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🕸️Meg Conley
@pocketobservatory.org
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✍️I write Pocket Observatory and create Pocket Observation, an attention reclamation project. 🗞️My work also appears in places like Harper’s Bazaar, The Guardian, Slate, BBC and NPR. pocketobservatory.org
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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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David Chen @davechen.bsky.social · 1d
Sounds like a you problem
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d
Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.
Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?
Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 1d
Like in what world is Cash less cool than Springsteen????
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 2d
Octavia E. Butler saw the future—and warned us.

Aina Marzia reviews Positive Obsession by Susana M. Morris, a new biography tracing Butler’s journey to literary legend, showing how her vision transformed both sci-fi and Black liberation.

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Octavia Butler speaks passionately, set against a vibrant abstract background with bold geometric shapes and vivid colors, conveying energy and creativity.
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 2d
Cried when I saw Tommy Orange on there.
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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2d
SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

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Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year
Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 2d
Ah can’t wait to watch this!
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 3d
Who is Lee Greenwood…I really don’t know.
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 3d
@bookshop.org is offering free shipping through today to support indie bookstores, so evergreen note: If you order either of my books, All the Gold Stars or An Ordinary Age, through Bookshop or an indie bookstore, DM me an address and I'll send whoever you ordered for a thank you note. 💛
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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 3d
ICE now very literally at war with Presbyterians
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray. “I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.” But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire. “We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray. “I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.” But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire. “We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
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Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · Jun 14
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 4d
This whole exchange filled me with actual wonder
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 4d
If beef tastes bitter that usually comes down to bad cook time. Over smoked beef can develop creosote, for example.
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4d
Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”
Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 4d
This is so good. I sent a highlighted version to my teens. Thanks for taking the time to write this @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social
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No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector
The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 4d
Alt text: 3 Men & a Little Lady movie poster.

This is a hard disagree for me. The sequel is magical as fuck. As a kid, the big reveal in the church scene is still an all-time favorite movie theater experience. Its adventure, its romantic, its fun. But not everything is gonna be for everyone.
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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 4d
Far from the massive box office smash of its predecessor, Emile Ardolino's sequel loses the magic of the original film when it splits up the paternal trio in Selleck's race to win over the mother of the titular little lady. Beautifully shot, still charming & funny even when the jokes are familiar.
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andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 5d
A few online orders or in-store book purchases would be a nice way to support Books Upstairs after this horrible attack. Who does this? To an independent book shop?
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 5d
‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack
‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack
Books Upstairs manager hopes to partially open the D’Olier Street store later on Monday
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kash @thisiskashmir.com · 5d
This shit had me screaming
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 5d
curtis yarvin seems somewhat unhappy
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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 5d
Went from “Democracy is dead“ to “Lululemon death squads are coming for us, pack your go bag and leave“ in the span of 9 months
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 8d
An independent autopsy funded by Colin Kaepernick challenges claims that a Black man lynched himself in Mississippi. Instead the findings show blunt force head trauma.

Allegations also point to a confrontation with white college students over Charlie Kirk before his death.
Lynching by Suicide: The Rebranded Face of America’s Racial Violence
Once carried out in the open by bestial white mobs, activists say lynching of Black Americans has been rebranded in modern America as rulings of suicide,
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 8d
As someone with a screenwriting credit who worked in arts criticism, I'd love to address Tilly Norwood on its merits.

But, like, I don't know how your product bounces back from "...if you wish to see a virgin onscreen, this is one of your better chances."
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 8d
I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?
My Favorite Actress Is Not Human Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI. A picture of some AI girl standing on an AI landscape with an AI monster behind her. I'm gonna be so real: she looks about 14 By Tyler Cowen
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 8d
I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 8d
Gavin Newsom announces that any California university that caves to Trump and signs his “loyalty pledge” will be immediately defunded.

“CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS.”
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