Devin Rooney
@devinrooney.bsky.social
Master's Student in UNC-CH's Planning Department. Working on network analyses of policing from a leftist perspective. Hopefully doing a PhD next.
Iconic
I’ll never get tired of this ad at our local indie theater 😂
January 19, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Iconic
I might be wrong, why I'm genuinely open to discussion, but a real prosecution of Jonathan Ross for murder in 3 years seems preferable to having a pantomime investigation now that finds him not guilty which would 1) let him go free and 2) further consolidate authoritarian state power.
January 13, 2026 at 6:56 PM
I might be wrong, why I'm genuinely open to discussion, but a real prosecution of Jonathan Ross for murder in 3 years seems preferable to having a pantomime investigation now that finds him not guilty which would 1) let him go free and 2) further consolidate authoritarian state power.
Will scroll for whispers of hope
This is Minneapolis:
Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.
Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.
Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.
Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.
January 13, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Will scroll for whispers of hope
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Whether it’s Donald Trump demanding Greenland from Denmark or Barack Obama asking for Dijon mustard from a hotdog vendor, both presidents made some highly unusual requests.
January 7, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Whether it’s Donald Trump demanding Greenland from Denmark or Barack Obama asking for Dijon mustard from a hotdog vendor, both presidents made some highly unusual requests.
Reposted by Devin Rooney
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
Would you read this paper:
"Mean Streets: How Planners Aid and Abet the Police"
Because I'm writing it.
"Mean Streets: How Planners Aid and Abet the Police"
Because I'm writing it.
December 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Would you read this paper:
"Mean Streets: How Planners Aid and Abet the Police"
Because I'm writing it.
"Mean Streets: How Planners Aid and Abet the Police"
Because I'm writing it.
Until you've spent more than a full work week on the phone with insurance and pharmacies over the course of a single year, you simply can't be called a holdmusic-elier
December 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Until you've spent more than a full work week on the phone with insurance and pharmacies over the course of a single year, you simply can't be called a holdmusic-elier
If you have a single footnote that is three lines shy of taking up two entire pages, it's not a footnote.
But honestly, you do you. Live your life out loud.
But honestly, you do you. Live your life out loud.
December 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
If you have a single footnote that is three lines shy of taking up two entire pages, it's not a footnote.
But honestly, you do you. Live your life out loud.
But honestly, you do you. Live your life out loud.
Why? Why? Why? Norton is the virus. Holy hell
December 2, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Why? Why? Why? Norton is the virus. Holy hell
Just googled the Trump hand IV theory, and learned that during a state dinner in 1992, George HW Bush keeled over in his seat and vomited into the lap of the Japanese prime minister. Yes there is video. Yes I'm including it here.
When George Bush THREW UP In Japan 🇯🇵🤯
YouTube video by Sir Mix-A-Lot Rare Music
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September 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Just googled the Trump hand IV theory, and learned that during a state dinner in 1992, George HW Bush keeled over in his seat and vomited into the lap of the Japanese prime minister. Yes there is video. Yes I'm including it here.
Listen, any chance I have to deploy "beggars belief" in a dunk, I'm taking it.
September 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Listen, any chance I have to deploy "beggars belief" in a dunk, I'm taking it.
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Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
August 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
I would love a way to tell Bluesky I'm never interested in random pet pics from people I don't follow in my discover feed
July 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I would love a way to tell Bluesky I'm never interested in random pet pics from people I don't follow in my discover feed
Reposted by Devin Rooney
seems like a good day to tap the "support independent, worker run, local media" sign
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
seems like a good day to tap the "support independent, worker run, local media" sign
Good rule of thumb: if Jim Clyburn supports someone, they're likely trash
June 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Good rule of thumb: if Jim Clyburn supports someone, they're likely trash
Reposted by Devin Rooney
NUTS SACKED
June 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
NUTS SACKED
It's too on the nose that the NYT piece about the restaurant term "86" only interviewed a lexicologist and then almost completely mischaracterized its use despite one coauthor being their former food critic of 12 years.
You couldn't call a single GM? Or literally anyone in the industry?
You couldn't call a single GM? Or literally anyone in the industry?
May 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
It's too on the nose that the NYT piece about the restaurant term "86" only interviewed a lexicologist and then almost completely mischaracterized its use despite one coauthor being their former food critic of 12 years.
You couldn't call a single GM? Or literally anyone in the industry?
You couldn't call a single GM? Or literally anyone in the industry?
Hell yeah.
Primary all of them. All. Of. Them.
Primary all of them. All. Of. Them.
Trump Officials Plan to Release Audio of Biden Special Counsel Interview
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Hell yeah.
Primary all of them. All. Of. Them.
Primary all of them. All. Of. Them.
Janelle Monae says, I will rage, rage against the dying of steampunk
May 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Janelle Monae says, I will rage, rage against the dying of steampunk
Chat, leap seconds are a real thing.
I'm late, but given the context that makes perfect sense.
I'm late, but given the context that makes perfect sense.
April 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Chat, leap seconds are a real thing.
I'm late, but given the context that makes perfect sense.
I'm late, but given the context that makes perfect sense.
Style note for anyone reporting on Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the word is "illegally" deported. It was not an oopsie. It was not a mistake.
Do not cede that rhetorical territory.
Do not cede that rhetorical territory.
April 20, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Style note for anyone reporting on Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the word is "illegally" deported. It was not an oopsie. It was not a mistake.
Do not cede that rhetorical territory.
Do not cede that rhetorical territory.
The NYT is a rag, but the bright spot of their coverage of Trump's second go-round is the photo editors publishing pictures like this one. (Instead of finding the most flattering picture imaginable and calling it unbiased reporting).
April 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The NYT is a rag, but the bright spot of their coverage of Trump's second go-round is the photo editors publishing pictures like this one. (Instead of finding the most flattering picture imaginable and calling it unbiased reporting).
Quick Q: has anybody else's barber ever asked to trim your eyebrows with clippers?
April 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Quick Q: has anybody else's barber ever asked to trim your eyebrows with clippers?
Why haven't I seen a single commentator say that for the tariffs to bring manufacturing home, they would need to remain in place until at minimum, the next presidential election?
April 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Why haven't I seen a single commentator say that for the tariffs to bring manufacturing home, they would need to remain in place until at minimum, the next presidential election?
I'm not a lawyer, but I've watched enough West Wing to know there's no attorney client privilege here.
April 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I'm not a lawyer, but I've watched enough West Wing to know there's no attorney client privilege here.