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John Ochwat

@uppitycitizen.bsky.social
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Writer/editor. Recovering journalist. Underachieving drummer. Cascadian. 🇺🇸🇨🇦Toronto expat. Rhymes with "crock pot." Mostly losing the fight against writing meh sentences. he/him

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Bird Alliance of Oregon @birdallianceoregon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨Lights Out Alert! Tomorrow night approximately 4.1 million birds will migrate through Oregon's skies. Help keep them safe on their journey by turning off your outside lights and drawing your blinds between 11p-6a. 📷: aeroecolab.com/oregon
Lights Out Alert for September 16, 2026 - 4.1 million birds will be migrating through Oregon skies. Dark skies help keep birds safe on their journey to their wintering grounds. Migration is happening now through approximately October 19 -- if you can turn off your lights and draw your blinds every evening during that time period to assist migrating birds, that would be appreciated.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Your periodic reminder: treason /trē′zən/ noun The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Another casualty in the war on cars (this is not far from where I live)
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The twist should be he can only cook animals he's killed: bear, dog, mice, raccoons and whale—or brain worms, of course. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Exclusive: RFK Jr. hosting a new cooking show with celebrity chefs
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in an exclusive interview, says he will be 'reintroducing' Americans to cooking again in a new series.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Lindsey Graham’s Sister, Darline Graham, Says She Will Run to Succeed Him "I'm not a lickspittle and I have a spine," she should have been quoted as saying.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Well. The World Cup third place game is properly bonkers. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇫🇷
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I hate penalty kicks in football. Some cheesy foul in the box that would have never become a scoring opportunity becomes an easy goal instead
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Heat pumps are about three times as efficient as gas furnaces. Induction cooktops are about twice as efficient as gas, and indoor air quality improves hugely too. 👍👍
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The communists are eating the cats. Got it.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This would be a bold, new direction for the Fast & Furious franchise, TBH. www.jalopnik.com/2207088/duel...
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Dueling Popemobiles One Step Closer To Reality Thanks To Latest Catholic Schism - Jalopnik
It's hard to imagine an Italian automaker defying the Vatican to build an Antipopemobile for the heretics.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I was workshopping a piece in grad school and someone questioned “cabal” (all five letters) because they didn’t know what it meant.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I would pay good money for the writing book teaching how to work on my novel while using my phone and in the presence of my in-laws.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
If no one else writes a novel about her, I'm gonna
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23/06/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
So it went from fine to "let's paint it blue" to we hired the buffoon criminal guy and it turned scummy and then they criminalized touching it and now it will be fenced off? There's an old saying that all analogies fail eventually, but the damn swamp pond just keeps going and going.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Just spitballing here, but in this case throwing paper towels at the problem might've been more useful. people.com/trumps-motor...
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Trump's Motorcade Drives Over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool amid Efforts to ‘Make D.C. Beautiful Again’
President Donald Trump inspected the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Thursday, May 7. White House communications director Steven Cheung shared a video on X of the presidential mo...
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I would pay that protestor. Game that good gotta turn pro.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
What’s so baffling about this is there’s LGBTQ+ content on the homepage. Anyway, I used their contact us page to complain about the internal memo. I mean, FFS.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
My three World Cup observations today: 1) Cabo Verde’s shutout vs. Spain looks even more impressive after what Spain did to Saudi Arabia today 2) The Spain coach looks like Stanley Tucci’s brother 3) You should read the Guardian piece Jessica recommended 👇
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Good to see that the head referee and at least one of the assistant refs in the first World Cup game today are women.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
TIL that Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams both starred in “The Notebook,” which was a lot of Hollywood star power to come out of modestly sized London, Ontario (where they were both born)
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
As a metaphor, “Trump project ends up covered in persistent scum” would be too on those nose if it weren’t actually true. www.wired.com/story/reflec...
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Why the Reflecting Pool Is Full of Algae After Trump's Renovation
Warm weather has fueled a bloom that National Park Service workers are trying to kill using everything from hydrogen peroxide to nanobubbles ahead of July 4 celebrations.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Serpentium. Recommended by four out of five bluegrass musicians named Doc.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I wonder if Switzerland’s cap-at-10-million boomers can root for their World Cup team without a crippling case of cognitive dissonance.
A graphic of the Switzerland World Cup football team roster
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I re-upped Peacock after the Winter a Olympics because they offered a sweetheart deal. Fast forward to the World Cup, where I can watch games … in Spanish. #gooooooooal
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If you’re going to die on a molehill, DIE ON A MOLEHILL. I sort of loved this column for that.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/06/2026
What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
CLASSIC ROCK THAT ROCKS AND ROCKS AND ROCKS AND …
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Not sure what I find funnier, the joke or the helpful AI prompt below the joke
Post from the Babylon Bee (a humor site) saying “Theologians strolling to explain how loving god could allow Ohio”
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"For These Desperate Ice Bits, April is the Cruelest Month" — NYT headline (that I'd like to see)
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Work in progress progress: Revision. Revision fatigue. Punch-drunk revision. Revision, with slight hallucinations. Revision, with DTSM-diagnosable mental disorders. Re-read, rewrite, repeat.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
AI slop comes to your email newsletters
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
SUCH a good episode, with sharp, timely things to say about language, power, trans persecution, and book banning.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Almost as gripping as Eddie Money's irrefutable line, "I feel a hunger. It's a hunger."
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Reading about invasion of Canada novels (as one does), and ran across this lacerating mini review:
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
There are UX fails that irritate me. There are also ones like these, which I kind of love:
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I’ll give NBC a 2/3 for its women’s hockey coverage today (as in, 2 out of 3 female announcers). Now, if they had just replaced Kenny Albert with a woman …
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
See if you can guess which app leaks location data, which benefits organizations like ICE. www.wired.com/story/gravy-...
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
On today's playlist: youtu.be/3oQURjDmaNQ?...
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Brian Jackson - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Feat. Black Thought) Official Lyric Video
YouTube video by BBE TV
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Can we add Oregon as a buy-one-get-one?
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Fun fact: I started writing a Vietnam-era novel with a counterfactual premise about what if Nixon invoked the Insurrection Act after the Kent State shooting protests. For obvious reasons, I didn’t continue.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I spent part of my holidays blogging about some of my favorite novels that I read last year. johnochwat.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/t...
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These Are a Few of My Favorite Novels from 2025
For the past few years I’ve been keeping a list of the books I’ve read, and the ones I listened to as audiobooks. This year I got through 70 of both, and thought I’d share the one…
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Bless its heart, but the The Algorithm fed this to me. But fear not, I am going to [consults list] … #28
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Thoughts and prayers and all that, but mostly I’m waiting for the tragicomic short story, “The Only Tesla Cybertruck in All of Uganda”
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
... also, that last post was appartenly brought to you by caffeine and my thesaurus
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Despite the ongoing shitshow in Washington, I find myself in a schadenfreude-inspired good mood this morning because of the news about David Brooks, who always struck me as a sanctimonious prig.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Big shout-out to SeattleFWC26, who planned Seattle’s Pride World Cup match. 🏳️‍🌈⚽️
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Someone just described my workday
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