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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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    Was checking out the QOI image format and the politics of the dev and found that he is pretty comfortable around the ladybird people. (sigh) Also the r slur on twitter.

    Really amazing that such a simple format achieves PNG sizes and encoding speeds. 1-page specification, though it’s more like 2 with a bit bigger text, for bragging rights.

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      Wait Ladybird is anti-woke? Sigh am I going to have to make my own browser?

      (I know I know I’m a lot better about posting about wanting to do cool stuff than actually doing it, hazard of having a full time job)

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      Dominic Szablewski also founded the German image board pr0gramm where he is known under the name cha0s. It’s similar to 4chan in many ways. That he enjoys the Ladybird crowd isn’t surprising.