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.

Last week’s thread

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

    • @ShakingMyHead
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      92 months ago

      Awful.systems defaults to dark mode.

      • @selfA
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        142 months ago

        like a good developer, I made my personal preference the default (and I think when we started there were major issues with switching themes?)

        • David GerardMA
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          112 months ago

          booooo should be my personal preference (light)

          • @selfA
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            132 months ago

            brb banning David from the awful.systems plugin repo, modifying the login page so everyone has to swear they don’t know him, and launching a lawsuit for (throws a dart at a dartboard) uhh shoplifting, he shoplifted my website

            • @selfA
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              122 months ago

              YOU wouldn’t

              shoplift a WEBSITE

              • @YourNetworkIsHaunted
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                72 months ago

                Common mistake, but David is from the UK. He was actually just looking online for ways to improve wheelchair accessibility in a multistory house. On a lift-shopping website.

                • @Soyweiser
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                  72 months ago

                  Isnt he a goth? Dont think he needs more lifts.

                  • @bitofhope
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                    62 months ago

                    Wouldn’t a goth prefer heavy mode?

              • @froztbyte
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                52 months ago

                and now that damn jingle is playing in my head at early o’ clock

                awful.systems: where the abyss delivers, always

        • @ShakingMyHead
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          72 months ago

          The only reason I use dark mode is because my phone is OLED so it uses less power. Otherwise I go for light.

        • @bitofhope
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          52 months ago

          This is what the BDFL model is all about.

    • @gerikson
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      72 months ago

      Thank for letting me know there are other people indifferent to dark mode. Sometimes I feel I am the only one.

      • David GerardMA
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        52 months ago

        i have already had whiny shits demand that I (a) set dark mode default (b) remove the switch

        default is currently set to whatever your browser thinks is the default and you can switch it otherwise

        • @bitofhope
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          62 months ago

          God forbid you go out of your way to do something nice without some most entitled asshole in the world giving you shit for it.

        • @froztbyte
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          42 months ago

          this is the best default imo

          the only times I dislike it are when the site’s dark mode implementation is trash. I occasionally get to notice these, because their implementation is such way that dark reader activates (time trigger), I suddenly get flashblind on some site because dark reader flips their thing to eye-stabbing light colours

          • David GerardMA
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            22 months ago

            it’s a little magical and not entirely reliable so i’m not a fan, but the switch is there