Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youā€™ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

    • flizzo@awful.systems
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      5 days ago

      A couple months ago I lobbied for (and won) my weekly trivia team to use the name ā€œmikeā€™s hard lemonpartyā€

      Then I learned exactly how old I was

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        camping out on a friendā€™s box, two others had root, but they effectively never bothered. the disk filled one day and i went looking for stuff that wasnā€™t useful. found that site, found it really was where DNS pointed.

        my current box is the descendant of that one

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          7 days ago

          this is what the cloud and its enshittification has taken from us

          shared root on ad-hoc hardware doing fuck knows what (but itā€™s probably lemonparty)

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              did yā€™all see bash.org looks to maybe finally have died died? thereā€™s an archive up somewhere at least but rip to a bastion

              (this thought comes to mind because I instantly wanted to link ā€œour thoughts go out to the recent victims of internet fraudā€ā€¦)