Meghan O'Keefe, PhD
@meokeefe.bsky.social
Half a future double doc
New Englander lost in the Midwest
Lover of foxhounds, trashy TV, and endurance sports
New Englander lost in the Midwest
Lover of foxhounds, trashy TV, and endurance sports
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I would just like to announce I feed my dogs. If u come to my house & offer them snacks or food they'll act like they've never seen it b4 like I have them subsisting via photosynthesis so just know that's not true. The sad pathetic faces are truly well rehearsed. I feed them. Don't get suckered.
February 1, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I would just like to announce I feed my dogs. If u come to my house & offer them snacks or food they'll act like they've never seen it b4 like I have them subsisting via photosynthesis so just know that's not true. The sad pathetic faces are truly well rehearsed. I feed them. Don't get suckered.
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Movie review from Guardian on Melania.
January 30, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Movie review from Guardian on Melania.
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We can actually predict polar vortex events now by monitoring Ted Cruz flight patterns
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was spotted earlier today, January 20, 2026, on a plane heading to Laguna Beach as the state of Texas braces for a rare ice threat and arctic cold front.
January 23, 2026 at 12:38 AM
We can actually predict polar vortex events now by monitoring Ted Cruz flight patterns
Genuinely thought this was @nytpitchbot.bsky.social or @theonion.com at first 😭
Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
nyti.ms
January 12, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Genuinely thought this was @nytpitchbot.bsky.social or @theonion.com at first 😭
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I’ve spent the past two days as pediatric ward attending and frankly we need both more and even better vaccines not fewer
December 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I’ve spent the past two days as pediatric ward attending and frankly we need both more and even better vaccines not fewer
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The Browns didn't exist for a little bit, and we brought them back. We learned nothing from Pet Sematary. Sometimes dead is better.
December 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The Browns didn't exist for a little bit, and we brought them back. We learned nothing from Pet Sematary. Sometimes dead is better.
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they had goth baddies in the 17th century as evidenced by the fact that a woman named Caterine Morte had a skull coat of arms
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
they had goth baddies in the 17th century as evidenced by the fact that a woman named Caterine Morte had a skull coat of arms
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Today we are reading vintage Richard Scarry
November 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Today we are reading vintage Richard Scarry
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor.
A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor.
A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
Of course this is in Cambridge 😂
October 31, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Of course this is in Cambridge 😂
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In the timeless words of Ina Garten: If you can't make your own neurotransmitters, store bought is fine!
Psychiatric drugs save lives.
Psychiatric drugs save lives.
Something it's become unfashionable to say about mental health is that the answer often IS a pill.
It doesn't matter how many earnest discussion programmes you have on Radio 4, sometimes the answer is a big old pill.
It doesn't matter how many earnest discussion programmes you have on Radio 4, sometimes the answer is a big old pill.
October 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
In the timeless words of Ina Garten: If you can't make your own neurotransmitters, store bought is fine!
Psychiatric drugs save lives.
Psychiatric drugs save lives.
I'm 31 years old and I could still call my childhood best friend's house from memory if I wanted to
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I'm 31 years old and I could still call my childhood best friend's house from memory if I wanted to
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*clears throat*
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September 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
*clears throat*
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live your life so that when you die everyone talks about how hot you were and not how you were a hateful bigot
September 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
live your life so that when you die everyone talks about how hot you were and not how you were a hateful bigot
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You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.
September 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.
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i think sloane was the one who wanted to go to the cubs game. cameron and ferris are going “hey batter batter” like they haven’t experienced baseball since before high school, while she’s keeping a scorecard
September 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
i think sloane was the one who wanted to go to the cubs game. cameron and ferris are going “hey batter batter” like they haven’t experienced baseball since before high school, while she’s keeping a scorecard
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For someone who calls herself a people pleaser, very few people are actually pleased with me
August 31, 2025 at 2:05 AM
For someone who calls herself a people pleaser, very few people are actually pleased with me
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