Takeoutant

Today on June 8, a 7.8 earthquake hit the Philippines near my hometown. The epicenter was somewhere in Malapatan. I was in the bathroom taking a turd when it happened. I guess you could say the earthquake "scared the shit out of me" (please laugh).

From what I've heard and seen, General Santos was the city that was affected the most. A Jollibee restaurant crumbled into the ground, and from what I've heard from rumors two of the crew were killed (do note I said it's a rumor since it's not yet confirmed). SM and KCC had shown very concerning structural damage like walls cracking down. I haven't seen the interior yet but I hope the people inside during the quaking are okay and alive.

Now here in my hometown where I am currently in as of writing this entry, the house that I live in had sustained cracks and other damages. Even the old bathroom on the second floor fell after years of holding up there. I had a lot of things to clean. While I was dealing with the mess, my mother told me to head over to our store so mom and dad can deal with the mess themselves instead while I keep watch of our store.

The good news is our store didn't get much damage, only a few 1000mL bottles of coke broke (which is loss of profit unfortunately), but a few steps away from our store, a part of our local market's balcony fell also. It's an old building anyway so I'm not surprised it happened.

I checked in on my friends and my aunt back in Davao city (the place where I study), they said they're all fine and I hope they really are. The in-school event I participated in that aims to develop and foster leadership and governance abilities were also postponed so that's good news, meaning I don't have to rush back to Davao for the event. I checked in on this girl I've been talking to, and fortunately she's okay along with her family :D.

This is user Takeoutant migrating from Instagram and Facebook to Tumblr for the purpose of documenting notable events in my life. Since last year Meta's AI has been wrongfully banning and disabling accounts across their platforms, such as Facebook, instagram, and Threads. And unfortunately on March 28 of this year, my personal accounts that I've had since 2018-19 were also affected. So if anyone is reading this, I recommend unlinking all your meta accounts from each other in the accounts center. I also recommend using different phone numbers and emails for each account and if you're able to do so, use these accounts from different devices.

I've already documented a lot of things from Instagram and Facebook, but they're now lost due to the mentioned ban wave that has been affecting users from different countries. It was quite unfortunate since I've posted and shared a large part of my teenage years.

Migrating to Tumblr is my way of starting again. I am very certain Tumblr's moderation team or its AI is better refined compared to Meta's, so I trust this platform may allow me to continue documenting my experiences without being falsely disabled for apparently "violating" the rules. I do not know much about Tumblr, but I am willing to learn and discover what this platform holds for me.

Note: The screenshot below is from a Reddit post from r/facebookdisabledme and shared to r/InstagramDisabledBans