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Glenn Shepard

@tweettropiques.bsky.social

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Ethnobotanist, anthropologist, polyglot & filmmaker living and working in Brazilian Amazon; traditional medicine, sensory ecology, Indigenous media; New York Review contributor; Blog: Notes from the Ethnoground https://ethnoground.blogspot.com .. more

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · Jul 25

Infinite Jest: an homage to #DavidFosterWallace I made many years ago for an #InfiniteJest film festival. This short film imagines J.O. Incandenza on set with Mme. Psychosis as they make the fatal samizdat from the eponymous novel. Enjoy, but not too much…

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@mariabustillos.com

Infinite Jest IV

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 2d

"Not much has changed in how a spy approaches, cultivates, recruits and runs an agent, except perhaps the technological means by which he does so. The Russians still prey upon grievances and vulnerabilities the way they used to."

@spybrary.bsky.social @michaelidov.bsky.social

John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 2d

“Moscow still loves a loser: failed journalists, has-beens, also-rans, sex pests and disgruntled narcissists end up going to work for the Kremlin.”

macspaunday.substack.com/p/how-russia...

How Russian Spies Infiltrate U.S. Institutions

Read a 1988 KGB textbook on how to recruit agents working for the U.S. government abroad.

macspaunday.substack.com

Reposted by Glenn H. Shepard

John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 2d

“Moscow still loves a loser: failed journalists, has-beens, also-rans, sex pests and disgruntled narcissists end up going to work for the Kremlin.”

macspaunday.substack.com/p/how-russia...

How Russian Spies Infiltrate U.S. Institutions

Read a 1988 KGB textbook on how to recruit agents working for the U.S. government abroad.

macspaunday.substack.com

Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Michael Kevane, Glenn H. Shepard , and 3 more Joe R. Feagin, Michael Kevane, Glenn H. Shepard, Michael D. McDonald, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Dan Immergluck

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Genius

Reposted by Gerald Friedman, Glenn H. Shepard, Kent Johnson , and 1 more Gerald Friedman, Glenn H. Shepard, Kent Johnson, Henry Jones

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 5d

Is Piggy referring to his attempted coup on January 6th?

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Katharine Hayhoe, Stéphane Hallegatte , and 20 more Cas Mudde, Katharine Hayhoe, Stéphane Hallegatte, Brad R. Humphreys, Tim Bale, American Library Association, Éric Verdeil, Dawn J. Wright, Cathy N. Davidson, Valerie Mueller, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Lauren Hersch Nicholas, Andrew Jacobs, William A. Allen, Christine Kooi, Glenn H. Shepard, Étienne Ollion, Dana R. Fisher, David Murakami Wood, Aurélien Mondon, Catriona Seth, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Monica Valentinelli is riding to Isengard @booksofm.com · 5d

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 5d

"My log is my castle!"

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 6d

"We have to get better at saying what is it that we want, and say it often" -- an inspiring conversation about picking up the pieces and rebuilding America with @mochaeinstein27.bsky.social and @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social on What Rough Beast podcast virginiaheffernan.substack.com/podcast

What Rough Beast | Virginia Heffernan | Substack

What Rough Beast, hosted by Virginia Heffernan (Wired, Trumpcast) and Stephen Metcalf (Slate, Culture Gabfest) is a podcast where we bear witness to America’s demise, and ask what might be built from ...

virginiaheffernan.substack.com

Reposted by Glenn H. Shepard, Juan Rocha, Tommaso Jucker , and 2 more Glenn H. Shepard, Juan Rocha, Tommaso Jucker, Marta Maziarz, Benjamin Wildermuth

Iris Hordijk @iris-hordijk.bsky.social · 6d

There is a PhD position available at @w-u-r.bsky.social on seed dispersal and succession! You will be based at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and conduct fieldwork in tropical forests in Mexico on plant-animal interactions. Deadline to apply: 3rd of December shorturl.at/sLVOU

PhD position on 'Seed dispersal shapes tropical forest succession' (Seeds 4 Success)

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 7d

seeing as how well it worked with Colbert and Kimmel...

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 7d

Disgusting

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 8d

“Agora a gente quer contar nossas histórias. Igual a gente vê em filme, em TV." Filme em idioma Kayapó "Nhakpoti" produzido em colaboração intercultural entre o Museu Goeldi e a aldeia A'Ukre fecha o festival Pan-Amazônica de cinema em Belém
revistacenarium.com.br/ii-mostra-pa...

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 8d

Despite important affirmative action policies in Brazil, Indigenous university students feel their knowledge and values aren't respected in the academic setting.

ruf.folha.uol.com.br/2025/noticia...

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 9d

Found this Joaquin Phoenix film based on the novel by my friend @jonathanames.bsky.social on the Wall of Fame at Libero Luxardo art cinema in Belém, where our prize-winning collaborative Kayapó language film Nkahpoti is showing tonight as part of an Amazonian film festival for #COP30

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 9d

Today! 7 PM in Belem. NHAKPOTI: Award-winning short film in the Kayapo language will be shown at the Pan-Amazonian Film Festival, Nov. 16th at 7 PM, Av. Gentil Bittencourt, 650 - Nazaré, followed by discussion with me and indigenous filmmaker Pat-I

More @sapiens_org

www.sapiens.org/culture/indi...

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 11d

He'll try to lockerroom his way out of it like he always does and GOP and Fox will once again try to cover for him. But the fact that cracks are starting to show is significant.

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 11d

NHAKPOTI: Award-winning Kayapo film will be shown Sunday, November 16th at 6:30 PM at the Pan-Amazonian Film Festival, Av. Gentil Bittencourt, 650 - Nazaré, Belém, followed by discussion session with me and Indigenous filmmaker Pat-I

See article @sapiens_org

www.sapiens.org/culture/indi...

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 11d

ETHNOBOTANY REIMAGINED! Discover the living intelligence of the plant world:
The McKenna Academy, led by pioneering ethnopharmacologist Dennis McKenna, is offering Master-level courses in ethnobotany, plant chemistry and shamanism. Discounts through November 30!

mckenna.academy/mka-programs...

Online Ethnobotany, Plant Medicine & Shamanism Courses

Explore ethnobotany, plant medicine, and shamanism with world-renowned instructors like Dennis McKenna & Wade Davis. Deepen your human-plant understanding.

mckenna.academy

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 12d

"I am a child of the forest, a child of Omama who planted the forest. I defend the forest. The nape [non-indigenous enemies] are multiplying and destroying the forest. All of you need to help us Yanomami defend the forest. Enough destruction!"

-- Davi Kopenawa at COP30 in Belem.

Reposted by Glenn H. Shepard

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 13d

COP30 Belem!

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 16d

"Indigenous Water Guardians": Part 2 of a 3 part series on TV Peru about Rainforest Flow's water projectsthat have reduced childhood deaths from diarrhea by 73% in the last 15 years in Matsigenka Indigenous communities of Manu National Park

youtu.be/w3nh5SDk7JA?...

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 18d

🤬

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 22d

A movie you've seen more than 7 times in a GIF (and this one is exponential...)

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 22d

a woman is doing push ups on the ground

ALT: a woman is doing push ups on the ground

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Reposted by Glenn H. Shepard

Mongabay @mongabay.com · 22d

Brazil’s official data show deforestation in the Amazon fell 11% in the 12 months to July 2025, with independent monitoring by Imazon confirming a similar trend—evidence that policies under President Lula da Silva are reversing the sharp rise seen during Jair Bolsonaro’s administration.

Heading into COP, Brazil’s Amazon deforestation rate is falling. What about fires?

As the world’s attention turns toward COP30 in Belém next month, the story of Brazil’s Amazon is shifting—though not quite in a straightforward way. According to the government’s satellite-based...

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Reposted by Anna O. Law, Alan Richardson, Glenn H. Shepard , and 6 more Anna O. Law, Alan Richardson, Glenn H. Shepard, Elizabeth Stevenson, Anne Norton, Ann Bartow, Claire L. Adida, Manisha Sinha, Nathan P. Kalmoe

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23d

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

from people magazine

Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for
'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results
The president predicted that Democratic Reps.
Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could not perform as well as he did in a cognitive exam
By Greta Bjornson |
Updated on October 28, 2025 10:24AM EDT

from people magazine

Donald Trump Hosts Great Gatsby-Themed Halloween Party as 42
Million Americans Brace for SNAP Benefits to Expire
The president hosted the Roaring '20s bash at Mar-a-Lago on Oct. 31 amid the ongoing government shutdown
By Bailey Richards
Published on November 1, 2025 06:19PM EDT

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 23d

"If spying is mostly writing, a good deal of the remainder is waiting."

-- David McCloskey

@spybrary.bsky.social

Reposted by Glenn H. Shepard

Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 23d

Happy All Souls day from Paul Celan (trans. by Michael Hamburger)

ALL SOULS

What did I
do?

Seminated the night, as though
there could be others, more nocturnal than
this one.

Bird flight, stone flight, a thousand
described routes. Glances,
purloined and plucked. The sea,
tasted, drunk away, dreamed away. An hour soul-eclipsed. The next, an autumn light,
offered up to a blind
feeling which came that way. Others, many,
with no place but their own heavy centres: glimpsed and avoided.

Foundlings, stars,
black, full of language: named
after an oath which silence annulled.

And once (when? that too is forgotten):
felt the barb
where my pulse dared the counter-beat.

Reposted by Glenn H. Shepard

Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 25d

By combining 8 different nanobodies isolated from alpacas and llamas following immunization with snake venom - this research team has produced an antivenom that not only protects against 17 different snake venoms but also protects from tissue local damage, a major problem associated with bites.

Single antivenom protects against 17 different snakebites

Researchers immunized an alpaca and a llama with snake venoms, and combined some of the antibodies produced into a potent cocktail.

www.nature.com

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 28d

"Journey to the Heart of Manu", 1st in a 2 part series on TV Peru about Matsigenka indigenous communities of Manu National Park and the life-saving water and sanitation projects implemented there by Rainforest Flow

Part 2 airs Sunday at 8 PM, Peru time on TVPerú

youtu.be/dVnMsVNrLj8?...

🌿 Expedición al corazón del Manu: una travesía hacia la comunidad más aislada del Perú 🌎

YouTube video by TVPerú Noticias

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 29d

Always have to work in a little ethnobotany into the TV Peru special on the Matsigenka people of Manu National Park!

The segment begins at 23:00 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHh0...

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