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.