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#insults — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #insults, aggregated by home.social.

  1. 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/
  2. An underused word for your consideration: "scug" - a Victorian schoolboy insult denoting a pushy, slovenly, morally undeveloped slacker with bad manners and far too high an opinion of himself.
    (All that in one syllable! If that's not 19th century efficiency I don't know what is.)

    If it's good enough to be employed by those most worthy knights P. G. Wodehouse and Terry Pratchett, I deem it good enough for us. I use it myself. Care to join me?
    #scug #insults #Wodehouse #Pratchett