The Dark Horse

A collection of ideas, pictures, memories, insults, and praise that are too short for a normal blog and too long for most other social networks.

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Refugee from the bird app/hellsite

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Worthy of Survival

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The Story of Noah

The Story of Noah

A Re-imagining Of course, he knew the flood was coming. You do not get to be one of the richest men (if not the richest man) in Canaan without having your own set of scholar-servants (or is it servant-scholars?) who have warned you that because of the success of your lumber business, it had already altered the climate of the region. But you also do not become the richest man without…

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The Price We Pay For Idolatry

The Price We Pay For Idolatry

Musings About The Pandemic From A Frustrated Theologian I lost my religiosity when I started my clinical rotations in the third year of medical school. Something about the lines of people suffering in the outpatient department in the medical center of the premier state university brought by various ambulances bearing the visages of various politicians that the idea of a deity who loved all of us…

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Away from the Frontlines (The 3rd ECQ Day 5)

Away from the Frontlines (The 3rd ECQ Day 5)

“Rebellions Are Built On Hope” How has it been? If you’re still surprised that the response to another surge in cases is a hard lockdown (hard only if you’re poor. If you own an airconditioned private vehicle with only one passenger, you can pass through most checkpoints.) then you have not been paying attention. This government is the very definition of insanity – repeating the same thing over…

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Out of the Frontlines (GCQ Again Again Journal Day )

Out of the Frontlines (GCQ Again Again Journal Day )

Frontliner Puts Down His Swordab The Last(?) PPE selfie (more…)

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Notes from the Frontlines (MECQ Again Journal Day 16)

Notes from the Frontlines (MECQ Again Journal Day 16)

Sometimes The Best Way To Heal Is To Help Others Heal Along With You It has been a week of death. I am guilty of being flippant about the number of cases and I need to constantly remind myself that these dehumanized and de-individuated figures are real people and some of them do not survive. One has to treat this delicately and with panache, two qualities I am well aware I lack. I cannot even…

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Notes from the Frontlines (ECQ Again Journal Day 10)

Notes from the Frontlines (ECQ Again Journal Day 10)

The Problem With Success Less than a week into the renewed lockdown and a member of my family tests positive. This despite being one of the strictest with regards to quarantine protocols. This was supposed to be my birthday/Easter post so, here, have a picture of lamb lugaw which is essential. (more…)

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Notes from the Frontlines (ECQ Again Journal Day 1)

Notes from the Frontlines (ECQ Again Journal Day 1)

Micro-Stories Vol. 1: Following Orders Makes You Complicit Below are a couple of stories, some true, some heavily embellished that I wrote during the pandemic… Like samosas, they’re all filler, no meat. Continue reading

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Notes from the Frontlines (GCQ Again Journal Day 218)

Notes from the Frontlines (GCQ Again Journal Day 218)

It Doesn’t Get Better If You Don’t Work Towards Getting Better Welp (déjà vu) Well, fuck. Also, has anyone noticed that they’re basically drawing attention away from the number of new cases by deliberately making the font smaller and somehow assuming that the 15% positivity rate is something we will ignore despite the fact that these was the same levels we had in July a month after we entered…

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Notes from the Frontlines (GCQ Again Journal Day 212)

Notes from the Frontlines (GCQ Again Journal Day 212)

The Problem Resting Your Hopes On One Strategy (Or We Really Should Stop Looking at “Messiahs”) Welp. It’s like we’re trying to relive the previous year, as though it were the best we have ever had. But New Game+, amirite? Continue reading

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Notes from the Frontlines (GCQ Again Journal Day 205)

Notes from the Frontlines (GCQ Again Journal Day 205)

New Game+ Numbers are once again rising and I suspect we are about to see the second nth wave of cases. Further complicating this is the existence of new variants which have increased Basic Reproduction Numbers. Hospital admissions have started to increase that medical students rotating in the hospitals have gone back to remote learning. 2021 is New Game+ Continue reading

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Notes from the Frontlines (GCQ Again Journal Day 196)

Notes from the Frontlines (GCQ Again Journal Day 196)

How To Cow A Profession Aside from the clergy and actual social workers, the only other sector I can see that can fix society’s ills are those in the field of health. There is enough distrust in both the military and law enforcement in this country that will take generations to fix and require transparency and sincerity from those two institutions. I may be wrong, of course, and maybe there are…

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Notes from the Frontlines (GCQ Again Journal Day 193)

Notes from the Frontlines (GCQ Again Journal Day 193)

A Quick Note I wasn’t planning on writing an entry. Not any time before cool equipment arrived that would make note-taking and blogging much easier. And also allow me to finish a few papers I am required to produce within the year. But due to shipment delays, here I am scribbling furiously with an Apple pen. Cool equipment. Hopefully. Continue reading

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Notes from the Frontlines (GCQ Again Journal Day 182)

Notes from the Frontlines (GCQ Again Journal Day 182)

Infiltrator We’re already into the 2nd month of the year and it feels too much like New Game+. We have had the tragic death of a flight attendant with our law enforcement proving their incompetence and both the mother and her friends using her death to push their own agendas (imagine using the last name of the dearly departed, in a TikTok video), a pair of influencers taking advantage of the…

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Notes from the Frontlines (GCQ Again Journal Day 128)

Notes from the Frontlines (GCQ Again Journal Day 128)

*Sigh* (Kailan Ba Natin Aaminin Na ACAB?) See, I did not want to write this. I wanted a quiet holiday season after a terrible year that included the reason why I set this blog up and getting death threats despite being a health worker. I did not expect to wake up in the morning of a Monday, the penultimate Monday of the year, on a grossing day no less. Was it too much to ask for a ceasefire from…

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Notes from the Frontlines (GCQ Again Journal Day 116)

Notes from the Frontlines (GCQ Again Journal Day 116)

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