Want to wade into the sandy 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 so 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.)

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
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    16 days ago

    STATE OF THE SNEER

    • our esteemed admin @self is offline because his fibre got cut
    • the esteemed engineers of the telco are currently sucking their teeth and forecasting a fix date this millennium
    • in the meantime he’s living off data SIMs and he is offline for most fun purposes
    • Blake and I are still here waving the mod hammer in a menacing manner
    • I have ssh to the server and can thump lemmy-ui as needed
    • all is well citizen! Glory to Awful! Hooray for Big Basilisk!
    • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systemsEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Godspeed, @self. Take this as an opportunity to put it out of your mind and enjoy a well-deserved break.

      Not that I know what to do with a break without internet access, but I’m told that our ancestors found ways to entertain themselves.

      • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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        15 days ago

        thank you! I hear a rumor that my fiber might be repaired tomorrow but I’m not sure if I should trust it

        (also for posterity: all evidence points to my fiber being damaged by an animal or a human with the mechanical dexterity of an animal, I’m fairly sure it’s not particularly targeted sabotage)