Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? 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.)

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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Cloudflare sponsors Ladybird and Omarchy, techfash workfare

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    TIL about Omarchy.

    Of course it uses Hyprland. Of course the demo video on the website shows using Grok in it.

    Still can't believe that choosing a Linux distribution now involves decision-making factors like "what's their take on fascism". But I guess the real problem is that such questions weren't asked for way too long before.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Remind me: why is Hyprland bad? I don't doubt it is, I just need it to add to my mental list of stuff to avoid.

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    Damn, I was kinda hoping the Ladybird guy wouldn't turn out awful but nah, can't have shit in IT.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (12 children)

    has there been more indication of him being a bit fashy since that one github issue? haven't been following it that much.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    he keeps hanging out with fascists and receiving money from organizations that support fascists and something about his personal brand in interviews being wearing “Big Tech is gangstalking me” t-shirts also very much rubs me the wrong way

    ladybird is a ridiculously unserious project (last I heard they were considering a rewrite in Swift and ignoring everyone who told them why that’s a terrible idea, maybe they’ve given up on that by now) and I frankly have no idea why it’s being hyped over Servo as an independent browser project other than a general willingness in tech to play ball with weird little fascists

    e: also this lobste.rs subthread

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    nice, good collection of links, will help next time I need to find it. couple weeks ago I mentioned it on masto and I had someone Very Huffily reply to me (a situation I resolved by simply blocking them, gfy with that nonsense)

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    The lobsters thread linked in a sibling comment has more examples, but here's him eulogizing Charlie Kirk in a nazi bar https://nitter.net/awesomekling/status/1966456391146606806

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    I never got much of a sense that Charlie would be open to have his own mind changed

    No way, really? Are you really doubting the professional nazi troll's desire to have his convictions challenged through good faith dialogue?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I was hoping it was meant as a trollish sort of post (because anybody who didn't realize that soon after ~2016 has not paid any attention), but then he did a bothsides. Really doing a 'lets be open to the idea of gay people being stoned (and that isn't even the correct quote, it is put to death, leviticus is specific (it also seems to only be about people in Israel, or else the land will vomit you out, and old testament. Kirk wasn't even a good bible scholar). and trans people being eradicated'.

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