@lizajae.bsky.social

@lizajae.bsky.social

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Risky & Chaotic She/her Former Minneapolitan knocking around Toronto

A plate of vinegar chicken wings from Slow Jams at Electric Bill in Toronto, fried wings with bits of fried garlic and chopped scallion scattered on top.
A bowl of a deep tan creme brulee with the burnt sugar top, some berries, a dab of like mascapone foam or something, hojicha caramel corn, and a little microgreen garnish.
A large, leggy green bug next to a chomped out hole on a big leaf. The bug is almost exactly the same color as the leaf.
A store display of vlasic pickle balls. They are very green.
Blossom flavor bingsu, Korean shave ice with pink grapefruit, peaches, whipped cream on top.
The Toronto Younge skyline from the west, with heavy wildfire smoke obscuring the sky. The sun is rising but shows s a dull glow.
A fossil of a huge mollusk shell on display, probably over 3 feet high.
A Caucasian woman with faded blue hair, chunky glasses, and a mask standing in front of an exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, lined up so a spiky set of antlers look like they're coming out of her head. The perspective makes them look more like a giant hair ornament than actual weapons, unfortunately.
Tumblr post from doubleca5t: All these tourists having a great time at the World Cup isn't surprising b/c the first rule of America is that this place rules if you have money to blow and it's a nightmare if you don't. The prohibitively high cost of attending the World Cup filtered out all the people who don't have money so all the people who actually made it to the US are basically guaranteed to have fun.
A sticker on the inside of a vehicle window saying "Look before opening door" with the Os of "Look" representing the wheels of a bicycle.
The screenshot from the OP with the full alt text expanded.
A street conspiracy pamphlet titled what is really behind artificial intelligence that I accepted from a guy with a big "The truth about AI" sign above his head.
A woman's hand holding a mango slushy with chamomile swirls in front of a street scene.
A giant spider sculpture in front of the National Gallery of Canada with a woman sprawled on the ground underneath.
A long, low, tourist raft on the Rideau canal in Ottawa. The sides are open with glass rails, and there is a cockpit on both ends so it can be steered from either end. There are green panels that tout it is 100% electric, and a red cable not really visible pulled across the deck to plug in to an outlet near the edge.
A round white vent in a wood floor with clothing hanging visible beside it.
A kitchen counter with two mesh pop-up food covers on a fruit plate and over a large footed glass bowl, plus clutter.
Screenshot of my response in a conversation saying "the strength training definitely paid off today" and a bot responding to that "Progress in strength training often translates to other areas of fitness, what specific activity or task did find yourself handling better today as a result of your training?"
Two large cardboard boxes sitting in my dining room, definitely not delivered to where they're supposed to go and the packaging removed. We're talking over 4 foot by 3 foot by 18 inches here.
A very overloaded small dishrack on a kitchen counter with a frankly foolish tower of clean dishes on it. And yet satisfying!
A woman's arm next to a saj wrap that is pretty fucking close to the same size.
A sushi roll with different fish on top of each piece.
A sheet of paper colored to look like my dining room wall with little cut out scale representations of art.
Snip of my weather app saying storms ending around 1:45 pm in downtown Toronto.
Maria with a guitar on a hillside in The Sound of Music.
Donation receipt to Bear Cat Rescue
A spiky blue pinata with streamers that says "Congrats GRAD!" in the middle, hanging from the back of a kitchen chair with empty candy bags on the floor.
Small sign under an office microwave with some very reasonable rules ending "do not be stupid."
Yellow and black sign reading SHELTER on a white painted block wall.
Screenshot of Tumblr post: romanceyourdemons Reblogged romanceyourdemons we need fewer songs about falling in love and breaking up and MORE songs about famous disasters of the sea romanceyourdemons being told you'd cruise the seas for american gold you'd fire no guns, shed no tears, now you're a broken man on a halifax pier might not be a universal experience, but like neither is the club. so a little perspective might be nice #ryddles
Screenshot of a Tumblr post: agnesmontague ive invented (note: dubious claim) something i call the bear diet which is mostly fruits and vegetables with fish as the main protein source and something like once a month you eat a few hyperprocessed foods of your liking because that is when you, the bear, raid a dumpster in the suburbs stellarskyes after the hyperprocessed foods, do you take tranquilizers to simulate getting captured by animal control and returned to the wild? agnesmontague i would settle for melatonin gummies but well. knock yourself out
Black 3D printed dragon with butterfly wings sitting on a woman's hand.
A yellow 3D printed dragon with wings that look like sunflowers, with hand painted details.
Iridescent purply rainbow 3D printed dragon looking at you.
A field with a minivan and an SUV parked in the foreground, obviously setting up tents for a flea market. In the next row visible between them is an all black cybertruck. I haven't wandered over to see what they're selling yet.
Clear plastic candy mold of Santa's head, probably 8" high.
Shape/character cake pans laid out on a table. There is a rocket ship, Christmas tree, cookie monster, car, carebear, R2D2, teddy bear, cross, train. This is about half of the pans.
Vertigraised statue of a person in a uniform or old fashioned work outfit building a stepped block pyramid. They are holding a trowel in one hand with a glob of mortor on it, and leaning forward with one foot up on the lowest tier to butter the active tier. There are two blocks on the ground in front, waiting to be placed. It's very clever. On College in Toronto, apparently in front of the police headquarters now that I look so maybe this is some terrible symbolism about the police building civilization and I'm sorry I checked. ACAB.
A Porto Tonico cocktail at Flor 2 tapas bar in Toronto. It's a pale yellow drink with a large dehydrated orange wheel and several juniper berries floating in it. The bar is glowing in the background.
Screenshot of a Toronto Hydro power outage map showing an outage in the Little Italy neighborhood affecting 2669 customers starting at 6:21 PM today and estimated restoration at 3:21 AM tomorrow.
;) as a waffle house sign.
A slice of zucchini herb frittata on a plate with sour cream and a lemon slice.
A flipped frittata in a pan on a cooktop. It's nicely browned in places and only slightly coming apart.
A frittata, of sorts, in a pan on a cooktop. (Induction!) It mostly looks like a large disc of shredded vegetables and herbs with no where near enough egg binding them together that is going to crumble in a mess when I put a platter over the top in 17 minutes and try to flip it over and slide it back in. In a delicious but non-sexy way, thank you very much. It at least smells pretty good.
A hand holds a 6" round glass Anchor Hocking food storage container with a plastic lid in front of a deep teal wall.
A porcelain travel coffee tumble made in the shape of the ubiquitous white paper to go cup for hot beverages. There's a jagged break line near the top where it broke and was glued back together then the break lined with gold leaf, because I happened to have some from a project 15 years ago and am a dork. In the background is a flyer I used as a work surface and a paintbrush to brush the extra leaf off. There's a scattering of leaf on the flyer.
A huge spider sculpture over a picnic area at Meow Wolf Santa Fe. A woman lies sprawled on the ground beneath it, as if she (I) was about to be eaten by the spider.
A largish black and brown dog practically dissolving into the pavement at the feet of several Toronto Jane's Walk participants. They were definitely not down with all the talkie stops interrupting walkies.
A sheet pan with 6 large, wedge shaped scones straight out of the oven, beautifully crispy at the edges and oozing a little butter. I am too lazy to roll and cut circles.
A bearded man standing on a picnic table in Grange Park, Toronto, with the back of the AGO behind him. A modern blue building rises above a brick mansion from the early 1800s. He's talking to a group of people, and a Jane's Walk sign sticks out of a backpack in the foreground. The mansion was built in front of a meadow when the city was initially parceled, meaning we are standing somewhere that has never been built on after colonization.
Mini egg latte, a plastic ice coffee cup with chocolate drizzled down the insides, cold foam on top, and crushed mini chocolate eggs on top sitting on a wooden cafe table on a city sidewalk in the sun.
A white woman's hand holding a folded flatbread sandwich with arugula showing. Deliciousness not showing. Crossed legs in denim and a city sidewalk are in the background.
Image of an Indian stamp featuring a man sitting at a floor desk writing and the text "Panini (600-500 BCE) wrote a grammar of 3,959 rules for Sanskrit, and is said to have been killed by a lion. He is the only linguist I know of who has been killed by a lion. And the only linguist I know if who has been put on a postage stamp."
A gold tone sculpture of a wolf head wearing catseye glasses with a long glasses chain hanging on a brick wall painted black. There's the corner of a gold frame visible at the bottom.
A ship window display with colorful plates, puzzles, books, and a small dog snoozing.
Hummus with roasted and pickled eggplant on top in a matte black bowl, olive oil dripping down to pool around the bottom.
Steve Martin in a dark laboratory with a brain in a jar in front of him, throwing out his hands and laughing.
A white woman's left hand on the edge of a desk, wearing 3 rings. A very large rectangular amber and a chonky round rose cut ruby in silver are from the Peculiarity Shop's recent resale silver live sales on Bluesky. A rose cut black diamond in gold on her ring finger is not.
A painting on a bar wall of a very serious cat dressed as a samurai. He will fuck you up.