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🕸️Meg Conley

@pocketobservatory.org
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✍️I write Pocket Observatory, an attention reclamation project. 🗞️My work also appears in places like Harper’s Bazaar, The Guardian, Slate, BBC and NPR. linktr.ee/megconley

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The Rev. Andy McQuery @frandym.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
MACBETH: I bear a charmèd life, which must not yield To one of woman born. MACDUFF: Despair thy charm, And let the angel whom thou still hast served Tell thee Macduff was from his mother’s womb Untimely ripped. MACBETH: Fuck.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 22/09/2026
i really hate that my brain thinks in em dashes and now they make me self-conscious about people thinking that i’ve used AI there’s just really no good substitute! it is a beautiful apparatus!
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 16/09/2026
Annie taught me to how to pray. Annie taught me how to think. And so Annie taught me how to write. www.pocketobservatory.org/annie-dillar...
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Annie Dillard Died Yesterday
Annie taught me to how to pray. Annie taught me how to think. And so Annie taught me how to write.
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 16/09/2026
Love you love you love you
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 16/09/2026
Since I was diagnosed, I’ve tried to make this thing that is neither true nor false feel real. And lately, it almost has. But as it’s felt more real, I’ve felt less real. And so... www.pocketobservatory.org/put-it-on-th...
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put it on the shelf
I’ve tried to make this thing that is neither true nor false feel real. And lately, it almost has. But as it’s felt more real, I’ve felt less real. And so.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This article is dedicated to the memory of the beautiful former Vanderbilt football player Jabo Burrow. Please support his family if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/jabo-burro...
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Donate to Jabo Burrow Memorial Fund, organized by Jackson Burrow
In memory of John Allen “Jabo” Burrow, this fundraiser has been created for Brandi Burrow and… Jackson Burrow needs your support for Jabo Burrow Memorial Fund
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
i know this is what "i never thought the leopards would eat my face" is exactly describing. but i'd argue what something like the Milo incident shows is that their version is even shallower than that. they're playing GTA and everyone but them is an NPC. life's barely real to them.
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 28/08/2026
Yeah it’s all very John Birch Society hopped onto WhatsApp
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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This public and official announcement is one faction within the regime signalling to another faction that they are now in control, and that bad things can happen to them if they challenge the ruling faction.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
the concern with the Arday story isn’t the fact of the media coverage, it’s the volume. it’s perfectly reasonable that there would be some coverage of the story, and basically indefensible that there was as much as there was.
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 14/08/2026
I thought he was dead???
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“If you live in a nice middle-class suburb, you don’t want to think of your neighbors as fascists who would have the state kill you if they could. Yet all the data in the world suggests at least some of them are. Some will believe in overt white supremacy, just as some will believe in QAnon.”
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 30/07/2026
It’d be a distraction from the cancer! Ha! Ha! Ahhhhhhh
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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Oh no, not your mom’s pied-a-terre!!!!!!!
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 30/07/2026
The BBC has interviewed me several times. I have lots of English and UK readers. If anyone wants to tag me in so I can unleash on this, I’m here. Because my god.
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 30/07/2026
Yes.
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 30/07/2026
I can only watch Channel 4 through a VPN. And yet! I’m crawl up from the belly of the earth like a Fury furious.
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 30/07/2026
I eat mostly whole foods. My job is creative and exists far outside “regimented”* 9-5. My ADHD is more impactful every passing year of my life. *another nonsense use of a term! It assumes less traditional work/schooling is not regimented???
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 30/07/2026
1. I’d love these twats to define “processed food.” Almost all of our food is “processed” + has been since humans started cooking. 2. Studies showing physical differences between ADHD brains + neurotypical brains are abundant! + demonstrate the differences exist from v early childhood - at least!
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 24/07/2026
Precisely. I tried to explain this to someone by comparing it to the word “food.” Like, that category encompasses many things that are very different from one another + have very different origins, impacts, interactions, etc. It helped them understand…kind of. I need to think of a better comparison.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is laughable --- "reporting says", well yes, these reporters did a bang-up job anthropomorphizing the system they are talking about, and obfuscating the responsibility that OpenAI holds here. bsky.app/profile/mims... Some examples:
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 24/07/2026
They seem to think GLP-1s are (relatively) safe and effective so all peptides are safe and effective. Few seem to know what a peptide ~is. All claim their peptide of choice is not FDA approved because big pharma can’t make money off it and doesn’t want the little guy to thrive/survive
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 24/07/2026
Lots of people reached out to suggest various peptides when I was diagnosed with cancer. Went down the rabbit hole then and honestly, it was so shocking even to someone who’s spent a chunk of her career writing about Influence. 🙋🏻‍♀️
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 23/07/2026
Just watched one of my astoundingly talented daughters perform 'Dead Mom' in a community production of Beetlejuice. She sang like she was really on Broadway. To get out there and do that after watching me- her not-yet-dead mom- go through cancer treatment for the past year? Very hardcore! I cried!
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 21/07/2026
The thing is I can’t live without garlic powder. So maybe upcoming recalls could take that into consideration? Thanks!
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 21/07/2026
I think about her woodcut, Die Mütter, at least once a week.
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 21/07/2026
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Umm Ok
Alt: Umm Ok gif from the tv show Castle
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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Calling all meta glasses wearers 'specs offenders'.
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 19/07/2026
Don’t sacrifice your kids or other people’s kids for favorable winds is basically Christopher Nolan’s recent body of work
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 19/07/2026
A British white guy writer/director leaving “nobody” out while making sure Iphigenia gets her moment? Truly surprised me and I apologize but I must gently stan on that basis alone!
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Jeff Mac @jeffmacishere.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
(guy pointing at the first toaster) is this a bread witch
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 19/07/2026
This made me cry. It just now occurs to me that no one outside of that little Twitter moment all those years ago has any idea how strongly I feel about the odyssey??? I am so glad you remembered it. Helped me remember it too
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 19/07/2026
tbf Anne Hathaway was trying to get to her (new) home last time
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 19/07/2026
bsky.app/profile/pock...
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 19/07/2026
It's also not a Penelope + Odysseus movie. The recognition scene is barely recognizable. Their bed isn't even mentioned. There are lots of ways to feel about that, and I do. But Nolan covered what happens when Love leads you Home in Interstellar. This is decidedly about Other Things.
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
has anyone considered listening to women
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 19/07/2026
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 19/07/2026
SPOILERS . . . . . . he merely nods towards it
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 19/07/2026
In Nolan’s Odyssey, the only (somewhat) decent nobleman was raised by a single mother. And you know what? He's right to say it. (I am only kind of joking. Or I am not joking at all.)
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 19/07/2026
I HAVE BEEN MEANING TO WATCH THIS ONE! Adding it to my summer watch list!
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jacqui shine @dearsplenda.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“i told her i had been suicidal but did not think and do not think it would be helpful to her to know i thought about killing her as well” SIR, I DISAGREE
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jacqui shine @dearsplenda.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
recently read a piece that interviewed gambling addicts. one admitted that he fantasized about killing himself AND HIS WIFE and it occurred to me that having a male partner who gambles probably raises the risk of family annihilation 🙃
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 19/07/2026
And no spoilers but it’s not a father-son movie imo. Which was a pleasant surprise.
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 19/07/2026
I have complicated feelings about the many-wayed man. Except for when he strings his bow and plucks it right before dispatching the suitors. In every translation that moment leaves me feeling one very uncomplicated feeling. Ahem. Can confirm that Nolan did right by that bit.
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 18/07/2026
Neither here nor there but my sister used to work for a catering company that did a lot of work for Yellowstone Club and Matt Damon was one of the only celebrities that treated her like a person. Anyways. Ten more hours till I get see The Odyssey.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
4. Homeric Greek is an artificial poetic, traditional language, developed over generations of poetic storytelling and fusing different dialects and eras - not a language that anyone ever spoke. It works beautifully for traditional spoken-word poetry, but it's quite unsuitable for a film script.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
1. Creators, including screenwriters, can and should do their own thing, especially when adapting a myth. Euripides adapted the end of the Iliad for the Athenian tragic stage using a different meter and different lexicon from Homer's, for a different genre and a different time. That's fine!
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.
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