Alice Atkin
@westcoastalice.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow at York University, studying sensorimotor feedback, perception and action, driving, video games, and more. Fond of tea, cats, and stories. She / her.
I love Toronto because every season we seem to invent new forms of hideous weather previously unconceived by man
Today it's "freezing drizzle"
Today it's "freezing drizzle"
December 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I love Toronto because every season we seem to invent new forms of hideous weather previously unconceived by man
Today it's "freezing drizzle"
Today it's "freezing drizzle"
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Glad I saved this by @longwall26.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Glad I saved this by @longwall26.bsky.social
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
The 4 traditional symbols of winter, brought to you by the Manulife Centre: reindeer, snowflakes, forest nymphs, and France
December 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The 4 traditional symbols of winter, brought to you by the Manulife Centre: reindeer, snowflakes, forest nymphs, and France
A song called 'Spaghetti No. 5' and it's a list of all the pastas I've eaten
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
A song called 'Spaghetti No. 5' and it's a list of all the pastas I've eaten
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Reading old court transcripts and, I mean, whomst
December 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Reading old court transcripts and, I mean, whomst
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Rats gnawing on the necrotic tissue of a dying empire
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Rats gnawing on the necrotic tissue of a dying empire
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people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think
December 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think
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The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.
December 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.
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People complain about the short days in December, but the sunrises are so often spectacular this time of year.
December 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
People complain about the short days in December, but the sunrises are so often spectacular this time of year.
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This FIFA peace prize is such a crock of shit. Good lord. It’s beyond satire
December 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This FIFA peace prize is such a crock of shit. Good lord. It’s beyond satire
November reading 🍸 🚗 🌌 🌱 🥕
December 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
November reading 🍸 🚗 🌌 🌱 🥕
"Are you done with that table?"
December 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"Are you done with that table?"
best part of needing sage for a dish is that you can use the leftover sage to make sage tea 🍵
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 AM
best part of needing sage for a dish is that you can use the leftover sage to make sage tea 🍵
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my daughter announced, with great confidence, that the lit menorah in the city plaza was for people who celebrate harmonica
November 29, 2025 at 1:04 AM
my daughter announced, with great confidence, that the lit menorah in the city plaza was for people who celebrate harmonica
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Old Polish joke; two old friends meet for the first time in a while and stop to chat. "How's your year been?" asks the first. The second one shrugs. "Oh, you know" he says, "about average. Worse than last year, better than the next."
2025 actually did suck. i know we've all said this about a lot of previous years but this one was quite bad actually
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Old Polish joke; two old friends meet for the first time in a while and stop to chat. "How's your year been?" asks the first. The second one shrugs. "Oh, you know" he says, "about average. Worse than last year, better than the next."
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At first you're like, why does this have a wiki page
Then you find out it might be the best wiki page ever
Then you find out it might be the best wiki page ever
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
At first you're like, why does this have a wiki page
Then you find out it might be the best wiki page ever
Then you find out it might be the best wiki page ever
Today's dinner was a lazy version of a Deborah Madison recipe:
- heat oil
- add 1 can chickpeas, 2 cloves garlic (chopped), 2 tbsp. sage, pinch of red pepper flakes
- cook until hot
- mash some of the chickpeas
- sprinkle with S+P
- mix with cooked grain of choice (rice, lentils, quinoa, etc.)
- heat oil
- add 1 can chickpeas, 2 cloves garlic (chopped), 2 tbsp. sage, pinch of red pepper flakes
- cook until hot
- mash some of the chickpeas
- sprinkle with S+P
- mix with cooked grain of choice (rice, lentils, quinoa, etc.)
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Today's dinner was a lazy version of a Deborah Madison recipe:
- heat oil
- add 1 can chickpeas, 2 cloves garlic (chopped), 2 tbsp. sage, pinch of red pepper flakes
- cook until hot
- mash some of the chickpeas
- sprinkle with S+P
- mix with cooked grain of choice (rice, lentils, quinoa, etc.)
- heat oil
- add 1 can chickpeas, 2 cloves garlic (chopped), 2 tbsp. sage, pinch of red pepper flakes
- cook until hot
- mash some of the chickpeas
- sprinkle with S+P
- mix with cooked grain of choice (rice, lentils, quinoa, etc.)
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
You can be as terrified or nonplussed or unperturbed as you like; the sun will still rise tomorrow & the rent will still be due on the 31st. The world has no romantic narratives for its fate except those we invent, because the world does not die. That is our privilege.
I said it elsewhere, but it’s weirdly exhilarating and addictive to be terrified all the time, and the people addicted to it, when they say this, may as well be saying “I can stop at any time, it’s just the world doing this *to* me.”
December 31, 2023 at 3:23 AM
One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
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Born on this day in 1819, George Eliot. Here's my favourite bit from the greatest English novel - Eliot's concluding paean to Middlemarch's heroine, Dorothea (who, among other things worked to improve the housing of the local agricultural labourers). Here's to all the Dorotheas, past and present.
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Born on this day in 1819, George Eliot. Here's my favourite bit from the greatest English novel - Eliot's concluding paean to Middlemarch's heroine, Dorothea (who, among other things worked to improve the housing of the local agricultural labourers). Here's to all the Dorotheas, past and present.
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Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
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One thing I really like about the Toronto subway is the pride it takes in shaping the city. They have all these ads that go “here’s a cool thing you can do in Toronto, and how to get there via transit”
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
One thing I really like about the Toronto subway is the pride it takes in shaping the city. They have all these ads that go “here’s a cool thing you can do in Toronto, and how to get there via transit”