This is the Jataí, a bee native to Brazil. Like all bees native to Brazil, she has no stinger and...

paddysnuffles: I wonder who was the first person to be like “We should refer to human children as...

paddysnuffles:

I wonder who was the first person to be like “We should refer to human children as ‘baby goats’.”

I wonder if it maybe started for a similar reason to why Brazilian moms call their kids their “little calf” (bezerrinho).

The mindset behind “little calf” being that the sound children make when calling for their mom (and the tone they do it in) sounds just like a calf calling for its mother (”Mããããããe…”)

Being both Lusophone and Anglophone means...

paddysnuffles:

…Always way overdoing the number of K’s when you lol on your posts/comments in Portuguese because you’re paranoid Anglophones will see “kkk” or “KKK” and get the wrong idea.

@leuchtendewesen

1337tattoos: Róbert Bunda What an ironic surname to have...

1337tattoos:

Róbert Bunda

What an ironic surname to have when the art piece is of a bug whose butt lights up.

(to non-Lusophones: bunda means “bum/butt” in Brazilian Portuguese)

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Caught On Tape: Brazilian Minister Plots To Overthrow Dilma Rousseff

Caught On Tape: Brazilian Minister Plots To Overthrow Dilma Rousseff:

crooksandliars:

A high-ranking Brazilian minister has stepped down after audio emerged of him plotting with others to bring down President Dilma Rousseff’s administration.

The Guardian reports that Romero Jucá, planning minister, will “go on leave” after a recording of a telephone conversation was released in which he said Rousseff needed to be removed to quash a vast corruption investigation which enmeshed him and many other members of the Brazilian political elite.

More from The Guardian report:

But the dubious motives and machiavellian nature of the plot to remove Rousseff are apparent in the transcript of a phone conversation between Jucá – a powerful ally of Temer’s in the Brazilian Democratic Movement party (PMDB) – and Sérgio Machado, a former senator who until recently was the president of another state oil company, Transpetro.After discussing how they are both targeted by Lava Jato prosecutors, Jucá says the way out is political: “We have to stop this shit,” he says of the investigation. “We have to change the government to be able to stop this bleeding.”

Machado concurs: “The easiest solution would be to put in Michel [Temer].”

Temer is, of course, the man who stepped in as “interim President” and replaced most of the cabinet members after Rousseff was impeached.

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brazilianism: São Paulo tried a different approach on the war...

brazilianism:

São Paulo tried a different approach on the war on drugs: actually helping the people addicted to crack by supporting them with food, shelter, medical aid and job opportunities. And the results are very much positive.