Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 16 June 2024 - eviltoast

Need to make a primal scream without gathering 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!

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.

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      NullBulge

      oh you know it was some furries

      edit: their website (now down, but up on the wayback machine) uses ai-generated furry art, which few self-respecting furries (much less hacktivist ones) would touch with a ten-foot pole. or at least, the ones in the furry circles i keep. so it could very well just be opportunists

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        re your edit, well furry art could be traced back to the creator of the art/or the person who commissioned it, so using AI shit for opsec isn’t totally strange.

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          that’s one possible reason, yeah. just seems like a really odd choice – much like the fact that they dislike “crypto promotion” but still accept payment for secrets in crypto. doesn’t feel like it would be that hard to find a sympathetic furry artist willing to draw in a nondistinct style or keep work under wraps. idk

          the only reason it seems odd to me is that the overwhelming majority of furries either actively dislike or hate “ai art”. maybe they’re the odd ones out, or they just don’t care for a throwaway group