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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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Nagsaing ako kagabi ng pang-fried rice ko today for lunch. Tapos nakatulog ako nang hindi ko natanggal sa pagkakasaksak yung rice cooker. And ngayon ko lang nakita na nakasaksak pa rin siya kasi magluluto na ako facepalm

Pero thank you sa rice cooker, di naman nasunog yung kanin. And bagong luto pa rin siya until now 🤣

Kylie Padilla is so real for saying she'll leave the Ph if her father Robin Padilla runs for VP 🤣

"I trust in my father's judgment" i.e. I know how he thinks, and it's in a way that's so stupid I have no choice but to bank on it 💀

Mga mayayamang walang personalidad outside of being mayaman at pangongopya ng pagkatao sa mga trend na pinapauso ng mga lower middle class at mga pamilyang ginawang chinese garter ang poverty line

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Mga mahihirap na may pambili ng Cherry Lowbat na selpon, nakiki-Internet sa Piso Wifi, at mga single mom na member ng 4Ps na kumakayod ng labada habang nagkakawkaw ng piso sa kanal ang mga junakis.

Yung mga nagpo-post talaga ng PM me for the price 😭 tapos magagalit pag nag-PM for the price tas di bibilhin. Kaya ko nga tinanong para alam ko kung afford ko e. Kung sinama mo na lang yung price sa post edi sana di na ako nag-chat 💀

Transphobia, Izzy Trazona, Alvin Aragon, Bigoted Christianism

With how much emphasis Christianism puts on the patriarchal structure, I actually think na posibleng openly transphobic si Izzy sa anak niya, pero deep inside tanggap niya talaga si Sofia at mas pinipili na lang niyang itulak palayo dahil dun sa adik niyang asawang naghahari-harian sa katawan ng mga babae sa pamilya nila.

Transphobia, Izzy Trazona, Alvin Aragon, Bigoted Christianism

Mga lalaki kasi ang gagaling lang sa umpisa. Grabe maka-cosplay ng pagka-green flag tas pag kasal na sila, saka lang lalabas yung pagka-adik 😭

I know Gaga says "Dance or Die" at the beginning of her MAYHEM Ball tour in the major language of the city she's performing. And now I grieve even more that she didn't bring the tour to the Philippines...

Because imagine hearing her say "The category is… Indak o Ligwak" likeee??

That Jam Magno girl getting a supposed redemption arc from the Kakampinks online because she's criticizing Sara Duterte. Meanwhile, she's been so clear that she's still a DDS 😭 she's just a loyalist to Rodrigo.

But hey. The drama is interesting, right?

There's quite a few candidates that can rival Sara for the 2028 elections. There's Vico but he has no plans. Leni might be, but she has to declare it early. Risa is a more certain win for VP, and a fail-safe should Sara win. Bam might win over some moderate DDSes. Joy Belmonte is also a good choice.

But for the love of God, do *not* all run at the same time. Just pick one and rally behind that person.

If there's a certain level of confidence that Bam can win, Risa should go around and promote herself as running for President. Then change her mind last minute and have Bam take the campaign off of her hands. Risa has already been dubbed the "PhilHealth Queen" despite countless attempts to clear the false news, so not a lot of people would be inclined to vote for her as Pres.

But if she tries to divert the attention to herself before actual campaign period, Sara's camp would focus all their trolling on her, keeping Bam safe until the campaign starts.

Regardless og who Sara picks as VP, Risa has good chances winning that seat. And we may well have a repeat of a Duterte president and Kakampink VP.

I hate going on LinkedIn, but Zip and Crossclimb keeps me lol. I wish one day someone would invent similar daily mini-games here on Mastodon, or fediverse in general. Then we can share our scores like we already do with Wordle.

Tagalog vs Bisaya rivalry

Saw a post today discussing whether the Tagalog vs. Bisaya rivalry contributes to the Dutertes' political capital (to which the post answered yes, and I agree).

And here's my two cents as someone na lumaki sa NCR sa isang Bisayang pamilya: Matagal na rin namang may hidwaan between Tagalogs and mga Bisaya, as far back as MLQ's admin (diba nga naglaban pa ang Tagalog at Cebuano kung alin sa kanila ang magiging basis ng Wikang Pambansa).

Tagalog vs Bisaya rivalry

The Dutertes saw this brewing in the background and used it to their political advantage. Let's not forget na ang branding ni Duterte ay siya ang "first president from Mindanao" na, while true, also reinforces na "aping-api" ang mga taga-Mindanao kasi bakit nga naman ngayon lang nagkaroon ng presidenteng galing sa kanila?

Tagalog vs Bisaya rivalry

And in reality, Dutertes don't really care about their fellow Bisaya people. They know that the Bisaya are ride-or-die type of patriots; that's just who we are. They know that as long as they keep adding fuel to the fire, they can use the flame for their political gain.

Tagalog vs Bisaya rivalry

So I don't see an end to this Tagalog vs. Bisaya rivalry. Tagalogs see the Bisayas' loyalty and devotion as idiocy (which can be true), while Bisayas see the Tagalogs as elitists and racists for "hoarding" opportunities and being the "reigning" ethnic group (which also can be true).

Tagalog vs Bisaya rivalry

Also, no one can claim that this only happens in online circles. It is ingrained in our collective minds as Tagalog people na Bisaya people are somehow in a lower class of human existence.

Tagalog vs Bisaya rivalry

We make fun of the Bisaya accent. We portray Bisaya people as lowly maids, helpers, gardeners, mga house boy na kinakalaguyo ng asawa ng amo nila. We are impressed when Bisaya people are good at the work they do, not because they're good, but because we are not used to seeing Bisaya people be good and we see them as inferior.

Whether unconsciously or consciously, we are participants to this rivalry by mere virtue of living in Tagalog or Bisaya areas.

For some reason, it still blows my mind that "kuwalipikado" is not a real, recognized, grammatically correct word, and the actual recognized word is something that I've never met or heard of my entire life up until I learned about its existence—"kalipikado".

There are three ways of borrowing loan words from other languages into : using the word as is, using the word and spelling it by sound in Filipino, or the traditional centuries-long way of first translating it into Spanish then spelling that Spanish word by sound in Filipino.

"Qualified" went through the third method. It was first translated into Spanish ("calificado") then spelled out in Filipino ("kalipikado")

"Kuwalipikado", a word in the class former KWF commissioner Virgilio S. Almario calls "salitang siyokoy", went through a "pseudo-hispanism", in that it sounds Spanish enough to spell out in Filipino, and yet completely wrong and no such word exists. Hence "siyokoy" or merman who's not quite a fish and not quite man.

This word has been used forever. I grew up reading it in Filipino publications (albeit of limited variety). It's so fascinating to me that I'd gone on too long not knowing this word shouldn't even exist.

This also means the word "imahe" shouldn't exist and in its stead "imahen" should be used, from the Spanish "imagen".

And yet we use the latter almost exclusively in religious contexts, and the former in everything else.

The word "lebél" as in "wala ka sa lebel ko" ("you are not on my level") is another such case of "salitang siyokoy".

It's a Filipino respelling of the English "level", but stress is put on the second syllable to make it sound Spanish. But the actual word is "nibél", which we already use to refer to the carpentry tool. The more common and correct word is to just use the English "level" as is.

Ewan ko rin, never ko namang naransang sumakay sa school bus bilang estudyante naman ako ng public schools buong buhay ko. Pero mula noon hanggang ngayon pag kumakain ako ng Koko Krunch feeling ko nandiyan na sa labas yung school bus ko.

Watched Everyone Knows Every Juan on Netflix today while cooking. This movie is nuts y'all 😭 (in a good way). I really enjoyed it. What it feels like is that they just randomly happened to be on set, read the script, thought it would be fun to join, and decided to film it together.

The entire film is one continuous shot. It's really fun. Chaotic fun. Light family drama, but ultimately a comedy. 10/10 Pinoy film I think.

Poster of Everyone Knows Every Juan.

Highlights are of course Alessandra De Rossi's "not acting" acting, Gina Alajar's comedic timing (who actually reminds me of someone I know in real life), and Ruby Ruiz' *very* realistic portrayal of a person of that character.

Go watch it, it will not disappoint you.

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone who celebrates!

(I republished a Valentine's Day write-up that's totally not related to today's occasion but rather to my fear of getting old and missing out on love in my prime years but i'm okay, really i promise i totally am 😅🥰)

francisrub.io/literature/fil/a

Francis Rubio Ang Gurang Na Bading sa Valentine's Day “Beking matanda na, magmamahal pa ba?”

Do you wanna know why I unpublished it in the first place? Ahh— you guessed right! I found it cringe! Yay!!!

Uhm, why did I republish? Well, you see— oops! I didn't look at the time, I have to go byeeee

AI-generated memes will never be more funny or even *as* funny as the shitty ones we make with Photoshop, Canva, or hell, even MS Paint.

Because what makes them funny is the thought that someone sat down, put all their skills, time, and effort to make some stupid shit.

One of my earliest memories in technology ay nang aking kinalikot ang Nokia 5110 ng aking tiyahin at aksidente kong na-set to Chinese ang language 🤣

Tapos na-PUK ko naman ang Sony Ericsson ng aking tiyahin ulet hahaha

I don't listen to kpop as much as I used to, but you know what I vibe with? Those OSTs of K-Dramas I watch 🤣

Jang Ok-Jung in particular, but I can't skip songs from Dong Yi and Jewel in the Palace as well.

Currently developing an app in with just and running Maven in the terminal. I can get used to this, to be honest. Despite IntelliJ IDEA's bells and whistles.

I just have to figure out now how to debug breakpoints and I'll be leaving IntelliJ for good.

I literally don't care about the amount of stuff I have to type, I like this shit:

.element {
border-radius: 1rem;

@supports(corner-shape: squircle) {
border-radius: 2rem;
corner-shape: squircle;
}
}

That new SC ruling that recognizes co-ownership of properties between couples… you mean to tell me that was because two lesbians wanted to break up with each other???

Gay men keep the fuck up lmaooo when y'all break up you just air your drama out on Twitter. When lesbians break up, they shake up the entire legislative and judicial branches of the Ph government 🤣

There's something about families laughing around graves that's weirdly peaceful and calm. After all that you were, this is where you know—when you know—if it was all worth it.

Not the money, nor the fame, nor the work you've done, but the laugh of the people whose grief from your loss collectively turned into comfort, into your very own little monument in your remembrance.

Lmao kay Sexbomb Izzy now lang sumali sa concert ng Sexbomb nung nakitang maraming bumili ng ticket hahahahaha sasabihan ko sanang wais kung hindi lang tinakwil ang junakis dahil bading 🤣

Bad Bunny living my dreams right now 😭 imagine being a Little Monster, winning Album of the Year at the Grammys, beating Lady Gaga's arguably *the* best album of her career, and then performing with her at the Super Bowl Half Time Show all within the same month 😭

I'm gonna be honest though, Die With A Smile did NOT fit that rhythm 😅 Gaga should've sang Alejandro or Americano instead, but that's okay.

I just think Die With A Smile is a song that should die with a smile now. I'm so tired of it lmaoooo

I feel like I have thyroid problems. My aunt is on thyroid medications, and my other aunt had goiter. My aunt's symptoms (being unable to sleep for more than 4 hours at a time, anxiety, shaky hands) also happen to me. I need to get myself checked.

Cayenne pepper might actually be my best purchase this month. I've been putting it on everything: fried eggs, rice, cream of mushroom soup, fried rice, egg sandwich. It's enough spice for my taste and I love it.

I also bought myself some lemon pepper that I put on my pasta if I'm using white sauce. It adds more flavor, which I need because I don't put meat into my pasta (but not because I'm vegan, I just don't have a fridge and I'm too lazy to go out to buy meat when I feel like cooking).

Nakaka-miss yung time na may term pa tayong ginagamit na "sa totoong buhay" dahil yung personal life ng mga artista ay tagô dati for the most part. Tapos ibang-iba 'yung totoong pangalan nila sa screen names nila. Like who would ever know Jose Manalo's real name is Ariel?

I can still remember how blown my mind was when I read this post theorizing that the Dendro Archon's name is Nahida before Sumeru came out. Then not even ten minutes after I read it, a leak came out mentioning Nahida by name, then promo dropped the next day officially revealing a "mystery character" going by the name Nahida.

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I was eating ice cream and my brain can't stop playing that Sensodyne ad from more than a decade ago. Because, yes, meron ngang sudden jolt and you have to endure the pain. 😭 My battle against pangingilo 💀

Epstein documents, state of the world, frustration

It's so frustrating to finally see the Epstein shit going out and people are like 'yeah just another day i still gotta work though' like we didn't just find out every rich person on earth raped, killed, and fucking *ate* children. Literal babies.

Like this is just another one of those famous people drama a lá Keeping Up With The Kardashians. No bitch, this is the state of the world!!!

Epstein documents, state of the world, frustration

The shit you've all been saying about the Illuminati, the Rothschild, and other conspiracy shit, it's all fucking real and we've seen it with real evidence!!! Women, children, BABIES were raped, killed, and eaten.

Epstein documents, state of the world, frustration

But I get it. It's exhausting. It's easier to just not care. And they are going to weaponize that exhaustion against the people to try and bury this shit. It goes on and on and on.

Let me be a Know-Your-Meme guy and tell you exactly what happened.

In 2024, the Asoka trend took Tiktok by storm. With audio from an Indian song as their background music, people from all the world over posted videos of their makeup transformations while dancing to slowly reveal the progress of their transformation.

Of course, with Philippines being the social media capital of the world (for better or worse), Filipinos took the "Asoka challenge" as well, with many influencers taking the lead.

But Pinoys do as Pinoys did, and eventually the Asoka challenge became a Filipinized trend where instead of the Indian song, people used Piliin Mo Ang Pilipinas, a tourism campaign song sung by Angeline Quinto.

The trend slowly turned from being a simple makeup transformation challenge into one that showcases Filipino culture, festivals, and in some videos, daily lives.

From being a dance/makeup transformation challenge, the trend has produced content that look more like music videos.

Enter Karla Estrada, a Philippine TV host, actress, and (aspiring) singer. Before this, she was known for her blunder by joining The Voice Philippines but failing to make any of the judges turn around to face her. What's worse, Broadway star Lea Salonga, who was there as coach and judge, also failed to recognize her, asking her "what's your name? on national TV.

Karla, visibly embarrassed, had no choice but to say her name.

At this point, Karla Estrada had already built a career in show business for herself, with films and TV shows under her belt. Furthermore, she is basking in the fame of her son, the other half of the love team KathNiel, Daniel Padilla.

As a lot of C-list and D-list Filipino celebrities do, Karla Estrada joined in on the Piliin Mo Ang Pilipinas trend.

In her entry, she posted a video telling the story of a mother who decided to become an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) to provide for her family, who then got enough savings to start her own business and give herself and her family a better life.

Objectively, the video she posted has high production value. However, the background music was encoded into the video itself.

When you upload a video to Tiktok, you are required to specify which song you are using. Tiktok will then overlay that song's audio in your video, unless you decide to mute it so your video is just tagged with the song.

Karla's team failed to double check and uploaded the video both with the song encoded into the video and Tiktok's own sound playing at the same time, but in different parts of the same song.

The result is… quite amusing to say the least. See for yourself.

The blunder largely died down. But late last year, that same video has resurfaced on multiple accounts on Tiktok and Facebook.

These videos still circulate now, February 2026. And people have started calling Karla Estrada The Philippines' Echo System, replacing her moniker "Queen Mother" which never really caught on.

Kim's Nightmare remains bone-chilling. Lea Salonga's version (Fall of Saigon, 1990) has aged really well. Eva Noblezada's rendition (2014) somehow makes it modern with her vocals that lean more toward pop than theater (as opposed to Lea's theater vocals).

Joanna Ampil (1995) to me is the definitive studio recording though. I remember being 12 years old listening to this exact rendition so I could sleep 🤣

Lea's rendition of I Still Believe is my favorite though. Joanna's is really good, but I'm too bothered by the heaviness of her vibrato, which I guess works for live performances. Eva Noblezada's portray the right amount of "hope in the midst of torture" kinda vibe. Also, I loved the lyric changes in Eva's version.

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Exhibit A: mga matapobreng biglang ayaw na isuot ang kanilang Adidas Chinese New Year jacket kasi afford na raw ng mga jejemon at nawawala na ang exclusivity.

Kung afford ng mga jejemon ang outfit mo, ibig sabihin kauri ka rin ng mga jejemon teh. Hindi ka nasa lebel ng Alexander McQueen o Schiapparelli. Isang beses ka lang maospital, mahirap ka na ulit.

Sabi nga, ang nagmamataas ay ibinababa. Lahat tayo ay magdurusa sa kagagahan ng PhilHealth.

I will NEVER count my calories. I will NEVER fast intermittently. I was born on this land with the instinct to consume and the programming directive to devour, and it will be the last thing I'll do, and God help anyone who even thinks to stand in my way.

Okrayyy oo magulo mga geng geng sa BGC, pero sobra naman ginawa nang excuse para maging matapobre sa mga jejemon. Na para bang hindi kayo nakiki-Budots sa Tiktok. Etong mga mayayaman talaga walang kultura kundi maging mapangmata, tas magnanakaw ng estilo sa mga middle class at mahihirap.

Ibalik n'yo yung ukay namin na tig-150, tantanan yang mga thrift eme eme sa Instagram kakapal n'yo.

'Yung ukayan sa Cubao dati puro mga nakapambahay yung bumibisita, tipong galing lang namalengke 'tas napagtripang mag-shopping.

Ngayon mga nakakotse ang mga gaga, may bangles pang nalalaman. Bumalik kayo sa Power Plant Mall at doon mamili ng damit sa Zara kung saan kayo nababagay.

So Yaoyao heals bits (I'm getting around 1.3k per tick), but the ticks are much much faster than, say, Kokomi's jellyfish. Which makes Yaoyao a more suitable healer for Nefer than Kokomi.

Nefer keeps dying with Kokomi, but Yaoyao has sustained her perfectly.

I didn't really care about the new Spider-Man film, but after seeing this show and finding out it's the same director from Spider-Man, TRUST that I'm gonna be in those theaters when it drops.

I'm watching a Tiktok of Minty Fresh's performance in Drag Race UK vs The World and they keep commenting "so this is the so-called rival of Marina Summers?" 😭😭😭 she's getting dragged left and right 💀

See, if any song from KPop Demon Hunters wins the Grammy over Lady Gaga, I wouldn't be mad. It's banger after banger after banger. I myself played Golden for one month straight on repeat.

And Ejae deserves it with her vocal prowess and writing talent.

She has a video from a podcast where she's explaining that Your Idol (the song sung by the demons at the climax of the movie) samples a reversed, basically backmasked, version of the mantra the Huntr/x used in Golden, which then sounded like a Gregorian chant which then made her arrive at Dies Irae for the song's intro.

That's layers upon layers of meaning in writing. For a Netflix movie of all things.

MAYHEM has to win the Album of the Year though. Gaga deserves it.

Gosh, can you believe Gaga has never won Album of the Year at the Grammys? 💀 not for The Fame, not for The Fame Monster, not even for Born This Way.

It's such an absurd thing to believe Nod-Krai happened last minute as a response to Natlan's reception. If anything, they probably started realizing they need a Nod-Krai when they realized Sacred Sakura Cleansing world quest was a banger. Then started working on it around Sumeru.

I can't believe that I've been here since v2.1. I couldn't even care less about the Sacred Sakura Cleansing quest, and now I'm a sucker for lore who's now involved in the Moon Sisters lore, Khaenri'ah Sinners, Hexenzirkel, and Fatui Harbingers.

I only started playing it because I wanted to glide from the top of Venti's statue in Mondstadt.

I love Lit. It's the easiest and smoothest learning curve for me. I've tried React, Vue, Svelte, and even Angular, and I hated all of them.

I guess the fact that Lit compiles into plain old JavaScript + Web Components make it much more appealing to me. I don't have to deal with all the virtual DOM nonsense.

And because it's Web Components, I can just plug my Lit components into HTML pages no problem. And if it slows down, I only have myself to blame.

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