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 youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
I maintain that our militia ought to be called the Cassandra Division
Ken McLeodās The Cassini Division tells the fate of all uploaded superhumans - blasted to plasma by bombardment of comet nuclei
Scotland sure has a wealth of based speculative fiction authors, donāt they?
I enjoy the work for the 3 Macs from the British Isles:
In general I prefer UK English SF, because itās a bit less infected by the pernicious frontier mentality of US mainstream SF. Note that there are very good American authors too who kinda push back on that, but my impression was formed when Christopher Priest and Jerry Pournelle were active and could be contrasted.
Even just The Cassandras would work well (that way all the weird fucks who are shitty about gender would hate the name even more)