Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st December 2025

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st December 2025 - awful.systems

Want to wade into the snowy 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. This was a bit late - I was too busy goofing around on Discord)

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen slop as the 2025 Word of the Year. We define slop as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again.

www.merriam-webster.com/…/word-of-the-year?2025-s…

Definition of SLOP

Definition of 'slop' by Merriam-Webster

did they use ai to make the image? “wood of of year”

It’s most obvious on the cat which is all around nightmare material.

The image also comes with alt text:

a bizarre collection of ai-generated illustrations including a sign that reads wood of of year and a chyron that reads breaking news