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Hexday 2024, Happy 4th year anniversary nerds!!! - New General Megathread for the 24th-26th of July 2024 (hexbear.net)
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On this day, 4 years ago the site was first launched (then a day later the first post made), Formed from chapotraphouse remnants, the old admins decided to make a site using Lemmy as its base. Originally called chapo.chat, Hexbear has grown into one of the biggest instances in the lemmyverse.

Despite various sitewide struggle sessions, wrecker incursions from other forums and federation drama, Hexbear has keep growing strong in its 4th year, now with 4 megathreads, over 4 million comments, 300k posts and much more.

Its being great running the general megathread for a bit over 3 years, since i took over i have tried to get it mostly in time and just one unlike during the old times, i like to think i have done a decent job, plus i have also added a bit of reading material to them so you nerds can learn from them and i like to think you have been reading them garcia-cock-shotty, its also nice to see the new megathreads how they have slowing grown up to the size to the old general mega in the time of the old admins.

dont have much else to say so have a good day nerd. also

Whats has been your favorite post/event from last year (july 2023-july 2024)?

I wont lie, all the fedidrama has been fun to read, especially when libs wander here

Megathreads and spaces to hang out:

reminders:

  • πŸ’š You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
  • πŸ’™ Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
  • πŸ’œ Sorting by new you nerd
  • 🌈 If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can reserve a spot here nerd
  • 🐢 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog

Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):

Aid:

Theory:

Also 24 hours after this is posted the admins are closing the site for a day, sorry

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Very funny how this comm has have more active daily users than the site as a whole

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

My boss just came in to work while Covid-positive. Wtf I just got over this shit (and got it at work, because we didn't follow any reasonable precautions)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Some people might think it's petty and cringe for me to laugh at the Yankees losing three times to the Mets while not mentioning the deeply embarrassing loss the Red Sox had to the Rockies, but keep in mind that the Yankees are literally Adolph Hitler

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Feel like I should get into yacc

I know there's some so-called legacy code around but are there any yaccheads out there still writing compilers with yacc?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I believe in myself and I trust myself. I feel secure in my ability to get through tough times, listen, and make changes when I need to. I am smart and adaptable. I care for others and for myself. The things I like and the things I do are worthwhile.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

sleepi

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I remember seeing an emoji roundup post like 3 years ago. Would love to see just how much PIGPOOPBALLS we had posted

Death to AmeriKKKa

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Hookup success talk.I'd like to take the time to thank my grindr hookup Nate for (a) not ghosting, (b) maintaining communication, (c) trusting me, and (d) doing what you did at the very end, my god, you're a naughty boy to do what you did with a smile, glad you asked me first for my contact info, text me sometime, cutie.

I'd like to also thank the "equipment" company Rouge for making Nate look fantastic in bergundy red leather of obviously top construction quality.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Busteing a Nutte

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

happy M-26-7 day to everyone

fidel-salute

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I swear we had like a cat looks inside meme emoji already, or did I make that up.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (7 children)

absolutely terrible idea that won't leave my head: watch every episode of mr. birchum and them do a write up of every last thought i have about each episode and post it to [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

day 5 of sketching 1 hour a day to grind from practically-zero drawing/visual art priors: tale of two ryabs:

bumped my schedule block up to an hour, we'll see how long that lasts, might bump it back down as school winds up in a month or so. Anyways, yesterday and the day before I practiced heads with hairlines. today is bald boy summer nl-what

traced took 40ish min, untraced took 20ish. facial hair is hard madeline-sadeline

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

okay, okay, let's sketch this guy, let's sketch this guy with styli okay-okay

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

taking a break today on posting sketching today since I sketched my dad for his birthday and that's very much PII lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (10 children)

I really hate that my special interests are in shit people don't care about or worse, actively hate. Really makes it hard to engage with people and talk about them. There's so few of them too cri

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Joyeux anniversaire, y'all

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Got my blood boiling looking up awful stuff Kamala Harris did as an AG and Senator. Very healthy!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Neuro-linguist Programming ​ is such a goofy theory. It's like the woo people just threw a bunch of sciency words together to make it look smart. If it was made today, it'll be called non fungible language model therapy, or something.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Every time I remember that the 1981 ultraclassic Joysticks actually exists, it gives me moderate to severe psychic damage in a way that "meatspace" or Michelle Tea do not.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I hate how I get my creative sparks either two hours past my bedtime or half an hour before I have to leave for work

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

love 2 buy a new juicedrink at the store without checking the ingredients to see it's like 80% apple juice pain

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

the new porter robinson album is so good susie-dance

stayed up till midnight to listen and now listening again :>

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Anyone with experience with Lexapro and SSRIs specifically long term and apathy?

CW medical gaslighting, depression

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I started Lexapro about 5 years ago. I wanted to, I was a bit unsure but my psych ensured it would help me and it did for a time. It took the edge off my depression, and lessened the suicidal ideations I was having.

What I didn't know at the time was that I have ADHD which wasn't being treated, and which was the root cause of a lot of my problems at that time. Actually, my psychiatrist doubted I had ADHD for a year until I basically got the diagnosis myself. Now I take Concerta which helps a lot and anyone who has or thinks you have ADHD consider trying a stimulant for it if you can.

Over time, I have had sometimes debilitating loss of motivation. This has made finishing my PhD quite difficult. It has also affected a lot else in my life.

Relationship problems have also arisen that are quite related to what I now know is common in SSRIs known as "emotional blunting". More or less, it has been very hard to be emotionally available to my partner and is something I have had to work on very hard despite no major problems in our relationships.

I had no idea until just yesterday these two things can be related and caused by long term use of SSRIs. I have had the idea of getting off Lexapro for a while, mostly based on vibes and the fact that I actually treat my ADHD now (and know I have it)

Any time I bring up motivation issues to my shrink, he usually blames it on cannabis and says to really pay attention to how cannabis affects my motivation. I am a daily user, and have agonized quite a lot over how I might be sabotaging my entire life. I don't necessarily want to stop using it though, and I don't usually use it during working hours. Also, it has almost entirely replaced alcohol for me, and it is essential to treat my partner's chronic pain.

After already having him doubt my ADHD (despite me describing ADHD symptoms to him for years) he never considered doing something to help me outside of increasing SSRI dose. Now I have found out there is actual research about SSRI apathy and emotional blunting that are really similar to things I experience and this motherfucker never bothered to bring it up. I don't want to get into to many details but I really hate my shrink sometimes, I usually leave there angry and it's also far away since I moved across town. I just haven't found a new one yet and need to go every month to get my meds (especially concerta as it's a controlled substance)

I'm already going to ask him about dropping my dose of Lexapro. I take 15 mg right now, 10 mg is usually the "starter dose" so it shouldn't be a big issue to just drop it down a bit and see if it helps. Are there any online spaces or communities where people have shared similar experiences? Or anyone else here experienced these symptoms and stopped taking an SSRI?

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