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Negro Matapacos (“Cop-Killer Blackie”) was a famous stray dog from thestreets of Santiago who joined student protests across the city from 2010, and in particular during the 2011 movement for free education.

he was a stray dog from the streets of Santiago, and began joining student demonstrations in 2010. The following year, one of the biggest social movements since the fall of the military dictatorship began, fighting for free education and against neoliberal reforms to the education system.

Negro Matapacos was then seen regularly at every demonstration, defying tear gas and water cannons and always barking at or attacking only the riot police, and never any students or rioters. He subsequently continued to appear sporadically at future demonstrations, and hung out on university campuses, becoming beloved to student and radical movements as a symbol of resistance to violent authority.

His last days were spent resting with people who took him in, with a crowdfunded veterinarian.

Some people who knew him sent us some of their memories of him, telling us how he defied tear gas and water cannons, and only ever barked at or attacked police officers, and never students or rioters.

After his death, his legacy lives on in songs, street murals, an award-winning documentary and in the memories of all those who knew him. He was a good boy.

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[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

In New Vegas wouldn't it make more sense if even people outside of Caesars legion pronounced it Kaiser? It's not likely there's particularly high literacy and it being 200 years into the apocalypse the salad is long gone and the average dude isn't reading up on Rome in any capacity. Wouldn't they just repeat it the way they heard it said?

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[-] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

My kid, who never was able to read much. Who had a bad time in school (adhd) has taken to reading theory and loves it!

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[-] Yor@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

cooking a nice meal is cool and all, but sometimes slop just hits best

[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

ACAB includes umpires

[-] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

Well I finally relented and smoked some fuckin weed. Roommates bought a cart a few days ago but I wanted to be sober. I've been having seizures the past few days, but I was just gonna live with that. Started having a horrible TMJ episode today and I just couldn't deal with it, my teeth and my jaw feel so uncomfortable right now.

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[-] ComradeSpahija@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

Guess who threw up twice in their hostel last night. This is pretty awful timing since my night train to Moscow is tonight.

[-] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Holy shit why did Microsoft fuck with the search feature on desktop? Enshitification should be destroying this new age of tech, but it seems to be doing the exact opposite a-guy

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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago
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[-] Aquilae@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

You know we're in weeks where days happen when the general mega has more comments than the news mega

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

Had one of those moments of self awareness.

The face I make when I'm cry-laughing at something horrific?

It' The Expression.

lt-dbyf-dubois

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[-] peppersky@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

me to myself while losing my mind: RENTS ARE NEVER GOING DOWN RENTS ARE NEVER GOING DOWN RENTS ARE NEVER GOING DOWN

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[-] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

I've been really irritable recently and im nervous other people will notice or I'll accidentally lash out on someone sadness

Unfortunately the irritability is caused by multiple issues that won't be fixed at the same time and will all take weeks :/

[-] Moss@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

Ooh I'm high and just had the very unfortunate sensation of being aware that I am just a skin sack stretched around my skeleton

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[-] SoylentSnake@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

debating popping in to see my family briefly tonight. the loneliness and alienation is killing me today, but it's 50/50 whether they make me feel worse and just pathologize and judge my feelings. no one else is available at the moment though. when i feel mentally stronger i can push back when they get like that and stand my ground, but rn i feel vulnerable and weak.

but i know how going home to my dark apartment alone is going to feel. what do you do when the choice is between iffy/frequently emotionally unsafe company, and being alone?

CW alcohol, problem drinkingthis world fucking sucks. what's the point in not drinking

EDIT: impromptu hangin w/ my best friend instead lets-fucking-go

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[-] SoylentSnake@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

shouts out to all the women out there who are beautiful (spoiler alert that's all of them)

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[-] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

The whole live off of top ramen when your broke thing is such a con. Find a source for cheap red lentils and make some curry

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[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago
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[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

trying to look several times cooler than someone wearing sunglasses by just wearing 6 pairs of sunglasses at once

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[-] Edie@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

kitty-cri-screm Please make it end, why does ReadFanon have to write so much.

niko-wonderous I found the end.

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[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Negro Matapacos (“Black Cop-Killer”)

No, the translation is Cop-Killer Blackie

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[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Bass players who do all the work, tell your guitarist to try to write 'counter riffs' instead of following you. They will slowly learn the purpose of a fucking guitar.

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

weird late night thoughtsI Must Be The Most Annoying Motherfucker Alive

Don't ask me why 'cause I am not really sure. I feel like an annoying child. Causing problems. People tell me how good I am at conversation (?!) but chat, I could fucking yap. I absolutely can talk people to death, it's a skill. It's not on, I think, it's not good.

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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Frank Covid Updates

Rapid test returned positive, so I'm still contagious. : p

Currently meowing "pumped up kicks" to myself.

Contemplating food, but, like... idk, effort.

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[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

>read a popular manga

>it's shit

>doesn't even have the decency to be mediocre

>just actual unfunny dogshit

lea-tired The weeaboos will pay for this...

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

My friend's family, who haven't lived in Russia in 35ish years and don't even have an active passport, have faced multiple issues due to "targeted" sanctions list confusion. Ofc this is implemented with the same grace and elegance of the no fly list.

[-] bunnygirl@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

jesus

9gb memory leak on a youtube tab madeline-shock

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[-] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Thank yall for permanently altering my neural response to Tiny Dancer btw

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[-] AndJusticeForAll@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Had a dream where by the end of it I was in a newly-built suburb that was being built for rich Middle Easterners of some kind. And it was custom of them to have duck pets for some reason. And during mating season they'd hear the other ducks in the suburbs that other people have and using their beaks "which is basically as hard as diamond molecularly" (don't know why I dreamt that factoid) they were able to peck their way through the 3-4"-thick concrete foundations that developers were increasingly skimping out on to make money on the housing boom this was creating and they were breaking free and ruining the houses and I had to be careful getting through there with my new dream GF (in both senses) and it was awkward.

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[-] wombat@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

it is august 26 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[-] peppersky@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Wow so you really can just get more depressed huh that's something

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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

I got addicted to mexican version of waffle house kitty-birthday-sad

Its too good

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[-] Moss@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

About two months ago I was very drunk at a friend's house and I realized I am in my 20s. That's so fucked up

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[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Idk why but I have a fascination with sports jerseys of great athletes from teams they're not remembered for and only played a tiny bit of their careers with.

Ken Griffey Jr with the White Sox, Albert Pujols with the Dodgers, Adrian Beltré with the Red Sox, Manny Ramirez with the Rays, Wayne Gretzky with the Blues, Shaq with the Celtics, Richard Sherman with the Buccaneers, etc

I dunno, they feel like a little window into alternate histories that were sort of actual history.

I just think they're neat 🥔bois-presentation

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[-] rhubarb@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Streamers have to be both likable and authentic-feeling to become popular. Competition causes an increased need for these qualities, which has created a contradiction. At an extreme, likability becomes unauthentic-feeling, and extreme performances of authenticity are unlikable. The optimal way to resolve this contradiction is by having the streamers become big slobs, which is something that is already induced by the conditions of the profession.

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[-] homhom9000@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

I had a dream I was teaching my cat to be an anti zionist. I should get on that.

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[-] SoylentSnake@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Sunday scaries got to me and i had two tallboys. gonna make it to the weekend sober.

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[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

I stepped on a cat's paw boohoo

I'M SORRY I'M SORRY I'M SO SORRY KITTY cri

[-] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Look at this little dickhead, just acting like that tree is theirs, who do they think they is

[-] Blottergrass@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago
[-] Babs@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

I like beans but they make me really really gassy every time how do I not do this?

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