Tori ✨

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Just trying to make my therapist proud TBFighter | Nerdfighter | Creator of Unnecessary PowerPoints

A knitting pattern diagram for a sweater vest written in Japanese.
A quote from BK. titanji’s substack article “What we owe to each other: Ebola, borders and the politics of shared humanity” “I find myself returning to a simple truth that the science consistently affirms and that politics consistently forgets: outbreak response works when it is grounded in equity, trust, and the recognition of shared humanity. It fails when it is organized around fear, exclusion, and the fiction that some people’s safety matters more than others’.”
Screenshot that reads Amid the cuts, the work of Ebola response teams was frozen, according to a person who worked on the ground in the region. Programs designed to detect Ebola cases, alert communities to infection, and dispatch response kits had their funding reduced or eliminated. Related efforts that would have been likely to aid the outbreak response — including building medical stockpiles and supporting local health systems — have been weakened by the cuts, according to four people who work on infectious disease control in the DRC. Aid groups that carried out that work laid off staff in response to funding reductions and are still working with reduced headcounts, they said.
A group of hand felted flowers in a variety of colors. There’s a pink one and a daffodil looking one and a purple one and they are on some leaves
A canvas tote bag with the TBFighters “we can end tuberculosis” graphic (the globe punching the word tuberculosis) and a Pizza John labubu
Am educational sign depicting local wild life shaped like a Mola Mola (ocean sun fish). It’s orange and asks “can you find us and has information about two types of birds and the Mola Mola. It is in a harbor in Cape Town
A black and brown cat with white paws sitting on a purple plastic stool in a convenience store aisle in Cape Town, South Africa
A toddler wrapped in the fourth Doctor’s scarf
Two baskets of red yarn labeled “melt the ice hat yarn” at Stitch Haven in Westport, Connecticut
A set of bananagram tiles, alphabetized, on a wooden tabletop
The domino meme (a guy with a series of dominoes increasing in size) where the biggest domino is "TB lecture series featuring world renowned experts, survivors and more" and the tiny domino being "gazoonkas"
A screenshot of the Gazoonkas PowerPoint featuring a horse on a cd (compact disc) labeled “disk horse”
A Thanksgiving table with an apple pie, a pecan pie, a key lime pie, a chocolate cream pie, a pumpkin pie, and a banana cream pie that you can’t really see
A screenshot of the We’re Here newsletter. There is a picture of a baby sweater that is blue, green and purple variegated yarn with a duplicate stitched stylized angler fish (a hankler fish) in white yarn) and text that reads “Our Hanklerfish Aquarium In the last issue of We’re Here, we asked for anglerfish (or Hanklerfish) art. Thanks to everyone who emailed us a fish!”
A cup of Dunkin iced coffee and a bag containing a donut being held in a parking lot
A row of dead corn and some other plants outside of a corporate office. The sky looks weirdly apocalyptic
Announcement for TB Ed Talk with Stijn Deborggraeve “TB in Children: What’s the problem and what can we do?” On December 2nd at 10:30am et on the TBFighters YouTube channel
Ed Sheeran or a very convincing doppelgänger sitting in the balcony of the Maisie Peters concert
The Pizzamas Cutting Board from 2025 (a 3-color wooden cutting board with a dark stripe through the center and Pizza John in the corner) being held above a door mat that says “go away” and my nail has a tiny ghost in a witches hat on it
A set of Halloween nails. The pinkies are stylized candy corn, the ring mad pointer fingers have little icons of a ghost, a bat, a tiny pumpkin and candy and the middle finger has 3D replicas of pillsbury Halloween cookies. The thumbs are in the next picture
Three envelopes, one bright yellow, one lavender and one bright orange. All 3 have dungeons and dragons stamps that are sort of color coordinated with the envelope.
An urban outfitters store window with BDG in big letters
A hand quilted pennant with “tuberculosis haters club” on it, with the 2025 TB Hill Day pin that says “TB is not over” on it
An image advertising the very first ever TB Ed Talk, called “ending tb with economic justice” with Chloe Dahleen, economic justice advocacy specialist at partners in health. This will be a live presentation on YouTube followed by a live q&a on Tuesday September 30th at 8pm ET. I’m hosting and I’m actually a little nervous. More info at TBFighters dot org
Ash’s Squirtle re-uniting with the Squirtle Squad. Each Squirtle Squad member is labeled “WIP” numbered 1 through 4 representing my current works in progress and Ash’s Squirtle is labeled “new cast on”
A 13x9 pan with a chocolate chip and cinnamon sugar covered cake with a few squares cut out.
Nails work a stained glass design resting on a purple hand-knit sweater
Gonzo and Camilla the Chicken posing for a photo
The sweetest puppy dog in the whole wide world looking at my hand holding a fortune from a fortune cookie that says “mighty forces will come to your aid”
A tree that is definitely not a cell phone tower even though Lodgepole Pines don’t grow anywhere near Westchester County, New York
Two unusually large ducks on the sidewalk of a busy (and exceptionally clean) DC street
A hand knit swatch pinned to a blocking board. It’s a cream background with Norwegian fair isle flowers in neon pink. They look red here, but they’re very pink. The edges are corrugated ribbing. It is pinned to a blocking mat.
Nails painted to look like the set of the dropout show game changer
A photo of Sam Reich on the set of game changer
The final scene of the video game Portal, featuring a cake that is not a line and a friendly weighted companion cube.
Nails that have rainbow swirls all over them and white pieces with black polka dots
A hand with rainbow nails holding a pink pineapple cup filled with a pina colada
A sign with a guy in a blue shirt who appears to be yelling. It says: Angry? Sad? Frustrated? Have you tried…YELLING? ✅relieves stress ✅feels good ✅is scary to birds Yelling is like talking but louder
A shelf with some vintage books featuring several goosebumps books next to an old copy of the Baltimore Catechism. It also has a book called “the tattooed potato and other clues” which sounds like a great read.
A tater tot hot dish with about 1/3 taken out.
Hands with neon rainbow nails. Each nail is a different color. The left hand is all blues and purples and the right hand is all pinks and oranges. They are semi-awkwardly posed on a bunch of nail polish bottles because it took forever to pick the right colors
A cafeteria sign advertising “Cheetos crusted chicken tenders with hot honey” above said Cheetos crusted chicken tenders (the hot honey is mot in the photo, but two bags of Cheetos are).
A mess of red and white yarn that is in the process of being knit into a super secret surprise. There are approximately two million different ends to be woven in because intarsia knitting is criminally annoying.
Two copies of the graphic novel version of The First Fest by Tamora Pierce on a coffee table. There is an alpaca. Are on top of the books. The coffee table is filled with miscellaneous nerdfighteria merchandise from the Project for Awesome.
A powerpoint slide that has a lot of lines and shapes and reads "By popular demand - Appendix 1: The Six Issue"
A line of like 15 jets on an airport tarmac
A doormat that says “definitely not a trap door - roll for dexterity saving throw!”
The meme is Andy Samberg as Jake Peralta and Zooey Deschanel from that one time Brooklyn 99 and New Girl crossed over. It’s four squares, the left two have AndyJake and the right two have ZooeyJess. AndyJake is a cop yelling into the window if the car ZooeyJess is driving. The conversation goes: AndyJake: I’m a math historian ZooeyJess: Oh yeah? Name 8 mathematicians AndyJake: Bernoulli ZooeyJess: That’s on me, I set the bar too low The joke is there were a ton of Bernoulli mathematicians, at least two were named Johann. They were all brothers (and their father - he was one of the Johanns). Fun Bernoulli fact, Daniel once tried to quit and become a musician but he managed to turn that into physics too. And a bunch of Johann 2’s grandsons were named for Leonard Euler. Euler’s father was roommates with the OG Johann.
A slightly lopsided piece of tiramisu with a single yellow birthday candle.
The words “thanks Jenn” in glowing neon pink text on a black background
A photo of two ducks - a male and female Mallard, who are bigger than average, waiting to cross K Street in DC as cars zoom by.
Three women smiling taking a selfie and wearing “TB Is Not Over”’ lapel pins
A day in my life video but it’s all spreadsheets.
A group of protesters outside the global headquarters of WWE.
Instagram post from IJP San Diego asking for volunteer interpreters who speak Pashto and Q’anjob’al to help them represent unaccompanied minors in immigration court. Their funding has been cut but without these services children (including literal infants) would be forced to represent themselves in immigration court. They’re continuing pro bono but need support for language services. Email contact@abaijp.org if you are able to help.
A screenshot of the online Oxford English Dictionary that says the earliest known use of the word bedazzle is from the 1600s in the writings of Shakespeare
A pair of converse high tops covered in blue and purple iridescent rhinestones in various sizes
Screenshot of Libby to place a hold on Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green (ebook). The wait in Greenwich is 16 weeks. The wait at NYPL is 11 weeks.
A sticker from partners in health that has a picture of a crow biting a lit match in half and the quote “Cynicism is a cop out” - Dr. Joia Mukherjee
“Love is a room with only one chair” screenshotted from the costar app