earth earth Ants - New General Megathread for the 5th-6th of September 2024
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    ColonelKataffy
    2 weeks ago 100%

    all hexbear's powerposters should logout and create fresh anonymous accounts. there's a weird "cool kid club" dynamic with the same few names controlling the site's culture.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse (CW: Dairy) Someone needs to do something about the midwest
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    chapotraphouse chapotraphouse 𝘋𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘷𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘬𝘦
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    labour labour John Maclean - New General Megathread for the 23th-25th of August 2024
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    ColonelKataffy
    4 weeks ago 100%

    lol i went down a kuwait reading hole yesterday to pass the time at work. the Marsh People was an interesting read

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  • labour labour John Maclean - New General Megathread for the 23th-25th of August 2024
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    videos videos "I'm JD Vance, I'm running for vice president." Donut shop worker: "Ok."
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    videos videos "I'm JD Vance, I'm running for vice president." Donut shop worker: "Ok."
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    ColonelKataffy
    4 weeks ago 100%

    how long you worked here?

    how 'bout you, how long you been here?

    HOW LONG YOU WORK HERE?

    there are other ways to talk to service workers, what the fuck, man.

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  • videos videos "I'm JD Vance, I'm running for vice president." Donut shop worker: "Ok."
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    videos videos Hasan gets kicked out of the DNC
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    ColonelKataffy
    4 weeks ago 100%

    meh, he's the youth engagement wing of western leftism. he recognizes if he rocks the boat too much, he loses access to the platforms that enable him to do his work. his influence is all online and his wealth is tenuous, what meaningful interference could he possibly run?

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  • askchapo askchapo should i quit my cushy bullshit job to go back to school to be a teacher?
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    food food Tastes good but you feel like shit afterwards
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    askchapo askchapo should i quit my cushy bullshit job to go back to school to be a teacher?
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    ColonelKataffy
    1 month ago 100%

    i was a high school teacher for seven years. it was hard, rewarding work. and i do not want to go back because my current job also contributes to society and is a tenth the effort

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  • news news Chuds: "Commiefornia!" Actual California:
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    ColonelKataffy
    1 month ago 100%

    in a state where every working class person is paying 50% of their income for a roof over their heads, hearing the democrats are giving free housing to """the undeserving poor""" may not be so popular. or maybe it would, idk anymore.

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  • food food Tending an apple orchard today with no orders on what to do with the fruits. 100kg~ for livestock sanctuaries, another 50kg~ as apple butter for Food Not Bombs
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    ColonelKataffy
    2 months ago 100%

    i have an apple tree in the backyard that does a great job being a meeting spot for earwigs and for dumping apples all over the yard. I sprayed the crop with neem oil and it helped with some of the fruits but most still have borer holes in them

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  • movies movies Skibidi Toilet’ Film and TV Franchise in the Works From Michael Bay, Adam Goodman
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    history history Spanish Revolution (1936) - New General Megathread for the 19th-21st of July 2024
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    ColonelKataffy
    2 months ago 100%

    i don't think it's that common? it's called the devil's threeway for a reason. and/or it's homoerotic cuz you and your buddy both get to have a good time ig?

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  • history history Spanish Revolution (1936) - New General Megathread for the 19th-21st of July 2024
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    chapotraphouse chapotraphouse we are trapped on the holodeck y'all, it's happening
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    ColonelKataffy
    2 months ago 100%

    today i was reading about the LA Riots, and in each instance of "awful group of black men attack innocent passerby", there is a direct follow up of "black men see victim of attack and render immediate aid". but all my life i only heard about the first part, so i agree with your point that even when poor people "do the right thing" in these situations it gets ignored.

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  • news news The Supreme Court rules that Trump has "absolute immunity" from criminal prosecution for all "official acts" he took while in office. The vote is 6–3.
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    videos videos You Won't Believe What's Really In Lunchables | More Perfect Union
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    ColonelKataffy
    3 months ago 100%

    i was just reading an article that covers this exact topic. the most memorable part was when the inventor of the lunchable mentions that his grandkids have never had one because the parents try to keep to organic, whole foods.

    The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food

    seems like maybe nyt found a way to screw archive, but there's the first couple of paragraphs.

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  • politics politics What should be commemorated at the 80th anniversary of Normandy landings?
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    traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns Are you a cisgender heterosexual? Informal Survey Result: Supermajority of Hexbear users say NO and UNSURE.
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    ColonelKataffy
    4 months ago 100%

    this is really cool and it's great to be part of a community that embraces our trans comrades, or should i say a community of trans comrades that embraces its cis minority.

    am i reading the results correctly that very few cis women responded to the survey/are present on hexbear? "No votes by pronoun" has a dark grey sliver which i assume would be "she/her", implying cis women?

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  • music music La Dispute - King Park [post-hardcore]
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    ColonelKataffy
    4 months ago 100%

    Wildlife is a good album, but I prefer Rooms of the House and Somewhere at the Bottom so much more. I was listening to LD's split with Touche Amore earlier today. I saw them together on that tour with Envy in san francisco and it was a very memorable show.

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  • chat chat The greatest food item to ever exist.
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    ColonelKataffy
    4 months ago 100%

    this is a pretty good start, but add in shredded cheddar and finely chopped broccoli. works with russet or yukon potatoes

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  • chat chat 3 interviews and a rejection, but had another cool interview yesterday
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    ColonelKataffy
    4 months ago 100%

    nice to see you keeping your spirits up. job hunting was the most soul draining experience i've ever had. i hope one of these works out for you.

    i planted pumpkin, corn, and watermelon seeds last saturday. they've been on a heat pad, under a grow light, and the first sprouts have started popping up as of today. it's pretty exciting. got sunny spots in the yard planned out to plop the biodegradable planter pots into with lots of mulch, earthworm castings, kelp meal, etc ready to feed these beasts.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse "While attempting to purchase a condo, I learned that the seller did not want to sell a home to me because I am Black..."
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    ColonelKataffy
    4 months ago 100%

    crazy how the traditions america spent 300 years cultivating keep popping up in weird and troubling ways. a black friend's parents bought their house in the 80s and the property had a racially restrictive covenant on the property (not enforced, but the phrasing was there)

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    commrequest ColonelKataffy 5 months ago 100%
    /c/pics

    as evidenced by [this](https://hexbear.net/post/2449813?scrollToComments=false) thread, we should have a /c/pics comm

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    music ColonelKataffy 6 months ago 100%
    Nirvana - Territorial Pissings (1991) youtu.be

    Besides the annoying intro, I think this is my favorite Nirvana song. or maybe it's just their most punk song. either way, play us off, hexreplybot.

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    history ColonelKataffy 6 months ago 100%
    Be realistic – demand the impossible: the legacy of 1968 theconversation.com

    I was in twitch chat, watching some goobers discuss their geopolitical predictions for the next few years (spoiler: they're very afraid of russia) and i got to thinking about May 1968 in Paris. Which i actually know very little about, so i found this article, skimmed it, and found a few parts i liked. Selected excerpts below: >1968 can be seen as the moment when the two dominant narratives on the left – social democracy and communism – were both called into question. > >Social democracy had dominated mainstream progressive discourse since the end of the 19th century. Now it was seen as irredeemably complicit in the maintenance of a status quo that seemed to consecrate a materialist, routine form of life offering very little to the young or to the political imagination... >Social democratic politics was held as “capitalism with a human face”. It accepted the necessity for the market order and so, as far as ’68 critics of capitalism were concerned, for exploitation, alienation and the division of society into pharaohs and slaves. >By 1968, the working class had given up on the dream of its own emancipation in favour of chatter around holiday pay, generous pensions and the trifles that made existing life more bearable. It had lost its heroic capabilities, settling instead for indolent acceptance of a comfortable “air-conditioned” existence. >The net result was a politics of refusal – of social democracy, of communism, of capitalism, of elites, vanguards, intellectuals, and so on and so forth. But where, it could legitimately be asked, was affirmation? > >Those engaged in the uprising were clear about what they were against; they were less clear in terms of what they were actually for in concrete, institutional terms. > >So, 1968 represents the end of grand narratives in politics. It was an uprising against something; less for something else. >The sense of ’68 as a refusal lives on in contemporary politics. We don’t have a redemptive ideology to place our hopes on. We don’t believe the “experts”. We don’t think there’s a formula for collective planetary happiness. We have individualised politics to the point where refusal is a first, and quite often last, resort. i didn't read the whole thing, but appreciated the perspective. gives me "history doesn't repeat but it rhymes" vibes. Discuss:

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