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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Want to bring up this excellent reporting by This American Life on how the compassionate resettlement of Somali refugees spearheaded by the Minnesota Council of Churches has been used to radicalise folks on the right for over ten years […]

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Realised last night on my long run that the reason I've been throwing myself into training so intensely is that it's something in my life I can fully control on my own.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

You couldn't make Cooking With Dog today.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Squaredish, three Bambino locations, Mani, Doom Slice, Little Slice, Cutie Pi. The scourge of trendy slice pizza joints gripping #Dublin must end. DiFontaines forever.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

While I was in #Minnesota last month I went to my favourite museum and saw an AI-riddled exhibition that frustrated me so much that I haven't stopped thinking about it since. I finally exorcised that demon and wrote about it for my blog […]

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Hegseth and the rest of the Trump admin are very obviously trying to do an October surprise for the MN gubenatorial and Senate elections. Let's stay wise to that. #Minnesota #USPol

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I've been reading Kate Brown's new book Tiny Garden's Everywhere and also listening to Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine these past weeks. I always learn so much from these ladies and I'm so thankful for them!

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Going to start a 2000s edgy emo band called Reading For Pain.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

If you're looking for something to do in #Dublin tonight, my colleague Lily Toomey and I will on the panel for this screening of old ESB films at the IFI. Part of #DublinHistoryWeek. dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/if… #energyhist #envhist

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

"Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft […]

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Can't believe the Kansas City Irish Festival comes with a $40 entry fee. I just want to gawk!

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Wait, LibreOffice integrates with Zotero? How did I not know this?! Word is officially dead to me.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

But there are some fabulous illustrations throughout including these ones that I turned into a Signal sticker pack so you can send your friends a pan/plane or a car/torpedo. The illustrator is unfortunately uncredited, so that's a fun side project for any art & […] [Original post on social.coop]

Black line drawing of a warplane superimposed over a blue line drawing of four pans that look like they're falling from the sky.

Black line drawing of a torpedo superimposed over a blue line drawing of a streamline-style car.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Surprisingly there is little mention of the new Fontana Dam built in Tennessee to aid wartime aluminum manufacturing, which is why I wanted to look at these materials. As far as readers of this pamphlet knew, aluminum grows on trees and the energy and labour needed to smelt it is completely […]

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

The introduction defines the term in the way we'd recognise from Disney, as imagining anything and then engineering it down to reality. The rest of the pamphlet, however implies a much more wartime connotation: that aluminium supplies are Going To War but you can […] [Original post on social.coop]

Section of the pamphlet featuring an illustration of a man in a suit and a photomontage that includes an electric heater, a lightbulb, and a woman doing her hair. Text reads:
"When you do your 'imagineering' on the products you expect people to buy tomorrow with the War Bonds they're buying today, remember that the high reflectivity of aluminum for light and radiant heat will make your products stand out in the markets. Data and information on this characteristic of aluminum can be supplied promptly on request; the aluminum can be supplied just as soon as the needs of the war job are met."

Section of the pamphlet featuring an illustration of a woman surrounded by an aluminium pail, pie dish, and saucepan. Below is a photomontage of aluminium foil cigarette packaging. Text reads:
"Today, of course, aluminium has gone to war. But indulge yourself in some "Imagineering" if the use of a non-toxic metal enters your plans, and don't forget there'll be lots and lots of aluminum available when Hitler and Tojo are licked."

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

#TIL that the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) coined the term "Imagineering" over 10 years before the Walt Disney Company started using it. #histodons 🧵1/4

Cover of a blue and white pamphlet from 1942 titled "Aluminum Imagineering Notebook." The cover shows a graphic illustration of a male engineer working on a drafting board.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

It also makes sense why people (not everyday people but like energy policy wonks I guess) are talking about "green" ammonia and relating it to "green" hydrogen. If you're manufacturing ammonia using electrolysis (still very energy intensive and inefficient btw) then using that hydrogen gas to […]

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

After reading some industry publications about natural gas and fertiliser I've realised that the first step in ammonia synthesis through the Haber-Bosch process is making hydrogen gas that is then reacted with nitrogen to form ammonia. So when natural gas is used, as is most often the case, the […]

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

My brain too big, my bra too tight, my booty shaking from left to right.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

I have to say I do respect the rich people in this city who put big contemporary sculptures in their front yard. For me it shows that they aren't shy about the fact that an ostentatious house is, to a large degree a spectacle for the public to gawk at. #KCMO

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

First time in a while I've just put my music on shuffle and it's such a fun trip down memory lane. Matt & Kim, Ingrid Michaelson, and the Ting Tings. I was such a cool teenager.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Just decided to scroll over to Gaza on google maps. Here's the satellite imagery of Rafah. The whole strip looks like this.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Just been reading a bunch of stuff about malaria and radiation poisoning in the 20th century and it makes me want to write a book called Not Everything is Tuberculosis.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Finally got around to reading Kate Brown's Plutopia and holy shit nuclear research should have just ended with the Curies.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Reposting this review of #HankGreen's book An Beautifully Foolish Endeavor I wrote back in October 2021. I think it still holds up and there's another layer to it now that Hank has fallen further down the same rabbit hole as his character Andy […]

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

The technological innovations we need to keep up with are new critical approaches and theoretical frameworks. Famously, historians don't care whether you use Zotero or keep all your sources on rubber banded stacks of notecards. Why would a bullshit generator be something anyone in this field […]

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

I am tired of hearing humanities scholars talk about LLM's like they are something they begrudgingly have to use. I don't have the job security these people do nor the research and writing experience, and yet I can just be confident that I'm able to do better work without engaging with it. Like […]

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Well it took me a while to figure out where to reach out about an absentee ballot for the MN primary but it has been requested! Godspeed to the USPS!

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@thenewrepublic/break… This is one of those instances where I think it's important to not just talk about Trump doing this but the US government. First to distinguish it from the several Trump Inc. scams […]

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

My coworkers and I are standing in a circle, chanting. The camera turns to me. "Shitty little moustache and some fuck-off bangs," we shout in rhythm. "Shitty little moustache and some fuck-off bangs."

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Yesterday I thought it would be fun to grow a shitty little moustache again. Today I am not so sure.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

RIP Bill McLaughlin also. Losing another iconic MOR head is what triggered this thought.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Don't talk to me about Garrison Keillor alright? We figured that one out and Live From Here is a beautiful gem of a show.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

What happens when the burden of NPR causes MPR to collapse? Feel like everything good about the public radio network has come out of Minnesota and the East Coast Planet Money heads are slowly killing it.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

My last stop for #SelfieLove is the Nelson Atkins Museum. These giant shuttlecocks by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen are scattered around the grounds, with the museum itself meant to serve as a giant badminton net. Like the Spoonbridge and Cherry in […] [Original post on social.coop]

The same person with hair in short braids standing in front of a lawn with a gigantic sculpture of a shuttlecock one sunny day. They are wearing a black CATU graphic T-shirt.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

This world cup preamble is capitalism overheating.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Looking at a 1975 report from the TVA on fertilizer development in the #DRC, then Zaire. The recommend exploiting the guano in the caves in Mount Hoyo. Obviously bats are the suspected vector for the current #ebola outbreak, and this is in the Kasai region where […] [Original post on social.coop]

Map from a TVA report. Accompanying text reads "ORGANIC MATERIAL An estimated 300,000 metric tons of guano is located in caves in Mount Hoyo in Haut Zaire. Figure 3. Location of potential fertilizer resources.
The map shows various resources with icons for oil exploration, gas, coal, and in the northwest if the region, guano.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Today on my #SelfieLove trail is the Kemper Museum, or as I call it the Kimmy Schmidt museum. Ellie Kemper and her family are old MO money so they do things like fund museums and participate in the Veiled Prophet Ball. But the museum staff are great, they have […] [Original post on social.coop]

Same person as in previous images standing outside a contemporary art museum that has an angular steel roof and a white painted cast concrete exterior. There is gigantic statue of an abstracted spider out front. It is a sunny morning and the wind is blowing.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

I haven't been in the US during summer for six years now, so this is my first time experiencing the air quality impacts from wildfire smoke. Walking around this seeing it hazy even down here in MO has me feeling very strange.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

The next stop for #SelfieLove is UMKC campus surrounding the Linda Hall Library, whose colours I am inadvertently matching today. The campus is home to this gigantic set of stairs and has nice water bottles that cost more than a trip to the grocery store.

The same person from the precious image is pictured in front of a long staircase planted with trees. They are wearing a white shirt with a blue and yellow ascot/scarf and are holding a water bottle with a blue and yellow kangaroo on it.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

I'm following Kansas City's #SelfieLove trail while I'm here to visit some cool cultural institutions and pick up some fun swag. My first stop is the Linda Hall Library, the science and technology library where I'm currently a research fellow. My work looks into […] [Original post on social.coop]

Photo of a person with curly brown hair and bangs wearing a black collared shirt and gold wire rim glasses. They are holding up two small pamphlets. One is titled "Rapid Adjustment Farms" and the other "Food at the Grass Roots: The Nation's Stake in Soil Minerals."

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

The journalism we need is not reporting on every press statement this diarrhea-mouthed administration outs out, but to investigate what money and lobbying is pushing for these decisions.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@thenewrepublic/break… Once again I have to say, this is something oil and car companies have wanted for a while. When these moves are passed off as part of Trump's irrational ideological crusade, that […]

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

Sitting in a cafe in a Midwestern city with Cake playing on the sound system. Feels like I'm back in 2015.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

It is cloudy in Iowa in a different way.

Big cumulus clouds lit by the evening sun over rolling fields near the Iowa-Missouri border. Trees and plants in the foreground are blurred by the motion of the train from which the image was taken.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

Finally got my emergency tax back after TCD messed my paychecks up all spring. I could cry I'm so relieved.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

Absolutely mad day yesterday! Accompanying the Industrial Heritage Society on their tour of Turlough Hill in the morning and playing with Niamh Kavanagh and half of Inchicore in the evening. Loads of fun but boy am I tired.

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Memecosystem Services @gcoleman.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Sorry I don't have time to acknowledge the quirks of your dog's personality. I'm too busy stomping round the place to the beat of the music.

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