Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025
Want to wade into the spooky 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. Happy Halloween, everyone!)
Soyweiser
in reply to BlueMonday1984 • • •blakestacey
in reply to Soyweiser • • •Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman
Joe Wilkins (Futurism)BlueMonday1984
in reply to blakestacey • • •The "Weapons Grade" part is almost certainly editorializing (hopefully), but this whole shit sounds like another Chernobyl waiting to happen
Charlie Stross
in reply to BlueMonday1984 • • •The "weapons grade" almost certainly means 239-Pu, which is used in bombs or fissile in reactors. (There are other isotopes but they're not really useful for fueling reactors *or* making bombs.)
I'm rather partial to the idea of silly valley oligarchs putting crude A-bombs under the table at one another's shareholder meetings.
fullsquare
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Charlie Stross
in reply to fullsquare • • •