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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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Tell me this isn't the Phoenix force entering Jean Grey. Tell me this isn't Wanda Maximoff stealing her powers back and transforming into the Scarlet Witch. Tell me this isn't one of those Sailor Moon transformation scenes.

My family lives in a studio type apartment worth 4k per month. Hindi condo but like they get everything. Kung di lang tamad maglinis ng filter ang mga utachi, kering keri kabitan ng aircon na box type.

Para sa Buwan ng Wika, ni-redesign ko ang KWF Diksiyonaryo.

Ang KWF Diksiyonaryo ay isang online dictionary app na gawa ng Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino at hango sa database ng Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, ang unang monolingual Filipino dictionary na unang nalathala noong 1989.

Hindi lilipas ang isang linggo na hindi ako bumibisita sa KWF Diksiyonaryo, and as a web designer, I just *had* to do it. 😜

Basahin ang case study dito:
francisrub.io/projects/en/kwf-

Francis Rubio KWF Diksiyonaryo Redesigning the first-ever monolingual dictionary of the Filipino language online.

Throwback to a time na nanood kami ng Fantastic Four: First Steps kasama ng family, tas bumulong ako sa tita ko. Sabi ko, "alam mo ba bading siya in real life?" referring to Pedro Pascal.

Tas ang tita ko pagka-OA naman ng reaction "Hala talaga!?" like rinig ata hanggang likod 😂 Tas after a few seconds pause, sabi niya "halata naman." Eh bat ka nagulat teh??? 😂😂😂

It's my first time cooking pasta from scratch, like without using ready-made store-bought sauces. I used tomato paste for this one. Obviously it just tastes like tomato paste because I didn't season it with anything but salt and pepper, but I think I did pretty great.

previously, I have someone deliver a mineral water jug (the blue one with a faucet in it) every month because I don't really drink a lot of water, and my fluids come from when I drink coffee.

But since last week it feels like I couldn't have enough water it's crazy. I have to get another jug in just two weeks.

I came across the term "mascflux" and I didn't know what it was, so I looked it up and the wiki said “Mascflux is a gender that fluctuates between mingenders, said genders do not have to be miaspec. Mascflux is under the genderflux umbrella. ”

like what the hell do those words mean??? none of these words are in the epic of gilgamesh. i consider myself pretty woke but reading this shit is simultaneously interesting and also making me feel like a conservative 😭

I'm agnostic. I have tons of religious trauma I'm still working on. But has captured me in such a way no other Christian media has. It's got everything a Bible nerd could ask for, does not forget that the story of Jesus exists in the context of the Old Testament, and emphasizes that this is a story of people not unlike us in anything but time period.

Read the full review here:
francisrub.io/writing/en/the-c

Francis Rubio The Chosen A review of the hit TV series.

@antaresphdev has been on a long hiatus since November last year. I tried going back to creating content for it back in January, but I got busy—too busy!—for work. And now that I am ready to come back into it, I have this feeling of the ship already sailing. I feel like it's too late or something.

I love creating tutorials around for Filipino developers, but I have never had the impression that CSS is something interesting to people at all. Between Tailwind, low-code/no-code solutions, and now AI and vibe coding, I feel like there's less and less appreciation among Filipino developers for CSS.

"Some A.I. executives are expected to leave, the people said. Meta is also looking at downsizing the A.I. division overall — which could include eliminating roles or moving employees to other parts of the company — because it has grown to thousands of people in recent years, the people said. Discussions remain fluid and no final decisions have been made on the downsizing, they said."

nytimes.com/2025/08/19/technol

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, is sparing no expense and is willing to upend his company to stay relevant in artificial intelligence. The New York Times Zuckerberg Again Overhauls Meta’s A.I. Efforts Meta internally announced a new restructuring of its artificial intelligence division amid internal tensions over the technology, people with knowledge of the matter said.

This is a destiny matrix reading I got from an astrologer on Instagram. And I believe everything on the sole reason that I am tired of transformations and change and the reading keeps saying I need to always be open to transformations and change. Your girl is tired mama 😭

Currently watching Season 5 of The Chosen. I am loving *all* of the creative liberties they have been taking.

Especially the one where the Pharisees question Jesus about how lawful paying taxes to Rome are.

Back in my days in church, it's always been taught that Jesus' answer to their question was a masterful way of giving everyone a satisfactory answer that cannot be used against him. But I love how The Chosen just leaned into it being Jesus himself setting things up politically so that his death is ensured.

Which makes Judas' betrayal all the more bitter, not just for Jesus, but for Judas most especially. Not only can Jesus successfully maneuver Judaic and Roman politics so he ends up getting killed, it also means that Judas' betrayal was totally unnecessary to the ends the Biblical narrative was trying to get to.

In this depiction, Judas' demise becomes just another checkbox ticked in the innumerable list items of prophecies that verify Jesus as the Messiah.

I suppose this is what those comic book nerds feel like when comic book movies come out. I've read nothing else but the Bible and religious paraphernalia for more than a decade, and this show just hits everything in all the right spots for me.

When I'm on the Researching The Character I Will Play in the MCU competition and my opponents are Elizabeth Olsen who read every comic ever published with the Scarlet Witch in it and Vanessa Kirby who studied Quantum Physics and researched people with near-death experiences so she could play Sue Storm 😭

Lady Gaga almost made it as the top 3 in this list for her keeping her accent on and off set, even speaking to her mom and dad with the Italian accent while playing Patrizia Reggiani for House of Gucci, but she chose DC over Marvel so...

Angeline Quinto and Regine Velasquez really said Buwan ng Wika!!! because wdym they sang "Tutularan ka ng sunod na salinlahi" and "Taglay mo sa bagwis ng iyong paghayo ang pangako ng walang hanggang bukas" together in one song like they got isekai'd into Noli Me Tangere 😭😂

I've always cooked rice by measuring the water level with my fingers a.k.a. The Right Way™. But last night I cooked rice with the intention of cooking it again as fried rice for lunch the next day, and I used a measuring cup that came with my rice cooker.

I don't wanna fry this rice now. It's so soft and not dry. Idk if it's because I used the cup or because of the rice.

I feel a surge of productive and creative energy through me this morning wow i guess the relief from stress really boosted my mood 😂🥰 funny how the brain works, it's so annoying sometimes but also wow such a wonder of biology

di naman para mang-gatekeep sis, pero imagine yung katakot-takot na pambubully na inabot ng mga actual femboys like me nung high school tas biglang in the year of our lord 2025 cool enough na sha para makijoin ang mga str8? yis galing anteh maloiii

Can't get that one video out of my mind where Katy Pery got an electric shock during her concert while being pulled up into a tube like an alien specimen 😭 twitched her ass and everything 😭

I have a work meeting first thing tomorrow morning and it's all I could think about all weekend. I couldn't enjoy my days off. I quite literally feel like I wanna burst into tears because I look at the clock and it's almost 5 pm and I've done nothing but be anxious about this fucking meeting.

How do you guys turn this off :( i've done everything, my skin is sore from EFT tapping since Friday afternoon.

Maybe that Studio Ghibli art style being stolen and fed into genAI models is actually a blessing in disguise because now every AI-generated artwork looks like someone dehydrated pissed on them lol

Rich people who say shit like "we're not that rich, we're in the middle class" are sooooo far out of touch. They're probably surrounded by people with more wealth than them that they somehow think they're middle class.

Taylor Swift makes it obvious she doesn't have a gay man on her styling team 😭 but she's almost there!!! This new art direction for her upcoming album looks nothing like she's done before, I love it.

Nakita ko na naman yung "ru-veal" ni Sum Ting Wong sa ep 1 nainis na naman ang gae likee ma'am that's not a ruveal that's just stripping down where's the interest? where's the second look? where's the alternate outfit? 😭😭😭

Okay. That was actually quite a very okay episode. Didn't particularly tickle me in the right parts, but not as bad as people have been saying. There are parts of the episode that were corrupted, but other than that, it was okay.

A good 7/10 episode for me.

I found a *very* useful hack for my body. I found out today that if I hear the sound of someone swallowing water, I get the uncontrollable urge to drink too.

This is my biggest eureka moment to date.

Actually, despite being tired as hell all week last week, I think I got enough rest. I go to bed as early as 9 PM, which btw is unheard of from me since I was in high school. Granted, I still fall asleep at around 2 AM and wake up at 7:30 AM. But it feels nice to have a good sleep routine established.

My insomnia is most likely anxiety-induced, so reducing that anxiety before bed hours is what I am doing. And I find having a routine and deciding a cut off hour to just go to bed (even if I'm not yet going to sleep) helps.

Oh girl the concept of digital necromancy, as in getting all of your digital footprint, feeding them into a genAI model and having that model pretend to be you after you die… 🫨

hi i am a Filipino Little Monster, looking for spanish, japanese, and american Little Monsters who could buy me a plane ticket to Tokyo and a ticket to Lady Gaga's Mayhem Ball as payback and reparations for colonizing my country and making my ancestors suffer, thank you.

I don't care what age I am or my (future) partner is; baby talk will *always* work on me. I gobble that shit right up, makes me feel safe, loved, and cared for, and that's precisely because it's a fucking weird thing to do that makes it so intimate.

I am not ashamed that I like baby talk. But I need someone to promise me that they will kill me on the spot if someone catches me on the act of baby talking because that's the most embarrassing stuff 💀😂😂😂

When I rewrote my website back in June, I didn't port my creative writing stuff over to the new website (for whatever reason, I don't even remember anymore). But I decided to publish some of them again. I'm still going through the old ones and looking for stuff that aren't as cringe.

“Ang Resignation Ko Bilang Sepultorero” (My Resignation From Grave Digging)

This is a piece I wrote when I was with my then-partner. It's a short story of how I imagined myself in the event that my partner died unexpectedly. (We broke up lmao, but this is by far one of my most, if not *the*, favorite writeups).

francisrub.io/literature/tl/an

Francis Rubio Ang Resignation Ko Bilang Sepultorero Isang orihinal na akda ni Francis Rubio
Mentions of death and suicide

“Read This When I Die”

I wrote this when I was in a very dark place. I had a suicide letter drafted because, for some reason, it brought me comfort to imagine myself dying an untimely death and having everyone grieve my loss. I found that draft a few years later and rewrote it into this piece.

I initially wanted it to be addressed to my then-partner, but as I wrote it, it became a conversation with myself.

francisrub.io/literature/en/re

Francis Rubio Read this when I die A letter to people who love me but never had the chance to say goodbye

“Ang Munting Alon” (La Vaguelette)

A Tagalog translation of the song La Vaguelette from the game Genshin Impact. I mainly did this to try out the <ruby> element in HTML. There's an interlinear Tagalog translation here. I also sing the translation. It wasn't very polished, I just recorded it with my mic and hoped for the best hahaha

francisrub.io/literature/fil/a

Francis Rubio Ang Munting Alon Isang salin sa Filipino ng awiting Pranses na La Vaguelette

With the Natlan arc almost at its end, I declare this track to be the saddest track in all of 's history so far.

A vibrant nation rich in culture and joy suddenly ravaged by war overnight. You, the mighty Traveler, tried with all your power to save Natlan from this war. And despite your efforts, thousands were still killed—a lot of them, friends you've made in your visit thus far.

Because war spares no one.

last.fm/music/HOYO-MiX/_/Tears

Last.fm Tears of a Scorching Night — HOYO-MiX | Last.fm Read about Tears of a Scorching Night from HOYO-MiX's Genshin Impact - Eternal Sun, Eternal Want (Original Game Soundtrack) and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists.

For all the hate it got, Natlan portrayed the war with such realism, in a quest where your decision as the player matters. It forced you to choose which ones from the entire population was saved.

Playing through the Natlan Archon Quests Act IV gave me depression. I cried for hours after finishing the quest—and I was already crying playing through it!

Work your blonde Benet Ramsey
We'll haunt like Liberace
Find your freedom in the music
Find your Jesus, find your Kubrick

You will never fall apart,
Diana, you're still in our hearts!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

last.fm/music/Lady+Gaga/_/Danc

Last.fm Dance in the Dark — Lady Gaga | Last.fm Watch the video for Dance in the Dark from Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists.

My problem with Lady Gaga is that her song titles sound so stupid literally anyone could come up with them—until she releases the song and it starts to make sense 😭

Because these are corny ass titles until the songs were released: Bad Romance, Born This Way, G.U.Y., Stupid Love, 911, Rain On Me, Abracadabra, LoveGame.

So when a song title leaks, I don't know if it's a delusional fan who came up with it or Gaga herself.

I'm sorry if I like some of y'all's posts a little too fast (think about 5s after it's posted) 😂 I'm just a huge fan (and got a little too much screen time that it's practically an organ to me at this point)

I had a friend who was like horrified because I could spam emoji reactions on our Discord server. Someone would send a message and I'd not only be the first to send reactions, I'd also be sending them by the tens 😂

It was just me holding Shift while clicking on every emoji I could click on, but to her it was like an ancient act of primordial magick 😂

Isn't it so fucked up how bullies grow up to be Christian and very into their ministry and are like 'yeah my sins have been forgiven, y'all should be believing in Jesus too, he's great!' Meanwhile, people they bullied grow up to be miserable, unable to comprehend that the misery they feel are actually because of what they went through in high school because that wasn't so bad and they were kids and it was a long time ago.

One thing I learned in therapy—and by "learned", I mean "accepted"—is that it's never "a long time ago". Whatever happened in the past *can* still be with you, even—and especially!—if it happened in high school.

I should be taking this up with my therapist, but for this year's Pride I wanted to write about beauty. I even have a whole ass final draft about it on the ready. But I scrapped it last minute in favor of that post about shame. But I wanted to write about the disconnect between what you see in the mirror versus what you feel internally.

And at the time, it felt too shallow for me to talk about it. It still does, actually. But maybe one day. Maybe this week, who knows?

For the longest time (as in since I was in high school) I tried to stay away as much as possible from media depicting romance. I thought it was because I hated them for being too cheesy (which they are). But now I find myself opening up more to it.

I've got quite a few books here that I'd like to start reading.

And I mean romance as in romance-centered, especially romcoms. I'm always like "that shit don't happen irl 🙄"

But you know what, maybe they do! Someone wrote them up, maybe they did! And idk, it happened to me once 👀 (just not as romantic as I'd hoped but romantic nonetheless)

There was this crime thriller novel I read by Harlan Coben that I can no longer remember what it was about, but I can remember there was a scene between the main character and his wife that was just so heartfelt and beautifully written that I just wanted to rip my chest open and take my heart out violently that it rips off from its veins and arteries because of how painfully poetic it was.

I love art. I hate what it does to me sometimes, but I love art.

Flashback to me listening to right where you left me on repeat for two full ass months omfg yuck yuck eww i don't wanna go through that again but goddamn if it's not the best year of my life likeee there's something about hurting emotionally and then being soothed by music, art, and friends 😭😭😭

Imagine Doctor Doom's plans get thwarted because Jesus decided that it's time to begin Armageddon and that's how we get into Battleworld by the time Avengers: Secret Wars begins.

Barbie Forteza. Now this is how you do a seductive look on a very soft and gentle face. It's seductive but not sexual. Actually, it's giving elite. I love it. Looks really good on her.

Barbie Forteza in a deep red latex gown with exposed sides and a sheer red cape.

Andrea Torres. I must say, I don't remember Andrea ever attending these fashion events and looking bad at all. She knows her figure, and she makes her looks adhere to it. Stunning.

Andrea Torres strikes a powerful pose in a sophisticated, strapless gown made of a metallic, pleated taupe fabric. The dress features a sculptural detail on the bodice and a dramatic thigh-high slit, which she complements with embellished heels and an elegant updo.

Carla Abellana serving yema couture. I don't think yellow is her color, but she looks gorgeous either way. The shape of the dress complements her body and she looks like a Disney princess.

Carla Abellana wears a vibrant, canary yellow ball gown with a voluminous, tiered and ruffled skirt that fills the frame. The dress features an asymmetrical neckline with an off-the-shoulder strap and a sparkling, crystal-encrusted bodice, and she is seen posing at the GMA Gala 2025.

Hot Maria Clara herself, Sanya Lopez. Infamous for her Ru-veal look in a previous GMA Gala appearance where she wore a 2-in-1 outfit that looks like the male genitalia revealing into an okay dress, she redeems herself this year with this detailed gown.

Sanya Lopez serving Ursula with her hair tied into a high bun and a sheer and gem-studded black long gown with a puffed-up tulle train.

It feels like I'm in Limbo. Idk what it is but it feels like I'm in the middle of two chapters of a book, or in the middle of a time skip, where I'm past a scene significant enough to be told but not quite there in the next scene yet. It feels like the music played by the orchestra as the scene of a musical changes while the rest of the cast scramble to lift furnishings and change the set, while I'm at the back of the stage in shadows waiting for the next scene.

Idk what to do with myself.

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