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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 8d

I don't watch Reality TV, but life takes weird turns. My story: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...

Reality TV’s Bad Boyfriend Is Angry Again. This Time, He’s Yelling at Gavin Newsom.

www.nytimes.com

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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 8d

My favorite newspaper movie is "The Paper." The single-day-in-a-newsroom conceit appealed to me more than movies about big investigations. Keaton's obsession about getting something right on deadline felt true and honorable. And Spalding Gray's (RIP) spoof of The Times was pretty great.

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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · Jul 16

dude! perfect! found it in beware the flare.

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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · Jul 16

Yes, exactly

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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · Jul 15

It's this spot (this is footage of the Muska). Carroll ollied it roughly like this but it was shot from the bottom of the stairs. What you can't see is that the landing is crazy narrow.

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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · Jul 15

Dear #SkateTwitter: Years ago Mike Carroll ollied this massive double hubba at the entrance to UCLA. It's one of those "way gnarlier in person" spots. I know there was an ad with a still shot and footage of it in some video, probably a Transworld thing, but cannot seem to find. Anyone know it?

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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · Jul 10

I need #SkateTwitter to discuss: www.wired.com/story/dhs-te...

Skateboards and Livestreams: DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’

DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.

www.wired.com

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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · Jul 2

I broke my radial head in the Chelsea Bowl many years ago, then on the day I came back tried to ease in by skating the Tribeca skatepark, because it's tiny and what could possibly happen, then broke the exact same arm/elbow on that baby wedge ledge. In other words, I know your pain. Feel better.

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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · Jun 15

I don’t schedule vacations around the trade deadline because that’s ridiculous. What if the Giants make a big trade? It’s better to schedule vacations for mid-June, when nothing happens.

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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · Jun 12

The mix of Padilla and immigration politics is giving this old school Californian huge 187 vibes.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · Jun 11

Really sucks that Manny's was hit by vandals. The targeting of him and his business—which does more to promote and support progressive causes and authors and educate the public than just about anything in SF—is a fringe and poisonous disinformation campaign. missionlocal.org/2025/06/mann...

‘The only good settler is a dead 1’: Manny’s cafe hit with vandalism during anti-ICE protest

'The only good settler is a dead 1' -- spray-painted slogans outside Mission café target Jewish owner and generate community support

missionlocal.org

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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · Jun 1

Thanks dude! Nollie flips forever.

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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · May 30

Also, double digit growth over a loss could mean they made $20.

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Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · May 30

Ted...sorry, Dr. Barrow is up in the Times today circling around that famous Ocean Howell point re: skateboards as brooms of gentrification

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...

A San Francisco Plaza Was Down and Out. Then Skaters Moved In.

www.nytimes.com

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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · May 30

Skateboarding? Check.
Urban Planning? Check.
Referring to not one but TWO skaters as "Dr."? Check.

Aside from video games and Bosch, this story I wrote, on how skateboarding revived an urban plaza in San Francisco, hits all my buttons.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...

A San Francisco Plaza Was Down and Out. Then Skaters Moved In.

www.nytimes.com

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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · May 22

The more I play with AI the more I'm convinced that the best and most legally defensible way to make money in the future will be to buy valuable land and do nothing with it. Oh, wait.

Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · May 18

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it writing code. I don't know enough about it. But on the surface it seems less dystopian. There is so much structured data in that industry, it would see like its teed up for it.

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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · May 13

Good times with Bret Anthony Johnston, my skate homie and acclaimed novelist. Growing up, I thought writers and skaters were the two coolest kinds of people on all of planet earth. Now I'm 47 getting a doubles clip with an author I admire. An ordinary day is extraordinary when you appreciate it.

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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · May 5

Thanks!

Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · Apr 25

So sad.

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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · Apr 24

My Switch 2 experience: 45 minutes of pressing "Place your order" on the Target website and having it not go through. Then my card got canceled, it got removed from my cart, and now my daughter will be crying in the AM.

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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · Apr 21

Have you no respect for skateboard history?

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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · Apr 20

Who you gonna call?

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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · Apr 13

You should be watching Dark Winds. Tonight's episode is indeed my favorite episode of television this year. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

'Dark Winds' Season 3 May Deliver the Year's Best Episode of TV

Navajo reservation-set series digs deeper as its hero cop Joe Leaphorn, played by an outstanding Zahn McClarnon, grapples with an emotional crisis.

www.rollingstone.com

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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · Apr 10

I wrote about how we need more sprawl and the word itself is sorely misunderstood. It took me a while to get here, but I got here. Find your hate-read here: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/m...

America Needs More Sprawl to Fix Its Housing Crisis

The word has become an epithet for garish, reckless growth — but to fix the housing crisis, the country needs more of it.

www.nytimes.com

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