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Carlos
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cgmaciel.bsky.social
Crew influence so massive it is even found in Madagascar spin offs:

#Crew96
A picture showing a scene from the show Madagascar: A Little Wild. Three young animals, a hippo, a lion and a zebra look through a window cutout on a library wall. They are all wearing yellow hard hats, reminiscent of the original Columbus Crew logo.
January 16, 2026 at 2:48 AM
cgmaciel.bsky.social
2026 in Books!
January 2, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
December 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
cgmaciel.bsky.social
It’s again the time for me to do the thing no one asked for and even less people will read:

My Annual Random Review of Some of The Books I Read This Year, 2025 Edition!

#Books #ICanRead #MostlyAudiobooksTho
December 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
cgmaciel.bsky.social
I chose the wrong career.
instbirdpop.bsky.social The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · Dec 9
🪶🌎🧪 WE'RE HIRING!!! Want to band fabulous birds on a far-flung island in the Western Pacific? We need to fill these 2 positions ASAP. More information here: birdpop.org/docs/job...
Photo of the coastline of Rota by Asch Nighthawk with inset photo by Lauren Helton of two people banding a Mariana Kingfisher and inset of bander handling a Mariana Fruit-dove for photo documentaion by Kristin Attinger.
December 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
cgmaciel.bsky.social
Can’t get lost in a national forest if you don’t make it to one first
November 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
cgmaciel.bsky.social
Meet me at the Tumbleweeds Diner parking lot in the next 20 minutes if you want to have a beer or a Bloody Mary
November 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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apnews.com
According to experts, gardening has been shown to boost mood and reduce stress.
Gardening's hidden benefits: How digging in the dirt could bolster mental wellbeing
According to experts, gardening has been shown to boost mood and reduce stress. There's even a field called horticultural therapy dedicated to using gardening to support mental health.
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August 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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radamssmash.bsky.social
My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.
A shitty map created by ChatGPT5. it purports to be US States with an R in their name, but it's wrong and dumb and worthless just like LLMs.
August 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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whiskeynachos.bsky.social
Whoops, the MAGA hat crowd seems to have lost its voice in Brazil.
July 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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artevillar.bsky.social
Desenho de duas mãos dadas de forma que trasnparece luta. Uma das mãos indica "taxar super ricos", na outra "fim da escala 6x1". No centro das mãos há um box escrito "um brasil mais justo".
July 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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matthewhaybrown.bsky.social
TURNS OUT GETTING SMACKED IN THE HEAD IN BRAZIL IS FREE Health care is a constitutional right; all citizens and foreign residents are entitled to free treatment in the world’s largest public health system

@terrencemccoy.bsky.social describes his experience (link is free, too!)

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I got an ambulance ride, CT scan and ER care in Brazil. My bill: $0.
As Washington battles over access to health care, a Post journalist’s experience at a public hospital in Brazil shone light on a fundamentally different system.
wapo.st
June 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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iansociologo.bsky.social
Even with the off and on rain, there were still some great Festa Junina activities today in Recife.
Dancers and musicians in a Festa Junina group in the street
June 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
cgmaciel.bsky.social
Flamengo: exists.

Me: Trash team full of plastic fans.

Flamengo: dominates Chelsea.

Me: Vai Mengão, porra!

#ClubWorldCup
June 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
What your favorite migratory wood warbler says about you. An oldie. My current favorite is the black-throated blue but it changes daily.
A comic called "what your favorite migratory warbler says about you". Northern waterthrush: No matter how nice your outfit is, your boots are always covered in mud. Yellow warbler: You’re a source of joy and light. Everyone is terrified to cross you. Wilson's warbler: You like anyone who is wearing a tiny hat. Painted redstart: Your personal style is beguiling to your lovers and terrifying to your prey. Cerulean warbler: You got good looks at a Cerulean Warbler one time and you won’t ever let anyone forget it. Orange-crowned warbler: You’re too cool for the rest of us and you know it. Black-throated blue warbler: You’re the helpful friend who always has a clean tissue in your pocket. Black-and-white warbler: You enjoy parties but you often get shy and duck behind furniture. Blackburnian warbler: You like scented candles because they’re a socially acceptable way to set small fires. Mourning warbler: You were a high school goth and you wish you still had those clothes. Blue-winged warbler: All you want to do is talk, loudly and often, about bees. Whatever warbler you're looking at: you are correct.
May 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
cgmaciel.bsky.social
Me: it would be cool to have a team of Darlington Nagbes.

Monkey Paw:
April 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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jasonkpargin.bsky.social
How we’re being asked to live now is objectively insane
March 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
As called in Brazil:
February 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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arnottky.bsky.social
shoutout to these Day 0 fans, me and @cgmaciel.bsky.social
Me in a 2019 four-star #15 USWNT jersey next to Carlos in a For Denver FC shirt. He holds another of the same shirt, showing the back design, and we both stand in front of a For Denver FC backdrop. This was taken at the launch event to bring pro women’s soccer to Denver back in July 2023.
January 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
cgmaciel.bsky.social
I ranked the books I read in 2024:
January 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
cgmaciel.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

1/20
Cover for All The Living and The Dead, by Hayley Campbell
December 26, 2024 at 7:27 PM
cgmaciel.bsky.social
Let’s talk about plants
December 21, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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edzitron.com
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...
Wrong! Most people don’t think about the things they’re doing at all and are just trying to get by in a society that increasingly demands we make more money to buy the same things, with our lives both interfered with and judged by social networks with aggressive algorithms that feed us more things based on what we’ll engage with, which might mean said things piss us off or actively radicalize us. They’re nagged by constant notifications — an average of 46 a day — some useful, some advertisements, like Apple telling us there’s a nailbiter college football game regardless of whether we’ve ever interacted with anything football related, or a Slack message saying you haven’t joined a group you were invited to yet, or Etsy letting you know that you can buy things for an upcoming holiday. It’s relentless, and the more time you invest in using a device, the more of these notifications you get, making you less likely to turn them off. After all, how well are you doing keeping your inbox clean? Oh what’s that? You get 25 emails a day, many of them from a company owned by William Sonoma?
December 18, 2024 at 6:08 PM
cgmaciel.bsky.social
Christmas in Prison by Bright Eyes and John Prine

youtu.be/IemfAtZIEuM?...
December 14, 2024 at 2:12 AM