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random fun facts about brazil!

after gaining "independence" from portugal in 1822, the ruling portuguese prince nominated himself emperor and made us an 'empire' before we ever became a republic

the current president, Luís Inácio Lula da Silva (from the Partido dos Trabalhadores, workers' party, our left-wing party) was elected in 2022, and the next presidential elections are actually later this year!

brazil holds five victories at the FIFA Football World Cup since 2002 and is the only country to have as many

we have 26 states + one federal district, Brasília, which is the country's capital

slavery was abolished on May, 13 of 1888, and the event is usually attributed to Princess Isabel signing the Lei Áurea out of the kindness of her heart, but it actually was a result of the abolishment movement that had been going on for years and of international pressures

speaking of international pressures, did you know that in 1964, we underwent a military dictadorship that lasted until 1985 and was backed up by the US?

another not so fun a fact, abortion is illegal here with a penalty of up to 3 years in jail for performing one on yourself or consenting for someone else to do it

neutral pronoun usage in official documents/speeches by government entities directed at the general population was also made illegal this year

on the brighter side, gay marriage was made legal in 2011, and refusing to acknowledge legal recognition to gay couples was made illegal in 2013 (same source)

simone de beauvoir has visited us before! she passed by the then-in-construction capital of Brasília in 1960 and she fucking hated the city lmao

due to the criminalization of african spirituality and religion during the slavery period, lots of black folks disguised their talk of certain entities as catholic saints instead. for example, St. George (São Jorge in Brazil) was used as a disguise for Ogum (or Ogun, yoruba orisha), and the association still pertains to this day

you can ingress a public university for free if you have a passing grade in the ENEM, the "national exam of high school" (exame nacional do ensino médio, in portuguese). it is a two-day test with each day being one week apart on a sunday every year, held on the entire country, and consists of 180 questions pertaining to the areas of Humanities, Languages, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, as well as requiring undertakers to write a strictly-structured 7 to 30-long essay discussing the theme elected by the exam comittee. last year, the ENEM essay theme was "perspectives pertaining the aging of the brazilian population", and in the year before, it was "challenges to the valorization of african heritage in brazil". this year's theme will not be officially announced until after the exam has ended. a "passing grade" depends on the course you choose to apply for and it might change every year (usually they range in the 400-700pts zone), but the max grade is of a thousand points.

if you look at it, the brazilian flag has a small phrase written on it: it reads "ordem e progresso" (transl. order and progress)

racism is technically illegal here

unlike in countries like the US, Uganda and others, in Brazil, valentine's day is actually today :)

madmonksandmaenads

I wish I could make white people(and not just white Americans) understand how diverse the pre-columbian Americas were. The history, religion, culture, politics was at least as complex as Europe's. There was the full gamut of religions, from monotheists to animists to ancestral religions. There were city building empires, village farmers, nomadic traders, and so many other ways to live. This is all just based on what we know, the fragments left behind and the stories of survivors of an apocalyptic plague. All this before the most extended campaign of genocide in history was waged in an attempt to wipe out those survivors.

Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.

Do you understand how much poorer our whole species is because of it? Can you imagine where art, religion, and science would be if we still had these vast bodies of knowledge? The stain of the colonial project will never be fully washed clean. We owe more than just the land to those we stole from. We owe them a whole future, a future that could have been brighter for all of us. If only greed and fear weren't allowed to rule this land.

bluerose5

Thank you, Black people in fandom spaces. Thank you, Black creators and Black lurkers. Thank you Black artists, Black writers. Thank you, Black bloggers, Black influencers. Shoutout to those Black characters, both canon and original. Thank you, Black people, both queer and cishet.

Your perspectives matter. Your representation matters. You are not bothersome for demanding equal treatment in fandom. It is not your responsibility to make fandom more welcoming and inclusive to you. It is not your sole responsibility to create all of the Black-centered content. You are not "ruining" anyone's fun for demanding better for yourself, and anyone who says otherwise can go fuck themselves. Any fandom worth being a part of should have no room for racism in it.

Black people in fandom, you are wanted. You are needed. You are loved and appreciated. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

And since they don't get told it near enough, thank you, Black women especially!!!

murfpersonalblog

You are not "ruining" anyone's fun for demanding better for yourself, and anyone who says otherwise can go fuck themselves. Any fandom worth being a part of should have no room for racism in it.

shnowyfox

it would be so awesome

it would be so cool

jayrockin

Human-socialized.

bloodbitts-blog

Relatable

thebeastsofindia

Yellow Throated Marten (Martes flavigula), family Mustelidae, order Carnivora, Himachal Pradesh, India

The yellow throated marten of northern India and its close relative the Nilgiri marten (Martes gwatkinsii) of southern India are powerful, agile, omnivorous and arboreal Mustelids that take a variety of relatively large prey, including monkeys and small ungulates such as mouse deer

They are known to hunt in packs

Photo by udaydw

stabbydragon

"Love/sex is what makes us human" Wrong. It's the obsession with rectangles. look around you and count the number of rectangles you see.

derinthescarletpescatarian

#looked up and thought ‘that can’t be hard’#and then my eyes widened with horror as I realized the sheer number of rectangles everywhere#I’m . I’m horrified

It's a good shape!

fawnduu

Happy Pride from the Dragon Girlfriend crew!!!!

🌈💕

fawnduu

And heres the versions from prides long past 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

meli-writes

a full meal

the government says this plan will increase the integration of vampiric persons into normal society. the national health service says their trial will help 'people with disordered hemosynthetic parasitism' manage their health and avoid poor, condition-derived choice.

everyone knows it's kinda bullshit.

the clinics are too far apart, the waiting lists too long, the supply too short and the subject of endless headlines about the bagfeeders stealing from our veins. (0.4% of daily donations, to be precise.)

and you're still basically disabled without RADE (risk-aware dietary enhancement), and taking it from a partner is just a call-out post and a lost mutual aid network waiting for a breakup.

you could do bloodwork. it'll even be not-yet illegal if you don't let them fuck you, which is only the most required part if you aren't a top 0.1% earner and still wanna make rent.

no. what everyone knows really is that it's not enough, and it's not supposed to be. they want you starving, barely able to get up in the evening, getting fired totally because you can't keep up and all these complaints which are totally valid.

they want you thinking about making those poor, condition-derived choices. so they can simper about how much they sympathise with your condition and how unsafe you must feel while they lock you up and cancel all their plans and trials for being ineffective.

so you're in their corridors, their halls. it's where they want you. cheap, and vulnerable, and needy. with the people who could make it better and won't. who'll enjoy you and feed you and toss you when the headlines get too close to finding out.

but maybe this time you want to make one of those choices. and maybe, for first time in so so long, you're going to remember what it means to feel full.

wootwona

since the old version of this post was flagged for ‘adult content’…

reblog this post if your account is a trans safe space or owned by a trans person!

along with that, reblog if your account is a non-binary spectrum safe space or owned by someone on the nb spectrum!

drax-the-vampire-king

All kind people are safe here.

drax-the-vampire-king

Rebloging again because the world sucks and I want to spread a little positivity

drax-the-vampire-king

Rebloging again again because fuck terfs

politijohn

Source

This should never have been a thing

weirdly-specific-but-ok

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the doctor down the street who gives me my T shots in a clinic so small that it's just two rooms was excited for me when she said my voice had dropped yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the receptionist who could see that I was a man didn't bat an eyelash when I asked to see the gynecologist and called me sir when he asked how I wanted to pay yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the barber cuts my hair exactly how I want it and never gave me strange looks for being in a men's salon not even back when I didn't pass as one

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my friends have always gendered me correctly and stick to it even when it confuses other people and my friend's little sibling calls me older brother in Kannada yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my dog learned my new name quicker than the humans and she runs to give me a kiss when she's told to without being confused about who's being referred to

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I can feel the Adam's apple growing in my throat and my muscles getting stronger, and my smile more real and I'm growing a beard, and I talk more freely

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I'm here, and I'm alive, and so are you and there are good people, people who care and don't let them make you forget that-- you are not alone.

cipheramnesia

I think we should add extra rights for trans people. We should have equal human rights, plus some other animal, like lizards or horses. Trans rights are human rights plus also endangered California condor rights. We get the extra bird rights. Our breeding grounds are protected sites.

cipheramnesia

This one was an unexpected hit with the trans therians, fist bump, fist bump, nice.

writingdose

sztupy

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

ayeforscotland

Let’s fucking go

made-in-manetheren

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Life must be a rollercoaster for the D class. You live in a shitty prison cell for the remainder of your probably extremely short life. One day some security guards show up and take you to a big room where a scientist tells you to copy an image onto some paper. You do. The scientist shrugs and writes something down and you're taken back.

One day a scientist hands you a poptart and says "eat this". You say "is it full of some kind of fucked up interdimensional poison". The scientist says "eat it or that security guard will tase you and tie you down and make you eat it". You eat the poptart. It is not full of fucked up interdimensional poison, but it is kind of stale. You describe the taste to the scientist and he shrugs and writes something down and you go back to your shitty cell.

One day a security guard takes you to a big room and there's a flute sitting on a table. A scientist tells you "play Hot Cross Buns on that". You explain that you do not know how to play the flute. You are instructed to try. You play the flute and get immediately get dragged into some incomprehensible shadow dimension and torn to pieces for no reason that makes any sense to you. You are very lucky to have survived so long and died so quickly.

derinthescarletpescatarian

This guy will spend hours staring at his blank wall and wondering what the fuck was in that chamber and why they thought he might know.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Sometimes you get blindfolded and told to repeatedly roll a basketball across the floor of a room and then you have to draw pictures and learn piano and cooking and you accidentally become a big monster's beloved Emotional Support Human, though, so there are potential upsides.

derinthescarletpescatarian

#i know Derin didnt invent this#but it is SUCH a Derin concept

I've been incorrectly credited with inventing rotational pseudogravity in colony ships and the "humanity, fuck yeah" subgenre, so this assumption would be par for the course.

(For the record I have never invented anything.)

Someone came in fully convinced that I wrote 17776 once. I'm waiting for the day that I get confused for the cookie clicker guy.

derinthescarletpescatarian

I'm an SCP anomaly but all I do is cause people to misattribute art they like to me at random.