Mike Rozier-Rush
@mueslistopheles.bsky.social
Higher Education professional, currently in data and sustainability. Otherwise medievalist; artist; dungeon master; earth witch; steampunk; crazy cat gentleman.
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Devastatingly sad.
Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support
Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support
'When it opened, the campus housed a GP surgery and a new dental clinic offering free treatment to local people. This was followed later by the forum – a library and art gallery shared by the university and local people.' 1/2
‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Devastatingly sad.
Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support
Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support
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Groundhogs and wombats both just kind of look like if you asked someone to draw "an animal" and gave no further instructions.
February 2, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Groundhogs and wombats both just kind of look like if you asked someone to draw "an animal" and gave no further instructions.
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In a remarkable story from Slovenia, a breeding pair of White Wagtails travelled all over the country in a lorry last summer, successfully raising young:
Nesting on the go: incubating White Wagtail travels 2,000 km
A breeding pair of White Wagtails travelled all over Slovenia in a lorry in June 2025.
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January 31, 2026 at 9:56 AM
In a remarkable story from Slovenia, a breeding pair of White Wagtails travelled all over the country in a lorry last summer, successfully raising young:
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians is a gorgeous film. After 65 years, its design is still fresh.
Disney's artists went for a new, adventurous look -- one that Walt Disney himself opposed. We explore how they did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/designing-...
Disney's artists went for a new, adventurous look -- one that Walt Disney himself opposed. We explore how they did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/designing-...
January 19, 2026 at 9:30 PM
One Hundred and One Dalmatians is a gorgeous film. After 65 years, its design is still fresh.
Disney's artists went for a new, adventurous look -- one that Walt Disney himself opposed. We explore how they did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/designing-...
Disney's artists went for a new, adventurous look -- one that Walt Disney himself opposed. We explore how they did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/designing-...
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Please don't ask me why my brain works like this, because I don't have an answer
January 16, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Please don't ask me why my brain works like this, because I don't have an answer
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I’m not saying I won’t moan about it when the time comes to pay, but I think the Govt should raise my income tax because I am profoundly worried about the state of public services.
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I’m not saying I won’t moan about it when the time comes to pay, but I think the Govt should raise my income tax because I am profoundly worried about the state of public services.
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This why you need people with practical life experience in positions of power. If you've had a white collar job you'll know the purpose of bureaucracy. From file naming conventions to good databases. It is the oil in the machine
November 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
This why you need people with practical life experience in positions of power. If you've had a white collar job you'll know the purpose of bureaucracy. From file naming conventions to good databases. It is the oil in the machine
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My sister THE MAYOR OF BERKELEY hosted our family reunion so I made a shirt to explain my role in our familial unit.
See:
-The mayor gave a chartered bus tour of her city, then helped cook breakfast for 50 people while on a zoom.
-I found a decomposing wild turkey carcass & poked it with a stick.
See:
-The mayor gave a chartered bus tour of her city, then helped cook breakfast for 50 people while on a zoom.
-I found a decomposing wild turkey carcass & poked it with a stick.
August 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
My sister THE MAYOR OF BERKELEY hosted our family reunion so I made a shirt to explain my role in our familial unit.
See:
-The mayor gave a chartered bus tour of her city, then helped cook breakfast for 50 people while on a zoom.
-I found a decomposing wild turkey carcass & poked it with a stick.
See:
-The mayor gave a chartered bus tour of her city, then helped cook breakfast for 50 people while on a zoom.
-I found a decomposing wild turkey carcass & poked it with a stick.
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Relatedly, I treasure Ingrid Pitt's story that during the filming of THE VAMPIRE LOVERS (1970), she found Peter Cushing in a quiet corner between takes, painting miniatures for his wargaming. It looked fun, so she joined him. I love the thought of them there in costume, chatting as they paint minis.
Every time I see some idiot on Twitter talk about what they think 'real masculinity' looks like, I remind them of Tamawashi (玉鷲), the Ironman of Sumo.
He loves baking cakes and cookies, cooks for his family, does embroidery, and said the happiest day of his life was when his kids were born.
He loves baking cakes and cookies, cooks for his family, does embroidery, and said the happiest day of his life was when his kids were born.
August 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Relatedly, I treasure Ingrid Pitt's story that during the filming of THE VAMPIRE LOVERS (1970), she found Peter Cushing in a quiet corner between takes, painting miniatures for his wargaming. It looked fun, so she joined him. I love the thought of them there in costume, chatting as they paint minis.
I'd love it if someone with more musical talent than me, i.e. any, could produce a Tom Lehrer—Ozzy Osbourne anti-war song mash-up, in honour of their meeting at the pearly gates.
And it don't even gotta rhyme.
Excuse me, rhyne.
And it don't even gotta rhyme.
Excuse me, rhyne.
July 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I'd love it if someone with more musical talent than me, i.e. any, could produce a Tom Lehrer—Ozzy Osbourne anti-war song mash-up, in honour of their meeting at the pearly gates.
And it don't even gotta rhyme.
Excuse me, rhyne.
And it don't even gotta rhyme.
Excuse me, rhyne.
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gonna tell my kids this was calvin and hobbes
July 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
gonna tell my kids this was calvin and hobbes
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Instead of invasively asking who's top or who's bottom people should start asking women friends who's the granny weatherwax of the friend group and who's the nanny ogg
July 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Instead of invasively asking who's top or who's bottom people should start asking women friends who's the granny weatherwax of the friend group and who's the nanny ogg
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When PC games stopped being sold in big boxes full of maps and trinkets and with a manual you could kill a crocodile with, we knew civilisation had collapsed. 💔
May 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
When PC games stopped being sold in big boxes full of maps and trinkets and with a manual you could kill a crocodile with, we knew civilisation had collapsed. 💔
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Laugh at mushy peas if it takes your mind off the self inflicted horrors, chet, but don't you fucking dare tell me my neighbours aren't as British as I am while your own neighbours get disappeared. That's the rhetoric of politicians here who would gleefully follow your country's example.
April 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Laugh at mushy peas if it takes your mind off the self inflicted horrors, chet, but don't you fucking dare tell me my neighbours aren't as British as I am while your own neighbours get disappeared. That's the rhetoric of politicians here who would gleefully follow your country's example.
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Finally watched “Sisu” last night.
A movie our times needs. The sort of insane brainless over the top war movie that you would expect from an Italian director in the 70s.
Really rip roaring anti-Nazi stuff
A movie our times needs. The sort of insane brainless over the top war movie that you would expect from an Italian director in the 70s.
Really rip roaring anti-Nazi stuff
March 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Finally watched “Sisu” last night.
A movie our times needs. The sort of insane brainless over the top war movie that you would expect from an Italian director in the 70s.
Really rip roaring anti-Nazi stuff
A movie our times needs. The sort of insane brainless over the top war movie that you would expect from an Italian director in the 70s.
Really rip roaring anti-Nazi stuff
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Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says
Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says
Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security
The net zero sector is growing three times faster than the overall UK economy, analysis has found, providing high-wage jobs across the…
www.theguardian.com
February 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says
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I know we talk about this constantly but it is truly one of the greatest mindfucks of my lifetime. as an 80s kid a Nazi was the most unambiguously, nonnegotiably evil thing you could even be ADJACENT TO, like morality for kindergarteners, and now we have to relitigate that shit every day???? ffs
need to invent a worse word for nazi bc ppl are not ashamed enough of being a nazi
February 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I know we talk about this constantly but it is truly one of the greatest mindfucks of my lifetime. as an 80s kid a Nazi was the most unambiguously, nonnegotiably evil thing you could even be ADJACENT TO, like morality for kindergarteners, and now we have to relitigate that shit every day???? ffs
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It’s the Try Not to Look at Any US News weekend challenge!
February 15, 2025 at 8:35 AM
It’s the Try Not to Look at Any US News weekend challenge!
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Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”
February 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”
@threebeansaladpod.bsky.social
#threebeansalad
Her lukewarm banter is world-class, she's really got the -
#threebeansalad
Her lukewarm banter is world-class, she's really got the -
January 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
@threebeansaladpod.bsky.social
#threebeansalad
Her lukewarm banter is world-class, she's really got the -
#threebeansalad
Her lukewarm banter is world-class, she's really got the -
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New favourite thing - trees absorbing pillar boxes.
January 30, 2025 at 9:16 AM
New favourite thing - trees absorbing pillar boxes.
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Kid comes into the Map Center with his parents. He's here because he did well in school today and his parents wanted to give him a reward. A visit to my store was his special request. 😭
January 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Kid comes into the Map Center with his parents. He's here because he did well in school today and his parents wanted to give him a reward. A visit to my store was his special request. 😭
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I've just created this. This is where I think we are now, and why I am very pessimistic that we will fix the #ClimateCrisis
Hopefully someone can explain why I'm wrong.
Hopefully someone can explain why I'm wrong.
January 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I've just created this. This is where I think we are now, and why I am very pessimistic that we will fix the #ClimateCrisis
Hopefully someone can explain why I'm wrong.
Hopefully someone can explain why I'm wrong.