Want to wade into the snowy 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 youāll 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 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. This was a bit late - I was too busy goofing around on Discord)


Today, in fascists not understanding art, a suckless fascist praised Mozillaās 1998 branding:
Quoting from a 2016 explainer:
The irony of a suckless developer complaining about brutalism is truly remarkable; these fuckwits donāt actually have a sense of art history, only what looks cool to them. Big lizard, hard-to-read font, edgy angular corners, and red-and-black palette are all cool symbols to the teenage boyās mind, and the fascist never really grows out of that mindset.
It irks me to see people casually use the term ābrutalistā when what they really mean is āmodern architecture that I donāt likeā. It really irks me to see people apply the term brutalist to something that has nothing to do with architecture! Itās a very specific term!
āBrutalistā is the only architectural style they ever learned about, because the name implies violence