Valerie 💎🤘🏻

@valerie-h.com

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Born in the US, exist in Canada. Making stuff for people who can't see. Podcast at moviesfortheblind.com! Tronna, K-pop, c-pop, snooker, other sports, buddhism. Blocking On Vibes.

An emoji with a hand over one eye as it cries and laughs at once.
Blond Wonho turning from a computer screen with a suspicious look.
A red and white banner ad for Heinz Zero features stripes of ketchup streamed onto a dish of spaghetti. Portuguese text reads “0% adiçāo de açúcares, 100% Heinz. Above the Heinz Zero name, “chegou o ketchup”. A small cup of grated orange cheese (I think) sits by the plate.
Drew Magary and Joe Reid both saying BOOOOO but Drew has more O’s.
Today, the Supreme Court issued a decision that will have profound consequences for many Haitian families who have built their lives in the United States under Temporary Protected Status (TPS). For countless members of our community, this news brings uncertainty, fear, and difficult questions about what comes next. Families are worried about their futures, their jobs, their children, and the lives they have worked so hard to build. We know that behind every decision like this are real people—parents, workers, students, neighbors, and community members whose lives may be deeply affected. Many of you may also be feeling disappointed, discouraged, or even heartbroken today. We understand those feelings. It is difficult to watch families who have contributed so much to our communities face renewed uncertainty. But moments like this remind us why the Haitian Support Center exists. When the future feels unclear, people need trusted information. When fear and confusion spread, people need a place where they can find guidance, support, and community. When families feel isolated, they need to know that they are not alone. That is exactly what we will continue to provide, with your support. Tomorrow, our doors will be open. We will continue offering immigration support and referrals, interpretation services, workforce assistance, family support, youth programming, advocacy, and guidance. We will continue helping families understand their options, connect with resources, and navigate the challenges ahead.
Heechul drinking a shot alone on a banquette. Translated captions: Drinking somewhat sadly / Life is sad.
Swan standing with his massive wings open. He stayed behind that post the whole time and I was too lazy to get out of my camp chair.
With the Sugar Beach area in the background, an absolute unit of a swan stands just off the water on one spindly leg with a big webbed foot while cleaning its underside feathers with its beak. The other leg is tucked at a super-weird angle, sticking out from under its massive wing. Early on, that webbed foot is folded up into something like a crypt-keeper’s fingers.
Hi-viz cops on foot Queens Quay/Bathurst.
In Knicks font, “BTW why triangle?"
Henry Lau, wearing black and gray and an asymmetrical haircut obscuring his face, plays violin while dancing during Super Junior’s (OT13, all in black emo) live performance of Don’t Don in September of 2007.
1. Get my tax stuff (🇨🇦 & 🇺🇸) together late bc I suck (fun fact: can get a 🇺🇸 extension to Oct. 15!) 2. Upload stuff to the expat tax specialists who just do US taxes now 3. Ask my 🇨🇦 tax lady who used to work directly for them if she can still access the files & do my return. She immediately says 👍🏻 5. My 🇺🇸 tax lady sez she’ll get back to me in maaaaybe a month. 6. 🇨🇦 tax lady finishes, receiving my eternal thanks bc she rocks 7. Ask 🇺🇸 tax lady if she can get back to me sooner, she sez 🤷🏼‍♀️ 8. Ask Customer Service if I can get a 🇺🇸 tax person who can finish sooner 9. They get back to 🇺🇸 tax lady who sez fiiiiiiine I’ll get it done sooner 10. I wonder if the expat tax specialists actually have other ppl 11. Repeat 1-10 the following year 🏆
XNINE being goofs in front of the dozens of temple dolls in the MV for Face Face.
Hoshi and the donkey on DJ decks in Seventeen’s God of Music video.
In a row on my tl, two accounts asking if that was John Tuturro at the Knicks Finals Game 1 win and Rodger Sherman saying, “Tuturro in the crowd to watch Shamet is an innie/outie situation from Severance"
An edit of Wu Jiacheng performing A Docile Cat (温顺的猫) where he dances around with one hand curled up like a cat’s paw.
The Canadian box of Cap’n Crunch with which features a cartoon sliiiiightly less 3D and manic Cap’n and graphics in French and English, including Captaine Crounche and “C’est crounchifique!” in addition to “It’s Cruncharific!"
The south pedestrian bridge from Stanley Park to Garrison Common/Fort York is closed until 7/31. A security dude in a hardhat sits in a camp chair inside the fence which blocks the way.
FB post by the Raptors: “@champagnepapi FROZE THE CITY 🧊” with pic of two of Drake’s old seats at Scotiabank AI-frozen. After an hour, 289 likes. Inevitable first comment by Joe Balaz: “That’s how long it's been since Drake actually sat there.”
A clip of Russian Roulette by Red Velvet, a music video in a Wes Anderson style which involves girls playing school sports dancing and suggesting they may kill each other.
Judd at 48.15m, Wu Yize 🏆at 17.49m, Si Jiahui at 19.44m, Barry Hawkins at 25.58m and He Guoqiang at 5.65m.
Donghae sips takeout coffee and nods, satisfied.
Part of a collage of different characters played by Karl Urban (in one he has short spiky hair with beard and yells, in another longer hair and beard and wielding a cutlass) with a red colour cast against a black and white pattern; Pop-up alt text reads, “Promotional graphic featuring characters from a media franchise with obscured faces."
After Chewie helps Mingyu and Vernon, Seventeen steps out of the Millennium Falcon to perform Santa Claus is Coming to Town. Bc Disney.
An illustration of snooker World Champions winning each year in the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, starting with John Spencer in 1977. 2026 winner Wu Yize is the largest, in the centre. A black arrow points to John Higgins MBE winning in 2011.
It's my Raptors rally towel from last week with the red weird falling-apart Raptor on it.
Half of Seventeen celebrating a perfect score in karaoke
Yesung going through it for It’s You at Super Show 5.
The shore of Oban in summertime, which old buildings like you’d have in a seaside town and a dock thing with two more modern sheds basically. The ferry docks are past the frame to the right.
Corner view at Scotiabank with score in the 50s in the 3rd.
Part of a Described Video script for Bitten episode 310. 27 54 “...over Elena.” Two thugs enter the safe house. 27 58 Nick faces them, holding one of the bottles. The thugs glance at each other. As one goes forward, the other turns to the stair. (sic) Rachel stands at the top. 28 07 Nick fights the first, swinging but taking a kick. He blocks two punches, but before throwing him down, gets hit at his bad knee. The other thug climbs the stairs, and Rachel raises her curved hand, stopping him. 28 15 Nick swings but gets hit, and thrown down. Rachel focuses, and her thug twitches. 28 22 As she turns her hand, his head turns. 28 25 Nick splashes bleach on his thug's face. Then he slugs him, and punches. 28 30 Rachel keeps her hold on her thug, and twists. (Crack) He falls. Nick looks up the stairs to Rachel, who lowers her hand.
Hoshi With A Flamethrower
Lead photo of WST article “Stars Gather in Sheffield for Green Carpet Celebration.” Xintong with a bit of a quiff, a suit in a heathered light burgundy with gray buttons and a white shirt open to make way for a short patterned orange and white scarf knotted at the neck, which does not 100% match but still HOLY FUCK ICONIC. In 2nd place, far-left in the back row, Chris Wakelin with his bald head covered by a black fisherman-esque cap, along with a long stone wool coat with collar up, over a possible suit jacket in a similar color but not texture, white shirt and icy pink textured tie. In 3rd on the other side of the trophy from Xintong, Kyren Wilson smiles in a stone/sage suit jacket with very narrow lapel, black waistcoat, white shirt and purple check tie with a very tight knot but cool silver tie bar. Young Wu Yize (back row third from right) subtly good but not stand-out in a dark gray suit with a curved lapel, white shirt with a possible collar pin and a navy tie not fully cinched up with vague purple splotches. (Btw no mullet - just spiky and short hair.) Over on the far right of that row is Si Jiahui in a basic tuxedo jacket and white shirt with the top button undone. As for the rest, back row l-r: Xiao Guodong in a brown suit jacket over a white t-shirt; Neil Robertson looking older in navy jacket with tiny lapel white shirt with unbuttoned collar; Shaun Murphy in light sage double-breasted jacket with patterned pocket square over similar shirt as Robbo; Mark Selby with blue suit jacket white shirt and thin black tie with silver bar, Yize, good ol' Mark Williams dgaf with gray puffer vest over black golf shirt I think?, then Jiahui. Front row: Barry Hawkins in black suit/waistcoat over sky blue shirt and tie, John Higgins dgaf in black outdoor jacket over black shirt, Kyren, Xintong, Mark Allen in usual dark blue-gray jacket w/square over waistcoat & open white shirt, Ding Junhui dgaf in black shirt & Gucci belt in matte black.
Insane playlist since 11:32am with Younha’s Winter Flower featuring RM, then the H2H, then a Kyuhyun ballad, Key’s Bad Love, new solo Irene, 4Men, Sojeong, Kai’s Wait on Me, BTOB, a Ningning solo, FT Island’s Rose of Versailles 😵‍💫EXO’s Overdose, txt’s Deja Vu and TWS’ Overdrive. Like wtf.
But even if there aren’t more dogs, the dogs we have certainly seem to be taking up more space. We are living in a moment of rampant lawlessness or, more charitably, renegotiation. “People did not think about taking dogs to restaurants 30 years ago,” recalls W magazine’s Lynn Hirschberg, who is accompanied almost everywhere by a spaniel–Border-collie mix. “It didn’t happen.” Now, dogs are on line at the city’s coffee shops, in carts at Trader Joe’s, seated at the movies. “I definitely take him in every place until I get kicked out,” says Mackenzie Katz, a 32-year-old art handler and dance teacher in Chinatown, of his adopted 45-pound goldendoodle, Clover. “I know it’s a health concern in restaurants, I get it, but it’s the forgiveness-versus-permission thing.” He rarely needs forgiveness. Mostly, people just want to pet the dog. A few hours after we first spoke, Katz texted me a picture of himself and Clover on the Coney Island Wonder Wheel. “Might be pushing the boundaries of negligence,” he wrote. A café owner in her early 40s tells me guiltily about the time she smuggled her terrier into the Dead Rabbit. “I said he was a support animal when he’s clearly not,” she says, but he hates to be alone, and he barks, and … was it so bad? “I understand we live in a giant city and we have to have rules, and that’s what makes society society,” she says. “But I do have a feeling sometimes I’m just gonna make this one not apply to me. It’s not fair or appropriate. But I’m also like, (italics) He’s ten pounds.”
Shohei on the mound with the Dodgers vs the Jays from level 200 at Skydome
The CN Tower from Trinity-Bellwoods Park on a sunny warm day, but with no leaves on the trees.
My kpop/cpop account @/BathubofDonuts at the other place. It’s locked, following 189 and with 119 followers. Banner is Jihoon of WannaOne in the Bathtub of Donuts, looking off angrily with a donut in his mouth. Av is WuJiacheng dressed as a cdrama demon and drinking an iced coffee. Bio: Grownup. Mark Lee won at kpop (trophy emoji). Part of @/squadxnine. Joined August 2018.
A cover of The Langoliers by Stephen King.
Alt-text: Titles: How to Destroy Public Services. A Step by Step Public Guide. A small orange figure pushes the first of a circle of gradually bigger light green dominoes. The first is labelled “Reduce the budget of public service”. Further along, a domino is labelled “Elimination of positions in public services, because the budget has been reduced.” About halfway, “Complain about the decline in quality and efficiency of public services. A large penultimate domino: “Claim that the degradation of public service is proof of government inefficiency and so privatization is needed. The last and largest domino, “Privatize,” is about three times larger than the orange figure and is set to crush it. Not included in the image: that fact that this is what Doug Ford is doing to Ontario and Mark Carney might be starting to do to Canada.
Donghae pretends to play piano then looks through his hand heart.
In eng subs, Woodz: "Because you love so deeply, you see the very end and that shapes how you confront and relate to this person in reality. Using parents as an example, you love them so deeply, you tend to always avoid facing the ultimate limit or end. But once you become aware, the present feels even more precious. I think it's because you love so much that you end up seeing that very limit." IU: "So you've expressed it somewhat paradoxically. Then do you wish human never be extincted?" :-) Woodz: "Of course." :-)
My guy WJC walking with a pleasant grin while blue graphics pop up beside him in Mandarin and English - WU JIACHENG. SINGER.
CB carries a basketball. Lucy asks, “Is that a ball or are you carrying your head under your arm?” CB walks on saying, “Why don't you go throw yourself on the floor, fussbudget?” (Lucy used to be called a “fussbudget”.)
Seventeen celebrating with shock and elation after some of them got 100 on karaoke for a Monsta X song.
Donghae nods, grins slightly and says something
The massive curved outcrop called the Great Orme, with the pier far out into the water, under light blue skies.
From @SenWarren: Donald Trump’s single-handedly starting another war with Iran is dangerous and illegal. ‘America first’ doesn’t mean dragging the United States into another forever war built on lies while ignoring the needs of Americans here at home. The Constitution is clear: only Congress can declare war. The Senate must come back in session immediately to vote up or down on a War Powers Resolution.
Part of the snow-covered forest view from my room, with snow-covered land, trees and bushes. A glass hallway runs behind it.
A supercut of Wu Jiacheng’s “A Docile Cat”, the best song ever.
In Montreal, Iced Americano for vanity.
Heechul waves with a peace sign with the caption “(Here I am!)"
Christie Fudgee-O Double Stuf
From Viles Dorsainvil of the Haitian Support Center in Springfield: I'm writing to invite you to join us for Here We Stand: Faith Leaders for Immigration Justice & Family Unity—a gathering of faith leaders, advocates, and community members committed to standing publicly for the humanity of immigrant families and the importance of keeping families together. When: Monday Feb. 2, 2026, 9:00 am Where: St. John Missionary Baptist Church, 34 W. Pleasant St., Springfield, OH 45506 Additional Details and Registration: (link in post) This event is a chance to come together in solidarity, to listen and reflect, and to affirm that compassion—not fear—will shape our response to this moment. If you able, your presence will send a powerful message to families in our community: you are seen, you are valued, and you are not alone. Thank you for your continued solidarity and care.
A woman in a cozy sweater sits at the end of the back of a Jeep Wagoneer (I think) she has kitted out with small appliances and many cozy things, some of which she has knitted herself. Title; -12C Winter Car Camping with Diesel Heater ❄️ Peaceful Snowy Night in a Cozy… (it trails off there)
Two skeets one after the other: Mina Kimes saying she doesn’t know a single person in her industry who uses generative AI to do good work, and Asian Junkie reporting that the massive kpop company SM is feeding their whole music catalog (and that’s a lot) into AI, “whose involvement will surely stop at an advisory role” 😉
On X from @/SenLouiseLucas: I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1
Hyukjae and Donghae high-five on an old patterned couch. Eng sub for graphics: (Looking excited) (The best acting of the century)
ZL and Chris Yu in white suits with tone-on-tone brocade on a massive stage.
Float called Pancake Breakfast, where a hose runs from a huge bottle of maple syrup to a fire truck, then goes up an attached ladder to a firefighter at the end guiding a big (made of flowers) drop of syrup hovering over said stack with butter on top and (not enough) syrup dripping down the sides. A cut-up stick of butter sits on a plate nearby.