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Today I googled a simple question (it happened to be about Portuguese). Google's AI intruded with an answer and included a link to what it said was the source. Clicking through, I see that the source gave the EXACT OPPOSITE answer to what the AI so authoritatively told me. AI still sux, folks.

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I'm happy to see that the worldwide NO KINGS protest on you-know-who's birthday will have a presence here in Porto. indivisible.org/statements/i... #NoKings

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I dreamt that they removed the capitalized nouns from the German language and my reading comprehension went all to hell. #deutsch #rechtschreibung

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There’s an Urdu name for a “Jack of all trades” that translates to “every talent Lord.” A Korean version is “eight direction beauty.” But my favourite name for someone who tries their hand at lots of different things is the Lithuanian Barbė devyndarbė. It means “Barbie nine jobs”

submitted 90 days ago • 87 comments

Today I learned that our neighborhood superhero has an Instagram. Super Faria Guimarães! www.instagram.com/super.fariag... #porto #superhero #superFariaGuimarães

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devastated to discover Cheddar Man was lactose intolerant

submitted 26 days ago • 31 comments

When I worked for the UT Austin|Portugal program, research funding was contingent on collaborative applications by both UT and PT researchers. I wonder whether giving carrots to EU researchers who work with US emigrant scientists could ease integration of US researchers into European networks?

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I just finished "The Twilight Zone" by Nona Fernández. What a great, if horrifying, book, and a reminder of the path we are on ourselves. www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/b...

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Life in retirement

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Público just published a long article about American exiles in Portugal. www.publico.pt/2025/03/22/s... #público #uspol #portugal

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Hey folks a lot of you are sharing big blocks of text on coloured backgrounds with all sorts of big claims/news and yet providing no link to any actual source. This is how propaganda & disinformation spreads. Provide sources. It's absolutely critical And alt text because almost none of you are.

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"POESIA É EXTERMINAR A BURGUESIA" #streetArt #arteUrbana #porto

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Another thing that struck me about yesterday’s Oval Office disaster is the place of language. 🧵

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As I often say, in Portugal the Caminho de Santiago is like a plate of spaghetti thrown on the ground. Left or right? Just keep the ocean on your left and eventually you'll get there. #caminhoDeSantiago #caminoDeSantiago #caminhoLitoral #walking #hiking #trails

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On Wednesday our feet were itching so we did a mini caminho up the coast from Póvoa to Apúlia. It was a nice mix of oceanfront and some stretches inland of the dunes where we got to enjoy the trees and wildflowers. #caminhoDeSantiago #caminoDeSantiago #apúlia #portugal #caminhoLitoral #walking

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REMEMBER KIDS when flooding a snitch form, DON’T use obvious troll responses that can be filtered out with a query Use PLAUSIBLE FAKE data that will take TIME and EFFORT to run down. This poisons the entire data pool and makes it useless

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The condos under construction near our house have a large advertising banner with this CGI rendering of a hypothetical apartment. I'm fascinated with the oddly proportioned books on the shelves. I really want to shake the hand of the designer who snuck in the volume "STATIC MONOCULTURE".

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Here's the patch that's been our lullaby at night for the past few weeks. Lots of happy accidents in this one. I guess if I'm going to share these I need to figure out a better way to record them than my iPhone. #synth #modularSynth #ambient #generativeAmbient #eurorack youtu.be/sATgzuyFZJA

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Our house in Porto is coming together with art by Fernando Amorim, Heitor Alvelos, Henrik Drescher, Michael Schliefke, Pedro Evangelho, Susan Gayle Todd, Todd Mien, and Wendy Whatley, among others ❤️ #art #home #porto

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPiV... #lastVisibleDog #musicVideo #shoes

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A few months back, one of my favorite murals in Porto was replaced. I like the new one too, but I wonder what prompted the change? Blue-brown is before, color-blocking is after. #porto #streetArt #arteUrbana #mural

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

Some street art recently spotted in Porto and thereabouts. #porto #matosinhos #streetArt #arteUrbana

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Maybe we should rename it the Gulf of Chicxulub? (AKA the meteor that hit near the present Yucatán, caused a global climate disaster and killed off the dinosaurs)

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I had a dream about running a hospital and wondering whether a certain doctor was going to fit into the team. His name: Dr. Perpetootor. (The consequence of binge-watching #ThePitt and #ER.)

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Hoping to waste less time and emotional energy on social media, I've removed social apps from my phone. Last time I tried that, I just wound up logging into the web versions. It reminds me of the Frog and Toad story in which they try to stop eating so many cookies by putting them on a high shelf 🙂

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Marco Rubio's new acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, ladies and gentlemen.

submitted 124 days ago • 2289 comments

A private citizen shutting down a government agency is a coup. Do not normalize this.

submitted 124 days ago • 52 comments

Without congressional approval or constitutional authority, the richest man in the world has taken over payroll of the US government. How is this not a coup?

submitted 127 days ago • 58 comments

If anybody is worried about this, I will gladly play the role of "dude with the red string on the cork board" so you look sane by comparison. Because the reality is the richest person in the world is a nazi who snuck in at midnight to steal every American's data so he could shut down the government.

submitted 124 days ago • 14 comments

Me when I feel nostalgic for the sci fi of my youth. #scifi #heinlein #cryptoFascism

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