Chapotraphouse

I’ve a friend with an infant who needs to get out of her abusive parents’ house. She doesn’t have an income but her baby’s grandfather will pay for rent. But since she lives in the great shithole of Texas, the income requirements for renters is turbo bouge. How can one get around this. I’m guessing altered paystubs (although I hear people saying they can run it through some software to check if it’s edited (?)), a cosigner I guess.

And she also has horrible credit.

I'm cycle pilled and fully electric. I've got wind in my hair and bugs in my teeth. I've got places to be and sweat stains in my pits. I'm moisturized, unbothered, in my (protected!) bike lane, and flourishing. I can't fully ditch my car yet for intermittent long distance commute reasons, BUT, I think I will be able to when I switch projects next year. Capitalism is a fuck, death to AmeriKKKa, may crude oil go to $1000 a gallon!

Wall-fart Linky

Aussie maker linky

Me: "wow, I never want to have kids."

Parents: "WHAT? It's the lost wonderful experience ever!!!"

First he purged rightist employees (even his friends) working at Current Affairs to consolidate an editorial line under his leadership, now he reposts in support of Dengist developmentalism.

The libertarian socialist to Leninist pipeline is real.

Organized crime groups are behind grocery store theft across Canada

The Retail Council of Canada is calling grocery store theft a national crisis, with losses now approaching $10 billion annually across the grocery sector and it’s only growing.

Honestly it sounds more like a crisis for the retail council of Canada rather than a national crisis.

“Eastern European organized crime has certainly been involved, and this isn’t just a big city problem, it’s happening straight across the country,” says CTV News crime specialist, Mark Mendelson.

It’s Canada so of course they’re going to be racist about it as well.

Watch out, Canadians. Eastern Europeans are causing a national crisis by taking advantage of our assault on labor.

“People are running away, going to a car right away and giving that product to whoever’s in the car, in exchange for something. Its either drugs or money,” according to Ottawa Police Chief, Eric Stubbs

Eastern European drug addicts.

This month, Guelph police arrested a man who they claim swapped out expensive products for cheaper ones at self-checkouts. Police claim that the individual in question, would scan items that cost less than one dollar, in exchange for baby formula priced at $97 dollars each.

BABY FORMULA COSTS $97 FUCKING DOLLARS????

They’re right, this is a national crisis.

Just last August, in Windsor, Ont. more than $220,000 worth of beef was stolen from a parked tractor trailer. The large-scale heist is another example of lucrative grocery crimes on the rise.

There are differing opinions on where items like black market beef are ending up. Mendelson and others who spoke to CTV News believe that some restaurants struggling to turn a profit are likely purchasing stolen goods. In some cases, smaller grocery stores and restaurants might not even realize they’re purchasing stolen food for their establishments.

Yeah sure they don’t realize this. They’re honest businessmen, buying misc meat off the back of a trailer in an alley. They wouldn’t be the “organized” part of this crime. Actually, they’re victims.

So whenever he tries to eat cookies he actually just crushes them into crumbs and showers them all over the floor.

I Have No Throat But I Must Eat COOKIEEEE!!!

The rainbow flag or pride flag is a symbol of LGBT pride and LGBT social movements. The colors reflect the diversity of the LGBT community and the spectrum of human sexuality and gender. Using a rainbow flag as a symbol of LGBT pride began in San Francisco, California, but eventually became common at LGBT rights events worldwide.

Originally devised by the artists Gilbert Baker, Lynn Segerblom, James McNamara and other activists, the design underwent several revisions after its debut in 1978, and continues to inspire variations. Although Baker's original rainbow flag had eight colors, from 1979 to the present day the most common variant consists of six stripes: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. The flag is typically displayed horizontally, with the red stripe on top, as it would be in a natural rainbow.

LGBT people and allies currently use rainbow flags and many rainbow-themed items and color schemes as an outward symbol of their identity or support. There are derivations of the rainbow flag that are used to focus attention on specific causes or groups within the community (e.g. transgender people, fighting the AIDS epidemic, inclusion of LGBT people of color). In addition to the rainbow, many other flags and symbols are used to communicate specific identities within the LGBT community.

Variations:

Original Gilbert Baker Design

Inspired by the lyrics of Judy Garland’s Over the Rainbow, and the designs used by other social movements such as black civil rights groups from the 1960s, the Rainbow Flag was created. Baker hand-dyed and hand sewed this flag which flew at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day in June 1978.

Seven-color version due to unavailability of pink fabric

Following the assassination of Harvey Milk in 1978, many people and organisations adopted the Pride flag that he helped to introduce to the community. The demand was so great for a rainbow striped flag, it was impossible for the 8-stripe design to be made in large quantities. Both Paramount and Baker struggled to obtain the hot pink fabric and so began manufacturing a 7-stripe version.

Traditional Gay Pride Flag

In 1979 the design was amended again. The community finalised this six-colour version and this is now the most familiar and recognisable design for the LGBT flag. Numerous complications over the odd number of stripes, including the desire to split the flag to decorate Pride parades, meant that one colour had to be dropped.

The turquoise and indigo stripes were combined to create a royal blue stripe and it was agreed that the flag should typically be flown horizontally, with red at the top, as it would be in a natural rainbow. This design continued to increase in popularity around the world, being a focal point of landmark decisions such as John Stout fighting for his right to fly the flag from his apartment balcony in 1989.

Progress Pride Flag

In June 2018, designer and activist Daniel Quasar released an updated version of the Pride flag. Combining the new elements of the Philadelphia design and the Transgender flag to bring focus on further inclusion and progress. This new flag added a chevron to the hoist of the traditional 6-colour flag which represents marginalised LGBTQ+ communities of colour, those living with HIV/AIDS and those who’ve been lost, and trans and non-binary persons.

This design went viral and was quickly adopted by people and pride parades across the world. The arrow of the chevron points to the right to show forward movement, while being on the left edge shows that progress still needs to be made for full equality, especially for the communities the chevron represents.

Intersex Inclusive Progress Pride Flag

In 2021, Valentino Vecchietti of Intersex Equality Rights UK adapted the Pride Progress flag design to incorporate the intersex flag, creating the Intersex-Inclusive Pride flag 2021.

The intersex community uses the colours purple and yellow as an intentional counterpoint to blue and pink, which have traditionally been seen as binary, gendered colours. The symbol of the circle represents the concept of being unbroken and being whole, symbolising the right of Intersex people to make decisions about their own bodies.

Megathreads and spaces to hang out:

• 🐻 Link to all Hexbear comms https://hexbear.net/post/1403966
• 🐼 Hexbear Matrix Chat https://matrix.to/#/#Hexbear:matrix.org
• 📀 Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube](https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
• 🔥 Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread https://hexbear.net/post/8466891
• ⚔ Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread https://hexbear.net/post/8530168
• 🏳️‍⚧️ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread https://hexbear.net/post/8652602
• 👊 New Weekly Improvement thread https://hexbear.net/post/8648910
• 🧡 Disabled comm megathread https://hexbear.net/post/8652673
• ☕ Parenting Chat https://hexbear.net/post/8595169
• 🐉 Anime & Manga discussion thread https://hexbear.net/post/8650435
• 🎩Fashion megathread https://hexbear.net/post/7228810
• 🎨 Art & Drawings megathread https://hexbear.net/post/8430281

reminders:

• 💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
• 💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
• 💜 Sorting by new you nerd
• 🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog

Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):

Aid:

• 🌈 LGBTQ+ Resource Post
• 🍉 Resources for Palestine
• 🐌☕ Zapatista Coffee

Theory:

• ❤️Foundations of Leninism
• ❤️Anarchism and Other Essays

Financial Support to the Bearsite

• 🇨🇳 https://liberapay.com/hexbear

• 🇷🇺 https://www.patreon.com/hexbear

What the fuck i thought everyone understood that was a joke

They also did make it very clear that they didnt draw any distinction between personal and private property tho, so like...thats where it stems from....but really, youre gonna point out toothbrushes in your argument? Fuckin really?

Goddamn dude aight I guess.

Deeply unserious.

This statement made a while back (to Fox news I think?) sat with me for quite a while because.....YOU'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT NEGOTIATIONS, YOU'RE SAYING YOUR POWER TO THREATEN THEM IS DIMINISHED!

It's RIDICULOUS to me how they're phrasing this; why would the DPRK having nukes make negotiating with them harder? You're not talking about negotiating with them, you're talking about threatening them!

I hate metaphors for countries but this is like if you had a gang of armed people (who have and DO actually commit violence against unarmed people) saying this one guy they hate has become harder to negotiate with because he also just got a gun; you're not talking about negotiating with people, you're saying you can't threaten them anymore!

I engaged with Youtube comments. When frankly everyone who ever commented under a youtube vid deserves to be banished to the shadow realm. Including me.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/delaware-court-upholds-voting-by-companies-small-towns-election-2026-05-26/

Personally I think the venn diagram between Zionists and sex offenders is a perfect circle, so making a separate list entirely would be a waste of time, but what do you think?