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Want to wade into the sandy 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.

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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 so 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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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

STOP FINDING THINGS

  • WEB PAGES WERE NOT MEANT TO BE FOUND
  • YEARS OF SEARCHING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for PAGES of SEO-OPTIMISED AI SLOP
  • Wanted to find things anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called WIKIPEDIA "RANDOM PAGE"
  • "Yes please give me ONE HUNDRED AND TEN MILLION of my search. Please give me TEN ADS and A PARAGRAPH OF SLOP FIRST" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

LOOK at what Search engines have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the ad views we gave them

(This is REAL Search results, given by REAL search engines)

  • "None of Africa's 54 recognized countries start with the letter 'K'."
  • "Add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce"
  • "Understood. No more templates—just direct answers, hyper-focused on exactly what you need."

"Hello Something went wrong and an AI response wasn't generated"

They have played us for absolute fools

this post was submitted on 17 May 2026
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