teacherbuknoy

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@teacherbuknoy@masto.ai

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

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- ukay-ukay finds
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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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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:

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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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I have bad news: I think I am having a very teeny tiny mild allergic reaction to bagoong. 😭 I can feel the right side of my upper lip starting to swell. I hope this is not a permanent allergy; I really like bagoong sad_cat

Lmao a scene from the Doctor Doctor came up on my YouTube Shorts just now, it's a Jewish patient who thought he has cancer because he accidentally ate pork then came back because "it felt good to be bad". But his fiancée is also a doctor in that hospital, and she gets mad that he ate pork twice.

Turns out he doesn't have cancer, but the doctor doesn't wanna marry him anymore. He thought it was because he sinned, but she just says she's gay and the video just ends there. 😭

DICT now eyes verification of social media accounts. This could mean social media platforms requiring valid IDs to register, or maybe restricting mobile numbers (as they are already registered) to one account only.

This doesn't bode well.

First of all, the Philippine government has not yet proved that it is capable of being this kind of watchdog. All it does is adding another layer of surveillance on top of what is already out there.

Second, instead of focusing on restrictive tactics to combat false news, trolls, and other malignant entities online, DICT should focus on defensive strategies, i.e. an enormous campaign for media literacy that tackles all kinds of media, not just social media. Meaning, you work with DepEd, CHED, universities, and LGUs to provide a comprehensive and widespread education campaign, which frankly should've been done way back in 2008.

Third, DICT should focus its efforts on fighting the spam calls and texts that are not only still widespread but have grown tenfold more since they introduced SIM registration. If spam cannot be traced back to its sources, what even is the point of SIM registration in the first place?

Fourth, we have seen this before. This is going to be just another tool to control dissenters of the government. This can and *will* escalate quickly into the government silencing its critics.

For some reason, Helvetica and Helvetica Neue looks really good on macOS, but looks demented on Windows. I made a document in Apple Pages with those fonts, exported it as PDF, and sent it to my Windows PC and the type just looks wonky.

When I was growing up, there was no concept of a "gaydar". What I went through was a "gay exam", a series of questions that supposedly determined whether you were gay or not.

I was asked to look at my nails, look at my heels, and say "I'M A MAN" in my deepest voice. Safe to say I failed all of them.

Because I was 6. 🙄

Look at your nails. If you look at it by curling your fingers to your palm, you're straight. If you look at it from the back of your hand with your fingers stretched out, you're gay.

If you look at your heels by raising it and eyeing it from behind, you're gay. If you lift it up in front of your other knee, you're straight.

Last one's a trick question, because you were a kid, and no matter how deep you try sounding, they will still accuse you of sounding gay.

It's a whole humiliation ritual, mostly led by the uncles of the family and repeated by classmates during recess.

Sophie Prime is a very interesting content creator from a linguistics standpoint.

There have been Filipino content creators who have been known for their own brand of gay slang (e.g. Queen Dura, Sesable, Macoy Dubs). But only Sophie Prime has achieved success this influential and *deliberate*.

And I say deliberate, because her followers literally maintain a dictionary for the slang they use.

Another interesting point here is that Sophie Prime says this slang she created was to work around Tiktok's very strict censoring practices. She goes on live streams reading stories sent over by her viewers, and she had reportedly been suspended and banned multiple times for tackling topics of sexuality, suicide, and mental health.

Sexual and explicit terminologies

So she crafted a bunch of words to counter it.

E.g. stories around sexuality are tagged as "libidurch" (from the English "libido").

Sexual intercourse is called "La Niña", as a direct euphemism to "my pussy is wet", with "El Niño" aptly referring to an attempt at intercourse that got cancelled.

"Shitipayrot" and "nypaylarot" refer to the male and female genitalia respectively.

These words evade censorship strategies successfully, for they are completely made-up words or existing ones that are given new meaning. And unless you are in with her followers, there is zero chance for you to understand exactly what's being said, with at most merely having an inkling that the words are euphemistic in nature.

Combine this strategy with the very fluid rules of vocabulary and grammar in Filipino, and you only encourage even more words to be added in the lexicon.

This more active effort of crafting new terminologies is what sets Sophie Prime apart from other queer content creators who came before her who only managed to leave a word or two in the queer vernacular.

Idk man, I think whatever disease a child could get from viruses is much much scarier than autism. Like if there's a world where vaccines did cause autism, I would rather have a child with autism who's alive than a child who's neurotypical but dead.

With Varka returning to Mondstadt soon, I hope we get a storyline to finally address Godwin and his lies forcing him to stay in Windrise. I need Glory to know how much of a fraud her boyfriend is.

Then we get a Godwin redemption arc because by god he needs it 😭

Imagine the long-teased Abyss invasion of Mondstadt finally happens and Mondstadt's first line of defense is Godwin without anyone's knowledge. 😭

Then Godwin dies at the hands of the Abyss, Glory finds him right before he dies so he can confess to his sins and redeem himself after fighting off the Abyss before it reaches the city gates.

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.

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 💀

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