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Reilly [mourning]

@memento-mori-medic.bsky.social
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Father 🧔🏻 Paramedic 🚑 Vegan 🌱 Runner 🏃 Stoic 💀 Fueled by caffeine ☕️, punk rock 🎸, and good books 📚.

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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yesterday I lost a colleague, mentor, and friend. Still in shock. Thinking of how banal our last conversation was. How you never expect it to the be the last. Wishing I'd told them how much respect I had for them when I had the chance. #Paramedic #EMS
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Two more paramedics down. When I got into this profession 15 years ago, I had no idea just how many of my coworkers would die in the line of duty. Thoughts to all on board and the families waiting for news.
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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A vegan asks you to reconsider. An animal gets no choice at all. Calling advocacy “force” takes remarkable indifference to what actual force looks like. #animalrights
Portrait meme with bold white text on black and “force” highlighted in red. It lists practices animals can experience in agriculture: force-feeding, forced breeding, separation from their young, confinement, mutilation, transport to slaughter, and killing. The closing text reads: “Tell me again how vegans ‘force’ their views on people.” The Vegan Project branding and a green leaf appear below.
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Receiving almost no engagement on Bluesky. Similar (or identical) posts on other platforms with significantly fewer followers elicit much higher returns. Time to accept I've been throttled here? Probably going to nuke this account shortly. Maybe time for a break anyway.
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Know how sometimes mice steal your hair piece by piece over years and slowly fashion rope with which to hogtie and roast you alive for dinner in front of their enormous mice families? Anyway, now my kids won't go to sleep.
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every justice movement gets pushback. It's just that veganism is dismissed as diet. That's how objectified the victims are, they aren't even thought about by their oppressors.
The image contains text in a conversation format, with "Nonvegans" and "Vegans" as the two parties. Each group has different statements aligned to the left:

Nonvegans: 
- "equality now; legalize gay marriage!"
- "fuck police brutality; black lives matter!"
- "no means no; end rape culture!"

Vegans: 
- "animals are not commodities; go vegan!"

Nonvegans: 
- "wow, you vegans need to stop antagonizing people and respect their choices..."

At the bottom, there's a watermark that reads "@VeganForLifeNZ".
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I watched the last episode of The Boys last night. Reddit was awash with posts about how The Deep didn't deserve the ending he got. How he was a sympathetic character. So colour me shocked when the redemption arc I was waiting for never came to pass.
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I spent years believing I'm an angry person, and it has been incredibly difficult to effect change. I've recently come to discover that I'm not an angry person, I am just in an angry situation. I made a decision to change that, and I haven't experienced anger in weeks. Life-altering ❤️
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A quote by John W. Gardner next to his portrait: "History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable."
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I eat my lunch on this table.
Two black squirrels getting frisky on a patio table.
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"That’s one of the strangest things about living around addiction. Your definition of normal keeps moving. Things that would have horrified you a year earlier become Tuesday."
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We get it. He's doing another Fascism today. Can we stop with the sheer panic every time he spews his nonsense on X? They have a literal playbook. None of this is surprising. He (and they) want you to react the way you are. Nothing has changed. Stay calm. Organize. Fight back.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Someday you will die somehow, and something's gonna steal your carbon.
Lyrics: Modest Mouse - Parting of the Sensory

Image: Drunk Priest - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SBHozgofmcI
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Steel City Vegan @indashadoz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Steel City Vegan @indashadoz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
make a band edible: Hole
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
make a band edible: Cake
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Less than a month since I started #Running again following an injury. Almost have the pace down to 5:00 / km. Not bad for 43! #PoweredByPlants
Post-run selfie by the river on a sunny afternoon. A tall yellow flower growing from a crack in the asphalt. Post-run stats. 10 kilometers in 51:24 for a pace of 5:08 per kilometer.
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Scrolling through my "Likes" history and realizing its mostly just photos of Debbie Harry.
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Found on my pillow at bedtime. My six-year-old son commemorating our trip to see a stage play of The Hobbit, and the beautiful Lake Huron sunset we took in the next day. Sweetest little guy in the world ❤️ #DadSky
A note from my son that reads "Dere Daddy. I. Loved. The. Hobbit." A drawing from my son of our time watching the sunset on the beach. Red and yellow sky, blue water, yellow sand, and two tiny stick figures.
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Other species do NOT exist for humans to experiment on. #StarTrekDay #StarTrek 🐇
This image features Captain Kathryn Janeway from *Star Trek: Voyager* in her Starfleet uniform, standing confidently with her arms crossed. On the right side of the image, a quote is displayed in bold white text, which reads:  
**"What you're doing isn't self defense. It's the exploitation of another species for your own benefit. My people decided a long time ago that that was unacceptable – even in the name of scientific progress."**

The quote reflects Janeway's ethical stance against exploiting other species.
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Labour Day view. Play safe folks, we want to rest too. Currently spinning (on a terrible ambulance stereo): Tubthumping. #Paramedic #LabourDay
Restricted view of an ambulance cab. Toggles, switches, iPads, radio equipment.
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Woof. Too hot for September. An easy 5k was torture. Still, better #Running weather than it will be in a few months. Enjoy the sunshine 🌞!
Post-run selfie in the backyard. "Beware of Dog!" sign behind me. Yes, beware.
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Since this site keeps even us non-Americans inundated with US politics, here's my two cents. Too many Americans still think Trump is a bad leader. He's not a leader. He's not trying to govern at all. He is beyond politics, and playing politics will not get rid of him. The US is a failed state.
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#Last4Albums Folk Punk Rock Indie Hard Rock Per my four- and six-year-old boys, the winner of the week is The Warning - Everything's Falling.
Israel Kamakawiwoʻole - Facing Future (1993)Niis - Niis World (2025)Stars - Heart (2003)The Warning - Everything's Falling (2026)
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#NowReading Very excited to start the latest novel by Marlon James, my favourite living author! #BookSky
The cover of Marlon James' latest novel, The Disappearers.
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"It's like I used to tell my wife. ".. if you don't like it, you can leave." And I say the same thing to my current wife, and I'll say it to my next one too." Relevant today. Third times the charm?
Stanley Hudson of The Office in a red sports car and dressed for success. Also known as Florida Stanley, or Stanley the Manley.
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I don't speak on this often, but being a man married to an alcoholic woman presents very frustrating challenges. Society struggles with accepting that the wife could be the abusive spouse. I do my best for my wee boys. I don't know what I'm trying to say here. It's just hard, guys. #AlAnon
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"Well, I have precious little sympathy for the selfish propriety of civilized man, and if a war of races should occur between the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathize with the bears." - John Muir, 'A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf' #BookSky #Bears
Two brown bears looking at something off camera. One is on all fours, the others is standing on his hind legs.A photo of the different types of existent bears.The cover of Remy Marion's 'On Being a Bear.'The cover of John Muir's 'A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf.'
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"It's given a lot of people permission to be themselves, to not dream it, be it, which is the motto of the movie, really. I would like to be remembered for that." Farewell to Tim Curry (1946-2026) #RIP
Tim in costume as Dr. Frank-N-Furter
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Has there ever been a more iconic entrance? Rest in peace, Tim Curry.
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
m.youtube.com/watch?v=j8bm...
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show - I'm Going Home
YouTube video by THIRDPROJECT
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Cause I've seen blue skies, through the tears In my eyes And I realise.. I'm going home." This one hurts. Remembering Tim Curry today.
Tim Curry in the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Sunset over Lake Huron. #Ontario #Canada #Sunset
Sunset over Lake Huron. Sunset over Lake Huron. Sunset over Lake Huron. A boat on Lake Huron with the deep orange subset colouring everything.
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A few shots from the road over the weekend. The last two weeks have been intense, including the worst call I've attended in 13 years. Peaceful moments can be found anywhere, though they may be brief. Take what you can and get back on the road... there's always a call holding! #Paramedic
A legit candid shot. My partner snuck up on me while I was taking in the sunset and I got the heebie-jeebies and turned around.

Me, in uniform, turning to face the camera while leaning against a railing and watching the sunset. A beautiful Ontario sunset of warm orange and pink radiating from wisps of cloud. The back of an ambulance in the dark with its emergency lights active. The camera caught the moment the blue light activates, and blue is just beginning to fill the frame from the right. My shadow is visible against the ambulance as I take the shot. The moon in the gloaming over small-town Ontario, the thinnest white crescent in a pale orange sky.
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Dissonance. Leaving the scene of a rural medical emergency. Indoors was chaos and despair. The crickets were indifferent. #Paramedic
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Two months ago I injured my leg and an 840 day #running streak came to an end. It was a loss, and being patient through healing was difficult. Today I am finally back at it! Slow, but pain-free. Very grateful for good health today 🏃🏻‍♂️‍➡️🌱☀️
Post-run selfie at the Goldie Mill ruins in Guelph. Garmin run stats. 6km in 34:14.
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
#NowReading #BookSky Absolutely beautiful book. Reading it to my boys!
The cover of Liv Albert's 'The Odyssey: A Modern Re-Tellling.'
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
#Last4Albums
Dead Pioneers - Wagon Burner (2026)Future Islands - Singles (2014)Mogwai - Atomic (2016)Santana - Supernatural (1999)
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Forgive me, [Cato], for I have [assented to false impressions].
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Reilly [mourning] @memento-mori-medic.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
How do you act when no one is watching? That is the measure of your integrity.
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