Elyssa Warkentin
@elyssawark.bsky.social
Writer, editor, researcher, reader, queer, Canadian leftie, intersectional feminist, single parent. Elsewhere: doctornerdington. (She/they)
Also picking up their 1000 water glasses.
Parenting teenagers is just walking around the house turning off the lights they’ve left on. Follow me for more life hacks.
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Also picking up their 1000 water glasses.
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Gonna check in on Canada, where politics is more normal... I see there is a convoy headed to Ottawa to avenge a flock of dead ostriches
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Gonna check in on Canada, where politics is more normal... I see there is a convoy headed to Ottawa to avenge a flock of dead ostriches
Update: kiddo has eaten all the eggs so it is now a Vegan Belated 50th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald Victoria Sponge.
Apparently yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald and my kid is disappointed that we didn’t have a cake. So today I’m making a Belated 50th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald Victoria Sponge.
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Update: kiddo has eaten all the eggs so it is now a Vegan Belated 50th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald Victoria Sponge.
Apparently yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald and my kid is disappointed that we didn’t have a cake. So today I’m making a Belated 50th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald Victoria Sponge.
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Apparently yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald and my kid is disappointed that we didn’t have a cake. So today I’m making a Belated 50th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald Victoria Sponge.
It’s been fun to watch.
A good synopsis of the rather explosive week in Canadian politics: "Poilievre takes his budget critiques to the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto. He leaves through a side door, shirking media cameras."
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
How budget week turned into a nightmare for the Conservatives | CBC News
This is not the week Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wanted to have. Instead of taking a victory lap around the bases, the Conservative ends the week dodging reporters and facing questions about ...
www.cbc.ca
November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
It’s been fun to watch.
Women, amirite?
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Women, amirite?
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ben whishaw has never made a horror movie. the community must confront this issue with the utmost urgency.
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
ben whishaw has never made a horror movie. the community must confront this issue with the utmost urgency.
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Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
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i hate that AI has now caused me to question the authenticity of cute animal videos online, which is my primary use of social media. i don't even know if this baby penguin actually wore a beret to go buy a tiny baguette in paris
November 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
i hate that AI has now caused me to question the authenticity of cute animal videos online, which is my primary use of social media. i don't even know if this baby penguin actually wore a beret to go buy a tiny baguette in paris
I favor unreasonably high subsidies to the brain slug planet.
October 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I favor unreasonably high subsidies to the brain slug planet.
Visiting the Paris catacombs in 1996 (with very little contextual information going in) was certainly one of the most bizarre experiences of my life.
"Photographing the Dark: Nadar’s Descent into the Paris Catacombs", @AllisonCMeier on Nadar’s determined efforts (involving Bunsen batteries, mannequins, and a good deal of patience) to document the beauty and terror of this realm of the dead: publicdomainreview.org/essay/p...
October 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Visiting the Paris catacombs in 1996 (with very little contextual information going in) was certainly one of the most bizarre experiences of my life.
On campus this afternoon.
October 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
On campus this afternoon.
Bonkers.
Coin-operated automaton Opium Den,
by John Dennison (1930's)
by John Dennison (1930's)
October 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Bonkers.
Hahahaha
After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle
October 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Hahahaha
“These books are medicinal!” 😂❤️
October 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“These books are medicinal!” 😂❤️
Most effective library display ever??? 😱
October 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Most effective library display ever??? 😱
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If you need any other reasons not to travel to the States, solidarity may be a new one www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Canada issues warning for citizens with gender-neutral passports travelling to U.S. | CBC News
The Canadian government is warning citizens who list "X" as their gender on their passports could have problems entering the U.S.
www.cbc.ca
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
If you need any other reasons not to travel to the States, solidarity may be a new one www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Friends, as you may have seen, Carnation Books is unfortunately shuttering at the end of this month. If you'd like to buy my book, you have until the end of October to pick up a copy! www.amazon.com/Land-So-Wild...
October 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Friends, as you may have seen, Carnation Books is unfortunately shuttering at the end of this month. If you'd like to buy my book, you have until the end of October to pick up a copy! www.amazon.com/Land-So-Wild...
Today!! My reading slot is 11:30-12:15. Winnipeggers, come on down!
September 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Today!! My reading slot is 11:30-12:15. Winnipeggers, come on down!
In this house we don’t respect Charles Dickens due to his misogynist smear campaign against his own wife, and I didn’t even know about this one. So many excellent reasons to not respect Dickens!
in this house we don't respect charles dickens due to his racist smear campaign against dr rae's inuit witness reports
September 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
In this house we don’t respect Charles Dickens due to his misogynist smear campaign against his own wife, and I didn’t even know about this one. So many excellent reasons to not respect Dickens!
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Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.
September 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.
God, what a perfect sentence.
he seemed to hear in his own true heart the measureless sobbing that stole out of the centre of the serenity around
September 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
God, what a perfect sentence.
Fantastic! Love stories like this.
More than 170 years before the first real success in translating Egyptian hieroglyphs, the 17th-century Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher was convinced he had cracked it. He was very wrong. Daniel Stolzenberg explores: publicdomainreview.org/essay/a...
September 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Fantastic! Love stories like this.
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no one has ever deserved an Emmy more than this man
Get to know Severance star Tramell Tillman (aka Mr. Milchick), who just took home the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series at the #Emmys.
"I’m floored. Sometimes I sit and I’m like, 'How did this happen?'" he told Rolling Stone this year.
💼 www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
"I’m floored. Sometimes I sit and I’m like, 'How did this happen?'" he told Rolling Stone this year.
💼 www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
September 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
no one has ever deserved an Emmy more than this man
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So far, 2025 has felt like living inside a Hieronymus Bosch painting
September 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
So far, 2025 has felt like living inside a Hieronymus Bosch painting