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Oko
@okospeaks.bsky.social
Author, artist, war and tech veteran
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Excerpts and additional thoughts from my book The Life of Oko. Subscribe to my feed to follow along.
Damn straight
🎩 We need a national general strike! 🇺🇸
December 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
From cell phones, to health care, to housing and food; we live in a grift society. I’m pretty sick of it.
December 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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A bubble coral shrimp (Hamopontonia physogrya).

This species is very small, typically less than 1 cm long. It is often found in bubble corals. The shrimp helps clean the corals of parasites and debris, while being provided with shelter in return.

#marinelife #macrophotography
November 30, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Says more about the poster, than the poster says about the cafe.
lol sign worked
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I have spent my life, and travelled the world, looking for a place to call home. Someplace safe, comfortable, and suitable to raise a multiracial family. America is obviously not it, anyone have a better suggestion?
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We have a choice: Utopia or dystopia

Big tech: DYSTOPIA! DYSTOPIA!!
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
When Reddit bros take a little too much meth.
Woah...

What the fuck. So recruiting homeless in DC to use as an expeditionary force to invade Haiti...

Umm yeah they actually were trying....

This is what we fight.... Stupid. The very stupid.

#Resist ✊🏽💙🔥💨✌🏽
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Reposted by Oko
Great keynote talk on the fundamentals of storytelling by @antonyjohnston.bsky.social at the ever-brilliant AdventureX
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Damn cool!
Fly like an eagle with this spectacular footage from a golden eagle soaring over Nebelhorn Peak in Germany.😲💙😎
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The Siren Song
Imagine hearing this, 500 or a thousand years ago?
Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Cool AF
He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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I work for a public library as the Resource Services Librarian, and we finally got @sgj.bsky.social book Killer on the Road. Cannot wait to get this out on the shelf for our patrons!
November 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Susan Harrison Tustain (New Zealand, born 1956)
"Windfall" 2007.
Watercolor, l9.5 × 14 inches.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
You could always just lie to her like you’re lying to yourself?
what
November 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
When you delegate your thinking to a machine, it’s no wonder your own brain begins to atrophy. Funny to think, that this was the end… they didn’t even need bodies to destroy us.
MIT recently completed the first brain-scan study on #ChatGPT users—and the results are deeply revealing.
Rather than boosting brain function, prolonged #AI use may be dulling it. #science #MIT #brainscience #sciencesky

www.media.mit.edu/projects/you...
November 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Until you get the Old Testament God, and he tells you to sacrifice your son for a gaffe. I can’t imagine this going well at all
November 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it. - Zora Neale Hurston
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
They said you were fighting for freedom.
Where is it; for us, the Afghans, or Iraqis?

They said we fought for each other.
Those men are now dead.

They said we fought for our country.
That country is in ruins, a mere shadow of its former image.

So what, what was it for?
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Basic training is designed to cause PTSD. They want the “favorable traits” of hyper attention, paranoia, anger… however when the soldier eventually becomes unraveled, they’re happy to drop you, and will gaslight you into thinking you were always damaged, and it’s your fault not theirs
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
That’s some Road-Runner ACME shit right there.
The world's largest firework shell, Yonshakudama, weighs 420 kg (926 lbs) and creates an explosion over 730 meters (2,400 feet) in diameter.

📽: Only in Japan
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Happy Veterans Day to all you crusty airbornes out there, Fury From the Sky
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 AM
When Sasha Barron Cohen merkins
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Nope. Nowweeweepeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee no no no nnnnnnnooopppeeee
A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what appears to be the world’s largest spider web, which researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM