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
· Mar 26
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There's a non paywalled version of my vanadium review paper up on the FBICRC website. Different formatting to the original version published in the journal Minerals Engineering in 2020, it was used as teaching material for a course on vanadium metallurgy.
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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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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...
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Take a closer look and you can see... it's Manul Monday!
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Take a closer look and you can see... it's Manul Monday!
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The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
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[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
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if microsoft just made outlook search not suck they'd see triple the productivity gains of any AI integration
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
if microsoft just made outlook search not suck they'd see triple the productivity gains of any AI integration
Cooking dirt again
November 14, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Cooking dirt again
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It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny
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November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny
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a quick thread of some of the references to Australia in the newly released Epstein documents that I found
November 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
a quick thread of some of the references to Australia in the newly released Epstein documents that I found
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Sally McManus (ACTU) on Nazis.
*I'dd that smashing labour unions was critical to the Nazi rise to power in GER, and the labour movement a key target. >
*I'dd that smashing labour unions was critical to the Nazi rise to power in GER, and the labour movement a key target. >
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Sally McManus (ACTU) on Nazis.
*I'dd that smashing labour unions was critical to the Nazi rise to power in GER, and the labour movement a key target. >
*I'dd that smashing labour unions was critical to the Nazi rise to power in GER, and the labour movement a key target. >
Talking about radioactive rocks at work today, or what I spent 2012-2016 studying.
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Talking about radioactive rocks at work today, or what I spent 2012-2016 studying.
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Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
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ceo of mcdonalds say big mac yum yum
Japan’s largest tech fund says AI stocks are not in a bubble and have room to rise further.
Japan’s largest tech fund says AI stocks not at bubble stage
With seven large tech companies now accounting for more than one-third of the S&P 500 index’s weighting, investors are asking if this is a sign of overheating.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
ceo of mcdonalds say big mac yum yum
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One of the things that Australia really excels at is consumer protection.
This is huge news in @cameronwilson.bsky.social's @thesizzle.com.au- Microsoft is being forced by the Aus regulator refund all the ultra-dodgy AI plan pushing it was doing for Office 365
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
One of the things that Australia really excels at is consumer protection.
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Chinese astronauts become the first to grill wings in space, paving the way for future uncstronauts
November 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Chinese astronauts become the first to grill wings in space, paving the way for future uncstronauts
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My dad knew Cheney since he was fords chief of staff and would always say “i liked him then. Idk what the hell happened”
In the run up to the second Iraq war my dad wrote an article comparing it to the gulf of Tonkin and Cheney himself made sure my father was fired from his gov job
Anyway he’s dead
In the run up to the second Iraq war my dad wrote an article comparing it to the gulf of Tonkin and Cheney himself made sure my father was fired from his gov job
Anyway he’s dead
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
My dad knew Cheney since he was fords chief of staff and would always say “i liked him then. Idk what the hell happened”
In the run up to the second Iraq war my dad wrote an article comparing it to the gulf of Tonkin and Cheney himself made sure my father was fired from his gov job
Anyway he’s dead
In the run up to the second Iraq war my dad wrote an article comparing it to the gulf of Tonkin and Cheney himself made sure my father was fired from his gov job
Anyway he’s dead
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Quick everyone make the good tweets about dick cheney before all the Americans wake up
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Quick everyone make the good tweets about dick cheney before all the Americans wake up
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![american indie developer deciding on a setting: in a cozy mountain town surrounded by wholesome yokai, ghibli inspired cooperative sustainable cherry blossoms and you can pet the dog
french indie developer deciding on a setting: in a world where the gestalt misery of colonisation's victims has manifested into a sort of misery elemental, three church-like religious organisations hav[nine more paragraphs that leave you feeling like you know less than you knew before you started reading]
polish indie developer deciding on a setting: warsaw👍🇵🇱 it is very bad](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bd5w6iipngycpaldvydcslbd/bafkreifwfovv2nzqcjd2cygzz5a6xqmqrcjclghyc37haz5rwygbg2krsa@jpeg)
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every science news article is like "chinese researchers invent cure for hurting your back getting out of bed" and every science policy news article is like "uncomfortable bed lobby successfully lobbies trump admin with $500 bribe"
November 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
every science news article is like "chinese researchers invent cure for hurting your back getting out of bed" and every science policy news article is like "uncomfortable bed lobby successfully lobbies trump admin with $500 bribe"