Conor Rooney
@rooneytns.bsky.social
📍Brooklyn, NY
📣 Publicist, ✍️ Writer + 📸Photographer
Part-time paleontologist + stock photo historian
Stony Brook Alumni / Former host @ WUSB 90.1FM
https://open.substack.com/pub/rooneytns
📣 Publicist, ✍️ Writer + 📸Photographer
Part-time paleontologist + stock photo historian
Stony Brook Alumni / Former host @ WUSB 90.1FM
https://open.substack.com/pub/rooneytns
Not pictured: the man hollering “the British are coming” outside my window at 6:50am today
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Not pictured: the man hollering “the British are coming” outside my window at 6:50am today
Reposted by Conor Rooney
I've been thinking about how many journalists of color I know have gone through multiple layoffs and are tired of the instability on top of the stagnant pay, increasing workload, demand for more skills, threat of AI, and constant complaints about paywalls. It's hard to have kids or make plans.
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I've been thinking about how many journalists of color I know have gone through multiple layoffs and are tired of the instability on top of the stagnant pay, increasing workload, demand for more skills, threat of AI, and constant complaints about paywalls. It's hard to have kids or make plans.
Reposted by Conor Rooney
I canvassed for Zohran Mamdani with @rooneytns.bsky.social and Max tonight. Max loved running up all the steps of brownstones and we spotted this front door in Park Slope.
November 4, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I canvassed for Zohran Mamdani with @rooneytns.bsky.social and Max tonight. Max loved running up all the steps of brownstones and we spotted this front door in Park Slope.
👏start👏calling👏your👏boss👏champ👏
September 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
👏start👏calling👏your👏boss👏champ👏
I yearn to be offline
July 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I yearn to be offline
at least three people on my commute this morning had TikTok playing on their phone sans headphones. I’m becoming an old man with how grumpy I get towards this.
I used to love just thinking through stuff on the subway but the number of people who play music on their phones without headphones has destroyed this
Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."
July 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
at least three people on my commute this morning had TikTok playing on their phone sans headphones. I’m becoming an old man with how grumpy I get towards this.
Reposted by Conor Rooney
my favorite HBO Max (Humourous Boy Often)
May 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
my favorite HBO Max (Humourous Boy Often)
Reposted by Conor Rooney
This is among the most depressing things I have ever read, and makes me very nervous about the ability for any of these daily ChatGPT users to independently problem-solve or think creatively: nymag.com/intelligence...
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This is among the most depressing things I have ever read, and makes me very nervous about the ability for any of these daily ChatGPT users to independently problem-solve or think creatively: nymag.com/intelligence...
Reposted by Conor Rooney
Bad Money www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/21/1...
$8 billion of US climate tech projects have been canceled so far in 2025
Battery, solar, and wind projects are getting killed in record numbers. Here’s a map of all the cancellations so far this year.
www.technologyreview.com
April 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Bad Money www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/21/1...
The resemblance is uncanny @karenho.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The resemblance is uncanny @karenho.bsky.social
Some notes on slowing down, sitting with one piece of music for awhile and letting it breathe. Brian Eno’s ‘Discreet Music’ opened up a world of music I was completely blind to.
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Room to Breathe
on Brian Eno's 'Discreet Music'
open.substack.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Some notes on slowing down, sitting with one piece of music for awhile and letting it breathe. Brian Eno’s ‘Discreet Music’ opened up a world of music I was completely blind to.
✍️
open.substack.com/pub/rooneytn...
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open.substack.com/pub/rooneytn...
In the early months of 2024, @dalvinandhobbes.bsky.social and myself spoke spoke with 7 contemporary + leading horror directors to look back on The Blair Witch Project’s lasting impact on their work. 👻🧙♀️🫣
✍️ for @indiewire.com.web.brid.gy
www.indiewire.com/features/int...
✍️ for @indiewire.com.web.brid.gy
www.indiewire.com/features/int...
‘The Blair Witch Project’ Turns 25: Robert Eggers, Jane Schoenbrun, and 7 More Horror Directors on Its Terrifying Legacy
Robert Eggers, Jane Schoenbrun, and seven more horror directors tell IndieWire about the impact and influence of 'The Blair Witch Project' at 25.
www.indiewire.com
April 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
In the early months of 2024, @dalvinandhobbes.bsky.social and myself spoke spoke with 7 contemporary + leading horror directors to look back on The Blair Witch Project’s lasting impact on their work. 👻🧙♀️🫣
✍️ for @indiewire.com.web.brid.gy
www.indiewire.com/features/int...
✍️ for @indiewire.com.web.brid.gy
www.indiewire.com/features/int...
there is a small boy inside of Max and he is as mischievous as he is goofy
He keeps nudging me to put treats in one of his enrichment toys
March 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
there is a small boy inside of Max and he is as mischievous as he is goofy