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The five-minute task
A quick drawing becomes a wall of alternatives. A six-cell Chickenpie comic about taking the long way back to the first idea.
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Your website isn't finished. It's just online.
Before accepting a website handover, check the customer journey, account ownership and the work hidden behind the launch screenshot.
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Wix, Squarespace or build it yourself in 2026? Think past the first year.
A practical look at Wix, Squarespace and custom builds: subscriptions, renewals, control, portability and the work that stays after launch.
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The Round Is Over. Your Spoon Is Still Putting.
Tom Kim was glad his gold-medal day was over. At an imaginary clubhouse table, a much smaller round refuses to end.
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Design trends October 2026: warmth needs proof
Three design signals worth testing: physical craft, expressive typography and brand behaviour. Chickenpie asks what survives beyond the launch presentation.
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The Fare Went Up. The Breathing Room Didn’t.
South Cotabato commuters pay more. Drivers still feel squeezed. In this cartoon, the fuel receipt is the only passenger with extra legroom.
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The Little Shot That Does Not Need an Audience
A cooling coffee, a greenside dilemma, and a small experiment that gives the unglamorous golf shot a fair hearing.
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Alex Eala Made TIME. The Sala Made a Coaching Staff.
Alex Eala earns the recognition. The group chat awards itself a coaching licence. A cartoon about knowing when to cheer and when to put down the remote.
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Episode 27: Tita Puring's House
Henrietta and Chester reach Tita Puring's house in Cabanatuan, where a forty-year-old photograph rewrites who really started the search for the truth.
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The Snow-Globe Trick That Makes Gemini Build a Whole Tiny World
A five-clause Gemini prompt that turns any city street into a miniature diorama inside a glass dome, decomposed clause by clause so you can reproduce it.
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BiNeuron promises a local AI coding assistant with no cloud bill. Here's what "local" actually costs you.
BiNeuron is a free, open-source, fully-offline AI coding assistant. Here's what the whole-file-replacement design, the Tkinter GUI, and the 2-star repo status actually mean before you install it.
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Gilas Won By 31. The Barangay Tanod Is Now a Basketball Analyst.
Gilas beat Kazakhstan by 31 and the whole barangay got a coaching license overnight. We've earned the right to be annoying about this one.
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China Sent Flares Over Our Plane. We're Billing Them for the Fireworks Show.
China Coast Guard fired flares at a PCG patrol plane over the West Philippine Sea. We're calling it an uninvited, badly choreographed fireworks show.
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91% of Designers Use AI Now. That's Exactly Why Your Hand Matters More.
91% of designers use AI weekly now. That killed AI as a differentiator and made texture, typography, and a visible human hand the new premium signal.
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Hope Is Not a Vibe. It's a Skill We Never Stopped Practicing.
SWS says optimism is up while rice, gas, and traffic aren't. That's not naivety. That's the skill.
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Fifteen years of "witch hunt" deflection ended in handcuffs. This isn't a villain reveal — it's math, finally collecting on a debt.
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Three Ingredients, One Box of Cake Mix, and the Purple Donut That Made My Titas Suspicious
A box of cake mix, a can of ube halaya, and an egg. That's it. That's the donut.
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Episode 26: The Call to Cabanatuan
Chester finally calls his mother in Cabanatuan. She sends him looking for a name nobody's ever mentioned: Tita Puring.
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Pacman vs. Poverty. Twelve Rounds, No Scorecards.
Pacquiao's fought his way out of poverty once already. Ending it for everyone else is a different sport entirely.
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The Knolling Flat-Lay Prompt That Makes Gemini Actually Follow a Grid
A knolling flat-lay prompt for Gemini 3 Pro, decomposed clause by clause, with the geometry instructions that actually stop the grid from drifting.
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Clipto just raised $15M to be your computer's memory. It's good. It's not there yet.
Clipto's local AI media search is real and useful. The pricing page contradicting itself and a shaky Windows beta keep it from a full recommendation.
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The Palace Lost 64% of Its Budget. The Meetings Continue.
The Office of the President just absorbed a 64% budget cut for 2027. It says it'll keep functioning fine. That's not reassurance, that's the whole bit.
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6 AI Art Tool Tips That Stop Your Marketing Images From Screaming "AI"
6 quick tips for using AI art tools like Nano Banana and Gemini 3 to make marketing visuals that don't scream "AI" — prompting, texture, consistency, and a pre-publish check.
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The Assassination Threat Had a Price Tag. It Was P360,000.
The VP threatened to have three people killed. The going rate for forgiveness turned out to be P120,000 a head.
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The Clubs You Borrow Teach You More Than the Ones You Own
A missing golf bag, a borrowed driver, and the Rafa Cabrera-Bello anecdote that explains why the swing was never really living in the clubhead.
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India's Out. We're Still In.
Miss Grand International 2026 dumped India 14 days before opening night. The venue is now Bangkok. The Philippines is still competing for a three-peat.
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Five Design Quotes From This Month That Actually Mean Something
Five named quotes from real designers this month, decoded — with the Chickenpie stance on each and the one thread connecting all of them.
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The Peso Broke a Record. Nobody Threw Confetti.
The peso hit a record low against the dollar this week. We didn't quote economists. We went to a Baclaran money changer and watched a taho vendor be the only stabilizer in sight.
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One Pan, One Skillet, and the Adobo Meatballs That Made My Roommate Ask for the Recipe
One pan, twelve ingredients, thirty-five minutes: chicken adobo meatballs finished with parmesan and basil. Filipino-Italian fusion that survives a weeknight.
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Day 21 of the Impeachment Trial. The Senate Chairs Have Started to Mold.
Twenty-one days in, this stopped being about guilt. It's an endurance contest now, and nobody's willing to blink first.
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Moretti's Never Had a Bad Day
Moretti is an AI-generated drama lead with no callback, no per diem, and no bad days. That's exactly why he's not an actor.
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The President Sang. Malacañang Had to Explain It.
Malacañang defended the President's birthday karaoke with a press statement. We have thoughts, feathers, and a chicken who saw it all from the corner.
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Niño Muhlach Never Took a Day Off. Sunday, His Car Did It For Him.
Forty years of never stopping, and it took a Toyota to finally make him stop. The joke isn't the crash — it's the culture that produced it.
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Stop Hardcoding Colors: Build a Real Design System with Figma Variables
A hands-on 9-step tutorial: wire a Primitives, Semantic, and Brand variable system in Figma so your whole file updates from one place, light mode and dark mode included.
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They Expelled the Congressman. Cavite Just Refilled the Chair.
Dasmariñas expelled a congressman 265-14 and voted in a new one three weeks later. Same seat, same family history since 2007. We didn't fix anything. We refilled it.
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You Can Be Leading and Still Feel Lost — That's Not a Contradiction
A good front nine, a swing that doesn't feel like yours anymore, and the week a tour pro said the quiet part out loud.
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