Catphrodite🌷

[Chel Diokno @ChelDiokno]

'No Video, No Refund'? Kung defective ang order mo, illegal 'yan! #ConsumerRights #DTIAlert #LegalLifehacks

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

My thoughts on the current situation in the Middle East and what the IDF's options are.

War is not easy but sometimes a nation is forced into war. Growing up Jewish I have family in the Middle East. With that said, I have also criticized Netanyahu and the IDF in the past for some of their more heavy-handed actions against the Palestinian people.

I find it very difficult to criticize the IDF today as they are being backed into a corner by terrorists looking to kill their civilians. They have a duty to their citizens to take out rockets and terrorists who are firing those rockets at them. These terrorists often store their weapons in civilian locations and fire those weapons from locations close to civilians.

The IDF is thus forced to decide between protecting their civilians by taking out terrorists and rockets, while risking Palestinian civilians' lives, or doing nothing and allowing their citizens to be sitting ducks.

What would you do?

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

As Arabs, our message to the world cannot be restricted to eliciting global sympathy for the children of Gaza. We cannot depict ourselves as helpless children, behind whom we hide our failure to control our Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 non-combatant Israelis. This is a moral failure that the world sees but that we try to hide behind the “rights of the Palestinian people,” rights that none of us are willing to articulate. Free Palestine can mean anything, from an Arab Palestinian state living in peace next to Jewish Israel to an Arab Palestinian state instead of Jewish Israel.
For Arab Israeli peace to happen, and since Palestinians are either children, or Hamas thugs, or useless corrupt Mahmud Silicon-Face Abbas, non-Palestinian Arabs should step up to save the Palestinians from themselves and save the region ongoing sorrow. We, Arabs, have to show the world that we are at peace with the idea of a Jewish state, that we are willing to concede what we believe – rightly or wrongly -- is ours (1948 territory), that we genuinely want bygones to be bygones, without secretly holding grudges and passing them to our children. We must seek a better future for ourselves and our kids, as well as for Israelis and their kids.
The Palestine disaster (nakba) is not a disaster of land loss or military defeat. It is a disaster of absence of leadership that can articulate the Arab alternative to war and death. We ask the world to stop the Israeli war on Hamas, but what do we offer as an alternative to stopping the war? Just let those Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 Israelis get away with their crime (because there is a history of dispute)? Ask Israel to go back to October 6? Knowing that Hamas can break out of the Gaza fence and repeat its massacre any minute? Hamas must go. We Arabs must help get rid of it, and most importantly, we must show that we have a plan for the day after Hamas.
Let’s learn from the mistake of Iraq and Arab Spring countries, that once what we have is gone, what comes next looks worse. Let’s preempt the worse by offering the better.
As long as we, the Arabs, do not have answers to all these questions, the world will manage things without us. It does not matter if all of us, 1.3 billion Muslims, think that Israel is at fault. What matters is global perception, which clearly thinks that Islamist terrorism is the problem, not Israelis dancing at a music festival. And we, the Arabs, are not even talking to the world. We are talking to each other, patting ourselves on the back for being utopian and principled on Palestine, while we are in fact idiotically out of touch with reality. We insist on our backward message, then act surprised why many of our states are failing and why we are migrating in droves.
Please stop treating Palestine like religion, like we have to stick to our principles to win credit in the afterlife and to garner social acceptance among each other (Arabs and/or Muslims). Please think of Palestine like a problem that requires troubleshooting, compromise, pragmatism, and most importantly, looking toward the future, not the past.

[Danny Gold @DGisSERIOUS]

The Iraqi guy i follow on IG who does funny nature videos in broken English just posted a more compassionate and well written statement then like 90% of activists and journalists I’ve seen.

[Katherine Brodsky @mysteriouskat]

You know who celebrates the killing and torture of humans? Psychopaths.

You know who watches war crimes and acts of terror being committed and says "good for them for fighting back"? Psychopaths.

You know who sees horrific footage of dead naked bodies and captured children & says "it's justified because their people did bad things too"?

I think by now you know.

[Catphrodite🌷 @Catphrodite08]

it’s been 1 week na wala kaming internet connection! @PLDT_Cares @PLDTHome @pldt it is disrupting my business already! nakailang tawag na din kami to follow up & your people always saying na malapit na maayos but wala pa din progress hanggang ngayon!nakakaubos po ng pasensiya

[Catphrodite🌷 @Catphrodite08]

How to keep your audience engaged .. 😅
https://t.co/jBxNLaxPHT

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

User 8314870 on Douyin sculpts figurines with polymer clay. This is mesmerizing process from start to finish

[source, more videos: https://t.co/6wqFcTg86l]
https://t.co/gxbnOLK3da

[The BenchWarmer @datumx11]

Dear Marcos Loyalists,

Do your own research in order to know that during Marcos era Philippines was the SICK MAN OF ASIA.

Fanaticism is bad for you and the country! 😏

[Jervis Manahan @JervisManahan]

LOOK: Patreng Non, who led the community pantry movement during the height of the pandemic, is selling 'gulay bouquets' for this upcoming Valentine's Day.

Proceeds from the sales will be used to help farmers.

(📷: Patreng Non)
@ABSCBNNews

[Marius Hauken @mhauken]

You're not using the Notes app on your iPhone to its full potential.

8 features you might not know about:

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

This is a very powerful way to use urban art

[🥀_ Imposter_🖕 @Imposter_Edits]

A 13-year-old girl speaking at a city commissioner meeting in regards to the murder of Patrick Lyoya

[Your Daily Dose @SaltAndReality]

The myth that Ferdinand Marcos was already rich before he became president is FALSE. His SALN filed in 1962 when still a senator showed his Assets at 427,811pesos only. He was able to buy his San Juan home in 1951 by borrowing money & his 1st Swiss account was opened only in 1968

[Emil @13thFool]

Kayo ang iniiyakan namin.

[DAVAOMIGRANT @nabunturanguy]

Someone sent this to me.

[thirdy @3Dtumbangpreso]

Hindi biro ang red-tagging at dinanas ng mga bata sa malnutrisyon habang lumalangoy sa kaban ng bayan ang mga Marcos.
Hindi biro ang tinabunan ng semento sa film center.

Alam ko na mabigat ang sitwasyon pero hindi scapegoat ang gawing biro ang pagpatay ng estado sa mga tao.

[GeorgeRN @George022222]

“What’s wrong with the Philippines?”
From a New Zealand newspaper.
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[Inquirer @inquirerdotnet]

‘HINDI TAYO MAMIMILI NG TUTULUNGAN’

Vice President Leni Robredo would be spearheading the creation of the “largest volunteer network” in the country immediately after her term ends on June 30.

READ: https://t.co/VT9g2XwknP