Maria Barreto

🇺🇸🇻🇪 Unapologetically nerdy | Just trying to leave the world a better, more sarcastic place

[Jordan Maison @JordanMaison]

#Oscars2025

[Maria Barreto @Maria_ABarreto]

As someone currently pursuing a PhD I am CONSTANTLY reevaluating and wondering if the work I'm doing is worth it. Truth is? I have no idea. But anger is a powerful motivator and this election just lit a major fire under my ass. It's time to change the way we fight.

[Maria Barreto @Maria_ABarreto]

As an aspiring educator, this is devastating. What's the point of having all these profound "intellectual" conversations in academia if they only stay within the four walls of the institution? Academia we NEED to do more public-facing work. Academics we NEED to do better.

[Brilliant Maps @BrilliantMaps]

Most Educated States in the U.S. vs Results of Yesterday's Presidential Election

(Source reddit, now deleted)

[Shannon Woodward @shannonwoodward]

normies talkin about TLOU in public spaces all the time now is honestly so surreal

[DomTheBomb @DomTheBomb]

Y’all ready for Friday 😭😭

#TheLastOfUs

[Maria Barreto @Maria_ABarreto]

WOW just wow. I legitimately have goosebumps after this premiere. Seeing one of my all time favorite games / stories come to life in new ways in a different medium is beyond exciting.

[Maria Barreto @Maria_ABarreto]

#TheLastOfUsHBO premiere reaction: A Thread of consciousness

[Maria Barreto @Maria_ABarreto]

The most unbelievable part of this episode is that the full-grown fully in tact clicker is NOT jumping at them from the wall rn

[Maria Barreto @Maria_ABarreto]

The show is taking heavily from the game, but also contextualizing and expanding in ways that add new layers of emotional depth and world building and I’m so here for it

[Maria Barreto @Maria_ABarreto]

This theme visually is hitting on another level. The music once again hitting me in a way that lets me know I AM NOT ready for this show. The challenge: getting through this premiere without crying

[Maria Barreto @Maria_ABarreto]

Nope. Not even a little bit ready.

[Maria Barreto @Maria_ABarreto]

Sarah waking up in her bedroom and their entire morning convo already has me in tears. Also did not expect Pedro Pascal to be so…Joel. His voice, his reactions, the way he said shit. Like damn HBO u did not need to go this hard

[Maria Barreto @Maria_ABarreto]

3 minutes in and I am BEYOND uncomfy with how they’re planting the question of “how do we make the cordyceps fungus / zombie mutation more terrifying” answer: by stating global warming makes it more plausible. Didn’t need that. No thanks

[Maria Barreto @Maria_ABarreto]

Also, IT’S JONATHAN! (The Mummy fans where u at)

[Maria Barreto @Maria_ABarreto]

Because the game itself didn’t devastate me enough evidently. Can my emotional state handle this? Probably not. Am I watching regardless? Absolutely without a doubt. Bring on the clickers #TheLastOfUs

[Maria Barreto @Maria_ABarreto]

The sheer savagery that occurred was ✨chef’s kiss ✨ made me fall in love all over again

[kat should be writing @kat_tastic]

i can't explain it, but the don't worry darling drama feels like the plot of a taylor jenkins reid book

[Maria Barreto @Maria_ABarreto]

And there are people STILL out there claiming the U.S. is the best country in the world. What a joke. Welcome to America - an quickly devolving laughingstock

[Maria Barreto @Maria_ABarreto]

🇬🇧England’s reaction to a failed insurrection: established a national holiday (Guy Fawkes Day) celebrated annually with fireworks, parades, etc.

🇺🇸America’s reaction to a failed insurrection:Groups of people still defend Jan. 6 events as “a patriotic attempt to defend freedom”