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Richard James Mendoza

@rjmmendoza.bsky.social
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I'm happy to be here. Garden variety of interests and commentary. Former stringer. Everything else is a joke. Ex-deathcare, ex-government. Typos and poor sentence construction intentonali.

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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I suspect that my mom's warm room may be playing a role with her elevated hypertension, so I tried to leverage Bernoulli's Principle through the Venturi effect by opening a small window+curtain gap. In the process, our room next door became cooler as I rest with our fan. I am very much surprised.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please don't pick up canisters shot at you by police. Even if you can differentiate between tear gas and stun grenades, both of those canisters burn hot or explode and can seriously injure you Throwing it back at the cops might be rad, but the mvmt also needs you with all of your limbs intact
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just in case you're new and genuinely worried: there are vaccines for it, it is very treatable, people visiting Mongolia and Siberia get it all the time by eating marmots for no damn reason.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Finally: stop reading or sharing Annie Jacobsen, jesus fucking christ
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If there’s a take-home here, it’s actually sort of interesting this made its way into the public consciousness at all; compare and contrast to the anthrax incident at Sverdlovsk. Positive trends in global health security: the Internet; free press; OSINT; reduced paranoia about biological weapons.
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
pgc.up.edu.ph/leptospirosi... I think you'll find it interesting @gidmk.bsky.social
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“THE WHOLE ESTERO IS THE HOTSPOT”: UP SCIENTISTS FIND THAT A DANGEROUS LEPTOSPIROSIS BACTERIUM DOESN’T HIDE IN POCKETS OF MANILA’S WATERWAYS, IT BLANKETS THEM – Philippine Genome Center
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Preventing school shootings is not just about banning web access, increasing child safety features, and online carding and "Papers Please." It is a multisectoral approach that has to be anchored in the social sciences, including social work, hunger alleviation, and strict gun control.
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For context, in 2016, the database from the Commission on Elections got leaked, revealing sensitive information from registered voters. When I used to work at the commission, it is said that the website faces hundreds of attempted breaches from threat actors daily.
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yet, the National Privacy Commission, an agency tasked to implement the Data Privacy Act of 2012 that still puzzles Filipinos, has not acted against such proposals, despite the real threat of personal identifiable information (PII) being stolen.
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Philippines as a whole, through Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, has espoused for online ID verification. This is heavily supported by the CIDG, PNP, and the NBI, alongside the DICT and CICC. Online ID verification has been universally panned for its inherent violation of privacy.
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hence, the CICC, and by extension the DICT, through its chief Henry Aguda, has acted beyond what has been prescibed by law and jurisprudence banning Reddit and Discord, paranoid about the next Filipino school shooting. Paraiso of the CICC has earlier made threats to ban Facebook after a shooting.
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every time Undersecretary Paraiso speaks at public settings, or whenever invited by congressional hearing committees, will say remarks that reeks of epistemic trespass.
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reddit's 2025 Transparency Report detailed more than 70 requests for takedowns from the National Bureau of Investigation for perceived criticism against government officials. Reddit in the Philippines, while still niche, is home to ex-members of a large, powerful sect that has a violent history.
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Philippine jurisprudence, via Disini vs Secretary of Justice, has struck down the Anti-Cybercrime Law's section on web blocking as unconstitutional due to violation of protection against unreasonable seizures. The Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement must first secure a court order otherwise.
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
CICC Director Aya Macalma, who admitted to not knowing Filipinos use Discord for work and study, apologized on air during its radio program on state radio Hotline 1326. CICC Undersecretary Renato "Aboy" Paraiso has been speaking beyond his capabilities and mandate to justify blanket bans.
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Philippines' cybercrime council has just banned Reddit and Discord. While Reddit gets a slight extension, Discord got banned last night. This is not about child safety or preventing violence, but is part of a larger trend of invasive government overreach against perceived threats.
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
All these Catholic Facebook pages obssessing about norms and behaviours in mass, but never speaking out against injustices and condemning wrongdoing. They're so obssessed with liturgy that it has warped their minds to be apathetic to society, thus possessing distorted meanings about "mission."
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is vote buying and is an electoral offense.
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As if the choir chaos last December wasn't enough!
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Always rubs me the wrong way to witness NGO careerism, or as one radical writer put it bluntly, NGOism.
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
ICC lawyer for Rodrigo Duterte Peter Haynes filed a petition before the court urging the prosecution to refile its cases, claiming Duterte does not know what he is accused of. This is technicality at its peak, since the Philippines is no longer party to the Rome Statute, but... 1/
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Philippine Peso (PHP) to US Dollar (USD) has breached the Php62 level per dollar, sinking to a new low.
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I am this close to burning out of my job again. WHO THE FUCK FORWARDS WORK STUFF ON A SUNDAY!?
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"You people somehow celebrate a divided church?" Oh please. There have already been online arguments about liturgical preferences under the guise of following Magisterium. Spare me this bullshi when you all want pipe organs for a parish that barely gets $1000 in collections.
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Yes, my anger IS above God that night.
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I was too busy last night trying to manage the safety of my reporter colleague, and the rotating power interruption due to the power grid. Now, Ronald dela Rosa, wanted for crimes against humanity, is no longer at the Senate building. This wouldn't have happened if this cop surrendered.
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
British-Israeli lawyer Nicholas Kaufman, current counsel of former president Rodrigo Duterte, has filed a request to withdraw as his counsel. Kaufman, who also represented Jean-Pierre Bemba at the International Criminal Court, was reportedly on Duterte's retainer for US$2.5M (Php150M).
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
A reminder that the cavendish bananas exported to other countries came from Filipino farmworkers harassed by military and police trying to act as unionbusters.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 26/04/2026
Can’t wait for like, 500 articles that are like “as I dived under a table to hide from the shooter I realized I had to be even more sycophantic to the White House”
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Hey Taylor make sure you pull down the N95 to get a selfie with RFK jr, maybe you can bond over how fake COVID is
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Please let this thing be over with...
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
"Each sigh, each look, each act of mine Shall be an act of love divine."
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The International Criminal Court UNANIMOUSLY REJECTS all four grounds of appeal for former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to challenge the jurisdiction of the ICC of charges of crimes against humanity. Cc: @kjoules.org @merz.bsky.social
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
NASA and Mamdani are proving that Americans are desperate to see their money spent in ways they feel good about. This, however, is not the same thing as simply spending the money on things we would feel good about but never know happened. People need to be able to see it.
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Can you guys help me explain the ACIP guidelines on pneumoccocal vaccination? Thank you. Cc: @aetiology.bsky.social @gavinyamey.bsky.social @enirenberg.bsky.social
ACIP algorithmic guidelines for pneumoccocal vaccine administration.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The DEA does not employ anyone with medical credentials. It is a law enforcement agency that practices medicine, to the point they can literally deny Americans evidence-based medicines from patients’ own doctors. Since it was conceived, the US drug scheduling system has never been based on evidence.
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Matt Morhockey-Morbooks @drakesmitha12.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Go read the criteria for schedule I, and understand that scheduling brought a fair bit of promising research to a screeching halt and makes it even now difficult at best to work with certain known pathway antagonists.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 07/04/2026
I think not enough people understand that the pushback against renewables and EV's is money. Without getting too in the weeds: renewables cannot ever be as profitable as oil and gas. EV's don't make as much money as gas guzzlers. That's it. That's all you really need to know.
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Philippine Statistics Authority announces the Philippines' inflation rate on March 2026 rises at 4.1%, from 2.8% on February 2026. Main contributors include higher transport and energy costs. @kjoules.org @tripperhead.bsky.social
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I treat my premium headphones with respect, and this is what my mother does in one of her compulsive cleaning sessions:
My worn-out Audio Technica M40x, bundled incorrectly by my mother.
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Michael Plank @michaelplanknz.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
A national embarrassment
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Tuta @tuta.com · 18/03/2026
In 166 days #Android will become a locked-down platform because Google wants to kill Android freedom. At Tuta, we say NO. Google must keep Android open & free! Here's how to take action & make your voice heard: keepandroidopen.org Here's more info: tuta.com/blog/google-... #KeepAndroidOpen
Two screenshots of Mastodon posts where people complain about Google killing Android freedom.
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New York State of Good Repair @ludmirdevotee.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It is so odd to me how the religious Right in this country has so firmly aligned itself with what is basically an atheistic cult
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𝕁, E-Ink Sicko™ @checkwithscience.com · 19/03/2026
I mean yes, Americans are bad. this is one of the main reasons I have never for a second believed "if only Harris had come out in full throated defense of Gaza, she would have won." we are, as a rule, fucking awful. doing the right thing is frequently useless politically, or even punished.
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it's incredibly blackpilling to me that it takes rising gas prices and rising gas prices alone to have people turn against the war in iran, and not the american government murdering thousands of children and civilians in iran. americans are incredibly selfish

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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Jeepney drivers in the Philippines conducted a transport strike in the capital region, as they protest rising oil prices due to deregulated oil. Driver groups are calling for a fare increase, as well as the removal of taxes on petrol. They renewed calls to repeal the oil deregulation law.
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The Philippine peso has dropped to Php60.161 per dollar, according to the Bankers Association of the Philippines. This breached a recent record low of Php59.8, and marks the first time in Philippine forex history that the currency dollar levels reached this low. Cc: @kjoules.org
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Anthony Berndt @anthonyberndt.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
AS one of those people who "escaped to industry" but a good chunk of all the business I do is with academic labs, the funding situation is going to eat academic labs first and in a year me too The long-dumb-money biotechs funded by friends and neighbours of Stanford and Harvard are close behind
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Richard James Mendoza @rjmmendoza.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Until the Music Ministry rectifies and apologizes, I will continue to post and comment on the internet as an anger outlet. Don't push me — I WILL pick a fight on church ministers, clergy, and the whole Philippine episcopate if you all act up. You kick me out, I'm burning the world with me!!!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/03/2026
god fucking dammit
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I am becoming increasingly convinced that the absolute worst case result for the Venezuela strike is the one we got: complete tactical success

they think they’re invincible now and it’s going to go so poorly for everyone
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