Paul Catiang
@paulcatiang.bsky.social
🧿 Writer. Editor. Yogi. Keeper of the Demon Teahouse. Occasionally very silly. 🧿
From Quezon City, the Philippines
he/him/his
From Quezon City, the Philippines
he/him/his
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Yet another beautiful, brilliant piece from @lindaholmes.bsky.social
Remembering Rob Reiner, who made movies for people who love them
The movies Reiner directed, from A Few Good Men to The Princess Bride, weren't just good — they were people's favorites, the types of films people come back to again and again.
www.npr.org
December 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Yet another beautiful, brilliant piece from @lindaholmes.bsky.social
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the “you should love ai” line is best outlined by a recent joe rogan episode. he LOVES ai music and always tells guests this. a guest pushed back on him saying “i’ve heard ai podcasts are amazing too” and joe rogan immediately pushes back. losers love it until it comes for them
December 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
the “you should love ai” line is best outlined by a recent joe rogan episode. he LOVES ai music and always tells guests this. a guest pushed back on him saying “i’ve heard ai podcasts are amazing too” and joe rogan immediately pushes back. losers love it until it comes for them
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1. In Alaska, the right wing govt handpicked doctors to the Medical Board to ban trans youth care.
A month after after, one anti-trans doctor was arrested for child porn.
The day after he was bailed out, his home burned down, with reports suggesting he was found deceased.
Our latest wild story.
A month after after, one anti-trans doctor was arrested for child porn.
The day after he was bailed out, his home burned down, with reports suggesting he was found deceased.
Our latest wild story.
Anti-Trans Alaskan State Medical Board Doctor Charged With CSAM, Home Goes Up In Flames
Last week Dr. Ryan McDonough was arrested on ten counts of possession of child sexual abuse material. Over the weekend, his family home went up in flames.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
1. In Alaska, the right wing govt handpicked doctors to the Medical Board to ban trans youth care.
A month after after, one anti-trans doctor was arrested for child porn.
The day after he was bailed out, his home burned down, with reports suggesting he was found deceased.
Our latest wild story.
A month after after, one anti-trans doctor was arrested for child porn.
The day after he was bailed out, his home burned down, with reports suggesting he was found deceased.
Our latest wild story.
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A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-colour, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas
December 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-colour, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas
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Here's a clip of Rob Reiner that brings me a lot of joy & how I'm happiest to remember him. It's an episode of Gomer Pyle from 1969 and Rob's the hippie in yellow, just 21 years old. Sitcoms weren't supposed to talk about the Vietnam War, so they found a way to sing about it instead.
December 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Here's a clip of Rob Reiner that brings me a lot of joy & how I'm happiest to remember him. It's an episode of Gomer Pyle from 1969 and Rob's the hippie in yellow, just 21 years old. Sitcoms weren't supposed to talk about the Vietnam War, so they found a way to sing about it instead.
And just like that, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows has a new word! It's been seven years since the last one, and the new one went up an hour ago.
Yráth: Hunger for Mystery in a Time of Easy Answers
YouTube video by Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
And just like that, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows has a new word! It's been seven years since the last one, and the new one went up an hour ago.
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
Jesus, why.
“Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were killed by their son, Nick, multiple sources confirm to PEOPLE.”
Rob Reiner and His Wife Michele Were Killed by Their Son: Sources (Exclusive)
Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found after first responders were called to the couple's Brentwood home at 3:30 p.m.
people.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Jesus, why.
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Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Did five tarot readings for my first Mystival. Now I'm late for a dinner party. December things.
December 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Did five tarot readings for my first Mystival. Now I'm late for a dinner party. December things.
Tonight's viewing: Working Girls! I didn't realize this was directed by Ishmael Bernal, which makes this likely my first Bernal film. The first five minutes already gets into companies avoiding regularization by terminating probationary employees. Wow.
Working Girls 2 FULL MOVIE | Dina Bonnevie, Gloria Diaz, Dang Cecilio, Jaclyn Jose
YouTube video by VIVA Films
youtu.be
December 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Tonight's viewing: Working Girls! I didn't realize this was directed by Ishmael Bernal, which makes this likely my first Bernal film. The first five minutes already gets into companies avoiding regularization by terminating probationary employees. Wow.
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I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way
December 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way
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Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.
Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.
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A stiff gust would do the world a favor
Fucking incredible dystopian shit, comparing super rich people risking millions if not billions of lives just to make more money to people that risked their life actually building incredible things that would then make millions of dollars for super rich people.
December 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A stiff gust would do the world a favor
All this moving forward in time is depressing me.
December 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
All this moving forward in time is depressing me.
The trouble with trying to sound clever is that the effort often eclipses any wit.
December 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The trouble with trying to sound clever is that the effort often eclipses any wit.
Today's theme: napasubo sa Uniqlo.
December 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Today's theme: napasubo sa Uniqlo.
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It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.
December 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.
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Gaza family mourns boys killed by Israel along Yellow Line - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-family-mourns-boys-killed-israel-along-yellow-line
‘Yellow Line killed them’: Gaza family mourns boys bombed while collecting wood
Devastated Palestinian parents recall the killing of their children, aged nine and 10, as Israeli attacks along the Yellow Line mount
www.middleeasteye.net
December 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Gaza family mourns boys killed by Israel along Yellow Line - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-family-mourns-boys-killed-israel-along-yellow-line
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A journalist from The Indian Express spoke to me about my fiction. I don't sound like a total prat.
indianexpress.com/article/citi...
indianexpress.com/article/citi...
Writer’s Corner: How Jayaprakash Satyamurthy brings horror into the nooks and crannies of Bengaluru
According to Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, author of Shelter From The Storm and Weird Tales of a Bangalorean, horror is an interesting way to explore the layered aspects of life, past and present, coming i...
indianexpress.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
A journalist from The Indian Express spoke to me about my fiction. I don't sound like a total prat.
indianexpress.com/article/citi...
indianexpress.com/article/citi...
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On 1-7 Dec 2025, 4 died in Marcos’s drug war. Rizal claimed the 20th female victim this yr–a drug peddler killed by a suspect who refused to buy drugs. Meanwhile, state agents killed an HVI who resisted arrest during a buy-bust op in Cavite.
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/sources-2025/
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/sources-2025/
December 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
On 1-7 Dec 2025, 4 died in Marcos’s drug war. Rizal claimed the 20th female victim this yr–a drug peddler killed by a suspect who refused to buy drugs. Meanwhile, state agents killed an HVI who resisted arrest during a buy-bust op in Cavite.
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/sources-2025/
Sources: dahas.upd.edu.ph/sources-2025/