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Alice Atkin
@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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November reading 🍸 🚗 🌌 🌱 🥕
A collage of 5 books. Top row, from left to right: 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald; 'The High Cost of Free parking' by Donald Shoup; 'Space Battleship Yamato' by Leiji Matsumoto; 'The Corn King and the Spring Queen' by Naomi Mitchison. Bottom row: 'Vegetable Literacy' by Deborah Madison.
December 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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"Are you done with that table?"
One black squirrel crouching on the seat of a wooden bench while another black squirrel on the concrete ground looks up at them.
December 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Wonder who had to climb up and put the star on? 🌟
A pillar of red lights that tapers towards the top like a tree, with a yellow star at the top. The tree is inside a linear mall with a domed, glass roof.
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Yonge-Dundas Square

2:41pm, 23 November 2025
An intersection full of people and a streetcar, with many large advertisements on the buildings. The sky is mostly clear.
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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The "Look how they massacred my boy" meme from 'The Godfather', with the word "boy" replaced by the word "waterfont".
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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I think the only audiovisual media I've watched/played that's actually set in Vancouver is Mass Effect 3, and it didn't both me that the reapers destroy the city because the art department already did that
A view of downtown Vancouver as it appears in 'Mass Effect'. The only recognizable building from the present is Canada Place. The waterfront with its residences and parks has been replaced with giant industral buildings. A view of downtown from a different angle, with the North Shore Mountains visible in the background.
November 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Some random photos of my cat Kiki, sleeping in different spots
A black and white tuxedo cat sleeping on his back on a carpet. A black and white tuxedo cat curled up in a ball on a grey carpet underneath a desk. A black and white tuxedo cat sleeping on his side on a white blanket placed on the edge of a bed. A black and white tuxedo cat sleeping on his back on a slab of concrete.
November 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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All Quiet at the Reference Library
A book display on a wooden table, with small artistic prints taped to a white wall behind it. All of the books are about WWI.
November 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Morning coffee ☕️
A scone and a coffee cup with a red lid on a smooth metal table in front of a window. Outside the window is a grass park with trees, and many tall, glass buildings.
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Vaughan looking very Vaughan-ish this week
A dozen or so very tall buildings spead out in a line on the horizon, with grassy fields in the foreground. The sky is mostly cloudy.
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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the last 4 movies I watched were all a kind of monster movie (kaiju, mountains, sharks, men who work on Wall Street), and I only really liked one of them. I should try a different plot sometime!
A collage of 4 movie posters. From left to right: 'Godzilla Minus One', 'The Summit of the Gods', 'Deep Blue Sea', and 'American Psycho'.
November 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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different era, same speech
A speech allegedly given by Moctezuma II to his seers during the Spanish conquest, calling them deceivers and tricksters for not foreseeing these events.
November 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Reflections in the rain 🌧
A wet, stone sidewalk reflecting streetlights and traffic lights in red and orange beams. There are tall, glass buildings in the background. The sky is overcast.
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Scenic Vaughan 🏙
A line of tall towers, with power lines and a busy road in the foreground. The sky is partly cloudy.
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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it is just unbelievable how fluffy my cat's tail is
A black cat with a white nose, sleeping in a curled-up position on a blue and white fluffy blanket.
November 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The first three panels of a Kate Beaton comic, titled 'Canadian Stereotype Comics'. A lumberjack reacts angrily to a newspaper headline about Americans being jerks.
November 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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October reads: ⛰️ 👩‍🦳 ⚔️ 🏜️ 🌃
November 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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More fall colours 🏙
Red and green ivy hanging over the edge of a black metal railing on a balcony above a park, with grass and trees. The sky is partly cloudy. A zoomed-in view of the previous photo, showing yellow trees in the foreground and several tall blue-white condos in the distance.
October 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Fall colours 🍂🍁
A grassy area with trees and a concrete path through them. There are wet spots on the concrete from a recent rainfall. The sky is overcast. A terrace of bushes with a brick plaza and a glass wall at the bottom of the terrace. Some of the bushes are green while others have turned yellow or bright red.
October 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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My Mum went all the way to England and back and all she got me was a pair of squirrel socks (plus 12 other things).
An array of souvenirs on a white countertop: cat socks, a flyer, a bookmark, a postcard, squirrel socks, a book about starlings, a book of Yorkshire folklore, a cat-shaped chocolate, a painted glass panel, a Great Wave sticker, and two types of tea.
October 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Lakeside 🌊
A wooden dock with sailboats. There is a line of red trees on the far side of the water. The sky is clear. A row of colourful chairs on a wooden dock overlooking the water. Some red chairs and yellow umbrellas in a concrete plaza, with the CN Tower and condo buildings in the background.
October 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Hello Harbourfront 🏙
Scotiabank Arena with an ad on the big screen outside for Burna Boy, and several tall towers the background. The CN Tower. The skydome / Rogers Centre. The skydome and CN Tower, seen from a distance with a red and white streetcar in front of them.
October 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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it's a good photo! credit to this guy, Thibault Camus
A screenshot of a photograph of police officers and accompanying metadata from the Associated Press website. The photographer's name, Thibault Camus, is highlighted.
October 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Winner of the 'Station names that are fun to say' award
A white sign with black text on a square, metal pole, in front of a concrete platform and railway track. The sign says 'East Gwillimbury'. There is a covered bench with the GO logo painted on the glass, and a field of reeds and trees in the background. The railway track, looking south. The sky is blue with scattered clouds.
October 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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On board Canada's least scenic railway 🛤
Two parallel high-transmission power lines, with grass and bushes beneath them. The sky is cloudy.
October 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM