Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 18 August 2024 - eviltoast

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting 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: 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.

  • Soyweiser@awful.systems
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    Considering they were saying this while having trouble doing internet radio at scale, a problem basically solved 20 years ago, I’m not sure we should listen to them.

    Related to Musk, Trump and all the other fools. PrimalPoly revealing just how shallow and culture war brainwormed thinker he is.

    Image Description.

    Musk: Happy to host Kamala on an 𝕏 Spaces too PrimalPoly: Suggested questions for Kamala:

    1. How do crypto blockchains work, & why are so many Americans skeptical of Central Bank Digital Currencies?

    2. How would you stop the US gov’t from colluding with Big Tech social media companies to censor Americans?

    3. What is the main cause of inflation?

    4. What is a woman? Description ends, question I have for anybody with a screenreader, does this spoiler method work? And also does the screenreader properly work with the letter: X as used on twitter, namely 𝕏.

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      1. They don’t & yall are “skeptical” of ID cards because it’s the Mark of the Beast, so go figure
      2. Easy, regulate Big Tech to the ground until there’s only Small-to-Medium Tech left
      3. Air, most of the time.
      4. Your mom.

      Can I be a VP or at least Chief of Staff now

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        3 months ago

        “Well If you had read my paper on evolutionary psychology I did while looking at sex workers, accusations of weirdness is a actually sign of …”

    • flavia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Spoilers are an html element so they should work everywhere. Mastodon just shows the text without spoiler or CW. Letters in a different typeface specified by Unicode are announced the same as regular letters for this purpose, emphasis, to the dismay of mathematicians that would want “double-stroke X” to be announced.