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


This shit is gonna be pored over in PR/business courses years from now. Its practically a masterclass in destroying a niche company and pissing away customers’ goodwill.
They refused to recognise their core product was deeply political (right to repair/environmentalism and all that), they refused to recognise DHH was a colossal brand risk, they refused to back down even as community ambassadors, OSS projects and their own customers ran for the hills, and they went radio-silent where their community was (whilst posting through it on Twitter) for good fucking measure.
I concluded Nirav and the Framework team were fascists a while ago, and I see no reason to think otherwise. Hope they enjoy watching their company (and Linus Sebastian’s investments) burn, because they absolutely brought this on themselves.
@BlueMonday1984 Very nice to see #bluefin take a stand.