Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? 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.
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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.
(2026 is off to a great start, isn’t it? Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
He is a true believer in what we now call TESCREAL. I wish there was a good copy of all the H+ magazines (esp the bit where they rebranded as a blog, I know the first few actual articles are on the internet archive as pdfs), because I want to say that the most far out articles written in that were often by him, but that isn’t a thing I can say just of the top of my head without anything to back it up. (The magazine was weird articles that went from ‘look at this cool new tech, and all the things that might be possible’ to ‘here is something that is so out there that it took a lot of weed to make’.