Jesse Mullan

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A newspaper clipping that reads: "Red, that stuff you're cooking," broke In Mrs. Skelton. "I won't eat it this time. It's nothing but a suicide pact." "Honey, how you talk-it's nothing but meat, tomtoes, onions, and stuff." "Yes, it's the stuff that does it." "I must look," Red bounced out into the kitchen. Mrs. Skelton explained, "he calls the stuff 'Sloppie Joe." He's got the cooking bug right now. It wont last long. but neither will I." You see. Red gets terrific enthusiasms.
An image of a headstone, with the text: 1894 ERECTED BY HER SON CHARLES, NOW IN AMERICA AS A TRIBUTE OF LOVE AND AFFECTION TO HIS REVERED MOTHER MARY MULLAN WHO DIED AT DERRYCHRIN 10TH DECEMBER 1882, ACED 67 YEARS. MAY HER SOUL REST WITH CHRIST, AND HER BODY RISE TO A CLORIOUS RESURRECTION. ALSO HIS FATHER JOHN MULLAN, WHO DIED 6TH MAY 1902 ACED 82 YEARS. ALSO HIS BROTHER JOHN MULIAN. WHO DIED 15TH AUGUST 1902. AGED 42 YEARS. ALSO HIS SISTER-IN-LAW ALICE MULLAN, WHO DIED 12TH APRIL 1955, AGED 98 YEARS. AND HER DAUGHTER ALICE LONG WHO DIED 3RD NOVEMBIR 1932 ACED 57 YEARs -- GEMHELL-BELTAST
A hawk moth relaxing in the 7shade on a cedar box. The moth is surprisingly large, two inches or fifty centimeters, and easily as thick as a finger. It's tan and brown.
A baby opossum. It is a small animal with two legs showing, each with small finger-like toes. It has a long rope-like pink tail that comes to a point. Its body is perpendicular to the camera, sitting on a whiteish fleecy cushion. Behind it is silver reflective insulation. Its face is directed at the camera. It has a pink nose shaped like a jellybean, and two eyes reflecting the flash. Its face and belly are creamy white, and the fur on its legs and back is brown, with longer wiry pale gray hairs bristling out of the softer looking brown fur. Its ears are round and brown with white tips. It is impossibly cute.
Two extremely beautiful and handsome cats, one a brown siamese, and the other a tuxedo. They are lying on a bed closely, facing each other. Their eyes are half open, as though deciding whether to sleep or have a quiet conversation about their future.
A rainbow in the sky at the end of a suburban street.
A stalk of intensely purple flowers with spurs poking out their backsides.
A small, brownish chrysalis, hung from the top of a door frame by a single point, appearing mostly like a blob of brownish cigarette-ash-colored gum.
Two fried egg poppies in a tightly cropped image. They have crepey white petals and bright yellow stamen.
In a screenshot from one of the Terminator movies, a robotic foot juts into the frame from above, crushing an unseen skull into dust.
Three screenshots from a Sabrina Carpenter video, one showing her holding a steering wheel and looking towards the passenger footwell, a second showing a large handbag with a green glow emanating from inside, and a third showing a hand reaching to close the bag. All three are in black and white except for the green glow.
A "Scrub Mommy" novelty fish sponge. The sponge is shaped like a smiley face, and has two sides, a soft sponge and a scratchy sponge. The soft sponge has torn and a loose part is sticking through the mouth hole in a horrifying approximation of a licking tongue.
A video of a feral Siamese cat named Shacklegänger squeezing into a cat shelter made out of a storage tub.
A bee on an aster flower. The bee is all black with a large amount of pollen stuck to its back legs. The aster is small, about an inch across, with pale lavender petals
A screen capture of black and white video of an opossum reaching the top of some stairs, making a beeline for a small bowl of cat food.
A Johnson's Jumping Spider on a fritillary butterfly. The spider is black with a red abdomen except for a black stripe down the middle. The butterfly is white and orange. The image is shot fairly close up and through some greenery.
Text of article: RECENT RIOT NEAR COAGH. A ATTACK ON GOOD TEMPLARS. The Alleged Firing at Procession. At a special court held in Coagh on Thursday—Captain Welch, R.M., presiding—thee co men, named John Mullan, Charles Mullan, and Peter M'Girr, of Derrychrin Conyngham, were charged with riotous conduct on the 2nd ult. Samuel Gibson, Cough, stated that on Sunday, 2nd June, he went with Coagh Good Templars to Ballinderry Church. There were about two dozen of them. Some of them were on bicycles, and the rest on cars. When they were returning, a little after eight o'clock, via Ballinderry where the residents were principally Rennin Catholics, the found the road covered with stones, the cyclists had to dismount. A number of persons were standing opposite Mr. Darragh'a door. and more people were standing on the top of the hill. The two crowds joined, and ran after them and threw stone. A number of shots were fired—witness thought about eight or nine. After the shots were fired, witness, who was cycling, heard a noise like the singing of bullets Passing them. Witness identified one of the persons in the crowd, and said his name was Mullan but could not tell his Christian name. The person now identified (Charles MuIlan) was in the crowd where the shots came from, Witness identified another man as being in the crowd (Peter M'Girr). but did not know his name. Two of the cyclists went for the police, who came up after the sreve was over. The coat profuced was the one he was wearing that day. He noticed a small hole in the coat that evening, and he believed it was made by a bullet. Witness further stated the the party took off their sashes at Salterstown Hall, and did not display any colours or offer any provocation at the bridge. Otuer evidence corroborating thin r statement having been given, defendants were returned for trial to Tyrone Assizes. to be held in Omagh on Tuesday next, bail being fixed in themselves at £10 and two sureties of £5 each.
An orange and brown fritillary caterpillar on a vine next to a wrought iron bar.
An all-black valley carpenter bee on a cluster of lavender colored lacy phacelia florets.
A newspaper clipping where each lower-case letter S looks like an F. Transcription: Thomas Read. Knife and Sword Cutler. No. 4, Parliament Street. TAKES the liberty of informing the gentlemen of the military, that he can supply them with swords, carbone swivels, and spurs, of the neatest and best quality, on the shortest notice.
Four bright orange fritillary butterflies on greenery.
An extremely handsome and photogenic tuxedo cat named Alex.
A Siamese cat named greg laying on a cat condo in a window. One paw is raised and clawing a sisal-rope-wrapped pillar.
A screenshot of the bluesky app showing the words: No results found for "let the bodies hit the floor chicken dance"
An opossum sniffing around a yard full of oxalis
A black and white video of an opossum cleaning up cat food on porch stairs.
Two ducks, one white, one brown. The brown one has a dark head. Both have their faces buried in the ground cover of a front yard, looking for food.
A white cat sitting in a window.
A close up of a gorgeous angel kitty who suddenly and silently attempts to murder me.
A gorgeous tabby cat relaxing on a red concrete step. He is side lit.
A verdant corner of a back yard where a brown and white cat is curled up in a shadowy spot under bushes and vines.
Five images of cats in a grid: black with white ears, light with gray points, gray tabby with white paws walking away, gray tabby with white chest hiding under a car
Four low-quality images of cats in a grid. Upper left: tortie in heavy shadow under a car. Upper right: a standing tabby looking left, a reclining tabby under a car. Lower left: a white cat with an orange head sitting up and looking right. Lower right: an orange cat with white chest and jowls sitting up and looking at the camera.
A siamese-ish cat playing under a blue couch. The video is shot from above and the cat makes bashful eye contact with the camera more than once.
A closeup of a long hair tabby cat. Its ears are upright but slightly back, indicating excitement and fear. It is sniffing a hand on the edge of the frame.
Greg, a stunningly beautiful light brown cat with brown points and white stomach and paws. He is deeply relaxed. A human foot wearing a black sock sticks out from under the fuzzy gray blanket that Greg is enjoying.
Alex, a tuxedo cat, stares down the camera. He is sitting upright on a light blue rug and giving a menacing look.
A white sage, a.california sagebrush, lavender, and lacy phacelia. The sage has clusters of pale greenish leaves like the bursts of fireworks. The sagebrush is glaucous: pale blue green, chalky, and frilly. The lacy phacelia is green and delicate, with reddish stems and leaf edges.
A bright orange fritillary butterfly resting in the sun on the ground. It is surrounded by brown mulch and green sprouts.
A fritillary butterfly caterpillar on a passion fruit vine. The caterpillar is brown with an orange stripe, a white stripe, and black spiky hairs. Passion fruit leaves are green with three lobes in kind of a finger arrangement.
An American Opossum on the back steps of a home, one paw tilting a small bowl of wet food towards itself as it makes hesitant eye contact with the camera. It has a pink nose and glassy black eyes. Its fur is gray with a white face and a gray widow's peak. Its small toes are pink and delicate, like if a human infant were nimble and coordinated.
A re-creation of the plutonium core that briefly went critical on May 21, 1946, resulting in the death of the Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin. Photograph courtesy Los Alamos National Laboratory. Alt text courtesy the New Yorker.
Two cats, Greg and Alex, perched in a window ledge. Greg is twisting upside down and is brown with a white belly and paws. Alex is sitting upright and is a tuxedo cat: black with a white belly and paws. Alex's back is to the camera, so his white areas are not visible. The feral cat Shacklegänger is outside the window but is not visible in the darkness outside.
A vertical triptych. It is three pictures of a cat marching purposefully towards the camera through a patch of oxalis. The cat is beautiful, with blue eyes, white paws, white chest, white nose, and brown back, sides, and sleeves. His tail curls instead of standing up straight. If you know Shacklegänger, you know he is a skittish kitty, but here he seems interested and determined.
In this scene from the movie Real Genius, a student stands up from a shared study table and screams wordlessly and repeatedly. Most people in the room do not react.
In a scene from the film Real Genius, a student stands up from a shared study table and screams repeatedly in desperation.
A screenshot of a post from Merriam-Webster exhorting the reader to take a screenshot of their animated gif, thus freezing it on a particular word, stating that the word will be YOUR word for 2026. This is such a screenshot; the word is "melancholic."
The cover of Walt Mink's album "Miss Happiness"
The Album cover for "retreat from the sun" by "that dog."
Owen Wilson as Ned in a shot from the film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. He is desperately clinging to a life raft after a helicopter crash at sea.
A screenshot of an article from the Onion with a dubiously placed ad for the TV show "the Paper" and an edit to an NSFW phrase. Text: so why don't we stop talking and let nature take its course, eh? I'll tell you what, I'm going to leave a key to the room on this table and go upstairs. Room 819. What do you boys think? Want to friend a reporter from America's finest news source? Advertisement: the paper Monday, NBC, streaming on Peacock Note: "friend" was not the original suggestion but I am a professional and don't want to seem uncouth. Also I have been flying all day and I'm exhausted and this made me laugh when I saw it, but maybe it isn't funny. I don't know anymore.
A label on a soap dispenser: "luscious quenching liquid hand soap" and "hydration éclat savon à mains liquide"
Two cats curled up together on a bed. One is a black and white tuxedo cat, the other is light brown with dark brown points. Both have white paws and tummies. The brown cat, Greg, has a single eye cracked, presenting a mischievous appearance. The other, Alex, is deeply asleep.
A gray cat
Part of the White House being demolished, with the logo of the television program Grand Designs superimposed, as well as its host Kevin McCloud. The television program features self-built or modified homes, often with questionable or impossible choices and schedules.
A photo out a window. The screen is covered in spiderwebs and backlit by morning sun. Outside of the window are daisy-like flowers on very tall plants called sunchokes with broad leaves.
A smallish male cat sitting on a cat mattress next to a baby gate. The cat is looking over his shoulder at the camera. The cat is a siamese mix, with dark chocolate points, a tawny coat, and white paws, chest, and face. His eyes are pale blue.