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.
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”
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I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
Maybe the cops can fire their guns in the air since they're the only thing my hometown seems to fund anymore
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Vancouver's Celebration of Light fireworks festival cancelled indefinitely | CBC News
Organizers of a public fireworks festival, which has brought millions of people to Vancouver's English Bay over the past three decades, says it can’t go ahead without long-term government and private-...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Maybe the cops can fire their guns in the air since they're the only thing my hometown seems to fund anymore
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Wonder who had to climb up and put the star on? 🌟
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Wonder who had to climb up and put the star on? 🌟
Yonge-Dundas Square
2:41pm, 23 November 2025
2:41pm, 23 November 2025
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Yonge-Dundas Square
2:41pm, 23 November 2025
2:41pm, 23 November 2025
# of movies filmed in Vancouver: 1,000,000
# of movies set in Vancouver: 0
# of movies set in Vancouver: 0
A movie that takes place where you're from
November 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
# of movies filmed in Vancouver: 1,000,000
# of movies set in Vancouver: 0
# of movies set in Vancouver: 0
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It’s really hard to defend industry academic collaborations with meta as earnest, if they’re internally burying evidence of harm.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It’s really hard to defend industry academic collaborations with meta as earnest, if they’re internally burying evidence of harm.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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KPOP Demon Hunters is a movie about the importance of effective public health communication in this essay I will...
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
KPOP Demon Hunters is a movie about the importance of effective public health communication in this essay I will...
Some random photos of my cat Kiki, sleeping in different spots
November 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Some random photos of my cat Kiki, sleeping in different spots
All Quiet at the Reference Library
November 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
All Quiet at the Reference Library
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2005 me: I love literary journalism, I love writers who bare their souls
2025 me: Stop stop oh my god please stop
2025 me: Stop stop oh my god please stop
November 18, 2025 at 4:41 AM
2005 me: I love literary journalism, I love writers who bare their souls
2025 me: Stop stop oh my god please stop
2025 me: Stop stop oh my god please stop
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was: