But we genuinely can make common cause against these afflictions. We came here in good faith, hoping to make it work. It wasn't a stepping stone to something grander (though, yes, I believed the young Europeans who told me they didn't feel nationalistic, and I wanted to share that feeling). But if the tolerance of this country dissolves into petty recriminations, then something very precious will be lost.
When complaining about Portugal, I have to keep in mind that those born here, while having the advantages of citizenship and language, still have to put up with most of the same dysfunctionalities that we do, without our incomes (not tied to this country and so much higher than average) or even the ability to get jobs like ours without leaving the country (as something like 10% of the population has). I can see why they might resent us.
The bill making it harder to get Portuguese citizenship, which the government wanted to pass this month, will now go through hearings until September. Hopefully they remove the probably unconstitutional bits. The substance of it that affects us (ten years residency, no grandfathering) is likely to remain. Meanwhile, we'd like our initial two-year residence permits, which have expired, to be renewed. No idea when that might happen, and it constrains our travel in the meantime.
Shannon Mattern's post about her resignation from Penn pulls no punches and is well worth a read
https://wordsinspace.net/2025/06/30/i-prefer-weeds-to-ivy/Our “Centre for Teaching Excellence” just announced three different workshops on using GenAI in your courses, all of which are already full.
I wonder if LLM scraping bots signed up for all the slots.
My first time making arròs negre or arroz negro here in Lisbon, though it would be called arroz preto locally. The liquid balance was off because I am unused to working with pota (large squid). I had to reduce it and thus made it too salty. But apart from that, it was good, and pretty promising.
@dan Ah, thanks. In my browser, I have to scroll down the top of the rightmost of the multiple columns to see the fine print. Below it is a fixed "Trending Now" hashtag list.
@dan Is there an easy way to tell what version is being run on the server one is currently using?
@kf This is but one delightful facet of your personality.
I am tempted to torrent it in solidarity.
@shayman Oticon 1 sounds seriously alarming! I would work to get it down to Oticon 5.
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