.’ Emma stared. Catherine said, ‘I may have skipped the odd f-word. He thinks swearing’s big and clever’” (SS 145). Emma had already noted his fucking proclivities at their first meeting: “No, really,’ Emma Flyte murmured to his back. “You had me at ‘fuck’” (SS 60). Hers is not an unusual reaction.
Yet, when it comes to Lamb’s use of profanity generally, not just his fucks but the way he uses them and other bad words cleverly, he receives a different kind of grudging approval, as when Ingrid Tearney, First Desk before Diana Taverner’s inexorable rise from Second to First, remarks to Lamb, “You have a gift for the pithy phrase” (RT 139). The phrases aren’t pithy just because of the profanity, but chances are, if Lamb said something pithily, there’s profanity in it. There’s usually a twist in Lamb’s turn of phrase, on the order of ironic self-awareness, so he can criticize someone who just swore with the dictum, “Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind” (Secret 289). In Lamb’s case, it’s the sign of a big fucking mind capable, not just of casual profanity, but pithy profanity. Or here’s an idea: maybe Lamb’s swearing isn’t casual.
Lamb developed his profane tendencies early in his career. In the following passage, Miles is Lamb’s undercover name, and his colleague Otis explains its genesis to Alison, another colleague:
“A man with Schenker’s history, he’ll have his ear to the ground,” said Otis. “A few scraps here and there. That’s all that’s needed.”
“Chumming the water,” Miles said. “It’s not an exact science. But it doesn’t have to be.”
“So now he’s a shark, not a tiger.”
“Christ on a fucking bicycle. He’s got teeth. What else do you need to know?”
Otis laid his arm on Alison’s across Alison’s shoulder. She shrugged it off. He didn’t mind.
“Miles can be abrasive,” he explained, as if this were news. “A bit of, what’s the best word? A foul-mouthed pig. He was trying this identity on for a joke once, and the wind stayed, so he stayed like that.” (Secret 294)
For Lamb, then, profanity was originally performative. Who’s to say it isn’t performative — a sort of cover — throughout the series? How would we know, one way or the other?
Lamb may use profanity as part of his everyday cover, but Herron’s use of profanity is, in the first instance, characterological: the amount and type of profanity from the mouth of a character and the freedom to play with it (like a monkey throwing its shit, Lamb might say) indicates position in the social pecking order of Slough House. We know the characters by their swearing. Of course, it also contributes to the novels’ comedy, as the disordered language of organizational and personal mayhem. Further, it’s a narrative tool, as sudden, unexpected maneuvers in profanity disrupt narrative continuity, yet the expectation of profanity, overall and character by character, supports narrative continuity. In other words, the Slough House novels demonstrate how profanity can be, not verbal decoration, but essential to the tensity of the fiction in which it appears.
This is the introductory post of a series about profanity in the Slough House novels. The sequel posts can be found here and here. Next up, Herron’s uses, routine and innovative, of infixing and interposing. Key to the novels cited here: BA = Bad Actors (2022); RT = Real Tigers (2016); SH = Slow Horses (2010); SS = Spook Street (2017); Secret = The Secret Hours (2023).
#asshat #CatherineStandish #DianaTaverner #dickhead #EmmaFlyte #fiction #fuck #JacksonLamb #MickHerron #reviews #RoddyHo #ShirleyDander #SloughHouse #SlowHorses
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Bwahahahahahaha. What complete and utter tosh! How low is your awareness and education about the vibrant world of millions of professions and nuances that you think that these jobs can be done without humans? And... and... and... you think that your job... which at its most important aspects is risk assessment and future growth/investment projections... something that machines EXCEL AT AND HUMANS SUCK ASS AT???!?!
#assbackwards
#asshat
#ai
#idiot https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/114432093086408939 -
Bwahahahahahaha. What complete and utter tosh! How low is your awareness and education about the vibrant world of millions of professions and nuances that you think that these jobs can be done without humans? And... and... and... you think that your job... which at its most important aspects is risk assessment and future growth/investment projections... something that machines EXCEL AT AND HUMANS SUCK ASS AT???!?!
#assbackwards
#asshat
#ai
#idiot https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/114432093086408939 -
Bwahahahahahaha. What complete and utter tosh! How low is your awareness and education about the vibrant world of millions of professions and nuances that you think that these jobs can be done without humans? And... and... and... you think that your job... which at its most important aspects is risk assessment and future growth/investment projections... something that machines EXCEL AT AND HUMANS SUCK ASS AT???!?!
#assbackwards
#asshat
#ai
#idiot https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/114432093086408939 -
Has #MAGA Had Enough Winning Yet?
Their #FALSEIDOL Has Destroyed the Economy in just 2 months
Russian #ASSHAT #AgentKRASNOVTrump is Imploding the 🇺🇸 From within.
#TRUMPSLUMP
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#Journal, Day 1814
Friday, 07 March 2025
Ukraine War: Day 1119
Hamas-Israel War: Day 516
Mass shootings in the USA in 2025: 47
Days of OSG in office: 46
Days until Midterm Elections: 606 -
#Journal, Day 1814
Friday, 07 March 2025
Ukraine War: Day 1119
Hamas-Israel War: Day 516
Mass shootings in the USA in 2025: 47
Days of OSG in office: 46
Days until Midterm Elections: 606 -
#Journal, Day 1814
Friday, 07 March 2025
Ukraine War: Day 1119
Hamas-Israel War: Day 516
Mass shootings in the USA in 2025: 47
Days of OSG in office: 46
Days until Midterm Elections: 606
