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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Hi there, Are you looking for the Ed Mullen who is a Chicago attorney and political candidate? If so, that’s a different Ed Mullen. I live in New Jersey.

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

A made a little block print off a Northern Parula a couple years ago. (The colors aren’t quite accurate.)

Block print of a Northern Parula on a branch

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

While I’m already a PBS member, I also just became a direct monthly supporter of @njspotlightnews.org

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

You, I see them now. Thanks. You all are great. Thanks for your work!

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

@njspotlightnews.org Hello! The podcast feed hasn’t updated since Friday. Will this be resuming soon? Thanks! I’m a daily listener.

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I’m sorry to hear about this. The NJ Spotlight news team has become my key source of NJ news, especially here on Bluesky.

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Very disappointing, especially at this time. We have so few journalism outlets in NJ. @njspotlightnews.bsky.social has become my first listen each morning, listening to the podcast from the night before. I’m also member.

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

"...or when something is dead, when something is done, it’s complete, and it needs to be processed back into the whole."

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

"...mushrooms are like, this is food if we can find a way to use it. This could be nourishment. And when something breaks down in our communities, it’s actually a moment, usually, when something needs nourishing..."

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

From @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social from her July 2024 appearance on On Being: "So mushrooms, I feel like they’re our great detoxer. They’re the ones who understand that nothing needs to be wasted; that everything can be used in some way..." onbeing.org/programs/adr...

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adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life

The social creative and visionary of emergence. Fractals. Pleasure activism. How we change — and change together.

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Thanks for your coverage.

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

#Unrivaled is the most interesting startup in years

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

And maybe the last American studio film casually set in Hungary. Or even Central or Eastern Europe, for that matter. Such a good movie.

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This piece was originally published on Medium. For the last 10 years, I've written quite a bit, but mostly published on other sites. I'm slowly bringing some if this writing back into my own site. More to come.

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

5 years ago I published this reflection on aspects of Fred Rogers that are often overlooked. He was far more than a sweet old man on TV. He had a vision, bravely built his product, and retained the control needed to maintain it's authenticity. edmullen.com/all/thinking... Thanks again, Fred.

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Thinking about Fred | Ed Mullen | Strategy & Design

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

scientific perspective, but from the eye of keen observer. They say grief is the price you pay for love. And loving is noticing. It's really hard to see across years and then speak to it, but Renkl does it beautifully.

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I recently finished @margaretrenkl.bsky.social 's The Comfort of Crows. It's a beautiful book, as many people say. But it's also elegiac. Renkl deeply understands the natural world around her, which means she can see the species decline, the shifting of seasons, migration changes. Not from a...

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Yeah, I have too. And being disconnected hasn't felt good. Bluesky head been attracting thoughtful people and there's been a big influx of people in the last couple weeks. Starter packs help building up your feed.

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It seems like a critical mass is forming here. That's exciting. I loved the old days of twitter. It changed the trajectory of my career. It's decline, along with a job change amidst the pandemic, left me with a real loss of connection to a community I really valued. So I'm optimistic but cautious.

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Hawke's assertion is that if you want to help your community, family, friends, you have to express yourself. And to express yourself, you have to know yourself. And to do that, you have to follow your love.

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

I've spent a lot of time this morning reading @aworkinglibrary's posts on everythingchanges.us/blog/. Every post is filled with clearly refined wisdom and such perfect metaphors they read as literature. "Energy makes time" resonated especially, everythingchanges.us/blog/energy-...

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Recent entries from the blog. | everything changes

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

Tim models a fierce embrace of others, across lines of difference. Neighborliness. The strength of caring for those around you. Thank you Tim! I'm with you! Fred would be too!

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

Hell yeah, Tim Walz! I'm am 48 year old white guy. Gov. Walz is so important because he offers a model of white masculinity that is compassionate, supportive, and inclusive. For so long, white men have had to contend with a weird inertia that expects a distorted, limited model of what manhood means.

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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

The White House should stop ignoring Musk’s behavior & insulate agencies against risk, starting with shifting unique agency activity off of X. No American should have to use a private platform to read official statements or interact with our elected representatives or appointed officials.

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If X and Musk are not politically neutral, democracies need to act to mitigate the growing risks.

Good afternoon from summertime Washington, where I am writing this dispatch along the Anacostia River. Alex Howard here, with another civic text. Thanks to everyone who has subscribed and amplified t...

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

Two summers ago, I watched an orb weaver build webs on the same goldenrod over the course of the summer. I watched the increasing sophistication of each web, from the early clumsy ones to highly engineered structures. It was remarkable to see this individual learn. www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/o...

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Opinion | My New Neighbor Has Eight Legs and a Knack for Design

What we don’t know about the natural world always far exceeds what we do.

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Ugh, what a wasteland. Do I have to?

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