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.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)
Welp, time to start the thread with fresh Awful for everyone to regret:
r/phenotypes
Really? Right in the front of the clean new thread?
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Extremely simplistic drawing of a somewhat sad looking person. Drawn by the artist ‘flork of crows’[sic]. Reference to the ‘Really? Right In Front Of My X?’ meme
Computer understanders, click this link for some psychic damage! :D (aside: I tried to upload this as an image but it didn’t work)
Ah, so Google Search runs on UDP, interesting, that must be why it’s so unreliable now.
HTTP: famous for doing Google pay, Apple Pay, PayPal, and nothing else. no other use has been found for http
(also, FTP! as indicated by these apps that famously don’t use or support it!)
Read a rumor that zuck’s marriage is falling apart, which scans.
A second divorced man is about to hit the tower.
This does have “Divorced Dad” vibes tbh
my first thought on hearing the same was “if this is what he’s like in public, imagine what it’s like at home”
nasb, it warms my cold diamond heart to continue seeing instances of people going “oh, yeah, uh… actually, no, fuck that shit. we’ll do it ourselves” in response to broadcom’s attempt to Raise Revenue Through Product Capture
MDN has fucking ads now???
(also, image uploads are back, weird how pict-rs sometimes just shits the bed)
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a fucking “ads by Mozilla” banner at the top of mdn web docs advertising mongodb’s LLM of all fucking things
mdn’s only job is to be better than w3schools but here comes Mozilla removing the value from another one of their own projects
also not pictured: there was a fucking side banner ad I didn’t feel like screenshotting too, of course
holy fuck I just realized the diabolical part of this horseshit:
I only know about the mdn ads cause my development browser doesn’t have an adblocker as a matter of practice (which I’m very quickly considering revising)
shit. anything interesting in the network tab of your dev tools, if available?
Not sure where I’m supposed to look for that tbh.
Other images are fine, weirdly enough, just not that one.
