Vegetable dumping, process streamlining, and fair pricing were some of the topics discussed by stakeholders from farming, government, and private sectors at the 2nd Luzon-Wide Cluster Meeting on Zero Waste cum Market Matching event last week. mb.com.ph/2026/06/05/h...

Rescue buying, while noble as a stopgap measure, can be harmful to farmers when turned into a marketing strategy. Chef Jayson Gaspar Maulit explains why. mb.com.ph/2026/05/01/t...

Bert and Ernie should have their own show. I don't want to have to watch Sesame Street to see what they're up to. I'm not 5

Instant block. I do not want your theft-based, planet-killer writing hollowed of lived experience. Fuck off and keep on fucking off till the waves swallow you. AI always means Arseholes Involved. You will find nothing but derision and harsh curses for it in Hookland.

Last week’s column: mb.com.ph/2026/04/03/i...

Whenever I go church crawling, I obsessively look for graffiti. Recently, in All Saints Church, Claverley, I hit the jackpot when I found this fantastic little guy ✨️ #history #churchcrawling #churches #historicgraffiti #churchesoftheworld

We’ve reached the corpse fat injecting part of late stage capitalism. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender. Didn’t know tht something aired in 2005 would reflect what would begin to happen in 2016.

Sora dying, Disney killing the OpenAI deal, Meta their lawsuit, Dems flipping Florida seats… I want more news days like this one

Just in case you needed a good cry today. Movie when? sc.mp/5tgxs

My photograph of the ISS tonight looks like Paddington coming for me after I flatline on the operating table

I feel bad that a man (even if he’s my good friend) is getting credit for something I posted on my own feed. 😞 One of the sadly growing list of instances of things I have said or done being attributed to someone else (coincidentally, always a man).

I work with historical sources that have and never will be digitized, I collect oral histories and work in hospitals. So no I don’t think that ‘AI can do research better than humans with PhDs’. And I’m tired of AI pushers who don’t know my fields demanding that I ‘try LLMs’ or risk redundancy

Thank you, everyone who made this possible! 🎉🥰🥹

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

If you encounter an aswang and happen to have some citrus fruit in your pocket, you can throw it at them. Read it here: mb.com.ph/2025/10/31/a...

I’ve been hearing about a new superstition that you can’t bathe during the Lunar New Year. I asked a friend from my Chinoy cultural organization if this was true and this is what he said: In short, this is a case of historical realities being carried over into superstition.

The final exam at clown school is murder

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

I doubt I will ever see a more inspired bit of upcycling.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to set an appointment with the Queen of Philippine Horror? Charot. cc @yvettetan.bsky.social

Good morning

As the old year dies, new doors and portals appear.

2025 HIGHLIGHT: The Thai cabinet approved a proposal from the National Identity Committee on 18 November 2025 to designate 5 native domestic cat breeds as official national pet symbols.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

“FINISH HIM,” I scream as Nana takes the last bite of her gingerbread man

Scientists are uncovering the hidden purpose behind gray hair. Melanocyte stem cells, responsible for hair color, may sacrifice themselves when damaged, causing strands to gray while protecting the body from potential tumor formation.

was it Yosemite Sam

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

There's a rather realistic looking donkey made to look like it's pulling a fruit cart that will greet you when you enter the supermarket in Marquee Mall. I don't know why they decided to put a donkey (and only a donkey) there but someone definitely thought about giving an ass.

Oh my god…

One week until Christmas… have you trapped that seasonal spirit? 👻🎄

5) AI, which is good at bullshit, may thrive because we have made a society run on bullshit. But in the end I cannot believe we will all become nothing but consumers. People MAKE. An not in the Randian "makers and takers" sense, in the yearning, stretching toward the infinite sense.

6) Art is, in the end, a way of taking a feeling out of my head and trying to jam it into yours from across space and time. There may be some tasty junk food made by AI eventually, but without intention, our appetites to make will be unmet, and we will eventually move on. 6/6

I was asked to write about my journey as a horror writer for @manilabulletin. Read it here: mb.com.ph/2025/10/29/e...

Wrote about some of the most popular folklore creatures for @voguephilippines. So happy that there’s a growing interest in what used to be called “superstition.” We’re now understanding that these beliefs is one of the keys to who we are as a society. Read it here: vogue.ph/lifestyle/cu...

52nd read of 25: Insect Hag by @yvettetan.bsky.social solidifies her as one of my alltime favorite horror authors & one that makes me feel closer to my Filipino heritage. 5 stars (and then some) www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky #horrorbooks

Thank you very much, Lifestyle Asia, for including Seek Ye Whore and Other Stories in the same list as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Shirley Jackson, and Junji Ito. To say I’m honored is an understatement! ☺️ Read the full list here: lifestyleasia-onemega.com/arts-and-cul...

"The moment you allow AI to write a sentence for you, you lose your voice." Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social. #pictcon

New on the blog: I write about observing a Taoist space clearing. yvettetan.com/2025/11/04/o...

This is completely true.