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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):

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Theory:

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[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 43 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Shoutout to the people who have kept this place running for the last 5 years. Shoutout to the people that organise the megas, the reading groups, and the people that keep movie nights going too.

doggirl-thumbsup

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

catgirl-salute to the best dort owl

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Hasbarassholes having a normal one about my fish on the fish drawing site.

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[–] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

i-think-that posting AI generated images on hexbear should be a bannable offense , even if they're very funny

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[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

Man, five years.

I wonder how the other r/cth downstream online communities have gone. Not enough to check, but...

Hands up who has been here for the whole time (give or take)?

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

Learning that I dont "hate" kids, its just that every single parent in my adoptive family is awful and the kids are the biggest victim of that was such an eye opening experience that I'm glad I had in my teens so I didnt grow up to be a child hating adult

[–] Des@hexbear.net 23 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

it's so weird to basically be growing old on this site

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

guys guys the reason people can't afford to have kids is the economy is too good actually

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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 22 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

doing this one again because I posted it right before the new mega dropped

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[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Jesus, how much energy and money is wasted by offices making themselves as uncomfortably cold as possible in 100 degree heat. Who even asks for 60 degree offices? I hate this shit.

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[–] Moss@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago

happy birthday to the website that made me gay

[–] cerealkiller@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! CONGRATULATIONS!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! WITH SALUTATIONS!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! MAY YOUR SKY STAY BLUE!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Libs seem to be losing it over Colbert's show being canceled. He hasn't been relevant in close to 20 years. I don't think him having a TV show was gonna stop Trump from doing stuff

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

New Megathread nerds!

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No current struggle session discussion here on the new general megathread, i will ban you from the comm and remove your comment, have a good day/night :meow-coffee:

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[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Seeing a post title I'm interested in: dean-smile

It's a link to a video: dean-frown

I'm not watching a whole ass video pausing my music at work and shit. Transcription is the one actual use for LLM i agree with

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[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm posting with tilt controls!

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I'm getting so much cop shit on social media. Holy shit I hate cops

[–] DoomBloomDialectic@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

this site's pretty cool all things considered but i think i just fundamentally hate the internet at this point

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[–] President_Obama@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Came across this, logged back in here just to post

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[–] jjsandwich8@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

With the way dipshit liberals talk on lemmyworld you would think half of America are β€œTankies” lmao

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check out this dope ass megathread

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Putting the β€œpost” in postmodern neo Marxism

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I can finally afford to live alone and I’m embracing the ability to walk around naked or maybe at most have boxers on when at home. It’s partly forced on me by the heatwave but let’s be real I was going to do it anyway.

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[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I feel my misanthropy returning.

There was a jubilee of someone debating far-right chuds. And basically how it went was β€œYeah, we want to implement fascism and destroy you! Why? Because I’m eeeeeevil! Mwahahaha! I’m so cool!” Yes, he let out an anime villain evil laugh. Yes, everyone unironically clapped and the entire comment section was all swooning over how cool he looked and how the stupid β€œdo-gooder” was destroyed. And of course, everyone on the entire internet is praising this brave soul for parroting the world’s most popular, overrated beliefs.

I feel isolated from every other human. Like there’s something wrong with me I’m not evil enough to be human.

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[–] Keld@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Theres something fucked about how a weapons company can just be owned by a cult and nobody questions that in the US.

Like we know for a fact that Desert Tech is owned by a cult, we know for a fact that the cult practises a bunch of stuff i'd need content warnings to bring up, and we know for a fact that they use the money from the company to facilitate their crimes and its just OK.
Like the president's son does ads for them.

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Fun fact about being a transracial adoptee: a regular part of my childhood was white adults coming up to my adoptive parents to ask them how much I cost them, in front of me

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[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Average infantry in war movies: ahhh war sucks im stuck in the trenches my brothers died for 1 mile i miss my wife

Average pilot in war movies: HELL YEAH BROTHER FLYING IS PRETTY RAD ACTUALLY

[–] mayakovsky@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's amazing how well the neoliberal doctrine has been hammered into the average boomer brain. The government must cut public services. Why? Because they have to. We can't have public industry because of inefficiencies, corruption and unaccountability. Mf, private industry is entirely unaccountable, inefficient, and corrupt. Where will the government get the money for all this spending? THEY CONTROL THE FUCKING CURRENCY AND INTEREST RATE.

They watch the services they need get cut, and their own situation worsen, and can only think "well, this needs to happen".

None of them even know what neoliberalism is. Some of them think it means "woke".

I'm going to lose my mind.

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

rebranding my butthole as a "man cave"

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

usually when shit's bleak it's almost disaffecting but there's something so fucking fundamentally evil about this that I'm reading about it through tears doomscroll like this could be stopped at any time and it seems the rules-based order is just going to let it happen.

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[–] Coca_Cola_but_Commie@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've long maintained that medieval men's fashions are superior to modern ones. Specifically having a belt around your natural waist so it can't fall down without it having to be cinched overly tight and then hanging all your shit off that belt is something that has always seemed wondrous to me.

But I was thinking about it, just sitting around fantasizing about wearing a tunic and a belt with an axe stuck through it supporting a drawstring purse full of coins, and then I realized that's basically just a fanny pack. Fanny packs are the modern heir to the practical garb of that most industrious race, the medieval peasantry.

Completely ruined it for me.

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[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ironic how people who say "noble savage" always use it to drop really fucked up race science stereotypes.

Saw a thread where people saying leftists treat Chinese people like "noble savages" and then immediately after they say Chinese people are more accepting of cheating and the quick and easy way thats why they love AI. Lets ignore that IRL westerners love AI slop lol.

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[–] grazing7264@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

There's a Zionist mass downvoting the Hexbear Palestine fish, it's been upvoted from 300 back to 1500+ lol

Upvote with other Hexbears to piss off a Zionist today!

hamas-red-triangle πŸŸπŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ

https://drawafish.com/rank.html?userId=1753183589941_8cxtbzlyh

Edit: link fixed

Edit2: We are so back!

meow-bounce

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I've spoken many times in this forum on the topic of my parasitic manchild landlord but a new low has been reached.

He got a baby cat a few months ago and I have been fuming since about the absolute neglect he's shown her by not providing a litterbox and just expecting her to shit in the back yard.

I had no idea that HE HADN'T EVEN TAKEN HER TO A VET TO GET SPAYED, AND NOW THIS KITTEN OF NO MORE THAN 4 MONTHS IS PREGNANT WITH A LITTER.

I'm seriously fucking enraged. I hate him so fucking much. And I hate how society views him as having his shit together because his parents gave him a fucking house to rent out. I fucking weep for the 8 kids his mormon ass is probably going to have somewhere down the line.

[–] grazing7264@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] DoomBloomDialectic@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

cw cushposting (large-adult-son)

holy fuck i don't know if i watched the last cushvlog that came out literally days before matt's stroke at the time, but it is actually insanely veil piercing how relevant & prescient it is considering what happened. my lens for the world still very much defaults to thinking that sort of thing is coincidence, but jesus...

miss his insights and wisdom, but happy he seems to be recovering in his own way and carving out a new vision of happiness for himself. but could really use his analysis considering all the this-is-fine that's happened since...

[–] someone@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

For those of you who have just discovered that you have a praise kink, I'm so proud of you, good job!

[–] dougfir@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i fucking hate the spread of ai so much. i've noticed for a while now that in ddg wikipedia pages will now have an ai summary instead of just using the first sentence or two for their subheader when i have never heard of anyone having any problem with the old way. now search results from reddit will do the same thing. i think it's an unlabelled ddg thing because when i searched for the same thing on bing i didn't get the ai summary for the wiki page, though i did get the summary for the reddit page. the ai summary had a pretty big spoiler for the thing i was looking up too so i am glad i had finished it beforehand lol

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[–] Keld@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

WHY IS A TOBACCO LOBBYIST INVITED IN TO CRITIQUE THE WEATHER SERVICE AND CLIMATE ACTIVISTS. Im mad at the radio now

[–] jjsandwich8@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wtf I applied to a place and they want me to do a β€œRecorded video interview” why the fuck don’t they just do an in person interview??? I don’t want record myself for this shit

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[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

After my dumbass mom sent me a text about Omar Fateh, a guy I literally don't know anything about, I decided to just randomly look him up on youtube. In order, I got:

  1. a local fox news video about him receiving an endorsement to be mayor of Minneapolis, the comments full of blatant racism
  2. a slander piece with a scummy gold-shilling ad in the description (lmao)
  3. the same local fox news video as the first video
  4. Matt Walsh crying about him
  5. another Matt Walsh video crying about him

So after this fun little example of consent manufacturing I still know nothing about this Omar Fateh guy after looking over the following 5 videos after those which also feature not a single video of this dude actually speaking for himself, except that Matt Walsh and my mom (and Sky News) hate him so he's probably at least kinda cool.

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[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Lol international affairs at lowest wtf im doing with my chungus unemployed life man.

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[–] darkcalling@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'll ask the question no one else has bothered to ask.

It's been 5 years. Where is the progress report on the 5-year-plan? What was the 5-year-plan for that matter?

And what is the next 5-year-plan. Please disclose so I can plan accordingly.

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[–] Keld@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Just saw a birds nest built using anti bird spikes as structural support.

Hell yeah bird

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[–] Carl@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

delivery attempted today at 120pm

No it fucking wasn't, that was ten minutes ago and I've been in my yard all day. Nobody attempted shit for fuck.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (20 children)

my favorite jill stein voooter (likely fake tho, nothing on last month search matches)

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