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 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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

  • SoyweiserEnglish
    4·
    7 days ago

    Wonder if, esp considering the DHH situations this is sort of a nazi bar style takeover. Where the people who don’t want to make a fuss let in the nice but iffy people who then go mask off, and let the rest in. (The thing the far right accused the left of doing, in a bit of projections). But I know nothing about the politics of anybody involved, could also just be a regular hostile takeover.

    (Doesn’t feel like one just looking at the rubycentral bsky account for a second though. They do have an amazing spin on it. It was to protect against supply chain attacks (also a link to an email article of them, which just feels weird)).

      • SoyweiserEnglish
        8·
        7 days ago

        Another sneer on the subject: https://bsky.app/profile/tef.bsky.social/post/3lz7fdou4uk2y

        "In case you’re not sure who dhh is, he’s a danish counterstrike player and race car owner who writes essays like “i am smarter than you” and “foreigners bad”

        rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast"

        Followup by somebody else:

        “I posted here about him driving at Le Mans in 2024, and several people told me that he’s disliked and mocked as much in the motorsport community as he is in the tech community.”

    • froztbyteEnglish
      7·
      7 days ago

      ruby’s had this problem for ~2 decades now. like, the “rockstar dev” archetype literally became big directly because of ruby’s popularity and perception at the time

      I haven’t been active in/near the ruby space for a number of years now so I can’t speak to the modern details well at all, but I wouldn’t be too surprised to learn that the various branches of it haven’t really learned how to deal. I will say that I have seen some improvement over that period, but… yeah

      • nfultzEnglish
        8·
        7 days ago

        ruby’s had this problem for ~2 decades now. like, the “rockstar dev” archetype literally became big directly because of ruby’s popularity and perception at the time

        I had to look it up, the ~Rails Conf~ Golden Gate Ruby Conf code like a porn star thing was 2009, I didn’t hallucinate it. DHH has deleted those tweets.

        I feel old now.

        • V0ldekEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          code like a porn star thin

          The what thing now??