Rorie Gilligan
@roriegilligan.bsky.social
PhD. in hydrometallurgy. Research metallurgist based in Western Australia mostly working with raw materials for batteries. I've published papers on the metallurgy of vanadium, lithium, and uranium.
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Rorie Gilligan
@roriegilligan.bsky.social
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There's a non paywalled version of my vanadium review paper up on the FBICRC website. Different formatting to the original version published in the journal Minerals Engineering in 2020, it was used as teaching material for a course on vanadium metallurgy.
fbicrc.com.au/wp-content/u...
fbicrc.com.au/wp-content/u...
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a quick thread of some of the references to Australia in the newly released Epstein documents that I found
November 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
a quick thread of some of the references to Australia in the newly released Epstein documents that I found
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Sally McManus (ACTU) on Nazis.
*I'dd that smashing labour unions was critical to the Nazi rise to power in GER, and the labour movement a key target. >
*I'dd that smashing labour unions was critical to the Nazi rise to power in GER, and the labour movement a key target. >
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Sally McManus (ACTU) on Nazis.
*I'dd that smashing labour unions was critical to the Nazi rise to power in GER, and the labour movement a key target. >
*I'dd that smashing labour unions was critical to the Nazi rise to power in GER, and the labour movement a key target. >
Talking about radioactive rocks at work today, or what I spent 2012-2016 studying.
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Talking about radioactive rocks at work today, or what I spent 2012-2016 studying.
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Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
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ceo of mcdonalds say big mac yum yum
Japan’s largest tech fund says AI stocks are not in a bubble and have room to rise further.
Japan’s largest tech fund says AI stocks not at bubble stage
With seven large tech companies now accounting for more than one-third of the S&P 500 index’s weighting, investors are asking if this is a sign of overheating.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
ceo of mcdonalds say big mac yum yum
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One of the things that Australia really excels at is consumer protection.
This is huge news in @cameronwilson.bsky.social's @thesizzle.com.au- Microsoft is being forced by the Aus regulator refund all the ultra-dodgy AI plan pushing it was doing for Office 365
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
One of the things that Australia really excels at is consumer protection.
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Chinese astronauts become the first to grill wings in space, paving the way for future uncstronauts
November 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Chinese astronauts become the first to grill wings in space, paving the way for future uncstronauts
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My dad knew Cheney since he was fords chief of staff and would always say “i liked him then. Idk what the hell happened”
In the run up to the second Iraq war my dad wrote an article comparing it to the gulf of Tonkin and Cheney himself made sure my father was fired from his gov job
Anyway he’s dead
In the run up to the second Iraq war my dad wrote an article comparing it to the gulf of Tonkin and Cheney himself made sure my father was fired from his gov job
Anyway he’s dead
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
My dad knew Cheney since he was fords chief of staff and would always say “i liked him then. Idk what the hell happened”
In the run up to the second Iraq war my dad wrote an article comparing it to the gulf of Tonkin and Cheney himself made sure my father was fired from his gov job
Anyway he’s dead
In the run up to the second Iraq war my dad wrote an article comparing it to the gulf of Tonkin and Cheney himself made sure my father was fired from his gov job
Anyway he’s dead
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Quick everyone make the good tweets about dick cheney before all the Americans wake up
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Quick everyone make the good tweets about dick cheney before all the Americans wake up
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![american indie developer deciding on a setting: in a cozy mountain town surrounded by wholesome yokai, ghibli inspired cooperative sustainable cherry blossoms and you can pet the dog
french indie developer deciding on a setting: in a world where the gestalt misery of colonisation's victims has manifested into a sort of misery elemental, three church-like religious organisations hav[nine more paragraphs that leave you feeling like you know less than you knew before you started reading]
polish indie developer deciding on a setting: warsaw👍🇵🇱 it is very bad](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bd5w6iipngycpaldvydcslbd/bafkreifwfovv2nzqcjd2cygzz5a6xqmqrcjclghyc37haz5rwygbg2krsa@jpeg)
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every science news article is like "chinese researchers invent cure for hurting your back getting out of bed" and every science policy news article is like "uncomfortable bed lobby successfully lobbies trump admin with $500 bribe"
November 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
every science news article is like "chinese researchers invent cure for hurting your back getting out of bed" and every science policy news article is like "uncomfortable bed lobby successfully lobbies trump admin with $500 bribe"
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Part of Silicon Valley exceptionalism is this culture of bullshit and fantasy that Americans are just programmed into believing. The spiritual void of America is the engine of tech-capitalism.
Excerpt for Karen Hao's 'Empire of AI'
Excerpt for Karen Hao's 'Empire of AI'
November 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Part of Silicon Valley exceptionalism is this culture of bullshit and fantasy that Americans are just programmed into believing. The spiritual void of America is the engine of tech-capitalism.
Excerpt for Karen Hao's 'Empire of AI'
Excerpt for Karen Hao's 'Empire of AI'
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Probably just as well the Japanese never made it to New Zealand.
Bask in the unfeasible glory that is Aotearoa New Zealand's only locally designed and built Tank.
November 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Probably just as well the Japanese never made it to New Zealand.
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I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
October 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
Talking about spodumene calcination at MetFest yesterday.
October 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Talking about spodumene calcination at MetFest yesterday.
I remember this from the Chapo guys making fun of it. Just terribly written and clueless article.
I only remember it because I was living in Australia at the time and it was the single funniest thing published that year.
The Times was actually in the middle of trying to sell digital subscriptions to Australians and had increased some local coverage. It was perfect timing to embarrass that.
The Times was actually in the middle of trying to sell digital subscriptions to Australians and had increased some local coverage. It was perfect timing to embarrass that.
I think I might be the only one to remember that The New York Times gifted Bari and all-expenses paid sojourn to Australia and she came back with a single essay about Australian politics that was written at a eighth grade level and almost completely incorrect. She a stupido, y'all.
October 29, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I remember this from the Chapo guys making fun of it. Just terribly written and clueless article.
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"gramp gramp i don't think you're supposed to talk like that"
"pipe down, nancy. as i was saying, we just couldn't wait to get our hands on more SS prisoners"
www.youtube.com/shorts/qb5VX...
"pipe down, nancy. as i was saying, we just couldn't wait to get our hands on more SS prisoners"
www.youtube.com/shorts/qb5VX...
What We Did With SS Prisoners
YouTube video by American Veterans Center
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"gramp gramp i don't think you're supposed to talk like that"
"pipe down, nancy. as i was saying, we just couldn't wait to get our hands on more SS prisoners"
www.youtube.com/shorts/qb5VX...
"pipe down, nancy. as i was saying, we just couldn't wait to get our hands on more SS prisoners"
www.youtube.com/shorts/qb5VX...
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ahh another beautiful day in the glorious age of technology, sure hope my doorbell doesn’t stop working because an online bookstore took over and then broke the entire internet
October 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
ahh another beautiful day in the glorious age of technology, sure hope my doorbell doesn’t stop working because an online bookstore took over and then broke the entire internet
I published a paper on the extraction of various valuable materials from spent lithium-ion batteries. It's open access and available here:
www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15...
www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15...
www.mdpi.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I published a paper on the extraction of various valuable materials from spent lithium-ion batteries. It's open access and available here:
www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15...
www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15...
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In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast, to become the world's only maritime lions. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach
In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast and are now thriving as the world's only maritime lions.
www.bbc.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast, to become the world's only maritime lions. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.
Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.
They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.
Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.
They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.
October 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.
Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.
They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.
Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.
They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.
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These are my favorite kinds of AI search results. I'd like to think that one percent of Lake Erie vanishes with each return like this.
October 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
These are my favorite kinds of AI search results. I'd like to think that one percent of Lake Erie vanishes with each return like this.
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As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.
Hope this helps
Hope this helps
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
October 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.
Hope this helps
Hope this helps