Want to wade into the snowy 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. A lot of people didn’t survive January, but at least we did. This also ended up going up on my account’s cake day, too, so that’s cool.)

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      The comment, see my prediction that when a movement runs out of idea they inevitably start a dating site for the in crowd, and ‘lets do book summaries so we can all read faster’. Esp vague self help style places do this all the time.

      In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust, is one of those books that people like to claim to have read but never did.

      First I heard of this.

        • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
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          10 hours ago

          some important characters in the narrative I’ve completely skipped over, mostly to do with the Nature of Art (in society) subplot, because nothing actually happens in them and it’s all social parties and talking

          you … mother … fucker … so not only did you manage to miss the fact that this is a gay book, you completely skipped past one if not the most important theme in the novel which is language and the way people talk and write and the various ways they conduct themselves in different times and places, but oh nothing happens it’s just people talking aaaaaaaaaa

          also this is a funny book! it’s funny! it’s not all maudlin meditations upon time and memory! fuck you!

          • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPEnglish
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            2 hours ago

            you completely skipped past one if not the most important theme in the novel which is language and the way people talk and write and the various ways they conduct themselves in different times and places

            I don’t think the LWer even realised those themes were there. This whole review screams “failed high school English” to me.

      • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
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        10 hours ago

        I’d chalk it up to the LWer inability to a) summarise and/or summarise accurately, and/or LLM usage.

    • mirrorwitch@awful.systemsEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      I feel like I just read someone reviewing Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by complaining that there’s no upbeat sections and no overall chorus and the song isn’t about anything, that we’re just “tossed about on the storms of emotion that by the end we are all seasick to”

      • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
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        9 hours ago

        I liked the part where the reviewer is mysteriously compelled to visit France while reading this novel, which is notably set in France.