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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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[–] NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Taking a moment to thank some of our fallen posters @zifnab25 @Frank @EugeneVDabs

May we meet again in the big phpBB in the sky

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[–] Sleve_McDichael@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

This comment is only viewable with Hexbear Gold. Download the app today!

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In respect for Ozzy we should all piss on the Alamo

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[–] dougfir@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

you never hear people calling condoms "scumbags" anymore. in fact i don't think i ever have in real life and i only encountered that meaning for the first time last night in a book

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[–] rhubarb@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

jesus there's going to be a thousand dogshit AI "tributes" whenever a big celebrity dies from now on, that's it, I'm going to live in the forest goodbye

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Thanks to the admins and mods.

Been since summer 2021, possibly earlier.

I was never on the sub but listened to the pod. I was active on discord at the time, in the dwindling fan community of a dead podcast "ashes ashes". all it took was one crossposted meme/explanation of what chapo.chat was and I was gone and never looked back 😸

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Actually I love the "character has far more progressive mindset than most people at that time" trope. Its pretty relatable at least.

Hell, there were christian monks who were against crusades at like 1100, a minority sure, but they existed!

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[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for making the site so I never had to use discord rat-salute

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[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

One of my long time friends who has always been a bit of a chud has actually started listening to me and agreeing with me about leftist stuff. I think the fact that the economy is fucking them has something to do with it. They've recently even been sending me like, pro-communist stuff. I'm surprised.

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Looking for a second job now. The sober living president told me I have to find a new job, but my mom vetoed me leaving my current job because of just how supportive they've been to me in my recovery/when I was in active addiction.

CW: Suicide

If you've been paying attention to my posts here, you'll know I went to rehab because I tried to kill myself when I was drunk. I had been trying to get in for a long time, but no place would accept me with my undiagnosed seizure condition. Honestly that suicide attempt was one of the best things that ever happened to me, the doctors at the hospital gave me an EEG so I could go into rehab and I straightened up my life from there. I was in the ICU for 2 days after that attempt, but I kinda needed that pause.

It wasn't my old roommates, or any of my "friends" that received my suicide note, it was my manager that saw my text, pulled up to my apartment and called an ambulance. She even told the hospital workers I was trans and my preferred name so I would feel comfortable when I woke up. My coworkers were constantly calling my mom when I was in rehab, trying to check in on how I was doing. One of them even sent me mail while I was in there. These were people that never judged me when I called in from being hungover because they understood my addiction as a disease that I was trying my best to fight. Like months before I went into rehab, I asked them to refuse to serve me alcohol.

The higher ups have started cutting down on labor hours, so I've really been struggling recently, barely making enough to survive. But the people at my job have really earned my loyalty, being some of my biggest supporters at times that I don't even know if I deserved it. I'm still looking for a second job, but especially after the conversation with my mom, I'm dead set on not leaving this job

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Insane that theres no German/Ottoman perspective campaign on Battlefield 1 yet theres a fucking Wermacht campaign on the "woke" Battlefield 5 one.

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[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

"Fighting Uruk-Hai" implies the existence of other forms of non-fighting uruk-hai

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[–] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Oh great another heat wave what-the-hell Can't wait for every summer for the rest of my life to be the hottest on record

[–] rhubarb@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

If I was at the helm this site would be seven years old by now, maybe more

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I've gone this long pretending to know what a hot couch guy is but I guess I have to learn since I've seen it 3 times just today

[–] Sleve_McDichael@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It’s a guy who sits on a hot couch, not a hot guy who sits on a couch theory-gary

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daydreaming about that time I made a badpost that was like "report this thread and the best report reason will be the reason the mods take it down in 24 hours" and that shit lasted like 2 hours before an admin stepped in to lock the thread undyne-joy

Now that was a badpost.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It is currently 32 degrees Celsius inside my apartment fire

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[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Gotta move a CNC program onto a machine. These Wire EDMs are one of the few machines on the shop floor which don't have FANUC controllers, which means instead of sending the program over RS-232 we can do fancy shit like SMB. So I double-click on the desktop shortcut for the machine's network share. Windows says "this resource has moved." No it fucking hasn't, it weighs at least eight thousand pounds. I click OK, Windows automatically deletes the shortcut. Motherfucker, that shortcut had the machine's IP address in it and now you've left me with nothing but my dick in my hands.

In summary, fuck Microsoft.

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[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (8 children)

wtf is this trend of people referring to liking things as "autism"

no you don't have "dinosaur autism" you just think dinosaurs are cool, because they are shocked-dino

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[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

It’s so fucking unfair how in TikTok, every nazi dipshit is given a megaphone and everyone claps, but I get banned for cussing them out.

They love to talk about how tough they are, yet censors always come in and save their asses. Worth it to make these scumbags know the feeling’s mutual.

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Was pointing out some flowers to my niece and I'm like 'that's a wattle' and she was like 'waddle like a penguin?'. Eh, close enough penguin-dance

[–] Coca_Cola_but_Commie@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Decided to purchase a fountain pen to finally justify why I bought a book of calligraphy some years ago. Realized I'm gonna need some ink for it, and fountain pens need special water-based ink that's for fountain pens only. But a Hobby Lobby moved into town ten years ago and killed our last standing mom & pop craft store.

Well, it turns out our fucking Hobby Lobby doesn't carry fountain pen ink. None of the other big box stores carry it either. The local office supplies company doesn't have it. All I want is some ink, man. I'm going to have to wander through the forest collecting oak galls. This is the worst thing Hobby Lobby has ever done.

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Shows set in New York that also assume you know the geography and neighborhoods of the city. I don't know where Brooklyn is in relation to Queens and what cultural association is with each. I don't know what the fuck St. Mark's is, I don't know the names of the streets and I sure as hell don't find any of it interesting. If it's plot or comedy relevant for me to know this, do a re-write or have an on screen map.

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[–] Buptendo@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A musician i know shared photos of him vacationing in tel aviv. Im also in rich people land for some reason and some bitch said outloud to her friends "omg u guys i wanna go back to tel aviv." Isnt israel supposed to be in danger right now why would you want to go there? This shit is so fucked. I hate rich people

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[–] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I've noticed that beans don't actually make me fart that much arm-Lcool-beanarm-R

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[–] Keld@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

When you think about it wokeness is kind of a religion, so I'm demanding religious protection and the same preferential treatment Christians get.

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[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Happy Birthday, Hexbear! It's a pleasure to be comrades with the likes of such infamously power-posting, well-informed, and unreasonable tankies. hexbear-chapochat party-sicko party-blob party-parenti pirate-jammin sicko-jammin dubois-dance kitsuragi-dance party-parrot

Unfortunately, my celebration is short-lived. I used to be as Hexagonal of a Bear as they come, but today I made a post to the news mega saying

I used to be as Left as they come, but China banned each of my two attempts at making a rednote account stating I am allegedly trying to create too many accounts.

Now I will only eat burger and watch Fox News. Great job alienating your biggest supporters, Xi.

The mods responded in typical authoritarian fashion and quickly removed my post right before it went viral, claiming it's in the "wrong thread". This has gone too far, we all know it's because this place is run by China shills that don't allow criticism of the totalitarian CCP. I can't take the abuse and harassment at Hexbear for speaking the truth anymore, this instance is officially dead. Now I'm going to be moving onto a platform that respects free speech and my unpopular anti-China views, like X or reddit. This place has gone downhill ever since Dirt_Owl left.

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[–] sourquincelog@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Trump watching Satanyahu and realizing, "oh, you can just do it. Be evil openly and kill innocents by the thousands. When you're a president, the let you do it. You can do anything."

Gaza is the model.

Cop City is the homework.

It's coming.

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

I'd like to know what sort of dark soul is out there downvoting fish

[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

What if Stephen King said the Epstein list wasn't real as a ploy to keep Trump's supporters (who hate him) to keep asking for its release, and it has backfired spectacularly?

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[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

THEY SAID WE’D NEVER MAKE IT BUT WHERE THE FUCK ARE THEY NOW

party-parenti HAPPY HEXDAY COMRADES floppy-owl

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[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

If you think about artificial intelligence enough, you’ll quickly realize how β€œartificial” just means stolen lmao how foolish of me to assume a journalist somewhere would bring this up though

Tech oligarchs literally just dumped all the data on the internet into their models for fucking free. Idk why I’m surprised, of course that shit was going to happen under capitalism

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fallout cult of white people that worships Yakub and praise him as their creator.

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[–] SterlingPooper@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Been around for five years what the fuck is up Dennys

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[–] lelkins@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

ay mates lelkins here. happy day of bear exist or happy cake time day or happy fuck shit balls ass fuck piss beanhole or FUCK THIS HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY HEXBEAR YOU GUYS ACTUALLY LIKE ME A LOT AND I AM SURPRISED

the thread closed maybe because i showed up so i will go i do not want this to close either. i think i am an anomaly or a scoop breach container or whatever

i wanna play project zomboid but i am too busy getting character customization mods to add more hair and shit, the masculine need to look pretty or cool in a video game

also about the job hunting thing, tomorrow i'll have an interview. it's just that the idea of jobhunting drained me so much i feel like kris deltarune with their lack of control over life itself. i keep getting called over while i do stuff i enjoy, i feel watched, i feel uneasy, all the time, every the time

my family members constantly go "SEARCH FOR JOB" "SEARCH FOR JOB" "ALL THE TIME DO IT" and i am TIRED I DON'T WANNA DO IT ANYMORE

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