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Francis

@teacherbuknoy@masto.ai

I eat cringe for breakfast. I produce content for @antaresphdev 🟥🟪🟦

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Went to a workmate's wedding and got endlessly complimented for this Barong Tagalog that I literally just picked off the shelf of Onésimus because it matched the preferred color of the bride lol.

(I like to think I know fashion well enough to subconsciously pick the best, but really Onésimus just makes gorgeous garments.)

Man in a Barong Tagalog wearing a pair of glasses and smile as he takes a mirror selfie with his iPhone. Man showing off his chestnut-colored Barong Tagalog in a selfie. Southeast Asian man wearing a Barong Tagalog embroidered with intricate patterns taking another mirror selfie in a different part of a party venue.

In , the D/R alternation (i.e. when words' spelling change between D or R depending on the sound that precedes it) is totally optional as long as the meanings doesn't change.

So while we sound-wise prefer "Malaki raw" over "Malaki daw", neither is wrong. Both are grammatically correct.

[Source: Manwal sa Masinop na Pagsulat]

Subalit tandaan: Hindi ito dapat ituring na tuntunin sa pagsulat. Ang ibig sabihin pa, hindi dapat ituring na pagkakamali ang paggamit ng din at daw kahit sumusunod sa salitang nagtatapos sa patinig at malapatinig. English translation: "However, note: this should not be treated as a rule in writing. Furthermore, using 'din' and 'daw' after words that end in vowels and semivowels should not be considered wrong."

Opening up with Beyoncé and this studded silver dress very reminiscent of a skeleton. For someone coming back to the event after a ten-year hiatus, I think she did great. This is lovely.

Beyoncé wearing a silver studded dress that looks like a skeleton. She also wears a long cape made of ostrich feathers and a studded cranial helmet headdress.

Sabrina Carpenter arriving in a dress made of filmstrips of the 1954 film Sabrina. She understood the assignment, and I for one am grateful she decided to come.

Can I also say that she *knows* her body well? She looks like a doll with her emphasis on her really good proportions.

Sabrina Carpenter in a dress made of filmstrips.

Bad Bunny walks in a look that's meant to be a reflection of the aging body. If you think about it, aging is an art form where some do it well and others do it like milk.

In an event filled with women in gorgeous outfits and men in boring suits, Bad Bunny stands out by coming in a boring suit but doing it with a statement.

Bad Bunny wearing an all black outfit, a white hair wig, facial hair, and prosthesis to make him look 70 years old.

Janelle Monaé walks down the carpet in an outfit that reminds us of the failures of our tech-defined society. With moss covering the wires, ports, and connectors in her dress, she reminds us that eventually, nature reclaims everything.

Jannelle Monaé in a mossy (literally) green dress covered in wires, computer ports, and connectors. She dons a butterfly hair clip on her head.

Scarlet Witch

1. Bruha Eskarlata (from Spanish)
2. Pulang Manggagaway

(I didn't wanna use "mangkukulam" here because it connotes someone who works specifically with voodoo dolls, and "mambabarang" connotes someone who works specifically with bodily ailments. "Babaylan" is priestess, so that's a no-go as well.)

Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch from WandaVision.

Iron Man - Mr. Bakal
Tony Stark - Tonio Estañero

(I opted for Mr. here for a more informal, less inhuman, PR-approved vibe, as "táong bakal" feels like someone who would be a circus exhibit)

Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man.

Fantastic Four - Kamangha-pat (idk sorry 😭🤣)

Mr. Fantastic - Mr. Walastik
Reed Richards - Rene Ricardo

Invisible Woman - Laho Lady
Susan Storm Richards - Susan Salonga Ricardo

Human Torch - Taong Sulô
Jonathan Storm - Jhonatan Salonga

The Thing - Ang Ano
Benjamin Grimm - Benjamin Gamboa

Fantastic Four: First Steps

Thought I put spiral-shaped pasta on my cart, checked it out two weeks ago. Now I'm cooking it, and it's actually the weirdest pasta shape I've ever come across. Apparently it's called vegeroni and they're oversized shells that look like cabbage leaves and tubes that vaguely resembles legumes.

The packaging claims it has three times more fiber than regular pasta. Interesting.

(Stock photo so you can see what I see)

A vibrant pile of tricolor dry pasta, featuring shades of orange, green, and pale yellow. The pasta consists of various shapes, including ridged shells and spiral-like curls.

Digging through my old files, and I found this concept for my website redesign that I made in 2024. This was before I came up with the Cyber Chrome theming I ended up going with.

I had a thought that, since I was doing photo shoots every year, I could make each a theme for the entire website. I didn't go through with it because to me it was too much work (although I ended up rewriting the entire thing anyway).

Happy Earth hour. Wag ka na magpatay ng ilaw mamaya beh, AI-generated naman DP mo walang magiging effect yung pagpatay mo ng ilaw. Negligible.

Negligible!??

Maja Salvador's mocking face.

It seems that the new design trend nowadays is "card islands", i.e. sections of UI grouped together in cards laid out in a grid, each elevated with drop shadows and decorated with huge corner radii.

I've seen this in MacOS, Jetbrains IDEs, some Obsidian themes, and now, the Firefox Nova redesign that's coming.

Firefox's upcoming Nova redesign, featuring user interface components grouped together in cards laid out in a grid. IntelliJ IDEA rendered in the default theme Islands, featuring components grouped together in cards with rounded corners. Finder in MacOS Tahoe. Sidebar is grouped in a liquid glass panel that floats on top of the entire window. Toolbars at the top are similarly grouped and elevated in cards.

Not entering its yeehaw era because with rising gas and oil prices, people have decided to literally ride horses to a McDonalds drive-thru 🤣 😭

(video from Carren Emirose, as posted by ABS-CBN News)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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Me cosplaying as a gay cabbage. I'm in ruffles of various shades of green, and a headpiece made of red and pink flowers sit on top of my head. Strings of gold chains cascade from my head and frame my face.

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.

Sharing experiences in a class was such a pretentious thing for me back when I was in school because the topic could be like "cycles and loops" and the other kids would talk about Ferris wheels and roller coasters. And then I stand up and talk about cycles of abuse 😭

Girl making a face that says “be so serious right now 😭.” You can literally feel the secondhand embarrassment through the screen.

As much as I love Jon Chu, he cannot get all the credit for that scene in Wicked Part 1 where Elphaba sings about being "degreenified" by the Wizard and the light shines through a piece of pink glass, making her skin look not-green.

Because Wicked Broadway has been doing that in No Good Deed to signify that when Elphaba succumbed to wickedness, that is when she's the most like us.

Elphaba's green skin fading into a more "normal" color when pink light shines on her as she sings about the Wizard degreenifying her. Donna Vivino as Elphaba on Wicked Broadway, singing No Good Deed. Her skin is painted green, but the warm lights briefly turn her back into her normal skin color.

Bug fixing an analytics module from 8 am to 12:30 PM, then facilitating back-to-back meetings from 2 PM to 5 PM oh boy…

I am so tired, I need a hug lmao does anyone have a straitjacket I can borrow 😂

Wendy Williams exhausted with no makeup.

Cracking up at the thought of Elphaba actually asking the Wizard to degreenify her and the Wizard just gives her a serum foundation and contour stick 😂😭

Glinda from Wicked trying to bonk someone hard with her wand.

My family came over yesterday to celebrate my brother's birthday, and he left his vape when they went home. And now, this is literally how I look trying to stop myself from trying that smoke bomb srofl

Lois Griffin, sitting at a table with a massive orange pill bottle in the foreground. She tries to stop herself so hard from taking the pills.

September 23 na-close na ng QA namen lahat ng ticket na assigned sa akin omg malaya na ako from this project after a full ass year 😭🎊🎉 Happy birthday Cristine Reyes and thank you Beyoncé

White woman sipping her matcha latte as she looks to the sky hopefully. She is going to be alright.

If Jonvic Remulla comes out as gay I would not be surprised because ever since I caught wind of his name, he's been acting like a diva 😭 exactly like how gay masc4masc men who roam around Greenfield in Shaw Blvd act and speak. He's already buff to begin with, also wears ultra tight shirts.

Kamala Harris tucking her hair while laughing.

Also from ezra_acayan on Instagram. “A SWAT officer tells the photographer to stop taking pictures.”

Why were they stopping photojournalists from taking photos? Exactly because they didn't want to be caught in the act of committing violence against the very people they swore to protect.

A SWAT officer in full gear holding a heavy gun and a wooden staff pointing to the camera with immense fury in his eyes.

The Song of the Welkin Moon webpage now shows the shattered moon behind the false sky of Teyvat instead of the three whole moons there used to be.

genshin.hoyoverse.com/moon?gam

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The night sky filled with clouds and sparkling stars. At its center, a red glitch offering a glimpse into the corpses of the dead moons, one shattered, the other whole but lifeless, and the third one nowhere to be seen. Text reads: "The trinity of moon goddesses, who once steered the primordial celestial sphere and wove love and passion into the very heart of the world, have long since faded into the shadows of time."
The moonlight emerges anew, chasing the tides together Browse and share information related to the 'Song of the Welkin Moon' web event to claim in-game rewards.

Ooohhh this transformation is delicious yup yup you can tell all the budget went to CGI this season. All the writers are underpaid, but the CGI artists all ate in a 5-star buffet yup.

Video from official TV series' Youtube channel.

This gave me the same feeling as when Venti from Genshin Impact told me that the Fatui work under the Tsaritsa of Snezhnaya likeee what do those words MEAN???

An exhausted dog wearing a tired ass wig with fuck ass microbangs.

Because this year's MTV Video Music Awards decided to snob the actual winner by not nominating it for the Video of the Year category, I'm putting it on your feeds.

Disease - , MAYHEM (2025)

[loud music] [weird] [creepy] [no flashing lights]

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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.

Here's a picture of me with a very old computer that I unfortunately could not remember what was called. This was when I was still a JW and we toured the Watchtower Branch Office in Muñoz, Quezon City.

They say this computer had been here since the first time Filipino JWs started printing their own magazines and books in the PH.

When I converted, they already moved the printing presses to Japan, and only translations are done here in the country.

A man in formal attire sits at a vintage computer terminal, focused intently on the monochrome display. The sepia tone gives the scene a timeless, retro-futuristic atmosphere—this is me, captured in another era.
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