Alonso Gurmendi
@alonso-gd.bsky.social
Fellow in Human Rights at LSE Sociology. Blogs at Opinio Juris. Follow me on Twitch/Youtube. Views Personal. Peruvian. English / Español / Português
Seriously, UK?
Sorry I am not giving my personal and identifying data to a shady US private company subject to no regulations to feed the paranoia of 70 year-old British politicians who don't get how the internet works, you guys will need to wait till I am using this with a VPN to send me chats.
Sorry I am not giving my personal and identifying data to a shady US private company subject to no regulations to feed the paranoia of 70 year-old British politicians who don't get how the internet works, you guys will need to wait till I am using this with a VPN to send me chats.
August 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Seriously, UK?
Sorry I am not giving my personal and identifying data to a shady US private company subject to no regulations to feed the paranoia of 70 year-old British politicians who don't get how the internet works, you guys will need to wait till I am using this with a VPN to send me chats.
Sorry I am not giving my personal and identifying data to a shady US private company subject to no regulations to feed the paranoia of 70 year-old British politicians who don't get how the internet works, you guys will need to wait till I am using this with a VPN to send me chats.
Things are moving fast… a new consent is being manufactured in real time and man does it make the paranoia and persecution that preceded this look completely and utterly artificial. We are mere pawns
May 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Things are moving fast… a new consent is being manufactured in real time and man does it make the paranoia and persecution that preceded this look completely and utterly artificial. We are mere pawns
When you lose Piers Morgan…
May 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM
When you lose Piers Morgan…
Sigh… it’s so obvious
May 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Sigh… it’s so obvious
The far right civil war continues. Today: the “woke right” strikes back by saying Ben Shapiro and Zionism more broadly are all about Identity Politics. Wild stuff
May 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The far right civil war continues. Today: the “woke right” strikes back by saying Ben Shapiro and Zionism more broadly are all about Identity Politics. Wild stuff
When I was growing up flour went up in the int’l markets and the government promoted potato flour as a cheap replacement, calling it “papa-pan” (potato-bread). So now of course Peruvians are baking “Papa-pan” (Pope-bread)
May 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
When I was growing up flour went up in the int’l markets and the government promoted potato flour as a cheap replacement, calling it “papa-pan” (potato-bread). So now of course Peruvians are baking “Papa-pan” (Pope-bread)
I translated this to Spanish. Now you can read it in 3 languages: English, Spanish, and non-Spanish-speaking 3rd gen Latino intern using chat gpt for his racist boss. Here:
“Los Diputados Republicanos creemos en el potencial de cada estadounidense de salir adelante si abrazan el poder del trabajo”
“Los Diputados Republicanos creemos en el potencial de cada estadounidense de salir adelante si abrazan el poder del trabajo”
May 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I translated this to Spanish. Now you can read it in 3 languages: English, Spanish, and non-Spanish-speaking 3rd gen Latino intern using chat gpt for his racist boss. Here:
“Los Diputados Republicanos creemos en el potencial de cada estadounidense de salir adelante si abrazan el poder del trabajo”
“Los Diputados Republicanos creemos en el potencial de cada estadounidense de salir adelante si abrazan el poder del trabajo”
The new Brazilian world map is a thing of beauty. Not just because it inverts the N-S axis and doesn’t use Mercator projection, but because it highlights Brazil’s geopolitical priorities in a very simple, visual, way: BRICS, the Lusophone world and the Amazon
May 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The new Brazilian world map is a thing of beauty. Not just because it inverts the N-S axis and doesn’t use Mercator projection, but because it highlights Brazil’s geopolitical priorities in a very simple, visual, way: BRICS, the Lusophone world and the Amazon
Men: how many of these do you understand?
May 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Men: how many of these do you understand?
Useless men who think washing a dish will emasculate them annoy me
May 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Useless men who think washing a dish will emasculate them annoy me
“Ah well, now…
[image of the Pope with a Peru national football team jersey]
We *will* go to the world cup”
[image of the Pope with a Peru national football team jersey]
We *will* go to the world cup”
May 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
“Ah well, now…
[image of the Pope with a Peru national football team jersey]
We *will* go to the world cup”
[image of the Pope with a Peru national football team jersey]
We *will* go to the world cup”
Peruvian tabloids:
“Waiter recalls the Pope Leo XIV’s visits to Chiclayo restaurant: “he did not tip me but he always gave me a blessing”
“[he reported that] Pope Leo XIV had breakfast lunch and dinner in his locale”
Lol man I love my people hahaha
“Waiter recalls the Pope Leo XIV’s visits to Chiclayo restaurant: “he did not tip me but he always gave me a blessing”
“[he reported that] Pope Leo XIV had breakfast lunch and dinner in his locale”
Lol man I love my people hahaha
May 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Peruvian tabloids:
“Waiter recalls the Pope Leo XIV’s visits to Chiclayo restaurant: “he did not tip me but he always gave me a blessing”
“[he reported that] Pope Leo XIV had breakfast lunch and dinner in his locale”
Lol man I love my people hahaha
“Waiter recalls the Pope Leo XIV’s visits to Chiclayo restaurant: “he did not tip me but he always gave me a blessing”
“[he reported that] Pope Leo XIV had breakfast lunch and dinner in his locale”
Lol man I love my people hahaha
Peruvian tabloids:
“The Pope is Peruvian and he misses ceviche”
Find me a more Peruvian headline 😆
“The Pope is Peruvian and he misses ceviche”
Find me a more Peruvian headline 😆
May 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Peruvian tabloids:
“The Pope is Peruvian and he misses ceviche”
Find me a more Peruvian headline 😆
“The Pope is Peruvian and he misses ceviche”
Find me a more Peruvian headline 😆
The Pope and a little cake Pope
May 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The Pope and a little cake Pope
The Pope eating a cake lined with Doña Pepas. What is a Doña Pepa? Nah, it’s a Peruvian thing, you would not get it. This man is not yours anymore US, we Paddingtoned him. Sorry.
May 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The Pope eating a cake lined with Doña Pepas. What is a Doña Pepa? Nah, it’s a Peruvian thing, you would not get it. This man is not yours anymore US, we Paddingtoned him. Sorry.
You can now buy your Pope t shirts in Peru’s garment district
May 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
You can now buy your Pope t shirts in Peru’s garment district
The Pope, voting for the first time as a Peruvian citizen, in Peru’s 2016 election
May 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The Pope, voting for the first time as a Peruvian citizen, in Peru’s 2016 election
Apparently people got this notification in their delivery app as well: “Tasty Potatoes/Popes only S/ 10.90 in McDonalds”
May 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Apparently people got this notification in their delivery app as well: “Tasty Potatoes/Popes only S/ 10.90 in McDonalds”
In Latin American Spanish, “Pope” and “potato” are written the same, except for gender capitalisation, so (el) Papa ⛪️ and (la) papa 🥔 sound the same. Which is making Peru’s chips brands do this bit: “Perú, Tierra de Papas”; Peru, Land of Potatoes/Popes
May 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
In Latin American Spanish, “Pope” and “potato” are written the same, except for gender capitalisation, so (el) Papa ⛪️ and (la) papa 🥔 sound the same. Which is making Peru’s chips brands do this bit: “Perú, Tierra de Papas”; Peru, Land of Potatoes/Popes
“The Pope ate here” signs pop up in Chiclayo restaurants lol
May 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“The Pope ate here” signs pop up in Chiclayo restaurants lol
The Pope.
Like, literally everyone in Peru has a photo on social media rn lol
Like, literally everyone in Peru has a photo on social media rn lol
May 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The Pope.
Like, literally everyone in Peru has a photo on social media rn lol
Like, literally everyone in Peru has a photo on social media rn lol