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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 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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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

OK. So, this next thing is pretty much completely out of the sneerosphere, but it pattern matches to what we’re used to looking at: a self-styled “science communicator” mansplaining a topic they only have a reductive understanding of: Hank Green gets called out for bad knitting video

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I mean if it gets too hot he could try the traditional fiber arts dodge for internet hate and fake his own death.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

TIL Hank Green, the milquetoast BlueSky poster, also has some YouTube channel. How quaint.

I think every time I learn That Guy From BlueSky also has some other gig different from posting silly memes I lose some respect for them.

E.g. I thought Mark Cuban was just a dumb libertarian shitposter, but then it turned out he has a cuntillion dollars and also participated in a show unironically called "Shark Tank" that I still don't 100% believe was a real thing because by god

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I figured he'd be a lot better known for his YouTube career than for his bsky posting. I see his stuff all the time in my recommendations, though his style isn't my cup of tea so I seldom watch any of them.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 3 points 21 hours ago

I haven't seen the YouTube recommendation page in so long I wouldn't know. Invidious my beloved <3

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's up with all the websites that tell me "you've reached the limit of free articles for the month" even though I've literally never entered that site before in my life. Stop gaslighting me you cunts.

Anyway, here's the archive

[–] megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago

The limit is zero, that's all.

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