Reposted by Rory MullinsLouise @selkies.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Brand! New! Reading thread for 2026! 1681
Reposted by Rory MullinsDonna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Today was a great day for spotting Shield bugs! Very colourful little characters. 1353
Reposted by Rory MullinsRoxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 16/08/2026PSA for any PhDs required to submit their dissertation to ProQuest: The only way to stop them from adding your work to Turnitin and iThenticate is to opt out of making your work “discoverable through Google Scholar and other major search engines.” It doesn’t actually say Turnitin anywhere 🤷♀️ 16954
Reposted by Rory MullinsSøren Have @sorenhave.dk · 03/08/2026Reminded me of this brilliant Letzte Generation come-back (from around 2023): ‘We are allowed to do this. We have a tractor.’ 👌🏻👏🏻 23212
Reposted by Rory MullinsDr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 31/07/2026AI-generated content must be labelled in the EU from Sunday. #GenAI #AIEthics #AISlop www.rte.ie/news/2026/07...rte.ieMade by AI? EU tells firms to stick a label on itDeepfakes and other AI-generated content must be labelled from Sunday, as the European Union's sweeping artificial intelligence transparency rules kick in. 18429
Reposted by Rory MullinsM.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Agree, we need to be specific about what “AI” means! (or better: avoid the term entirely - see this thread & paper by @emilymbender.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/emil...) 1182
Reposted by Rory MullinsNigel Pugh @nspugh.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Feeling the extreme heat? Surfaces beneath tree shade can be over 20°C cooler, this makes a massive difference to life quality and more. Are you living without trees, check your postcode 👇 www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/protecting-t... 0124
Reposted by Rory Mullins🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026for the england match it's time for irish people to grow up a little and get over the performative hatred of an old enemy it's ancient history at this stage, we're kinda related to a bunch of them too so the posturing that so we're different is a bit crass let's put the viking raids behind us 💙🇳🇴❤️ 1527573
Reposted by Rory MullinsOutspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 26/06/2026On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.” 17974392602
Reposted by Rory MullinsBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 27/06/2026I think they're perfectly aware that they are convincing more people to read *Careless People* (you should read it, it's genuinely excellent): us.macmillan.com/books/978125... 35/us.macmillan.comCareless People#1 New York Times BestsellerA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, AP, THE ECONOMIST, SLATE, THE GLOBE AN... 228264
Reposted by Rory MullinsKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/06/2026TY @ktoussaint.bsky.social for covering the extremely urgent shift required in media coverage of deadly fossil fuel disasters - go read the full article, it's an excellent summary of this problem (and share it) www.fastcompany.com/91563140/sto...fastcompany.comThere's a deadly heat wave in Europe. Experts are begging media outlets to stop making it look funImages of crowded beaches or people swimming in pools are known to make extreme weather seem less dangerous. 511278
Reposted by Rory MullinsAbbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026. 236168277553
Reposted by Rory MullinsKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.” 380153185989
Reposted by Rory MullinsMaynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie · 28/05/2026📺Watch back: Prof Peter Thorne @icarus-maynooth.bsky.social was on CNN this morning discussing the current European heatwave 🌡️ video.snapstream.net/Play/8OW4EGh... 043
Reposted by Rory MullinsKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 26/05/2026Cannot 👏 emphasize 👏 this 👏 enough 12561113
Reposted by Rory MullinsDónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 05/04/2026A thread on the reception of the Easter rising among Algeriam nationalists. Emir Khaled, grandson of resistance leader Abd al-Qadir, led a movement for change to the colonial system after WWI. For his supporters, the Rising was a cautionary tale for the French. The movement's newspaper L'ikdam... 24725
Reposted by Rory MullinsLaura @wompanafrank.bsky.social · 28/03/2026“Squid” is used as an antisemitic slur in China because the words for squid and Jew sound similar. In case you didn’t know. 17637123
Reposted by Rory MullinsIrishPhilosophy @irishphilosophy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026The Cáin Adomnáin is sometimes called, anachronistically, the first Geneva Convention because it punishes those who kill non-combatants in war, over and above the normal honour price. 051
Rory Mullins @rorymullins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Post a banger, not in English Rone / (La)horde - Room with a view (Kinda cheating as It’s instrumental, but from Marseilles, France) youtu.be/w77nJ6BBEhc?...youtu.beRone - Room With A View (Official Music Video)YouTube video by Rone 010
Reposted by Rory MullinsWarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 21/01/2026A group of ten local residents climbed 800 meters above the city and lit 450 torches to form the message: "No Kings." This is how Davos welcomed Trump. 191305294
Reposted by Rory MullinsEhud @duhe.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Time to continue the tradition. Share your recs! 101
Reposted by Rory MullinsLaura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 20/12/2025It's another extremely spicy night at TPUSA's AmFest, where Rob Schneider has just roundly lambasted Trump for bombing small boats from Venezuela and called Candace Owens retarded and the greatest gifted the world has ever known 1135364
Reposted by Rory MullinsCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/12/2025Photographer Martin Parr just passed. If you don't know his work, the Guardian has a really nice introduction here. h/t @wvschaik.bsky.socialtheguardian.comMartin Parr: the photographer’s career in picturesA look back at the career of Martin Parr who has died at the age of 73 515142
Reposted by Rory MullinsJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it. We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis. 19889319
Reposted by Rory Mullinsleft-shark politics @andrewctenor.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Can we get this in Halifax please #BikeHfx 56013
Rory Mullins @rorymullins.bsky.social · 20/11/2025RIP Mani, creator of some wonderful basslines. youtu.be/3QLMS0QsPF0?...youtu.beThe Stone Roses - Waterfall (Live On The Other Side Of Midnight) 1989 1080p 60fpsYouTube video by Mucky Fingers 021
Reposted by Rory MullinsWaylon @hooneriphic.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Lord, I have seen what you have done for the people in that pub at the Dublin airport during the Hungary / Ireland match and I want that for us. 011
Reposted by Rory MullinsChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 09/11/20251/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️ 868109757230
Reposted by Rory MullinsPhil Dore @philjdore.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland. It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare. 8456621746
Reposted by Rory MullinsCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Reject modernity, embrace tradition 18784233
Reposted by Rory MullinsMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 25/10/2025My most popular cartoon by a long chalk is also oddly niche, in that it mostly appeals to a generation who remember the song it refers to and enjoy the nostalgia for their youth. I can draw one for you if you like. www.worldofmoose.com/collections/... 511315260
Reposted by Rory MullinsCian Ó Concubhair @cianoconcubhair.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Is nuacht an-bhrónach domsa í seo Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...rte.ieBroadcaster and scríbhneoir Manchán Magan dies aged 55The writer, broadcaster and documentary maker Manchán Magan has died at the age of 55, his family has confirmed. 32811
Reposted by Rory MullinsGil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/20251/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that 8773093371
Reposted by Rory MullinsAnnika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 21/09/2025The Kirk memorial service is set up as a religious revival (his killing has been framed that way by Cardinal Dolan & others). The singer says: "We want the Kirk family to be healed, and we want our land to return to Jesus." Christian nationalism had become part of Kirk's brand - it's on full display 621622409
Reposted by Rory MullinsBaby octopus @mancalled.horse · 15/08/2025AI slop steals from human artists and writers to enrich the billionaires that fund fascism. You will not defeat fascism by posting pictures made on the fascist billionaires' energy and water guzzling plagiarism extruder. 062
Reposted by Rory MullinsJudith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 28/07/2025One like, one #anthropology opinion. 1. our relationship with #sociology is modelled after Schopenhauer‘s porcupine dilemma. We’re so close, it hurts, so we overemphasise our differences. 49425
Reposted by Rory MullinsRabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 26/06/2025The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. 1/3 13612
Reposted by Rory MullinsEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27/06/2025🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...cato.orgThe Misleading Panic over MisinformationPeople can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth. 771693745
Reposted by Rory MullinsPunk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 15/06/202546 years ago today Unknown Pleasures is the debut studio album by English post punk band Joy Division, released on this day in 1979 by Factory Records. #punk #punkrock #postpunk #unknownpleasures #joydivision #history #postpunkhistory #otd 1343271
Reposted by Rory MullinsEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/06/2025In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control. 8142291783
Reposted by Rory MullinsŽeljko @mislissippi.eurosky.social · 25/04/2025"Society is just doing what any man in a relationship does when confronted with his own failure and his own fuck ups. He turns away and doesn't want to be reminded of it. And not being able to prevent the climate catastrophe is humanity's biggest fuck up of all time!" #Talkcollapsesteadyhq.com"It's liberating to come out as an asshole society"Müller has long since realised that the climate battle is lost. Collapse is a reality. Now, activists in Germany are organising a camp to learn how to act within collapse 31910
Reposted by Rory MullinsHari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Also, just to get this one off my chest, no one's going to live on Mars. There's no magnetosphere. Musk is not the guy who'll get us through the great filter. He's just a very rich stoner who got pilled by his own social media site /endfornow 523226
Reposted by Rory MullinsMinna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 14/02/2025The audacity of Vance scolding Europe for having annulled Romanian election results due to Russian interference, representing a president who violently physically attacked the US system of governance and refused to acknowledge his defeat, still claiming the elections was stolen, is simply disgusting 16947081148
Reposted by Rory Mullinsa grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾 @chasesolidago.bsky.social · 23/01/2025The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data 26927404
Reposted by Rory MullinsBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20/12/2024A friendly reminder that if you’re in traffic, you ARE traffic. And mobility is about space. HT @happy_roman for graphic 542492
Reposted by Rory MullinsCiara Murphy @ciaralynnmurphy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024I’m really disappointed to see Catherine Martin lose her seat. A revolutionary Arts Minister, the best since Michael D. #GE24 2467
Reposted by Rory MullinsDr Graham Lloyd-Jones @drgrahamlj.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Here's my take on #COVID-19 (the disease not the pandemic). It's not what you think it is ... A thread 👇 1/23 61548239
