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‘They’re not wolves – they’re sheep’: the psychiatrist who spent decades meeting and studying lone-actor mass killers Paul E Mullen has had a front-row seat to the men behind some of the worst public massacres. He says it’s possible to ‘disrupt the script’ for future violence

The Guardian interviewed my Stepdad about his new book on lone-mass killers www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

We have to deny them celebrity and refuse to name them. We have to deny them their blaze of glory. The men who committed the Australian massacres were locked away. In prison stripes they lose their “evil celebrity” status, and can be as the fearful and confused young men they really are.

Here in Australia, gun control has stopped the copycat shootings but not all mass killings with knives or vehicles. Paul has long argued that gun control is vital but by itself can’t end the cycle of copycat violence which sad, pathetic, isolated young men obsessed with guns follow.

My Stepdad, Paul Mullen, is a psychiatrist, he profiled the lone gunmen behind the Monash Uni, Hoddle Street and Port Arthur mass killings. His book ‘Running Amok: Inside the mind of a lone mass killer’ comes out in a week of almost daily US mass killings. extraordinarybooks.co.uk/book/running...

To be distribute through a small underground network.

Here for the polarizing debate

A donut dedicated to David Lynch

Looks like I’m going have to cope with random bits of David Lynch ghosting my brain today. RIP

Pondering a world where David Lynch didn’t leave an ear in the park for me to find RIP

I think it was all made worse by the preachers on the street getting manic

LinkedIn Bluezky crossover disruption! Infest now!

Maybe a kind of Luddite action?

“A Medley of the Midway Plaisance” by A. B. Ward - Chicago's 1893 Worlds Fair The short story reprinted below is a romance set on the Midway Plaisance of the 1893 World’s Fair. Writing as “A. B. Ward,” Mrs. Alice Ward Bailey (1857–1922) was a prolific author of fiction around t...

Seems to have been a thing at the Chicago World Fair. More hydrogen skyships rather than hot air balloons. worldsfairchicago1893.com/2022/10/07/a...

Against the Day is set between the Chicago World Fair and WWI. It features amongst many other things “The Chums of Chance” who are the crew of the skyship “Inconvenience”. Ballooning as an aristocratic hobby/boys own adventure comedy subplot in a novel about anarchists and mining magnates

Haha. Yes it was. Nice of me to inform you about your own blog! I

Now I’ve been googling balloon riots. Apparently there was one in Melbourne! Pynchon’s Against the Day as a literary connection?

There was also the pocket protectors for the engineers. Wouldn’t want to get ink on the special short sleeved shirt

I left 6 months ago. The only regret you will have is you didn’t leave sooner.

Specially preserved in my goth basement. Anne Rices personal hard copy of the guide to Microsoft 2019. The pre pandemic nostalgia edition

You use urethraereum. It’s a fancy new bitcoin.

Anecdotal fallacy I think?

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When in the course of human events...

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That’s a spoiler for his Christmas cards.

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Slight misunderstanding what “going viral” means

We expelled someone recently for trying to use photographs. The society was outraged.

It not normal virtue signalling it’s Aristotelian virtue signalling!