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P.ᜃᜒ.B 🚩🔻 @pulangbatikan.bsky.social · 7h

The AI bubble is about to burst, fully revealing the depths of the world economic crisis. We're probably at the brink of absolute economic disaster.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1d

Israel TORTURER a JEWISH Flotilla Member!

Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir personally brutalized members of the Gaza flotilla while handcuffed in prison; he singled out two Jews including my friend David Kadler for extra humiliation

(Steven Donziger)

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P.ᜃᜒ.B 🚩🔻 @pulangbatikan.bsky.social · 13h

Please do not talk about the "overground of the CPP" like that, you're wild 😵‍💫

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P.ᜃᜒ.B 🚩🔻 @pulangbatikan.bsky.social · 18h

I cannot emphasize how much of an urban hell Manila has become, and a lot of that is also partly because of the proliferation of these upmarket areas filled with condos and overpriced food stalls that the Manila bourgeoisie and white sexpats love.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 18h

It was created by Germans. What else could it possibly be.

micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 21h

“Mastodon is a very white space ... when people tell marginalized subjects to make their own instances, they grossly underestimate the resource intensity of doing so. It is not … the case that we can make an instance and then suddenly be free of all of the things that we're trying to get away from”

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P.ᜃᜒ.B 🚩🔻 @pulangbatikan.bsky.social · 18h

There are too few jeepneys today. Too few buses today. Previous bus routes allowed for 1 bus ride direct to near the destination, but now we have to cope with 3 bus changes because of that idiotic EDSA busway, accessible by crossing a very high footbridge across the widest highway in the country.

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P.ᜃᜒ.B 🚩🔻 @pulangbatikan.bsky.social · 18h

...parking spaces in the city was hell. Yes, there was a time when people had this situation in Manila. All the rich kids wanted to learn how to "commute" because it felt "liberating" for them. Those same collegemates now have cars or use them regularly because mass transport has been eradicated.

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P.ᜃᜒ.B 🚩🔻 @pulangbatikan.bsky.social · 18h

A lot of West-influenced walkability activists love co-blaming car owners for this. But when I was in college, most of my collegemates had no plans to get cars, and those rich enough to have one don't even use it regularly because the mass transport system was so good while finding secure...

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P.ᜃᜒ.B 🚩🔻 @pulangbatikan.bsky.social · 18h

Duterte also encouraged the proloferation of toll highways for his cronies, like the NLEX-SLEX connector, the CAVITEX, etc. All of these are recent. We're seeing an upsurge of motorcycle purchases because of it, when previously, the mass transport system served as well.

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P.ᜃᜒ.B 🚩🔻 @pulangbatikan.bsky.social · 18h

...Grab, Angkas and other contractual transport apps, and for Duterte's cronies investing in overpriced P2P buses and building new modern jeep companies with imported Chinese minibuses.

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P.ᜃᜒ.B 🚩🔻 @pulangbatikan.bsky.social · 18h

This actually started with Pnoy privatizing the metro rail systems. Then we have the jeepney modernization program and the removal of the formerly numerous city bus routes in favour of a sham attempt at a bus rapid transit. An economic boon to car and motorcycle importers like Ayala, for...

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P.ᜃᜒ.B 🚩🔻 @pulangbatikan.bsky.social · 18h

In doing so, they do not understand the underlying problems of Manila. Manila was not designed to be car-centric, and it wasn't for decades. But recent policies gutting the mass transportation system with very little done to cope with increased private car use led to the situation today.

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P.ᜃᜒ.B 🚩🔻 @pulangbatikan.bsky.social · 18h

I think a lot of Filipinos nowadays don't know or don't remember a time when Manila traffic was limited to rush hours: 7-11 in the morning, 4-9 in the evening. But that was the case as late as the early 2010s. The traffic hell of today is a very recent phenomenon.

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Kaz ☭ 🇵🇸 @kaz01.bsky.social · 1d

This was two years before October 7th during a flag march where Zionists chanted "Death to Arabs" and smashed Palestinian businesses and homes like the nazis did during Kristallnacht.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1d

This was 2 years before October 7th.

(Credit: Hasan Mafi)

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 1d

man it is not an inarguably moral position to say that people breaking out of the prison they were forced into after their homes were taken from them by settlers is "bad", it is not inarguably moral to say that striking back at colonization and slow genocide is bad, fuck

"10/7 was bad and everything that followed in aftermath was worse" is a perfectly moral and popular position. it's more or less the American consensus on 9/11.

Zohran post:

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023

Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: a death toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.

ZOHRAN

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P.ᜃᜒ.B 🚩🔻 @pulangbatikan.bsky.social · 1d

Never trust a DemSoc. Can't say I'm surprised or disappointed, too much experience with these faux-progressive liberals

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P.ᜃᜒ.B 🚩🔻 @pulangbatikan.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thunberg is a lot braver, more honorable, and more respectable, than most couch communists on this and the other app.

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P.ᜃᜒ.B 🚩🔻 @pulangbatikan.bsky.social · 1d

Also, mas Visayan pa nga si BBM kesa Tagalog e, diba Waray nanay niyan? 😭

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P.ᜃᜒ.B 🚩🔻 @pulangbatikan.bsky.social · 1d

Ha? Hindi naman Tagalog si Marcos a 😭

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P.ᜃᜒ.B 🚩🔻 @pulangbatikan.bsky.social · 1d

Language diversity in the Philippines peak in mountain areas, especially the Cordillera Central mountain range in Luzon. Lowland language differentiation is usually a function of mountains forming natural barriers, hence the northern Luzon and central Luzon branches, or the Danao branch in Mindanao.

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P.ᜃᜒ.B 🚩🔻 @pulangbatikan.bsky.social · 1d

To note, linguistically, even Bahasa Sug of Sulu is a Visayan language most similar to the southern Visayan languages of Butuan and Surigao. There is a major dominance of the Central Philippine language branch (Tagalog, Bikol languages, Visayan languages) in the Philippines.

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P.ᜃᜒ.B 🚩🔻 @pulangbatikan.bsky.social · 1d

...on the coastlines of the big islands facing it: Tagalog and Bikolano on southern Luzon, and various Manobo languages in northeast Mindanao. Meanwhile, languages in northern and central Luzon and southern Mindanao are so clearly distinct from these Central Philippine languages.

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P.ᜃᜒ.B 🚩🔻 @pulangbatikan.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile, Hiligaynon is spoken opposite of west Negros in east Panay. Waray is spoken opposite of east Leyte in Samar. The Visayas is the most archipelagic part of the Philippines but it is also the least linguistically diverse, and non Visayan languages most closely related to it are spoken...

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P.ᜃᜒ.B 🚩🔻 @pulangbatikan.bsky.social · 1d

...by a mountain range speak different languages. Look at Negros: Hiligaynon in the west, Cebuano in the east. Look at Leyte: Cebuano in the west, Waray in the east. But look at Cebuano in general: Cebu, Bohol, east Negros, west Leyte, northern Mindanao, all in a general sea area.

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