Want to wade into the rainbow-ridden 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 so 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.)

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      12Ā·
      2 months ago

      Has it been 2 months already? I was wondering when they would turn up in the news again.

      E: Iā€™m not serious, I came across this video on yt which fulfilled my ā€˜every 2 monthsā€™ thing already. It was actually a bit interesting, as it turns out both of them have a long mostly unscrubbed online history which they tracked down and analyzed, turns out she has a history of being a weird quirky person, and they both have an air of ā€˜want to become internet famous/create an internet scamā€™ sort of thing.

      The comments on that vid are great as well (wait for it) check this one out:

      It is rich for you to skewer anything Simone and Malcolm miss with their podcast when they post 5 days a week (you neglected to mention) and you canā€™t even maintain your schedule or throw up a post on bluesky when you are off schedule. Also, because you two are genetic dead ends you donā€™t know that a mother of 5 cannot be a night person, she was up with a baby when she emailed. Malcolm and Simone talk in different rooms because she always is looking after a baby, and babies can randomly make noise so Simone can mute and Malcolm can take over. Maybe you can meet a baby one day and learn how they work. But I will say this episode is better researched than the usual ā€œread article titles and giggleā€ podcasts you put out.

      This comment was left by none other than ā€œDiana Fleischmanā€ Yes, that one, the evolutionary psychologist, and partner of Primal ā€œIā€™m no longer allowed near studentsā€ Poly (For those who remember sneerclub from reddit, he was a regular subject. For example).

      Amazing how small this nazi nerd world is. And how bad they are at defending their own. Feel free to leave ā€˜ad hominemā€™ reactions to that. (I will not as my yt profile links back to my real life).