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If you must try ube, check out Ube Bread Box's ube mochi ice cream, sago jelly, and a lot more. Since lumpia somehow got dragged too, check out Lumpia Bucket. Get the lumpia, but don't sleep on the Filipino spaghetti either. You'll find them at 626 Night Market in Costa Mesa.

Oh boy. I just had to take a simultaneous swipe at a political cult, linguistic chauvinism, and a Filipino dessert staple... ​Good thing I actually have a life outside Twitter. Deuces!

We're seeing a prime example of socio-linguistic pride colliding with algorithmic polarization. Some enter a discourse simply to introduce more noise, not data. Let me add to the noise: Fuck ube. I grew up stirring ube halaya with my lola when I should have been out playing.

What's even more fascinating is how the arguments that came out of it are somehow more nuanced than what's happening in the Senate right now. Then it hit me: wala kasing DDS; they haven't joined the fray yet. Nuance tends to disappear the moment they get involved in a discourse.

So I've been seeing a lot of posts about ube ice cream, I mean a lot! And it's fascinating watching Filipinos school native English speakers on semantics, conjugations, homophones, morphemes, and syntactic structures. All because someone claimed Filipinos speak broken English.

Well, he has tenure

@inquirerdotnet You did what??? Hay talaga naman.

Interior and Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla on Thursday said he had “given options” to Sen. Jinggoy Estrada amid the latter’s looming arrest. READ MORE: inqnews.net/OptionsGivenTo…

@DeusXMachina14 Hahaha yeah.

And the clapback 😄 Filipinos are really good in rage baiting 😀

@claudiopoy Hahahaha!

It’s giving umayos kayo kasi andyan ang mga PAASCU accreditors energy

@EL_FlLlBUSTERO No. They will forever be known as the lawmakers who refused to delay justice. The real shame belongs to the one who used the word "incomplete" just to stall standard legal procedures and shield people from investigation. But nice try.

You will be forever known in history as the senators who did not complete the investigation on ghost flood control projects. Shame.

JOINT STATEMENT ON THE SENATE MINORITY WALKOUT We strongly condemn what appears to be an attempt to rush a major change in the Senate Rules, especially when several members of the minority still wanted to speak and raise serious questions on the floor. Bakit kailangang madaliin? Bakit kailangang pigilan ang mga gustong magsalita? Bakit kailangang i-divide ang house kung marami pang senador ang nagtatanong tungkol sa proseso? Minamadali ba ang rule change na ito dahil gusto nilang maka boto si Senator Bato? At ngayong may mga ulat na may mga majority senators na maaaring arestuhin? We walked out because what happened on the floor looked less like orderly deliberation. The proposed rule change affects how senators may attend sessions, participate in proceedings and exercise their mandate through remote means, and such a measure should be opened to healthy public debate instead of being rushed by the tyranny of the majority. We have always welcomed healthy discussions on the floor, but this should mean allowing all members to be heard, not forcing the chamber to move at the speed preferred by the majority. At the time the motion was taken up, there was no duly constituted Committee on Rules and there was not even an elected Majority Leader who could properly guide a rules amendment through the regular process. How could there have been any action or discussion before the Committee on Rules when no Committee on Rules has been organized to date? With due respect, the answer that no Senate rule had been violated does not settle the matter, because the rules cannot be treated as a matter of convenience when the very process for amending them is under serious question. The timing raises a question that the public deserves to hear debated openly. Kaya pinili naming tumayo at iwan ang majority sa plenary. Kaya kami nagdesisyon to question the quorum and call for adjournment. If the proposal is truly defensible, then let it pass through the proper route. We owe it to the people who voted for us to do our mandate. This is why we want more time to discuss this further.

Ngayong gabi na 'to nakita natin kung gaano kagago at kawalanghiya ang ilang senador ng bansang ito.

Solid Bloc. 🇵🇭

Next move ng majority is to be more insufferable. Garapalan na 'to. Brave 13 my ass! Eleven lang ang brave, yung 13 mga walanghiya.

@ABSCBNNews @RG_Cruz12479 All these so a person can evade accountability? Na wala namang contribution sa bayan? Confident naman ako na inaasahan nila yan, kasi kahit ako I was expecting this, na they will bust a quorum. For sure alam din yan ng majority, I was even expecting na gagamitin nila Sgt-at-arms.

Minority senators walk out of plenary session after majority insists on discussion of rule amendment on electronic voting. | via @RG_Cruz12479

@macronikki Yes! Motivation is overrated bec it's fleeting, and that's something you eventually have to accept. What really matters is building discipline and systems that allow you to stay consistent. And yeah, it also helps to be aware that as we get older, we need exercise even more.

Tonight I once again proved that the only way to fight that “i dont feel like exercising today” vibe is to just do it anyway. Mood really doesnt matter once you start moving. And while it gets harder to stay motivated now in our 40s, im afraid it’s also the time we need it most.

@gmanews Anong klaseng logical contortions naman kaya gagamitin neto this time?

Sinampahan ng reklamong plunder at indirect bribery si Sen. Rodante Marcoleta sa Ombudsman dahil sa pagtanggap umano ng regalong P75 milyon. Ang sabi ng mga imbestigador ng Ombudsman, masyadong malaki ang halagang tinanggap ng noo’y kongresistang si Marcoleta para isiping walang hinihintay na kapalit ang mga nagbigay. Hinihingan ng GMA News ng pahayag sina Marcoleta, Espiritu at Baluyut.

@macronikki I really don't know much about astrological signs, and when I said that to someone i was told na "Aries ka nga". At hindi ko pa rin alam what that means lol. Hi Capricorn. Favorite song mo ba 'to? youtu.be/pq-yP7mb8UE?si…

@fluidtype Oh yah. Definitely that person IS insane. Oh wait, let's say hi, capricorn's watching me right now.

Oh capricorn did. Hyper fixated on me for years. Made several accounts, befriended me with all accounts including their own. Im flattered but no, capricorn. No.

Uhm, yeah. This guy.

@inquirerdotnet Ano yung "NOTHING!"? Wala na ba maisip or part pa rin ng dumb statement nila na "We are not Filipino for nothing."?

LOOK: Supporters of Senator Bato Dela Rosa set up a life-sized cardboard standee outside the Senate in Pasay City on Thursday, May 22. Department of Justice Secretary Fredderick Vida announced that he instructed the National Bureau of Investigation and the Philippine National Police to arrest Dela Rosa. | via Niño Jesus Orbeta, Philippine Daily Inquirer