Tania Arpa

@taniaarpa

Knitter, writer, skeptic, spy. 🏠 📜 📷

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Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Jun 29

Thunderstorm today!

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Apr 18

I’m just a girl. Standing in front of bag of vegetables and a bag of brown rice. Wondering how long after her medical test results she’ll be able to keep up this eating healthy thing.

A white plastic bag of leafy greens on top of a two-kilo bag of brown rice

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Apr 14

Good morning it’s eat all the leftovers in the fridge before we cook/buy any more day #food #filipinoFood #PinoyFood

Breakfast spread: a plate of suman and a round dumpling, more suman in another plate, a transparent plastic container with assorted donuts in it, a mug of black coffee

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Apr 12

The family’s lunch plans did not appeal to me so I stayed behind to make my own food and also enjoy some apple mangoes + alavar bagoong gata, both generously brought over from Zamboanga by my aunt. The mangoes were picked from one of the trees my mom planted decades ago.

A plate of sliced mangoes next to a bowl of bagoong gata mixed with soy sauce, with a small spoon

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Apr 9

Cousin is back from the gym and she brought the street food my mom has been craving for days.

A plate of fried ngoyong, fried pork, fried squid rolls, fried siomai. Three small bowls of dip on the side.

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Apr 8

Alavar sauce, we meet again.

Lunch spread, with a blue and white bowl of shrimp cooked in a reddish coconut sauce with spices. Beside it is a bowl of cucumber salad with onions.

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Mar 8

Update: I won yarn chicken 😎 This is the Hyde Park Hat (designer: Michele DuNaier), non slouch version. It’s my absolute favorite crochet hat pattern.

Blue crocheted hat, finished. Beside it is the last of the skein of blue yarn used to make the hat.

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Mar 8

Yarn chicken again I guess 🧶 #crochet

An almost finished crocheted hat in blue yarn, with only a few meters left in the skein. Pink crochet hook and stitch marker.

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Mar 5

Huh www.thesslstore.com/blog/47-day-...

9:56
thessistore.com
TL;DR: A Breakdown of the Changes to Come Starting in March 2026
• The industry is moving toward shorter SSL certificate lifespans (i.e., 47 days). The goal of the ballot's phased reduction is to make the proposed changes "reasonable and attainable."
• Google originally proposed 90-day validity.
Apple said, "hold my beer" and proposed half the lifespan (45 days), but the negotiated validity period ultimately settled on 47 days. (Check out the FAQs at the end of the article to learn more about the changes in certificate validity periods over the years.)
• The certificate lifespan reductions will be implemented in phases:
• ~6 months (starting March 2026),
• ~3 months (starting March 2027), and
• 1.5 months (starting March 2029)
• The amount of time you can reuse validation data will be reduced starting March 15, 2026. This applies to both your organization's subject identity validation data and your domain's validation data.
• Certificates will need to be renewed more often. This increases the need for automation for organizations.
• These shorter validity certificates won't cost you anything extra. TheSSLstore.com

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Feb 14

The International Criminal Court names Duterte’s alleged “co-perpetrators” in the charges against him. I love this for all of them 🥰 And us! Happy Valentine’s Day, Philippines!

/@Philstarnews graphic

ICC NAMES DUTERTE'S ALLEGED
'CO-PERPETRATORS' IN CHARGES

(Names with photos)
Sen. Bato dela Rosa
Former PNP Chief

Sen. Bong Go
Former Special Assistant

Vitaliano Aguirre III
Former Justice Secretary

Vicente Danao
Former PNP Chief

Isidro Lapeña
Former PDEA Chief

Oscar Albayalde
Former NCRPO and PNP Chief

Dante Gierran
Former NBI Director

Camilo Cascolan
Former NCRPO
Regional Director

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Feb 8

Requisite shot of the Musselburgh stretched out to show the two different colors of the hat.

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Feb 8

Not the first #Musselburgh hat i started but it’s the first one I’ve finished. At times I worried it was too tight, then I worried it was too loose. But Ysolda T. was right — one must trust the pattern. It fits perfectly, as it turns out. #knitting #hats 🧶

A knitted double-layered beanie in green with the beige brim turned up.

The same knitted double-layered beanie with the beige out and the brim in green.

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Jan 23

Who needs breakfast when you have knitting. 🧶

Overhead shot of a knitting work in progress (a beanie with lime green yarn) lying on a black keyboard, beside a black teacup and saucer containing coffee with milk

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Jan 14

Attempting my first Musselburgh hat. I really should’ve used a heavier yarn because the cast on nearly made me cross eyed.

A knitting project, currently just a square of fabric on four double pointed needles. The yarn is a mango orange, there’s a white stitch marker to mark the start of the round.

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Jan 2

Amazingly, I have improved upon my social media short bio. I dunno why it did not occur to me earlier to swap out “thinker” for “knitter”.

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Dec 16

I knitted three dice bags and I don’t even play DND. I had to! The pattern was so cute! 🧶 They’re made with brioche honeycomb stitch in two colors, with an icord, uh, cord. (Yes I’m obsessed with brioche knitting right now.)

A knitted dice bag in grey and white yarn, fastened shut with a cord knotted into a ribbon.

Two knitted dice bags, one in pink and cream yarn, the other in dark green and white yarn. Each is fastened shut with a cord knotted into a ribbon.

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Dec 12

Finished knitting the second book sleeve today. 🧶 I’m low-key obsessed with this design 😂

Two knitted book sleeves. One in green-grey yarn with a round beige button and one in pink, orange and cream with a purple button

Closeup of two book sleeves, each containing one paperback

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Dec 8

I’m using the Brave browser btw.

Screenshot of coveryourtracks.eff.org
Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against
Web tracking.
IS YOUR BROWSER:
Blocking tracking ads?
Yes
Blocking invisible trackers?
Yes
Protecting you from fingerprinting?
✅your browser has a randomized fingerprint

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Dec 6

As you can see, I don’t block very often so I need the practice. 🧶 This was made from the Darling Dishcloths pattern, free to download from the Herrschners website— herrschners.com/darling-dish...

A red knitted dishcloth pinned on a flat piece of blocking foam

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Dec 4

In my defense, this was the first time I did the I-cord bind off.

My hand holding up the knitted book sleeve, the i-cord bind off is a work in progress.

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Dec 4

I think I made the i-cord edge of the opening a tad tight oops. My tension was just all over the place, but it’s nothing a good wet block won’t fix I think. All in all, I’m happy with the pattern. Will definitely make it again. 🧶

Knitted book sleeve, grey-green and yellow yarn, beige button, i-cord strap

Knitted book sleeve, grey-green and yellow yarn, beige button. A romance paperback is halfway inside.

Knitted book sleeve, grey-green and yellow yarn, beige button, i-cord strap. It contains a paperback, and fastened shut.

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Dec 4

Obsessed with knitting book sleeves again! 🧶

A knit work in progress with double pointed needles lying on the keyboard attached to an iPad. The screen displays the pattern for “Bee book sleeve”. Photo is black and white.

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Nov 22

Playing yarn chicken again.

A knit project with the needles still on. Brown yarn for a small scarf.

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Oct 31

Affinity/Canva still hasn’t fixed the typo on their website. Catalina is MacOS 10.15, not MacOS 15 (which is Sequoia). I was able to install it on my MacBook which was running on Sonoma (MacOS 14).

Desktop
MacOS
Supported macOS versions: macOS 15 (Catalina) or later

Chip support: Works natively on both Apple silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4, M5) and Intel Macs
Device types: MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, Mac mini,
Mac Studio, Mac Pro

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Sep 27

Sign-Up: bit.ly/decrimnetwor... Email pinsancoordinator@gmail.com if you’re interested to join the launch on Monday, September 29 #ReproductiveRights

Pinsan
PHILIPPINE SAFE ABORTION
ADVOCACY NETWORK

LAUNCHING OF THE DECRIMINALIZE ABORTION NETWORK
September 29, 2025
Metro Manila

Illustration of people marching holding up signs:
REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE FOR ALL
DECRIMINALIZE ABORTION NOW

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Aug 20

I just discovered the two holes on the side of my phone's jelly case so I did up a makeshift charm ring and now I'm ready to slay vampires.

The side of a phone on a phone stand, showing three steel charms hanging from an elastic black cord: a stake, a head of garlic, a crucifix

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Aug 3

Here we go again 😋

Closeup on a bowl of satti — spicy red orange sauce in a white bowl, in it are rice and skewered beef bits and chicken

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Aug 2

Breakfast of champions

A bowl of satti, a spicy Tausug dish. It's a red-orange sauce with skewered chicken and beef with rice balls.

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Jul 3

Putting this sticker here where it will probably be covered by the case lol

An iPad on a stand on a desk facing away from the camera. There’s a sticker in the center of the back that’s a blue/purple gradient background on which is printed the word

“hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahapakyu”

Tania Arpa@taniaarpa· Jun 25

Lunch today was chicken pianggang at Dennis Coffee Garden 😋😋 #FilipinoFood #TausugFood