Want to wade into the spooky 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. Happy Halloween, everyone!)

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    Employee at ‘plagiarism company’ defending transition to ‘plagiarism + pushing sex content onto children company’ insists that the reason they are pushing smut slop onto kids is due to their passion for creativity.

    S-tier big brain ai safety researcher chimes in:

    Masterful gambit, sir. Why didn’t we consider the fact that “automating all labour would produce more revenue”?

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      “How dare you suggest that we pivoted to SlopTok and smut because of money if something that we totally cannot do right now is more lucrative?”

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        Just pretend that it’s coming from a different root word “mocratize” meaning the opposite of whatever the fuck crypto is doing

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        it’s democratic if i couldn’t do it yesterday but i can do it today, even though it’s not the same in any meaningful way

        edit: in all seriousness, it’s disgusting the way they are pretending there is some noble intention behind any of this.

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          yeah it’s very much an intentional usage of poisoned language to construct a targeted outcome

          but arrrrrrgh

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      Lightly concealing his identity behind a generated anime avatar may be the wisest thing that kid ever did

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            Oh God my brain is so used to turning typos into likely intended words that I missed “free-sprinted”, which I’m going to guess in this context involves being athletic and horny and bottomless and possibly suffering from protein-powder-induced lead poisoning.

            That might explain why copilot is a cum sprite