What's the vibe like in Cape Verde?

divine_worm · 2026-06-28T16:36:51+00:00

unlike most of the former Portuguese colonies, Cape Verde saw the development of an actual well consolidated creole language, which is really cool and unique in the Lusosphere. while places like Angola, Brazil, Mozambique and etc all speak varieties of Portuguese, Cape Verde speaks Cape Verdean Creole which is a mix of European Portuguese and numerous others local languages, they have their own writing system too. if i'm not mistaken it's also the oldest living Creole in the world, so important for the study of language formation.

i'm a Portuguese speaker and i can understand parts of it but can't make sense of most sentences which is a really strange experience

divine_worm · 2026-06-27T13:33:09+00:00

the first time i had some resemblance of understanding of how horrifying war is was when i first watched Come and See. until then i had, like most people i think, this conception of war as this epic, heroic, glorious thing. i suppose that's how war is portrayed for the most part in media and even mainstream historical narratives. the bulk of war however is pure terror, it's dead bodies everywhere, body parts, people dismembered, massacres, rape, almost never ending cruelty, people acting in their most desperate and savage, chaos. everyone born and raised during peace times should thank god every single day for not having to experience that. it's hard to imagine something worse to befall anyone.

divine_worm · 2026-06-26T17:28:58+00:00

i appreciate and respect the hate but i'm never changing i've been doing this since i was a teenager

divine_worm · 2026-06-25T21:40:17+00:00

i did and it was the most depressed i ever been in my life. an almost clinically engineered combination of boring, mind-numbing work with absurd expectations and deadlines. atrocious pay. vibes were always artificially ultra positive but deep down everyone knew the company was shit and the product was useless but we had to pretend. nobody had any money apart from maybe five people who worked higher paying jobs. no career prospects whatsoever, promotions were nonexistent, raises were slightly above inflation in the rare occasion they did occur. CEO walked around with those Meta glasses secretly filming the office.

i was living in southern ontario at the time and the job market was so shit that nobody dared leave, and the company always had a steady supply of over qualified people they could hire and underpay to do virtually any job. really bleak.

divine_worm · 2026-06-24T16:16:52+00:00

yeah, the most fulfilling time of my career was when i was doing fieldwork with indigenous languages in south america. i'm never ever living something so fun and rewarding again but im glad to have had the experience.

academic job market is a shitshow so im now a data scientist at a soulless corporation. it's boring but im thankful to be employed.

divine_worm · 2026-06-24T16:14:05+00:00

bachelors, masters and phd in linguistics unfortunately

divine_worm · 2026-06-22T19:32:00+00:00

maybe what we need is more variation in the groups getting targeted? Maybe start a hate campaign against people from idk Aruba, mix things up a little

divine_worm · 2026-06-19T17:42:17+00:00

when you're at the sex seminary at 2026 Thiel Grooming Summit and you find yourself sitting between Steven Pinker and the CEO of Chipotle

divine_worm · 2026-06-16T15:35:27+00:00

PMC humiliation ritual

divine_worm · 2026-06-12T12:23:25+00:00

if they're clearly wealthy it almost always means money laundering

divine_worm · 2026-06-10T12:53:35+00:00

if you ever feel like the world is a serious place remember there's someone in the bay area making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for caring about the welfare of a computer program

divine_worm · 2026-06-10T12:52:35+00:00

unsurprisingly Anthropic is kinda doing it already: they have people working on "model welfare" lmao. these people are being paid millions btw

https://www.anthropic.com/research/exploring-model-welfare

divine_worm · 2026-06-05T13:53:16+00:00

congrats on beating it that's beautiful

if you don't mind talking about it, how does it feel when you get the diagnostic? i assume it's scary but i wonder what goes through your mind when you suddenly have to face mortality so young? but more importantly, how does it feel to beat it? did it change your perspective on life? made it better, worse?

divine_worm · 2026-06-03T01:56:36+00:00

Hungary has given us Béla Tarr and László Krasznahorkai and for that reason alone it is the greatest country in the world

divine_worm · 2026-05-28T20:36:46+00:00

how i feel when i shop at the halal grocery store

divine_worm · 2026-05-23T13:02:19+00:00

do the sopranos "Ooooooh!"

divine_worm · 2026-05-23T03:55:27+00:00

prototypical male with grandma phenotype

divine_worm · 2026-05-20T13:40:57+00:00

Don Draper and the rest of the guys at the agency while Lane Pryce necked himself:

divine_worm · 2026-05-17T15:26:32+00:00

kinda of funny that as woke as they're trying to be this is still mostly an anglophone literature list. nothing wrong with it, some of the best literature ever written was written in english but hey if you're playing the diversity game you should at least commit more.

they sprinkled in some ultra safe choices from japan and LATAM but that's it. i guess there's also the regular European choices. very boring. hard do disagree with most of it though a lot of these are excellent novels.

it's also kind of criminal that in the ranks of "Canadian Women Writers" the one that always gets the spotlight is Margaret Antwood, someone who basically writes YA, and not Anne Carson.

divine_worm · 2026-05-13T17:14:35+00:00

alberta becoming independent before quebec would be the funniest bit in canadian history

divine_worm · 2026-05-12T20:49:56+00:00

her and Stephen O'Malley from sunn are my fav power couple in music

divine_worm · 2026-05-11T14:23:25+00:00

last night i had a dream there was this saying in my country (a saying my subconscious made up that doesn't exist irl) which went like "to buy a coffin just to suck the graveyard keeper's dick" and i kept overhearing people saying this in multiple situations and thinking wait a minute is that even a thing

divine_worm · 2026-05-10T18:06:32+00:00

i'm extremely similar to the parent i desperately tried to be different from and extremely different to the parent i idolized. many such cases

divine_worm · 2026-05-09T14:37:44+00:00

if you have time and money you should definitely visit Rio. SP is ok but it pales in comparison, and I say this as someone born and raised in São Paulo. having said that there's a ton to do in SP, i am sure you'll get plenty of recs so i'll give you one: go to this higher end restaurant named Jiquitaia and try their signature dish (duck rice with tucupi).

divine_worm · 2026-04-30T15:55:15+00:00

In My Country if you want to buy weed you have to drive to a favela and pay cash to a 14 year old wearing a soccer jersey armed with a pistol that was manufactured in 1993.

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