Torrey Wenger
@ecologyordie.bsky.social
ecologist, teacher, multipurpose nerd
I put this together for my husband. (We met in the book group he was hosting, in the bookstore he co-owned.)
It was fun, no tools required - Everything snaps together or is stickers. Mostly wood, too.
But it's only been since this summer & some of the stickers are getting loose.
It was fun, no tools required - Everything snaps together or is stickers. Mostly wood, too.
But it's only been since this summer & some of the stickers are getting loose.
December 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I put this together for my husband. (We met in the book group he was hosting, in the bookstore he co-owned.)
It was fun, no tools required - Everything snaps together or is stickers. Mostly wood, too.
But it's only been since this summer & some of the stickers are getting loose.
It was fun, no tools required - Everything snaps together or is stickers. Mostly wood, too.
But it's only been since this summer & some of the stickers are getting loose.
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#MedSky #IDSky #PublicHealth
There is a widespread outbreak of #norovirus, a GI virus that causes projectile vomiting & profuse diarrhea usually lasting 24-48 hrs. Wastewater levels nationwide in 🇺🇸 are high. It’s miserable & incredibly contagious. So many friends are texting SOS, so here’s a 🧵. /1
There is a widespread outbreak of #norovirus, a GI virus that causes projectile vomiting & profuse diarrhea usually lasting 24-48 hrs. Wastewater levels nationwide in 🇺🇸 are high. It’s miserable & incredibly contagious. So many friends are texting SOS, so here’s a 🧵. /1
January 5, 2025 at 1:31 AM
#MedSky #IDSky #PublicHealth
There is a widespread outbreak of #norovirus, a GI virus that causes projectile vomiting & profuse diarrhea usually lasting 24-48 hrs. Wastewater levels nationwide in 🇺🇸 are high. It’s miserable & incredibly contagious. So many friends are texting SOS, so here’s a 🧵. /1
There is a widespread outbreak of #norovirus, a GI virus that causes projectile vomiting & profuse diarrhea usually lasting 24-48 hrs. Wastewater levels nationwide in 🇺🇸 are high. It’s miserable & incredibly contagious. So many friends are texting SOS, so here’s a 🧵. /1
We had a snow day so I finished up a long-incomplete book, Mindset by Carol Dweck. It feels like it's a foundational book in education. Rather than relying on other people's interpretations, I read it myself.
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#EduSky
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#EduSky
December 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
We had a snow day so I finished up a long-incomplete book, Mindset by Carol Dweck. It feels like it's a foundational book in education. Rather than relying on other people's interpretations, I read it myself.
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#EduSky
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#EduSky
Finished up another audiobook book yesterday.
Bryony & Roses by T Kingfisher, read by Justine Eyre, is great. It's Beauty & the Beast, if Beauty was a gardener & the Beast was somewhat sarcastic. I heart practical heroines, & fairytale retellings.
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@tkingfisher.com
Bryony & Roses by T Kingfisher, read by Justine Eyre, is great. It's Beauty & the Beast, if Beauty was a gardener & the Beast was somewhat sarcastic. I heart practical heroines, & fairytale retellings.
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@tkingfisher.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Finished up another audiobook book yesterday.
Bryony & Roses by T Kingfisher, read by Justine Eyre, is great. It's Beauty & the Beast, if Beauty was a gardener & the Beast was somewhat sarcastic. I heart practical heroines, & fairytale retellings.
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@tkingfisher.com
Bryony & Roses by T Kingfisher, read by Justine Eyre, is great. It's Beauty & the Beast, if Beauty was a gardener & the Beast was somewhat sarcastic. I heart practical heroines, & fairytale retellings.
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@tkingfisher.com
I work in a school. We have a mandated number of active shooter drills every year.
School kids are shot & killed every year. Mostly by other kids or by white men.
We just get thoughts & prayers.
It's not the shooting they care about, it's the opportunity to advance their political agenda.
School kids are shot & killed every year. Mostly by other kids or by white men.
We just get thoughts & prayers.
It's not the shooting they care about, it's the opportunity to advance their political agenda.
Trump says he will ‘permanently pause’ migration from ‘third world countries’ after national guard shooting
Trump says he will ‘permanently pause’ migration from ‘third world countries’ after national guard shooting
In a social media post sent late on Thanksgiving, US president said he would ‘end all federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens’ following Washington DC shooting
Donald Trump has said he will “permanently pause migration from all third world countries,” a day after two national guard members were shot in Washington DC in an attack that has become a political flashpoint in the president’s ongoing crackdown on immigration.
In a social media post beginning with “a very happy Thanksgiving,” sent after 11pm on Thursday, the US president said his administration would “end all federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens” and remove “anyone who is not a net asset to the United States”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I work in a school. We have a mandated number of active shooter drills every year.
School kids are shot & killed every year. Mostly by other kids or by white men.
We just get thoughts & prayers.
It's not the shooting they care about, it's the opportunity to advance their political agenda.
School kids are shot & killed every year. Mostly by other kids or by white men.
We just get thoughts & prayers.
It's not the shooting they care about, it's the opportunity to advance their political agenda.
The next question: Did he trust the US to protect his family, only for his family to still be trapped there?
Breaking News: The suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members had worked with CIA-backed units during the war in Afghanistan, officials said. Follow live.
National Guard Shooting Live Updates: Suspect Worked With CIA-Backed Units in Afghanistan, Officials Say
The C.I.A. said that the suspect, whom officials identified as a 29-year-old Afghan, came to the United States in 2021 after the American military withdrawal. Two National Guard members were in critical condition after the shooting on Wednesday.
nyti.ms
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The next question: Did he trust the US to protect his family, only for his family to still be trapped there?
I listened to a couple of John Scalzi short stories while running errands last weekend. His books are all on Audible (according to him at some convention) but my library has Hoopla & Libby.
Both stories are fun, of course, & snarky.
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Both stories are fun, of course, & snarky.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I listened to a couple of John Scalzi short stories while running errands last weekend. His books are all on Audible (according to him at some convention) but my library has Hoopla & Libby.
Both stories are fun, of course, & snarky.
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Both stories are fun, of course, & snarky.
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Just finished another audiobook: Pseudoscience & Science Fiction, written by Andrew May & read by Steven Crossley. (The write-up said Dr Andrew May but the picture of the cover didn't.)
It wasn't exactly a general audience book? Each chapter has an abstract, for example.
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It wasn't exactly a general audience book? Each chapter has an abstract, for example.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Just finished another audiobook: Pseudoscience & Science Fiction, written by Andrew May & read by Steven Crossley. (The write-up said Dr Andrew May but the picture of the cover didn't.)
It wasn't exactly a general audience book? Each chapter has an abstract, for example.
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It wasn't exactly a general audience book? Each chapter has an abstract, for example.
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I got COVID in September, when school started back up, & I've had a lingering cough ever since. Not a fan.
November 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I got COVID in September, when school started back up, & I've had a lingering cough ever since. Not a fan.
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You can still get a copy of the limited special edition of THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS from Inkstone btw! Signed, numbered, sprayed edges and other fancy touches. Excellent gift for the bookish people in your life (if I do say so so myself) inkstonebooks.com/product/sain...
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera - Limited Edition - Inkstone Books
Signed & Numbered First Edition of The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera, with sprayed edges and case foiling.
inkstonebooks.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
You can still get a copy of the limited special edition of THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS from Inkstone btw! Signed, numbered, sprayed edges and other fancy touches. Excellent gift for the bookish people in your life (if I do say so so myself) inkstonebooks.com/product/sain...
Want to nerd out about fonts & kerning (done badly)? This is the discussion for you!
The font would appear to be English 111 Adagio CE, available for the highly presidential sum of just $39.75 USD
Note "The" is not kerned correctly
(see perspective-corrected still for reference)
Note "The" is not kerned correctly
(see perspective-corrected still for reference)
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Want to nerd out about fonts & kerning (done badly)? This is the discussion for you!
Finished listening to Una trenza de hierba Sagrada (Braiding Sweetgrass) - written by Robin Wall Kimmerer, narrated by Marco Lubian. (The translator isn't listed. 😠)
I read it for a book study a few years ago so this was to help with my Spanish learning.
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I read it for a book study a few years ago so this was to help with my Spanish learning.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Finished listening to Una trenza de hierba Sagrada (Braiding Sweetgrass) - written by Robin Wall Kimmerer, narrated by Marco Lubian. (The translator isn't listed. 😠)
I read it for a book study a few years ago so this was to help with my Spanish learning.
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I read it for a book study a few years ago so this was to help with my Spanish learning.
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Finished up my next "30 minutes each week, if I'm lucky" book.
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah is fantastic. It's a book about growing up during apartheid - so it's terrible - but it's written by Trevor Noah - so it's hilarious.
& it's full of good life lessons. & his mom is a force of nature.
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Born a Crime by Trevor Noah is fantastic. It's a book about growing up during apartheid - so it's terrible - but it's written by Trevor Noah - so it's hilarious.
& it's full of good life lessons. & his mom is a force of nature.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Finished up my next "30 minutes each week, if I'm lucky" book.
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah is fantastic. It's a book about growing up during apartheid - so it's terrible - but it's written by Trevor Noah - so it's hilarious.
& it's full of good life lessons. & his mom is a force of nature.
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Born a Crime by Trevor Noah is fantastic. It's a book about growing up during apartheid - so it's terrible - but it's written by Trevor Noah - so it's hilarious.
& it's full of good life lessons. & his mom is a force of nature.
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So at the new book signing last weekend, I picked up an *old* @jimchines.com book, a neat two-part fairy tale retelling.
Christopher Kastensmidt wrote the "base" story & Jim wrote the interweaving story. What is *actually* up with Little Red Riding Hood & the Wolf?
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Christopher Kastensmidt wrote the "base" story & Jim wrote the interweaving story. What is *actually* up with Little Red Riding Hood & the Wolf?
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October 31, 2025 at 10:08 PM
So at the new book signing last weekend, I picked up an *old* @jimchines.com book, a neat two-part fairy tale retelling.
Christopher Kastensmidt wrote the "base" story & Jim wrote the interweaving story. What is *actually* up with Little Red Riding Hood & the Wolf?
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Christopher Kastensmidt wrote the "base" story & Jim wrote the interweaving story. What is *actually* up with Little Red Riding Hood & the Wolf?
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This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.
In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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🧵 Awful awful massacre in Brazil
Gente, é o maior massacre no Brasil desde o Araguaia. Entendo quem quer puxar pra Canudos ou Contestado ou etc, mas não podemos livrar a ditadura de 64 só porque ela escondia melhor seus corpos.
Morreram 41 guerrilheiros comunistas e mais de 1200 camponeses no Araguaia.
Morreram 41 guerrilheiros comunistas e mais de 1200 camponeses no Araguaia.
October 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.
In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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I don't care so much about the celebrities but the crabs are stunning.
idk why i noticed this but these crabs and celebrities look like they share a stylist: thread
October 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I don't care so much about the celebrities but the crabs are stunning.
Our next book group selection is The Cat Who Saved Books, written by Sosuke Natsukawa, translated from Japanese to English by Louise Heal Kawai, & narrated by Kevin Shen.
A reclusive high school kid lives with his bookstore-owning grandfather. Then his grampa dies & a talking cat shows up.
A reclusive high school kid lives with his bookstore-owning grandfather. Then his grampa dies & a talking cat shows up.
October 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Our next book group selection is The Cat Who Saved Books, written by Sosuke Natsukawa, translated from Japanese to English by Louise Heal Kawai, & narrated by Kevin Shen.
A reclusive high school kid lives with his bookstore-owning grandfather. Then his grampa dies & a talking cat shows up.
A reclusive high school kid lives with his bookstore-owning grandfather. Then his grampa dies & a talking cat shows up.
I know it's a small problem, but my key fob is dying. It's not the battery, it's the key fob itself. 😑
October 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I know it's a small problem, but my key fob is dying. It's not the battery, it's the key fob itself. 😑
@jimchines.com When you come for the book party, could you also bring a couple goblin names? I gave Amelia Sands to a couple of girls when they were done with a quiz ... & maybe that was a bad idea. 😆
October 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
@jimchines.com When you come for the book party, could you also bring a couple goblin names? I gave Amelia Sands to a couple of girls when they were done with a quiz ... & maybe that was a bad idea. 😆
I had to pause my actual book, to listen to my book group book.
Ann Leckie has written a fantasy novel, The Raven Tower, narrated by Adjoa Andoh. Think Hamlet - scheming uncle steals the throne - but with gods involved.
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@annleckie.com
Ann Leckie has written a fantasy novel, The Raven Tower, narrated by Adjoa Andoh. Think Hamlet - scheming uncle steals the throne - but with gods involved.
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@annleckie.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I had to pause my actual book, to listen to my book group book.
Ann Leckie has written a fantasy novel, The Raven Tower, narrated by Adjoa Andoh. Think Hamlet - scheming uncle steals the throne - but with gods involved.
💙📚
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@annleckie.com
Ann Leckie has written a fantasy novel, The Raven Tower, narrated by Adjoa Andoh. Think Hamlet - scheming uncle steals the throne - but with gods involved.
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@annleckie.com
For my book group, I listened to The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki & Gabrielle De Cuir.
It's labeled as an ecothriller, based on the premise that mammoths can be "de-extincted" & returned to the Russian steppe. So, near future.
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It's labeled as an ecothriller, based on the premise that mammoths can be "de-extincted" & returned to the Russian steppe. So, near future.
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October 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
For my book group, I listened to The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki & Gabrielle De Cuir.
It's labeled as an ecothriller, based on the premise that mammoths can be "de-extincted" & returned to the Russian steppe. So, near future.
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It's labeled as an ecothriller, based on the premise that mammoths can be "de-extincted" & returned to the Russian steppe. So, near future.
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Here's my 3rd errand today. They had homemade soups!
October 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Here's my 3rd errand today. They had homemade soups!
You will not be disappointed in this thread. (Unless you didn't like the movies. These might be better, then.)
October 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
You will not be disappointed in this thread. (Unless you didn't like the movies. These might be better, then.)
Another long drive, another audiobook done!
Nine Goblins by T Kingfisher was great! Funny, a little tragic, & on-the-nose about the joys of wildlife rehab.
Basically, a ragtag team of goblins ends up *way* behind enemy lines & discover a horrible mystery.
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@tkingfisher.com
Nine Goblins by T Kingfisher was great! Funny, a little tragic, & on-the-nose about the joys of wildlife rehab.
Basically, a ragtag team of goblins ends up *way* behind enemy lines & discover a horrible mystery.
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@tkingfisher.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Another long drive, another audiobook done!
Nine Goblins by T Kingfisher was great! Funny, a little tragic, & on-the-nose about the joys of wildlife rehab.
Basically, a ragtag team of goblins ends up *way* behind enemy lines & discover a horrible mystery.
💙📚
📚🪐
@tkingfisher.com
Nine Goblins by T Kingfisher was great! Funny, a little tragic, & on-the-nose about the joys of wildlife rehab.
Basically, a ragtag team of goblins ends up *way* behind enemy lines & discover a horrible mystery.
💙📚
📚🪐
@tkingfisher.com
Had a long drive today so I listened to a whole book! (It was a short one.) Caitlin Doughty narrated her book Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death.
It was lots of fun! As the name implied, it was a Q&A book, with the questions supplied by kids.
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It was lots of fun! As the name implied, it was a Q&A book, with the questions supplied by kids.
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October 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Had a long drive today so I listened to a whole book! (It was a short one.) Caitlin Doughty narrated her book Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death.
It was lots of fun! As the name implied, it was a Q&A book, with the questions supplied by kids.
💙📚
It was lots of fun! As the name implied, it was a Q&A book, with the questions supplied by kids.
💙📚