#freak-out — Public Fediverse posts

Happy Mother's Day, Mothers!
#MothersDay #MotherlyLove #Zappa #FreakOut #Chunderroad
https://youtu.be/FFQbERB2DAM

Witchcraft + Sothiac

Sabato 21 febbraio, dalle 07:30 alle 12:00, presso Circolo Magnolia, Via Circonvallazione Idroscalo 41 Segrate (MI)

Circolo Magnolia, Heavy Psych Sound Records, Freakout Club e Hardstaff Booking sono lieti di riportare finalmente nella penisola i leggendari

WITCHCRAFT

Formatisi in Svezia all’inizio degli anni Duemila da un'idea del'eclettico Magnus Pelander, i Witchcraft sono diventati nel tempo una band di culto nel panorama rock e doom psichedelico internazionale. Il loro suono affonda le radici nell’heavy rock e nel doom tradizionale, arricchito da forti influenze psichedeliche e da un’attitudine profondamente legata allo spirito degli anni Settanta. Un mix che ha permesso alla band di costruire un’identità sonora riconoscibile, intensa e senza compromessi.

Dopo più di due decenni di carriera e con un album nuovo alle porte in arrivo a maggio 2026 per i tipi Heavy Psych Sound, i Witchcraft tornano a calcare in anteprima i palchi italiani per due serate uniche a Bologna e a Milano.

Un’occasione imperdibile per vivere dal vivo l’alchimia sonora dei Witchcraft, tra riff magnetici, atmosfere oscure e una carica emotiva che dal palco arriva dritta allo stomaco. Due concerti dedicati a chi ama il rock profondo, il doom più rituale e viscerale.

Il culto continua.
I Witchcraft sono pronti a tornare.

Ad aprire le danze i nostri SOTHIAC
Kraut rock, Psichedelia, Stoner, i veterani meneghini saranno i supporti più sorprendenti che ti sia mai capitato di ascoltare!

Porte 19.30
Prevendita qui > https://link.dice.fm/p714eb21fe4e
Per tesserati ARCI

#Stoner #sothiac #psychstoner #circolomagnolia #postrock #krautrock #heavypsychrecords #heavypsych #hardstuffbookingagency #hardrock #witchcraft #freakout #doom

Another freaking f-word

I never fully adopted freaking as an intensifier, euphemistic for fucking, partly because I swear fairly freely, and maybe also because fecking was available in my Irish English dialect. But I like having freaking available, and with its hundredth birthday round the corner, it’s a good time to showcase it.1

Freaking substitutes for its ruder cousin in all sorts of lexical and syntactic contexts, modifying adjectives (that was freaking amazing), verbs (let’s freaking go), and nouns (how is it still freaking January?), among other word classes; it’s also used as an infix (un-freaking-real) and in set phrases like freakin’ A – euphemistic, obviously, for fucking A.

Origins and use

The earliest known use of this freaking – the first citation in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jesse Sheidlower’s The F-Word, and the OED – is in the 1928 novel Georgie May, where author Maxwell Bodenheim uses two freakings and a freakin’, including:

“Gawd, ah hate the hull, freaking pack uh you,” she cried, between her sobbing.

The next example those dictionaries list is in Nelson Algren’s The Man with the Golden Arm (1949):

“You point that freakin’ finger at me ’n you’re one dead pointer.”

That 21-year gap doesn’t mean no one was using it in the meantime. I found the line “You freaking fool!” in the 1937 screwball comedy Nothing Sacred, available on YouTube and the Internet Archive at around the 47m 40s mark:

Films and TV, with their heightened emotions and industrious regulators, are a natural home for this expressive but family-friendly expletive. A chart from COCA shows its use concentrated in those media, occurring at over four times the rate in fiction generally and over six times the rate in speech:2

As Wiktionary notes, “Freaking (or fricking) is often used in motion pictures as a substitute for fucking so that characters can be shown to swear without the motion picture incurring censorship or a higher certificate than it otherwise might.”

Less discerningly, the Encyclopædia Britannica says freaking is “used to make an angry statement more forceful”. That’s not wrong, but it’s misleadingly narrow: freaking can amplify all sorts of emotions, even joy – ask Ned Flanders.

WikiHow knows this. An article by Wits End Parenting and Elaine Heredia says you can use freaking “to emphasize how great something or someone is” and that it “can be a positive or negative word based on context”. It adds that the word “isn’t a sin to say”, in case you were wondering.

Data

Freaking is on the rise but has been levelling off, according to data in COCA and Google’s Ngram Viewer. Rows under the dates below show frequency (i.e., number of uses), number of million words in the sample, and (hence, by division) per-million figures for direct comparison:

That levelling off is despite global use. Geographically, freaking is most popular not in the US but in Singapore, per the GloWbE corpus (freakin has the same top two, reversed). Malaysia comes in third, followed by Canada, Australia, and the Philippines:

Jack Grieve’s eye-catching swear maps of the USA, meanwhile, allow us to zoom in on what States are especially partial to freaking and freakin. Californians’ relative coolness towards them came as a surprise:

Browsing the word’s collocates (freaking/freakin’ ___) in COCA shows the company it keeps. High-ranking +1s include the adjectives awesome, amazing, hilarious, crazy, cool, hot, stupid, hard, and huge; nouns like idiot, mind, thing, break, genius, clue, and deal; and occasional verbs, like love, hate, kidding, and kill.

Some of these invite us to extrapolate the full phrases, or chunks: big freaking deal; give me a freakin’ break; not have a freaking clue; out of my/your/etc. freaking mind; Are you freakin’ kidding?

Other language corpora, such as the 14-billion-word iWeb, show a similar pattern of collocations:

Easily topping the +1s are the preposition out and the pronoun me: a sign of how well freaking [me] out caught on as an idiom, with multiple senses, after being coined in the 1960s. That’s a different usage, of course: not the intensifier freaking but the verb freak (or rather the verb phrase freak out) in the present progressive tense.

Pragmatics

Zappa fits right in here: freaking offers outsider energy for any self-defined freak (or geek) who cares to use it.3 The word’s gently countercultural flavour is also apparent in dictionary citations, where Tom Wolfe’s name recurs.

What makes freaking effective as a minced oath, and attractive to mild and novice swearers, is that it offers proximity to (and thus evocation of) strong swearing while remaining relatively benign. We see this niche exploited expertly by a child in the vampire comic 30 Days of Night: Return to Barrow:

A little later the boy defaults to freakin’, this time automatically obeying his father’s no-swearing rule, and making the word more casual by dropping the g:

Freaking is not always a straightforward substitute for fucking, however. The particular way that it lands caused slight consternation for slang expert Michael Adams when his son started using it at the age of seven:

. . . he’s not just saying That’s freakin’ cool or No freakin’ way. No, he’s saying things like What the freak?! which is a long way from Oh, my gosh on the euphemism scale. There’s the underlying profanity. There’s the phonetics. There’s the fact — apparently — that What the hell? and What the freak? — while parallel — signify differently.4

Films redubbed for TV broadcast have mixed fortunes with it, as my post “Freak those monkey-fightin’ melon farmers!” shows. “I don’t need full freakin’ forensics” in Die Hard 2 (1990) is passable, if implausible in a police station, while “Freak you!” in Casino (1995) is comically underpowered.

In his 2016 book In Praise of Profanity (which I reviewed here and recommend), Michael Adams discusses how the vowels, consonants, and pragmatics of various “partial euphemisms” for fuck – feck, frak, frick, frig, and their freaky fraternity – do their work:

. . . although people usually think euphemisms work because they substitute for profanity, in fact many euphemisms are themselves partially profane, because they more or less cover up profanities—usually less—that are still inscribed in the situations of their use, and our minds’ eyes see through them to the profanities . . . . what makes profanity and the relevant euphemisms pragmatically powerful and interesting is that the euphemisms are often both euphemisms and profanity, a fact not unknown in linguistic circles but too often overlooked when we calculate the logic of language attitudes.

We’re advocates of strong language here at Strong Language, but we know it’s not suitable for all occasions: sometimes a softball is called for. And among the many euphemisms for fucking, freaking has, in a century or so of use, established itself as a truly effective and useful option. It may be mild, but it’s got freakin’ game.

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1 The OED also lists an obsolete, mid-17thC sense of freaking (adj.): “Of a person: inclined to change his or her mind, mood, or behaviour suddenly and unaccountably; given to freakish ideas; capricious, fickle, whimsical.” One of its fans was Samuel freakin’ Pepys: “He told me what a mad freaking fellow Sir Ellis Layton hath been” (Diary, 25 January, 1665).

2 I was unable to separate the verb freaking from the intensifier using part-of-speech tags in COCA, GloWbE, and iWeb, so these uses are combined in the graphs. To fortify the data somewhat I checked 300 examples in each corpus and found that, in COCA, 76% were the intensifier and 24% were the verb (freaking out, or plain freaking with the same sense); in GloWbE it was 74% and 26%, and in iWeb 68% and 32%. So you can consider the graphs broadly indicative but with that significant caveat.

3 We still don’t know where freak came from: origin unknown, the dictionaries say, though the OED offers speculation. Skeat says freak in the sense “whim” is of Germanic origin, being frec “bold, rash” in Old English.

4 Adams has also analyzed the use of freaking in the TV series 13 Reasons Why, tracing a character’s graduation from euphemistic to full-bore profanity.

#censorship #comics #corpusLinguistics #euphemisms #expletiveInfixation #freakOut #freaking #fuck #fucking #infixation #intensifiers #mincedOaths #phrases #popCulture #slang #swearing

"Whatever new atrocities Trump has planned for Americans, he is obviously pre-selling his ‘domestic terrorist’ narrative, getting his Proud Boys riled up against the ‘enemies within.’ Whatever he’s dreamed up will be miles away from due process and the rule of law, just like Epstein’s crimes and death and 66 people buried at sea."

~ Sabrina Haake

#Trump #Epstein #coverup #stonewall #pedophiles #DirtyDonald #corruption #freakout #meltdown #murder
/11

https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-and-the-unmentioned

"Truly, Donald Trump has finally become undone. ...

Inadvertently, Trump has begun deprogramming even the most ardent members of his base."

~ Julie Roginsky

#Trump #Epstein #coverup #stonewall #pedophiles #DirtyDonald #corruption #MAGA #meltdown #freakout
/6

https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-stupidest-thing-trump-could-have

‘New York City Has Fallen’: #MAGA Responds To Zohran Mamdani’s Victory With a #Racist #FreakOut

#Republican lawmakers, right-wing #influencers , far-right #extremists , and #conspiracy theorists pushed anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric after Zohran Mamdani’s victory.
#rightwing #farright #ZohranMamdani #politics #nyc #newyorkcity #political

https://www.wired.com/story/maga-responds-to-zohran-mamdani-victory/

by Shigeru Mizuki

This one is pretty spooky. Calm seas don't make good sailors. haha. I am not interested enough right now to learn about it but apparently this is one of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umib%C5%8Dzu

Cool. Things rising from the depths of the ocean, things below the surface, all of that can make my skin crawl.

I want to find more of this artist's work, I really like what I've seen.

#art #manga #spooky #freakOut #swim #illustration #umibozu #halloween

Next saturday at Freakout, Bologna, Italy.

#livemusic #music #musicposter #poster #bologna #italy #LiveMusicItaly #LiveMusicBologna #metal #livemetal #noise #Freakout #upcominggig

Have a savings account about to mature. Bank wants to know what to do with it. We don’t have a branch. We don’t have the app(don’t want the app). Have to use the website

I am now *so stressed* I’m useless for anything

I’m writing this as part of my recovery programme 🤣

#banking #actuallyAutistic #AuDHD
#stress #freakOut #MightGoMad

—> #JimmyKimmelLive ⦁ #JimmyKimmel <— "Trump Letter" in #Epstein #BirthdayBook Causes #MAGA #Freakout #Newsom Mocks #Donny on #SocialMedia #Comedy #Humour #Humor #Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News #AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol youtu.be/YTRXOW4Mm0w

"Trump Letter" in Epstein Birt...

—> #JimmyKimmelLive ⦁ #JimmyKimmel <—

"Trump Letter" in #Epstein #BirthdayBook Causes #MAGA #Freakout

#Newsom Mocks #Donny on #SocialMedia

#Comedy #Humour #Humor
#Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News
#AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol
https://youtu.be/YTRXOW4Mm0w

Released this day in 1966 Frank Zappa and The Mother of Invention, "Freak Out". Produced by Tom Wilson it only missed being the first rock double album by a couple months to Dylan's "Blonde On Blonde".
#FrankZappa #TheMothersOfInvention #FreakOut #VintageVinyl

#Anatolia
#FreakOut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3idDj1QS8A

STATYCZNE PIOSENKI O ZAKUPACH & LODÓWCE, odc. 11: FREAK OUT!
Henry Flynt i Red Krayol, Devo i Už Jsme Doma, A. E. Bizottság i Kemialliset Ystävät.

Hunter S. Thompson i Timothy Leary, "Nightbitch" Rachel Yoder, "Jebło!" Ignacego Drzazgi, zapowiadanej na 2026 przez Kuriozum Press i Katalog Press.
Wiersze czytać będzie Robert Ryba Rybicki.

Niedziela, 13 kwietnia, godz. 20:00,
https://pawarotaradio.pl/
prowadzi Jacques de Côté
#freefolk #newweirdfinland #jebło #robertrybarybicki #freakout

Happy Caturday, everyone! This little kitten is getting ready to go into freak-out mode. #caturday #kitten #kittens #freakout #engage

Apologies to my normie friends. Someone just described me as having no more F’s to give. Damn right. I was 15 listening to my brother’s Freak Out album on my suitcase record player. When one begins to pay attention to lyrics instead of danceable Top 40 hits, there is a lot to learn.

Posted #ForNoParticularReason #Zappa #ItCantHappenHere #FreakOut
https://youtu.be/svdrAHn_LGo?si=ReT4jxOMCgEfSwOy

Psst, start here...

https://social.vivaldi.net/@cmthiede/113722510298515198

Both?

https://youtu.be/aXgSHL7efKg

#FreakOut #LeFreak #Chic #MuzakLessons #Summertime

Frank Zappa
#FrankZappa #Zappa #musicista #guitar #musician #peachesenregalia #WeReOnlyinItForTheMoney #TheMothersOfInventions #FreakOut #OneSizeFitsAll #music #noAI #caricature #caricatura #caricaturas #caricatures #caricaturedrawing #caricatures_world #caricatureportrait #caricatureillustration #pencil #pencildrawing #matt #matteopaolelli

Why is it that missing a day of work makes things 100 times more stressful when you return the next day? I was out Friday and it seems like nothing really happened in my absence, but here we are today and I am stressing out over every tiny detail?

I thought this week would be a normal two-days-in-the-office week but now it’s three. I have three pieces of paperwork that I need to have done by (probably) Thursday. It should be super simple. In fact, there were four pieces of paperwork and I’ve already cranked out one of them. I’m freaking out over the remaining three though. Why? I have time off booked for Monday and Tuesday next week. I thought they were going to be music days, but now will the be spent with dad in the hospital? I don’t know. Maybe. Part of the time at least.

Seriously. Stop freaking out over nothing, Robert. You’ve got this shit covered. You can handle it. Stop stressing. Work is okay. Dad is going to be okay. Calm down and just get it done like you always do.

I think I might just be reacting to being sad that Bellana left for Vermont this morning. No clue when we’re going to see either kid again. I’m guessing that’s the real root of my struggles with this particular Monday.

Over all it’s not a bad day or anything, I am just stressin’ like ya do. May your Mondays be easier on the ol’ stomach, as it were.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/08/19/stress-4/

#bellana #dad #Family #freakOut #harry #health #Kids #MentalHealth #paperwork #StepKids #Stress #work #workProjects

"I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment." -Frank Zappa (from Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa )

I LOVE Frank Zappa! And I love monster movies (in a smaller way).
#FrankZappa #SpeakOut #FreakOut #SpeakUp https://stranger.social/@lednaBM/112841387880788376

#Trump #Melts #Institutions, #SCOTUS Edition.

The #SupremeCourt's #nowin #situation and the #healthy #liberalism we need. How much should people #freakout over Thursday’s #SCOTUS #oralarguments about #Trump’s #claims that he can’t be #Criminally #prosecuted for election #crimes due to #presidentialimmunity?

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-melts-institutions-scotus-edition

Two years into running the #SanDiego #GayMensChorus, #CharlieBeale is ready for a ‘#FreakOut’

Next weekend’s #disco-#themed #concerts, featuring #rollerskating, ‘70s #costumes and #audience #interaction, are right in line with leader’s #goals for the #organization.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #California #Entertainment #Music #Representation #Culture

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/music/story/2024-04-14/san-diego-gay-mens-choir-story

Latest #AI #Freakout Dept: So yeah. #OpenAI #Sora . Should this be surprising ? From what #DiffusionModels are and the fact that video is simply a sequence of frames ? Try utterly inevitable. All the bits to do the heavy lifting are already several years old. So why the meltdowns ? Part of it is cognitive boundaries in how we think about images becoming a thing that walks, talks and dances around the room...like real memories instead of utter fictions.Context is everything

Last night during The Darts’s killer set at #Freakout Fest, they mentioned an in-store performance at Easy Street records today.

We brought the kids, and they both loved it. Hannah got to hold the mic for the singer a couple of times and won’t stop talking about it. 😂 I think she’s a fan for life. (The music is up her alley already.)

#music #TheDarts

Joudy (pronounced “Howdy”) at #Freakout #seattle

#Freakout achieved!