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Tori Niki

@alsotori.bsky.social
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Ask me about inclusive literacy instruction, my native plant garden, reading/writing spec lit, or being a neurodivergent parent 💜💛🤍🖤 app.thestorygraph.com/profile/tnm94

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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I see this idea all the time that gentle/responsive/reflective #parenting is giving a kid whatever they want or having an hour long emotional deep dive into every tantrum. That may be what you've seen modeled, but it isn't what most people are advocating for
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The 2.5 to is very successfully eating a banana from the peel using a spoon. This is the most they've voluntarily used a utensil in weeks
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
My darlings don't get killed, just put on ice. Annnd occasionally dissected and Frankensteined back together with some other darlings 💜
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Being home this summer has given me the opportunity to see that at any given moment of the day there is at least 1 or 2 butterflies in my garden. It's a small thing, but I'm very proud of it~
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 17/07/2025
The Murderbot cast plays Bitter/Sweet www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqH4...
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Murderbot — The Cast Plays Bitter/Sweet | Apple TV+
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Loyalty Bookstores @loyaltybooks.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Listen, I think if it is gonna storm every afternoon for some random amount of time it should count as automatic reading breaks. We all just stop, drop, and read. No email, no real life, just book. Seems entirely reasonable to me.
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It's The Big Iron, Charlie Brown @big-iron.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Sometimes I think about Wikipedia, and what they're trying to do, and what they could be, and compare their budget with the funding for LLM slop machines, and it drives me a little insane. We tried to build a library of Alexandria that would not burn, then tried a library of babel for profit.
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
How long do y'all typically give a book before DNFing it? 2 chapters into my current read and I really like the concepts of my current read, but the actual writing style is not my taste at all 💙📚🪐
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Great essay! As an autistic person, Murderbot was the first time I saw parts of my self reflected so clearly in media. It's desire for connection is markedly different from the "norm" but never dismissed by the narrative. The series was an important tool in my unmasking journey #audhd 🪐📚💙
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I've been in awe over the trust my toddler has in their own body, the fearless way they jump & climb & test their physical limits, and I realized that I don't think I've EVER had that kind of relationship with my own body.
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Grumpy-TG @grumpy-tg.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
This is your sign to kill your lawn and plant native wildflower seeds!
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
$1500 to the "Fungi in SFF" stretch goal!
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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 10/07/2025
HURRAH!
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I have iguanas in my compost pumpkin 🙃 One of my least favorite invasive species
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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 10/07/2025
@edidin.bsky.social: do you want to play in the bath for a few more minutes, or are you ready to get out? The toddler: I’m ready [dramatic pause] To stay in.
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The mushrooms that inspired this turned out to be a red herring, which is fine, but now I'm craving stories about fungal felonies 📚🪐💙 🩸📚
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Zandra.Bluesky 420buddy @zandra-b.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
A wildlife photographer joked that his wife managed to capture an extraordinary photo that outdid him: a European eagle owl, one of the world's largest, perched on his camera lens.
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I've been afraid to fully accept that it's happening, but now that I'm registered for classes & signing a service obligation, I guess it's pretty set in stone I start classes in the fall! Tuition fully covered by a grant! I'm so excited 😭❤️😭❤️
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
As I learn about & reflect on the theory of monotropism, the more I wonder: is the reason I can't engage with reading & writing like I did as a kid is because I've fundamentally changed? Or is it that life has ripped me from a flow state so often that I now hesitate to fully engage? #audhd #writing
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I feel like in 2018 the general public learned the word "mycelium" and horror writers have been running with it ever since. No complaints! I am thriving in Mushrooms' Villain Era 🪐📚
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Being a toddler parent kicked my butt this weekend, but this morning my 2.5yo "put on my sunscreen" (gently rubbed their clammy hands on my cheek and arms) It humbles me how the love and care they show the world so closely mirrors the love and care shown to them and keeps me doing my best
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
First go at cutting my own hair. Feel pretty good about it, and I have plenty of time before school starts to fix it if I want 😅
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Hey hey! New #Murderbot! Gugu gets sneaky, Seccy gets sulky, and Ratthi gets even more adorkable. reactormag.com/tv-review-mu...
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Murderbot's Privacy Is Invaded in "Foreign Object" - Reactor
Thankfully, there's more Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon to offer us solace.
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
My first impression of the #Murderbot show was it wasn't how I'd have adapted it but I was willing to give it a chance. After this week's episode I'm SO glad I did. An amazing adaptation of my favorite book series ❤️
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
*impulsively decides to cut own hair* *spends thirty minutes researching how to use a styling razor* *puts all the supplies into Instacart so it's there when I get paid next week* Wait I think I'm doing this wrong #audhd
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Idk what it says about my parenting, but my toddler is begining to really respect "I'm feeling grumpy, I need space so I can eat something." I feel like we're only a little bit away from them straight up telling me to have a snack 😅 #parenting
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The only way I'm surviving a toddler that is spoken to positively pretty much 24/7 is to accept that, yeah, I AM doing a great job wiping the table. I DESERVE to be applauded #parenting
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
My officemate tells me today, "I know it's so weird but I LOVE watching prison documentaries!" Ma'am I am currently absolutely consumed (pun intended) by a zombie-like novel about sentient tape worms. This is a safe place 😅❤️ 💙📚🪐
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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Time for some Streisand effect
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Just spent my planning with a coteacher in crisis mode over how poorly students scored on a quiz today, just to realize it's Valentine's Day and they're all running on nothing but cookies and hormones Going to do a make up on Monday lol #EduSky
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I really need to remember to better vet horror written by men 😅 First 2 star book of the year 🪐📚💙
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Kind of sucks living through a time period that is going to be a future autistic kid's special interest
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Submitted my application for a MS in Special Education, as well as for a program that would cover tutiton 🎉🤞 Wish me luck!!
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Posted late, but here's my January Wrap Up from @thestorygraph.com Great reads this month! 💙📚🪐 After years long reading slumps, I'm very happy to have accomplished the January page challenge and I'm several books and pages ahead of my personal goal for the year 😊
@tnm94's Storygraph January 2025 Wrap-Up
10 books, 3,013 pages, Av. Rating 3.93Collage of 10 books
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The delights of having a corgi named "Senator A. Furr" now includes telling my toddler I'm calling our senator and them looking visibly confused at the dog
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Student: "Your outfit today is like, modern Victorian Goth." Me: "Yes." #EduSky
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
"Dude, we're thirty now. Hire movers."
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Growing up in a form of evangelical Christianity, the first trans woman I remember "meeting" was Lady Dela from the book Eon by Alison Goodman. I don't remember the book enough to say if it was good representation, but it was an impactful introduction that I'm grateful for 🪐📚💙
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 30/01/2025
Don't mind me, I'm just watching the video of the slug on the hamster wheel, from the study's supplementary materials.
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Okay, I'm now a quarter of the way into "The Phoenix Keeper" and while the contemporary vibes caught me off guard, I am fully invested in the conflict 💙📚🪐
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JLMeyer @jenniferlmeyer.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
ALRIGHT! Time to kick the days butt!🥳✨
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
*hyping myself up to finally apply to a master's program* I know lots of dumb people with master's degrees. Some even have doctorates!
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I have made every one of this owl's expressions at a student today
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Finally started reading "The Phoenix Keeper" this week and it's not exactly what I expected. Not bad so far, but not my usual style. I've been wanting more modern secondary worlds for years and now that I'm seeing them more I'm wondering if they aren't actually for me lol 🪐📚💙
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Margaret Thornton @maggiethornton.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Wow! Look what happens when kids' parents have jobs and everyone knows where they will get their next meal. I think this trend is multifaceted, but we can't ignore these factors.
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Tori Niki @alsotori.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Already emailed all my federal representatives. Planning on calling them after work and then reaching out to a local rep on how what is being done to keep our community stable
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