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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.)

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[-] anise@quokk.au 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

OT: been slowly migrating from dbzer0. I broadly like the community on that instance, but it has become harder and harder for me to justify associating with anything ai-friendly. Because quokk.au is a piefed instance my client hasn't fully caught up, but they seem to be working on it.

E: ok, more issues than I thought, since it displayed this stubsack instead of the most recent one for some reason

[-] Quokka@quokk.au 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Hey, sorry to be a creepy lurker (I like to sus out new accounts) but I saw this comment and wanted to provide information.

Apparently 3 months ago the OP was banned by another instance for 'report abuse' and this sync'd over to us. I've unbanned them on quokk.au, so their posts should start coming back through. I'm reaching out to the PF devs for some clarification around this, hopefully can resolve it from happening again in the future.

[-] anise@quokk.au 1 points 15 hours ago

hey, thanks for reaching out ^ ^. keeping an eye on new accounts makes sense, especially with open registrations. I was wondering about what exactly happened. I figured one mustve blocked/defeded the other but couldn't figure it out from a cursory glance at the modlog. hope no issues occur with them.

ps: I think fediseer lists the instance as registrations closed, I don't know if that is intentional or not.

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