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🕸️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
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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.
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
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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...
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
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"effectively unprecedented"
December 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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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.
December 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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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...
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
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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
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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...
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...
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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We must love ourselves more than this!!
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Praise Thor ⚡️
November 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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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.
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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we are going to win
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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One of the things that's very difficult to really take to heart about MAGA conservatives is that you can't get them on hypocrisy about their children because they really don't give a fuck about their kids
Everyone who posts this should note that Megyn Kelly has a 14-year-old daughter. Do not let her off the hook on this.
This was always where this was headed.
November 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
So Megyn Kelly thinks 15 year olds are not children and that men who prey on them are not pedophiles. And she decided to go on the record on her own show with this opinion. Got it.
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM