Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd November 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.

Last week’s thread

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

      • David Gerard@awful.systemsM
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        24 days ago

        camping out on a friend’s box, two others had root, but they effectively never bothered. the disk filled one day and i went looking for stuff that wasn’t useful. found that site, found it really was where DNS pointed.

        my current box is the descendant of that one

        • self@awful.systems
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          24 days ago

          this is what the cloud and its enshittification has taken from us

          shared root on ad-hoc hardware doing fuck knows what (but it’s probably lemonparty)

            • froztbyte@awful.systems
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              24 days ago

              did y’all see bash.org looks to maybe finally have died died? there’s an archive up somewhere at least but rip to a bastion

              (this thought comes to mind because I instantly wanted to link “our thoughts go out to the recent victims of internet fraud”…)

    • flizzo@awful.systems
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      22 days ago

      A couple months ago I lobbied for (and won) my weekly trivia team to use the name “mike’s hard lemonparty”

      Then I learned exactly how old I was