Torin8
@torin8.bsky.social
WIP, aloof, introverted, cat serving human. Sometimes by sheer luck, I might say something insightful; otherwise usual nonsense warnings apply.
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This account smells like: pipe tobacco, old leather chairs, beer, hot chocolate, old books and petrichor.
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Reading #TheLandInWinter, #AndrewMiller #Booker nominated novel & just found this, which so resonates with me:
‘All winter you hold yourself like a fist, a tension you’re hardly aware of until the first warm day when you lift your face to the sun…It was far too early to start dreaming of summer’
‘All winter you hold yourself like a fist, a tension you’re hardly aware of until the first warm day when you lift your face to the sun…It was far too early to start dreaming of summer’
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Reading #TheLandInWinter, #AndrewMiller #Booker nominated novel & just found this, which so resonates with me:
‘All winter you hold yourself like a fist, a tension you’re hardly aware of until the first warm day when you lift your face to the sun…It was far too early to start dreaming of summer’
‘All winter you hold yourself like a fist, a tension you’re hardly aware of until the first warm day when you lift your face to the sun…It was far too early to start dreaming of summer’
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Age yourself with gaming.
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Age yourself with gaming.
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"And James Bond, who did NOT die"
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"And James Bond, who did NOT die"
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My students have set up a petition to persuade the University of Nottingham not to close our Plant Biology BSc course
c.org/VPhzVVrHPS
Please consider signing
c.org/VPhzVVrHPS
Please consider signing
Sign the Petition
Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN
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November 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM
My students have set up a petition to persuade the University of Nottingham not to close our Plant Biology BSc course
c.org/VPhzVVrHPS
Please consider signing
c.org/VPhzVVrHPS
Please consider signing
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You scrolled too greedily and too deep.
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
You scrolled too greedily and too deep.
If you care about the countryside and where we are and how we got to this rather dire place then read this book.
So many memories stirred with this book even though I'm not a farmer.
So many memories stirred with this book even though I'm not a farmer.
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
If you care about the countryside and where we are and how we got to this rather dire place then read this book.
So many memories stirred with this book even though I'm not a farmer.
So many memories stirred with this book even though I'm not a farmer.
50 Years since the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Passing into history.
RIP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIg9...
RIP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIg9...
The Edmund Fitzgerald Mystery
YouTube video by Maritime Horrors
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
50 Years since the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Passing into history.
RIP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIg9...
RIP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIg9...
A wet lunchtime walk.
Not seen the brook this high in what feels like 8 months... And it probably is that!
Not seen the brook this high in what feels like 8 months... And it probably is that!
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
A wet lunchtime walk.
Not seen the brook this high in what feels like 8 months... And it probably is that!
Not seen the brook this high in what feels like 8 months... And it probably is that!
S'dark out.
SAD lamp's on
SAD lamp's on
a woman standing next to a lamp post with the letters th on the bottom right
Alt: a woman pole dancing around a lampstand in a house.
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
S'dark out.
SAD lamp's on
SAD lamp's on
We've reached the 'drying washing indoors' season then.
a cat standing on its hind legs next to a green bowl of food with the words buenos dias written on it
ALT: a cat standing on its hind legs next to a green bowl of food with the words buenos dias written on it
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
We've reached the 'drying washing indoors' season then.
That sheer moment of relief your brain feels when you finally find the song that it has been trying to remember for weeks!
Now it can rest (and move onto the next one!).
#Folk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP62...
Now it can rest (and move onto the next one!).
#Folk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP62...
Polly Paulusma - Jack Munro
YouTube video by Polly Paulusma
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
That sheer moment of relief your brain feels when you finally find the song that it has been trying to remember for weeks!
Now it can rest (and move onto the next one!).
#Folk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP62...
Now it can rest (and move onto the next one!).
#Folk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP62...
Possibly anything up to 60in of snow forecast in the US this week.
I need snow here.
I need snow here.
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Possibly anything up to 60in of snow forecast in the US this week.
I need snow here.
I need snow here.
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
“Where’s your fucking poppy?”
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
“Where’s your fucking poppy?”
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Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.
November 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.
Watching old episodes of All Creatures Great and Small. S'bout the best thing on tonight.
November 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Watching old episodes of All Creatures Great and Small. S'bout the best thing on tonight.
After nearly 20 years of living in this house you'd have thought I'd have found all the bodge jobs the previous owner had done (there has been a lot!). But no I've spent all day repairing the wall behind the mock fireplace to stop the mice getting in.
There's still plaster patching to do tomorrow.
There's still plaster patching to do tomorrow.
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
After nearly 20 years of living in this house you'd have thought I'd have found all the bodge jobs the previous owner had done (there has been a lot!). But no I've spent all day repairing the wall behind the mock fireplace to stop the mice getting in.
There's still plaster patching to do tomorrow.
There's still plaster patching to do tomorrow.
November 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM