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Tori Brenneison

@toribrenneison.bsky.social
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📚 bookmonger @ interestingtimesbooks.com 🏫 MA history of art ✨ she / her 📍 Cleveland, OH, USA 🇺🇸🇬🇧 assembled in USA w/ UK parts 🏴 I'm tired

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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 56m
I was searching for an actual photo of the house but couldn't find one, just this double rainbow I captured on the way home from Brownies. My house was down the street on the left. I mean. I also lived in freaking Neasden, so it's not like I was in a super cool trendy area 😹
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 1h
"There aren't real houses in London it's all flats" you are absolutely correct internet stranger, I spent months hallucinating living in a house on this street full of houses, obvs
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 1h
Not while knitting, but listening to David Mitchell's (of Mitchell and Webb) narration of his book, "Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens" while laying carpet in the store. I'm 10 chapters in, we've only just reached 1066, and I've had to pause it several times to laugh.
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 4h
related: i am covered in carpet adhesive
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 4h
The store is about 1/3 carpeted!
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Made it in 45. Had to walk through the township (rural). I used to tool around the woods in jeans and Chuck Taylors all the time as a teenager, but it is NOT the outfit for an impromptu hike at 40, lol. Enjoyed the views, though.
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Luckily I only live two miles from the store but I kind of wanted to go home like... immediately
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Hey cool I locked my keys in the store and now I have to walk home
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Y'all have no idea how much my nerves are soothed by there being at least a little flooring installed in the store, fr fr
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind
news.berkeley.edu
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Why didn't I think of this sooner, this carpet tile looks baller in the store, I love it
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The amount of campaign spam in my mailbox is TOO DAMN HIGH. (The only thing I know about Poindexter is that the smear ad on TV says he swallowed an 8ball of coke to hide it from the cops but tbh that's the dedication to a course of action I think you'd want in a political representative)
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Was reading that downers are pretty common 'cause they calm you tf down and felt... not special, lol. tbh always low-key wish I did coke or something interesting instead 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
hi a cool thing about finally having someone confirm I have ADHD at 40 is learning it makes you 2-3x more likely to develop substance and/or behavioral addictions and oh wow that explains a whole fucking lot
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There are three huge boxes of sidelines on my front porch and I am going to start laying carpet this afternoon. Closer and closer to the "store" part of having a store.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/10/2026
The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.
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Julia Gulia 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jrobb773.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Me: It’s pretty funny how every fictional character I adore is a Big Mess who’s Too Much but they are worthy of love anyway. My brain: But that doesn’t apply to us, right? Me: Oh god no! lol My brain: Okay, just making sure. lol
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Gonna spend the weekend installing a floor in the store! FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR <3
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
CARPETTTTT
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Looking for recommendations to add to the opening stock of the store and so far my friends have only suggested things I have already ordered lolololololololololololllllllllllllllll (I love them all)
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is 1:05a and I have been on iPage since like 7p. ... bookstores, yo.
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
LET'S 👏🏻 GET 👏🏻 THIS 👏🏻 STORE 👏🏻 OPEN 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Random text from Estes with a tracking number for what I can only assume is the store carpet 😻
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Need something to watch while I knit. TV show or documentary (I don't have patience for movies and will mostly listen). We have Netflix, Prime, and YoutubeTV.
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I have a Brother SQ9185 and the bobbin experience on it is ✨fantastic✨ compared to every other sewing machine I've used. Stupid easy. I also using a 1950's Singer 401a before that, though, so everything about the Brother seems fairly magical.
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pixel has a Litter Robot that's going in the back hallway 😹 putting the smelly thing about as far from customers as possible lol
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"boarder". wow. i am working with a migraine forgive me
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Today's accomplishments: ✅ finished the store bathroom* ✅ bit of sewing, hung curtain on scream room ✅ fixed mobile bug on store website I know it's weird to post a bathroom, but the bathroom was ✨SO✨ scary before, and I'm proud of it. *I have a wallpaper boarder coming for the green walls still
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There is a fly in the store and it is very annoying, should have brought Pixel.
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(I have to finish painting the bathroom and the only part left is around the light fixture, but I can't see to do it with the lights off)
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I have been ignoring this burgeoning migraine all day but unfortunately I am at a point where my next task involves Staring Directly Into The Light and there is not enough ibuprofen in the world, ugh
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
At the store. Fixing up the back of this corkboard with some hot glue. Stuck the spare glue stick in my mouth like a cigarette. I got an exit clause on this lease at 3 years, maybe I go back to art school? Obviously did not lose any habits.
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Came home to discover Pixel unrolled most of the toilet paper. I need to get this store open, girlfriend needs a real job.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Got a second beta reader and they ALSO immediately love Benny. I mean, hell, Benny came out of my imagination, and I love Benny. Everybody loves Benny.
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I have spent an hour on iPage and my brain is mush, someone just tell me what books to order ok
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Carpet company apologizes and says I can expect a tracking number in 1-2 days 😬
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Does my store have furniture? No. Does it have a very nice print of Pissarro's view of St. Paul's? Yes.
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Psst, Interesting Times Books & Gifts is on Bookshop: bookshop.org/shop/interes...
bookshop.org
Interesting Times Books & Gifts Bookshop
A weird little bookshop for curious people, complicated times, and anyone who suspects the world is bigger, stranger, and more interesting than the algorithm wants us to believe. Brick-and-mortar comi...
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Rare that I let out a heartfelt plea to Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, but one escaped when I took the soap dispenser off the bathroom wall and half the wall came with it.
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Honestly same, but the art kids tend to put some real effort into their flyers and zines and I don't want to discourage them ✨
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I like to think I'm not an unreasonable person.
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today's store progress: ✅ picked up a 4'x3' corkboard from FB Marketplace ✅ worked on the bathroom (cleaning walls, paint, installing hooks) ✅ set up the staff & guest WiFi networks ✅ some signage
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
24 hours into Banned Books Week and a man on the internet has already picked a fight with my store account 🙄
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I miss my neighborhood foxes so much!
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have tried to make a seven-slide Instagram post TWICE and both times I have accidentally swiped my trackpad and lost the whole thing D:
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
hooray they were in the store
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Tori Brenneison @toribrenneison.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have misplaced (read: lost) my glasses. I hope they're in the store, because otherwise I'm blind until I can get new.
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Kell Compost 😷 @compostwitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
things that are punk rock: serving everyone in a region equally stopping people from missing punk rock shows due to rampant dysentery
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