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Mostly retweets for my brainfarts.

[Nguyen Thi hong @NguyenThih36]

Can Nine dashes on a map erase international law?

The South China Sea does not belong to China.

[ToniSpeakeasy 🇵🇭 @ToniSpeakEasy]

Fuck you China

[Tevin Macharia Mukabana @TevinMacharia]

🚨BREAKING: Atheist Artemis II astronaut Reid Wiseman says he has CONVERTED to Christianity after his trip to moon:

"There is no other explanation for what I saw and experienced. When we landed back on earth, I saw the cross and just wept."

[Jesus Falcis 🇵🇭 @jesusfalcis]

🚨 OMG totoo ba?

Si Baste, nasa China daw.

Si Pulong, confirmed nasa The Hague.

Si Inday Sara Lakwatsera, hindi natin alam kung nasaan.

Ang alam natin for sure eh wala sila ngayon sa Gen San or Saranggani, mga pinaka tinamaan ng earthquake. 👊

[Manuel Laserna Jr. @lcmlaw_ph]

https://t.co/jvrqwNdGLW

[Jay Tarriela @jaytaryela]

Beijing accuses us of “hyping.” Let us be precise about what actually happened. We observed a structure inside Bajo de Masinloc. We documented it, dated it, geolocated it, and released the aerial imagery to the public. That is not hype — that is transparency. And transparency is only threatening to the party that has something to hide.

To “hype” something is to exaggerate or invent it. We did neither. The imagery speaks for itself, and we put it in front of the Filipino people, the region, and the international community precisely so that no one has to take our word for it — or Beijing’s. The fact that China’s instinct is to attack the reporting rather than explain the structure tells you everything. What is irresponsible is not a coast guard doing its job and informing the public. What is irresponsible is the unilateral placement of structures in another country’s exclusive economic zone, in open defiance of the 2016 Arbitral Award — and then calling the act of documenting it a provocation.

And there is a reason we cannot simply accept Beijing’s description of these as “normal activities.” We have heard this before. When the People’s Republic of China first occupied Mischief Reef in 1995, it assured the world that the structures it was putting up were nothing more than shelters for its fishermen. Today, Mischief Reef is a fully militarized artificial island — runway, hangars, radar, missile capabilities — sitting squarely inside the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone. The “fishermen’s shelter” was the cover story.

So when China waves away the structure at Bajo de Masinloc as “normal,” it is asking the region to forget its own record. That is precisely why these actions cannot be taken at face value.

If China genuinely wants to be believed, there is a simple way to show it: pull out. Remove the platform, halt the installation of buoys/communication towers, and respect the 2016 Arbitral Award and waters that are legally ours. Anything less only confirms the pattern — that China’s assurances at Bajo de Masinloc today are worth exactly what its word at Mischief Reef proved to be three decades ago.

The choice belongs to Beijing. It can preserve what little good faith the region and the international community still extend to it, or it can keep proving why that trust was misplaced to begin with.

[ScienceKonek @sciencekonek]

#KilalaninAngPinas 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗣𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗦 𝗜𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗔 𝗦𝗠𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗬 🇵🇭

At first glance, the Philippines may seem small on a world map, but appearances can be misleading. With over 300,000 km² of land spread across its islands, the country is actually larger than many assume.

This misconception largely comes from the Mercator projection, one of the most commonly used map styles. While it preserves shape and direction, making it useful for navigation, it significantly distorts size. Areas near the poles appear much larger, while countries closer to the equator, like the Philippines, are minimized.

Because of this, places like Greenland often look enormous, sometimes comparable to Africa, when in reality, it spans about 2.1 million km², roughly seven times the size of the Philippines, not dramatically larger as maps may suggest. Meanwhile, the Philippines even exceeds the land area of the United Kingdom, which measures around 243,000 km².

Maps help us understand the world, but they don’t always tell the full story. Recognizing how projections influence what we see allows us to better interpret global size and scale, and appreciate the Philippines for its true geographic extent. #Philippines #Kalayaan2026 #PatuloySaPagtuklas

[Nguyen Ho @NguyenHo1096438]

Saying this for a while now and I will repeat it endlessly that CHINA IS A BULLY.

[Dear Self. @Dearme2_]

TO ALL MEN, YOU CAN:

- Be lost at 26
- Broke at 30
- In shape at 32
- Rich at 35
- Unrecognizable at 40

You just have to keep going.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

This is free advice from an expensive psychologist. If you’re an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don’t make everything a matter of life and death.

[KP @kheipea]

Si Risa Hontiveros ay apo ni Jose M. Hontiveros. The one holding the highest record in the history of PH Bar Exams with a score of 99.69% in 1911, and drafted the 1935 Constitution.

• Governor of Capiz (1916-1919)
• Senator (1922-1928)
• Supreme Court Justice (1946-1947)

[Washingtons ghost @washghost1]

Cats are just cats no matter how big they get

[Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3]

FYI.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

I’ve noticed the same.