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Conor Dougherty

@conordougherty.bsky.social
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NYT Reporter, #SkateTwitter enthusiast and @candacej superfan.

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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Super interesting story in @sfstandard.com about the richification of Noe Valley, which is where I spent my early childhood and where my dad still lives. It's been crazy changes! sfstandard.com/2026/05/28/t... Here's a picture of me going to Kindergarten w/my sister. Check out all the crappy vans.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Thank you!
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Curbs represent the twilight of skateboarding, the end being closer than the beginning. I wanted to write a story about that and ended up excavating something else, a loss whose unfairness I have been struggling to figure out. Here it is: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/b...
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What I Learned About Loss While Skateboarding at Costco
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Welcome to life's greatest adventure!
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Happy Friday.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Where do I find #SkateTwitter stuff here? The tag appears out of use. I've been MIA from socials for a bit...
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Haha the story that started it all for me! My daughter is nine and the story ran the day she was born. weird.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Been warring with this for a few weeks. Slowly coming together.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I wrote this story a year ago and it remains the funnest thing I've worked on since 2020 or so. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...
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How Easy Rawlins Built a Real Estate Empire, One Crime Novel at a Time (Published 2024)
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
1/ If you're interested in housing and the debates within the Democratic party about how much is needed and how to get it built, you need to read this profile of CA NIMBY slayer @scottwiener.bsky.social by @jetjocko.bsky.social. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Scott Wiener Defeated California’s NIMBYs. Can He Fix America’s Housing Crisis?
By running for Nancy Pelosi's seat, he's putting the "Abundance" theory to the test.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Predator: Badlands was so freaking great.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I don't watch Reality TV, but life takes weird turns. My story: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...
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Reality TV’s Bad Boyfriend Is Angry Again. This Time, He’s Yelling at Gavin Newsom.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
My favorite newspaper movie is "The Paper." The single-day-in-a-newsroom conceit appealed to me more than movies about big investigations. Keaton's obsession about getting something right on deadline felt true and honorable. And Spalding Gray's (RIP) spoof of The Times was pretty great.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
dude! perfect! found it in beware the flare.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Yes, exactly
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
It's this spot (this is footage of the Muska). Carroll ollied it roughly like this but it was shot from the bottom of the stairs. What you can't see is that the landing is crazy narrow.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Dear #SkateTwitter: Years ago Mike Carroll ollied this massive double hubba at the entrance to UCLA. It's one of those "way gnarlier in person" spots. I know there was an ad with a still shot and footage of it in some video, probably a Transworld thing, but cannot seem to find. Anyone know it?
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I need #SkateTwitter to discuss: www.wired.com/story/dhs-te...
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Skateboards and Livestreams: DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’
DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I broke my radial head in the Chelsea Bowl many years ago, then on the day I came back tried to ease in by skating the Tribeca skatepark, because it's tiny and what could possibly happen, then broke the exact same arm/elbow on that baby wedge ledge. In other words, I know your pain. Feel better.
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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I don’t schedule vacations around the trade deadline because that’s ridiculous. What if the Giants make a big trade? It’s better to schedule vacations for mid-June, when nothing happens.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The mix of Padilla and immigration politics is giving this old school Californian huge 187 vibes.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Really sucks that Manny's was hit by vandals. The targeting of him and his business—which does more to promote and support progressive causes and authors and educate the public than just about anything in SF—is a fringe and poisonous disinformation campaign. missionlocal.org/2025/06/mann...
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‘The only good settler is a dead 1’: Manny’s cafe hit with vandalism during anti-ICE protest
'The only good settler is a dead 1' -- spray-painted slogans outside Mission café target Jewish owner and generate community support
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Thanks dude! Nollie flips forever.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Also, double digit growth over a loss could mean they made $20.
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Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Ted...sorry, Dr. Barrow is up in the Times today circling around that famous Ocean Howell point re: skateboards as brooms of gentrification www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...
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A San Francisco Plaza Was Down and Out. Then Skaters Moved In.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Skateboarding? Check. Urban Planning? Check. Referring to not one but TWO skaters as "Dr."? Check. Aside from video games and Bosch, this story I wrote, on how skateboarding revived an urban plaza in San Francisco, hits all my buttons. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...
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A San Francisco Plaza Was Down and Out. Then Skaters Moved In.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The more I play with AI the more I'm convinced that the best and most legally defensible way to make money in the future will be to buy valuable land and do nothing with it. Oh, wait.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it writing code. I don't know enough about it. But on the surface it seems less dystopian. There is so much structured data in that industry, it would see like its teed up for it.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Good times with Bret Anthony Johnston, my skate homie and acclaimed novelist. Growing up, I thought writers and skaters were the two coolest kinds of people on all of planet earth. Now I'm 47 getting a doubles clip with an author I admire. An ordinary day is extraordinary when you appreciate it.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Thanks!
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
So sad.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
My Switch 2 experience: 45 minutes of pressing "Place your order" on the Target website and having it not go through. Then my card got canceled, it got removed from my cart, and now my daughter will be crying in the AM.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Have you no respect for skateboard history?
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Who you gonna call?
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
You should be watching Dark Winds. Tonight's episode is indeed my favorite episode of television this year. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
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'Dark Winds' Season 3 May Deliver the Year's Best Episode of TV
Navajo reservation-set series digs deeper as its hero cop Joe Leaphorn, played by an outstanding Zahn McClarnon, grapples with an emotional crisis.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I wrote about how we need more sprawl and the word itself is sorely misunderstood. It took me a while to get here, but I got here. Find your hate-read here: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/m...
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America Needs More Sprawl to Fix Its Housing Crisis
The word has become an epithet for garish, reckless growth — but to fix the housing crisis, the country needs more of it.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I thought they'd had 20 seasons, at least. Titus can solve cases until he's 80.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I know I'm a broken record here but this newest and final season of Bosch is why TV was invented as a medium. Like a Miller Lite on a hot day. Perfection.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
👋
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Still processing that this is the final season of Bosch. I thought they had at least 12 more.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I'm not sure whether to be flattered or outraged. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
😍
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
It's not really about skateboarding so much as wanting to unshackle from the preserve everything mindset that IMO has destroyed CA.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Let the debate roll! I went to elementary school a few blocks from EMB/Black Rock and my dad lives on Dolores hill bomb. What's shocking to me is how THE SAME SF looks aside from everything being fancier. And it's the attitude of preserving that sameness that feels like it's killed the spirit.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The nostalgia of the mind is fine. I mean, that's just the nature of consciousness. But why the obsession with having what amounts to a relic? So someone can look at it?
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
What makes skateboarding so wonderful is its ephemerality. Spots happen, then die. The reason San Francisco is having so many problems as a city is that its politics has wrongly equated its culture with buildings, making it averse to change. Skateboarding needn't be the same way.
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
My five years memory: On March 9, 2020, I accomplished my life's goal of writing a book and getting my name on the marquee at Powell's. The next day, March 10, I flew home as the world shut down. Down to the wire!
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Ha, thanks!
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Conor Dougherty @conordougherty.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Awh, thanks. It was a weird one, but so fun.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Earlier today the LA Times had AI-generated counterpoints to a column from @gustavoarellano.bsky.social. His piece argued that Anaheim, the city he grew up in, should not forget its KKK past. The AI "well, actually"-ed the KKK. It has since been taken off the piece. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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