Joshua Vargas

another world is possible. 🇸🇬 Yale-NUS '23 | 🇵🇭 AdZU SHS '19 | 🏳️‍🌈 he/him/his, gay. Professional: @urbanjoshvargas. Also on as vargaseous.

[Joshua Vargas @vargaseous]

well X happened, so bye

[Joshua Vargas @vargaseous]

Literally opened Twitter after quitting the app just to say this

This is what a false community advocate looks like. She went through a lot so she thinks we deserve to go through a lot. But we shouldn't have to make an effort and suck up just to have the right to exist as we are

[eliza @wlscarah]

when i first watched barbie i was a little disappointed by the surface level feminist takes but then i remembered how wide of an audience the film appeals to. there were little girls in my theater who were probably learning these concepts for the first time and i think its (1/2)

[Juan Paolo Artiaga @JupaArtiaga]

One of my most shocking realizaiton while studying arboad is that my japanese classmates from top universities have zero idea about the atrocities of Japan during WW2 esp to Filipinos. They dont even teach it truthfully there yet they expect accurate depictions in western films.

[Joshua Vargas @vargaseous]

@colorfulygo @maximum_chips @MamaCranky they even do this in Bangkok. the capital of the world's most powerful country has no excuse

[Joshua Vargas @vargaseous]

well when the x thing happens i'm actually getting off twitter

[Joshua Vargas @vargaseous]

well I'm going to miss Twitter

[Vincent 咯 @VincentL0r]

2. A white saviour kicking the hornet’s nest and provoking a crackdown on queer folks in Malaysia that they won’t have to personally live with the consequences of, while reaping the benefits of clout and rehabilitating their reputation as a “progressive”, is fucking disgusting.

[Vincent 咯 @VincentL0r]

2 things can be true at once:

1. Minorities will always be targeted by bigots looking for an excuse to punch down, and making yourself smaller and more respectable to avoid persecution is a losing game.

At the same time;

[Joshua Vargas @vargaseous]

I hope @CebuPacificAir realizes
that any short term gains they get in profit from cost cutting like this cannot make up for the reputation they are killing

[Emil @13thFool]

Since when can airlines like @CebuPacificAir unilaterally change a flight schedule without the passenger's consent (i.e. bumped off)? Mine was moved 2 days after, with all my scheduled commitments fucked up.

I hope CAAP and the Philippine government can check this practice.

[Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama]

Here’s your friendly neighborhood script reader thought of the day: if you are writing about real places and real issues - like say, NASA - it will help you to assume that one of your readers has never heard of NASA, and one is a literal astronaut. Here’s why I think this:

[Joshua Vargas @vargaseous]

I dislike the PAGCOR logo as much as the next guy, but that is not the logo of TU Delft

[raissawriter @raissawriter]

My apologies. It's Pagcor that has to explain why their new logo looks the same as Delft Uni
FB post from veteran reporter Alex Allan.

[𝘔𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘭 ☠️ @Edweeeeeeen]

Bakit naka-angkla sa kasarian palagi ang pagpuna pag bakla? Pag ba may isang personally distasteful act na ginawa ang isang straight person, nilalahat ba ng mga bakla ang mga straight??

Also, LGBTQIA+ rights are HUMAN rights, not rewards for being acceptable sa standards niyo.

[Lauren McKenzie @TheMcKenziest]

Hi! I’ve been thinking about this for years now (my first job was in an assisted living restaurant for $5.35 an hour in 2000).

The greatest transfer of wealth will be from our parents and grandparents to the billionaires who own every old folks home.

[Sharmila Parmanand @shaaarmila]

We are all positioned differently in terms of privilege and proximity to power. That matters.

If you are a heterosexual middle/upper class Catholic man offended by a drag event, you are entitled to that. But that is not the Most Important consideration in this conversation. ...