Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th April 2026 - awful.systems
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Want to wade into the sandy 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 so 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. (Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

Want to wade into the sandy 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 so 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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

  • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
    13·
    4 days ago

    I love the way people who go “yeah but IN REAL LIFE with real stakes you would totally chose the red button”

    1. are entirely missing the point of thought experiments,
    2. why the fuck would you comply with such a fucked up scenario in real life lmao you worm
    • sc_griffith@awful.systemsEnglish
      11·
      4 days ago

      i feel like people in real life would be far less likely to press the red button, because twitter is almost wall to wall nazis and real life is not

      • o7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish
        7·
        4 days ago

        Sounds like the winning move in that scenario is to purge the button enthusiasts before they cause any damage lol

        • flere-imsaho@awful.systemsEnglish
          6·
          4 days ago

          like i said, the actual value of that little exercise is finding people who are fine with killing up to 50% of the population for no reason whatsoever.

            • flere-imsaho@awful.systemsEnglish
              3·
              4 days ago

              :-)

              there’s this. (though i find it useful to know who not to rely on if/when things get worse: for example i already know our neighbour from the apartment a floor below did write many missives to our cooperative’s administration, without having a single reason.)

    • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      4 days ago

      HN:

      The cost of saving a kid in Africa by donating malaria medicine and insecticidal nets is only about $5,000. How many people do you know who will cancel their Hawaii vacation and donate that money to an African charity?

      tfw your model of an average person on earth is someone who spends $5,000 on a hawaii vacation. good lord.