As always, support local. Representation talk is futile because Hollywood will never really be able to capture what it's like to be Filipino.

But Filipinos love gassing up Hollywood studios like Dreamworks. You want me to be happy with this, find representation in spaghetti lines that can be found in any third world country?

Stills from Hayop Ka, another Rocketsheep film.

How Manila was drawn in Rocketsheep Studios' animated films:

Most annoying thing about it is that if you're making a movie based on Filipino folk stories, why drag people into a sun shaped hole when disappearing people in Filipino folklore involves being carried off by a diwata/forest spirit in the middle of the rainforest, from just one wrong turn.

Annoying Philippine sun hole on the Forgotten Island trailer, sigh, I guess FilAm works aren't free of pinoybait 😵‍💫

...prioritizing foreign dependence.

The Marcos faction of the ruling class realizing that a rabid and rigid US alliance is the stupidest foreign policy ever concocted. But then again, Trump was talking about supporting Duterte in the ICC so this may also be a threat. Just horrible that instead of indugenous development, we continue...

As always, every accusation is a confession with these sociopaths.

If the mainstream media provided honest unbiased coverage, there would probably be 80-90% siding with Palestinians.

Sympathies in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have also flipped, with 40 percent now siding more with Palestinians compared to 39 percent for Israelis, amid Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.

...instead of trying to replace them. AI in photo editing can be made to automate repetitive tasks in art, help artists be more productive, local AI can even learn their user's style so it can help the user make more art in their style, but instead, AI tool designers aim to replace the user/artist.

A lot of it is because of the engineering and capitalist perspective on AI design. Startup bros and capitalists want to wholesale replace knowledge based labour with AI, when the best results for AI design is knowing its fundamental limits and designing tools that augment a user's skills...

A sad thing about AI is that because of its reputation brought about ny arrogance, there's much less celebration for the things AI is particularly good at. For example, machine translation has never been better. Generative fills and smart select makes photo editing so much easier.

Just a scroll through Filipino tiktok will show you what Filipino tourists abroad think about how the trains smell like in Europe. Twitter ratios involving white people will eventually devolve into comments about toilet paper vs. bidets. 💀

Fascinating post on sexpat Reddit about heightened hygiene awareness in Filipino culture. Of course, the other sexpats scoffed at the post because everything in the country is bad according to them, but if they knew what Filipinos think of white people when it comes to hygiene...

Afam hunters are the weakest link among Filipinos

First Iranian Regime L for this round of true

This is such a late season cold surge, it's so weird

Follow me on Twitter pls, I need the news and Twitter wants "interactions" from me first before they remove my rate limits 😵‍💫

Would still need some customization. Have to delete the old app and use a VPN lest they resuspend that account immediately. I made the new acct on the laptop so it's still empty. Will wait a few days before I log it in to this phone. That is, unless my appeal gets approved.

Since they suspended my random non-political stan account on X, I'm officially returning to that app as the political red btkn @/redbtkn HAHAHA. I guess that account will last just a few months before it gets suspended for being pro-Palestine again.

WTF they suspended my made up stan account on Twitter, and that mostly does non-political posts so that I can see what's up on that app discreetly 😵‍💫

Sexpat reddit having a meltdown over the flag burning at the US embassy protest 💀

As I said, lots of things you can criticize the PKK and its successors for. But joining the anti-ISIS coalition in Syria and Iraq is not one of them.

In WW2, both the USSR and Mao formed tactical alliances with the US as a counter to the Nazi Axis. There was nothing wrong with the tactical alliance to defeat ISIS incursion into Kurdistan. If anything, it helped them build and consolidate a mass base.

I mean, among other things, thebmain enemy of these PKK successor groups has always been Turkey, a NATO state. Even when they are in Syria, Iraq, or Iran, Turkey always has a way to meddle in their affairs.

...among political groupings is a great way to demonstrate how juvenile your politics are.

...first to say that they would not participate in US imperialist machinations. Even more noteworthy, the PJAK w/ the help of the HPG are the only group with extensive guerrilla infrastructure on the Iraq-Iran border, so why is Iran honoring the 2011 ceasefire? Not being able to differentiate...

It's funny how those ignorant of Kurdistan's politics love using the events in Syria as a gotcha, when the defense of Rojava was led by PKK successor groups, whose Iranian counterpart is the PJAK, the only group that is notbyet being treated with hostility by Iran, especially as they were the...