Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025 - awful.systems

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: 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 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.)

Its just so tiring. Now a rather prominent KDE dev is also both siding the fashtech flagship projects.
Niccolò Venerandi (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image please don't do these things :-/

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Guy’s also publicly denying the flagship products are fash in the replies (Exhibit A, Exhibit B):

Niccolò Venerandi (@[email protected])

@[email protected] I'm very well aware of both situations, I even have written a long write-up on hyprlnad's situations. Back then it was very cringey but not fascist, and now it has gotten better and it's just a bit cringe and definitively not fascist. Ladybird's creator IMO leans right but is clearly not fascist. DHH I haven't looked into.

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It’s only real fascism if the dev runs around the streets of Rome carrying a bundle of sticks, come on.