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 youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Yeah I was reminded of this guy by some posts on bsky, and mentioned there I didnāt want to link to him directly because I donāt think that kind of stuff is nice and just leads to harassment, but reading those two new blog posts really made me doubt that for a moment. (Of course only posting it here is a good alternative, looking back at the old posts I had also forgotten that he just was a weird conservative).
I also found the part where he said āI even labeled it as an experimentā quite annoying, that he doesnāt realize that this doesnāt matter at all. The developers still need to evaluate it like any normal post, and he didnāt even ask them permission to do the experiment.
āI even labeled it as an experiment. A social experiment, some might say. Iām saying it was just a prank, bro. But really youāre the bad person because you were mean to me.ā This is DARVO, right?
Youāre right that sharing this stuff leads to harassment, at least a lot of the time. I have no interest in personally engaging with this fuck.
Iām esp weary of sharing stuff like this on a place like bsky, esp when I was just replying to others being a bit annoyed at people doing LLM based PRs. Hope people here have better self control at not actually going after people.
One would hope! Donāt piss in the popcorn, as they say. Also, donāt do any stupid shit that might cause more work for our glorious admins, i.e. leave a trail of breadcrumbs back to awful.systems.