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.
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.
(2026 is off to a great start, isn’t it? Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)


I might have a post on LSD and LessWrong in February. That RationalWiki page is pretty good on the “big picture” that some people in this world try out the whole pharmacopia.
@CinnasVerses Well, I just learned the inventor of Vyanse was the source of one of the more memorable entries in TIHKAL[1]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert/_Oberlender
Not exactly the same crowd, but If you have read Kary Mullis’s autobiography, it sure gives out some, err, vibes…
[1] Err, my personal subtitle for PIHKAL is “Sex, Drugs and Mensa.org.” And classical music.