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Reading diversely. Writing inclusively.
Ingatan natin ang isa’t isa.
On any given day...

Coworker: I'm leaving now.

Me: You're leaving me alone? Without supervision?

Coworker: Yes?

Me: Without an adult?!

Coworker: You ARE an adult!

Me: I need a real adult!

#WorkLifeBalance #DayInTheLife
November 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I'm watching Naruto for the first time. It began in 1999. I guess explains why Sakura spends so much time looking shocked and scared, screaming, and otherwise being useless while being proclaimed as having a lot of potential.

#Anime #Naruto
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If you've watched #FreakierFriday, did you notice you can sing "Glycerine" over "Baby"?
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
So hey: any of my kababayan making book covers without AI? My WIP is a YA urban fantasy.
Hello! I know a lot of my followers are from the west and I would like to ask that if you have money to spare, please commission some Filipino artists right now that are doing commissions for a cause to help fund the repairs from the recent (and upcoming) super typhoons.

Links to them in replies!
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The other day, I saw someone erecting (tee-hee: "erecting") a fish shaped mailbox and remembered the baseball bat I have at home.

Happy belated birthday, @nimyane.bsky.social!
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Me: ねこちゃんはどこですか?

Fefe: mrow

Me: ねこちゃんはどこですか?!

Fefe: MEOW

Me: ねこちゃんはどこですか?!?!

Fefe: MRRRROW MRRRRRROW!

She got pretty frantic so I stopped teasing, and pet her 😅

#DayInTheLife
September 5, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Coworker: My sister tried to rage bait me but she can't.

Me: The student isn't ready to surpass the master.

Coworker: I'm the master baiter. Don't look at me like that! You know you were waiting for me to go there.
September 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Friend: You *have* to learn how to swim! What if you're by a river and you see a dog or kitten drowning?

Me: It's interesting that you specify a dog or cat, and not a human child.

Friend: I know my girls.

😹😹😹

#GirlsGirl
July 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I strive to write with honesty, so while I had the best dad, I also acknowledge that he was still human with human fallibilties.

Despite that, my ditse nailed it when, in her last conversation with Dad, she said, "You did what you set out to do. You kept the family together."

#FathersDay

1/3
June 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Post a female character you love.
June 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Maligayang araw ng kalayaan!

I have complicated feelings about the day, and the United States's continued intrusion, but I love my people. I dream of a Philippines that is someday truly independent, where people leave "home" because they want to, not because of need.

1/2
June 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?
June 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I *know* somebody educated me on it, but I forgot how to save posts here.

But also: this looks really interesting.
Excited to have bagged this bad boy from used books spaces. "The Boys from the Barracks" tells the a story about military conspiracies ("deep states") in the Philippines after EDSA. I'm assembling a syllabus for a seminar on deep states and parapolitics in the Philippines so this will be useful!
June 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
24 years ago, I lost my mother.

I don't mean like the times I hid in the clothing racks and she walked to the next department without me. I *lost* lost her. As in there was service, mourning, and everything.

Months later, in an attempt to run away from the pain, I relocated to San Francisco.

1/3
June 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Co-worker: You are not [age]!

Me: I totally am!

CW: You're NOT! [10 years younger], but not -

Me: It's because I'm immature. It's affected your perception of me.

CW: ...

Me: 😅

CW: ...I think you're right.
June 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I'm just a girl, standing in front of another social media platform, asking it to love me - you know: let me opt out of it using my content to train AI.

It won't, so I'm here.

Again.

Cheesecake.
June 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Best part of last night:

Me: (laying in bed) 猫ちゃんはどこですか?

A few moments later, I heard a trill from the floor next to me, then the mattress depressing as she leapt up 💗
April 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Happy birthday to the bestest birthday girl: ME!
a white rabbit is sitting on a table with a bunch of pink balls on it
ALT: a white rabbit is sitting on a table with a bunch of pink balls on it
media.tenor.com
April 1, 2025 at 7:13 AM
When I was younger, I was convinced I was ugly. Flaws I perceived included my huge nose and fat belly. A few classmates said I looked like a boy. Pictures attached for reference.

Pictures I rediscovered as an adult and thought, "WTH. I was cute!"

1/8
March 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
*labeling

*you're

But the point still stands.

#AshWednesday #AshMeOutside #HowBoutDat #Dating
March 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”

- C.S. Lewis

#QuotesToLiveBy
February 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
She called me autistic as if that's a bad thing (It's not!), citing as proof my inability to feel.

But why would I show my heart to someone whose only wish is to obliterate it?

The stories untrustworthy people make up to try to cover their own shortcomings...
February 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Look for the helpers.

Here are some in Seattle!
Hello, teahearts!

🍵 We are donating 10% of our total online and in-store sales this Friday, 2/7 to Northwest Immigration Rights Project to support their ongoing mission to serve our immigrant community!

💓 100+ food & beverage businesses will offer a variety of contributions between 2/7 and 2/9.
February 4, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Feeling things that will definitely be a blog post at some point this week.
February 3, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Too many people: if we raise the minimum wage, consumers will have to pay a lot more!

Costco*: Hold my drink.

*In-N-Out, too!
Good news since we're not going to Target anymore. Costco also raised wages for most workers to $30/hour, minimum $20/hour. A good company. And hot dogs.
Strike averted at Costco as Teamsters reach a tentative deal
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Strike averted at Costco as Teamsters reach a tentative deal
Some 18,000 employees across the country were poised to walk out after union negotiations stalled
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM