Primarily for those who don't already have a discussion group, but anyone interested in Marxist-Leninist theory is welcome.

It won't require intensive reading/listening; it should be doable for anyone who works or studies full time. We're currently following a study plan from China, but we can add recommended texts (decided by vote). We've recently started and are currently reading some introductory texts.

You can join the group at #reading-group:genzedong.xyz (an encrypted room) through the GenZedong/GenZhou Matrix space (see this post).

With the Reddit exodus, there's been a significant increase in the number of bad-faith liberals commenting on communities like LSC. I don't personally think we should ban liberals from all communities if they're being respectful, but immediate hostility breaks the instance's third rule and seeing it everywhere might make some users uncomfortable. In particular, the bigger communities that only have admins as mods (I get the feeling that they have a lot to deal with already) or have inactive mods might need some help

_{I haven't spoken to any admins about this so ignore this if it's already being dealt with}

Have only skimmed it so far, but it seems like a good introductory summary. Just enter some fake information and a temporary email address (unless you want to donate). License is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Welcome to the anime thread where you can talk about anime and anime-related things, such as manga and manhua and manhwa and Karl Marx fan art in an anime-inspired style

This month's theme is animes, post your favourite animes here, and explain why your favourite animes are good and funny time

My favourite animes is The Simpson and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (movie only)

There are a lot of "Shit X Says" communities now, which inevitably leads to quite a few cross-posts and makes people less likely to see others' comments (e.g. someone comments on a "Shit Liberals Say" post, someone else on the "Shit Fascists Say" version of the post, etc.). It might be a good idea to just have one "Shit Reactionaries Say" community, either by creating a new one or by repurposing the most popular one (SLS), and then setting the other communities to only allow mod posts (basically read-only).\ _{Thank you for coming to my TEDxLemmygrad talk. Proposal co-authored with a second mysterious tankie}

Addendum: may be a good idea to also have one community for ultra-leftists separate from the one for general reactionaries.

a rare Lemmy bug has appeared

Wow, I'm sure glad I don't live in China. I could never live somewhere people aren't allowed to think freely or live as individuals!!

I do not believe that this joke is, in fact, from 1897 AD

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Pterodaustro was a genus of pterosaurs that is believed to have filter-fed with a "tooth comb". Like flamingos (who also filter-feed), the Pterodaustro's proposed color would be caused by its diet, which likely consisted mainly of crustaceans and other small creatures

Because of its tiny focken legs, it might've had some difficulty flying, unlike other pterosaurs

I can't believe none of us ever noticed this

_{I didn't make this but I don't know who did}

Text (miscellaneous)

• Granma: articles from the Communist Party of Cuba

• teleSUR: news network sponsored by the governments of Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, and Nicaragua

• EL PAÍS: bourgeois Spanish propaganda outlet (which uses simple Spanish)

• Spanish Grammar in Context

• Books in English and Spanish side-by-side

Audio/video

• The "Language Transfer" series on Spanish, can be streamed or downloaded as an archive

• Podcast de Granma, the podcast of the aforementioned Granma

• Butterfly Spanish: YouTube channel with Spanish lessons

• How to Spanish: podcast and lessons

• Jabiertzo: casual YouTube channel with videos in/about China

• Linguriosa: YouTube channel that discusses quirks of Spanish grammar, etymology, language history, etc.

Interactive Stuff(TM)

• Duolingo's Spanish course

• Beelinguapp

• LingQ

the whole series is really interesting

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despite the recreation's similarity to the greatest extant rodent, the closest living relative of this genus (Josephostaliniaartigasia) is the pacarana

approximately 500kg and 2.6m long

here is a possibly inaccurate depiction next to some guy and my cousin

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Jaekelopterus rhenaniae (410.8-402.5 Ma) is the largest known species of arthropod. It's classified as a chelicerate, which also includes sea spiders, horseshoe crabs, arachnids, and various other extinct groups. They're called "sea scorpions", but they likely didn't actually live near the sea, so someone screwed up there

! ^ The horseshoe crabs are close extant relatives. (As a side note, I just learned that horseshoe crabs' blood (which is blue btw) is used for pharmaceutical development since it can detect toxins, and now you also have to deal with that knowledge)

It's Ambulocetus natans, folks. They could move around on land using contraptions called "legs" -- as you may have noticed, modern whales typically don't have these. Known from a single fossil found in Pakistan, they existed 48-47 million years ago and then literally disappeared into thin air (confirmed by witnesses at the scene)

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