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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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    My enshittification story*: Instagram has been suggesting people for me to follow. It markets them to me by saying ā€œfriend X follows this person!ā€ But friend X does not follow this person. Friend X has no tenable connection to this person. Why are you bullshitting me, Zuck? Is the autoplag outflow drain hooked up to Insta?

    *orig JP title: åƒ•ć®ć‚Øćƒ³ć‚·ćƒƒćƒˆåŒ–ć‚¹ćƒˆćƒ¼ćƒŖćƒ¼

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      facebook pulled that shit for many years too, along with the ā€œcreatedā€ notifications

      alllll for the engagement farming, desperate to keep those eyeball KPIs on track

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          right? if only you knew it was for Sacred Advertising Revenue and Good Statistics, you wouldnā€™t have embarrassed yourself so in public! alas, the dangers of the modern internet

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      LinkedIn cold-emailed me this morning to suggest that I follow Vivek Ramaswamy, who lists his job title as ā€œFounder at Vivek Ramaswamyā€