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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 6m

China: ''We have made high quality EVs affordable'' USA: ''Oh yeah? Well our EVs can do backflips and can basically fly'' China: ''Why would an EV need to-'' USA: ''BACKFLIPS!''

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If Faerun can unionize so should you 😎

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Decided to fully embrace my Scottish identity by trying these new potato snacks but it turns out cold potato tastes exactly the same regardless of the continent

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Novice's Tale by Ann Swinfen 2nd in series: historical detective novel set in 14thC Oxford, it ends up being more a kind of medieval slice of life tale. Preferred the first book in series but was a decent plane read. 4/5

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Slavic Myths A collection of short stories retelling Slavic Myths paired with an essay explaining the myth. Absolutely beautiful illustrations inside the book but the retelling of the stories is done better in some chapters than others 4/5

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The US almost started a war with China due to an AI hallucination appearing in an intelligence report. They are going to kill us all and it is going to be for the most stupid reasons imaginable

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just watched Leviticus. We love some queer horror, don't we folks?

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Very sad to learn what I first assumed was a delightful act of whimsy was in fact an anti-asylum seeker publicity stunt

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sometimes you can tell just looking at the author photo that you are in for a crazy time

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Love that Americans will visit Ireland and immediately have their ancestral hatred of the British Crown activated 😂

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Climate Scientist: ''climate change might destroy human civilization!'' AI expert, laughing, slapping scientist on the back: ''Not if we destroy it first, brother😉''

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Eternally fascinated with how wacky the Mormons are - might move to Utah just so I can justify reading more books about them

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Went on Any Human Ever (a website that randomly assigns you a life from sometime in human history) I got a kid born in North China plains in 2463 bc who died of sepsis as a newborn and now I am sad

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Numero Zero by Umberto Eco Operation Gladio mixed with critique of transitional newspaper industry. Thought I would love it but ended up not really liking it at all 😂 Maybe 30 pages of plot stretched out to book length? There are so many better books about Op. Gladio and stay behind networks 3/5

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Given the terrible sales numbers it is possible a significant % of the readership of the new Mr Beast book are in fact content creators reading it for the purposes of mocking Mr Beast. And I think that is just neat

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I thought ''the US Secretary of Health has brain worms'' was like a meme or something but apparently it is just true?

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Almost as if for-profit healthcare is actually really bad at caring for people's health

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Lots of people mad at Trump renaming stuff but honestly at this point I am just glad he isn't changing it to like Gulf of Gone With the Wind or Lake Birth of a Nation

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Found a cool poem from Sappho for the tech billionaires

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Some books to know me by A selection of books that have influenced me in some way Feel free to suggest what books you think I should be reading next down below

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Please help me choose which Niulai T-shirt to buy

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Manya Koetse @manyapan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

No matter how you feel about Niu Lai, we can all agree on one thing: something extraordinary happened in Chinese cinemas this month. A mother-and-son duo’s animated 3D film earned just 342 yuan ($50) on opening day. Then its crude visuals turned it into a viral success. This is a video thread.

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

First time in a long time reading any literary theory but I had fun Tracing how Shakespeare went from beloved playwright to Prophetic Great Artist via some weird Victorian religious trends and how our own views of Art have never really escaped that Victorian theology 5/5

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Baffling discount policy on the roadside juice stall. Needless to say I got my refreshing mid-morning beverage elsewhere

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

What an insane assortment of words to put together in a sentence

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Finally, someone is brave enough to tackle the big unanswered historical questions

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What a cool nun! I wish our society had more cool nuns organizing for a socialist society inside the Church

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

M. L. Rio ''If We Were Villains'' Dark Academia at its best - you will love it if you like Donna Tartt's ''The Secret History'' Set at a drama department that only teaches/trains with Shakespeare - definitely going to be driving back into Shakespeare after this

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Reading Romance of the 3 Kingdoms to practice my Chinese and learning such phrases as 打天下 (seize state power), 国难当头 (the country is in a state of crisis), 征兵 (recruit soldiers) and 结拜兄弟 (become sworn brothers). All phrases I am sure the climate crisis will make super relevant very soon!

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Think it is kind of neat my local library has a big statue of the goddess Athena just hanging out in the back of the foreign language section

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

You are telling me if not for American independence I could be fluent in German AND Russian?!? This is what America took from me 😭😭😭

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Got caught in the thunderstorm passing over Beijing just now. Downpour so bad it kinda felt like being underwater

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Does the cosmetic surgery you do in life follow you to heaven or does it all melt away leaving you chopped for all eternity? These are the great theological questions we aren't spending enough time contemplating

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Junichiro Tanizaki's ''In Praise of Shadows'' Interesting meditation on how modernity and Westernization changed Japanese/Asian aesthetics and hence culture. Gorgeous illustrated edition but the bit about race and beauty feels a bit outdated (book was first published before the War) 4/5

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I wonder what I have been watching that my YouTube algorithm went ''the North Dallas suburbs is what you want to learn about next!''

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

They just don't make people at this level of horny anymore

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Saw two embalmed turtles today so that was pretty neat

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

''The Diaries of Mr Lucas'' by Hugo Greenhalgh Diary of a mid-ranking oddball civil servant who floated through the gay world of mid-20thC London. Fascinating insight into gay life before and just after legalization, but our diarist (Mr Lucas) isn't very likable 4.5/5

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Missed afternoon nap so went straight to Tired City

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Husband caught me trying to thirst trap

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

At the Quan Am statue (or Lady Buddha) on Sơn Trà Mountain in DaNang, one of Vietnam's tallest Buddha statues. Despite being a major tourist draw, the temple and surrounding park are actually quiet and peaceful.

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Whose flag has the AI slop bot put on this British PM graphic?

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Checking out Flying Tiger Time in Kunming. In the old officers club of the famous WW2 USAF unit the Flying Tigers, the coffee shop retains the vibes of an old army bar. Tried the Tonic Americano and actually pretty good flavor profile

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Fellow Virgo girlies rise up

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

''Why Buddhism is True'' by Robert Wright One of the best comprehensive introductions to the practice of mindfulness meditation from a secular, scientific perspective. 5/5

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Doug Rooney @dougrooney.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Tried to get AI to fix the lighting but instead it turned me and my friend into Hungry Ghosts 😓

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China Historical Photos @chinahistorypics.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Beijing, c.1929. One of the earliest known genuine colour photographs of the Temple of Heaven. The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests had been destroyed by fire in 1889 and was only fully restored in the 1920s.

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