Alex Koppel

Alex Koppel

@arsduo.bsky.social

book reader, software engineer @ Triumph, @awesomefoundgta.bsky.social organizer and @awesomefoundation.org board, ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ, he/him.

1,735 Followers 2,174 Following 3,114 Posts Joined May 2023
6 hours ago

makes me very happy and delighted to hear! Can't wait to start on it properly.

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6 hours ago

I am trying very hard to be good and not start it at 1:30 AM ๐Ÿ˜… but I am _so_ excited. I hope it's been as good to you as the first season!

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7 hours ago

ah fuck the live action One Piece season 2 just came out

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11 hours ago
A slide for a show called The Sticky, with Margo Martindale pouring maple syrup on pancakes

!!! There's a Prime series about the maple syrup heist starring character actress Margo Martindale ๐Ÿ‘€

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11 hours ago
A talk with a slide of an illustration of people loading barrels onto a truck

The thieves apparently stole over 9000 barrels of syrup from the cartel worth over _$18 million_, the largest theft in Canadian history ๐Ÿ’ธ

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11 hours ago
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Absolutely love that the quebecoise cartel controlling maple syrup production is called the Producteurs et productrices acรฉricoles du Quรฉbec (literally the "Producers and Productresses of maple syrup of Quebec).

Gendered languages!

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12 hours ago
Lauren, one of the Nerd Nite organizers, presenting the history of Nerd Nite A presenter talking about "Creature Comforts: Food Science for the Common Good" A presentation on the Great Maple Syrup Heist Pie on a table

Hello Nerd Nite Toronto! Very excited for Pi(e) Day and a new set of funny nerdy unexpected talks on baking and the Great Maple Syrup Heist ๐Ÿ

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13 hours ago

Led to a good discussion about identity and name and whether that we'd find that distressing (as happened to the guy in the bar) or playful and free. I've always thought the latter and for her my friend felt the opposite; talking through that was unexpectedly clarifying!

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13 hours ago

A while back I read an article about a performance troop that went into a bar, picked a random guy, and all acted like they knew him by a different name and life. Can't find it, thoughโ€”does anyone know it?

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15 hours ago
A drawn image of a deer lying on the ground holding a wine glass, with two big nipples and hearts around their head. The deer is wearing stockings and holding a glass of wine..

My friend Steph has an art station at a daytime rave today and for the prompt "sexy deer" she drew this for me ๐Ÿ’–

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19 hours ago

Unfortunately I read The Night Circus as an e-book way back in the day, so I don't have an actual record of how I felt or what I made of the ending as I read it.

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19 hours ago

All of the sudden I found myself revisiting the end of Erin Morgenstern's great book The Night Circus and how its ending can speak to trying to be part of the whole world vs making your space in a community. Made for a surprising and vaguely profound shower today ๐Ÿ˜…

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19 hours ago

Live demos *do* work, you just have to record them ahead of time and narrate as it plays ๐Ÿ˜‰

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19 hours ago

The best part is when he busts out a completely new opinion you've never heard before

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19 hours ago

He likes a stable surface, I guess! Probably gotta train them young to enjoy something like a bath tupperware.

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1 day ago
Photo from inside a bathtub, the bath tray holding headphones and a book and a rubber ducky off in the distance

I am: having it with bath time

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1 day ago
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Cat is: not having it with bath time

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1 day ago

One valuable things senior engineers can model: it's ok for live demos not to work. It happens! It's ok! It's nothing for people to get stressed or feel bad about.

(Speaking entirely from personal and very recent experience ๐Ÿ˜…)

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1 day ago
An old school yellow car marked as a New York taxi An old school New York police car An old school car

Looks like Toronto is standing in for old-timey New York again

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1 day ago

Yeah! For me it wasn't even confusing, it was something I was both so aware of and simultaneously didn't have enough conscious awareness of to know I didn't have words for it.

Wild to think back to!

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1 day ago
A Signal message:

This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the cheese croissant
that was in
the kitchen

and which
you were probably
saving
for a treat

Forgive me
it was delicious
so cheese
and so crisp

Good morning Toronto

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1 day ago

This looks incredibleโ€”an anthology of Muslim stories of aspirational futures being made as both prose and comics. Just backed it!

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1 day ago

Two hours later he was mad at me for being awake but not with him ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ insatiable

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2 days ago

I did indeed save quite a bunch! it's more that I'm running out of bookshelf space ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

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2 days ago

Proposal to add a flag to atproto to indicate "yes I saw my typo and it's fine"

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2 days ago

Me too! I never even saw the film, my deeply formative yet opaque feelings were entirely based on the commercials ๐Ÿ˜…

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2 days ago

Just aaw that Michael Jackson music video from Free Willy and oh right, I had such a crush on that kid when I was young (a crush I absolutely did not understand)

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2 days ago
My hand holding a copy of Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky and volumes 10 and 11 of Invincible

every damn time @bmvbooksannex.bsky.social

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2 days ago

Who let Edmund Burke write a musical

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2 days ago

I'm only a few pages in but I'm hooked! Can't wait to see more of this spooky world and its mysteries ๐Ÿฆด

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