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life is short, make it shorter

[nicholai @2AMevermore]

A summary of the Philippines' colonial history #rp612fic

[rio @aagoofz]

PLEASE DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT MINDANAO.

especially glan, margus, malapatan, and all baranggays in saranggani province. they weren't given any media coverages and are in need of help. if you can, please donate kahit kaunti lang. if not, pakispread nalang po ng post na 'to.

[vui @bogoshetka]

my kind of ticketing digmaan juskopo confirmed!!! future marathoner !!! 😭☘️

[michael fajatin @michaelfajatin]

APC is not only a king without a kingdom, he is a king inang yan.

[vui @bogoshetka]

hahahaha what i've been saying dahil ibang lvl ng inis ko talaga sa mga putragis na yan as taga taguig

[vince ❤️‍🔥 @droidhymns]

no wonder the cayetanos are extra evil and annoying they have white people blood in them 😒😒😒

[aly! ଘ(*. .)੭ @theblessedbhie]

god pls take away the cruelty and harassment of our journalists and pass it on to these fuckass senators a thousand-fold

[militant @alasiye7e]

the "magigiting na Free Palestine" crowd has no problem calling out China and imperialism in all its forms.

I know why YOU have a problem with the people who are against genocide though you fuckass zionist

[gab @snescape]

kung walang journalist, walang masisiwalat na katotohanan. kung walang journalist hindi kayo maririnig ng taong bayan. kapal ng mukha nitong isang to. these are the journalists u called "bayaran" btw

[vui @bogoshetka]

senator of the Philippines got community notes 😭 ohhh

[Loren Legarda @loren_legarda]

The Constitution is clear and does not leave room for interpretation.

The Senate is composed of 24 Senators, and a majority of 13 constitutes a quorum to do business.

13 votes to constitute a quorum.

13 votes to elect officers.

A void election cannot create valid authority.

[vui @bogoshetka]

what they said

[☆ @doododeldi]

also staff ni senri:

[LPC @landpalestine]

Israel just bombed a building that Palestinian journalist Bisan owda was in

She’s okay and reporting on it. She said it’s the closest she’s ever been to a bombing.

[radar PH @radarph_media]

The row of bleeding tree stumps wrapped in plastic along Quirino Avenue is a gut-wrenching sight. To do this during a period of relentless urban heatwaves feels less like infrastructure development and more like a direct assault on the livability of Manila.

Over 200 trees—including a 50-year-old narra—have already been felled to make way for the Southern Access Link Expressway (SALEX), a flagship Public-Private Partnership (PPP) under the Build Better More framework, executed by San Miguel Corporation (SMC) in coordination with the Department of Transportation (DOTr).

In total, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) authorized the cutting and earth-balling of 617 trees. The government and SMC defend this by pointing to a legal mandate to plant 50,700 replacement seedlings.

But to environmental scientists and urban ecologists, this math functions as an ecological illusion. Replacing a mature canopy that actively mitigates the urban heat island effect with a sapling in a plastic bag creates an ecological debt that takes decades to repay.

Could we have saved them?

In Japan, advanced mechanized earth-balling and large-scale tree transplanting are standard practices for urban redevelopment. Japan utilizes hydraulic tree spades, chemical root-pruning regimens, and crane-lifted steel cages to relocate centuries-old trees safely.

However, importing this Japanese option to Quirino Avenue faces brutal economic and logistical realities:

THE PROHIBITIVE COST
High-tech relocation of a single mature urban tree costs between $5,000 and $20,000+ USD (roughly ₱290,000 to ₱1.16 million). Moving 617 trees would cost between ₱180 million and ₱700 million. While high-tech relocation costs would represent only a fraction of a multi-billion-peso expressway budget, the current regulatory landscape makes purchasing replacement seedlings the standard, far cheaper financial default for project proponents.

THE IMPOSSIBLE TIMELINE
Scientific tree relocation requires six months to a year of root preparation and years of aftercare. The DENR gave SMC a tight 90-day window to clear the stretch, making survival biologically impossible under current project deadlines.

THE UNDERGROUND CHAOS
Manila’s underground is a chaotic maze of decades-old water mains and high-voltage cables. Digging a wide, intact root ball out of this grid presents an immense engineering bottleneck.

The central tragedy is that this destruction could be entirely avoidable. 

In modern Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) frameworks, the golden rule of infrastructure is the Mitigation Hierarchy: Avoid, Minimize, Restore, Offset.

In a truly green smart city, engineers design expressways around existing natural infrastructure by shifting piers and curving alignments. By treating trees as static obstacles rather than vital assets, our builders prove their definition of "progress" remains tethered to an outdated mindset that prioritizes moving cars over human survival.

The reality is that we remain a third-world city gridlocked by deeply entrenched bureaucracy, demanding first-world amenities without implementing first-world safeguards.

To stop Quirino Avenue from becoming the blueprint for every future project, we must act:

Environmental groups must file for a Temporary Environmental Protection Order (TEPO) or Writ of Kalikasan to halt the remaining cutting, citing the constitutional right to a balanced and healthful ecology amid an accelerating climate crisis.

The NEDA, DOTr, and DPWH must reform bidding terms for future projects. Proponents must prove their designs minimize mature tree destruction before receiving a green light.

The DENR must stop accepting simple seedling replacement ratios as a cure-all. If a project requires cutting a tree, proponents should be held financially liable for the value of the ecosystem services lost—specifically carbon sequestration and localized cooling—over the next 30 years.

Progress shouldn't look like a concrete slab over a graveyard of old trees. If we cannot build bridges without killing the very lungs of our city, we are not building the future—we are just paving over our survival.

(✍️by: Walter C. Villa ; 📸: The Visual Chronicle / FB)

#radarPH

[vui @bogoshetka]

bat kasi hindi sa senado bumaksak yung meteor

[vui @bogoshetka]

puro kagaguhan senate majority. kadiri talaga tong cayetano na toh

[Mangingisda 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @MangingisdaSays]

Ramon Ang and his endless greed.

The people will suffer because of San Miguel Corporation.

📸 AGHAM, from a post in August 2025

[ChismisNChaos🇵🇭 🇻🇦 @ChismisNChaos]

Trees outside Manila Zoo in Quirino are centuries old. Some predates to World War 2. It is a sanctuary and a botanical garden but DENR allowed it to be cut, instead of earth balling them to be transferred.

[patricia🌿 @pinaysipatricia]

Revisiting beautiful tree-lined Roxas Boulevard during the 60s and 70s. Today, rows of trees are being killed along the iconic boulevard to build an expressway. All in the name of GREED.

[K Manuel @theklmanuel]

paurong talaga pilipinas. wdym another elevated expressway? on top of neighborhoods? on top of coastlines? on top of rivers? WHAT IF maglagay na lang kayo ng second floor sa buong NCR na private vehicles lang pwede nakakahiya naman sa ating mga vehicled overlords!!!

[vui @bogoshetka]

ang confusion q???