Mercedes Valle
@mercedesmvalle.bsky.social
Writer (Legends of Tomorrow, Mech Cadets, Polly Pocket & other shows). Martial artist. Recovering lawyer. (she/her/hers) 🏳️🌈 🩷💛💙 mercedesvalle.com
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How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood
Here’s a step-by-step guide.
www.teenvogue.com
Since ICE raids are already happening, here are some resources to help you prepare and keep others in your community safe. 🧵
Op-ed from Teen Vogue, “ICE Watch Programs Can Protect Immigrants in Your Neighborhood” www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-wa... (1/3)
Op-ed from Teen Vogue, “ICE Watch Programs Can Protect Immigrants in Your Neighborhood” www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-wa... (1/3)
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These L.A. film labs are keeping the craft alive. While photographing the city's precious landmarks, these shops have become ones themselves.
The full guide: lataco.com/photo-film-l...
By Erwin Recinos
The full guide: lataco.com/photo-film-l...
By Erwin Recinos
December 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
These L.A. film labs are keeping the craft alive. While photographing the city's precious landmarks, these shops have become ones themselves.
The full guide: lataco.com/photo-film-l...
By Erwin Recinos
The full guide: lataco.com/photo-film-l...
By Erwin Recinos
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If many of us are quiet about politics online nowadays, it isn't that we don't care and we're not mobilized offline.
We talked about this for years. We warned them. So many who are upset now did not listen! They thought they knew better than we did.
So much of this suffering was preventable.
We talked about this for years. We warned them. So many who are upset now did not listen! They thought they knew better than we did.
So much of this suffering was preventable.
December 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
If many of us are quiet about politics online nowadays, it isn't that we don't care and we're not mobilized offline.
We talked about this for years. We warned them. So many who are upset now did not listen! They thought they knew better than we did.
So much of this suffering was preventable.
We talked about this for years. We warned them. So many who are upset now did not listen! They thought they knew better than we did.
So much of this suffering was preventable.
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Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
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🎬 The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Day Remix Contest is on!
🎥 Celebrate Public Domain Day in January by creating a 2–3 minute film using at least 1 piece of public domain media from 1930.
📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
🎥 Celebrate Public Domain Day in January by creating a 2–3 minute film using at least 1 piece of public domain media from 1930.
📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
December 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🎬 The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Day Remix Contest is on!
🎥 Celebrate Public Domain Day in January by creating a 2–3 minute film using at least 1 piece of public domain media from 1930.
📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
🎥 Celebrate Public Domain Day in January by creating a 2–3 minute film using at least 1 piece of public domain media from 1930.
📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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✨hi friends! guess who’s wrapping on a gig and is available for staffing, freelance, and development?!✨
me! please consider hiring me 🥲 (i also have experience writing for toys, podcasts, and comics! wow!)
me! please consider hiring me 🥲 (i also have experience writing for toys, podcasts, and comics! wow!)
December 8, 2025 at 4:46 AM
✨hi friends! guess who’s wrapping on a gig and is available for staffing, freelance, and development?!✨
me! please consider hiring me 🥲 (i also have experience writing for toys, podcasts, and comics! wow!)
me! please consider hiring me 🥲 (i also have experience writing for toys, podcasts, and comics! wow!)
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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Fewer than 50 slots left in this Long Covid trial (down from 1000!)
They’re especially hoping to enroll folks from North Dakota, Mississippi and Puerto Rico, as well as more BIPOC participants.
To sign up: longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...
They’re especially hoping to enroll folks from North Dakota, Mississippi and Puerto Rico, as well as more BIPOC participants.
To sign up: longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...
The Scripps tirzepatide trial is in @wired.com today! Thanks so much for covering this @emilymullin.bsky.social!
The signup link for the trial: longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...
The signup link for the trial: longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...
Weight-Loss Drug Zepbound Is Being Tested as a Treatment for Long Covid
GLP-1s are being studied for a wide range of conditions. Now, scientists will test whether their anti-inflammatory properties can help alleviate symptoms of long Covid.
www.wired.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Fewer than 50 slots left in this Long Covid trial (down from 1000!)
They’re especially hoping to enroll folks from North Dakota, Mississippi and Puerto Rico, as well as more BIPOC participants.
To sign up: longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...
They’re especially hoping to enroll folks from North Dakota, Mississippi and Puerto Rico, as well as more BIPOC participants.
To sign up: longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...
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Everyone involved in this child’s kidnapping is going to hell.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Everyone involved in this child’s kidnapping is going to hell.
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writers artists
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getting our best work
🤝 done at 2am 🤝
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criminals santa claus
🤝
getting our best work
🤝 done at 2am 🤝
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criminals santa claus
March 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
writers artists
🤝
getting our best work
🤝 done at 2am 🤝
🤝
criminals santa claus
🤝
getting our best work
🤝 done at 2am 🤝
🤝
criminals santa claus
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If you want to make your own whistle kits or do 3d printing of whistles etc @dansinker.com has got you covered dansinker.com/posts/2025-1... and there are also a ton of "how to help" links from @lefttheprairie.bsky.social linktr.ee/apwhistles
Whistle Up | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
If you want to make your own whistle kits or do 3d printing of whistles etc @dansinker.com has got you covered dansinker.com/posts/2025-1... and there are also a ton of "how to help" links from @lefttheprairie.bsky.social linktr.ee/apwhistles
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This is very good. I like to remind people that headlines in the 80s would (regularly!) talk about people who drank lattes or ate sushi as exotic, self-indulgent yuppies with obscure tastes. Media constantly made fun of “haute cuisine” meals with tiny portions because fine dining was bad.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is very good. I like to remind people that headlines in the 80s would (regularly!) talk about people who drank lattes or ate sushi as exotic, self-indulgent yuppies with obscure tastes. Media constantly made fun of “haute cuisine” meals with tiny portions because fine dining was bad.
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to demand pockets.
December 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to demand pockets.
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It's Christmas shopping time and people are looking for books for kids and teens, so let me do a little station ID and talk about what I do. Quotes and RS appreciated
I am Jeremy Whitley, a queer writer of comics and books from Durham, NC.
Here are books of mine you can support now!
I am Jeremy Whitley, a queer writer of comics and books from Durham, NC.
Here are books of mine you can support now!
December 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM
It's Christmas shopping time and people are looking for books for kids and teens, so let me do a little station ID and talk about what I do. Quotes and RS appreciated
I am Jeremy Whitley, a queer writer of comics and books from Durham, NC.
Here are books of mine you can support now!
I am Jeremy Whitley, a queer writer of comics and books from Durham, NC.
Here are books of mine you can support now!
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47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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My fav Shakespeare thing is how Henry IV part 2 starts with Majel Barrett Roddenberry saying, "Previously on Henry IV..." and there's a clip reel ending with Hotspur yelling "FIRE EVERYTHING WE'VE GOT."
Then Majel's voice: "And now, the conclusion."
Then Majel's voice: "And now, the conclusion."
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
My fav Shakespeare thing is how Henry IV part 2 starts with Majel Barrett Roddenberry saying, "Previously on Henry IV..." and there's a clip reel ending with Hotspur yelling "FIRE EVERYTHING WE'VE GOT."
Then Majel's voice: "And now, the conclusion."
Then Majel's voice: "And now, the conclusion."
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Please watch this.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Please watch this.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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DM: The orange fascist lurks in his lair, hunched behind his massive desk, revelling in his stolen power. His acolytes hiss at you as you approach. What does your human bard do --
MAMDANI: Active perception check.
DM: ...that's a natural 20
MAMDANI: Let's fucking go. <FLUTE TRILL>
MAMDANI: Active perception check.
DM: ...that's a natural 20
MAMDANI: Let's fucking go. <FLUTE TRILL>
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
DM: The orange fascist lurks in his lair, hunched behind his massive desk, revelling in his stolen power. His acolytes hiss at you as you approach. What does your human bard do --
MAMDANI: Active perception check.
DM: ...that's a natural 20
MAMDANI: Let's fucking go. <FLUTE TRILL>
MAMDANI: Active perception check.
DM: ...that's a natural 20
MAMDANI: Let's fucking go. <FLUTE TRILL>
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November 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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PLEASE tell every author you know about this!
Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.
Predatory Opt-Out Scheme ClaimsHero Targets Anthropic Settlement Participants: What Authors Need to Know - The Authors Guild
In recent weeks, a third-party law firm, ClaimsHero, has launched an aggressive online campaign urging authors to opt out of the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright settlement. ClaimsHero—which has no litiga...
authorsguild.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
PLEASE tell every author you know about this!