Just an ordinary myopic internet enjoyer.

Can also be found at lemm.ee, lemmy.dbzer0, and Kbin.social.

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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • My oldest account is at 9 years 10 months at the moment. Was a lurker for a time before that too. I haven’t deleted my accounts out of concern of my comments reappearing, but I’ve kept any interaction with that site at a minimum.

    Most of the time, I just check to see if any comments resurfaced, or if I’ve got a love letter from the admins. Neither has happened so far, but I’m not sure it won’t happen. Until then, I will keep scrubbing my accounts.

    I don’t see myself returning there. I’ve lost any desire to do so, and my old, yet scrubbed accounts will serve as a reminder never to interact with that site ever again. Peek, if I must, but never interact.




  • I was unaware of the flooding that Ondoy caused during its peak. Electricity wasn’t cut off in our area either, internet connection was doing fine as well. It was only when I attempted to go out of the house to buy some food that I realized the damage it caused. No floods in our area, thankfully, but we’re almost literally an island that day.

    I should have been aware of the near-constant torrential rain all night and all throughout that morning though.


  • On a more practical sense, someone once told me that discipline and habit is far more important than motivation once things are properly rolling. Motivation might be the spark that gotten things rolling, but it’s discipline and habit that keeps it going. (And that I ought to listen to that advice myself.)

    However, in a more philosophical sense, I think accepting that you’ve lost your own spark and facing that very question “how does one be alive?” with the intent of reigniting that lost spark is pretty much facing the absurd. That facing that question every waking day of one’s life, answering that question for every moment, is pretty much the point. Whether or not the answer makes sense (in the moment or otherwise) or not is irrelevant, because the value is not in the answer, but in the way we face it.

    It could be that for today, I could face it by making a slight detour in my daily commute and allowing myself to get lost on the way home, for example. It could be that for some other day, just as an example, I could choose to face it by not wearing any underwear during a work zoom meeting, relishing on that danger of being exposed. Or it could be as trivial as making pancit by using spaghetti. Or making spaghetti by using pancit bihon. All trivial things in the big picture, but if it makes my day any little more tolerable, then so be it.





  • If you’ve got a way to access your user profile via a browser (mobile works too), you can see your saved posts there.

    On any page, click/press the hamburger icon on the top-leftmost part of your screen. It’d open up a menu (or an area) where you can see your profile picture and username at the very bottom. There’s a triangle next to your username, click/press that.

    Another menu/area opens up that has options “Profile”, “Settings”, and “Logout”. Click/press “Profile” to see your user profile.

    You’re then taken to a different page (which you can directly go to via https://your.lemmy.instance/u/your_username, for example:‌‌‌ https://lemmy.world/u/AllGoesUpMustGoDown). There, you can choose between “Overview”, “Comments”, “Posts” and “Saved.” That last link (to your saved posts/comments) won’t be visible to others (I tried).

    PS: I tried looking for the same in wefwef, but I can’t find it as well.

    PPS: Weirdly enough, it might be faster to just go directly via the address bar of your (mobile) browser if you know what you’re doing, lol!


    Edit: Typos and shit. Added PPS part.












  • So, I guess the problem for country subreddits opening up and doing malicious compliance is that there’s not much constraining them to a theme.

    I’ve tried coming up with ideas for /r/Philippines, and to be quite honest, the couple I came up with are kinda forced and have some problems:

    • Making the content all about this guy: Philip II of Spain – the problem I see with that is that it might still be interesting, or deep enough for the posts to be valuable.
    • Bringing back things to normal, but with a twist: everything must be written in Tagalog, and in Baybayin (except possibly for loanwords) – the problem i see here is that it’s just way too much work for the mods (translating stuff to pure Tagalog, for one, then writing it to Baybayin). Its one redeeming factor is that without proper font support, no one will be able to read shit.