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submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

On this week this niche leftist forum was first launched (its was the 24th or 25th i think) Formed from the Chapotraphouse subreddit remnants that survived the reddit ban over the calls of violence against confederate slave owners, the first admins decided to use Lemmy as its base. Originally called Chapo.chat (ChaCha) Hexbear has grown into one of the biggest instances in the lemmyverse.

In this last 5 years hexbear has survived many diffent events from numerous struggle sessions, mod clique-users conflicts, wrecker incursions from other instances and sites, this image dprk-soldier, a decent amount of fedidrama with other instances and the domain crisis, we still thrive with over 5 million comments and 375k posts.

I still continue my dictatorial rule over the general megathread for now over 4 years now, this time locked in the chapo comm so it can be more easily moderated, c/indigenous has now grown to 750 subs which im very happy plus now i take care of the empoc mega which has been pretty chill so far.

I still really enjoy the fedidrama, it fun to see all the fedilibs always thinking about hexbear despide the fact that they are on defederated instances and they can ust ignore us, we live rent free on their minds

Have all you nerds a good week, Read Absolute Batman, its good

Whats has been your favorite post/event from last year (july 2024-july 2025)?

reminders:

  • 💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
  • 💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
  • 💜 Sorting by new you nerd
  • 🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog

Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):

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[-] WellTheresYourCobbler@hexbear.net 2 points 57 minutes ago

On your recommendation I started absolute Batman and it’s been a pretty cool series so far. Thanks for the suggestion!

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 4 points 1 hour ago

I’m sure someone way smarter than me pointed this out, but is it just me or is an underreported strategy of the elite’s class warfare on the poor is lumpenproleization?

Every job and every last penny you have? All concessions the porks hate to make. They hate hiring, they hate when their business has to expand despite it supposedly being a sign of success. But thankfully for them, they can get together and agree to be pickier and pickier when they have no choice but to hire, and more than a quarter of the population in the US is functionally unemployed (including underemployment).

In sum, 25% of the country is lumpenproletariat and I am one of them. It’s a humiliation ritual to demoralize. Like it isn’t even faceless greed, this is smug, malevolent malice porks are doing simply because they can. Lumpenproletariat have also historically been easier to redirect to fascist elements, which is good for porky as it serves to increase the loyalty of the poor.

[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 35 minutes ago)

Youtube has been recommending me shorts from this one channel called "Breezy Politics" which is some reactionary anti-zionist clip channel. There's clips from Tucker and MTG but then there's also clips from Mehdi Hasan's recent Jubilee appearance. Just watched one where they called Mamdani an "America First" politician which I found funny.

Also from this channel I found out that Matt Gaetz has apparently joined the right-wing anti-Israel side.

Edit: Just saw Matt Gaetz talk about how Israel killed Shireen Abu-Akleh and he listed a few other Palestinian-Americans. That made me notice that they never mention Rachel Corrie, a blonde white girl, which should be right up their alley. Do they just not know about her? I don't see any reason, not even a sinister one, for why you wouldn't want to bring her up if you wanted to talk about how Israel kills Americans. They love yapping about the USS Liberty and that was decades ago, so it's not like her death was too long ago.

Edit 2: Spamming Jackson Hinkle replies with "Never forget Rachel Corrie" would probably be decent propaganda to stoke the flames among anti-zionist reactionaries. Too cynical for me though.

[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 1 points 1 hour ago

Dying Light 2 isn't that bad, but it's no DL1.

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Dairy

Every time I make coffee my cat turns up as if I just opened a can of tuna. I usually give him a small amount of half and half as a treat. I have turned the tables though. Now, when I'm not sure if the half and half is still okay to drink, I pour a little bit into his ramekin and let him decide. Despite having no discretion or self control whatsoever, his standards are actually higher than mine. He will not drink sour milk, even if it's on the edge. He's my personal food tester now.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 3 hours ago

Other actors who should have played Forest Gump cause it would have been really funny:

Jean Claude Van Damme

Danny DeVito

Sylvester Stallone

Samuel L Jackson

James Gandolfini

[-] spudnik@hexbear.net 1 points 1 hour ago

Keanu Reeves

Nicholas Cage

Steve Buscemi

[-] Keld@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago

I bought a new pair of shorts. They're comfy and easy to wear.

[-] DoomBloomDialectic@hexbear.net 2 points 2 hours ago

i know that, ackshully, lord of the rings is one big book nerd only published in its three segments at the insistence of Tolkiens publisher…

but for the sake of putting Good Boy Points on the board in terms of annual books read, i am going to count each of the three parts as one. which puts me at….two completed books this year :/

[-] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 4 points 4 hours ago

Was out in the sun for like 4 hours yesterday (3 of which had extreme UV) and didnt get mask tan lines big-cool

I was reapplying my face sunscreen religiously

[-] Buptendo@hexbear.net 3 points 4 hours ago

Communism is only good on paper remember folks

Democracy on the other hand while good on paper, should always chase its idealized and in fact is perfect. Nevermind that you are never truly represented in a democracy, most people tend to check out of politics because of it and it always ends in a oligarchal control tool.

[-] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 3 points 6 hours ago

Happy Hexweek to all who celebrate. This weird corner has kept me sane when the events of the world have been bonkers. Keep posting, unless of course you decide to touch grass.

[-] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 4 points 8 hours ago

Pokemon is a good multiplayer pvp game but bad bad singleplayer rpg game

[-] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 2 points 7 hours ago
[-] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Pokemon has an actually deep battle system that you will not be able to actually appreciate in single player because 99.9% of the time the most effective strategy is to use a move that deals highest damage. This isnt a strictly negative thing because it means you can use every pokemon to beat the game (except maybe shedninja), but it basically means a lot of battle mechanics are basically untouched unless you play with lots of self imposed rule.

Modern pokemon at least solved the "using more than 1 pokemon in battle effectively makes the game harder" conundrum

[-] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 8 points 11 hours ago

The british never grew out of the victorian age.

[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 6 points 11 hours ago
[-] Carl@hexbear.net 6 points 11 hours ago

adding every album with an :awooga: anime girl on it to my library as a bit

come across an artist with like fifty albums that fit the bill

they all came out this year

it's fucking AI shit

now I gotta scrub through my library checking every artist to make sure they're real

"atmospheric" music, ie stuff that by definition you're not paying super close attention to is absolutely infested with ai garbage. YouTube Music needs to have a way to block this shit because I don't want to support it.

[-] ratboy@hexbear.net 6 points 11 hours ago

Went on a river float for my first time and I'm and idiot and only reapplied sunscreen to my shoulders once during the four hour float and the rest of me is baked. Crisp. Lobster red. I don't know if I have been this sunburnt since I was a teen, maybe even a kid. Currently slathered in coconut oil after slathering myself in aloe and I hope to Christ it calms down tomorrow because I remember peeling and that shit suuuuuuuucks ass. I also was doing the god damn backstroke for like 2 hours of it too because for whatever reason I could not keep up with the front of the pack, probably getting stuck on the eddys because I don't know how to read the river. At least my shoulders will be bulletproof after this. And at least the baby rapids were fun and I feel accomplished.

Why is it that ill look at my body and be like "oh yeah, in not red yet, I don't need sunscreen again thats for wimps!"

If anyone has any other tips for sunburns pls let me know them

[-] spectre@hexbear.net 1 points 1 hour ago

The blue aloe with lidocaine is very good but a mess to apply. The aloe spray is also very good. Keep both in the fridge.

[-] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 4 points 11 hours ago

I had a dream where I was being chased down from the top of an impossibly large building. I was trying to find routes down by jumping from sloped, shingled roofs. With me was a guy with red spiky hair who kinda looked like young Tom Cruise and Stavros Halkias was there and he was constantly doing that fake cackling laugh.

It sounds dumb, but it was a really intense dream. My teeth hurt from grinding.

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 8 points 13 hours ago

I so desperately want chrissy-explain’s supernatural mobster slasher film to be real lmao.

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago

I must be loyle to my capo

[-] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

“Cleaver”, show some respect tony-cheer

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 5 points 12 hours ago

Your car looks pretty fast. Wanna race?

[-] decaptcha@hexbear.net 1 points 5 hours ago

Nice shouts to Carpenter Brut and Gunship. I feel like I recognize the logo at 3 o'clock too but can't put my finger on it. Time to give TRILOGY another spin.

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 10 points 14 hours ago
[-] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 3 points 6 hours ago

The fifth guy was only added after the fall of Rome.

[-] iie@hexbear.net 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

not trying to get too serious in the megathread, but,

therapy goers, is there a therapist word (that I can google) for not having a coherent identity? as in, "be yourself," "I can't, that person straight up doesn't exist." it's not depersonalization, and I don't think it's dissociation. it just feels like a huge chunk of me is inexpressible and scrambled even to myself.

*if no word immediately comes to mind, there's no need to dig for one, I'm not using hexbear as an unpaid therapist

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 2 points 2 hours ago

I don't know about a therapy term, but how about the Buddhist concept of anattā?

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 4 points 13 hours ago

It honestly just sounds like the human condition. We all spend our lives trying to discover our identity, a small handful of us find it and the rest pretend that we have.

[-] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 3 points 13 hours ago

Not knowing how you experience it, what you’re describing just sounds like most people to me. People definitely have naturally occurring personalities, but I think they outwardly exaggerate and perform them. I have absolutely nothing to base this off off, its just a vibe.

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 10 points 15 hours ago

That's it, I'm just gonna be an old pervert

me (age thirty)

[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 4 points 13 hours ago

I hope all the computer (occupation)s who had their jobs taken by LLMs are doing okay

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 2 points 4 hours ago
[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 7 points 16 hours ago

mine offering for tony's upcoming trick

[-] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 3 points 10 hours ago

Thank you Lea from Crosscode.

[-] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

oooaaaaaaauhhh I think I missed my chance to write one, it now says the flower is closed aww maaaan.

Did you draw that dialogue sprite in yours? If so, damn it's good!

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

i coded it phoenix-bashful (color matching python script -> js console)

[-] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 2 points 3 hours ago

Oooooh cool

[-] 9to5@hexbear.net 4 points 15 hours ago

I should go to bed but im feeling an allnighter coming up . No work on Sunday so I could do it and play games all day :3

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