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.

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    5 months ago

    In the spirit of “worse is better”, here is a ublock filter I just threw together to highlight all the comments less than a day old:

    ! Jul 31, 2024 https://awful.systems
    awful.systems##.comment article.comment-node :has-text("hours ago"):style(background-color:#7700AA)
    

    EDIT: fix bug with 1 hour and 20 minutes ago. regex is even worse is better.

    ! Jul 31, 2024 https://awful.systems
    awful.systems##.comment article.comment-node :has-text(/(hour|minute)s? ago/):style(background-color:#7700AA)
    
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      5 months ago

      I love this but I don’t know if I have the same royal Grape Fanta energy in me. I think I’m on one of the alternate themes but I like #333333

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      5 months ago

      the way you made it, it works only for awful.systems users