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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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 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. This was a bit late - I was too busy goofing around on Discord)

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[-] macroplastic@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

That link can't be viewed without a bluesky account, btw.

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago
[-] macroplastic@sh.itjust.works 5 points 20 hours ago

Thanks.

I love the fact that this "decentralized billionaire-proof open network" needs a nitter clone.

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

i'll cut the coiners some slack on this one because requiring a login to view is an account level privacy option. i don't know what the option is supposed to accomplish. but that's what it is

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 5 points 12 hours ago

you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

if bsky is supposed to be federated, then it does nothing, but as it is today with 99%+ of users on main instance, it only works as a recruitment tool for bsky

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