chapotraphouse

May 2025 be a year where the libs are seething, the fash are crying and the reds are laughing.

Apologies if this is not the correct place to post this, please direct me elsewhere if I am in error! I figured who better to help with some facsict trolls than the lovely users at my local Hexbear.
The following is a message from a Los Angeles PSL comrade:
"We have received a recent uptick in hateful comments on our instagram reels from the Amazon strike videos and the previous videos around J20 and our fight back. We have just posted this reel featuring a friend of the party who is undocumented, and we are already seeing personal attacks and wrongful information being spread in the comments.

Please help flood the video with comradeship, optimism and pro-immigrant messages! (And if you feel so inclined to engage with the haters and educate them, that helps us too!)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DENwZy4SWio/ "

Soon all the ai images will be hallucinating traffic lights like how they used to put eyes in everything until everything is just the same image of a car but in lots of different wacky colors and you can't own it and you will be happy

I saw some news item or something on here, just normal stuff.

You Americans have a couple of hours to come up with some cooked take when Something Happens over there before I wake up.

I want to open my phone and see some meme 3 layers of irony deep that makes me go to a normal news website then makes me say, 'this is how I find out?'.

Do better next time, hexbear.

This tagline is psychic damage and re-exposing me to it as a joke is NOT okay.

Matty Iglesias's is my favorite

First a call-out of fatphobia (https://hexbear.net/post/4189552) that ended up proving its point, then the stuff about "he/hims" (https://hexbear.net/post/4187781) ". Apparently a mod got banned!?

I am not very active and I never look at the megathreads, the number of comments in them scare me away from them. Is that where it's happening? I feel confused about what this community is like now.

I, uh, don't really know what my point is. Maybe someone can explain what the state of the site is? Especially on the he/hims thing. Maybe that's the main point of this post.

I feel sad for people that got hurt by this.

Then you search them up and realized they were banned or removed

The sword of Damocles reminds me when, if I ever turn rightist once again, may the Hexbear me dead

No the title is not "I need help" this just reminds me of the nights I'd get blasted and listen to some new song on repeat for an hour at a time or go on a downloading spree of new tunes

wow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVq7gBH70WE

That's right folks the year is drawing to a close so it's time to rehash last year's bit, nominate, and vote for your 2024 Hexies! These are the Hexbears you think exemplify what it means to be a real Hexbear

Here's how it works:

1. Pick from the below categories

2. Nominate someone for that category by tagging them

3. If you are nominated respond to the nomination to accept it

4. Most upbeared accepted nomination in each category wins!

What do you win? The esteem of your fellow Hexbearian comrades of course. What more could you want?

The categories for this year's 2024 Hexie awards are:

1. Best Effortposter of 2024

2. Most likely to be called a tankie on a blocked instance

3. Most comradely Hexbear

This year we have a special bonus category to commemorate some of the new comms we added:

4. Best bad poster (this is not the worst poster, this is the best poster that is bad at posting)

We got a lot of new posters this year and have a lot of great comrades visiting from federated instances, feel free to participate too! We love all of our great posters, don't we folks?

Alright comrades that's it from me, be sure and do your democratic duty and for your 2024 Hexie winners and congrats in advance to the winners of this highly coveted and prestigious award!

And for one small trip down memory lane, here's last year's Hexies! https://hexbear.net/post/1477104

Idk where else this would go. Roger sent a short out to look at his substack

Took a little break from the internet and touched some grass and it was great. Wander back in here after my hiatus and what do I find? Just a thread with a bunch of fatphobia.

Cute.

For a community that is incredibly careful about protecting its users from the -phobias and the -isms, there sure is a hell of a lot of unchecked fatphobia here basically any time fatness gets brought up.

It’s something I’ve noticed on the left in general as well. The leftist org I’m in has almost no fat people in it and something tells me that’s not because there aren’t any fat leftists out there.

Fatphobia is rooted in anti-Blackness and ableism.

I’d highly recommend the “Maintenance Phase” podcast with Michael Hobbes and Aubrey Gordon, as well as Aubrey Gordon’s books “What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat” and “You Just Need To Lose Weight.”

TL;DR: There’s mounting evidence that anti-fat bias in medicine is more to blame for poor medical outcomes in fat people rather than just the fat itself.

Diet and exercise don’t result in long-term weight loss for something like 95% of people. As a leftist, are you really gonna sit here and blame this on individual choices rather than systemic issues? Are you really gonna try to convince us that 95% of people are just lacking willpower?

Please note that this thread is not an invitation to convince me I’m wrong or share your own personal anecdotal story of successful long-term weight loss with the implication that others can do it because you did it. This post is a request that any thin person (or thin-adjacent person) reading this who wants to argue about how being fat is bad for your health do some research and some self-crit. This post is a request that this community rethink the way it engages with discussions about fatness, diet, fatphobia, and anti-fat bias.

Anti-fat bias literally kills people.

I'm looking at new Android phones since the battery life on my 5-year-old phone is getting quite dismal and it seems to have a lot of issues running out of RAM lately.

There just don't seem to be very many phones with two sim slots AND a dedicated sd card slot these days. I need all of them since I have one sim for talking and texting and a separate limitless mobile broadband sim that can't make phone calls as well as a chunky SD card that I use for photos, video, media, game roms, etc. Unfortunately most lower-to-mid-range phones just have a hybrid slot at best (while high-end phones seem to have eliminated expandable storage completely.)

Basically, I'd have to ditch the internet, having extra storage or the phone's actual function as a fucking phone. The phones I found that do have the slots I need meanwhile somehow have worse specs than my current phone from 5 years ago

I guess I could always just carry two phones with me

So like, which one of you...?