Moacirlison P. de Sá Pereira
@moacir.com
Research Data Librarian at Columbia. Novels and space. Wikipedia and ice water. Modular synths and Tottenham. Rabbits and bots. he/him
Are email subjects title cased?
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Are email subjects title cased?
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🌘 on Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 17:12 in New York City.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
🌘 on Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 17:12 in New York City.
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getting mega dittoes on dsa chat
Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box.
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
If We Want Mamdani to Beat the NYPD, the Left Must Build Power
We won’t be able to push Mamdani, or anyone else, to undermine police power unless we become a force to be reckoned with.
www.thenation.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
getting mega dittoes on dsa chat
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Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box.
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
If We Want Mamdani to Beat the NYPD, the Left Must Build Power
We won’t be able to push Mamdani, or anyone else, to undermine police power unless we become a force to be reckoned with.
www.thenation.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box.
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Greetings from 🗽 on Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 06:46.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Greetings from 🗽 on Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 06:46.
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🌅 on Saturday, November 8, 2025 at 06:36 in New York City.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
🌅 on Saturday, November 8, 2025 at 06:36 in New York City.
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Pouring one out today for that tenured prof at Cornell who loudly asserted half a year ago that anyone who continued working for Columbia after it acquiesced to Trump was a Vichyist and that he, of course, would resign immediately if he were a Columbia prof.
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Pouring one out today for that tenured prof at Cornell who loudly asserted half a year ago that anyone who continued working for Columbia after it acquiesced to Trump was a Vichyist and that he, of course, would resign immediately if he were a Columbia prof.
Mamdanewyorque
🌅 on Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 06:34 in New York City.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Mamdanewyorque
I’ve been waiting for Schumer guidance for months. Guess I’ve been standing in line at my pollsite today for nothing.
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I’ve been waiting for Schumer guidance for months. Guess I’ve been standing in line at my pollsite today for nothing.
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On the day of the NYC mayoral election, Ali Raz pens a gorgeous essay reflecting on how Mamdani's rhetoric evinces a poetics of the Universal and convokes a shared commons united by labor and by the rhythms of life spent working in cities most of us cannot afford.
mid-theory.com/2025/11/04/m...
mid-theory.com/2025/11/04/m...
Mamdani Feelings
Starting from a place of extreme negativity, political speech can brush the bright membrane that forms literature’s impossible horizon. The rent is too high in Los Angeles. Consider a number: “One …
mid-theory.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
On the day of the NYC mayoral election, Ali Raz pens a gorgeous essay reflecting on how Mamdani's rhetoric evinces a poetics of the Universal and convokes a shared commons united by labor and by the rhythms of life spent working in cities most of us cannot afford.
mid-theory.com/2025/11/04/m...
mid-theory.com/2025/11/04/m...
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🌇 on Saturday, November 1, 2025 at 17:52 in New York City.
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November 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
🌇 on Saturday, November 1, 2025 at 17:52 in New York City.
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I was hoping I’d canvass Blair Waldorf today.
November 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I was hoping I’d canvass Blair Waldorf today.
Tfw you watch cuomo ai slop and are like “wait I canvassed that couple”
November 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Tfw you watch cuomo ai slop and are like “wait I canvassed that couple”
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🌅 on Friday, October 31, 2025 at 07:28 in New York City.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:29 AM
🌅 on Friday, October 31, 2025 at 07:28 in New York City.
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More like in the sea amirite @bryanjoiner.bsky.social
The Nantucketer, he alone resides and riots on the sea
October 31, 2025 at 3:15 AM
More like in the sea amirite @bryanjoiner.bsky.social
Equivalent? Pretty sure only one is banned on campus.
October 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Equivalent? Pretty sure only one is banned on campus.
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The New York Times editorial board has a nice visualization of selection on the dependent variable, if you're teaching a research methods class this semester: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
Opinion | America Still Has a Political Center, and It’s the Key to Winning
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The New York Times editorial board has a nice visualization of selection on the dependent variable, if you're teaching a research methods class this semester: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
Six hours canvassing for Zohran in East Harlem today. Got some amazing looks from East Landing, where we got in despite the prominent no electioneering signs.
October 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Six hours canvassing for Zohran in East Harlem today. Got some amazing looks from East Landing, where we got in despite the prominent no electioneering signs.
Cuomo
a newly murdered thing of the sea
October 17, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Cuomo
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A lovely look at the craft of the Asterix translations here. auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/a...
Asterix in translation: the genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge
As promised in a previous blog entry, what follows is a discussion of the translation of some of my favourite Asterix gags. The translators’ modus operandi was to include as many jokes in the Engli…
auntymuriel.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:42 AM
A lovely look at the craft of the Asterix translations here. auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/a...
also, F the NYT xword for calling Jabba “obese.” That’s just how Hutts roll.
October 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
also, F the NYT xword for calling Jabba “obese.” That’s just how Hutts roll.
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🌇 on Friday, October 10, 2025 at 18:24 in New York City.
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October 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
🌇 on Friday, October 10, 2025 at 18:24 in New York City.
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Greetings from 🗽 on Wednesday, October 8, 2025 at 11:42.
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October 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Greetings from 🗽 on Wednesday, October 8, 2025 at 11:42.
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So much of nyc smells like urine that I’m thinking maybe I just smell like urine. Hashtag it’s still summer
October 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
So much of nyc smells like urine that I’m thinking maybe I just smell like urine. Hashtag it’s still summer