Hispanic pixie dreamgirl
@bocadelperro.bsky.social
Historian of 17th century German religion and culture in the San Francisco area. I have a kid, a corgi and a garden.
Posts mostly in English, occasionally in German or Spanish.
All typos are due to the demon Titivillus, who has possessed my autocorrect.
Posts mostly in English, occasionally in German or Spanish.
All typos are due to the demon Titivillus, who has possessed my autocorrect.
I am of the opinion that the sugar beet was one of the greatest humanitarian innovations of the modern era.
Researchers estimate that the life expectancy for people forced to work in cane fields was mid 20s.
They were slaughterhouses. Being sent to one was functionally a death sentence.
They were slaughterhouses. Being sent to one was functionally a death sentence.
Mortality rates were so high on sugar plantations during slavery that slaveholders used to coerce enslaved people working other crops like cotton with threats to sell them or their loved ones to sugar plantations.
That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.
That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.
February 9, 2026 at 3:18 PM
I am of the opinion that the sugar beet was one of the greatest humanitarian innovations of the modern era.
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People have worn out "performative." We often perform things that are real, you know. Posting is a kind of performance of one's politics. Performative doesn't actually mean "fake" or "empty," it just gets deployed that way. We actually need performance. Case in point: last night's performance.
February 9, 2026 at 3:05 PM
People have worn out "performative." We often perform things that are real, you know. Posting is a kind of performance of one's politics. Performative doesn't actually mean "fake" or "empty," it just gets deployed that way. We actually need performance. Case in point: last night's performance.
I'd like to add this one, too.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Nort...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Nort...
February 9, 2026 at 4:57 AM
I'd like to add this one, too.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Nort...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Nort...
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I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
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February 9, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 AM
It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
WTF did I just read.
Doocy: "The new face of RealFood .gov is Mike Tyson. How did you settle on someone who was most famous for eating Evander Holyfield's ear?"
RFK Jr.: "Brett Ratner who helped produce the ad had a lifelong friendship with him."
RFK Jr.: "Brett Ratner who helped produce the ad had a lifelong friendship with him."
February 9, 2026 at 3:16 AM
WTF did I just read.
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I've been publishing academic books and articles on Santa Muerte, the fastest growing NRM on the planet, since 2012 and this is my latest article.
canopyforum.org/2026/02/06/s...
#AcademicSky #Mexico #SantaMuerte
canopyforum.org/2026/02/06/s...
#AcademicSky #Mexico #SantaMuerte
"Saint Death v. Church and State: The Political Economy of Santa Muerte in Mexico" by R. Andrew Chesnut - Canopy Forum
Photo of Santa Muerte iconography. Photo taken by author. In March 2009, Mexican soldiers razed more than forty public shrines to Santa Muerte in Nuevo Laredo and Tijuana, pulverizing cement and plast...
canopyforum.org
February 8, 2026 at 8:24 PM
I've been publishing academic books and articles on Santa Muerte, the fastest growing NRM on the planet, since 2012 and this is my latest article.
canopyforum.org/2026/02/06/s...
#AcademicSky #Mexico #SantaMuerte
canopyforum.org/2026/02/06/s...
#AcademicSky #Mexico #SantaMuerte
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A Reddit user identifies the boy who took a Grammy from Bad Bunny in the halftime show as five-year-old model Lincoln Fox and says that he was meant to represent Bad Bunny as a child www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/... www.reddit.com/user/BabySea...
February 9, 2026 at 2:46 AM
A Reddit user identifies the boy who took a Grammy from Bad Bunny in the halftime show as five-year-old model Lincoln Fox and says that he was meant to represent Bad Bunny as a child www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/... www.reddit.com/user/BabySea...
Who knew the Great America parking lot could see such greatness.
#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
February 9, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Who knew the Great America parking lot could see such greatness.
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I’m throwing “thriving” in there because that show was as much a celebration of all that we are as it was an indictment of everything that America thinks it is.
February 9, 2026 at 2:08 AM
I’m throwing “thriving” in there because that show was as much a celebration of all that we are as it was an indictment of everything that America thinks it is.
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If you’re thinking, “I should learn Spanish 🤔”, I highly encourage it.
Especially as someone who already has English, French, and Hindi/Urdu (so I recognised the cognates from the Arabic!), Spanish was an absolute joy to learn.
Also it’s just a goddamn beautiful language.
Especially as someone who already has English, French, and Hindi/Urdu (so I recognised the cognates from the Arabic!), Spanish was an absolute joy to learn.
Also it’s just a goddamn beautiful language.
I actually started learning Spanish when Hurricane Maria happened, and got funding to go to Puerto Rico for book research. Then covid happened and I never went but I still taught myself Spanish. And having the language (unsurprisingly) really opened a path into Latin American history and culture.
February 9, 2026 at 2:19 AM
If you’re thinking, “I should learn Spanish 🤔”, I highly encourage it.
Especially as someone who already has English, French, and Hindi/Urdu (so I recognised the cognates from the Arabic!), Spanish was an absolute joy to learn.
Also it’s just a goddamn beautiful language.
Especially as someone who already has English, French, and Hindi/Urdu (so I recognised the cognates from the Arabic!), Spanish was an absolute joy to learn.
Also it’s just a goddamn beautiful language.
Wow, I had no idea how much I needed that celebration of latinidad. I'm not even a reggaeton fan and that felt like a breath of fresh air (coming off the Caribbean, por supuesto).
February 9, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Wow, I had no idea how much I needed that celebration of latinidad. I'm not even a reggaeton fan and that felt like a breath of fresh air (coming off the Caribbean, por supuesto).
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Football fact: no one has any idea how to play the game
February 9, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Football fact: no one has any idea how to play the game
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Sharing as a gift link. This is thoughtful in calling out the massive cannibalistic grift that is “financialization”. If you can overlook the “rah rah good capitalism” vibe, the critique seems good.
I’d love to hear from some economist mutuals for their thoughts on this.
I’d love to hear from some economist mutuals for their thoughts on this.
Opinion | The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Sharing as a gift link. This is thoughtful in calling out the massive cannibalistic grift that is “financialization”. If you can overlook the “rah rah good capitalism” vibe, the critique seems good.
I’d love to hear from some economist mutuals for their thoughts on this.
I’d love to hear from some economist mutuals for their thoughts on this.
In my life, I have only had two piece of clothing with an athlete's name on them: a Katie Ledecky swim cap and a Joe Montana jersey, so that was a moment 🙂.
February 8, 2026 at 11:59 PM
In my life, I have only had two piece of clothing with an athlete's name on them: a Katie Ledecky swim cap and a Joe Montana jersey, so that was a moment 🙂.
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yeah, this is absolutely a reason why there are a lot more gleeful predictions about AI taking over all creative work than there are about it taking over sports
This too is Gender. Football is a Man Thing (vital), while many other creative pursuits are Woman Coded (frivolous, disposable, not Really Important).
February 8, 2026 at 7:39 PM
yeah, this is absolutely a reason why there are a lot more gleeful predictions about AI taking over all creative work than there are about it taking over sports
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only
February 8, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only
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"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
La date du 16 juin avait été dans un premier temps pressentie pour son entrée au Panthéon, mais la cérémonie a dû être décalée de quelques jours en raison du G7 à Evian-les-Bains.
www.lemonde.fr
February 8, 2026 at 7:02 PM
"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"
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There's a lot of semantics and pedantry and reactivity where there should be thinking the thing and yes, who the author is, through for a second
And I get that we're all sad/mad/scared but the person you're talking to is also a person who may be sad/mad/scared.
And I get that we're all sad/mad/scared but the person you're talking to is also a person who may be sad/mad/scared.
February 8, 2026 at 5:40 PM
There's a lot of semantics and pedantry and reactivity where there should be thinking the thing and yes, who the author is, through for a second
And I get that we're all sad/mad/scared but the person you're talking to is also a person who may be sad/mad/scared.
And I get that we're all sad/mad/scared but the person you're talking to is also a person who may be sad/mad/scared.
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If you're in Rockville, MD I recommend going into the old post office to see the mural of what Montgomery County used to look like, Sugar Loaf in the distance and rolling fields. Some of that still existed when I was little, before unchecked developers with no plan created the sprawl.
👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country?
What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished?
What if I told you that I found them?
A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):
What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished?
What if I told you that I found them?
A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):
The disappearing art gallery in your post office
The U.S. Postal Service is home to thousands of historic works of art in post offices nationwide. Hundreds have been lost, sold or destroyed.
wapo.st
February 8, 2026 at 6:03 PM
If you're in Rockville, MD I recommend going into the old post office to see the mural of what Montgomery County used to look like, Sugar Loaf in the distance and rolling fields. Some of that still existed when I was little, before unchecked developers with no plan created the sprawl.
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Buried in this piece is a throwaway line about how actually her real hustle is selling online courses to aspiring AI hacks, marking an extraordinary symbiosis of my two most hated internet poisons
“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Buried in this piece is a throwaway line about how actually her real hustle is selling online courses to aspiring AI hacks, marking an extraordinary symbiosis of my two most hated internet poisons
My contribution to super bowl Sunday is this 18thc pedestal bowl in the shape of a nymph holding a shell from the swan service, the former property of the dukes of Saxony. By Meißen, natürlich.
February 8, 2026 at 6:03 PM
My contribution to super bowl Sunday is this 18thc pedestal bowl in the shape of a nymph holding a shell from the swan service, the former property of the dukes of Saxony. By Meißen, natürlich.
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Here's an object not unlike a super bowl: I present this 6th-century pyxis with scenes from the infancy of Christ, derived from biblical #apocrypha.
More info at www.nasscal.com/materiae-apo...
More info at www.nasscal.com/materiae-apo...
February 8, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Here's an object not unlike a super bowl: I present this 6th-century pyxis with scenes from the infancy of Christ, derived from biblical #apocrypha.
More info at www.nasscal.com/materiae-apo...
More info at www.nasscal.com/materiae-apo...