Paolo Manalo
@paolomanalo.bsky.social
🇵🇭 up diliman | poetry: posthumous, you already, jolography retconned, happily ever ek-ek, e is for epal
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Paolo Manalo
@paolomanalo.bsky.social
· Nov 10
I just realized that I have an account here.
Life update: new chapbook out and our poetry titles travelled to the Frankfurt Book Fair with the other titles by Filipino authors.
(Thank you, @littlenoun.bsky.social.com)
Life update: new chapbook out and our poetry titles travelled to the Frankfurt Book Fair with the other titles by Filipino authors.
(Thank you, @littlenoun.bsky.social.com)
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“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
www.npr.org
October 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
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"her memory is a cloud she can't hold..."
Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey.
(And thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)
Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey.
(And thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)
October 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"her memory is a cloud she can't hold..."
Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey.
(And thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)
Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey.
(And thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)
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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
Isa na akong ganap na tropical depression.
October 2, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Isa na akong ganap na tropical depression.
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Ordered this physical album from Japan to celebrate all the milestones of SB19 this Simula at Wakas era. Pulled a Stell photocard.
October 2, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Ordered this physical album from Japan to celebrate all the milestones of SB19 this Simula at Wakas era. Pulled a Stell photocard.
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New #WriterBeware blog post: A brief backgrounder on authors' class action lawsuit against Anthropic for unauthorized AI training, plus how you can find out if your books may be included and how to add yourself to a contact list for official class action notices writerbeware.blog/2025/08/15/b...
Bartz v Anthropic: Find Out if You May Be Part of This Class Action - Writer Beware
Almost exactly a year ago, a group of authors filed suit against AI company Anthropic over its creation of an enormous library of digitized books to train its Claude LLMs. In addition to purchasing an...
writerbeware.blog
August 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
New #WriterBeware blog post: A brief backgrounder on authors' class action lawsuit against Anthropic for unauthorized AI training, plus how you can find out if your books may be included and how to add yourself to a contact list for official class action notices writerbeware.blog/2025/08/15/b...
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sandwich guy got charged with one count of monte cristo
August 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
sandwich guy got charged with one count of monte cristo
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Unconscionable to let the great Donald Justice’s centenary pass without posting a poem. This paean to childhood from his debut collection seems only fitting.
August 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Unconscionable to let the great Donald Justice’s centenary pass without posting a poem. This paean to childhood from his debut collection seems only fitting.
DUNGKA! sa Simula at Wakas Experience ng SB19.
August 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
DUNGKA! sa Simula at Wakas Experience ng SB19.
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I will *never* apologize for a post
August 6, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I will *never* apologize for a post
Received a copy of Conversations with my Self(ies): Poems by Pierra Calasanz-Labrador with illustrations by Wiji Lacsamana.
August 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Received a copy of Conversations with my Self(ies): Poems by Pierra Calasanz-Labrador with illustrations by Wiji Lacsamana.
Rizal: *writing sequel to Noli me tangere*
Me: I'm not gonna let you filibuster, bitch!
Me: I'm not gonna let you filibuster, bitch!
WATCH — @anakasparian.bsky.social unleashes on Shabbos Kestenbaum: “No, I’m gonna let you filibuster, b*tch… I can’t stand it. It’s unbearable.”
July 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Rizal: *writing sequel to Noli me tangere*
Me: I'm not gonna let you filibuster, bitch!
Me: I'm not gonna let you filibuster, bitch!
Yes 💯
Yoongi: The Lamy 2000
The 1966 Bauhaus inspired modern classic of fountain pen design. It's sleek, it uses neat technology, it's nearly unbreakable, and it's almost aggressively functional. But also? It never fucking dries out. Ever. It's a writing tool above all else.
The 1966 Bauhaus inspired modern classic of fountain pen design. It's sleek, it uses neat technology, it's nearly unbreakable, and it's almost aggressively functional. But also? It never fucking dries out. Ever. It's a writing tool above all else.
July 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Yes 💯
Getting back to my own reading momentum and working on the pandemic TBR pile starting with So Forward by @minavesguerra.com
July 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Getting back to my own reading momentum and working on the pandemic TBR pile starting with So Forward by @minavesguerra.com
And my soldiers are SB19 💦
July 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
And my soldiers are SB19 💦
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Can I just say how fucking ridiculous it is that queer and nsfw art is more heavily regulated than the fucking plagiarism machine destroying our planet that is genAI
July 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Can I just say how fucking ridiculous it is that queer and nsfw art is more heavily regulated than the fucking plagiarism machine destroying our planet that is genAI
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Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006.
She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.”
With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy.
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...
She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.”
With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy.
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...
July 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006.
She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.”
With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy.
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...
She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.”
With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy.
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...
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Couldn't let Wendy Cope's 80th birthday pass without posting this absolute knock-out punch of a poem.
July 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Couldn't let Wendy Cope's 80th birthday pass without posting this absolute knock-out punch of a poem.
I thought it was just me.
2. Leuchtturm1917 120g paper is an offense. It is easily the worst advertised-as fountain pen friendly paper on the market.
July 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I thought it was just me.
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NO IT FUCKING ISNT ALL THE CREATIVES ARE FUCKING **BROKE**
July 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
NO IT FUCKING ISNT ALL THE CREATIVES ARE FUCKING **BROKE**
Oh, what a thing to do
And it was all yellow
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
And it was all yellow
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
July 20, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Oh, what a thing to do
And it was all yellow
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
And it was all yellow
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
Thank you for being a fiend, a murderous one.
July 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Thank you for being a fiend, a murderous one.
EDC Kasama fountain pens
July 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
EDC Kasama fountain pens
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RIP Fanny Howe 1940–2025
July 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
RIP Fanny Howe 1940–2025