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Moacirlison P. de Sá Pereira
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Research Data Librarian at Columbia. Novels and space. Wikipedia and ice water. Modular synths and Tottenham. Rabbits and bots. he/him
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And it’s already undignifiedly shelved so my pet rabbit thinks I’m a smart urbanist.
The Power Broker among other books cataloged under N (LCC).
December 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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I became a New Yorker 2day
My hand holding a copy of Caro’s The Power Broker
December 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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It’s December.
An email reading: [CUL Staff] CORRECTION: [CUL Staff] December 2025 Staff News ... CORRECTION: As a reminder, please do not unsubscribe from the Staff News bulletins.
December 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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I see the “smear your graduate students in an email to all of Columbia” button has been pressed again.
In the last week, SWC has continued an ongoing pattern of false statements, delivered via emails and social media posts, including personal targeting of specific members of the University’s bargaining team. These behaviors, and the union’s broken agreements during negotiations, have fallen far below the standard we all should expect from members of the Columbia community. The hostile conditions they have created bear no resemblance to the serious, vigorous bargaining process that has led to six successfully concluded agreements between the University and Columbia’s other unions over the last year, and they are incompatible with good-faith bargaining. Given these circumstances, the University has made the decision to file another Unfair Labor Practice charge (ULP) with the National Labor Relations Board. You can read the full charge here. This was not a decision we made lightly or without mixed feelings, given our hopes for productive in-person bargaining.
December 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Can confirm that @murderxbryan.bsky.social is a prominent leftist. Wore this cap out for the first time tonight to a DSA meeting and received plaudits.
Me in a baseball cap that reads “Guys”
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Absolutely astonishing that it took a student getting harassed for her niqab (off campus!) for our president to write that maybe Muslim students don’t feel supported by the admin. But only vis-à-vis Zohran’s election.

In the meantime, ICE can abduct Muslims on campus with impunity.
We are an institution in and of New York. All our students spend a lot of time off campus. Their experiences outside of our gates, particularly if they are confronted with hateful acts of discrimination or harassment, can have deep and lasting effects on their experiences as students. Our Muslim and Arab students are reporting a heightened sense of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim tension, bias, and hate, especially in the buildup to and aftermath of the mayoral election. Many students have told me they have turned inward, fearful of broadly socializing and of being ostracized. They say they have not always felt supported by the administration, and that they are often not comfortable leaning on the larger Columbia community for
November 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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I was hoping I’d canvass Blair Waldorf today.
Me standing in front of the Met (an early polling place!) bedecked in Zohran gear.
November 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Equivalent? Pretty sure only one is banned on campus.
Sharpie graffito written over torn off stickers, reading “SJP is equivalent to KKK”
October 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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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.
Me sweating with a button that sez ask me about Zohran Mamdani A superb view of the East River from 19 floors up
October 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Anyway. Here’s your bible and Palestine
August 29, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Colorway picked itself #coys @theextrainch.bsky.social
An old man in a yellow Richarlison shirt
August 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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dude someone went over yr head
August 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Went canvassing today.
A sweaty old dude with a Zohran for mayor button on, waiting at the wrong bus stop.
August 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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which colorway #COYS @theextrainch.bsky.social
The Extra Inch's webshop screenshot showing the Richarlison Believer t-shirt in yellow with blue and white options.
August 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Shout out to August 13, 2025, the first time a clanker well actuallyed me and then tried to gaslight me (telling me I’m using pandas or an old version of Polars) before conceding five exchanges later that I was right all along and the method `.groupby()` does not exist.
A conversation with gpt 4.1 where it says, “Actually, ‘groupby’ definitely exists in Polars!” Gpt 4.1 thanks me for being right.
August 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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like, be mad at the UofC trustees and higher admin all you want, Cliff, but to suggest Debbie has gone MAGA and only cares about scholarship that centers North America makes you sound like a crank.
Part of an email from Cliff Ando to CLASSICISTS where he insinuates that Debbie Nelson is a MAGA who only cares about scholarship centering North America.
August 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Another Friday, another info-dump from the Columbia admin in which they throw a union under the bus in front of a captive audience.

This time featuring the _university_ filing an unfair labor practice _against the union_.
From a Columbia mass email: strike action over bargaining. The union's counterproposal rejected mediation efforts and included an extension only until September 30, 2025, with even more significant unbargained-for pay increases, leaving courses vulnerable to a potential strike in the middle of the term. To date, SWC has shown little interest in bargaining over the terms and conditions of employment for the student employees it represents—or in bargaining at all. Taken together, all of these factors lead us to conclude that SWC will not engage with the University to bargain in good faith. As a result, we are now taking the difficult step of filing an Unfair Labor Practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board. You can read the full Unfair Labor Practice Charge. The University's legal claims have several grounds, many of which have been described in prior updates including on July 28, July 2, and June 17, and in updates to faculty on June 2 and April 28. The University did not take this step lightly, and our goal remains to negotiate a fair, competitive, and sustainable agreement
August 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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anythinganywhere.com/commerce/mil...
A matchbook teaching you in French how to derail Vichy trains
August 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Nu. @zunguzungu.bsky.social
A book
July 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I probably did go to prep school with a condé editor tho
July 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Never know who’ll you run into in Lisbons when you’re in town for your sister’s wedding. (Hint: @elotroalex.bsky.social )
Alex Gil sitting at a generic euro cafe with a Star Wars tshirt on.
July 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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July 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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For no reason at all, I’m thinking about this scene in _Open City_ about Dr. Gupta, who is both African and Indian in the same paragraph but also not. When I taught this novel a decade ago, I was wayyyy more fascinated by this scene than the students.
While watching the film, I recalled an uncomfortable meeting l had one evening, in an opulent house in a suburb of Madison a few years before. I was a medical student at the time, and our host, an Indian surgeon, had invited me and a number of my classmates to his house. After we had eaten, Dr. Gupta ushered us into one of his three lavish living rooms, and went round pouring champagne into our glasses. He and his family, he told us, had been expelled from their homes and lands by Idi Amin. I am successful now, he said, America has made a life possible for me and for my wife and chil-dren. My daughter is doing graduate studies in engineering at MIT and our youngest is at Yale. But, if I may speak frankly, I'm still angry. We lost so much, we were robbed at knifepoint, and when I think about Africans- and I know that we are not supposed to say such things in America-when I think about Africans, I want to spit. The bitterness was startling. It was an anger that, I couldn't help feeling, was partly directed at me, the only other African in the room. The detail of my background, that I was Nigerian, made no difference, for Dr. Gupta had spoken of Africans, had sidestepped the specific and spoken in the general. But now, as I watched the film, I saw that Idi Amin himself hosted wonderful parties, told genuinely funny jokes, and spoke eloquently about the need for African self-determination. These nuances in his personality, as depicted here, would no doubt have brought a bad taste to the mouth of my host in Madison.
July 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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I see that the Dem leadership is reading Mary McCarthy again.
Cover of McCarthy’s _The Group_
June 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Tfw u don’t eat meat
June 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM