Ann Louise Deslandes
@anndlandes.bsky.social
Journo, writer, consultant in southern 🇲🇽 Feminist interdisciplinary PhD 💜 Clases de inglés✌️Expert witness Mexico asylum cases ✊
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Pinned
How a student’s death in Mexico raises questions about police violence
A 22-year-old’s death has highlighted the tensions between police and student teachers with a tradition of protest.
www.aljazeera.com
My first report for @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social in a while- on the death of Jesús Alaín Vásquez, a student of the Mactumatzá Normal here in Chiapas & the demands of his classmates for justice. www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
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When Anthony van Dyck visited painter Sofonisba Anguissola in 1625, she was (she told him) 96 years old. He says she was still sharp as a tack! He drew her & then made this painting. Today was her day.
November 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
When Anthony van Dyck visited painter Sofonisba Anguissola in 1625, she was (she told him) 96 years old. He says she was still sharp as a tack! He drew her & then made this painting. Today was her day.
Middle age is quite distressing and confronting and then it's wonderful
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Middle age is quite distressing and confronting and then it's wonderful
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We scoured Jeffrey Epstein’s emails and documents. Read what Epstein said about Donald Trump, and his emails with Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Ehud Barak, and Larry Summers.
@premthakker.bsky.social and @micahflee.com bring you all you need to know.
Read:
zeteo.com/p/epstein-26...
@premthakker.bsky.social and @micahflee.com bring you all you need to know.
Read:
zeteo.com/p/epstein-26...
November 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
We scoured Jeffrey Epstein’s emails and documents. Read what Epstein said about Donald Trump, and his emails with Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Ehud Barak, and Larry Summers.
@premthakker.bsky.social and @micahflee.com bring you all you need to know.
Read:
zeteo.com/p/epstein-26...
@premthakker.bsky.social and @micahflee.com bring you all you need to know.
Read:
zeteo.com/p/epstein-26...
Fuckn knackered m8
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Fuckn knackered m8
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In the 1980s, in Tucson, activists and religious leaders joined forces to protect refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border. Their collaboration helped galvanize the Sanctuary Movement, a humanitarian immigrant defense project that pioneered new models of citizen resistance.
From @cetracey.bsky.social:
From @cetracey.bsky.social:
A Theology of Smuggling
In the early 1980s, in Tucson, activists and religious leaders joined forces to protect refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border. Their collaboration galvanized the Sanctuary Movement.
placesjournal.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
In the 1980s, in Tucson, activists and religious leaders joined forces to protect refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border. Their collaboration helped galvanize the Sanctuary Movement, a humanitarian immigrant defense project that pioneered new models of citizen resistance.
From @cetracey.bsky.social:
From @cetracey.bsky.social:
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
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For the Sudanese diaspora, the war brings grief and fury in equal measure. Yassmin Abdel-Magied (@yassmin.bsky.social) reflects on a pain that distance cannot ease.
Full piece 🔗 www.newarab.com/opinion/i-ca...
Full piece 🔗 www.newarab.com/opinion/i-ca...
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
For the Sudanese diaspora, the war brings grief and fury in equal measure. Yassmin Abdel-Magied (@yassmin.bsky.social) reflects on a pain that distance cannot ease.
Full piece 🔗 www.newarab.com/opinion/i-ca...
Full piece 🔗 www.newarab.com/opinion/i-ca...
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Michoacán vuelve al centro de la disputa entre Claudia Sheinbaum, y el expresidente Calderón, que se lanzan sus fracasos para acabar con el mayor lastre de México, la violencia. "¿Quién declara una guerra en su propio país?", responde la presidenta social.elpais.com/kma0l5
Sheinbaum se enzarza con Calderón por la violencia en Michoacán: “¿Quién declara la guerra en su propio país?”
La presidenta vuelve a exhibir los resultados de la estrategia de seguridad tras el fuerte impacto del asesinato de Manzo en el discurso triunfalista del Ejecutivo
social.elpais.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
The Latest Defense Against ICE: 3D-Printed Whistles
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
www.404media.co
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
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Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
Exponential enshittification
On the topic of speech-to-text: Norway's national broadcaster NRK is cutting pay for subtitlers bc they're replacing manual translation w/ machine outputs
Absolutely inevitable trajectory: results that get worse and worse and worse as companies have to exponentially enshittify with worsening slop
Absolutely inevitable trajectory: results that get worse and worse and worse as companies have to exponentially enshittify with worsening slop
NRK kutter i honoraret til tekstere – skal bruke mer KI
NRK skal effektivisere tekstingen ved hjelp av kunstig intelligens (KI). For teksterne betyr det et heftig kutt i honorarene.
www.kampanje.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Exponential enshittification
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Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is
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November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
ebx.sh
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
My god these are sweet gunz
Strength training is political. We have a right-wing which has taken over physical fitness spaces, and hijacked “warrior culture”.
We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want.
Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”
We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want.
Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”
November 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
My god these are sweet gunz
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In an unsigned order on Thursday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to require U.S. passports to list travelers' assigned sex at birth.
Actress and activist Laverne Cox responds to the blatantly anti-trans policy.
Actress and activist Laverne Cox responds to the blatantly anti-trans policy.
November 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
In an unsigned order on Thursday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to require U.S. passports to list travelers' assigned sex at birth.
Actress and activist Laverne Cox responds to the blatantly anti-trans policy.
Actress and activist Laverne Cox responds to the blatantly anti-trans policy.
TOADLETS
Today we described three new toad species that give birth to fully formed toadlets, from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania! 🇹🇿🧪🐸
vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1670...
vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1670...
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
TOADLETS
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great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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I am once more on a long distance bus without headphones AMA
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I am once more on a long distance bus without headphones AMA
Nooo
The FBI has sent a subpoena to a Canadian domain registrar for information on the popular archiving site.
FBI goes after archiving website Archive.is
FBI goes after archiving website Archive.is
www.avclub.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Nooo
Another local governor murdered in Mexico
Un nuevo crimen refleja el aumento de la violencia contra autoridades municipales en México 🇲🇽. En San Juan Cacahuatepec, Oaxaca, asesinan a Guadalupe Urban, regidora del municipio de la costa oaxaqueña. losangelespress.org/mexico-viole...
Regidora de San Juan Cacahuatepec asesinada en Oaxaca
Un nuevo crimen refleja el aumento de la violencia contra autoridades locales ahora en San Juan Cacahuatepec, región de la costa oaxaqueña.
losangelespress.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Another local governor murdered in Mexico
I see you upping Sheinbaum's response to getting groped in public and raise you this occupied pueblo running her army & Guardia Nacional out of town when one of them touched a 12 year old suracapulco.mx/sale-de-toto...
Sale de Totolapan el grupo del Ejército y de la GN tras las protestas de vecinos (+Video) - El Sur Acapulco suracapulco I Noticias Acapulco Guerrero
Tras recibir los militares a la 1 de la mañana de ayer la solicitud para que se retiraran firmada por el Cabildo, que ellos mismos habían pedido, dijeron que se irían más tarde pero el alcalde Arturo ...
suracapulco.mx
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I see you upping Sheinbaum's response to getting groped in public and raise you this occupied pueblo running her army & Guardia Nacional out of town when one of them touched a 12 year old suracapulco.mx/sale-de-toto...
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They were building a tech scene in Gaza. Then came the war
restofworld.org/2025/gaza-sky-geeks-bombing-rebuilding
restofworld.org/2025/gaza-sky-geeks-bombing-rebuilding
November 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
They were building a tech scene in Gaza. Then came the war
restofworld.org/2025/gaza-sky-geeks-bombing-rebuilding
restofworld.org/2025/gaza-sky-geeks-bombing-rebuilding
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
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shitfaced jamaal bowman saying this is so fuckin funny i feel so seen right now
November 6, 2025 at 4:05 AM
shitfaced jamaal bowman saying this is so fuckin funny i feel so seen right now