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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Still believing in curses, when I saw 666 likes on an insta post, I immediately pressed like to make it 667. Always ready to save a man’s soul.

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

“Between equal rights, force decides.” (Marx) Our political history in a nutshell.

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

There are levels of corruption. Mild to moderate to severe. But ours in the Philippines is on a level of its own. As my generation used to say, it’s “ALIEN”!

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

We need to be less a nation of resilient people, and be more a nation of fed-up people.

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Food is good if it’s eaten. A joke is funny if the audience laughs. An order is valid if it is followed. Validation is always found in the quality of the reaction. As the truism goes, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Power is in the receiver, not the giver.

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

True to her name, Jane Goodall embodied the good that can be in all of us. RIP to a beautiful human.

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Strong leaders build institutions. Strongmen rely on military force.

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

“Don’t wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and (only) the pig likes it”.

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Expressions of our liberal democracy, in remembrance of one of the darkest periods in our nation’s history, and to ensure it doesn’t happen again in whatever shape or form.

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

From here on, my resume: I’m really good at this stuff.

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

To quote RWE: “To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” This cat is definitely breathing easy. I think he’s my salvation.

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Our democracy is not perfect, but it’s trudging along. Voted and did my part regardless of the outcome 🇵🇭

Indelible ink on the finger to show that one has voted.

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

For anyone who needs to hear this today. “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward Justice.” - MLK Jr.

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The judicial branch relies on the confidence and support of the people to work. Without these, it’s the weakest among the branches of government - it has no police power, military power, or purse power. In a constitutional crisis, it would be the first one to collapse, and justice along with it.

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

“The legal profession is a bridge between the law and the legal profession. We are all travelling that bridge. For some, that bridge is short, beautiful and through a scenic route. For many, that bridge is long and winding, and is the only way.”

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

We are all travellers, riding a pale blue mote suspended in the rays of the sun, hurtling blindly through space, dodging planet-ending asteroids (thank you for this perspective, Carl Sagan). How dare we be afraid.

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Let me hold your beer, Bishop.

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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 13/01/2025

Kim Wagner’s new book, “Massacre in the Clouds,” argues that the 1906 massacre at Bud Dajo established a template for future American war crimes: gross abuse leading to a cursory investigation, a coverup, impunity, and, finally, erasure. Read Sheila Coronel’s review:

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The Ghosts of Bud Dajo

How an American massacre shaped the Philippines.

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Me: Hope is a tyrant. Emily Dickinson: “Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, … I’ve heard it in the chillest land, And in the strangest sea, Yet never in extremity It asked a crumb of me.” Me: Fine.

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🍁𝒮𝒶𝓈𝓈𝓎 𝒢𝒾𝓇𝓁 🤍 @sassycanadian0.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

"You better fix my entire life" ~Me to my coffee

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post

Democracy can't function without a free press

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JC Punongbayan @jcpunongbayan.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

My first Rappler column in 2025, where I look back at the economy in 2024 and offer ideas about where we're headed in 2025. Incidentally, this is also my 400th Thought Leaders piece! 🫶 www.rappler.com/voices/thoug...

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[In This Economy] The Philippine economy in 2024, and prospects for 2025

All in all, 2024 is a wake-up call to Filipinos that the Marcos administration is brazenly and shamelessly corrupting and playing around with taxpayers’ money

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Nowadays, it is not as important for me to be right, at the expense of delaying a case, taking care to avoid getting intoxicated on meaningless wins at the expense of genuine victory. open.substack.com/pub/headwayj...

Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

You know you’re getting old when finding a lost pen makes you really happy. You know you haven’t grown up when finding a lost pen makes you want to celebrate by buying more pens.

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Heard from a Brit comedian: this is our chance to retake America. It’s weak and divided! Pinoy-Ams: over our cold untouched adobo on Christmas morning, you will.

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

This should not be a matter for debate.

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Saw in the supermarket: sweet dreams are made of cheese. Who am I to diss a Brie. I scour the world for feta cheese..🧀 🎶 My coda: everybody’s mousing for something.. 🐭 🎼 🎶

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Kristoffer Pasion @indiohistorian.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

#TodayinHistory in 1941, to spare Manila from air raids by the Japanese forces, U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur declared it an "Open City." All military installations & defenses were dismantled to avoid provoking the Japanese into attacking the capital. www.facebook.com/share/p/1De8... #EduSky #WWII

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Irrationally Calm @direbeard.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

It’s a cold and it’s a broken “cowabunga”

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

My youngest son this morning: if tomorrow becomes today, then tomorrow never comes, and so we will always have the present. Me: please make me your special coffee.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/12/2024

THIS IS NUTS! Trump thinks he can just invade foreign countries? Mexico, Canada, Panama (canal), and now Greenland. I’m convinced Trump wants to follow the Putin-Ukraine model. (1 of 2)

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Saint D'Khari @saintdkhari.blacksky.app · 23/12/2024

Smh this exactly what my therapist would say rn 🍃🍃

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JC Punongbayan @jcpunongbayan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Here's my latest Fulcrum commentary as a visiting fellow of the ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute. All about the crippling education crisis in the Philippines, and ways forward. fulcrum.sg/addressing-t...

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Addressing the Philippines’ Education Crisis | FULCRUM

The education system in the Philippines is floundering. It is time to implement some urgent reforms, such as addressing the spending gap and decentralisation.

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JC Punongbayan @jcpunongbayan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

My starter pack of fellow Filipino academics, researchers, and thought leaders now on Bluesky. go.bsky.app/GrA6ymj

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I read today someone said one day Bluesky will end up being another twitter, then X. Alright. But not today.

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Kristoffer Pasion @indiohistorian.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

#TodayinHistory in 1899, 125 years ago, U.S. Maj. Gen. Henry Lawton was killed in action at San Mateo, Rizal #PH by a sharpshooter of Filipino General Licerio Geronimo. Lawton was the highest-ranking U.S. officer to fall during the Philippine-American War. www.facebook.com/share/p/19Vp... #EduSky

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Kristoffer Pasion @indiohistorian.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

#TodayinHistory in 1856, Graciano López Jaena—fiery orator, master of satire, and the first editor-in-chief of the newspaper La Solidaridad—was born in Jaro, Iloilo, Philippines. *Rare photo of Jaena, from the NHCP Collection www.facebook.com/share/p/19Lt... #EduSky #History #Philippines

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

…but we haven’t lacked for humanity. Some would say our openness is probably one reason why our country is not western-standard-rich. Nah, credit for our economic woes goes to certain politicians. /2

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Arnell 🇵🇭 @attapu.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The Philippines has, in the past, sheltered White Russians, Jews persecuted in WW2 Germany, and, recently, war-displaced Palestinians. What we lack for resources, we make up for whatever we can. Don’t get me wrong, we have issues with unauthorized entries too… 1/

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gemini695 @gemini695.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made her Broadway debut in & Juliet this weekend in a one-night-only performance. She fulfilled a childhood dream. Love this! 💕

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Budget Babe @znsuzara.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

What kind of national budget is this? At least Php214.8B was slashed from major departments like DA, DepEd, DOH, DOLE, DSWD, DOTr, and CHED. At least Php97.6B was slashed from the national gov't subsidies to GOCCs Php40.5B was slashed from Special Purpose Funds.

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