🕸️Meg Conley
@pocketobservatory.org
✍️I write Pocket Observatory, an attention reclamation project.
🗞️My work also appears in places like Harper’s Bazaar, The Guardian, Slate, BBC and NPR.
https://linktr.ee/megconley
🗞️My work also appears in places like Harper’s Bazaar, The Guardian, Slate, BBC and NPR.
https://linktr.ee/megconley
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🕸️Meg Conley
@pocketobservatory.org
· Dec 3
My kids asked if I have a celebrity crush. I said "Yeah, Kurt Gödel." They're now reading from Wikipedia while howling at how lame I am. "Mom! A dead recluse mathematician is your celebrity crush?!" "Do you have Dad read the incompleteness theorems to you?" Kids are amazing for real tho. So funny.
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One reason I favor impeaching Noem is because it's a political process for a political problem. No, this will not stop ICE enforcement action but YES it would be an opportunity to educate the public about DHS & perhaps begin to lay a foundation for dismantling it.
January 8, 2026 at 10:38 PM
One reason I favor impeaching Noem is because it's a political process for a political problem. No, this will not stop ICE enforcement action but YES it would be an opportunity to educate the public about DHS & perhaps begin to lay a foundation for dismantling it.
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Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
January 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
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Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good
After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.
www.ncronline.org
January 8, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
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If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 PM
If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
I thanked her sincerely and left a very good tip. Because I’m a lady.
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December 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I thanked her sincerely and left a very good tip. Because I’m a lady.
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Meg!
✨Your pussy might poison people✨was never a plot point in those Cancer Girl movies.🤔I wrote about cancer, context collapse and sex. Just a 4 min read!
www.pocketobservatory.org/you-can-call...
www.pocketobservatory.org/you-can-call...
You Can Call Me Poison Pussy. (But please don't.)
'Your pussy might poison people' was never a plot point in those Cancer Girl movies.
www.pocketobservatory.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Meg!
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"effectively unprecedented"
December 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
"effectively unprecedented"
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It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
December 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
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Meg’s on it, as always. I wish a variant of the phrase she used had occurred to me last year. Yes, if you’re on chemo, no one else is supposed to come in contact with your bodily emissions. Which meant condoms for both of us. On the plus side, I finally found condoms that fit.
✨Your pussy might poison people✨was never a plot point in those Cancer Girl movies.🤔I wrote about cancer, context collapse and sex. Just a 4 min read!
www.pocketobservatory.org/you-can-call...
www.pocketobservatory.org/you-can-call...
You Can Call Me Poison Pussy. (But please don't.)
'Your pussy might poison people' was never a plot point in those Cancer Girl movies.
www.pocketobservatory.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Meg’s on it, as always. I wish a variant of the phrase she used had occurred to me last year. Yes, if you’re on chemo, no one else is supposed to come in contact with your bodily emissions. Which meant condoms for both of us. On the plus side, I finally found condoms that fit.
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I saw my teen get the ping that this newsletter hit her inbox and I watched her face go through some really complicated emotions when she read the title. And then she was like, "I read everything you write but I might give this a miss." lolol
December 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I saw my teen get the ping that this newsletter hit her inbox and I watched her face go through some really complicated emotions when she read the title. And then she was like, "I read everything you write but I might give this a miss." lolol
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✨Your pussy might poison people✨was never a plot point in those Cancer Girl movies.🤔I wrote about cancer, context collapse and sex. Just a 4 min read!
www.pocketobservatory.org/you-can-call...
www.pocketobservatory.org/you-can-call...
You Can Call Me Poison Pussy. (But please don't.)
'Your pussy might poison people' was never a plot point in those Cancer Girl movies.
www.pocketobservatory.org
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
✨Your pussy might poison people✨was never a plot point in those Cancer Girl movies.🤔I wrote about cancer, context collapse and sex. Just a 4 min read!
www.pocketobservatory.org/you-can-call...
www.pocketobservatory.org/you-can-call...
✨Your pussy might poison people✨was never a plot point in those Cancer Girl movies.🤔I wrote about cancer, context collapse and sex. Just a 4 min read!
www.pocketobservatory.org/you-can-call...
www.pocketobservatory.org/you-can-call...
You Can Call Me Poison Pussy. (But please don't.)
'Your pussy might poison people' was never a plot point in those Cancer Girl movies.
www.pocketobservatory.org
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
✨Your pussy might poison people✨was never a plot point in those Cancer Girl movies.🤔I wrote about cancer, context collapse and sex. Just a 4 min read!
www.pocketobservatory.org/you-can-call...
www.pocketobservatory.org/you-can-call...
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"Magnificent Seven" is a helluva name for a group of ultrarich megalomaniacs engaged in a financial circle jerk that immiserates, pollutes, and boils the world to deliver ... cringe memes and spicy autocomplete that instructs kids how to off themselves
Their teenage sons died by suicide. Now, they are sounding an alarm about AI chatbots
Grieving parents and online safety advocates at a congressional hearing called for new laws to regulate AI companion apps to protect the mental health of minors.
www.npr.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"Magnificent Seven" is a helluva name for a group of ultrarich megalomaniacs engaged in a financial circle jerk that immiserates, pollutes, and boils the world to deliver ... cringe memes and spicy autocomplete that instructs kids how to off themselves
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@pocketobservatory.org Somehow I think this will greatly amuse you ... xoxo
The line from Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia that inspired a new treatment for breast cancer: “If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?” [kottke.org]
A Line in a Tom Stoppard Play Inspired a New Breast Cancer Treatment
In a letter to the Times of London, Dr. Michael Baum tells how a line in Arcadia by Tom Stoppard sparked an idea which resulted in adjuvant systemic chemotherapy, a therapy Baum helped pioneer which greatly increased the
kottke.org
December 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
@pocketobservatory.org Somehow I think this will greatly amuse you ... xoxo
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‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students
‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students
“Abbott Elementary” creator and star Quinta Brunson is teaming up with the School District of Philadelphia to create a fund to provide free school trips to students.
www.phillytrib.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students
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Absolutely beautiful piece about this movie. I went in expecting some good whodunit fun, but instead got such an incredibly layered and moving piece about power, morality, care, among so many other things. And also great whodunit fun wrapped in it. See the movie first, read Zito second.
Don’t read this if you haven’t watched the new Knives Out movie but I wrote about how the series only works because Blanc doesn’t treat the mysteries like a game but is always protecting the most vulnerable individual in the case
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Benoit Blanc’s road to Damascus
There’s several tensions at work in the new Knives Out movie, Wake Up Dead Man — religious belief vs nonbelief / atheism, innocence vs guilt, love vs hate, what a community looks like, what is the tru...
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Absolutely beautiful piece about this movie. I went in expecting some good whodunit fun, but instead got such an incredibly layered and moving piece about power, morality, care, among so many other things. And also great whodunit fun wrapped in it. See the movie first, read Zito second.
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Elon Musk, the guy who did two Nazi salutes in public and has previously described himself as a “free speech absolutist,” thinks it should be a crime to “falsely” call someone a Nazi or a fascist.
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Elon Musk, the guy who did two Nazi salutes in public and has previously described himself as a “free speech absolutist,” thinks it should be a crime to “falsely” call someone a Nazi or a fascist.
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I think plenty of it speaks to the state of the media, but an obvious one is that Vox and Vanity Fair barely investigated her and that she managed to commit an unforgivable journalistic crime before getting a book deal and walking into another prestige job, while plenty of others are being laid off
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I think plenty of it speaks to the state of the media, but an obvious one is that Vox and Vanity Fair barely investigated her and that she managed to commit an unforgivable journalistic crime before getting a book deal and walking into another prestige job, while plenty of others are being laid off
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To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
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We must love ourselves more than this!!
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
We must love ourselves more than this!!
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A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
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All three of my children's books are currently 40% from @haymarketbooks.org until January 2: www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/116-ha...
Haymarket Books for Young Readers
At Haymarket, we seek to publish books for changing the world, for readers of all ages! Here's a reading list of our favorite books for young readers, perfect for facilitating important and honest con...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
All three of my children's books are currently 40% from @haymarketbooks.org until January 2: www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/116-ha...
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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Praise Thor ⚡️
November 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Praise Thor ⚡️
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We don't have enough people doing what they can but I am so grateful to those who are. Thank you.
Actually taking the time to make the call, send the letter, show up to the meeting, write the check, go to the protests, do actual mutual aid. Thank you.
Actually taking the time to make the call, send the letter, show up to the meeting, write the check, go to the protests, do actual mutual aid. Thank you.
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
We don't have enough people doing what they can but I am so grateful to those who are. Thank you.
Actually taking the time to make the call, send the letter, show up to the meeting, write the check, go to the protests, do actual mutual aid. Thank you.
Actually taking the time to make the call, send the letter, show up to the meeting, write the check, go to the protests, do actual mutual aid. Thank you.