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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:

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

Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):

Aid:

Theory:

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[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Gay fish yo

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

honestly if someone can have all these takes at the expense of hating "tankies" honestly I'll take it

[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Smoking on some temple ball hash last night and slept for no joke 19 hours, apart from apparently when I got up for a midnight snack which was an entire jar of olives and a whole thing of red pepper hummus

Going to have to stick to bud when its a work night

I like how my tomato plants can just be minding their own business and then all of a sudden they're covered in fucking spider mites

[-] rafflesia@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

every time i get a spare minute i start thinking about the state of things and get so mad i have to go sit in another room

[-] qcop@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

Same here...

[-] The_Grinch@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

What do my hexbears think about an "intentionality onion" similar to the "survivability onion"

The layers would be something like:
Ignorance grillman grill

Willful Ignorance not-listening

Negligence le-monke

Knowingly committing harm to someone(s) with indifference settlers

Knowingly committing harm to someone(s) with malicious intent holden-bloodfeast

Ultimately I'm hoping to cut through the needless debating about what specific quantity of intentional malice was being employed in a given scenario. It would be nice to be able to just broadly wave at the general idea that their actions (or inactions) exist somewhere on the spectrum without having to get into which specific level I'm accusing them of (because it often doesn't matter)

What changes would you make?

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[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

whoever was the first anime director to OK using atrociously bad CGI to cut costs should have been laughed out of a job and then taken out back and shot, but now it's too late, it's normalized, they'll really just have extended scenes of just laughably bad CGI monsters or horses or whatever looking like a damn child drew them in 3D and the people doing it will somehow still have jobs and KEEP DOING IT

[-] Buptendo@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Man, I am at a rich kid musician festival in rich people world.

I just want to say all of these kids lives are built upon a lie and have truly never done anything by themselves.

I have come from nothing, I have suffered so much and I still continue to make art. Everything I do is truly my own. Their art doesnt exist, it's all built on a lie, privilege and theft in most cases. Whereas my shit has integrity, its the real deal, you cannot approach me.

I'm not as polished as some of these freaks but I'm infinitely more interested in the art I'm creating and building towards opposed to the foundationally empty, hollow, shallow skindeep bullshit they got.

Eat the rich fuck this place

[-] makotech222@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

bitterness is a path through which Reaction may reach your soul

[-] Buptendo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Lol where do you get off trying to tell me how to feel no one asked you

You should totally be happy and stoked that that rich people ruin everything and please dont be mad at me that my parents are rich, im a socialist bro

The fact that that comment has five upvotes tells me alot about this place. Rich, white, non working "socialist"

[-] peppersky@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago
[-] Buptendo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sorry its true, if your parents paid for your lessons all of your life, paid for college, sent you to expensive musical festivals and paid ur rent. Your life is a lie. Go donate your privilege to someone else and live a useful meaningful life. Dont go ruin music for everyone else

What could you art possibly hope to wrought from your soul? It sure was hard we didnt vacation more, my parents slighted me in a minor inconvenience or i didnt get into my top choice college

If you have money ur art is unironically worthless. If you have money you should just be good at art, its a natural conclusion with all that extra help. So who cares if you do it or not. Go use that time productively to help other and leave the arts to poor people

The real function of art in a class based society is a stop gap to prevent rich kids doing awful things like become a healthcare ceo, instead they just ruin art for everyone else. It sucks but the alternative is worse.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

This will be me in 8 months

[-] Buptendo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Praying for you, stay sane. Remember your art is infinitely more important than those animals

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[-] Keld@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

A guy who is at least 35 is pretty openly trying to fuck two girls one of whom just talked about her experience last year at uhhhh i think the best translation would be late middle school. I want to throw things at this guy, do I say something?

[-] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

Yes. If you don't want to be confrontational, you could pretend to be on a phone call next to them and say something along the lines of "Sorry there's a guy with his daughters here and they're being super loud, can you repeat that?"

[-] Keld@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

I ended up just interrupting all his attempted pick up lines with loud coughs and throat clearings while sitting about an inch from him, it seemed to have done the trick or maybe they just weren't as impressed as they initially seemed. I probably could have done more, but he left alone and thats enough for now.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Really cool and good my entire teenage and 20s are going to be spent first during the rich getting away with fucking up the economy after occupy and now I can’t afford to ever start my life, but now I have to see the new golden age of conservatism where anything I enjoy will either be banned or will be subject to constant ridicule and all the stupid douchebags get to keep living in a perpetual high school where being a douche is seen as cool.

Fuck, I hate it here.

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

I don't think "new golden age" is accurate. There's certainly a reprisal, but the material support needed to sustain it just isn't there. Not saying times aren't fucking tough as that process happens, it's gonna be a sucky decade or so, but the pendulum is gonna swing culturally. The settlers are not going to turn anti-imperial, but they are going to demand comfort from their imperial overlords in the form of social democracy. A few concessions from the ruling class are nearly inevitable (probably at least 5 years out, though).

I don't understand why they got Kafka hibino out there in a Defense Suit doing calisthenics like he should just be Kaiju'd up 24/7, figuring out the limits of that shit now that he doesn't have to hide it, not wasting his time running around like a nerd

it's like if they made Superman join morning calisthenics with the justice league and he had to hold bags of kryptonite so that, you know, he'd feel it

also PSA: the guy in The Metamorphosis wasn't Kafka! it was Gregor Samsa! i know that and I don't even read, but people are out here doing the equivalent of calling Frankenstein's monster Frankenstein πŸ™„

[-] peppersky@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

One of the most insidious things under capitalism is how even though technology allows for ever quicker and quicker lives, to do more and more in less time, and requires its subjects to be ever faster in whatever they do, the poorer you are, the more time of your time it is willing to waste

[-] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Folks the last 5 years have been great.

Planet cancer, sweet revenge
Isolation, online friends
And love is just an institution based on human frailty

Here's to another glorious 5 years.

stalin-heart lenin-heart fidel-cool

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[-] spudnik@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Ok, so it's like a wet willy. But for your belly button.

What should this monstrous act be called?

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago
[-] spudnik@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

Somehow not gross enough

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago
[-] spudnik@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Disgusting and alliterative, perfect!

[-] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

The best "samurais" are actually ronins wth is wrong with weebs man

[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Pirate is the ONLY cool answer here the others exclusively (well, arguably in the case of 'cowboy') reproduce power.

nazi poll on nazi website

[-] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

Big day tomorrow. Good luck everyone.

[-] grazing7264@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago
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[-] Keld@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

There's an american lib mansplaining immigration politics on this european metro. It feels weird to hear about how mexican immigrants pay american taxes so they're ok or how the republicans have moved the Overton window to allow for racism in the discourse on my commute.

[-] Keld@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Instead of all the current names for metal like "death metal" or "Speed metal" or "Black metal", it should literally just be named after metals.

Like black sabbath should have been a copper band, people could have been really into zinc.

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

wearing my beryllium jewelry to support my band

[-] Keld@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I had you pegged for a mercury kind of guy. Although mercury jewellery would suck

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

being able to fly your metals only on north pole do be kinda limiting obama-sad

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[-] Packet@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

Came here to say, thanks you all for posting content. Love this place, love the critters that inhabit it. I am extremely grateful for this amazing community

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