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In any case what the internet changed was making leftist (anti-capitalist) voices less ignorable. They were always there but unless you actively went looking they were largely invisible to the every day person. Major media outlets and publications simply ignored them.

You’re confusing Socialism and Marxism which did have a break during the end of the First International. Anarchism is and always has been a socialist movement outside of some of its more niche tendancies. It’s why no Anarchist considers Anarcho-Capitalism to be Anarchist. It is an oxymoron.

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I wouldn’t say it has a major impact either but it can be very grating hearing the same dismissive takes over and over so I made a joke.

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No I literally do not understand what you mean if it isn’t essentially what I said. I wasn’t being facetious. Yes obviously those distinctions predate those discussions but socialists especially anarchists have been fighting for those issues long before the internet was a major cultural player.

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Okay so what were you trying to say?

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ohhhh i read that headline completely backwards. Holy yikes.

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Didn’t he drop out of the festival after Macklemore was dropped or did I read that wrong?

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What? In Europe the Liberals are considered a moderate to conservative political movement and socialists are well to their left.

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HexBear @hexbear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What was there to engage with? It was a statement assuming that because most people are ignorant of the vast gulf of difference between liberalism and socialism that the distinction must be made up. What do I even say to that? Anybody trying to engage was shut down and the thread locked.

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“Most people are ignorant of political distinctions therefor the distinction is made up.”

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HexBear @hexbear.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My 1,000pt Votann list is complete! Well, complete enough. I’ll be adding details forever I’m sure. Went mostly Ironkin just to crack jokes if I play against Mechanicus. “no abominable intelligence here! Who wants to get all up in fighting my golden beepboop lads?

A Leagues of Votann army from 40K. They are space dwarves who have synthetic beings that they treat as social equals.

ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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Really truly was not expecting to see the second part of this after the quote that's just straight analysis of labor under capitalism in PC Gamer of all places????? Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

It's become particularly nasty with generative AI, however, because now said CEOs can still see an end result that mimics the thing they don't understand—and are able to self-delude themselves into thinking it's replicable at scale, or that it's even producing the same quality as the product they've actually been selling.

After all, if actual studies are being done into AI-induced psychosis that's impacting us serfs, there's nothing to say the executive suite is immune, either. Especially given that a lot of them don't even understand why others are put off.

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HexBear @hexbear.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

There’s still folks justifying it which is a problem. I don’t trust anybody who is able to handwave away and even celebrate them as good things. Luckily it is basically only terminally online people who do so. On the ground helping folks nobody gives a shit.

HexBear @hexbear.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Snails are land clams and it’s honestly kinda weird that people are so grossed out by eating them.

HexBear @hexbear.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sounds like he was trying to just scare people

HexBear @hexbear.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My friend in Seattle randomly recommended it to me without knowing I had read it! It really was a treat on a long road trip I had in 2022!

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 13/08/2026

According to Similarweb (the source cited for this data), ~27% of Threads' alleged half a billion monthly active users came from Taiwan (or ~135M people) Taiwan's actual population is ~23 million

July 2026 All traffic Share o® Top Countries O Taiwan 27.21% - 12.96% Vietnam 15.31% 7 2.03% United States 11.85% • 14.09% Korea, Republic of 4.92% - 9.36% Indonesia 4.69% • 10.19% Others 36.02% See all countries →

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HexBear @hexbear.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I had a lighter that i lost two days ago while walking my friends dog 😭

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HexBear @hexbear.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 11/08/2026

I remember when someone tried to argue with me about this on here, saying it was survivorship bias, and not my own comparisons of the same brands' material quality and stitching over the past 30+ years. Anyway, yes shit is actually more poorly made now than it used to be even a short while ago.

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Not your imagination: from backpacks to food, consumer goods are getting worse

Is it possible to avoid the continuing decline in quality of consumer products brought on by corporate greed?

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Since GW has been so light on lore details for the Leagues up to this point, I am maintaining this headcannon until proven otherwise. Castellans from the Mechanicus are up-scaled Ironkin created from archeotech blueprints stripped of “abominable intelligence” and reprogrammed by friggin punchcards.

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*ahem* It isn’t made EXPLICITLY clear but I think it is almost certain that Ironkin are just Men of Iron who didn’t self modify into murder bots. The Leagues of Votann treated sentient machines as family. While the rest of Humanity got blasted into the stone age, Kin and Ironkin stayed homies.

An Ironkin Steeljack from Warhammer 40k.

The Leagues of Votann treated their sentient machines as family, so while the rest of Humanity got blasted back into the stone age by the Men of Iron the Ironkin just stayed homies.

After painting I can glue the rust all around the feet so it looks like the Kin is crunching through some jacked up space hulk.

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Opting to glue this fella onto the base now because I think i have a cool idea for texture. Since I work on ships covered in corten steel there are always a ton of layers of flaked off rust layers sitting around. Going to start collecting it so I can pile bits of rusted steel around the feet.

Ironkin Steeljack model for warhammer 40k glued onto its base.

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Only realizing now that i want to drill a hole into the barrel of the Autoch Pattern Bolter. Probably would have been easier to do that before gluing 😰

Ironkin Steeljack #1 complete. Started my Theyn so I only have to deal with that crest once. There is no socket to easily orient it so i drilled a small hole after it slumped to the side and got crooked the first time. I had to break it off and glue it again. The model quality is AWESOME though.

A miniature from Warhammer 40K, an Ironkin Steeljack.

They are sentient robotic homies of the space dwarfs, considered equal in every way within their society. “Kin is Kin.”

Marge Simpson saying “i just think they’re neat” while holding a potato.

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Doesn’t he live in San Francisco?

HexBear @hexbear.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

in my personal life I’ve more recently run into conservative/libertarian people I know (workplace) tell ME about some fresh new outrage. I think this fascist movement might be creating more types of opposition than it is realizing.

HexBear @hexbear.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The patron saint of nights you don’t remember

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HexBear @hexbear.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

My Ironkin Steeljacks arrived. It is assemblin and paintin time!

HexBear @hexbear.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

That is forbidden thought though. It is the dark lore which mortals must never utter.

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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you aren't angry then you aren't paying attention.

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HexBear @hexbear.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

i don’t even understand who they are in the first place 😂

HexBear @hexbear.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Well I guess I have an audiobook for the ride home now. It’s going to make me sad, huh?

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HexBear @hexbear.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

just got added to a list called “dirty leeds” and it seems to be a football (soccer) thing but no idea what i did to offend them or why i am associated with leeds.

HexBear @hexbear.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

🫂 The blessing is the freedom and turning every commute into a life affirming and connective experience. Accidents unavoidable in a car can be dodged with attention and focus. The curse is that mistakes can go very badly. Sorry for your loss and I hope riding brought him joy while he was here. 🫂

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Kids: 1 KIDS Act: 0

Reddit post in r/teenager showing an ID for Ramses II and claiming they used it to evade age-verification

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

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Only shame was the smoke. It mostly stayed away but rolled in thick saturday night and stayed around somewhat for sunday and monday as well.

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It isn’t an explicitly antifascist music festival but the venn diagram of people interested in ‘sober metal festival centering indigenous social causes’ sits almost completely in the ‘holds antifascist beliefs’ circle. I did not see one questionable patch or tattoo and a TON of leftist ones.

Another friend I met last year was a medical professional making good trouble during the ICE surge and we kept talking and communicating our anxieties, fears, but also hopes, and observations of the beauty of community.

I saw my whole camp crew from last year and had a group photo. A guy I met who had uh questionable beliefs who I’ve been politely confronting online is now basically an antifascist anarchist. When he saw me he just hug tackled me. Saw a good heart in the dude last year and he is so much less bitter.

I didn’t see a single piece of intentional litter in 4 days. The winds got gusty in the evenings which led to a lot of random flying objects but it was very common to see somebody run after a napkin that wasn’t even theirs. People shared freely of food and drinks, stories, camp supplies, etc.

an incredibly diverse crowd that defies the expectations of who you’d find at a metal festival. No alcohol is permitted so it is an all family event. Kids in the pit being shielded by an invisible barrier that everybody is careful to maintain, mom and dad among them, grandma on a chair at the edge.

It’s delivered dry up until about a sentence before the punchline, takes a slight turn for the absurd catching you off guard, then the punchline hits and you realize the whole previous story was just a set up to fuck with you. Then there is the attendees who just stand apart of any festival crowd.

FITM 2026 (Fire in the Mountains) is a thing i am still processing, in all the good ways. First off, the Blackfeet Nation and its people are some of the most welcoming, friendly, easy to talk to, deep thinking, proud, and goddamn hilarious people on this planet. Their humor is very endearing.

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i just did a ride through 13 states on my motorcycle and getting to washington and seattle has been jarring. It always is.