Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? 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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
My god this sounds boring as shit
I really canāt imagine reading a book by someone whose vision of the future is āmen will be taller and have more muscles, women will stay the same height but theyāll all be conventionally attractive and have voluntary control of their uterusā.
Babel-17 came out in 1966, and its vision of the future was that a good shipās captain knows how to complete a poly triad and you canāt leave Earth without a full crew including three ghosts and a furry.
Now thatās the kind of stuff that makes puppies sadā¦
(New wave SF is a bit of a blind spot for me. Never really read any Delany, even though his autobio is one the best Iāve read)