Loren
@dionysusdream.bsky.social
Weird High School English Teacher
A Better World is Possible
A Better World is Possible
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a woman is looking at a stuffed animal that looks like a dog
Alt: This is an animated gif of a British children show where a lady is talking to a dog puppet bear and the puppet is saying, "We're just normal men, we're just innocent men" as though he's a prisoner being interrogated but the lady host breaks at the ridiculousness of this and she snorts and laughs at the camera.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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His hair was perfect
December 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
His hair was perfect
Thank you for helping numerous children in my life become talkative and empathetic human beings. My wife says, "I think Ms Rachel is a wonderful human being and her focus on making the lives of children better is a noble pursuit and she's very good at it."
December 4, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Thank you for helping numerous children in my life become talkative and empathetic human beings. My wife says, "I think Ms Rachel is a wonderful human being and her focus on making the lives of children better is a noble pursuit and she's very good at it."
I just started learning Python this year.. Being able to kinda sorta understand what is happening here is a great feeling of power. There's one or two operators I don't know- like the arrow in line one or how there's an If and an Else on the same line
Thanks for sharing this! Very cool
Thanks for sharing this! Very cool
December 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I just started learning Python this year.. Being able to kinda sorta understand what is happening here is a great feeling of power. There's one or two operators I don't know- like the arrow in line one or how there's an If and an Else on the same line
Thanks for sharing this! Very cool
Thanks for sharing this! Very cool
..is the applicable lesson that you would like a reader of this letter to take away from it?
December 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
..is the applicable lesson that you would like a reader of this letter to take away from it?
..communists endorse bourgeois parliaments over workers' democracy. Gorter says that any speech given by a communist in such a parliament will be censored or distorted, so it's opportunism to even try. In all my readings from history, I'm looking for lessons that can be applied today. What
December 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
..communists endorse bourgeois parliaments over workers' democracy. Gorter says that any speech given by a communist in such a parliament will be censored or distorted, so it's opportunism to even try. In all my readings from history, I'm looking for lessons that can be applied today. What
Gorter accuses Lenin of opportunism for this. My understanding of opportunism is that it's making compromises with forces that ultimately weaken or delay the success of socialism. Gorter says that by going into the parliaments at all that it's deceiving the workers and that it makes it seem like..
December 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Gorter accuses Lenin of opportunism for this. My understanding of opportunism is that it's making compromises with forces that ultimately weaken or delay the success of socialism. Gorter says that by going into the parliaments at all that it's deceiving the workers and that it makes it seem like..
I just finished reading the letter in its entirety. I'll try and summarize what I gleaned from the reading. He's really critical of Lenin's suggestion to use a bourgeois parliament to expose the contradictions in capitalism and to exploit the chaos created by inter-imperialist conflicts.
December 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I just finished reading the letter in its entirety. I'll try and summarize what I gleaned from the reading. He's really critical of Lenin's suggestion to use a bourgeois parliament to expose the contradictions in capitalism and to exploit the chaos created by inter-imperialist conflicts.
I will check out the letter that you mentioned. Do you think that the workers organized in the way that you describe would have been able to survive the reactionary counterattack during the foreign intervention and civil war? What would have been different about their war communism?
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I will check out the letter that you mentioned. Do you think that the workers organized in the way that you describe would have been able to survive the reactionary counterattack during the foreign intervention and civil war? What would have been different about their war communism?
..but if you're willing to tell me about them I'm willing to listen.
December 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
..but if you're willing to tell me about them I'm willing to listen.
Obviously Marxism is about more than seizing power, but does not history show us that things kind of dead-end when communists do not seize power and survive the reactionary onslaught? All that stuff about spontaneity is ultra left stuff that I only really know from Lenin's criticisms of them..
December 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Obviously Marxism is about more than seizing power, but does not history show us that things kind of dead-end when communists do not seize power and survive the reactionary onslaught? All that stuff about spontaneity is ultra left stuff that I only really know from Lenin's criticisms of them..
This video really starts to cook around the 32 minute mark. Thanks for sharing!
December 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This video really starts to cook around the 32 minute mark. Thanks for sharing!
In my teacher's union, we're coming around to the understanding that AI usage is scab behavior.
December 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
In my teacher's union, we're coming around to the understanding that AI usage is scab behavior.
Am I understanding correctly that this person is saying that it is bourgeois to to do the math on what is necessary to seize power?
December 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Am I understanding correctly that this person is saying that it is bourgeois to to do the math on what is necessary to seize power?
It's really hard for libs to grasp that both the world and their own countries are divided up between competing blocs of capitalists and that the squabbles between these blocs filter down and become the politics that they talk about. Capitalists using newspapers: been happening since the 1800's.
December 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
It's really hard for libs to grasp that both the world and their own countries are divided up between competing blocs of capitalists and that the squabbles between these blocs filter down and become the politics that they talk about. Capitalists using newspapers: been happening since the 1800's.
Have you considered the possibility that the rich people who control our governments and make our lives hell have an interest in making people afraid to ever experiment with socialism again? The revolution in Russia in 1917 was a huge threat to them and they spent 70 years afraid of it.
December 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Have you considered the possibility that the rich people who control our governments and make our lives hell have an interest in making people afraid to ever experiment with socialism again? The revolution in Russia in 1917 was a huge threat to them and they spent 70 years afraid of it.
I have found it to be very well sourced and thorough in its documentation. What, specifically, are you saying is inaccurate?
December 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I have found it to be very well sourced and thorough in its documentation. What, specifically, are you saying is inaccurate?
Keats would've died while everyone was still on Myspace
December 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Keats would've died while everyone was still on Myspace
Quitting smoking is tough. Pretty much whatever treat you've gotta give yourself to get through those first 3 months, it's worth it. Congrats on quitting, stay strong!
December 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Quitting smoking is tough. Pretty much whatever treat you've gotta give yourself to get through those first 3 months, it's worth it. Congrats on quitting, stay strong!
Time to sing our daily mean song about Scrooge. This will surely help to warm his heart and prompt him to change his ways.
December 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Time to sing our daily mean song about Scrooge. This will surely help to warm his heart and prompt him to change his ways.
A great deal of the inaccuracies I'm talking about relate to the disparity between the historical Stalin and the legend of Stalin invented by all of the forces that had an interest in misrepresenting him. Here's a pretty good book on it if you're curious: thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/u...
thecharnelhouse.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
A great deal of the inaccuracies I'm talking about relate to the disparity between the historical Stalin and the legend of Stalin invented by all of the forces that had an interest in misrepresenting him. Here's a pretty good book on it if you're curious: thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/u...
..USSR in a way that isn't supported by the historical record is something that fascist political projects have done for over a hundred years and they continue to do it to this day. I strongly urge people to seek truth from facts when they discuss this history.
December 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
..USSR in a way that isn't supported by the historical record is something that fascist political projects have done for over a hundred years and they continue to do it to this day. I strongly urge people to seek truth from facts when they discuss this history.