Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025 (awful.systems)

submitted 2 weeks ago by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Want to wade into the spooky 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 you’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 cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Happy Halloween, everyone!)

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[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago

any of y'all watch a good movie or tv show lately? what was it

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago

rewatched all of DS9 over a while, its writing hits even harder in the current year

(apple shows but that can be worked around:) invasion, slow horses, shrinking

haven’t been watching a lot of series tho so limited bucket recommendation

[-] saucerwizard@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I’ve been meaning to catch Adam Curtis’s latest but I just haven’t got around to it yet.

Trying to think of what ai’ve seen new lately instead of rewatched and drawing a blank. Edge of Darkness (the brit one) was quite good.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

Watched Once Upon A Time in Space recently - pretty damn good documentary series.

[-] nfultz@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

She Rides Shotgun - basically Lone Wolf and Cub + Breaking Bad combo. I loved the novel back when it came out, the film is reasonably faithful to it.

[-] mirrorwitch@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

The first couple Eko Eko Azarak movies. Grade-A B-horror Japanese schlock, main character is a Satanist witch teenage detective, more or less. Her goddamn name is Kuroi Misa ("Black Mass"), I love her so much. Perfect if you like brainless gore and non-irony-poisoned creepy movies for spooky week.

The movies are currently on Youtube in full. I'm also watching the 1997 TV series but after episode #3 you'll need to speak Japanese. The movies are better than the series anyway (the first two at least, haven't watched the others.)

[-] BigMuffN69@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

The real housewives of Salt Lake City. I am not joking.

[-] Reach_the_man@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

Dr. Stone new season dropped recently, Golden Kamuy new season ETA early next year

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