John Halloran

@profhalloran.bsky.social

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By day: Professoring; social work/social policy/complex systems; PhD/JD. By night: Food/drinks; burritos; vapid entertainment; sport. 24/7: Epistemic humility; posting through the polycrisis; personal account.

A man and a dog sitting in a car.
Comment from user Aoife @aoife-rose.bsky.social 9 hours is too long for any creature to hold their urine. This is how you end up with a 5000 dollar emergency surgery vet bill for built up bladder obstructions in dogs. 8 hours in a cage? Also too much. It's highly abusive. Whether you realize or accept that or not. Hope you consider it.
A pink dahlia with more than a dozen softball sized blooms.
Two tables filled with various pie slices.
A custard-bottomed pie topped with pecans.
Sickos meme with a man labeled “Sickos” looking into a window and saying, “Yes … Ha ha ha … YES!”
A Cavapoo on a leash laying down in grass and looking completely disinterested in taking a shit.
A tightly curled ball of cavapoo who is putting every once of effort into looking put off.
A bowl full of collared greens topped with some smoked turkey.
An AQI reading for Chicago that indicates a reading of 597 at 2pm.
A 24-hour hour-by-hour trend graph of the Chicago AQI that has reached the max on the y-axis and stayed there since 11am.
A burrito.
A tall cylindrical purple flower with a yellow and black bee sitting on it. The bee has bulging orange pollen sacs on his legs.
Tobias Funke meme: Well did it work for those people? … But it might work for us.
A closeup of the Belgium soccer kits with the text “Ceci n’est pas un maillot.”
A shaggy Cavapoo puppy sleeping soundly on his back with his front paws up in the air and his back legs completely splayed out
McMahon reaction meme (4 panels): It’s Friday Tour de France Wimbledon Semis Spain v Belgium
A text chain with a text that says “Mushroom” with a picture of a mushroom. I reply, “I like a good mushroom.”
A cover image of TM Scanlon’s What We Owe to Each Other that is edited to read “What We Owe to Cute Stuff.”
A Cavapoo puppy on his back looking very cute and trying very hard to get some belly rubs.
A puppy enjoying his breakfast.
A puppy who is politely sitting and gazing inquisitively at the camera.
A really bad bust of Ronaldo.
A small ball of very cold Cavapoo.
A soaking wet Cavapoo puppy lounging on a cooling mat.
A picture of a bride looking phenomenal.
A couple in wedding attire with Lake Michigan and the Chicago skyline behind.
A screencap of a email inbox with a message from the Chicago Cubs which has the subject line, “How was the Cubs game?”
The back of the Belgian kit, which reads, “Ceci n’est pas un maillot.”
A Cavapoo puppy who is trying to maximize the surface-area contact between the puppy and the cool hardwood floor.
A weather app screenshot that shows a temp of 95° and a humidity of of 50%.
A goalie laying chest down on the ground and looking intensely with horror fading into relief as a ball deflects off a post and out of the goal.
A decanter filled with red wine sitting next to a 2009 bottle of Ovid, with the label Experiment P4.9.
A pale peach cocktail in a plastic glass.
A Cavapoo puppy playing with a toy that is the size of him. It’s an orange cow with blue horns and blue shock of hair that drapes over its eyes.
A newspaper graphic with the headline “Saddam’s hiding place.” It depicts a hole in the ground with a prone human figure laying next to an air vent and fan. There has been a giraffe sticker hastily superimposed on the graphic as if the giraffe is hiding in the hole.
A small red Cavapoo puppy splayed out on his back sleeping soundly at the foot of a bed.
A Cavapoo puppy getting scratched on his head by a medium-sized human.
A small Cavapoo puppy who is taking his role as guard dog immensely seriously. He is stirring up straight enough to make a British sergeant proud and his eyes and ears are in constant motion to defend the room from the dogs in the phone.
A Cavapoo puppy curled up in a ball on the floor in front of the couch looking very, very eepy.
SpongeBob meme “5 minutes later…”
The mug as a picture of a Cavapoo, captioned “Ozzie”, and text that reads, “Dear dog dad, Thank you for being my dad. If another man was my dad, I’d pee in his shoes, chew his phone, and go find you. Love.”
A small emerald colored bee on a bright pink flower.
A guara plant that has long think stems with butterfly shaped white flowers.
A white hydrangea in a large pot on a deck in full bloom with dozens of enormous white balls of flowers.
A Cavapoo in a little bit more structured a backpack looking a little more pleased with the proceedings.
A screencap of two text messages from the same sender. They read: I’m on campus today registering transfer students. I have a break, so I’m actually at a Buffalo Wild Wings so I can watch the World Cup. Remind me to stop for Tums before I head back to campus.
A Cavapoo puppy sitting on wet ground in between my feet looking up at me like “WTF?”
An earnest-looking Cavapoo puppy seated merrily in the middle of the back seat of a sedan.
A picture of a bottle of green hot sauce called “Da Pope” from Chef Hot Pepper Farm. The bottle has a caricature of the Pope on it.
A small Cavapoo puppy is had claimed a piece of hardwood floor under an end table and who is fast asleep.
A selfie of me and a Cavapoo in a front-facing pack.
Ozzie the Cavapoo is proudly showing everyone his stick.
A picture of a couple in front of a Southwest landscape.
A screencap of an email which reads: LewisU/URGENT: Lewis University offices at its Illinois locations will close at 3 p.m. TODAY (Thursday, June 11, 2026). LewisU/URGENT: Due to a Hazardous Weather Outlook issued by the National Weather Service and expected hazardous travel conditions, Lewis University in-person classes and activities are canceled or transitioning to being remote, and offices at its Illinois locations will close at 3 p.m. TODAY (Thursday, June 11, 2026). The offices will resume normal summer business hours on Friday, June 12, 2026.
Equation 3 from the May paper: X sub t+1 equals aX sub t multiplied by 1 minus C sub t.
A reddish Cavapoo puppy merrily resting on a patterned grey pillow.
A black Mercedes G-class so dripping with smug pretension that it must be photographed seaside with a lighthouse in the background. Also the person driving it just cut you off in traffic while yelling at their housekeeper on the phone.
An earnest looking Cavapoo puppy who has settled in so that he isn’t laying across two small human feet.
A screencap of the recipe which calls for “1/2 cup white wine (save the rest of the bottle to make a toast with hubby) ….”