Rorie Gilligan
@roriegilligan.bsky.social
PhD. in hydrometallurgy. Research metallurgist based in Western Australia mostly working with raw materials for batteries. I've published papers on the metallurgy of vanadium, lithium, and uranium.
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Rorie Gilligan
@roriegilligan.bsky.social
· Oct 20
www.mdpi.com
I published a paper on the extraction of various valuable materials from spent lithium-ion batteries. It's open access and available here:
www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15...
www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15...
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Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
January 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
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whoever is putting these up is a local hero, keep Christchurch weird
January 3, 2026 at 4:42 AM
whoever is putting these up is a local hero, keep Christchurch weird
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Get ready for the most exhausting game of the year: Culture War Bingo
January 2, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Get ready for the most exhausting game of the year: Culture War Bingo
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Strolling towards the New Year in style. Happy Manul Monday!
December 29, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Strolling towards the New Year in style. Happy Manul Monday!
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it's time to make your 2026 bingo card
December 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
it's time to make your 2026 bingo card
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With enough enthusiasm, you can include any song in the holiday playlist. Make some edits to bring joy to those otherwise suffering through the nightmare soundtrack of shopping in December.
This is a fine addition! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glu9...
This is a fine addition! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glu9...
Laibach - Tanz mit Laibach (Official video)
YouTube video by Laibach
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
With enough enthusiasm, you can include any song in the holiday playlist. Make some edits to bring joy to those otherwise suffering through the nightmare soundtrack of shopping in December.
This is a fine addition! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glu9...
This is a fine addition! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glu9...
At this moment (midday, local time) Western Australia is feeding 620 MW into batteries (maximum rate of 885 MW), while generating 2.49 GW from renewables out of 4.08 GW total (61% renewables).
65 bucks a MWh, god damn www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.
www.pv-magazine.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:14 AM
At this moment (midday, local time) Western Australia is feeding 620 MW into batteries (maximum rate of 885 MW), while generating 2.49 GW from renewables out of 4.08 GW total (61% renewables).
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Every one of these pieces comes down to “what if ai was useful”
Lmfao every AI defense piece is like "AYY I FUCKIN SUCK BRO HOPEFULLY THIS FUCKIN STEAL YOUR SHIT MACHINE WILL MAKE ME SUCK SLIGHTLY LESS OK"
December 14, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Every one of these pieces comes down to “what if ai was useful”
A great piece of internet history. We live in very stupid times.
December 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
A great piece of internet history. We live in very stupid times.
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Some have argued to me strongly that even if Loeb is wrong, he’s getting people interested in 3I/ATLAS and that’s a good thing for science.
But Loeb isn't just wrong, he's recklessly following an old playbook that got 39 people killed in 1997.
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
But Loeb isn't just wrong, he's recklessly following an old playbook that got 39 people killed in 1997.
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
Loeb’s Behavior is Reckless
I’ve largely ignored Loeb for the past few weeks. When he started in on his 3I/ATLAS thing, there were plenty of mainstream media outlets willing to give his claims a wide and credulous platform, and ...
sites.psu.edu
December 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Some have argued to me strongly that even if Loeb is wrong, he’s getting people interested in 3I/ATLAS and that’s a good thing for science.
But Loeb isn't just wrong, he's recklessly following an old playbook that got 39 people killed in 1997.
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
But Loeb isn't just wrong, he's recklessly following an old playbook that got 39 people killed in 1997.
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
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“Her library estimates that 15 percent of emailed reference questions it receives are now ChatGPT-generated, and some include hallucinated citations for both published works and unique primary source documents. ‘For our staff, it is much harder to prove that a unique record doesn’t exist.’”
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
“Her library estimates that 15 percent of emailed reference questions it receives are now ChatGPT-generated, and some include hallucinated citations for both published works and unique primary source documents. ‘For our staff, it is much harder to prove that a unique record doesn’t exist.’”
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crazy to think that the infamous Mark Zuckerberg metaverse Paris picture is actually older than ChatGPT and the entire generative AI boom
December 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
crazy to think that the infamous Mark Zuckerberg metaverse Paris picture is actually older than ChatGPT and the entire generative AI boom
I don't speak the language, but it's clear enough
December 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I don't speak the language, but it's clear enough
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Every ai booster believes that college is about doing homework. They think there’s a homework goblin that pays the colleges for their homework. Their dream is that they can have a machine that you can pay $75,000 to and receive a college degree from in four years.
December 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Every ai booster believes that college is about doing homework. They think there’s a homework goblin that pays the colleges for their homework. Their dream is that they can have a machine that you can pay $75,000 to and receive a college degree from in four years.
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Political journalists are incapable of understanding climate example #290093 -> Jacob Greber from the ABC insisting that a new environmental law that ignores climate should provide 'solace' to 'doom-fed' young people
Patronising AF and representative of Australia's media class
archive.ph/EGLFU
Patronising AF and representative of Australia's media class
archive.ph/EGLFU
November 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Political journalists are incapable of understanding climate example #290093 -> Jacob Greber from the ABC insisting that a new environmental law that ignores climate should provide 'solace' to 'doom-fed' young people
Patronising AF and representative of Australia's media class
archive.ph/EGLFU
Patronising AF and representative of Australia's media class
archive.ph/EGLFU
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I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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I have always been terrified and mesmerised by Udo Kier. 🧛♀️
Once, in a gay bar in Palm Springs, I turned around and he was just standing there, holding a drink. I checked in the bar mirror to see if he had a reflection. He saw me checking and smiled. It was perfect.
Once, in a gay bar in Palm Springs, I turned around and he was just standing there, holding a drink. I checked in the bar mirror to see if he had a reflection. He saw me checking and smiled. It was perfect.
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I have always been terrified and mesmerised by Udo Kier. 🧛♀️
Once, in a gay bar in Palm Springs, I turned around and he was just standing there, holding a drink. I checked in the bar mirror to see if he had a reflection. He saw me checking and smiled. It was perfect.
Once, in a gay bar in Palm Springs, I turned around and he was just standing there, holding a drink. I checked in the bar mirror to see if he had a reflection. He saw me checking and smiled. It was perfect.
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More halite, this time with a beautiful cobalt-blue coloration from radiation in situ.
November 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
More halite, this time with a beautiful cobalt-blue coloration from radiation in situ.
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Shot + chaser
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Shot + chaser
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if snl had any fuckin balls they'd bring stavvy in to play bari weiss
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
if snl had any fuckin balls they'd bring stavvy in to play bari weiss
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That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
CSIRO to slash hundreds of jobs in cost-saving drive
The staff association at the nation’s leading scientific research organisation says the latest round of cuts marks “a sad day for publicly funded science”.
www.smh.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...