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Meaghan O’Connell

@meaghano.bsky.social
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writer // author of And Now We Have Everything // no longer the senior features editor at Romper // email: oconnell.meaghan@gmail // www.meaghano.com

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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
some of you may not know my uncle was once a key player in florida's bishop lobby, which is a thing
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
grief is wishing my mom were still alive so I could see how the schism lit up her sibling group chat
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026
Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
i feel like we're seeing it happen in real time and what happens is mainstream art becomes very mediocre!!
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
i have long resisted knowing anything about our school board and how it works and now i am watching the meetings like my own personal soap opera
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
literally when lol
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
PPS school board just passed a resolution for a pause on AI until we have more information, oversight, and data on its effectiveness :)
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
www.thecut.com/article/the-...
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Why Would You Pay to Talk to a Man?
The majority of therapists are women. Yet some female patients are looking for something different.
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
the context is a story I wrote so I am thrilled lol
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
my son knows Colin K as "the CEO of LumiAI" which
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
also lol my son did not mention that part
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
anyone interested in organizing around this, there's a whatsapp group of parents, caregivers, and teachers here: chat.whatsapp.com/HKf3LQVrVx5L...
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Schools Beyond Screens PDX
WhatsApp Group Invite
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
www.portlandmercury.com/news/chaotic...
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“Chaotic” Middle School Assembly Underscores PPS’ AI Problem - Portland Mercury
On a Friday last month, some Portland middle schoolers went home from school with new Nike swag and tales of an unusually eventful assembly.  The event, hosted at Beaumont Middle School on May 8, feat...
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
nickcantwrite.tumblr.com lol
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
what's amazing is the historic little bitch-ness, such consistency through the ages
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
this is a masterpiece
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
oh yes, I'm in touch w some local news people and some parents organizing. there's also a whatsapp group chat.whatsapp.com/HKf3LQVrVx5L...
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Schools Beyond Screens PDX
WhatsApp Group Invite
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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Please make time in your day to read @meaghano.bsky.social on wig shopping with her late mom cupofjo.com/2026/05/13/a...
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Adventures in Wigland | Cup of Jo
My mom shows up at my front door in the middle of…
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
It sure was and no, they never mentioned it in any of their many messages!
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I know. I suspect that eliciting feedback was for show. there was a committee that met a few times with parents and the consensus there did not align at all with the "handbook" written by AI (!) that the district put out
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I had the k*dlit mob come for me once for writing a goofy story about how MB was cute (erasing women's contributions!!!!).
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
the fact that the "founder" of this AI platform is Colin Kaepernik is the most Portland fucking thing I've ever heard, too ham-fisted for parody.
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
PS: per my kid, it was a school-wide assembly with the CEO of the AI company and the Superintendent of Portland Public Schools, giving away free stuff and telling them this would help "unlock their creativity." To a bunch of middle schoolers.
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I know. I'm not sure what would be worse: not even considering how gross this was, or knowing but deciding to do it anyway.
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Yes. It's pretty heartbreaking to think about how these kids did kindergarten on chromebooks and now they can't get through middle school without being exposed to this because of some lucrative contract. yuck.
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
they should at least be more subtle with their cravenness
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
it's wild because my kid KNEW it was fucked up and was laughing as he told me this. why does an 11yo know better than whoever is making these batshit judgment calls
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
It is abundantly clear to parents that PPS is hemorrhaging enrollment, making no progress at the bargaining table, and stepping in it yet again with your wild  mishandling of the AI policy handbook. 

And yet! We continue to send our children to public school, because public education is one of my family's core values. Being MARKETED TO BY TECH COMPANIES DURING THE SCHOOL DAY is not.
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
to mlim@pps.net? Yes!
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I would LOVE Melissa Lim and the other PPS admin to stop exhibiting egregiously poor judgment.
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
my jaw dropped. it is fucking Lumi
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Wow really love to have my PPS 6th grader to come home excited that an AI company brought a DJ to his school and gave every kid free Nike backpacks and hats while they showed them their generative ai writing tool -- what in the actual fuck
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
yes i'm on deadline for something completely unrelated
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
today i'm niche-annoyed because even late 19th-cent freud knew trauma to be a psychological structure that is very similar to narrativization itself. analogous bordering on self-same -- experienced in the re-experiencing, defined by how it is internalized. storytelling IS "the trauma plot."
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
i sincerely love that you were like, well, you cant talk about wine moms without first going back to EM Forster
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
my suggested gmail replies are so accurately half-assed
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Essentially Google and a few other big tech companies have made fantastic profits but the consequence is we have destroyed the existence of the free press as an institution capable of being a check on power and corruption, leading us inexorably into fascism and oligarchy. So, pluses and minuses.
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
there is or WAS such thing as an editorial duty of care 😭
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I go stand outside with my hands on my hips and look at my yard
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
this woman should get to [ ] one anti-vaxxer on sight and I have ideas www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
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Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
i think the confusion about the economic situation stems from if you are rich you are fine and everyone else is not. Hopefully this clears things up
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🙋🏼‍♀️ aggressively lapsed and still trade approving if not horny memes about him weekly
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
it has me a little weepy i gotta admit
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
eight years later my little book is still making moves. a beautiful new turkish translation is coming out for mother's day 🐣
turkish cover of and now we have everything
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
i want to think it would have gotten its footing because i am a NB *and* franzo stan but i think it'll be more fun with nostalgic patina
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
probably stalled out because that pilot was SO VERY BAD
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
to become a therapist! 🙃
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I didn’t see it but I FEEL it. I’m going back to school in the fall, not that it solves our money woes. Husband‘s also unemployed 😁😁😁
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
it’s so bad. I started making a Rover profile 🫠
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Meaghan O’Connell @meaghano.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I think that’s a matter of opinion and mine is that it is needlessly hamfisted and could be better executed…
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