E.L. Guerrero

It’s that time of the year again where I debate on either making my own static site generator or installing Eleventy on my website 🙃

Two branches of cherry blossoms blooming against a white wall with decorative ceramic pearls of different patterns in blue, white, and pink colours.

It’s still in the negatives outside but in my room spring has already started 🌸

Also lol we both forgot the login credentials to our @walanghiya.ca account so here we are :)

A flyer for “Pasko sa Kultura” as a vendor spotlight for Walang Hiya Zine Distro, featuring two masked Filipino/a/x forming a giant heart with their arms. In front of them is a display of the zines and prints that they are selling.

There’s an upcoming arts festival ”Pasko sa Kultura” at the Tranzac on December 13 in Toronto!

@keet.lol and I will be tabling as @walanghiya.ca, selling prints and zines, as well as zines from the Philippines!

If you come by please say hi! (And pick up some stuff!) :)

www.kultura.ca

We talked about a cybersecurity workshop that @jasonli.bsky.social and I facilitated earlier this year for CCESO (Caregiver Connections) about the current technological landscape as Philippine diaspora and the precarity of being online.

My friend Nami had me as a guest for her podcast series “Safety Nets: Let Me Zine” which explores web security protocols for artistic web makers and cultural server operators in reconsidering the direction of the personalised web.

let-me-zine.htmlzine.club/podcast/epi2...

Standard Notes? Joplin? To name a few!

I get very upset if lines do not align and I sometimes waste a good sticker because it was off by just a little bit 😭

YES hahaha it is a huge rule in my book 😂

A hand holding a dusty pink notebook covered with stickers, clockwise: 1. A purple oval with the words “Nothing is a mistake”, 2. A sort of mushroom character striking a pose, 3. A lucky charm-like sticker with an illustration of a hamster sitting in a teacup of green tea and in Japanese says “I lived today, too!”, 4. A pink rectangle with Japanese kanji character for “social misfit”, 5. An old TV set with a quote by Nam June Paik: “I use technology in order to hate it properly.”, 6. A sticker that copies the look of a Japanese train ticket.

The back of the same notebook, also covered in stickers, clockwise: 1. A blue square with an icon of a wrench and the words “Move carefully and fix things”, 2. Ascii art of mountains, clouds, and grass and the Our Networks logo pixelised, 3. The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)’s new logo (it is upside down), 3. The Merveilles Mastodon community’s logo, 4. A femme person jumping for joy with the words in Japanese “I quit (my job)!”, 5. The mascot for a local restaurant named Gateau Ghost, it is an illustration of some sort of blob character with eyes and a smile, 6. A spoof of the green exit sign, except this time a bear is the one running out the door. There are Japanese characters underneath it that (I think) mean “Exit” or “Escape”.

Notebook sticker situation update! We have now reached maximum capacity.

I realised I put the W3C sticker (featuring the new logo, too!) upside down.

Most of the new stickers came from B-Side Label Japan.

And thank you for the repair sticker, @ox.ca!

Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ... 423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.

Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

A hand holding a pink A5 notebook with two stickers: An oblong-shaped purple sticker with the words “Nothing is a mistake”, and the other is a holographic sticker of an old TV with a quote from Nam June Paik: “i use technology in order to hate it properly”.

New sticker featuring a quote from Nam June Paik, the father of video art!

Thank you to @rose-alibi.bsky.social!!

Sighting of Mount Fuji floating over clouds from an airplane window.

We were told to open our windows because there was “a really nice mountain” outside.

try again, but harder

I was right the first time…”

Nobuo Kubota
(1932-2025)

In my twenties, I was Japanese Canadian.

In my thirties, I was Canadian.

At forty, searching for my roots in Japan, I was Japanese.

At fifty-five, looking to see who I am, I know that it has nothing to do with being Japanese or Canadian…

“When I was born, I was of the Universe.

When I was five, I was the same as everybody else.

When I was eight, the war started: I was different.

During the war, I was displaced: I was a ‘Jap.’

A hand holding up the large, yellow Internet Phone Book with the subtitle “a directory for exploring the vast poetic web, Issue One, 2025”.

Contents of the Internet Phone Book, in particular focus is the entry for “Cutting Tofu” with the phone “number” of 197. The website is listed as being in the Eastern Timezone and its size is 267.5 kilobytes. The description says “I try to write like I’m cutting tofu.”

I got my copy of the Internet Phone Book! :)

Call me maybe?

I’m Fighting for My Freedom Using Outdated Technology The antiquated technology we use hinders our ability to work with our lawyers and file appeals.

"Inside New Jersey State Prison, it’s like 1985, where we rely on out-of-date word processors, electric typewriters and floppy disks that are going extinct in the free world."

Being kind in an otherwise unkind world requires so much courage. Please keep holding on.

When we design and develop and create, we shouldn’t forget the human side of things because that’s what it means to live alongside each other in this world.

To further that, we also mustn’t forget our own humanity.

#Accessibility #a11y

Accessibility isn’t only compliance or conformance; it isn’t just acknowledging and considering the various needs of different types of people. It is about being kind, first and foremost.

Instead of thinking of the “user”, we need to view them as people and not statistics or engagement.

Please donate if you can to Reem to help his family in Gaza!

Here is the gofundme: www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-fam...

These thoughts, these powerful thoughts, came over me.”

—Wataru Iwasaki, “What It Means To Live“

From the Hobonichi 5-Year Techō Daily Quotes translated: www.mojidoori.com/daily/

“They put me on the stretcher and lifted me up. The moment we got outside the house, I saw it. The sky. The stunning blue sky.

“I’m living under this breathtaking blue sky!” I thought to myself. “The sky is one piece of this whole big world. And here, right in the middle of it all, I’m alive!”

Nearly 100 people killed seeking aid in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian officials say Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance.

Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance.

By Joe Hernandez, @danielestrin.bsky.social and Anas Baba