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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I will admit to intentionally demolishing a Bee Gees song with my kids for the Worst.Song.Ever contest A fair reading of “I Started a Joke” is that it’s written from the perspective of Satan, so I think I can be excused for this

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I would send a moment of air moving

Late afternoon sun casts shadows on a green lawn beside a winding tan dirt road

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The cat got a longer obituary than I will

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

the all-gender cave has a new record shelf

A big ikea shelf with a few hundred records, the end of a green-clothed pool table, a computer with a keyboard and speakers

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The river that rises in my town and borders my back yard is older than the Appalachian mountains

A small quick stream flows over rocks between green banks and under an arching tree

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Somebody had a party, and I wasn’t invited (The pile of shit is just extra)

Ears of munched corn scattered at the feet of corn plants in a weedy garden

A couple ears of munched corn on the ground next to what is presumably raccoon shit

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The only cucumbers I’ll see in the garden this year

A row of upright white wild cucumber flowers along a vine atop a chicken wire fence catch the setting sun

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Made a shelf dealer for the turntable so it’s no longer in the corner where all the bass goes because I was stupid before and am somewhat less stupid now Kind of a prototype, as I should have beefier brackets and a heavier shelf, but who am I kidding? It’s going to serve for a long while

A turntable is on a wall-mounted shelf above a receiver and tape deck. A daisy rock guitar hangs behind. Everything looks washed out by light from above. There are wires and crap on the walls

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The state of things, or what happens to the veg garden when you spend all your time fixing a pool table

An overgrown vegetable garden, a riot of green. There are tomato, pepper, and squash in there among the weeds

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Wtf autocorrect? Taking this whole AI is inevitable shit too far

Autocorrect trying to change “decades ago” to “decades AGI”

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Finally finished the table. Huge thanks to my boy who put in many many sometimes frustrating hours with me and was always on the side of doing it right, even when it meant redoing

A big game style pool table with green cloth and black rails

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Unübertroffen in der Klangwiedergabe

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Viva Las Vegas!!! (APA 9 Ball World Championships)

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Control at The Cove starting to look fancy pants. 6 of 8 compression channels work, which ain’t bad for free

A desk with monitor, speakers, and a lighted keyboard

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

the snozzleberries taste like snozzleberries

A thicket of raspberry stalks with fruit at various stages of ripeness

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Money is corrosive to politics, and you are no exception, because your interests are fundamentally incompatible with those of the great majority of humankind data4democracy.substack.com/p/money-does...

Consider another example: When Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign endorsed a budget proposal including a 25 percent minimum tax on unrealized gains over $100 million—a policy affecting perhaps 10,000 of the wealthiest Americans-billionaire Mark Cuban publicly threatened to oppose her. The campaign, which had officially endorsed the policy, suddenly went silent and refused to comment when pressed by reporters. For context, 10,000 people is roughly the number of Americans who own pet tigers. A presidential campaign would not immediately backtrack if Joe Exotic claimed the country would never financially recover from a tax on tiger breeding. But when Mark Cuban made essentially the same self-interested argument, it carried real political weight.

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Good timing, little lettuce leaves

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

We normalized the worst people in the world, and now we are very shocked by what they are doing with power

"The appearance of Federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects. Our journalists report the facts and advance the American public's right to know how their government is operating and their taxpayer dollars are being used. This brazen act should be seen as nothing more than an attempt to prevent the public from knowing what is happening in their country by intimidating journalists from doing their jobs."
- David McCraw, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel
The lew Hork Times

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Cheese acquired Cabot 4th of July

Hand holding a Cabot cheddar sampler with a Cabot 18-wheeler in the background

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Alas. Deimos AKA Schoolcat AKA Oreo has passed, getting scritches on his dumb little head to the last. He made it to the end of the school year but must have known that they weren’t letting him back into the classroom next fall bc an entering student has allergies