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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴

@jacquelinevalencia.ca
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Toronto writer. yoga instructor. social media manager. vespa. tm practioner. cinephile. autism advocate. linktr.ee/jacquelinevalencia

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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 9h
I do yin yoga and somatic practice which is doesn't have the twisty and bendy as much. I used to not have the patience for any sort of yoga, but injuries have made me revisit and I'm glad I did. :-)
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 9h
Looking forward to a few yoga based things this week. Attending a workshop by Chef Richard LaMarita on veggie cooking. He's big on Ayurveda which I know little about, but curious. Also, I'll be leading my first yoga session for a disabled class which is frankly my aim (disabled & the elderly).
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10h
Holy shit.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 16h
Sam Altman, who co-founded OpenAI and is it's current CEO, has been accused of long-term sexual assault by his sister Ann This is the first hour of her deposition www.youtube.com/watch?v=akjr...
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First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB
YouTube video by Annie Altman
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 16h
I miss the days where we'd line up in the back of a furniture section in a department store ticketmaster kiosk to get tickets.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 16h
Managed to take myself out last night. Twas grand.
Elevator mirror selfie
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's the smile that makes it art
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 04/10/2026
exactly this. During my time in radio, I was able to breast feed while djing. It was great.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 04/10/2026
Frequent on my workout and commute playlist.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 03/10/2026
Thank you! Kidd Video! I love these glasses.
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Jo @whatsjo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
me: Hey, I can’t sleep. Do you think it’s because of stress? hand puppet: *rolls over on my pillow to look at me* you have had a lot on your plate recently.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 03/10/2026
Proof of life.
Me lying down selfie.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 02/10/2026
Thanks, B. ❤️
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𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 ♥ @ohfaith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And I’m not mad about it.
White text on a black background, text reads:

My interior design aesthetic is called "every Saturday I go to garage sales, and now my home looks like a cozy cat cafe/thrift store."
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 02/10/2026
You'd think I'd played football with the amount of injuries I've had. Decades of marathon running and to be fair, my body wasn't made for running, as much as I loved it to the point of mega-maras. Rowing and yoga has been a balm. And yet....ACL tear from tripping over a vacuum chord. Lol, ME.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 02/10/2026
ACL tear update: Knee most likely won't be drained until next week. Which puts my bunion surgery off maybe, but dunno. Life goes on tho! Keeping on.
My legs and dogs on a hill.Kiddo looks at the camera with authority cuz yes she is BOSS.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 02/10/2026
I have a couple of books on the community, but if you'd like a peek inside the apartments, there's a cool insta www.instagram.com/barbicandolls/
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 02/10/2026
Oh a hell of a lot better. They have artists communities, recreational centres (skate nights to tour the grounds)....it's all around one of the most beautiful places to visit.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 02/10/2026
Harbour Square in Toronto reminds me of the Barbican Centre in London, England (which also houses Riman ruins), in its brutalism and greenery around it. The Barbican continues to fascinate me as I read about the many things I didn't get to see while in there.
Harbour Square, looking at it from a streetcar. The parking levels ate topped by trees and the condo units above.The Barbican Centre, the conservatory surrounded by housing units.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 01/10/2026
Put INCEPTION on in the background while I work. It's influenced a lot of my writing too. The soundtrack truly is an integral character in that film.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 01/10/2026
Lol I love that Gong has become tradition.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 01/10/2026
Looking forward to this. I especially love that she's written it with a constraint of sorts.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 01/10/2026
💅
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 30/09/2026
I remember watching him as a regular guest on SOLID GOLD.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 30/09/2026
And of course...
Chambers Street station, NYC
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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Once again thinking about Caravaggio (yes, the painter) and his inscribed sword that he would use in gang fights against rival art groups. "Without hope, without fear," holy shit, dude.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 30/09/2026
Doesn't matter where life takes me, I'll always be a transport nerd taking pics of a city in motion.
Tram in Amsterdam.London Underground. Piccadilly Circus.Anatole France station in the Paris Metro.Union Station, Toronto.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 29/09/2026
Very well.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 29/09/2026
*HISSSSSS* - me, when anyone comments on how big my font is on my screen.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 29/09/2026
Look. I'm born in Canada, but my Colombian parents made sure I was Colombian first. I will order your fancy bone marrow and make sure to use whatever knives and my teeth to get to the all the marrow and gristle. I am chaos
Bone with marrow already eaten on a dining table. A butter knife is spent.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 29/09/2026
Despite an ACL tear (still waiting for a call to get my knee drained), still doing ttc commutes. Nothing opens your eyes wider at how inaccessible Toronto is when you are disabled. So does motherhood with a stroller or having an autistic kid with sensory issues. But the physical aspect is hard.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 29/09/2026
It first happened to me when I was 8. I could list for you the amount of times after, but just ask any woman. We have our lists.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 29/09/2026
24 years ago, my amazing daughter A came into my life. Happy birthday, my love.
2002 photo of me carrying my daughterKiddo now doing karaokeBirthday cake lovingly made by her aunt.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Promising Young Woman" was much maligned when it came out but judging by how many people are shocked by the Cornell 7 story, I think some of y'all should settle in and watch it.
static.klipy.com
carey mulligan blush smiling
Alt: carey mulligan blush smiling
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 28/09/2026
And Geddy Lee.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 28/09/2026
It's my old library! There are three linden trees nearby I miss. That area rarely changes.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 28/09/2026
Voter cards have arrived. I am so ready. #Toronto
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 28/09/2026
A graffiti'd wall with the words, "can't we just fuck and listen to joy division?" There is barbed wire above the wall.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 28/09/2026
Sorry, I am in between 3 appointments today before I pick up kiddo, and I found this passage interesting after my Europe trip, cuz it's always in the back of my brain when I'm back home in Toronto.

My Hometown  
We travel great distances to gawk at the ruins of once-great civ  ilizations, but where are the contemporary ruins? Where in our  world are the ruins in progress? Where are the once-great cities  that are now gradually being abandoned and are slowly crum-  bling, leaving hints of what people from the future will dig up  and find a thousand years from now?  
I am on a train passing through Baltimore, where I grew up.  I can see vacant lots, charred remains of burned buildings sur-  rounded by rubbish, billboards advertising churches, and other  billboards for DNA testing of children's paternity. Johns Hop-  kins Hospital looms out of the squalor. The hospital is on an  isolated island situated slightly east of downtown. The down-  town area is separated from the hospital complex by a sea of
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 28/09/2026
I have my vespa, which I escape in on occasion, but I'm mainly a walker, cyclist, or bus/train commuter. Amsterdam definitely solidified that in me.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 28/09/2026
David Byrne's Bicycle Diaries during my kiddo commute. His perceptions of cities are incredibly inciteful. Relate to his love of exploration by feeling lived in a city through its transport and accessibility. I love this book. I am very much anti-car, at least as in they chop up cities.
David Byrne's Bicycle Diaries in my hand on a subway platform..
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 28/09/2026
My artscape building's community has had its garden certified as a wildlife-friendly habitat by the Canadian Wildlife Federation. I'm campaigning to keep some bees for honey next year. Excited!
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 27/09/2026
When you miss Amsterdam, you bring it to you.
Stroop Club stroopwafels, Wild seasoned tinned herring, gherkins, and leerdammer cheese (couldn't find the one with olives in it), on a patio table.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 27/09/2026
Amy watching the day wake up. #LakeOntario #Toronto #TOPhoto
A jindo looks at the lake and horizon
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 27/09/2026
Autumn is the best time to go to Cherry Beach. Less people, but the ice cream and fry trucks still make an appearance.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 27/09/2026
I remember someone saying "if everyone is special, then no one is." Yes, we're all special. Nothing humbles you more than dog or a cat.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 27/09/2026
Docs won't replace my knees until I'm 65 or 70 (the replacements last 20 years before going through it again, so I get it). It's management and strength training until then. Just wish there were better ways of dealing with osteoarthritis/arthritis in general. Every day pain shouldn't be a default.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 27/09/2026
While going through security on my flights my hands were swabbed, knee braces analyzed. Was it the color of my skin? My look? I soon realized the pin in my knee (not my piercings tho) set everything off. It's funny cuz I'm doing stuff with another ACL tear atm & can I get robot knees already now?
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 27/09/2026
Saw Jonathan Glazer's BIRTH. Geez well that broke my heart and it's still haunting me. On to the Harvest Moon ritual. Happy Fall everyone. I need to lie down.
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 26/09/2026
Tim Curry's origin story.
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