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.
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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 might be one of those “careful what you wish for” scenarios. The neutral outcome might well be that they generate dialog with training data from Scots Wikipedia. Or Scots Grokipedia I guess
@antifuchs @techtakes The Culture won’t be adapted for TV/film without input from Iain’s heirs and his literary executors. Who are all very definitely Scottish and will have Opinions …
who gets the California accents though
That hegemonizing swarm outbreak would do nicely imho
The Affront are literally the colonial British, so they’re easy
Tired: alien horrors with tentacle beards
Inspired: alien horrors with tentacle muttonchops
@dgerard And The Empire of Azad was basically modern western imperialism writ large.
subtlety is wasted on most readers
@dgerard See also Dilbert Stark’s drone ship names …
I posit the Culture having the Californian accents, because they’re liberal colonialism writ large but they’re nice about it, until they aren’t
christ these people are so bad at reading things
Bezos loves the Culture too, and you can be sure he and Musk identify with the Minds