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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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.

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(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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[-] swlabr@awful.systems 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Kicking off the sack with something light.

[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 16 points 2 weeks ago

I see RicksCEO.eth has since quietly removed the ".eth" part of his name. Presumably it was way more embarrassing than being a strip club tycoon.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 14 points 2 weeks ago

Headcanon: he changed it as a result of this epic bonnie slam

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 weeks ago

it looks like checkmarks retailated

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 2 weeks ago

unlike Rick, she did get laid

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

some years ago I wanted to build a bot that tracks all these loons, but the twitter API reqs are onerous as fuck so I never bothered

feel like there's probably still a need for something like that. perhaps even more so than before, given how mask-off the snakepit is getting

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

Considering API access is now I think 40k a month + you pay for usage, prob good you never got into that. So the time doesn't feel wasted.

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago

Godspeed, Bonnie. I'm gonna call this a good omen for the week.

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