Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? 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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

  • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
    15Ā·
    11 days ago

    Noted on Bluesky:

    Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.

    Now, folks out there are calling this a Biblically accurate blunt rotation, but to be fair, itā€™s missing Aella.

    • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
      6Ā·
      11 days ago

      I was tempted to gawk but then I realisedā€¦ the guyā€™s just going to see some shapes in the light and itā€™s going to be boring as shit

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        7Ā·
        11 days ago

        (not in any way meaning to stan the weirdo) at that dosage it might be more than that, but also itā€™s ??? to me to consider taking that much while also being exposed to a bunch of people like that around me

        and that itā€™s even the dosage it is feels like it tells you a hell of a lot about the extent of his baseline intake too

        these creeps are doing a better job at antidrug messaging than any propaganda I ever saw

        • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
          4Ā·
          11 days ago

          I dont know much about dosage numbers etc, care to mention a bit more how much is normal and how much he is off the baseline?

          (I just recall some old friends who once tried shrooms and didnt seem to notice much so they went to a disco and for one of them it hit at the middle of the dancefloor so he stood there like a statue (the guy was also tall and a metalhead, so quite a sight). And before it became illegal (some tourist got himself killed by using shrooms and drinking and they blamed the shrooms) to give others spores or something I managed to get some from someone as a promo/anarchist thing. Never did anything with them).

          (Fine if you dont want to, or if talking about it exposes you/others to risk etc, dont. Just curious).

          • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
            5Ā·
            10 days ago

            I dont know much about dosage numbers etc, care to mention a bit more how much is normal and how much he is off the baseline?

            ā€œnormalā€ is a bit of a fucked term when dealing with this stuff, in part because we really donā€™t have good human-wide data (hi can you see what ghoulfuck is playing off of?). why donā€™t we have that? oh yā€™know that entire little multidecade war on drugs things perpetetrated by the selfsame government that isā€¦[ā€¦breathe]

            that said, psychonautwiki is a more informative starting point than I could concisely be. that also said, part of the fucky bit is that you get different strains of shrooms, with different effective concentrations of psychoactive compounds (eg psilocybin cubensis vs psilocybin cyanescens)

            beyond that, I donā€™t really think that awful is a place for psychedelic discussion (and I wouldnā€™t try to make it one). there are often conversations to be had, but here ainā€™t the where

            • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
              5Ā·
              10 days ago

              Thanks! And of course there is a wiki for it.

              E: unrelated to the talks about shrooms. Didnā€™t Grimes talk to Aella about how they felt cheated by people around them who were a lot more evil than they pretended to be, wonder why this doesnā€™t seem to have caused a change of heart/scenery.

              • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
                2Ā·
                10 days ago

                re your edit: it hasnā€™t changed because those words are just a front, a way to try save face as they get caught out with their bullshit. both of them have a choice, and have had a choice this whole time. they keep choosing to be where they are, what they say

          • macroplastic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            4Ā·
            10 days ago

            Thatā€™s about twice a ā€˜normal doseā€™ and in the realm of what Terrence McKenna would call a ā€˜heroic doseā€™.

            Mushrooms vary a lot in real potency but at that level of dosage ego death is almost guaranteed, and itā€™s likely that the user will spend at least 30 minutes to an hour unable to articulate language.

            • BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systemsEnglish
              7Ā·
              10 days ago

              itā€™s likely that the user will spend at least 30 minutes to an hour unable to articulate language.

              This presumes Johnson was able to articulate language in the first place, which given that his brain has melted at an incredible pace since 2020 may be a bit of a stretch.

                • BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systemsEnglish
                  6Ā·
                  10 days ago

                  This doubly disappoints me because in a professional capacity I strive for being incredibly intentional and accurate while recreationally I aspire to shitposting, and ā€œmore accurate than mostā€ satisfies neither. I really need to get my blood boy to write better material.

            • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
              6Ā·
              10 days ago

              I love the phrase ego death because everyone Iā€™ve heard describe the experience sounds like the most egotistical mf in the universe with how impressed they are by their own self-enlightenment.

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      0Ā·
      10 days ago

      Btw, im a bit afraid to ask, as I should actually have googled this first (but Iā€™m also becoming weary of google, tried to find some code related things yday and it was giving me wild results, it used to be better at that), but is there a sort of guide on blacksky, like what does joining one of those sites imply (I think I should join the ā€˜blacksky for non-pocā€™ variant, at least I got that was a thing) but how well does it interact with the main bsky, how easy is it to switch, consequences for interactions/follows/followers, etc etc. Anybody have a guide on that? In an attempt to migrate away more from bsky which is making a few questionable moderation decisions. (I also know that due to how the whole system is setup, migrating doesnā€™t actually get you away from those decisions, so Iā€™m also asking out of curiosity, so take that into account regarding how much effort to put into my question, also means ignoring/not reacting is fine. Just shooting a shot, and trying to be clear about intentions, and my feelings re reactions).