Oko
@okospeaks.bsky.social
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Oko
@okospeaks.bsky.social
· Dec 3
Excerpts and additional thoughts from my book The Life of Oko. Subscribe to my feed to follow along.
Damn straight
December 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Damn straight
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
From cell phones, to health care, to housing and food; we live in a grift society. I’m pretty sick of it.
Reposted by Oko
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
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
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
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
Says more about the poster, than the poster says about the cafe.
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Says more about the poster, than the poster says about the cafe.
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
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?
We have a choice: Utopia or dystopia
Big tech: DYSTOPIA! DYSTOPIA!!
Big tech: DYSTOPIA! DYSTOPIA!!
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
We have a choice: Utopia or dystopia
Big tech: DYSTOPIA! DYSTOPIA!!
Big tech: DYSTOPIA! DYSTOPIA!!
How poetic
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
How poetic
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 ✊🏽💙🔥💨✌🏽
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
When Reddit bros take a little too much meth.
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
Great keynote talk on the fundamentals of storytelling by @antonyjohnston.bsky.social at the ever-brilliant AdventureX
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
Damn cool!
The Siren Song
Imagine hearing this, 500 or a thousand years ago?
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The Siren Song
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
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Cool AF
Reposted by Oko
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
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!
Me too earth… me too
November 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Me too earth… me too
Reposted by Oko
Susan Harrison Tustain (New Zealand, born 1956)
"Windfall" 2007.
Watercolor, l9.5 × 14 inches.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
"Windfall" 2007.
Watercolor, l9.5 × 14 inches.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Susan Harrison Tustain (New Zealand, born 1956)
"Windfall" 2007.
Watercolor, l9.5 × 14 inches.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
"Windfall" 2007.
Watercolor, l9.5 × 14 inches.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
You could always just lie to her like you’re lying to yourself?
November 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
You could always just lie to her like you’re lying to yourself?
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...
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
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.
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
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:27 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
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
If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it. - Zora Neale Hurston
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?
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
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?
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?
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
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
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
📽: Only in Japan
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 AM
That’s some Road-Runner ACME shit right there.
Happy Veterans Day to all you crusty airbornes out there, Fury From the Sky
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Happy Veterans Day to all you crusty airbornes out there, Fury From the Sky
When Sasha Barron Cohen merkins
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
When Sasha Barron Cohen merkins
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
Nope. Nowweeweepeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee no no no nnnnnnnooopppeeee