#State of Pernambuco

[ameerblogs]

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[anthropoetics]

to the anon asking how big is brazil: it's literally the 5th largest country by area in the whole world. so yeah pretty big!!

i genuinely can't fathom! i'll probably only realize when i live in another country

[wallpapers4screen]

[serenfloras]

#who the FUCK is drinking water from the sink?????#80% people it seems. y’all are insane#what the fuck is this culture clash bullshit Westerners. If anything, it speaks to the fact that you guys in the Global South should at least the choice of what we have.

i’d rather stay with the old reliable water filter but yeah i’d also like the choice in case of emergencies. if i drink tap water in this economy i think i’ll get what’d be the lovechild of severe tetanus with the bubonic plague

[le-agent-egg]

flag tier list blast 💥💥💥

these are based PURELY on how heavy i fw them- nothing about the province or state, nothing from a vexillology standpoint, just how much i like the flag on its own…..

(so many of your flags are sooooo much nicer than ours…. and by that i mean they aren’t like super ultra crowded…. and they’re easily distinguishable unlike two certain canadian provinces….)

[2enba2luka]

People need to understand that Israel is not a sovereign state, for the same reason that the 13 colonies were not sovereign states: it is a settler colony of an imperialist power. The prime minister of Israel isn't any more of a State leader than the hereditary captain of Pernambuco was during early colonial Brazil. The IOF isn't any more of an independent military force than settler militias in the western US during the 19th century. Israel is the last¹ settler-colonial frontier of the modern world, and the metropole is doing everything it can to support it. Pretending that the metropole (the US and its allies) are not completely responsible for every Israeli war crime is like pretending that Hitler wasn't responsible for the Holocaust.

[brazilspill]

remember when Qatar confiscated a Pernambuco state flag 'cause they thought it was a queer flag?

I think about that a lot. It lives rent-free in my head.

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Brazil’s ban on X: how scientists are coping with the cutoff

Some are pivoting to alternative social-media platforms and scrambling to rebuild their networks.

After the social-media platform X was banned in Brazil last week, scientists in the country began scrambling to find another online forum for posting about their research, communicating with collaborators and staying abreast of scientific advances. “Following journals and key people always kept me on top of things,” says Regina Rodrigues, a physical oceanographer at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianópolis, Brazil.

Some feel isolated because of the change. “I’ve lost contact with colleagues and European research groups I joined during my postdoc in Spain,” says Rodrigo Cunha, a communications researcher at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil.

Others are more sanguine, pointing out that many researchers had already left X (formerly Twitter) after billionaire Elon Musk bought it and changed its policies, including those related to content moderation and how users could be ‘verified’, or deemed an authoritative source of information. Sabine Righetti, a science-communications researcher at the State University of Campinas in Brazil, exited the platform early last year owing to what she perceived as an increase in aggressive messages, especially targeting scientists, journalists and women. “I am these three things,” she says.

Ronaldo Lemos, chief scientist at the Institute for Technology and Society in Rio de Janeiro, says the ban might offer a glimpse of what the world would be like without X. Social networks come and go, he says, pointing to some that have shut down, such as Google’s Orkut, which closed in 2014 and was once popular in Brazil. “People adapt and look for ways to reconstruct their networks in other places," he says.

Continue reading.

[clarajayjay]

Pernambucan Miku!!!

(It's still Brazilian Miku, but from Pernambuco, a state of Brazil aka my home state)

Bonus!!

Yes, this version of Miku is a fusion between Brazilian Miku and myself

[elbiotipo]

I think it would be fun to write a setting where military titles have the same meaning as noble titles of peerage. Maybe a space empire or an ISOT. Hereditary Captain of planet Pernambuco....

(marshall=prince/grand duke

General=duke

Coronel=margrave

Major=count

Captain=viscount

Lieutenant=baron

Sargent=landed knight without a title)

I mean, what is the POINT of noble titles if they don't confer the military rank (or viceversa)

There was something really interesting I read in an RPG manual long ago, bear with me. In GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars, the humans from the United Nations of Earth face against another empire of humans, the Vilani Empire, which is like a hundred times more populated and ancient than Earth.

Anyways, lots of really interesting stuff happens, but eventually in the last war, the UN has a superior technological advantage and manages to conquer the empire (there's lots of Alexander the Great metaphors here) and to administer such a vast territory, it tries to cooperate with local administration, taking local titles and such, and sometimes military with ranks as low as ensign (the lowest officer rank possible) are put in charge of entire planets at least as ceremonial feudal rulers.

(I know what you're thinking, but this is portrayed with a lot more nuance in the RPG, this eventually becomes the Second Imperium from Traveller, which falls very quickly and later gives way to the Third Imperium after a long age of collapse)

But it does get me thinking. Feudalism was a very complex system, but it essentially emerged from the fall of the Roman "state", such as it was, to be replaced by essentially familial and military ties. What would that look like in a fictional setting in modern times, for example, after the fall of major modern states where control falls to military strongmen (not only likely, this has happened, that's why warlord is a word) but also things get to a point where this system is formalized, as it was with feudalism.

[xtruss]

‘A Beacon of Hope’: Indigenous People Reunited With Sacred Cloak In Brazil

Denmark Sends 300-Year-Old Feathered Cloak Considered An Ancestor By Tupinambá de Olivença to Rio

— Tiago Rogero | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷 | Thursday 12 September 2024

The Cloak will be Publicly Unveiled at a Ceremony on Thursday. Photograph: Niels Erik Jehrbo/Nationalmuseet

The scene resembled a funeral: seven Indigenous people, overcome with tears, gathered around a loved one resting in a coffin-like wooden box. Instead of grief, however, it was a moment of celebration: the long-awaited reunion between the Tupinambá de Olivença people and a sacred feathered cloak that was taken from Brazil at least 335 years ago.

The relic – which the Indigenous people consider not as an object but as an ancestor – had been at Denmark’s National Museum until July, when it was sent to Rio de Janeiro.

Chief Jamopoty and six other Representatives of the Tupinambá de Olivença people reunited for the first time with the cloak taken from Brazil at least 335 years ago. Photograph: Tiago Rogero/The Guardian

It will be publicly unveiled at a ceremony at Brazil’s National Museum on Thursday attended by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. But the first private encounter between the Tupinambá of Olivença and the cloak took place on Sunday, in an intimate moment witnessed by the Guardian.

The reunion had been eagerly anticipated: after the cloak’s return to Brazil, the Indigenous group had complained that they were not initially given the chance to perform their reception rituals for the sacred relic, which they refer to in the same terms they would to a person.

“We spoke to him, and he responded,” said Cacique Maria Valdelice Amaral de Jesus, 62, known as Jamopoty Tupinambá.

About 200 Tupinambá de Olivença made the 1,250km journey from their land in Bahia to Rio de Janeiro and have been camping near the National Museum. Photograph: Tiago Rogero/The Guardian

Jamopoty said the cape had returned to resolve the numerous land disputes threatening Indigenous communities across Brazil, adding: “He said we must have our lands demarcated.”

She was joined in the temperature-controlled room by six other representatives of the Tupinambá de Olivença, who for about 20 minutes prayed and spoke to the cloak, which lay under an oxygen-free glass dome, as technicians carefully monitored the humidity.

Jamopoty’s remarks were recorded by the documentary director Carina Bini who, with the Indigenous leader’s consent, shared them with the Guardian.

“You’re lying down, but you’ll stand up. We came to visit you,” she said.

“I don’t even have words. It’s the most beautiful thing I have ever seen,” she said as tears ran down her face, which was painted with the red dye of annatto seeds.

Her partner, Averaldo Rosario Santos, told the cloak that its return was “a beacon of hope for all the Indigenous peoples that remain in this once-invaded Brazil.”

Maria Valdelice Amaral de Jesus, 62, known as Jamopoty Tupinambá. Photograph: Tiago Rogero/The Guardian

Tupinambá cloaks – typically made from thousands of scarlet ibis feathers – were used as ceremonial vestments by coastal Indigenous peoples, said Amy Buono, an assistant professor of art history at Chapman University.

“These capes probably functioned as supernatural skins, transferring the vital force from one living organism to another,” said Buono, who has studied this cloak and 10 others still in European museums in Denmark, Italy, France, Belgium and Switzerland.

“Tupinambá capes were some of the most sought-after artefacts in the early 16th century,” she said. Several Tupinambá cloaks were worn by the courtiers during a 1599 procession at the court of the Duke of Württemberg in Stuttgart.

The newly returned cloak was first inventoried by Denmark in 1689 as part of the collection of Frederick III, possibly after it was taken from Brazil by Dutch forces, which occupied the state of Pernambuco from 1630 to 1654.

“When the cloak was taken from us, it weakened our community,” said Jamopoty.

A Parade in Stuttgart at the Court of Duke Frederick I of Wurttemberg in 1599. Photograph: Album/Alamy

The Tupinambá de Olivença’s fight for the cloak’s repatriation began in 2000 when it was loaned for an exhibition in São Paulo. Jamopoty’s mother, Nivalda Amaral de Jesus, who was known as Amotara, visited the exhibit and demanded its return to Brazil.

At the time, the Tupinambá were not even officially recognised as an Indigenous people – they were even described as extinct in history books.

Under pressure from Amotara (who died in 2018) and other leaders, the Tupinambá de Olivença were finally recognised in 2001 by the Brazilian government.

Eight years later, the first step was taken towards demarcating their territory – an area of 47,000 hectares spanning three municipalities in Bahia.

Since then, however, the Brazilian government has made no further progress in mapping their territory, which has led to land grabs by cocoa farmers and tourism developers.

Indigenous Leaders Frustrated Despite Cloak’s Return to Brazil after 300 Years! Denmark returns artefact but Tupinambá leaders say they were prevented from performing the necessary rituals to receive sacred relic. Cloak is made with about 4,000 Red Feathers of the Scarlet Ibis Bird was first inventoried by Denmark in 1689, but some believe it was taken from Brazil nearly 50 years before. Photograph: Niels Erik Jehrbo/Nationalmuseet

‘We Wanted To Perform Our Rituals, With Songs and Incense Using Our Herbs … It would have been a Special Moment for Strengthening Our Identity,’ said the Chief of Tupinambá de Olivença People. Photograph: Niels Erik Jehrbo/Nationalmuseet

About 200 Tupinambá de Olivença made the 1,250km journey to Rio to receive the cloak, camping near the National Museum, which is still being rebuilt after a huge fire destroyed about 85% of its collection in 2018.

The museum’s director, Alexandre Keller, said the cloak would go on display to the public when the museum reopens in April 2026. Until then, it will be available only to researchers and Indigenous people.

There is no indication that any other Tupinambá cloak will be repatriated but Buono argued that they should all return to Brazil: “These capes were collected by Europeans to be displayed as curiosities and studied for their materials.

“But for the Tupinambá these were, and continue to be, sacred, living forces. Their presence in Brazil will be an extremely important marker of communal identity and evidence for land rights and other legal matters,” she said.

[nadiegesabate1990]

I am being watched by people torturing me in Buenos Aires, trying to expel me from my city.

Writing about the dangers of the age of information technology and mass media, TV shows like Ellen DeGeneres and Fatima Bernardes.

Given the potential of modern information technology and the ubiquity of mass media, people have long found the vision of a controlling state more terrifying than ever.

I will describe the situation in my city to you.

After people appeared and traveled to TV shows in the United States and Brazil, identical people who look exactly the same are invading homes and taking over their places.

Three cities near mine, Buenos Aires, Pernambuco.

Using technological devices, cell phones, the intruder can monitor the lives of every individual down to the most intimate details; all actions and all thoughts are controlled.

All this is possible thanks to Google applications that allow you to send voice messages on cell phones without identifying people.

For example, my cell phone emits voices without me using it. As if someone were watching me 24 hours a day.

What they want is to convert concepts into their opposites and destroy all criteria of value in order to manipulate. The truth is; I am under house arrest without having done anything, being tortured, that is the truth.

There are people who enter homes, make strange sounds with their mouths, stand still without doing anything, irritating us, invading our privacy and thoughts, trying to control us.

I am being imprisoned by evil people who want to erase me.

The working class population finds itself excluded from any type of education. They do not know and do not understand that we are not dealing with people, but with animals, primitive people.

I am writing the truth. I work as a musician, I am a small music employee condemned to frustration, who is trying to regain control of my conscience and center my vague political hopes on the current mayor who is not fully controlled.

In my hatred for the party,

To give you an idea, they are preventing me from going out with heterosexual women in the city of Buenos Aires, Pernambuco.

They are preventing me from having sex. I haven't had sex in six years.

My revolt against the power machine of the state of Pernambuco arises from police repression.

I have tried several times to contact the police and report it; it is just a clandestine organization, just a group of people who are having sex and meet on TV shows in the United States and they are excluding me from the municipality: I see that there is nothing outside of power; the organization is a puppet entity created by the party itself and the intermediary is an employee who tortures me.

I confess to tell the truth, they are preventing me from going out with women in the city of Buenos Aires, Pernambuco.

When I realized years ago that I am being deprived of everything, that I am turning into a living dead.

I think I have no chance of salvation from the omnipresent machine of the state of Pernambuco.

They are creating a fictitious world.

It's a world where you can travel to the United States and watch TV shows.

I would be crazy if I thought that all the people on TV ARE artists or have sex with everyone I saw on a TV show. Then I would be A CRAZY PERSON.

Repeat the joke.

I would be crazy if I thought that all the people on TV ARE artists or have sex with people whose names I don't know. Then I would be A CRAZY PERSON.

[txttletale]

what's your opinion about the flag of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco?

theres . a Lot going on here .b ut i kinda dig it. i tink it has like one too many elements for me to be a true fan but it's nothing if not symbolic and memorable

[morangoowada]

ok this is gonna be kinda. weirdly specific. but i really really like flags and i was wondering about like the meanings/representation of brazil’s state flags? (OBVIOUSLY NOT ALL OF THEM LMAO YOU GUYS HAVE DOUBLE WHAT CANADA DOES AND I DON’T WANNA ACCIDENTALLY MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU GOTTA TALK ABOUT ALL OF THEM)

Of course, I'll share some of my favorites, and obviously the meaning behind some of them (colors or just history)

The flag of Minas Gerais, the text says "LIBERTAS QUÆ SERA TAMEN" which translates to "freedom, even if late". The history behind the flag is related to Confidência Mineira, an important event to brazilian history and specially to the state of Minas. Basically, during the colonial period of Brazil, the elite of Minas Gerais wasn't happy with Portugal and their domain over the, at the time, colony. So a lot of people started gathering to rebel against Portugal, their plan was to break free fom their colonizers and turn the state of Minas Gerais into an independent country. But the movement was betrayed by one of their members, who told the Portuguese Cort about them so he could repay his debts, and everyone was sent to prison. All of the members were supposed to be sentenced to death, but in the end only one of them was executed. His name was Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, popularly called as "Tiradentes" because he was a dentist. Tiradentes was executed and later had his body completely dismembered and exposed in Vila Rica (the city is called Ouro Preto now) completely intimidating the entire population so that no one could ever think of trying something like that again

Till this day, Tiradentes is still considered an heroic figure to Brazil, and the day of his death (April 21) is a national holiday. That's the context behind the flag, sorry if my explanation is bad

The flag of Pernambuco also has a history similar to the one of Minas Gerais, because it was also inspired by a revolution

This was the flag of Revolução Pernambucana!! The revolution was a bit similar to Inconfidência Mineira, but some of the differences were that, the rebels wanted to make Pernambuco an independent country, they were almost successful and actually were in power for some time, and also wanted to make their citizens more free (while at the same time doing nothing about slavery-)

The context behind the revolution was that, after Portugal expelled the Dutch from the northeast, the region went into a crisis because sugar wasn't being selled as much, and Pernambuco tried to make up for it by selling cotton instead of sugar, but it went wrong since the Cort started taxing them and it made Pernambucanos mad

Rio Grande do Norte doesn't have a specific history behind the flag, unlike the others I have mentioned- but I like the flag so here's the meaning of the colors!!! White represents peace. Yellow represents our mines, since our state had an important mine in Currais Novos. Green represents our forests.

Maranhão is another one that doesn't have a specific history behind it, but I like the meaning behind the colors!! The colors red, black, and white represent the natives, black and white people, who together make up the population of Maranhão, since Brazil is a country born from miscegenation. Blue represents the sky, and the star represents... The same constellation that represents Maranhão in the flag of Brazil.

Last one for now, the flag of Ceará!! By using parts of the Brazil flag, it represents how the state of Ceará is a part of the country, while representing the state right at the center, some of the elements worth pointing out are the Farol do Mucuripe and the representation of Caatinga, the biome found in the Northeast (it looks a bit like a desert)

[dangakkisland]

Hello Pomodoro, the screenshots of the Portuguese version of DR:THH are very interesting! I have one question: in the English version, the name Kyoko Kirigiri is used, but in the Portuguese version, it seems to be "Kyouko". As a Japanese speaker, "Kyouko" looks more correct to me, but I've heard that in English "Kyou" has no “u” because they don't know how to pronounce it, but I'm not sure if this is the case for Portuguese speakers or not. Is the notation "Kyouko" easier to pronounce for Portuguese speakers?

Thanks for the question, and about that: Yes, it is easier to pronounce and we know how to pronounce it, "Kyoko" as a name has a issue that "Kyouko" doesn't and the thing is called "obsessive amount of invisible vowels or irrelevant letters" that leads to taking longer to pronounce the name correctly

Kyoko goes: Ki-uh-ooh-ku

Kyouko goes: Ki-ou-ku

It is the same for Kamukuras name or Kamakura (Because I dont know how to pronounce Ku and neither my friends do except if it is a joke or something, because "cu/ku" also means asshole and its easier to pronounce alone than in a name)

Kamukura goes: Ka-muk-ruh-kk-ura

Kamakura goes: Kam-ah-ku-rah

I think that happens because Portuguese uses more nasal form of communication than most of other Americans (The continent: North, Central, the rest of Latin) however, it might change for each state that are as big as an country like Amazonas or Pernambuco, but I am betting on nasal communication since I use """Educational Brazilian Portuguese""" which is Portuguese taught in schools that uses nasal words more often, so I believe is a general problem.

Thanks again!

[benzodiazepinicaa]

Arthur Case

"that's little compared to what you did to my son..."

Abuser and murderer of 2-year-old Arthur is killed by citizens of Pernambuco, Brazil

A heinous crime recently shocked the backlands of Pernambuco. They found the body of a boy named Arthur, aged 2, dead and completely injured.

It all started when a neighbor became concerned after seeing through the window that the boy had been lying down all day, and decided to enter the house. She found the boy's body cold, lifeless, and badly injured, with signs of extreme violence. In a feeling of despair, she took the boy's body to the hospital, but he had already been dead for a long time.

"He arrived here all broken. He was raped and tortured a lot," said one of the hospital doctors.

The boy's body was in a disgusting state, the sexual violence was brutal, and the torture had ruined the boy's entire body.

The nanny and her boyfriend were identified as the perpetrators of the crime. As soon as the citizens of the small town found out, they went after the two. They brutally beat both criminals and killed the man. They spared the woman's life, who was taken to the police station.

Fun fact: In Brazil, those who sexually or physically abuse children tend to be repaid in kind. Often, citizens of the cities get together to lynch, rape and kill the criminal. This is already a normal occurrence with any crime related to pedophilia or child abuse, and the police tend not to arrest those involved for the murder of the criminal.