Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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.

        • @froztbyte
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          57 months ago

          Wondering what it’ll make of Alabama Song, End Of The Night, etc

          I’ve never really gotten into Cohen, curiously - voice just doesn’t work for me. Which is a shame because there’s been some great bits of lyricism there

          • Charlie Stross
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            57 months ago

            @froztbyte Have you tried Jennifer Warnes’ cover album of Cohen songs, “Famous Blue Raincoat”? (Asking because her voice is *very* different from his, but she totally owns his songs.)

            • @mountainriver
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              47 months ago

              I really like her version of the “first we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin”-song.

            • @froztbyte
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              37 months ago

              I haven’t! Will check it out, ty