ColonelKataffy

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[–] ColonelKataffy@hexbear.net 60 points 1 day ago

next time don't build your medical research labs on someone else's land

[–] ColonelKataffy@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

that's your blood meeting at the usual spot because it thinks it is due to be drained again

[–] ColonelKataffy@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

been using rednote as my only other social media outlet outside of hexbar (ok i guess twitch chat). one thing i'm starting to pick up on (through the autotranslate feature) is the chinese sense of humor. one of the jokes that comes to mind, in reference to an extreme mountain bike video or reckless driving, is a commenter will say "at first this looks quite dangerous, but actually it is not safe at all".

or a post about an extremely rich/rare car or house - commenters will point out a minor flaw in it and declare they simply cannot buy it in that condition. they're clever over there.

western comment sections are less clever, usually.

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

gerry from parks & rec

toby from the office (although that's kind of a two-parter because everyone except michael likes toby)

[–] ColonelKataffy@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

check threads made by OP thelastaxolotl. many of the megathreads are of similar topics

[–] ColonelKataffy@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

did-someone did someone get addicted to providing military aid to multiple hot wars that they started? better cut NOAA, NASA, and NWS some more to pay for another missile

[–] ColonelKataffy@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

i've only been up for an hour so far, so, uh,

this is my first time growing tomato plants, and they're doing ok. it's crazy that they were just a little seedling and now they're 3 feet tall mini trees and bearing little green marbles. i've decided to turn a portion of the front yard into a pumpkin patch and have about 20 plants snaking their way across the yard, which is pretty fun. they should all be maxed out by late october for the spooky day.

[–] ColonelKataffy@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

that's cool as hell comrade-fly

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

this has gotta be more details from the same story that came out yesterday(?)

[–] ColonelKataffy@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

very samurai

[–] ColonelKataffy@hexbear.net 31 points 3 weeks ago

Commissar Zheremi Corbynukhov

[–] ColonelKataffy@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

just donated. thank you for giving us this update. your bravery and resilience is admirable.

 

Released today, new tracks and music videos from DIY punk band The Taxpayers. Nice to see them keeping it weird.

 

as evidenced by this thread, we should have a /c/pics comm

 

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.

 

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.

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