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 youāll 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 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.
(2026 is off to a great start, isnāt it? Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
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 shouldnāt take the blood of tens of millions to make that clear)
Also found a nice summary of our current moment in the replies:
(alt: āI am old enough to remember when we all agreed Nazis were badā)
cue this lobste.rs shitshow where someone states ā88 is a known Nazi dogwhistleā, and multiple people come out of the woodwork saying even if it is, itās 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 āBlackās default of 88 for line length is not necessarily the bestā, yet author decided to go with the title they have nowā¦ edit author seems to be a good egg generally https://mastodon.social/@glyph
Something useful to know, which Iām not saying over there because itād 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, Iād 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, āFriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Python, not to praise it.ā
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 Iām also annoyed then.
Not sure i had it in me to alt text all that yarvin however