[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 3 points 21 hours ago

ah yeahhh tricky

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 7 points 22 hours ago

Marsha Marsha Marsha

Russia Russia Russia

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Damn

What was that lunch

I find it hard to get in high density vegan protein in that isn't ultra processed soy type stuff or like 'protein bar' type mega dry and chewy protein epic bars

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

hucka be president

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

seriously I saw someone somehow reach the hexbear comment character limit and self reply with three more pages of comments of the same length

a real logout moment

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago
[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

pure fanfic

I think the artist was at one point an artist of the state, so he was just doing wholesome lenin art

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago

strong knees

keep bees

such is the Leninist doctrine

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lol, the age of total homogeneity is underway

the age of endless simulation

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I actually went to this. It was a Marina Abramovic retrospective. I think the naked bouncers were only posted in position every now and again, cos I definitely did not have to squeeze past them. And that guy in particular was must've swapped around in the exhibition cos when I saw him he was lying down on a table, face-up with his nob out.

Also, one of the exhibits had this old lady wearing white robes, doing a fast on some structure elevated above the crowd. She would only drink water for the whole run of the exhibition. Her entire living space was essentially cross sectioned, so that even her toilet was on display for all to see - and where she slept, and so on. She looked absolutely miserable but her eyes said 'dont worry, I'm on a spiritual/artistic journey'.

There was a quote from Abramovic (whose work this lady was replicating), about how on day 4 she went a bit loopy and felt like she could see everyone's energetic wavelengths or something.

Anyway, I thought the old lady could do with a morale boost so I smiled and waved at her, and gave a nod of 'respect, brah'. People were not pleased with that. I felt a sudden encirclement of dirty looks. Even my partner was a bit pissed off that I did it.

The experience introduced to me the debate of 'what even is arts etiquette'? Am I not free to consume it however I want? It's performance art - the whole point is the relationship between the live subject and connection you feel with them in the room. I said sorry anyway, and I can see that I was being a bit of a bellend, if I'm honest...

But inside I wondered - why am I the bellend? I'm the only person here treating the other human in the room like a human rather than like a zoo animal. The etiquette is to navel gaze and swill your wine. No wonder performance art is almost exclusively the realm of middle and upper classes.

If I was her - stuck in the rafters of the Royal Academy for a week, people staring me down every single time I take an increasingly watery shit - I'd at least want someone to rock-paper-scissors me at some point.

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 66 points 1 month ago

QUICK

SEND 60 BILLION DOLLARS TO ISRAEL

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it's even in communism colours

there's got to be old propaganda with maos head on a train

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wholly unsurprising

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Struggle session over MOTY

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'An advertisement warning that U.S. fighter jets were ready to respond to provocations showed up on a dating app in Lebanon.

The warning appeared online last week in Arabic beneath pictures of U.S. warplanes: “Do not take up arms against the United States or its partners,” it said, noting that America “will protect its partners in the face of threats from the Iranian regime and its proxies.”

And to underscore the message: Central Command is “fully prepared” and ready to employ F-16 and A-10 aircraft “currently in the region.”

Séamus Malekafzali, a freelance journalist based in Lebanon, encountered Tinder advertisements purportedly from U.S. Central Command warning against joining Iranian-backed militants on Aug. 22. This ad was linked to a Central Command post on X, Malekafzali said.

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Similar story all over Britain. Fuck sake.

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surprised-pika

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Do I not get it or something?

It just felt like an individualist white middle class mans fantasy of how he'd totally outgrind and outsmart the prison system by doing epic taxes and being a good person

just befriend the prison guards!

play beautiful cultured classical music to these poor barbarous inmates as an act of # la resistance

then, totally own the corrupt system by exposing them to newspapers... the police and judicial system are otherwise perfect so the prison commissioner will kill himself rather than face the HARSH HARSH CONSEQUENCES that one could receive in America for money laundering... notwithstanding that the money laundering is chump change in comparison to the slave wage labour that the inmates are made to perform...

Morgan Freeman speaks in hope platitudes for the entire movie

Is this movie not just about how all you need to do is grin and grind to escape your hellish life?

Then people jerk it off for 'showing the humanity of prisoners for the first time EVER in cinema and not treating prison rape as a joke' - surely you can only find such a thing to be true if you have only ever seen about 5 movies in your life? Or is that just a pure indictment of the Hollywood system - that it only ever makes garbage visible?

Am I being cynical? Was I just in a bad mood?

Utterly cheesy and without charm.

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  • Chair of Hunting Kind says he has built legal case to obtain same protection as Roma and LGBTQ+ people. They have prepared a legal case to try to prove that hunters are an ethnic minority whose hunts should be protected under equality laws.

  • Ed Swales, the chair of Hunting Kind, claims he has been advised by a leading human rights lawyer that hunters unequivocally qualify for legal protection under the UK Equality Act 2010.

  • Speaking to the FieldsportsChannel podcast, Swales said: “The qualifications of an ethnic group, there are five of them, and we hit everyone straight in the bullseye.”

armed-crab

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Hilarious. Stacey Vint you absolute dickhead.

I mean seriously let's just think about it for a second - what did she expect? You have to be a serious fucking moron to even attempt this.

You're an unfit untrained 34 year old woman, whipped up into such a racist fury, that you attempt some shit straight off the battlefields of Carthage, except you're essentially riding the pig you set on fire and running into a horde of elephants.

Any of you who've been at a protest/riot and got up close to riot cops - let's be real - they are big scary bastards. I don't know where they find these apes but they're fucking massive and have full permission from the state to smash your face in.

Like, I sometimes see a street copper and think... 'I'm a big guy, I've done combat and contact sports, I think if that copper wanted to nick me he'd need a couple of mates to shepherd me in and get me down...' But when the riot cop brigade comes marching out I think 'fuck me, am i seriously about to get into beef with these absolute cave trolls?' I'm often in awe at the size of these units, and their grizzled fuck-ugly mashed up faces... Proper measurehead thumblords. It's like if you bred Ross Kemp with himself 8 times and then a final time with a 5kg slab of raw chicken.

Legitimately, you would need to be lacking in all critical thinking skills to try this ancient move.

She's essentially gone and done a Boudicca.

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 106 points 4 months ago

well, he's won then.

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Mandatory Amazon warehouse story:

They have rate trackers, to track how fast a worker scans items or whatever. You get constantly hounded by supervisors if you don't hit your rates. On the screens by your stations, there's constant reminders to take wellbeing breaks and stretch breaks and stuff, even though that's an impossibility if you want to hit your rate.

Then there's these 'wellness booths'. I believe they were soundproof. They were just little huts people would go into to have their breakdowns or to escape the constant noise of the warehouse.

Then there's the vending machines. You can swipe your worker ID card to get free painkillers. No, I'm not joking. They have vending machines for free paracetamol.

It's crazy how often I reference my time at Amazon, when I only worked there for like 3-4 months.

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