sometimes I wonder if I ever knew or met any of y'all in my life
a username or some post/comment reminds me of some person from my past that I haven't thought about in years, and I wonder if maybe there is a crossing of paths without even realizing it
seems really unlikely, but then who can really say, we're just some comrades shitposting and vibing
legit found a dead mouse in my backyard yesterday
Did you know owl pellets are used as edutainment activity at bird watching events? Humans actually are entertained by picking thru owl scat and looking at bones.
Having done that unprompted at a cool old church (lotsa Yew trees), I can say that it is pretty entertaining.
I once saw someone IRL on hexbear at a lefty meetup that I'm not going to dox myself over. I was wondering if I should have said anything but didn't
in retrospect it would have been a bit weird because i was still an egg back then. also it would have been weird to say hi to another hexbear user IRL like that
I could see their screen from two seats over and knew what hexbear.net looked like
understandable, I was more feeling the mystery of it
nobody break opsec plz!
I saw a guy that looked like David Cross and was wearing this shirt who I felt had a very high chance of being a power poster.
I get a bit paranoid that coworkers will find my comments somewhere and realize I'm actually a straight-up dirty commie and not just a vaguely progressive liberal... my workplace has no real labor protections that would help me and I need to stay employed.
Yea no shot, lol. I'd rather they see my Lemmy.ml comments and posts, which are generally much higher quality and more thought-out, than my Hexbear posting, lol
Same. I feel like I need to start masking as a lib because the fascist rhetoric from co-workers is gonna get me fired. I try not to talk too politically but I have this one co-worker that is a straight up fash, and I'm gonna end up saying something. I just hope it's liberal-coded enough.
Yep, always gotta keep plausible deniability. I try to gently provide based takes in a way that is easily acceptable when I can, though.
I try to frame it as coming from an apolitical History Guy angle: "Damn that's crazy man, well good luck with that but you're probably gonna get owned, I'll be here chillin."
I got drunk at the work Xmas party and told a Trump guy that I was a communist (and that I wanted to fuck the HR lady). He was actually kind of cool about it later.
Huh, can't admit to having done the same yet, haha. Definitely try to tone down my radicalism.
Funny enough, I find the finance-dudebros end up being the most receptive to positive news about the PRC, if you can point to them focusing heavily on industrialization making surpassing financialized economies like the US more of a matter of when, not if.
Did you end up hooking up with the HR person?
let me know if my sticky tape is getting loose
I just assume that some of my irl friends lurk here and that we'll never discuss it
ya, that's a nice vibe
or
but mostly
I've done a litmus test a few times with my offline commie/anarchist friends and only ran across one person that knew of hexbear. His response was "that's still a thing?" lol.
Actually I guess he's still an online friend but he's a founding member of a neighboring chapter of the org I'm in. So not fully online friend?
If I meet any of you irl, it's Highlander rules straight up
We will meet August 17th 2027 15:20. Bring an umbrella.
I have a group that meets at midnight on Fridays under the Brooklyn bridge. The password is Sic Semper Tyrannis.
Ive met plenty of people from here over the years and it's always been nice! Can be awkward, sure, but that just comes with meeting new people i think. I'm not super great at socializing anyways
Northern Virginia folx, let's meet up!
We met at the agency retreat at Martha's Vineyard last summer, remember?
if any of you see me irl then either i have moved or something has gone terribly wrong.
I know one poster because his opsec was really bad, but he's moved too far away from where we met for me to just tell him in person and I don't have a secure way to message him to let him know :( , plus I did not want to then leak my identity to him.
Opsec at 100
i am in your walls
does that count the watercooler at quantico?
Egh, I wouldn't know.
Barely know any people now IRL, let alone on this site.
This was inspired by thinking of a friend I knew in high school that I haven't spoken to in more than a decade and have no idea how to find at this point. We were not really that politically conscious or anything at the time besides some vague anarchist vibes, but just kinda weird nerds. I wonder if by chance they might be on this site. Not that I think any specific user is identifiable IRL for me.
That's nice, you had a friend in HS. Wish you'd be able to meet them 😊
I met a hrxbear irl was great. Got a good book rec
I'm in your home right now. I can hear you breathing. You'll never find me.
Pretty sure at least one person in my local org is on here, but we don't acknowledge it, like Baptists who see each other in the liquor store