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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026 (awful.systems)
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Want to wade into the rainbow-ridden 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.

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 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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[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Congrats to lesswrong, another one of their big ideas has reached the mainstream. (And it is eugenics).

Skeet from motherjones "Some of the same billionaires who bankrolled AI now admit the technology could one day kill us all.

And they’re funding a new plan to stop it—genetically engineered genius babies."

[-] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago

When I emailed Denecke, he told me Bootstrap Bio had ceased operations due to lack of funding. (The company’s former chief science officer, Qichen Yuan, was indicted for attempted sex trafficking of a child in September 2025. His case is ongoing.) But before the company unraveled, its early investors included Malcolm and Simone Collins, whom you may have heard of.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Has it been 2 months already? I was wondering when they would turn up in the news again.

E: I'm not serious, I came across this video on yt which fulfilled my 'every 2 months' thing already. It was actually a bit interesting, as it turns out both of them have a long mostly unscrubbed online history which they tracked down and analyzed, turns out she has a history of being a weird quirky person, and they both have an air of 'want to become internet famous/create an internet scam' sort of thing.

The comments on that vid are great as well (wait for it) check this one out:

It is rich for you to skewer anything Simone and Malcolm miss with their podcast when they post 5 days a week (you neglected to mention) and you can’t even maintain your schedule or throw up a post on bluesky when you are off schedule. Also, because you two are genetic dead ends you don’t know that a mother of 5 cannot be a night person, she was up with a baby when she emailed. Malcolm and Simone talk in different rooms because she always is looking after a baby, and babies can randomly make noise so Simone can mute and Malcolm can take over. Maybe you can meet a baby one day and learn how they work. But I will say this episode is better researched than the usual “read article titles and giggle” podcasts you put out.

This comment was left by none other than "Diana Fleischman" Yes, that one, the evolutionary psychologist, and partner of Primal "I'm no longer allowed near students" Poly (For those who remember sneerclub from reddit, he was a regular subject. For example).

Amazing how small this nazi nerd world is. And how bad they are at defending their own. Feel free to leave 'ad hominem' reactions to that. (I will not as my yt profile links back to my real life).

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 3 points 16 hours ago

How is it that whenever I learn something new about this family it's always a new way for them to be awful to each other or their kids?

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