Rory Mullins
@rorymullins.bsky.social
newly arrived. Mostly just tree-besotted…..
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
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Reject modernity, embrace tradition
October 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Reject modernity, embrace tradition
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My most popular cartoon by a long chalk is also oddly niche, in that it mostly appeals to a generation who remember the song it refers to and enjoy the nostalgia for their youth. I can draw one for you if you like.
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
October 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
My most popular cartoon by a long chalk is also oddly niche, in that it mostly appeals to a generation who remember the song it refers to and enjoy the nostalgia for their youth. I can draw one for you if you like.
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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The Kirk memorial service is set up as a religious revival (his killing has been framed that way by Cardinal Dolan & others). The singer says: "We want the Kirk family to be healed, and we want our land to return to Jesus." Christian nationalism had become part of Kirk's brand - it's on full display
September 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The Kirk memorial service is set up as a religious revival (his killing has been framed that way by Cardinal Dolan & others). The singer says: "We want the Kirk family to be healed, and we want our land to return to Jesus." Christian nationalism had become part of Kirk's brand - it's on full display
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AI slop steals from human artists and writers to enrich the billionaires that fund fascism. You will not defeat fascism by posting pictures made on the fascist billionaires' energy and water guzzling plagiarism extruder.
August 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
AI slop steals from human artists and writers to enrich the billionaires that fund fascism. You will not defeat fascism by posting pictures made on the fascist billionaires' energy and water guzzling plagiarism extruder.
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One like, one #anthropology opinion.
1. our relationship with #sociology is modelled after Schopenhauer‘s porcupine dilemma. We’re so close, it hurts, so we overemphasise our differences.
1. our relationship with #sociology is modelled after Schopenhauer‘s porcupine dilemma. We’re so close, it hurts, so we overemphasise our differences.
July 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
One like, one #anthropology opinion.
1. our relationship with #sociology is modelled after Schopenhauer‘s porcupine dilemma. We’re so close, it hurts, so we overemphasise our differences.
1. our relationship with #sociology is modelled after Schopenhauer‘s porcupine dilemma. We’re so close, it hurts, so we overemphasise our differences.
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The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it.
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June 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it.
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🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
The Misleading Panic over Misinformation
People can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth.
www.cato.org
June 27, 2025 at 6:50 AM
🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
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46 years ago today
Unknown Pleasures is the debut studio album by English post punk band Joy Division, released on this day in 1979 by Factory Records.
#punk #punkrock #postpunk #unknownpleasures #joydivision #history #postpunkhistory #otd
Unknown Pleasures is the debut studio album by English post punk band Joy Division, released on this day in 1979 by Factory Records.
#punk #punkrock #postpunk #unknownpleasures #joydivision #history #postpunkhistory #otd
June 15, 2025 at 2:40 AM
46 years ago today
Unknown Pleasures is the debut studio album by English post punk band Joy Division, released on this day in 1979 by Factory Records.
#punk #punkrock #postpunk #unknownpleasures #joydivision #history #postpunkhistory #otd
Unknown Pleasures is the debut studio album by English post punk band Joy Division, released on this day in 1979 by Factory Records.
#punk #punkrock #postpunk #unknownpleasures #joydivision #history #postpunkhistory #otd
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In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.
Escalating to escalate.
"Roughly 500 Marines based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California have been mobilized ... and will join the National Guard troops that were activated ... over the weekend without the consent of California’s governor or the city’s mayor."
"Roughly 500 Marines based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California have been mobilized ... and will join the National Guard troops that were activated ... over the weekend without the consent of California’s governor or the city’s mayor."
Freeways blocked, cars on fire: LA protests against immigration raids and National Guard deployment | CNN
Police have used flash-bangs and tear gas while dispersing crowds as protesters set at least two Waymo self-driving cars on fire. Follow for live updates
www.cnn.com
June 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.
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"Society is just doing what any man in a relationship does when confronted with his own failure and his own fuck ups. He turns away and doesn't want to be reminded of it. And not being able to prevent the climate catastrophe is humanity's biggest fuck up of all time!"
#Talkcollapse
#Talkcollapse
"It's liberating to come out as an asshole society"
Müller has long since realised that the climate battle is lost. Collapse is a reality. Now, activists in Germany are organising a camp to learn how to act within collapse
steadyhq.com
April 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
"Society is just doing what any man in a relationship does when confronted with his own failure and his own fuck ups. He turns away and doesn't want to be reminded of it. And not being able to prevent the climate catastrophe is humanity's biggest fuck up of all time!"
#Talkcollapse
#Talkcollapse
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Also, just to get this one off my chest, no one's going to live on Mars. There's no magnetosphere. Musk is not the guy who'll get us through the great filter. He's just a very rich stoner who got pilled by his own social media site /endfornow
March 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Also, just to get this one off my chest, no one's going to live on Mars. There's no magnetosphere. Musk is not the guy who'll get us through the great filter. He's just a very rich stoner who got pilled by his own social media site /endfornow
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The audacity of Vance scolding Europe for having annulled Romanian election results due to Russian interference, representing a president who violently physically attacked the US system of governance and refused to acknowledge his defeat, still claiming the elections was stolen, is simply disgusting
February 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The audacity of Vance scolding Europe for having annulled Romanian election results due to Russian interference, representing a president who violently physically attacked the US system of governance and refused to acknowledge his defeat, still claiming the elections was stolen, is simply disgusting
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The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results
On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data
On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data
January 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results
On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data
On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data
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A friendly reminder that if you’re in traffic, you ARE traffic.
And mobility is about space.
HT @happy_roman for graphic
And mobility is about space.
HT @happy_roman for graphic
December 20, 2024 at 7:21 AM
A friendly reminder that if you’re in traffic, you ARE traffic.
And mobility is about space.
HT @happy_roman for graphic
And mobility is about space.
HT @happy_roman for graphic
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