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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026 (awful.systems)

submitted 3 weeks ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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 so 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.

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

you know, I've been thinking thoughts along this line (starting from my earlier comments on awful of the creeping loss of the open internet to gated communities) progressing along the current arc of "with teeth" stuff necessary in today's infosphere, and this is a hugely helpful perspective!

it's pretty weird seeing a coming time when the old mostly open-and-connected-widely internet is ... not. even now it's already on us quite a bit (geoblocks, countries doing specific shutdowns, whole areas being handled with less trust, etc). it all follows cultural lines, of course, and I often wonder whether that will see some kind of directed effort to change (for the better) after some of the coming dark years

[–] BioMan@awful.systems 2 points 2 days ago

Part of me thinks its an inevitable result of any information system in which sending a message requires a small enough amount of effort.