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I heard them use jokes I've only heard on Hexbear, but I kept chalking that up to "maybe this is just leftist twitter humor". Now, I'm casually listening to the latest episodes and one of the hosts made a throwaway line about lathing something into existence. There is no way that bit is used anywhere other than Hexbear.

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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Lathe of Heaven is an Ursula K. Leguin book so you'll see leftists reference it everywhere. I'm surprised that it would be referenced as part of the common cultural corpus of knowledge though, it's not exactly Star Trek.

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nothing is original, comrade. the lathe thing is used elsewhere.

[–] aebletrae@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago

According to Wikipedia, the idea is thousands of years old.

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think you’ve got causality backwards. A lot of Hexbear users listen to Trashfuture

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

Correlation, etc.

[–] ikilledtheradiostar@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Too liberal for my tastes but I understand why many 6bears listen

[–] AFineWayToDie@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've heard a lot of Hexbear gags on the Deprogram, too. I think we all just get a lot of our memes from the same sources.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well JT and Yugopnik literally have accounts here so that shouldn't be surprising.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

How can I politely tell yugopnik that he hogs the mic?

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 33 points 2 months ago

Like the old sub, a lot of this website's culture is stolen from leftist twitter

[–] Wisp@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

From my experience when a leftist podcast talks about something chapo.chat follows. Less often the opposite

[–] TheaJo@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

now that's something I haven't heard in a while

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The only podcaster I know frequents the site is Yugopnik, and JT did an AMA like 3 years ago.

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago

The joke about lathing things into existence originally came from an old episode of Chapo I think, and the subreddit turned it into a thing.

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The other way around. We take phrases and jokes from them and their circles.

[–] T34_69@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

It's when they start beanising that you gotta be suspicious. Eyes open from the the e beani the beanis s

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

Please don't listen to the eps with Tom Walker i steal 93% of my gags feom those

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

The reverse, a sneaky amount of us listened to TF for longer than CTH

[–] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

I had this thought too a few months back when one of them said hwalk touah polling booth and vote on that thang during the US elections. Which I saw here a few weeks before the episode. But I figured it was on twitter or some such

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

The lathe of heaven has been a thing in leftist Twitter for longer than hexbear has existed lol

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As many have said lathe is like 9 ish year old meme at this point.

Also if she posted on here Alice would have been banned for one of her many poster moments, between necrophilia and the I'm gonna become a cop shit.

Also I have experience with the fact that TF production is a huge shit show. They put out a call several times on a company I've literally worked for and never followed up. At least when True Anon scraps an idea they put out a call for they don't just ignore you.

[–] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

I know @CarsAndComrades@hexbear.net are here! their pod is great