#dickhead — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dickhead, aggregated by home.social.
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Mike Nolan is a total pile of shit. He exploits the FOSS community, then says it’s “satire,” then says he’s trying to teach FOSS developers a lesson.
Meanwhile, his product is doing real harm. He can say he’s part of the FOSS community. But he’s like every other tech bro, exploiting others to get wealthy.
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https://www.404media.co/this-ai-tool-rips-off-open-source-software-without-violating-copyright/
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Mike Nolan is a total pile of shit. He exploits the FOSS community, then says it’s “satire,” then says he’s trying to teach FOSS developers a lesson.
Meanwhile, his product is doing real harm. He can say he’s part of the FOSS community. But he’s like every other tech bro, exploiting others to get wealthy.
🖕🏻
https://www.404media.co/this-ai-tool-rips-off-open-source-software-without-violating-copyright/
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Mike Nolan is a total pile of shit. He exploits the FOSS community, then says it’s “satire,” then says he’s trying to teach FOSS developers a lesson.
Meanwhile, his product is doing real harm. He can say he’s part of the FOSS community. But he’s like every other tech bro, exploiting others to get wealthy.
🖕🏻
https://www.404media.co/this-ai-tool-rips-off-open-source-software-without-violating-copyright/
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Mike Nolan is a total pile of shit. He exploits the FOSS community, then says it’s “satire,” then says he’s trying to teach FOSS developers a lesson.
Meanwhile, his product is doing real harm. He can say he’s part of the FOSS community. But he’s like every other tech bro, exploiting others to get wealthy.
🖕🏻
https://www.404media.co/this-ai-tool-rips-off-open-source-software-without-violating-copyright/
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Mike Nolan is a total pile of shit. He exploits the FOSS community, then says it’s “satire,” then says he’s trying to teach FOSS developers a lesson.
Meanwhile, his product is doing real harm. He can say he’s part of the FOSS community. But he’s like every other tech bro, exploiting others to get wealthy.
🖕🏻
https://www.404media.co/this-ai-tool-rips-off-open-source-software-without-violating-copyright/
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@franceculture/116407429190573648
Plus je regarde cette tête de noeud (ou de merlan frit, c'est selon l'angle), plus je me demande si sa connerie a une base génétique : il est, a toujours été et sera toujours cupide, prétentieux, lâche, mauvais perdant, mauvais baiseur et sans recul sur ses conneries tant qu'il ne se les prends pas dans les gencives.
Il est dit que le cerveau humain est capable d'adaptation et de résilience, normalement et le sien, apparemment, non.
D'où la question : est-il non-humain ou seulement neuro-déficient génétiquement ? -
Here is an excerpt from an article about source of the problem that is ruining my business (source: https://thainexus.co.th/en/) :
#dammit #thisfuckingguyagain #usa #trumpsucks #america #sonofabitch #fuckingshit #dumbassratman #dickhead #dumbdickhead
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Here is an excerpt from an article about source of the problem that is ruining my business (source: https://thainexus.co.th/en/) :
#dammit #thisfuckingguyagain #usa #trumpsucks #america #sonofabitch #fuckingshit #dumbassratman #dickhead #dumbdickhead
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Here is an excerpt from an article about source of the problem that is ruining my business (source: https://thainexus.co.th/en/) :
#dammit #thisfuckingguyagain #usa #trumpsucks #america #sonofabitch #fuckingshit #dumbassratman #dickhead #dumbdickhead
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Here is an excerpt from an article about source of the problem that is ruining my business (source: https://thainexus.co.th/en/) :
#dammit #thisfuckingguyagain #usa #trumpsucks #america #sonofabitch #fuckingshit #dumbassratman #dickhead #dumbdickhead
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Here is an excerpt from an article about source of the problem that is ruining my business (source: https://thainexus.co.th/en/) :
#dammit #thisfuckingguyagain #usa #trumpsucks #america #sonofabitch #fuckingshit #dumbassratman #dickhead #dumbdickhead
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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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CW: NSFW 18+ AI-generated art
Me and my best friend ❤️ It's a friendship with many benefits... #dickhead #penishead #hugepenis #skaterbros #penisbrain #aigaypics #alphamale #hung #bigdick #hugecock #hornymale #ragingboner #aimaleart
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CW: NSFW 18+ AI-generated art
Me and my best friend ❤️ It's a friendship with many benefits... #dickhead #penishead #hugepenis #skaterbros #penisbrain #aigaypics #alphamale #hung #bigdick #hugecock #hornymale #ragingboner #aimaleart
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“I’m wondering if chaos is less a consequence of actions that sends a life careening off any discernible path and more a curse afforded to the unlucky at birth. And I am very, very unlucky. Or just a dickhead.”
#actions #afforded #AgriculteursRomansNouvellesEtc #AmitiéFéminineRomansNouvellesEtc #anyDiscerniblePath #AshevilleNCFiction #birth #book #careeningOff #chaos #consequence #CouplesDeLesbiennesRomansNouvellesEtc #curse #dickhead #Farmers #FarmersFiction #FemaleFriendship #FemaleFriendshipFiction #FleursRomansNouvellesEtc #flowers #FlowersFiction #FriendshipFiction #GagnantsàLaLoterieRomansNouvellesEtc #Gardeners #GardenersFiction #Humor #IAm #JardiniersRomansNouvellesEtc #just #LesbianCouples #LesbianCouplesFiction #LesbianFiction #LesbianRomanceFiction #Lesbians #LesbiansFiction #less #LGBTQ #LGBTQPeople #LGBTQRomance #LGBTQIAFiction #life #literaryFiction #LotteryWinners #LotteryWinnersFiction #LoveStories #MazeyEddings #NorthCarolinaAsheville #Novels #QueerFiction #quote #romance #RomanceFiction #romans #RomansLesbiens #RomanticComedy #sends #unlucky #very #veryUnlucky #wondering
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oh dear.. what a shame.. never mind.
#Dickhead #MAGAt muso, "Songwriter" LOL get a job you bum!
Oh and buy the way, the #UK are no longer your ally according to your #OrangeShitler".
Enjoy your "president", are you great yet? -
Real shame when someone puts #neurodivergent in their profile when really they just mean #asshole
Like, even #neurospicy people can not be mean, ya #dickhead.
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Two thousand and three
Notion appeared in a dream
Deja Vu Sunday
#haiku #Video #FutureNews #SciFiSunday #News #CryptoNews #PhilipKDick #DickHead #YouTube #Prophecy @BernardoKastrup https://youtu.be/3GyCQN5qWPo?si=pejWWVi1YY_Fwv0h&t=789 -
Two thousand and three
Notion appeared in a dream
Deja Vu Sunday
#haiku #Video #FutureNews #SciFiSunday #News #CryptoNews #PhilipKDick #DickHead #YouTube #Prophecy @BernardoKastrup https://youtu.be/3GyCQN5qWPo?si=pejWWVi1YY_Fwv0h&t=789 -
Two thousand and three
Notion appeared in a dream
Deja Vu Sunday
#haiku #Video #FutureNews #SciFiSunday #News #CryptoNews #PhilipKDick #DickHead #YouTube #Prophecy @BernardoKastrup https://youtu.be/3GyCQN5qWPo?si=pejWWVi1YY_Fwv0h&t=789 -
😡 Musk při jásání nad Trumpem opakovaně předvedl gesto se zdviženou pravicí, což až nápadně připomnělo hajlovaní, tedy nacistický pozdrav. Ale při pohledu na video, mu to tedy moc nejde. Celé je to takováý dost křeč. #dickhead
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Bezos would never notice but I am SO fucking glad I avoid ANYTHING Amazon-related because fuck this fucking asshole.
#Dickhead
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/13/amazon-trump-inauguration-1-million?utm_campaign=editorial&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0y3AQL-dDWNhJQW4ytGyfsoaD-mdVHUWsDT0flRfzubeCGXkEigiEQCp4_aem__fJIA6-xGZrZ2YwE8RkZvQ -
Who's the annoying twat who thought it would be a good idea to stick the two characters "U&" with no spaces in front of a random selection of #Freeview #TV channels so that they no longer sort in the right order and are difficult spot in the on-screen schedule?!
#twat #dickhead #television #enshittification -
@Morning1 Yes, #muskrat , please #mansplain to her how she should be spending her money. #dickhead
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Well, that’s all right—if everyone else can call Dross and his mates “the Toadies”.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24005351.fmqs-douglas-ross-told-off-calling-snp-the-nats/
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resident #dickhead Henry Pike "MP" for #bowman makes a fuss about native title claims in #redlands kind of sounds like political point games around the #referendum. He nor his "esteemed" predecessor Andrew Lamming made a peep about it until now... hmm
