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Big protests against corruption and the government in the #Philippines today (it's already Sunday over there)
September 21st is the 53rd anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law. Martial law originally declared by the father of the current president (Marcos)
Wishing all the best to everyone in the streets today

"Philippines protects huge coral hotspot off the coast of Panaon Island"
#Philippines #CoralReef #Environment

Philippines protects huge coral hotspot off the coast of Panaon Island
The corals around Panaon Island in the southeastern Philippines form some of the healthiest and most climate-resilient reefs in the world, and they’re now a legally protected seascape. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. approved the Panaon Island Protected Seascape law on Aug. 29. It creates a 61,204-hectare (151,200-acre) marine protected area within the Pacific Coral […]

#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 6️⃣: Dimensions
I decided to use time as my third dimension and created a simplified animated map showing the Earth’s terminator (the line dividing day and night) around the #Philippines 🇵🇭 at 6 p.m. throughout the year.
Since the Philippines is very near …

"Six new tube-nosed bats described from the Philippines"
#Philippines #Bats #Animals

Six new tube-nosed bats described from the Philippines
Researchers have recently described six new-to-science species of tube-nosed bats from the Philippines, named after their unique nostrils that protrude from the snout. All the specimens were collected from either primary or secondary forests, currently threatened by mining and shifting agriculture, the authors write in a new study. “These bats are notoriously elusive, so the […]

"Philippines approves world’s largest solar project for grid connection"
#Philippines #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Philippines approves world’s largest solar project for grid connection
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) of the Philippines has given the MTerra Solar Project permission to develop its own dedicated transmission facilities and connect to the Luzon grid. The first phase, encompassing 2.5 GW of solar and 3.3 MWh of battery storage, is due for completion in 2026.

#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 4️⃣: My data
Here is a hexbinned map of the over 1600 #Wikidata items I’ve created that have coordinates in the #Philippines 🇵🇭. The vast majority of these are items o…

trinangkaso pa talaga. anyway, higop muna ako maanghang na sabaw para ma-speedrun ang mga sintomas haha
#food #noodles #philippines

#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 1️⃣: Points
Third year participating! 🎉
I guess I’m starting the tradition of using the same map style for Day 1 that I did for 2023¹ and 2024². So here’s a map of all the cities and towns in the #Philippines that have Spanish names of saints because Novem…

#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 3️⃣: Polygons
I went with a classic #choropleth map to keep things simple (and save my energy) and this one shows the population change of the 201 barangays (kinda like wards) of the city of Pasay in the

It took me longer than expected but I have finished editing an additional 50 photos meaning I have now completed doing perspective corrections on 450 photos of NHCP #HistoricalMarkers of the #Philippines 🇵🇭! 🎉 I hope to complete 500 by the end of 2025.
You can browse through all 450 in

#TuneTuesday (Oct 28)
I’m not sure how popular this song is in other countries, but Clair Marlo’s “‘Til They Take My Heart Away” from 1990 is pretty much guaranteed to be on the repertoire of Filipino cover bands and in the songbooks of karaoke machines in the #Philippines. 😄

Likely in response to the recent box-office success of TBA Studios’ movie Quezon, Star Cinema has now published 2018’s Quezon’s Game on YouTube.
The latter movie is about the late 1930s plan of Philippine Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon and American High Commissioner Paul McNutt to allow European Jews who were being persecuted by Nazi Germany to escape to the #Philippines.

Today, #TimorLeste 🇹🇱 becomes the #ASEAN’s 11th member when the 47th summit begins in Kuala Lumpur later. 🎉
To mark this occasion, I decided to create a mock Philippine historical marker commemorating the body owing to the