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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 22h

IKEA is finally delivering the bookshelves today, I'm refinishing a table I got on the city Buy Nothing page, and I have the stuff to finish installing the sink. WHEN IS MY FLOORING GONNA BE HERE

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Perhaps my most toxic trait is a disbelief in PPE. Not in a I've-got-covid-a-lot way, but in a surely-they-wouldnt-sell-this-to-consumers-were-it-actually-harmful way. I'm going to die of arts & crafts one day.

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

British lady with the toy shop gave me three more display spinners and helped me get the big one I'd bought from here over to the store. She's lovely. I hope she stops in when the shop's open.

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Going to the store, gonna get a lot done, not gonna have a doom spiral.

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tickets for the Holy War (Cleveland's most important high school football game) on Friday SOLD OUT IN TWENTY MINUTES and I couldn't nab two for my son and I. It's in a college stadium, too! Absolutely wild.

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Do I get a store crayfish do I install Dave's old 55gal tank and get a piranha so I can threaten to feed customers to it

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today is a self-care day because ✨damn✨, but it is also the day I take delivery of an enormous box of novelty socks, 🔥damn🔥.

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Local woman spends $62 on art supplies just to feel alive; more news at 11.

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I want dippy eggs, but I specifically want my grandma to make them, and she's been dead for twenty years. (my mental health is great right now why are you asking)

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

what's that anime where the guy is secretly a mangaka and the girl accidentally becomes part of his studio because she's trying to date him

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

when I quit my job and decided to open the store and make art again, I did not expect the first major project was going to be sequential art about ✨depression✨ but here we are, I guess

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

mariadb out here continuing to be the most passive-aggressive dbms

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

today's emotional rollercoaster: 😭 frank turner retiring?!?!?? 😻 offered interview for art history adjunct position 🫠 flooring is gone, store empty 😡 server will not update so can't update store site 🫠 found out cats peed in the hallway while they were sick

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

WELCOME TO MY BOOKSHOP, IT HAS NO FLOOR AND NO SHELVES brb sobbing from stress

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A nice man named Tony has come and taken all the cursed laminate away. Thank you, Tony.

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not Lost Evenings X (and final?! 😭) being BASICALLY IN MY OLD NEIGHBORHOOD IN LONDON

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Beta reader said, "this is A Smart Book" and I have died inside 😻

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Put the damned flooring on Marketplace for freesies and people are CLAMORING for the cursed laminate

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

TODAY is the day the STORE gets COUNTERTOPS

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dave: I don't think your mom knows what to do with my almost being able to out-Methodist her. Me: ... I don't think it's supposed to be a competition.

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What is the point of having a shop cat if you don't put her on merch

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Behold my filthy carpet and all four of my cats in one place 😹

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lil' friend on my mums outside the store 🧡

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Neglected to mention but one of the new cats brought a latent respiratory virus or something with them and it spent the week ripping through all the cats. Phil (the oldest) got it the worst and went right up to my limit of going to the e-vet before starting to get better. I've been extra stressed.

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Do you want to get chicken tenders after this? I feel like you're fading and you need to eat something. Did you only have Diet Coke today again?" send help I'm gonna marry him

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

gonna start a fucked-up game show where folks guess if I'm back on the self-harm or if I just own too many animals (this post brought to you by actually looking at my own arm for once, omfg no one wonder people ask me if things are okay at home)

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Church across the street from the store rings the bells on the hour. Occasionally I get a real banger from my days in Catholic school and the nostalgia/PTSD hits hard. Here I Am, Lord, indeed.

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Flat pack also tends to be relatively tolerant of mistakes and there's a sense of accomplishment at the end. Look! I built a thing to hold stuff.

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I find assembling flat pack furniture incredibly soothing. It's just about the only time life comes with instructions and phone support.

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Brought my 80yo mom to a bar on her birthday lol

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Spotify finished the album I was listening to and then decided to skip to Something Corporate, and the #mems have caused me to beg a question: Was calling up a girl and singing songs to her on the phone a usual flirtation method, or was I just vibing with a certain brand of Angstridden Guitar Boy?

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Got a rattle can to prime/seal the wall where that stupid vinyl decal is and I have not huffed this much spray paint directly into my sinuses since art school

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Another day in the floorless hellhole that is my store

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Gray, rainy, and cool this morning. Barbour and Bean Boots at last!!!

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Buying $1700 of freaking carpet squares and dumpstering the rest of the laminate. Hopefully I can return the new stuff. Dammit.

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bought a Frank Turner poster last weekend for the store (duh). Somewhere, I think in my storage unit, I have a sick Head Automatica poster I got at a show in like, 2005 that should go up, too.

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dave can't get the floor right either, the saw I have won't cut the countertop, I need a new exit sign, I can't get this Google mesh set up, I hate this store and everything in it including myself ughhhhhhhhhh

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

oh my god my IKEA delivery is THURSDAY I have been here all day for no reason

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have a terrible headache, none of these floorboards go down flat or fit together right, and I am stuck at the store waiting for IKEA. I'm supposed to come back later and install countertops, but I'm just... so... fucking... frustrated.

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm going to have to dish out $5k+ for a new floor. Fuck.

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Have been looking for display racks, and the toy shop across the street from the store is closing and selling off fixtures. Turns out the woman who runs it is a) lovely, b) from Hertfordshire.

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

if any aspect of entrepreneurship puts me back on bars it's gonna be this fucking floor

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"diy is a core tenet of punk culture," I whisper to myself, crying over my inability to install the end piece of laminate flooring nicely

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