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Pinned Thought On Things That Made Me Go Hmm
When does multilingualism become language loss?
Someone said Bicolanos defaulting to Tagalog is how a language die. Surely not, I thought.
Aug 12, 2026
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A chronological stream of thoughts, notes, frames, and everything in between.
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I think nothing destroys care faster than realizing you’re the only who actually gives a fuck and now just feel silly for it.
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2026 Aug
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"kusido" = cooked fresh fish in sour soup (using calamansi) with young sweet potato leaves (talbos ng kamote) which makes it pinkish purple
home cooked staple I've realized I take for granted: this purple kusido
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So bored with real life lately and the usual escape hatch isn’t working. Fiction used to pull me somewhere but lately it just slides off. Barely touched my reading goal this year.
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On Things That Made Me Go Hmm
When does multilingualism become language loss?
Someone said Bicolanos defaulting to Tagalog is how a language die. Surely not, I thought.
17 min read
“Everybody can still talk to one another. But some of the more specific words become generational. Some distinctions get harder to make without reaching for Tagalog or English. Some expressions become things younger people recognize from older relatives rather than things they would instinctively use themselves.”
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When the work before the work is the work.... In my digital solutions consulting work, I keep ending up in projects where the thing I was originally asked to do turns out not to be the thing that actually needs fixing. It's never a thing people like to hear, making it seem like their problems are more complex... or expensive. They usually are.
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There’s a strange double life to writing: you do it to heal, and you do it to harvest your own wounds for material.
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Home
scheduling afternoon naps like it works
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Sakay is my hometown's annual fluvial procession with hundreds of boats honoring the town’s patroness
the boats are getting ready for august's sakay season
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2026 Jul
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What is the best walking playlist and why is it the first seven tracks of Carly Rae Jepsen's E•MO•TION?
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sad detail: kitty used to have another kitten with him and now i've been mostly seeing it alone.
kitten who lives in the pottery workshop i pass by on my daily walking route
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On... Whatever This Is
I'm maybe not doing massages right
Whatever muscle lives somewhere between my shoulder blade and my soul wants something else entirely.
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“physical touch and intimacy have almost nothing to do with each other.”
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On... Whatever This Is
Oh. Right. Depression.
When you suddenly just can't with it.
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“I don't know if tired is even the word.”
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I’m tired and just can’t with it. Not sure what kind of tired. I don’t know if tired is even the word.
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mayon volcano has an ongoing eruption activity for months now
Camalig Bypass Road, Albay, Philippines
never not stopping for this beauty
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have you ever been inside what’s essentially a dry typhoon? gusty winds. no rain. dry air. windy outside but you’re sweating. a grassfire in the next barangay. dark af with the power out. extreme weather in the philippines be really reinventing itself every year. 💨😢
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completely wild my lowly 11 Pro device is still supported
iOS 27 Beta 2
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i hate that buying the healthier stuff feels like consumerism
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I forgot which book this epigraph was from. This means either of two things: I have not read in ages or I've been revenge-reading the titles become a jumbled blur in my head
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oh how I missed the guilt-free feeling of a good book-binge
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On Culture I'm Devouring
Remembering ‘Game of Thrones’ through the lens of an unhealthy attachment
On memorializing an epic show’s end in healthy kind of way (I think)
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“this show about bleakness and boobs, and bastards battling, and backstabbing and baby-stabbing.”
