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 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.
(2026 is off to a great start, isn't it? Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Scott Alexander: "I wish the neoreactionaries dropped the monarchy shit"
Monkey paw curls (content warnings: antisemitism, Yarvin).
My lack of a Bluesky account spares me again. Thankfully, I have Skyview.social to ensure my eyes are scarred anyway (seriously, do we have to fight another world war over if Nazis are bad or not, it shouldn't take the blood of tens of millions to make that clear)
Also found a nice summary of our current moment in the replies:
(alt: "I am old enough to remember when we all agreed Nazis were bad")
cue this lobste.rs shitshow where someone states "88 is a known Nazi dogwhistle", and multiple people come out of the woodwork saying even if it is, it's not so bad actually, get over it
https://lobste.rs/s/rvgvgj/best_line_length_is_88
Submitted blog post could without loss of generality be titled "Black's default of 88 for line length is not necessarily the best", yet author decided to go with the title they have now... edit author seems to be a good egg generally https://mastodon.social/@glyph
Something useful to know, which I'm not saying over there because it'd be pearls before swine, is that Glyph Lefkowitz and many other folks core to the Twisted ecosystem are extremely Jewish and well-aware of Nazi symbols. Knowing Glyph personally, I'd guess that he wanted to hang a lampshade on this particular symbol; he loves to parody overly-serious folks and he spends most of his blogposts gently provoking the Python community into caring about software and people. This is the same guy who started a PyCon keynote with, "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Python, not to praise it."
Glyph has weighed in here
https://lobste.rs/c/mhal5b
Apparently someone edited in the numeral in the title when submitting to lobste.rs. Another entry on the watchlist.
Sorry forgot to check, despite a friend of mine doing the same to me with tumblr and I'm also annoyed then.
Not sure i had it in me to alt text all that yarvin however
"They might as well be Latvians" is a straight out of Arrested Development.