Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th January 2026

10 months ago by BlueMonday1984 to c/techtakes

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.

(Last substack for 2025 - may 2026 bring better tidings. Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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mlen 11 points 10 months ago path: 0 21256021, hotness: undefined, score: 11, children: 5
gerikson 11 points 10 months ago

LOL @ promptfondlers in comments

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mlen 12 points 10 months ago

It's a treasure trove of hilariously bad takes.

There's nothing intrinsically valuable about art requiring a lot of work to be produced. It's better that we can do it with a prompt now in 5 seconds

Now I need some eye bleach. I can't tell anymore if they are trolling or their brains are fully rotten.

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froztbyte 6 points 9 months ago

aww those got turned off by the time I got to look :(

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