Pedro Catela

Teacher, PhD student, musician, idiot. Currently researching trust and student-teacher relationships in Higher Ed. He/Him.

[Pedro Catela @pedrocatella]

My wonderful, incredible mother wrote a book of haikus.

Every haiku is written in 5 different languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and German.
Every. One.

For someone who loves books so much, she now has one of her own.

https://t.co/Z8aK0xbhxr

[Pedro Catela @pedrocatella]

@MTGSecretLair What a joke. Do you really think people have the free time needed to wait this long for anything??? What a fucking joke. GO BACK TO PRINT TO DEMAND.

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

ya know, these posts are actually quite revealing: their agenda is truly just to destroy education. and once they sabotage about as much as they can, they’re left with not much else to do but post pictures of cartoon characters because they aren’t trying to build anything at all

[Pedro Catela @pedrocatella]

@PlagueDocK …and why they think writing the same way they speak is easily understandable to anyone else.

[Stephen Vainker @StephenVainker]

I'm delighted that Times Higher Ed have covered the BERA story.

Less delighted that in their response BERA demonstrates it doesn't understand the issue (at all) and doesn't take it seriously.

Link below👇

[Nicole @n_e_rd]

It's wild how Al advocates think people just need to better understand how it works before they will support it. It simply doesn't occur to them that we reject Al for how it harms people & communities & the planet. They lack any moral integrity & can’t understand those who don’t.

[Pedro Catela @pedrocatella]

@EffinBirds If you do one of these for all DnD classes… my oh my. 😆

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

You will never develop critical thinking skills in students if you're not training them to think for themselves. The problem is not that AI produces mediocre work; the problem is that it is dishonest, & 'coaching' AI is not the same as thinking for yourself. Stop promoting it.

[Pedro Catela @pedrocatella]

Since moving to limited printing, Secret Lair has become a toxic, predatory cash grab designed to elicit unsustainably impulsive buying habits.

This isn’t a celebration of MTG art and design - it’s a race to see who can buy one at all. And I’m done with it.

[MTG Secret Lair @MTGSecretLair]

The Secret Lair Dandân Deck has surfaced. This fan-favorite format is now a fully playable two-player deck built around one unforgettable blue Fish, featuring brand-new Dandân art, from Kelogsloops, for the first time since 2006. Available now through the Chaos Vault 🐟

[Pedro Catela @pedrocatella]

@PlagueDocK SHE LOOOOOVES HIM!!!!

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Sure why not

[Pedro Catela @pedrocatella]

@MTGSecretLair Oh seriously Wizards, just fuck off.

[Pedro Catela @pedrocatella]

Imperialism through capitalism IS STILL IMPERIALISM.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ted Cruz: "When it comes to Greenland, I want to commend President Trump for being single-mindedly focused on America first ... I believe it is overwhelmingly in America's national interest to acquire Greenland ... the whole history of America has been a history of acquiring new lands and new territories"

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

You cannot reform a Gestapo.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨This video is terrifying, and it’s exactly why “just comply” does not protect you from ICE/Border Patrol agents, even as U.S. citizens, and why you always film them.

In North Carolina, ICE/Border Patrol agents illegally stopped two U.S. citizens. They questioned them without legal cause, took their licenses, and admitted on camera that the men were allowed to record.

And they were still attacked.

In the video, one man asks if he can film for his safety. The agent says yes, saying that he’ll “have to put his mask on.” The agents take their licenses, ask where they’re from, where they live, what they’re doing in the area, all without legal authority. The men cooperate anyway.

Then the situation turns dangerous.

Another agent suddenly tells the driver, “Turn off your video. You are being detained, so you are not free to record.”

That is false. Recording law enforcement in public is legal, including during detention.

The driver calmly refuses, keeps one hand on the steering wheel as instructed, and holds his phone in the other.

That’s when the agent lunges for the phone.

The agent throws himself into the car, trying to grab the device. When the driver moves it away, the agent assaults him.

The agent then illegally opens the car door, something the driver correctly points out they are not allowed to do.

The agents keep demanding the filming stop, as multiple agents keep reaching for the phone.

Then they escalate again.

They threaten arrest, grab the driver, and start hitting him and trying to drag him out of the car, even though he keeps saying, “We haven’t done anything wrong.” When they fail to pull him out, they back away, visibly angry.

They turn on the passenger next.

An agent grabs him, threatens handcuffs, and assaults him trying to force him out of the vehicle. When that doesn’t work, they start yelling conflicting commands, claiming the men are “interfering with an investigation.”

An investigation into what?
Their own illegal stop.

At one point, an agent shouts that the men can’t interfere, while another tries… again… to grab the phone, almost certainly to stop or erase the recording.

Only after all of this do the agents finally release them.
Because they are U.S. citizens.
Because the stop was illegal.
And because the camera was still rolling.

This is why you film ICE.
This is why compliance doesn’t save you.
This is why they hate cameras.

If this hadn’t been recorded, this would be another lie in a report, another “resisting” accusation, another abuse buried and denied.

Film them. Always.

[Pedro Catela @pedrocatella]

To remove ourselves and our real opinions and views from this discourse is to quietly embrace a dishonesty that creates further barriers to transformative learning, and to seeing each other for our true potential. Only in a trusting environment can we be open to change.

[Pedro Catela @pedrocatella]

As I come back to my PhD work on trust after a few months away, I am reminded that in order for students to feel that teachers are not ‘out to get them’, teachers need to acknowledge that students are more than empty vessels - they are individuals with their own experiences.

[Pedro Catela @pedrocatella]

At the same time, students need to understand that teachers are human beings, not just grade vending machines. At university, teachers and students are adults with formed opinions and previous experiences that shape their perceptions - and to voice them is to invite real change.

[Pedro Catela @pedrocatella]

@RTPNoticias O pacote é de um TRILIÃO - ou MIL BILIÕES de dólares. E é nojento.

[Noah Garfinkel @NoahGarfinkel]

We’re going to destroy the planet for a technology whose progress is measured by fake videos of The Fresh Prince eating spaghetti.