Sincerely, : I am a grown up. I am doing my best to hold it together. Thanks, : I have already forgotten what this conversation was about. Cheers, : Please don’t be mad at me and please don’t reply to this message. Very respectfully, : I have been taken hostage and fear for my life.

To review: Sincerely : formal Best : neutral All the best : positive All the very best : can we be friends??? Regards : from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee

mas problemas não se resolvem problemas tem família grande

I really don’t want to talk about AI, but whose idea was it to make a thing that claims to know everything and solve all your problems and they call it… “Perplexity”?

Because I spend my limited conference time in fairly interdisciplinary spaces I find myself wondering whether it happens more or less than elsewhere. But anyway, lmao

Everything is stupid.

Taught my last classes of the semester, which will also be my last classes for a while. Feeling a bunch of feelings!

still it snows

Well, of course, because everyone loves buying gas all the time. It’s what the voters demand!

👇The best advice for teaching in today's neo-liberal, continually budget-slashed institution of higher ed: you can't be your best teaching self, so you've got to accept that or drive yourself mad. Higher ed has become part of the 'enshittification' cycle, and we must accept that... or go mad.

lol

Another day, another not saying everything I think on the internet.

Just got this in the mail yesterday. So happy to have contributed to this project! Thanks and kudos to @oaperez.bsky.social and @cristinaele.bsky.social for the guidance and vision. Out in January from @floridapress.bsky.social

Mamão and Maracujá putting on a show.

hey our collective resolutions list for 2026 dropped a month early

eu amo a internet de paixão, ela me trouxe possibilidades e pessoas que jamais existiriam de outra forma. mas a vida da gente tem corpo, e isso não é só um detalhe. o corpo importa demais em tudo.

all I can say about that one thing is, I know some good people who teach at U of Oklahoma and I feel for them. They and lots of folks deserve better.

starting Dec 1st! ie tomorrow! for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time): you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok! check in daily at #acadecawriteathon

Monument Hill already looking slick! #COwx

Unfortunately for our society’s ability to parse any of this, Americans have no way to tell the difference between being at war and not being at war.

oh honey

I too could lead a college football team through a losing season for millions of dollars.

Another day, another not saying everything I think on the internet.

This is so generous.

First sub-60 minute 10k. ~9:17/mile.

While there are people in the U.S. who favor being known around the world as a country willing to kill anyone at any time, at any place, just because we feel like it, there are, indisputably, a lot more people who do not want to be known this way and very much do not want to see themselves this way.

As a world languages teacher, I frequently try to explain to new instructors that they cannot expect students to be familiar with basic grammar concepts in English and that we need to teach them whatever we need them to know.

Unfortunately for our society’s ability to parse any of this, Americans have no way to tell the difference between being at war and not being at war.

While there are people in the U.S. who favor being known around the world as a country willing to kill anyone at any time, at any place, just because we feel like it, there are, indisputably, a lot more people who do not want to be known this way and very much do not want to see themselves this way.

Loving how @washingtonpost.com is using AI. Very innovative.

Fascinating. Supreme court justice Cármen Lúcia quotes Emicida and Carolina de Jesus in a case about racism in Brasil.

Cartum de Cynthia Bonacossa na piauí.

I want it but more importantly, a lot of people need it

Brazil approves the first vaccine against dengue. The disease killed 6000 Brazilians in 2024. This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.

Happy Thanksgiving, from the Folha de São Paulo.

aw buddies

[facepalms in Brazilianist]

I don’t yet have a thing of my own to promote, but I think about Anna’s book every day 👇

cara, quem se daria ao trabalho? www.metropoles.com/colunas/paul...

Violent country.

Não.

Today somehow is a Wednesday that feels like a Saturday and also feels like erev yom tov.

I love a yellow warbler.

Arguably the most important thing that happened today in Brazil (in absurdly heavy traffic). "For the first time in Brazilian history, military officers go to prison for coup d'état."

"Bolsonaro is a cupcake" ??? U.S. people talk about Brazil without making it (a) weird and (b) all about themselves challenge -- difficulty: impossible.

deus do céu...

someone likes to be yelled at

ooooh

I love it how do I get it as wallpaper for my office

"Bolsonaro is a cupcake" ??? U.S. people talk about Brazil without making it (a) weird and (b) all about themselves challenge -- difficulty: impossible.