me cague en la mare que t'ha parit, Júlia!

en route to becoming a musician. too many projects on my head, trying my best. prooobably some kind of trans. valenciana crià a poal.

[useless-catalanfacts]

Now for a real challenge, what are some swear words in Catalan? >:)

The most important one: fotre (or cardar, in the Girona area), which means "to fuck". But it's used differently than in English. In English you add "fucking" between words (for example: "the fucking best"), but in Catalan it substitutes the word. For example:

Fot-li més sal: literally "fuck more salt", meaning "pour more salt"

Quin fred que fot: literally "it fucks so cold", meaning "it is so cold"

It can also be used as the adjective "fotut" (m) / "fotuda" (f) meaning bad. For example, if you just found out you have an exam tomorrow and you haven't studied, you might say "estic fotut" or "ho tinc fotut" ("I'm fucked"). But "estar fotut" is also often used to mean that you're ill.

"Fotut" or "refotut" ("re-fucked", for emphasis) can also sometimes be used like the English "fucking": "no em parlis d'aquell fotut examen!" ("don't even mention that fucking exam!"). Nowadays, many people use the word "puto"/"puta" ("whore") in this way, as the result of influence from Spanish.

But the most common in this situation is "cony" ("cunt"): "què cony fas?" ("what the fuck are you doing?"), "he deixat aquell cony de feina!" ("I've quit that fucking job!").

A lighter version of this is "dimonis" ("devils"), though this is so light it's not really considered a swear word and it's quite outdated: "què dimonis fas?" ("what the hell are you doing?")

Another one we say all the time is "collons!". It's a vulgar word for testicles, but it's used as an interjection that can have all sorts of meanings depending on your intonation: suprise, admiration, anger, exasperation, incredulity...

Besides that, adding this word to other sentences is also very common to express a full range of meanings and emotions. I've done my best to add subtitles to a video that talks about it, but it was difícil de collons (difficult as fuck). I've translated it as "balls", thought it's a stronger word in Catalan, more of a curse word.

(As you can see, some of those have a sexist implication)

Though probably what we say the most is "me cago en..." ("I shit on...") as the equivalent of the English "fuck!" as a quick reaction when you drop something or get hurt, something bad happens, or you want to complain or insult. Some common ones are:

Me cago'n Déu: I shit on God

Cago'n dena or cago'n deuna: I shit on G... (euphemism to not say "god", like when English speakers say "heck" to avoid saying "hell")

Me cago'n tot: I shit on everything

Me cago'n tu: I shit on you

Me cago'n la mare que et va parir: I shit on the mother that gave birth to you

Me cago'n la mare que et va matricular: I shit on the mother that registered you (to avoid the word "give birth", which can be a swear word by itself)

Me cago'n la mar salada: I shit on the salty sea

Me cago'n Judas: I shit on Judas

Me cago'n Satanàs (quan era jove): I shit on Satan (when he was young)

Me cago'n l'hòstia: I shit on the communion bread

Me cago'n l'hòstia consagrada: I shit on the blessed communion bread

Me cago'n la puta or me cago'n la grandíssima puta: I shit on the whore or I shit on the greatest whore

Cago'n cony: I shit on the cunt

These are only a few examples of the most common ones. There are many more, and these ones can get longer. For example, "me cague en un barril d'hòsties amb el cap de Déu per tapadora" ("I shit on a barrel of communion bread with God's head as the lid") or "me cago'n els claus-ganxo que aguanten les postetes del cagadero de Cristo" ("I shit on the nail-hooks that hold up Christ's shitting hole"), among many others. There are many fixed expressions like those, but people are also welcome to let their imagination come up with new ones related to the context and the people it's directed at.

And the soft, family friendly equivalent of those is "caso'm l'olla" or "caso'm l'os pedrer".

We also very often say "merda!" ("shit!") and "hòstia!" (this word is both a vulgar way of saying getting slapped or crashing into something and the communion waffle, it's used like English's "damn it!", "shit!" or "fuck!").

And to say something is great, we say "de puta mare!" ("of a whore mother!").

Of course, besides those ones there's the insults and ways to tell people to go to hell. But we'll leave those for another day (believe me, that will be a long post).

It's also worth saying that we use swear words less carefully than English speakers generally do. Many parents will say "fotre" in front of their kids or on TV and it's not that much of a big deal.

[pc98-rom]

Gus, 2007

[tiredartist86]

@choosetheleft on tiktok about correlation between gender apathy/enby genders and being on the ace/aro spectrum :)

[pocketsizedpanther]

Yall be careful!

[naamahdarling]

"it's all fake looking ugly slop! Weird fingers! You can always tell!"

I need you to realize that literally none of these things are true, and that by continuing to believe them, you are making yourself gullible.

[voluptatiscausa]

The News Literacy Project

I used this heavily in the creation of my information literacy course. Go take a look!!!

[depoble]

Vi, cansalà, botifarres i collons pa pujar ací!

[herbaolives]

este i "perque l'alcalde és un filldeputa" "a part" viuen rent free en el meu cap

[hightide-error]

extremely cool that the removal of wolf protections in europe are being driven by an eu official having one of her horses killed by a wolf. literal cartoon villain shit

[hightide-error]

if you own horses you should be disqualified from participation in government

[hightide-error]

and after this happened, they put that specific wolf on a kill list and then proceeded to shoot the wrong wolf. geniuses

[somejack]

Environmental groups condemn EU Parliament’s approval to downgrade wolf protection as an attack on nature Today, the European Parliament app

For anyone who thought this is too stupid to be real, I'll remind you the year is 2025. The EU official in question is Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. She is the latest in a long line of idiot Germans to think the CDU disguises her evil.

[abnerkrill]

okay here's a petition against this

[herbaolives]

els dinars de família en festes del poble són una experiència. què vols dir que es van a casar la meua cosina i el novio l'any que ve?? pero esta xica no estava vivint a Tailàndia? ah no que s' tret la plaça de mestra en Torrent. okei pues. hora d'acceptar la realitat.

[depoble]

Bueno hui marca 44 graus de màxima en el meu poble. Tocara clavar-se en el congelador

[feldfrog]

All comedy is rooted in spending mental “funny coins” which you can earn by rooting around in the proverbial dirt of noticing things

[depoble]

Solteu els vostres refranys favs

el meu és: "Pa lo que queda en el convento, me cago dentro"

[herbaolives]

no crec que conte com a refrany pero a mi la expressió "tindre més fam que el gos del sereno" em pareix molt divertida

[peoplematchingartworks]

[novella-november]

Here's a test poll.

How often do you use Google's Generative AI tools like Gemini or NotebookLM?

Daily

Weekly

Monthly

Hardly Ever

I use some other kind of generative AI tool that isn't from Google

I Literally Never use *any* kind of Generative AI tools willingly

Voting ended onJul 8, 2025

[inbabylontheywept]

my grandpa was a good man. and it really wasnt his fault - recreationally lying to kids is a proud family tradition - but he told me, once, that cutting a worm in half resulted in two worms.

i think he said it so i'd be more morally okay with fishing? i actually dont remember the context.

point was, he told me this, and he understimated (by a very large margin) how much i liked worms. i was a worm boy. very wormy. and after hearing that, i went home, and i dug through the garden, flipped over every rock, did everything i could to gather as many worms as i could, and then i uh.

i cut them all in half. every worm i could find. all of them. with scissors.

i then took this pile of split worms, and i put them in a box with a bit of lettuce and some water and stuff and went to bed expecting to double my worms overnight. i have math autism, so i had a vague understanding that if i did this just a few times in a row, i would eventually have a completely unreasonable amount of worms.

i was very excited to become this plane's worm emperor.

(i think i was...six?)

anyway, i did not become the inheritor of the worm crown. i instead woke up to a box of dead worms and cried. a lot. i got diagnosed with panic attacks as a teenager, but i think i had them as a kid, i just had no idea what they were. i was kind of processing that a.) i had killed what i had assumed was every single worm in my yard, and thus would have no more worms, and b). i was going to like, worm hell.

(six year babylon spent a lot of time worrying about god.)

so i kind of freaked out, and i climbed a tree, because god can only smite you if you're touching the ground (?) and i sat up there mostly inconsolable until my mom came out and asked, hey, what's up? what happened?

so i explained to her that i had killed all of the worms, forever, and was also Damned, and she took me to the compost pile, and we dug for all of five seconds and found like twenty more worms.

the compost pile was full of worms.

she then told me that a). there were more worms, and we could put them back under rocks and stuff and recolonize our yard and b). that one day, i would die, and go to heaven, and be able to talk to the worms face to face. that i'd be able to tell them all that i was very sorry, and that i killed them on accident, driven only by excessive Love, and that she was positive they would forgive me because worms have six hearts and no malice.

at that point, i think i was sixty percent tear-snot by weight, and i had no choice but to gather enough worms that i could hug them. which my mom helped with. and then after that she helped me put some worms back under each rock.

and for my epilogue: i spent a significant portion of my childhood in trees. and for many years after, even when my mom didnt know i was watching, i would catch her giving the space under the rocks a light spritz with the hose. not because she loved worms.

but because she loved me.

[animentality]

[poissond-avril]

lil consort!bilbo warmup thang...

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

“If I had time travel I’d kill Hitler” “If I had time travel I’d stop my favourite politician getting assassinated” you’re all thinking way too small. If I had time travel I’d stop Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from dying on the moon due to Soviet sabotage, kicking off the Great Nuclear War and devastating half of the planet.

[stavarosthearcane]

Good Job.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#this post gets me every time 

It’s from two days ago fam how many times could there have been

[heroofthreefaces]

do you think no one else has time travel

[funnelcloudd]

How come semi trucks in Europe look like “toot toot :)” and in North America they look like “HONK HOOOOOOOONK >:|”

“Henlo I am big twuck pwease give me wots of woom tank u :)”

“I WILL FUCKING PANCAKE YOUR CUCK ASS”

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

@trainwreckgenerator why did you hide these in the tags

[digitaldiscipline]

This suggests that Maximum Overdrive was Jurassic Park for motor vehicles.

[cheesedemon]

I’m sorry, but that is misleading as hell. American and European trucks are bred for different purposes.

American trucks are bred for long hauls on largely straight roads. They can go for hours without a break. A European truck needs more breaks and a lighter load, and they would indeed take great internal damage if they tried to keep up with the Longsnout.

The European Shortsnout is not bred for looks, but for agility! They navigate the windy roads of Europe in a way that would be way too risky for the powerful, but more clumsy American truck. It is true that the European overheats faster at high speeds, that is the very reason that breaks every 4,5 hours are mandatory for both the truck and the handler and a day of driving can never be longer then 9 hours.

So, all in all, appreciate all of our trucks and our shared history, and be the responsible owner that gets the right breed for the right job.

[kedreeva]

To be fair, the US does have shortnose trucks as well, they’re just a breed kept mainly for very local work where, like the above says, they are working in places with lots of turns, shorter drives, and plenty of stops. I see them used for garbage pickup a lot, where a longnosed Mack wouldn’t be able to fit much less maneuver, and the short nose prevents them from getting rubs (raw skin or even open sores) on their snouts.

I would also like to point out that the tags have got it backwards. The wild trucks (which I’m pretty sure are extinct in the wild now) that all modern breeds stemmed from were shortnose trucks. We had known about automobiles and domesticated several species, but the truck species was not discovered until close to the start of the 1900’s, in Germany, which I BELIEVE was the first country to breed them in captivity, although England was the first country to really start using them for work. I managed to find a photo of taxidermied specimen

As you can see, it resembles both long and short nosed breeds, as well as the far more common house truck used by individuals instead of for commercial work.

As to the aggression, while the mack longnose LOOKS aggressive, they’re generally gentle giants (although please do give them space on the road! not seeing you in their blind spot is NOT the same as aggression!), it is actually the smaller house truck that is often trained by their handler to be aggressive: the keyword being TRAINED, they are also not naturally aggressive. The only time I have seen a mack be commonly aggressive is when they are pulling 2 gravel trailers, and I would be cranky if I was being overworked, too. If you see them hauling that kind of load, just give them space, and you’ll be fine.

[ub-sessed]

I feel like somebody should add something about the Australian variants.

[nudityandnerdery]

From my understanding of Australian wildlife:

[dreorzen]

Does anyone know if/how American School Busses are related to trucks? 

Pics for reference:

The classic long-nose schoolbus

But short-nose varieties exist, I remember when they first started appearing in my district!

[kedreeva]

@dreorzen While school buses ARE in the automobile order, they are actually part of the Van family, not the Truck family, due to their passenger capacity. As you can see in the photos, they have no cargo bed or hookup, and are not really built for object transport. But they DO excel at carrying passengers, particularly children (although certainly not limited to just children)

They’re known to be exceptionally protective of any passengers, and if you look closely on that second image you can actually see a specialized appendage that is (I think) unique to school buses- a small, red, octagonal fan, which they extend when there are small creatures around them that they are acquiring or releasing. Much like an angler fish’s bioluminescent bulb appendage, this fan (along with several bioluminescent patches on top of their faces and on their hindquarters) works to mesmerize any other vehicles in close proximity, to where those vehicles will cease movement until the bus lowers the fan. It’s super fascinating behavior, and little wonder why we trust our children to these gentle, protective giants.

[dirtydragonthoughts]

Don’t forget about the bus trucks.

While these vehicles can sometimes be bred by accident (after all, who hasn’t accidentally left the gate open when your school bus is in season), they are usually bred for specific purposes.

These hybrids are bred for both their cargo capacity and their gentle temperments. Especially in a farm setting, there’s a need for many different kinds of vehicles, some of which sometimes don’t get along. Having a vehicle with both the strength and capacity of a large work truck with the amiable nature of a school bus can be a real benefit.

It’s a little unfortunate that these hybrids tend to be sterile, though, since it would be easier if they’d breed true. Also, something to keep in mind… bus trucks are bred from a bus.

Truck buses are bred from a truck and… tend to not be quite as useful as bus trucks, although some people do like keeping truck buses for companionship and as show vehicles.

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