the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States

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TechTakes@awful.systemsbyDavid Gerard@awful.systems
2 months

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

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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.

last week’s edition

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    important instance shit@awful.systemsbyDavid Gerard@awful.systems
    4 months

    Defederation of db0 instances for LLM moderation

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    We are defederating awful.systems from:

    because it’s extremely anarchist to use the chatbot as your moderator (no no it’s totally human in the loop) and post corporate DARVO-filled excuses when caught.

    see also [1] and [2]

    This is a last straw after a string of dubious and exhausting behaviour.

    If you’re an awful.systems user and you post to communities on those instances, you will need to create an account on one of them.

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