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Francis Rubio

@teacherbuknoy@masto.ai

I eat cringe for breakfast. I produce content for @antaresphdev

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- Gawking on red carpet events and outfits
- Religious trauma as an ex-Jehovah's Witness
- Pinoy excellence
- Philippine politics
- Encantadia

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There's this really cool up and coming designer from the , Dell Morales, who works on denim mostly that I would really love to wear. The creations he makes are truly astounding. They're more wearable art than common fashion honestly. And the aesthetic is right up my alley.

I am looking forward to wearing either a custom-made or even one that he has in an archive.

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Okay I got whispers of a certain world quest in Nod-Krai that I just *know* I wouldn't want to play through without someone else with me. I *hate* horror content. Although I love it for everyone that Genshin has one now, that quest will be left unfinished for me until I get someone to play it with me lol

I think we're overdue for a meeting with all of The Seven in one place. We've already seen the Harbingers, the Hexenzirkel, the Four Shining Shades, and more. With Nod-Krai being the last stop before Snezhnaya, I think we're about to get at least a tease of this event happening, as early as the Tsaritsa's design being revealed.

Genshin Impact Luna IV major spoilers

Also, especially with Wanderer mentioning how Dori returned to Sumeru to report what's happening in Nod-Krai to Nahida, and Wanderer remarking that Nahida will rally The Seven. I think we'll be getting it before Snezhnaya, and they'll just be like "oh the Tsaritsa has her own thing so she's not gonna show up in this meeting" or something.

Okay I'm actually scared I have medical-grade anxiety. Of course, as a man, I would *never* get this checked up with a psychiatrist. I'll just take quizzes on Buzzfeed or dig a rabbit hole on WebMD to confirm my suspicions.

I will forever regret that I spaced out during the entirety of Neuvillette's story quest. I should have played through that quest when I was in a much better mental state. There's a ton of lore in that quest that I now don't even remember playing through.

It feels like that SQ just never appeared in my game because I don't remember playing through it lol

I know I keep saying I hate enterprise software, especially now that I am working on government software. But really, it's the project manager that makes it worse.

I just spent about five hours of my travel time on the way home from my birthday vacation debugging and testing on prod, and I didn't mind it—because the acting PM was managing all the fuss so I could focus on what I need to do.

Genshin Impact Luna IV minor spoilers

Amazing. Show-stopping. Never the same. Totally unique. Completely never been done before. Unafraid to reference or not reference. Put it in a blender. Shit on it. Vomit on it. Eat it. Give birth to it.

Song of the Welkin Moon: Act VII Complete. A Traveler on a Winter's Night.

Advice lang sa mga soon-to-be moms itapat nyo naman ng araw ng sahod yung birthday ng mga junakis ninyo. Wag tutulad sa nanay ko na laging petsa-de-peligro ang mga birthday ng anak (13, 11, 27) 💀💀💀

Jun Robles Lana should team up once again with Vice Ganda in MMFF 2026 and this time produce a movie that showcases the difference between tolerance and acceptance of queer people in the .

Too many cishets are making the bold claim that we're already being accepted here just because they see everyone coming out in shades of the rainbow.

I want to see a mainstream media entry that gives accurate portrayals of discrimination in the workplace, in the comments of popular social media platforms, and the *microaggressions* queer people face.

Enough with dads disowning their sons for being gay, we've had enough films of that.

Also, the fact that you are seeing more queer people now than ten years ago is because we are doing the deliberate act of taking up space that were never—and will never be—afforded to us. You never accepted us, so we took up space, so now you're forced to tolerate us because you see us everywhere and you can't do anything about it. Do NOT mistake that for acceptance. See that for what it is: queer people taking power AWAY FROM you.

I cannot stress this enough: once you turn 23, your top priority should be disappointing your strict parents and do shit you've always wanted to do. That's the only way you get more freedom.

lmaooo i'm cringing so hard, I was reading back on our company's work group chat, and I went as far back as 2022 when I sent a picture of me in drag lmaoooo aaaaa lemme delete it from history i don't wanna see it again 💀

I'm about to munch on some freshly cooked Dinuguan for late dinner today. It's one of the simple pleasures I enjoy as much as I can because I gaslit myself for more than a decade that I didn't like how it tastes because I couldn't eat blood lol

This year, I am doing the highly effective 1993 weight-loss method called the Tic-Tac Diet, pioneered and developed by none other than RuPaul of RuPaul's Drag Race fame. It's very simple and easy to follow:

You have a Tic-Tac for breakfast, a Tic-Tac for lunch, and for dinner? A glass of water. No Tic-Tac. It's just that simple. That's all there is to it.

Like imagine if I just resign out of nowhere from the job I love, deactivate all of my socials, take down my website and put up a basic HTML that's just a list of blog posts I ever wrote, and then go missing, my family's only contact with me is via SMS and voice calls. Then I come back 13th of January the next year completely and utterly jacked, bearded, and masc.

People are just downright more mean, careless, and apathetic after the pandemic. And it's because we all still have grief that no one has acknowledged. People died, the world stopped, lives were changed for the worse, and before it even ended, we were all just told to come back outside and go back to "normal" like nothing happened.

And patients of Long COVID, as well as people who still get the disease half a decade after the onset of the pandemic, are just ignored because "there's no more pandemic, everything's back to normal." Well, no. Look around you, is any of this normal to you?

The damage Moira has caused to the sapphic community by releasing her song Titibo-Tibo, unleashing an epidemic of cishet girls thinking they can appropriate being "tibo" just because they're "manly" and "not like other girls", and cishet men who think they can convert lesbians into heterosexuality.

I wonder where Gilda Olvidado is now. I used to read their romance pocket books when I was young and bored because my aunt used to be obsessed with pocket books. Thus was in mid to late 2000s.

Y'all want a horror story? When my mom was hospitalized when I was like 8 or 9 years old, I had to go send her samples to the testing lab at the basement of the hospital. It was like 3 PM, but he entire hall's lights were off, only the lab had their lights turned on. So it was this long ass tunnel-like hallway that I had to walk through to get to the lab.

Then once I got to the lab door, it's locked, so I had to ring the bell. And for some sick reason, the door bell's tone was Fur fucking Elise. And the people inside took like 5 mins to open the door. So I was just there, a little boy, with a stool sample on my right hand and urine sample on my left hand, standing in the dark while a very creepy MIDI rendition of Fur Elise is playing.

Of course there weren't any ghosts or anything. But I was young, and my mind wanders. So my mind started telling me that I was hearing footsteps from the other end of the hall. Then I remembered my elders saying that when such noises sound far away, they're actually very close to you, so I was on the verge of crying.

Then a person opened the door, took the samples, didn't even let me in, and just sent me back out. I had to walk down that tunnel again, and goddamn it if I will walk again. I ran the hell out of that place.

But then as I was running, it was like my mind were playing games with me. The tunnel suddenly felt like it was getting longer, like literally extending and the staircase I wanted to get to was moving away from me.

I really want to travel this year. I wanna go to Cebu, Vigan, and La Union. I'm also getting my passport this year, so abroad isn't too far out of reach.

And the best thing is that I can afford it 🥹

Tawang-tawa pa rin ako sa isang Pugad Baboy comic strip na nakita ko before nung may libreng diyaryo pa sa LRT.

"Di ba dapat 'Anak ni Ama: Baby' ang title? O kaya 'Baby ang Anak ni Ama'?" 😭🤣

I really wish the had a way to submit alt texts for images that don't have one yet. Like YouTube of olden days had a way to submit closed captions.

It could even be suggestions, like the OP can choose which alt text suggestion would be accepted. And the users can see all the submitted alt texts if the OP hasn't accepted one yet.

I'm getting tired of seeing images on here that have no alt texts but are otherwise pretty great, and I wanna boost them but they're not accessible. And I've got a lot of time in my hands!!! I can submit alt text suggestions.

may content creator sa FB, masama raw sa kapiligiran ang condom.

"Safe ka nga, pero eco-friendly ka ba?"

"Wag lang sarili ang isipin maging safe, isipin ang safety din kalikasan."

tangina edi magkatulo na lang tayong lahat

2025 was the Year of the Snake, and we shed our old skins, personalities, things that kept us from what we are meant to reach and accomplish.

2026 is the Year of the Whores, because we all deserve to be fucked by something other than life.

I am not comfortable with straight dudes and dudettes using "pakak" like a gangsta term. That's a gay slang first and foremost. They can't even pronounce it right—the stress is on the second syllable, not the first! >:(

Update #2: Disgusting health stuff

Also, my height grew from 173 cm (from last week) to 175 cm now. Granted, the measurement from last week was done on a digital apparatus, while I was measured today with a very analog weighing scale that came with a metal ruler.

I think I'm the perfect height (5'8"). I'm right in the middle. There are people shorter than me, there are people taller than me.

However, I'm in the Philippines so I'm one of the taller ones in the land of short people.

Update: Disgusting health stuff

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Okay, they scheduled me for an extraction on the 31st. They said I'll need local anesthetics. If they couldn't get it out by then, I'll have to go under surgery omg, you know like in Grey's Anatomy lol.

I'm kinda scared, this is starting to be not so funny. But all is well, my insurance covers it, but I have to pay for the anesthetics out of my pocket.

“The Bible is clear that Christians must support Israel.”

No. The Bible is very clear, i.e. Jesus himself said it, that Christians are to pay no special attention to Israel because God himself had already abandoned it. It has become an evil entity, and the Creator Himself wants nothing to do with it.

Ang wish ko ngayong bertday ni Jesus ay palayain na nang tuluyan ang Palestina, tantanan n'yo na ang mga trans, maprotektahan sa lahat ng taong queer, wakasan ang patriyarka, at mamatay na lahat ng kurakot mula sa tuktok kahit presidente o senador o hukom hanggang sa paanan kahit kagawad or ex-o or kapitan.

Just the dock having a blurred background is so much more delicious. But also the polishes they added?? Like the window shaking if you click on its icon on the dock so you know which window it is.

Grab, MoveIt, Angkas, and others are virtually useless for the past three weeks. Either mag-book ka tas maka-cancel, or magbibigay ka ng sobrang laking tip para lang may kumuha sayo. At this point, literal na mas okay pang mag-commute via MRT, LRT, and Carousel.

Or like what I did: mangontrata ng car for rent sa Facebook groups, pero like days or weeks in advance siya.

Ang nakakabanas dito lalo, kapag nasa area of interest ka, e.g. mga malls like SM Megamall or Trinoma, ang dami mong makikitang mga riders ng Angkas, Joyride, at MoveIt na nagkukumpulan. So magta-try ka mag-book thinking na may isa sa kanilang kukuha sa iyo, pero wala. Very OA lang humingi ng tip, doble sa actual na pamasahe pa minsan.

The AI Erase tool in Windows Photos sucks ass still. Galaxy AI can do this in 2 seconds at most, and the result is convincing. With Windows, it takes upwards of 15 seconds and with the result, you might as well have done it yourself faster with the heal tool in Photoshop or Gimp.

Just kinda reminds you that regardless of how much glory you acquire for yourself, nothing ever truly matters. Even the Pharaohs who built statues of themselves, not all of them are known in this day and age. And the kingdoms they built now faded into the sands.

We truly all are footprints on the sand.

So idi-discontinue na talaga pala ang Pampers, Whisper, at Tide bar dito sa nakakalungkot. Anw di naman din yan binibili namin ever since kasi mas mahal daw sabi ni mama ko.

Naka-EQ kaming magkakapatid sa diapers, mga mama tita ko naka-Modess saka Those Days, tapos sa bareta either Champion saka Perla.

Pa'no ko alam eh ako inuutusan lagi bumili dati pag time of the month ng mga babae sa bahay 🤣Madaya kasi by the time na kaya nang bumili ng mga kapatid ko sa tindahan, either patay na or menopause yung mga gumagamit, so hanggang yelo toyo suka lang naranasan nilang bilhin.

I'm not a big fan of novels. But even I have read at least two from cover to cover. I don't have a lot of trust on people who pride themselves on not reading literature because somehow it's "lesser" than textbooks, studies on law, and scientific research.

Before we conceived of the scientific method, we had been writing stories of our people. To discount prose to glorify technical text is a giant mistake.

It all boils down to art vs. science, humanities vs. STEM, that kind of stuff. It really isn't any debate; both are important.

It's fascinating what things people would look down on just to prop their egos up, to put themselves on a pedestal. They think they stand on a podium on a stage waxing philosophical, but all they are are beavers choosing which wood to chuck for their next dam. They're not as high as they think they are.

Working in middle management, I can say with full certainty that being offered the job within a day of being interviewed is *not* a good sign.

It means, they are in desperate need of a new employee. Hold off on signing that contract for at least a week to wait for a better offer.

The Christmas spirit has finally entered my project team. All work has died down, and the tasks I am currently working on are the non-urgent stuff that I kept putting to the side because of other tasks that I had to do.

I forgot how good it feels to be able to code without worrying about deadlines and pressure from clients and bosses. Happy holidays indeed.

Also, instead of buying myself a phone (that I'd been thirsting after since March this year, but couldn't get anymore because, well, family goes first 🙄), I bought myself some Akko Mirror Switches for my 8BitDo Retro Keyboard M Edition.

So now, I have a vintage-looking IBM-esque keyboard that sounds like I'm typing on ceramic keys. <3

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Akko Official Global Site Akko Mirror Switch | Akko Official Global Site Akko Mirror switches are initially designed for foamless build with its clean sound profile. The purpose of designing those switches is to reflect (mirror) the authentic sound of any keyboard as much…

My only complaint on these is that my fingers are heavy, and I like to sit them on the keys while thinking of the next stuff to write. But these switches pick up even the slightest presses so I can't rest my fingers on them anymore. Either way, the sound and feel they have is good enough for me. I like these switches.

Teller sa MRT sa December 22: Para makalibre ng sakay, patunayang bading ka by completing the sentence: "Holabels... _______"

Correct answer: "Holabels... may kuwento akizkiz. Gorabels ang lola nyey sa nyinistop para mag buyla meslu ng mga nyoging."

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