Conor O’K
@conor1n.bsky.social
Transplant from Norn Iron to NorCal.
I should definitely post more cat pictures
I should definitely post more cat pictures
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Since everyone is rightly focused on the Epstein files, now would be a good time to remind you:
Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation.
How about we end that?
Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation.
How about we end that?
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Since everyone is rightly focused on the Epstein files, now would be a good time to remind you:
Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation.
How about we end that?
Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation.
How about we end that?
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A lot of people don't understand how pensions (or benefits) really work.
They picture a national savings account in which their 'own' taxes are stored until they retire.
Not that they were paying for the person before them, and now someone else is doing it for them, so inflation doesn't screw them
They picture a national savings account in which their 'own' taxes are stored until they retire.
Not that they were paying for the person before them, and now someone else is doing it for them, so inflation doesn't screw them
On a bus. Fares across Worcestershire are £1 per journey every weekend in October.
Four seniors boarded. They are loudly complaining. Quote: "They shouldn't do this £1 fare. It's workshy folk getting stuff for free yet again. No-one gives us pensioners anything."
The seniors all used bus passes.
Four seniors boarded. They are loudly complaining. Quote: "They shouldn't do this £1 fare. It's workshy folk getting stuff for free yet again. No-one gives us pensioners anything."
The seniors all used bus passes.
October 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
A lot of people don't understand how pensions (or benefits) really work.
They picture a national savings account in which their 'own' taxes are stored until they retire.
Not that they were paying for the person before them, and now someone else is doing it for them, so inflation doesn't screw them
They picture a national savings account in which their 'own' taxes are stored until they retire.
Not that they were paying for the person before them, and now someone else is doing it for them, so inflation doesn't screw them
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If you consider yourself a legitimate news organization, it is your duty to ignore this grotesque bootlicking by the fascist enablers at the US Open
America was built on saying “fuck you” to kings.
America was built on saying “fuck you” to kings.
More news breaking at Bounces about Donald Trump's visit to the US Open men's final.
The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance.
Read more here:
www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...
The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance.
Read more here:
www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...
U.S. Open Orders Broadcasters to Censor Reactions to Trump
An email obtained by Bounces includes instructions from the U.S. Open on supporting Trump's planned stagecraft during the National Anthem.
www.benrothenberg.com
September 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
If you consider yourself a legitimate news organization, it is your duty to ignore this grotesque bootlicking by the fascist enablers at the US Open
America was built on saying “fuck you” to kings.
America was built on saying “fuck you” to kings.
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Let's keep focused on the broader pattern here. I've outlined it in six bullet points below. Viewed all in one place, it's quite ominous:
newrepublic.com/article/1994...
newrepublic.com/article/1994...
August 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Let's keep focused on the broader pattern here. I've outlined it in six bullet points below. Viewed all in one place, it's quite ominous:
newrepublic.com/article/1994...
newrepublic.com/article/1994...
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😬The Supreme Court will consider whether the intentional creation of a majority-minority congressional district violates the 14th or 15th Amendments.
If the answer is yes, SCOTUS will effectively declare that what remains of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. This is very, very ominous.
If the answer is yes, SCOTUS will effectively declare that what remains of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. This is very, very ominous.
August 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
😬The Supreme Court will consider whether the intentional creation of a majority-minority congressional district violates the 14th or 15th Amendments.
If the answer is yes, SCOTUS will effectively declare that what remains of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. This is very, very ominous.
If the answer is yes, SCOTUS will effectively declare that what remains of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. This is very, very ominous.
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Itch has created an FAQ outlining the content being banned from the platform due to payment processors, and it includes "animal-related" content. Please read my statement from my Discord in this image.
THIS AFFECTS THE ENTIRE FURRY COMMUNITY, NOT JUST GAMES.
THIS AFFECTS THE ENTIRE FURRY COMMUNITY, NOT JUST GAMES.
July 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Itch has created an FAQ outlining the content being banned from the platform due to payment processors, and it includes "animal-related" content. Please read my statement from my Discord in this image.
THIS AFFECTS THE ENTIRE FURRY COMMUNITY, NOT JUST GAMES.
THIS AFFECTS THE ENTIRE FURRY COMMUNITY, NOT JUST GAMES.
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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The UFW is aware of the ongoing immigration enforcement activities occurring near Oxnard/Camarillo area. If you have a loved one that has been arrested call the rapid response network (805)870-8855.
July 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The UFW is aware of the ongoing immigration enforcement activities occurring near Oxnard/Camarillo area. If you have a loved one that has been arrested call the rapid response network (805)870-8855.
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Roughly 70K LGBTQ kids in crisis sought specialized services from the national suicide hotline every month, their director tells me.
Trump wants to cut those servicea off on July 17.
Trump wants to cut those servicea off on July 17.
Stonewall after Skrmetti: Transgender people refuse to be erased
The transgender community fights back after Trump cut off a suicide crisis line that helped 70,000 LGBTQ kids every month.
www.allrisenews.com
June 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Roughly 70K LGBTQ kids in crisis sought specialized services from the national suicide hotline every month, their director tells me.
Trump wants to cut those servicea off on July 17.
Trump wants to cut those servicea off on July 17.
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Most people expect that if they visit a news homepage at any given moment it should be prioritized by importance, like it would be in print. In reality, homepage editors are often trying to keep the page “fresh” and surface new stories. This creates a lot of frustration and confusion among readers.
June 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Most people expect that if they visit a news homepage at any given moment it should be prioritized by importance, like it would be in print. In reality, homepage editors are often trying to keep the page “fresh” and surface new stories. This creates a lot of frustration and confusion among readers.
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If you’re in LA in a public space this month and someone tries to get you to sign a petition about wages and voting DO NOT SIGN IT.
this is businesses trying to repeal an ordinance that increases wages for workers in hospitality spaces ahead of the Super Bowl, World Cup, & Olympics.
Do not sign!
this is businesses trying to repeal an ordinance that increases wages for workers in hospitality spaces ahead of the Super Bowl, World Cup, & Olympics.
Do not sign!
June 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
If you’re in LA in a public space this month and someone tries to get you to sign a petition about wages and voting DO NOT SIGN IT.
this is businesses trying to repeal an ordinance that increases wages for workers in hospitality spaces ahead of the Super Bowl, World Cup, & Olympics.
Do not sign!
this is businesses trying to repeal an ordinance that increases wages for workers in hospitality spaces ahead of the Super Bowl, World Cup, & Olympics.
Do not sign!
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This is now, by some distance, the most read thing I have ever put on the newsletter. Agnes' pose of outrage at being written about would really be clashing with her obvious delight about that number right about now.
It'll be two years, this Monday night. Time, at last, to write about Agnes.
The Long Goodbye
Time, at last, to write about Agnes.
jonn.substack.com
June 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is now, by some distance, the most read thing I have ever put on the newsletter. Agnes' pose of outrage at being written about would really be clashing with her obvious delight about that number right about now.
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Cannot express enough how much what happened at that meeting three weeks ago has changed things on the ground.
Courthouse arrests started within days, then check-in arrests. Worksite raids, once rare, began happening daily. Detention has skyrocketed over capacity. People are going missing.
Courthouse arrests started within days, then check-in arrests. Worksite raids, once rare, began happening daily. Detention has skyrocketed over capacity. People are going missing.
Really good WSJ article on ICE escalations over recent weeks including Miller's visit to ICE national HQ where he demanded Home Depot raids. www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
The White House Marching Orders That Sparked the L.A. Migrant Crackdown
After deportations fell short of President Trump’s campaign promises, federal agents summoned to a meeting in Washington were told to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.”
www.wsj.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Cannot express enough how much what happened at that meeting three weeks ago has changed things on the ground.
Courthouse arrests started within days, then check-in arrests. Worksite raids, once rare, began happening daily. Detention has skyrocketed over capacity. People are going missing.
Courthouse arrests started within days, then check-in arrests. Worksite raids, once rare, began happening daily. Detention has skyrocketed over capacity. People are going missing.
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It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.
They are in charge.
They are in charge.
June 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.
They are in charge.
They are in charge.
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Just to recap, Trump has taken the extraordinary step of federalizing 2000 member of the California National Guard — over the objections of the state’s governor — in response to a protest that currently involves A FEW DOZEN PEOPLE AT A HOME DEPOT
June 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Just to recap, Trump has taken the extraordinary step of federalizing 2000 member of the California National Guard — over the objections of the state’s governor — in response to a protest that currently involves A FEW DOZEN PEOPLE AT A HOME DEPOT
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I'm sure I'll take shit for saying this, but this passage from Glenn Loury's Chronicle interview perfectly captures for me the civilizational necessity of a relatively autonomous academic sphere. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
May 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I'm sure I'll take shit for saying this, but this passage from Glenn Loury's Chronicle interview perfectly captures for me the civilizational necessity of a relatively autonomous academic sphere. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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Some of the citations in the White House’s sweeping “MAHA Report” appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence, resulting in numerous garbled scientific references and invented studies, AI experts said Thursday.
White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say
The report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was intended to address the reasons for the decline in Americans’ life expectancy.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Some of the citations in the White House’s sweeping “MAHA Report” appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence, resulting in numerous garbled scientific references and invented studies, AI experts said Thursday.
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As I said about the MAHA report last week, it is disinformation from the U.S. government to the people of the United States.
Please call it what it is: false information intended to deliberately deceive or mislead individuals, often used by criminals and terrorists.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
Please call it what it is: false information intended to deliberately deceive or mislead individuals, often used by criminals and terrorists.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org
May 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
As I said about the MAHA report last week, it is disinformation from the U.S. government to the people of the United States.
Please call it what it is: false information intended to deliberately deceive or mislead individuals, often used by criminals and terrorists.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
Please call it what it is: false information intended to deliberately deceive or mislead individuals, often used by criminals and terrorists.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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Wrote about this many years ago on Twitter, but your actual goal should be 5 trains/buses an hour - so a 12 minute interval.
This breaks a couple of important psychological barriers for people, based on research by TfL (London's transport operator). Will explain. 🧵 /1
This breaks a couple of important psychological barriers for people, based on research by TfL (London's transport operator). Will explain. 🧵 /1
If it’s not more convenient than driving, it will always be your second option.
May 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Wrote about this many years ago on Twitter, but your actual goal should be 5 trains/buses an hour - so a 12 minute interval.
This breaks a couple of important psychological barriers for people, based on research by TfL (London's transport operator). Will explain. 🧵 /1
This breaks a couple of important psychological barriers for people, based on research by TfL (London's transport operator). Will explain. 🧵 /1
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The Trump era, summed up.
April 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The Trump era, summed up.
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over 100 people are rallying outside the albemarle county courthouse right now to protest the abduction of two local residents here yesterday by masked men with no warrant who claimed to be ICE agents
April 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
over 100 people are rallying outside the albemarle county courthouse right now to protest the abduction of two local residents here yesterday by masked men with no warrant who claimed to be ICE agents
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📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
April 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️