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Francis Rubio

@teacherbuknoy@masto.ai

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

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- Religious trauma as an ex-Jehovah's Witness
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- Philippine politics
- Encantadia

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Disgusting health stuff

Around 1st week of September, nagising ako 4 AM kasi sobrang sakit ng right ear ko. The night before, natulog akong naka-earbuds para makinig sa mga sleep aid ASMR. Upon checking, natanggal pala ang rubber padding sa earbuds ko. Di naman ako natakot kasi natatanggal naman talaga ang rubber padding ng earbuds ng Miniso. At kaya masakit ang tenga ko that time ay dahil na-scratch ng plastic edge ang aking inner ear.

Satisfied with that conclusion, I went back to sleep. (1/n)

Disgusting health stuff

But since then, randomly sumasakit yung right ear ko. Akala ko dahil may sugat lang. Hinahayaan ko dahil maghihilom din naman.

Randomly din nafi-feel kong blocked ang pandinig ko, yun bang parang may tubig sa loob pag nag-swimming. Gano'n ang feeling. May history ako ng earwax buildup so akala ko gano'n lang ulit. Gano'n din nangyayari sa left ear ko.

'Ka ko, magpapa-ENT ako soon. Put it away in the back of my mind. (2/n)

Disgusting health stuff

Na-push back nang paulit-ulit ang ENT checkup dahil busy sa work at pa-December na nga. And around this time, hindi ko na siya nararamdaman; sabi ko, 'ay okay magaling na siya.'

Then nag-mandate na ang aming HR ng annual physical exam. Dahil may anxiety nga ako magpadoktor, push back na naman ang gaga, hanggang sa 2nd to the last day ng pasahan (December 4). (3/n)

Disgusting health stuff

So finally nagpakita ako sa doktor today. While waiting na matawag ang pangalan ko for physical exam, aba'y biglang sumakit ang right ear ko na naman. Sinabayan pa ng blocked hearing. This is after *weeks* na wala na akong nararamdaman.

Then I remembered nga na magpapa-ENT ako. Okay haharap na ako sa doktor.

"Me' problema sa mata, tenga, ilong, lalamunan?" tanong ni Doc.

"Wala p—" sagot ko sana, na pinutol ko agad. "Meron po pala sa right ear." (4/n)

Disgusting health stuff

Kinuha ni Doc yung pansilip niya sa tenga, at saka tumambad ang kahindik-hindik na pangitain. Sa wakas ay natagpuan niya sa loob ng aking tenga ang isang artipaktong matagal nang nawawala simula noon pang Setyembre: ang rubber padding ng earbuds kong galing Miniso.

So ayun, hanap ang gaga ng ENT dahil wala raw plais na pantenga ang doktor na nakausap ko.

Tumatanggap po ako ng bone-conducting earphones bilang Christmas gift. 😂 (5/5)

The is quite a platypus of a country. We use Filipino, English, *and* Spanish numbers. We use both imperial and metric units. We have American first names and Spanish last names (look at my name). We are a predominantly Christian country, but each region has its own indigenous take on the Christian faith.

And we're supposed to have been a progressive people from precolonial times, but we're the only country aside from Vatican who doesn't have divorce!

Also, we have our own paper sizes that were adapted from American sizes: Letter is short bond paper here and Legal is long bond paper. We also use A paper sizes (e.g. A4, A3, A5) but mostly if we're printing photos or academic stuff.

We're slowly transitioning to A paper sizes more and more, but a lot of small school supplies shops only have the short and long paper sizes.

This was a last minute decision because I visited Isetann in Cubao to find some gifts for my friends, but I "accidentally" wandered into the appliances section and found out that I can actually by myself a full-height fridge instead of those compact with only one deck for the freezer and another for the refrigerator. And it only costs around 10k. It seems to be a better investment.

I know conservative people are in shambles right now after scientists have invented an "artificial womb" for lambs and are now planning to use them on people. But like… y'all are against abortions because they kill humans (accdg to yall), pregnancy kills the mother, the baby, or both. This is like the best of both worlds, but y'all still cry about messing with the natural order of the world.

If you really cared about the natural order, y'all would've crawled back to caves as hunter/gatherers

I hoped for it so much at one point, but with the lore we currently have, it's laughable how inconsequential Signora's entire existence is for her to warrant a resurrection. Like out of everyone who already died, I don't think she's the first person to deserve a resurrection.

i am really delighted to see software all around the world fail horribly and miserably when their developers start to depend on AI and vibe coding. I want more of these bugs, defects, and horrendous software mishaps to keep coming so we can finally go back to actually doing software *engineering* for real.

That new ScreenX cinema they're trying to push looks sooo ass 😭 the side panels have different color rendering from the main screen, plus the joints between the three panels have horrendous seams that they didn't even try to at least cover up. That's just lazy. I don't know how they thought people would eat this up as something like a new premium cinematic experience.

A theater with ScreenX panels. The main panel is at the center where a regular cinema panel would be, and the left and right walls are also screens. But these side screens have a more washed out color rendering. The seams where the three panels merge are also very visible.

I'd imagine this would also be very overwhelming, and also FOMO-inducing. It's already hard enough to track every frame on an IMAX cinema, or even a regular cinema. But having to keep turning your head 180⁰ just to see everything...

Paminta (lit. Tagalog "black pepper")
From the colloquial "pa-men" (lit. "to act like a [masculine] man)

prefix "pa-" indicating manner/style of something.
English word "men", referring to the gender.

Me: Ano'ng regalo gusto mo sa pasko?
Tita ko: Yung maging masaya ka lang at payapa ang buhay

Hirap naman ng wishlist mo dai puwede namang humingi ka na lang ng bagong sapatos mas achievable yon.

“While AI can mimic creative behaviour – quite convincingly at times – its actual creative capacity is capped at the level of an average human and can never reach professional or expert standards under current design principles”

READ: A mathematical ceiling limits generative AI to amateur-level creativity

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PsyPost Psychology News A mathematical ceiling limits generative AI to amateur-level creativity A new study argues that the algorithms driving tools like ChatGPT impose a hard limit on originality. By prioritizing probable answers, these models are structurally confined to producing amateur-level work rather than expert innovation.

I love that some of the original dialogue that were cut from the original Wicked stage musical were eventually used in Wicked: For Good. In that scene in Munchkinland after sending Dorothy off to the Wizard, a lot of the lines Elphaba and Glinda say don't exist in the current stage musical, but they did when the production was still being developed.

I hate that Sang'gre just keeps going for shock factor with no regard for the established lore and story. What do you mean Bathalang Emre got killed by the ghosts of two former generals? That's like if Obama and Biden died, went to heaven, and killed God with a gunshot.

The gay dating scene is like imma give u a partner for life that's not guaranteed to be good for you, but also I'm feeling generous so I'm also giving you body dysmorphia, insecurities you didn't know you have, triggers for your abandonment issues and maternal wounds, and (here's the best part!) objectification and reduction of your entire self worth to becoming just an object for sexual pleasure! That's a whole steal!

Michelle Yeoh getting the heat for not having as good a singing voice as the rest of the cast... there's literally bootlegs of the stage musical where the actresses who play Morrible do a *horrible* job of singing, like speak-singing so bad it's added a more sinister touch to the character.

Carlos Yulo's mother is literally soooo evil like you know you have another son other than Carlos, you'd think you'd try and shut up about your greed for the sake of your younger son's career, but no.

Now Eldrew will forever keep living in his older brother's shadow. Even if he becomes so much better than Carlos, people will still say Carlos' name when they talk about Eldrew.

When the news posts about Eldrew, all people talk about in the comments section is either their mother's issue with his brother's money or him being compared to his brother. All this could've been avoided if their mom just shut up about the money she wasn't even entitled in the first place.

Honestly I don't mind the pacing for For Good. Because if you're an adult who fucks around, you *know* sometimes you find out in quick successions, like everything spirals out of your control. I think the fast pacing of the film is okay. Didn't really mind it.

"International Men's Day and it's crickets, silence, no celebrations. Y'all really hate men" like??? Did you celebrate it yourself bro? Because women celebrate International Women's Day in their own way. We celebrate Pride in our own way. Did you think someone was gonna organize a party for you? A woman perhaps? Blech.

I received vitamins for our work's secret santa lmaoooo on one hand I am so grateful like really I got teary eyed because I'm dramatic and I really appreciated the gift. But on the other hand, do I really look like I needed it?? 🤣

Wicked: For Good (initial reactions) heavy spoilers

First off: the things I didn't like as much.

The new songs No Place Like Home and Girl in the Bubble are nowhere near as good as they were hyped. They provided extra fleshing out of the world's lore and the characters, but they are nowhere near Oscar-winning. They are cute songs, and highly listenable and replayable though.

Wicked: For Good (initial reactions) heavy spoilers

Now, the stuff that tickled me in the best ways.

They definitely fixed the holes in the Act II's timeline, especially towards the end. The Wizard's realization and the banishment of Morrible happen in succeeding but separate scenes, and both strengthen Glinda's characterization even more than the stage musical does.

Wicked: For Good (initial reactions) heavy spoilers

Dorothy remaining faceless the whole time felt really deliberate. Ofc, we know it's deliberate bc it's not her story. But goddamn was it such a tasty slap to the face every time they show Dorothy's body or shadow but never her face, as if to say “this ain't *your* story bitch.”

Wicked: For Good (initial reactions) heavy spoilers

In the stage musical, the shadow projections of melting the Wicked Witch just looked goofy, and Glinda has to do a lot of heavy lifting to make the scene as emotional as it needed to be.

When I saw in the trailer that they were trying to replicate this, I kinda worried. But they successfully made that scene as emotional as it can be—borderline traumatic even…

Wicked: For Good (initial reactions) heavy spoilers

Seeing as Glinda was hiding behind a closet of sort and just watching the events unfold through the gaps of the wooden door. It kinda reminded me of people during a war hiding inside a bunker while hearing their loved ones scream in pain as their enemies kill them. Fucking effective.

Wicked: For Good (initial reactions) heavy spoilers

I also loved how they retained as many musical motifs as they can for each character, and choosing to reuse those motifs liberally. My favorite one is the motif of the flying monkeys playing as part of the instrumental for Elphaba's new song No Place Like Home—because Oz is still also the monkey's home, they were the first victims of Elphaba, and they should resonate with this song much more than anyone else.

Wicked: For Good (initial reactions) heavy spoilers

Also love the implication in the final minutes of the film that the book had its own consciousness, choosing who to open up to. It opened up to Elphaba because she is already as good as she can be, and it only opened to Glinda when she had already done the first steps of doing good with the power she already has.

Wicked: For Good (initial reactions) heavy spoilers

I find it interesting too that the Grimmerie opened up to a spell Elphaba can use to make Nessa's shoes fly. As if the book saw who she's become and sealed her fate.

Also, fuck!—Jeff Goldblum fucking hell. There's a reason he lasted that long in the industry. Given 30 seconds, he could fucking act his way out of it. A whole rollercoaster of emotions in one camera shot. Damn.

You can't call yourself a Christian until you've had your favorite Bible fall off its spine, leaving its cover on your hands. That's God logging you out of your holy spirit account because you've been talking to him so much lol

If a person has "no filters", then they don't communicate well. Part of good communication skills is packaging your message in a more palatable flavor. Brutal honesty is always less about being honest and more about being brutal.

Koko Krunch for dinner because I started cleaning my house at 5:30 PM and I'm too lazy to cook a proper dinner and the quick cleaning I wanted to do snowballed into me rearranging the furniture and all that stuff.

You know what? The male loneliness epidemic isn't bad enough. Some of y'all need to be as lonely as is humanly possible that you actually start seeking growth instead of subscribing to misogynist, transphobic, and bigoted ideas to comfort you and shield you from the fact that no one wants to have sex with you because you are an utterly evil human being, or worse, just plain boring ass of a man.

One UI 8.5 blurs look so amateur tbh. No other filters aside from gaussian blur. Not even a noise texture. It's quite tedious to figure out what exactly this design system is all about. Material Design is whimsy and opaque materials. Liquid Glass is liquid glass. Mica from Windows is tinted surfaces. But One UI? It just feels like a bunch of things pulled together, not really the worst but also doesn't feel like a solid identity.

“ The accompanying tour, the Mayhem Ball, is the most impressive spectacle in a career full of them, but the first performances immediately confirmed how much she had changed. “I’m not an adrenaline junkie anymore,” she says. ‘I used to love that feeling.’”

[READ]: How Lady Gaga Found Herself Again: ‘I Feel Lucky to Be Alive’

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Lady Gaga Rolling Stone How Lady Gaga Found Herself Again: ‘I Feel Lucky to Be Alive’ How Lady Gaga returned from the brink, found love, and made one of her greatest albums with 'Mayhem.'

In her mind, the world was treating her like a product, not an artist. “It was every angle in every room of every place I went,” she says. “Pro­duct, object, business. ‘What can you get her to do? Will she do this? Can you get her to do this?’… It was to make sure that I could earn money as fast as possible.… There came a time in my life where I would enter rooms, and there were no instruments anymore. It was about trying to control me to be a piece of a business.”

This interview is, by far, the most candid and least pretentious one she has ever given.

All of her previous interviews, regardless of the medium, had been her throwing around highfalutin concepts and words to pertain to herself being both the art and the artist (e.g. "My ARTPOP could mean anything," "That's why I'm the artist and you're the public").

But here, she's just another woman who makes art, and she acknowledges that as a matter of fact.

His long political career has seen him become a foundational personality in the Martial Law under the Marcos dictatorship. He has gone from being the excuse martial law was put into place to becoming one of the powers that repealed it, leading to the ousting of Ferdinand Marcos Sr. during the People Power Revolution in 1986.

> ""I will be dead within one hour. I don't want to die... If it is possible, do something. I'd still like to live."

These are the words Enrile said to Jaime Cardinal Sin when he was forced to stay in Camp Aguinaldo after Marcos Sr. accidentally discovered the coup they were planning. He was asking for the cardinal's help, who then broadcasted an appeal to the people for their support. This then led to the first EDSA revolution.

Decades later, in 2022, after leaving politics in 2016, he returned to become chief legal counsel to Bongbong Marcos, the son of the very dictator he helped overthrow.

It is as the saying goes: you either die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain.

Someone filed a noise complaint because of a continuous knocking noise from one of the units. I thought I was just hallucinating it the entire time or that it was a friendly ghost, but apparently other people hear it too??

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This is the first time ever that I've had color on my hair because I'm afraid it would affect my professional appearance when meeting with clients. But after now, maybe I'd try more and make them permanent? 🤔

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A selfie of me featuring my wavy black hair colored with metallic purple. A selfie of me featuring my wavy black hair colored with metallic purple.
Born Again Christians, calling a group of people "dumb"

From a canon lore perspective, BA Christians' interpretation of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden being sex is really fucking dumb.

So God creates humans, commands them to procreate and let their descendants fill the earth, and then just... forbids the act of fulfilling that command??? Dumbest little plot hole if I've ever seen one.

Born Again Christians, calling a group of people "dumb"

This is a random rant, because I randomly remember arguing with a classmate from college about this when I was at my peak Jehovah's Witness juice, and he said God would just put a baby in Eve the way he put a baby in Mary.

And idk if you'd ever read the text. The whole point of God himself being the father of Mary's child is because there's no sinless man on earth that time. Adam was literally sinless before the fruit was introduced.

Born Again Christians, calling a group of people "dumb"

From a literary perspective, the two trees could be the most random non-magical trees in the middle of the Garden. They could've been any tree that God just selected to give the first sinless humans some sort of mechanism for making choices.

And why would he do that? Because by canon, he is a jealous God and he wants his creations to prove their love for him. Which is fair I guess.

Born Again Christians, calling a group of people "dumb"

The forbidden fruit tree's name is The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Bad. So if the forbidden fruit is a symbol for sex, then the tree is just post-nut clarity then...

Born Again Christians, calling a group of people "dumb"

No but really, "knowledge of good and bad" is a right that only the sovereign ruler, i.e. God, can have. He designated that tree as the symbol of that right to give Adam and Eve the opportunity of continuously choosing Him instead of their curiosity.

Born Again Christians, calling a group of people "dumb"

In reality, the fruit didn't have any effect on them. It's just a random normal fruit. But them eating it is a declaration that they are seizing the rights to deciding which is good and which is bad, i.e. making decisions independent of divine guidance a.k.a. disregarding the sovereignty of their creator.

Born Again Christians, calling a group of people "dumb"

The ageing and diseases and dying that came afterward were actually just God's curse put on them because he was spited and he needed accountability.

gagawin 🔥 ko 💚 ang 🌳 lahat 🌎 para 💪🏽 protektahan 🛡️ ang 😠 aking 🏡 bansa 🇵🇭 iingatan ❤️‍🩹 ko 🦸🏻‍♀️ kayo 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 hanggang 🏘️ dulo 🌈 basta ✋🏼 iingatan 🥺 niyo 👥 din 🫀ako 🧝🏽‍♀️

and in those 3 in every 5 guys that are gym rats, two of them are boring as hell. The boiled chicken breasts they force themselves to snack on for protein has more flavor than their personalities. Queer culture is lost on these men. We're losing the ancient texts 😭

One of those two guys is a MAGA. If they're Filipino, they're DDS.

The other guy is too busy on stoicism and other forms of Philosophy to care about politics. They've read The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and they just ran with it.

me and my secret affair with white t-shirts. idk i just feel sexy* and masculine in a white shirt. like how wearing a corset makes me feel sexy but in a femme way.

___
*sexy, but in an aesthetic way. Sometimes sexual but, mostly in an aesthetic way.

Gosh sometimes I wish I still believed in a deity. Praying is so cathartic, I just can't feel the same thing with meditation and similar stuff. But I can't just pray now because the thing that makes it cathartic is the belief that someone in a higher plane of existence is listening, and I really don't subscribe to that newsletter anymore.

Might be a hot take, but I really don't wanna see Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, and Natasha Romanoff in Avengers Doomsday. They died meaningful deaths, and in the case of Rogers he made a meaningful choice that effectively makes his character dead for all narrative intents and purposes.

I don't care if it's the comics and no one really ever dies. I don't wanna see them again; it cheapens their deaths. I don't even wanna see their variants.

Now, when it comes to the Scarlet Witch, we are working with a different beast. The circumstances of her "death" are questionable, and Multiverse of Madness almost obviously intentionally left her demise open-ended.

I wanna see her again. I don't wanna see a variant, I want *our* Wanda back. But I don't wanna see her as a deus ex machina that gives a clutch win.

I don't wanna see Wanda be enslaved by Doctor Doom, as well. I know in the comics her memory was wiped and Doom took advantage of that to marry her. But in the MCU, Wanda's character has been stuck in a cycle of being too powerful, then being contained, then being more powerful, then losing her agency through mental breakdown or magical corruption.

I don't want her nerfed. What I want to see is a more effective and fascinating way of using her powers. They did this for Doctor Strange in Endgame; he was powerful enough at that point to participate in taking the stones from Thanos, but he was "nerfed" by his prophecy that said it wasn't in his fate to interfere. Wanda could use a *lot* of that if they are to include her in Doomsday.

Also, enough of her as a villain. They tried it, they failed miserably, and now they don't know what to do with her character next, so they just killed her with an easy way to revive her in the future in a "somehow Palpatine returned" kind of way.

I want a wise Wanda. With the Darkhold being in her possession for a considerable amount of time, she should have enough knowledge with magic in general. She should lead the Avengers' brain team along with Black Panther Shuri and Carol Danvers.

And then I want a magic team up between her, Doctor Strange, and Loki God of Stories. Agatha Harkness can piss off, her ghost is a bit irrelevant at that point.

Okay mega thank you tayo sa Sierra Madre wala namang ginagawa dun sa mga korporasyong kumakalbo sa kanya. Sana talaga yung next na super bagyo ang tatamaan lang yung mga nang-e-exploit sa kalikasan.

Peak neurodivergence is going out with your friends on a night of the weekend to a club or a rave and just… spacing out while the DJ is playing a remix of Clarity by Zedd while the crowd is jumping around and can barely dance bc of how packed the place is.

You know how there's a huge Philippine-sized typhoon coming this weekend? And it's so fucking sunny today??? That's creeping me out so much 😭 so this is what they mean when they say "the calm before the storm" 😭💀💀💀💀💀💀

Just realized the VMAs 2009 was such a turning point in western pop culture. At least 5 things happened that night:

1. Lady Gaga bleeding to death onstage performing Paparazzi
2. Kanye West stealing Taylor Swift's moment after winning an award
3. Taylor Swift performing live in the subway
4. P!nk doing Cirque du Soleil acrobatics
5. Beyonce giving her speech time to Taylor Swift when she won an award

Ngl, I'm back in my jejemon era again. I just remembered I used to have Duyan be my guilty pleasure when I'm doing assignments in a computer shop. I'd pretend not to like it because it's jejemon, but it's just so good. And it's hitting me especially hard right now with an added layer of nostalgia.

youtube.com/watch?v=qweJfMgcbVA

YouTube Duyan - Lil Jay, Lilron ft. Hensy & Loraine (Official Music Video)
ex-JW stuff

I am so confused. I just saw a video of a member of the Governing Body with a full-ass beard paired with a shiny bald head. Did something happen?? When I got out, they were very adamant that men *shouldn't* grow beards...

Help me choose

Unfortunately, it came one size smaller (I'm size 43, the boots are 42) so I'm gonna have to spend an afternoon simmering my feet in pain while blowing hot air on the boots to make them bigger. Oh well, the things we do for fabulousness. Glam is a calling after all.

Emman Bacosa Pacquiao being an undefeated boxing champion gives me hope that my nieces and nephews will still get to experience the peace and serenity brought by a Pacquiao boxing match throughout the country.

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