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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026 (awful.systems)
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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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard. Also celebrating my birthday on Friday)

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[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Nightmare blunt rotation

Alternative title: Adam No! Bonk

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 3 weeks ago

Every time a new person learns who Aella is, an angel loses its wings.

[-] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Nina Hartley coshing a Nazi with a dildo was not on my 2026 Bingo card but I can hope

Edit / Adam Conover of Adam Ruins Everything seems like a mainstream 'Mythbusters' type TV presenter, if he likes older women and she needs a dildo caddy this has potential. We talked about CJ the X here.

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago

Some things are classics for a reason.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago

can we kick aella and her friends out of perversion

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago

Perverts (shower-positive)

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago

Regarding Gretta's job title "orgy organizer":

besides the point but orgynizer was right there

https://bsky.app/profile/mecha-lenin-3000.bsky.social/post/3mtcx7bixkc2u

[-] ebu@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago

cj nooo.... someone come get my favorite parasocial essay-they out of there

[-] self@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago

so maybe this is a bit too obvious to state at this point but: conover’s very obviously tied up in aella’s plzdontkillus EA influencer scheme, his apparent anti-AI stance is purely performative, and the apology he did for doing marketing for worldcoin on his channel isn’t accepted. he knew what he was doing.

also, I really don’t need the Adam Ruins Everything guy in the same part of my brain as sex, thanks

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago

countdown to Comedian Sex Pest Scandal in

[-] istewart@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Whoever CJ TheX is, they look like they strolled straight out of Neil Strauss' book. Is it valid to call somebody an "unreconstructed pickup artist" if there was never any attempt at (or even possibility of) reconstruction?

edit: they/them pronouns

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago

Word is that both Adam Conover and Carol Queen have backed out.

[-] jonhendry@iosdev.space 3 points 3 weeks ago

@Soyweiser

Run away, Nina, run away!

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