Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 27 October 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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

  • swlabr@awful.systems
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    15 days ago

    tbh that sounds like a pretty easy script to write! Too bad I am not near a computer rn

    • ShakingMyHead@awful.systems
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      15 days ago

      Wouldnā€™t really need a script, though. Just open up photoshop or GIMP and add a layer after everything is finished.

      • Soyweiser@awful.systems
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        15 days ago

        But that doesnā€™t scale properly, you want ideally some sort of browser extension that just automatically does it for you before the data gets send to twitter.

    • bitofhope@awful.systems
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      15 days ago

      I got nerd sniped into trying to resize felons_musk_and_maxwell.webp to the same size as some base image before compositing it on top with a 10% dissolve in the same magick invocation but I need to sleep so Iā€™m giving up for now.