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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

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[–] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

In all honesty I think all vaush, h3h3, and contrapoints discourse should be banned from this site. Pls🀞. I don’t want this place to be like r/thedeprogram

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Call me dr eggman the way I'm fucking YOKED

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 5 points 20 hours ago

Never skip leg(ume) day

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 18 hours ago

That V*ush thread where a depressed person had to deal with thst creep did remind me of a dude i used to work wirh who was on his way out when I was on mt way in to my current gig amd we had a solid comedy back and forth. Around a month after I started my best friend OD'd and I took a couple days off and when I told this guy about it he to me lol.t blank he was gonna try to be even more annoying to me this week so id have something else to thi k about and hed would constantly fake me out about work stuff or just be a silly jerk and it was one of the nicest things anyone has done for me. He k me exactly what he needed to do at that time cl sideline g our relationship as co-workers who got into a good joking around thing. I have no idea where thst guy is now but on thar day he did the exactly correct thing for me

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 3 points 17 hours ago

They gave Reed Richards the same moral dillema as Joel Miller (your child or the world) lol Pedro Pascal is only allowed to play one guy.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

The bottle of vanilla at my work claims in its label to have 300 FLAVOR NOTES. First off, too fucking many. Too many notes. That is fretless flavor. I cant even think of 300 flavors as a longtime cook, and for vanilla extract that's 299 too many. If your vanilla tastes like 300 things, you fucked it up. That's not something to brag about. That absurdity notwithstanding, I just hate the pretentiousness of saying 'flavor notes' or worse 'flavor profile'. Its cop talk for fucking 'flavor'. Just say flavor, the extra words are useless

[–] john_browns_beard@hexbear.net 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Vanilla extract has like six compounds that determine its flavor (still mostly determined by vanillin content alone), they are kidding themselves. I've done HPLC analysis on vanilla extracts as part of my job in the past.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

That sounds interesting what kinda job was it? Im a cook and my greatest career advantage has been knowing basic chemistry. I don't just know how to emulsify shit, I understand what that process is and damn does it help me.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

In this moment I hafe become George Carlin

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

vanilla flavored vanilla dot com

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 18 hours ago

It's literally pure vanilla extract. They should be hyping how few flavors it has. And im not Dennis Leary. Im mad at the piss poor terminology, the vanilla itself just tasted like vanilla. Its fine. Its just bragging about qualities it doesn't have and shouldn't thst gets to me and a lot of food products do it. Recipes on the back of chip bags and ketchup bottles are insane concoctions

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

Had a Trump supporter in my cab last night, said some shit about Trump being a peaceful president. I replied "tell that to the Iranians"

Guy turns on a dime, starts ranting about how we need to randomly bomb other countries in order to "play the game of empires". I say we shouldn't play any game that kills millions of people.

I think I genuinely caused him to BSOD when I said that Iran has every legal and moral right to pursue a nuclear weapon for deterrence reasons, because America and Israel are the most dangerous and aggressive countries on the planet and it isn't even close. After that he got totally incoherent.

The ride was only like 3 minutes so it didn't really have enough time to get out of control. I dream of someday getting a ride with a chud who crosses the line and I get to kick their ass out of my cab on the side of the highway but that hasn't happened yet.

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

The year is 4566 CE. Representatives from China and America meet to discuss trade and diplomacy, and mark the beginning of their discussions by ceremonially agreeing to "extend the tariff deadline." This ritual has marked every diplomatic meeting between the two civilizations, encompassing multiple states since time immemorial. Why the two countries do this is debated among scholars and historians, but the origin of the ritual is ultimately unknown.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Resident alien is good thanks for people who recommended it

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

swirling wine around glass You know in France, they call death "the big cum"

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] FidelChadstro@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Tfw target has more security goons standing by the door than they have checkstands open. Really lays out their priorities thumb-cop

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I definitely put waaaay too much onion in this chili i'm making. I threw in a fist sized glob of heavily caramelized onions and then i realized "wait that's half of an entire bag of onions"

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like you need to add more chili to your onion soup.

I just let it roll as is, i like onion. Shit's good

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 5 points 23 hours ago

Feels bad, feels very bad. I once again have to walk on egg shells when discussing politics around my friends because most of them are in β€œdefend democrats at all costs” mode

Not great

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 4 points 22 hours ago

My lib dad is texting me AI slop YouTube videos of Trump. Please make it stop.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Political Satire just died for real. Tom Lehrer dead at 97

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I had no idea he was still alive

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He retired from performing 50 years ago and retired from academia 20 years ago, so don't worry no one expected you to keep track. It's still kinda sad though.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 23 hours ago
[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

USian socialists need to work "deep state" into their vocabulary. Its not to hard and applicable to most things as a replacement for capitalism, and there are known ghouls that can be used as representation. And with the Epstein shit going down, the public is pretty conspiratorially minded, maybe rightfully so.

I've seen PYM using what might be considered "aggressive" tactics, for instance protesting at the home of an executive from Boston Consulting Group(BCG).

Appetite for revolutionary activities seems to be rising, while most things are shit it still gives me some hope

[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

My knowledge doesn't extend beyond bean chili

oh shiiit 5 years? Kinda of wild to think about

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Person who works at the grocery store and chats me up every time who Im pretty sure has a crush on me and im very sure theyre too young had been using music as a go-to conversation thing, cause I look very punk so it's a seemingly easy in. It actually puts me in an awkward place conversationally where I try to not come off as an elitist when explaining all the music im particularly into is very very underground. She showed my her Ghost shirt, and while I have heard a dong or two and don't like em, I decided it would be best just to say I've never heard a song. If im in a position where I can put on some tunes I can talk anyone's ear off about music, but for a conversation in a store it's kinda hard cause all I can really do is list bands people have never heard of and the occasional one hit wonders from the 80s who have amazing cataloges outside that hit

[–] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 1 points 16 hours ago

Yeah its pretty much impossible for me to talk to metalheads cuz i much prefer blood brothers, converge, fall of troy, dischord records, ska and skate punk, egg punk, post punk / goth type of stuff.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

"The walls are closing in on the trump admin" like obviously this time feels a bit different with half his base pissed but i have almost zero doubt he'll wriggle his way out of this one

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Been offline more than usual for a bit and I forgot how easy it is to be unaware of what’s going on. You can so easily get lost by the multiple distractions and completely miss what’s developing, and this is coming from someone who lives in the global south. It’s probably a lot easier for normies to be unaware of what’s going on in the world while living in the imperial core.

[–] free_casc@hexbear.net 2 points 20 hours ago

They do the "make the news into 24 entertainment" thing here on cable news and stuff so a lot of "normies" are permanently brain poisoned even if they don't log on.

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 3 points 22 hours ago

it is july 27 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 2 points 20 hours 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.

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

I mean think about all good and worthwhile music wasnt made by rich people, if you got money stop doing music and go be a doctor or donate your time. You dont belong here, this is not your lane.

Your art cant even hope to start until you give back to the world in a meaningful material way, not some bullshit free concert. Like give free lessons, volunteer somewhere regularly do something you pieces of shit.

Im riding such a wave right now, i finally feel like a full fledged musician and i did it all by myself. Eat the rich. You cant take this away from me you monsters

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