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Alice Bat-kin 🦇

@westcoastalice.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral Fellow at York University, studying sensorimotor feedback, perception and action, driving, video games, and more. Fond of tea, cats, and stories. She / her.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 16h

It's the academia of sports.

Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 16h

Baseball is mostly about failing more often than not and shaking it off. It’s why it’s the best sport for teaching you how to live

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Alice Bat-kin 🦇 @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 16h

the man on the right has made it his life's mission to capture Lupin the Third

Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 20h

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 20h

getting hyped for the Blue Jays game

torontotoday.ca article screenshot

headline: Fans gather at Toronto horror show for blood, gore and special effects

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 2d

More #autumn beauty in #Vancouver this morning 🍂

#canada #cities #photos #photography 📸

Standing in front of a tiered fountain, without its water running. It’s built into some wide steps that lead down to the coal Harbour Seawall. Straight ahead, it intersects with the bike path and two cyclists are facing the camera. The path is lined by trees, some of the left are yellow with autumn colour. In the background, the tips of sailboats in the marina in Coal Harbour, and more trees in Stanley park beyond that

Along the railing of the Seawall in Coal Harbour right before a right angle and the pedestrian and bike paths turn right. There’s a marina in the water on the right and the orange, yellow, and red leaves from the trees up by the Seawall are reflecting in the harbour. Past the Seawall are green glass condo towers.

Sunny autumn day with a partial view of the north shore mountains surrounded by clouds. Framed by green glass condo towers on the left and right, and bright red leafy tree tops all along the bottom

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 1d

there is one week every october in this city where early fall transitions to vancouver grey for the next five months

and it’s always spectacular

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Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 10d

the defining image of the early 21st century is an agent of the state pointing a gun at a person, and a citizen pointing a smartphone camera back at them

we see this scene reenacted every day, around the world

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 3d

Back when I was young, the question was "will capitalism kill us through its relentless extraction of surplus value from nature-obliterating technology?" Turns out no, it's dumber than that, the capitalists actually want to build solar panels now but that's not ok because it's soy or something.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 1d

cops tackling and marching off with a giant penis, Kristi Noem menacing a chicken she swears is antifa, feds pepper-spraying a frog

ridicule is an extremely effective protest tactic and foil for authoritarianism

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list

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Alice Bat-kin 🦇 @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 1d

Winner of the 'Station names that are fun to say' award

The railway track, looking south. The sky is blue with scattered clouds.

Alice Bat-kin 🦇 @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 1d

The existence of a TV programme called 'The World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys' implies the existence of a TV programme called 'The World's Least Scenic Railway Journeys'. It will also be narrated by Bill Nighy

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Alice Bat-kin 🦇 @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 1d

On board Canada's least scenic railway 🛤

Two parallel high-transmission power lines, with grass and bushes beneath them. The sky is cloudy.

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Alice Bat-kin 🦇 @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think I've ever seen a home run where even the hitter's own teammates are holding their heads in their hands in dismay like they just saw the matrix

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 2d

Shohei Ohtani this is just stupid...

Alice Bat-kin 🦇 @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 2d

Student graffiti wall

I recognize..... *some* of these characters 😅

Alice Bat-kin 🦇 @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 3d

Open fire house 🔥🏠

A very old, red fire truck with one of those old-timey upright brass steering wheels and a raised seat like a sleight. The truck is parked in a driveway with the open door of the firehouse behind it.

A wall covered in fire department patches.

A modern fire truck parked on the street in front of some houses. The ladder is extended and raised high into the air.

Alice Bat-kin 🦇 @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday Farmer's Market, Charlottetown, PEI. Think the whole city must have been here

Crowds of people walking in the middle of the street, with tents and booths set up on either side, and 3-story brick buildings along one sidewalk. The sky is overcast.

Alice Bat-kin 🦇 @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 3d

I sent this to a cousin who goes fishing and he approved of my choice of coffee shop. Receiver Coffee in Charlottetown, PEI

Alice Bat-kin 🦇 @westcoastalice.bsky.social · 3d

Hanging out 🐟

A sculpture of a fish with a bright red mouth hanging from the wooden rafters of a coffee shop.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 6d

I wish everyone could watch a Northern Harrier hunt over a marsh or open field. They fly low, weaving back and forth and sometimes hovering in one spot. Amazing! #birds