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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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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I grew up in Toronto and visited family in California. After Christmases my mom and i would be so hard up for Mexican food we considered trying to open a taqueria
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I paid $5.09 today
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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 · 12/08/2026
If you made spirulina smoothies part of your recovery regimen, this wouldn’t have happened. You have only yourself to blame.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Well. Any more from her would be asking too much.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
**They should sing a set in French **Briefly call themselves Asterisk the Gaul **
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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 · 30/07/2026
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I knew sauce was a hockey thing. Did not know it was a basketball thing too.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This seems like a set-up to a crime novel [thumbing through THE GOLDFINCH for possible furniture refinishing murder weapons]
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I thought it was a reboot in the arctic?
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Just need a slight edit! If the tax inefficiencies “are not part of God’s will,” then you’re good to go 👍
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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 · 16/07/2026
More should be done to harness the awesome wayfinding power of hot women (he attempts to say with a straight face)
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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 · 12/07/2026
There are so many conversations orbiting around people’s lack of literacy right now … Really discouraging
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
My university stiffed me for a scholarship over a technicality, so I didn’t pay them the last $5 I owed them. When I needed a transcript for grad school years later, they had tacked a late fee on top of their late fee
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
We put in a heat pump a few years ago. True that the up front cost is higher. I expect you make that back over time
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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
"We didn't feel it necessary to invoke an ancient curse at this time," an Egyptian spokesperson should have said.
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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 · 03/07/2026
A papal meme that’s too good not to share:
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The novel of the enduring, decades-long love affair between a woman and her dress with pockets.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Pork in brine!
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
As an armchair policy nerd, I world advocate eating wild hogs: they’re inactive and spreading, it would give hunters something constructive to do, and bacon. 🥓
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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
“The Hippies Were Right” is pretty common refrain: www.gq.com/story/the-hi...
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The Hippies Were Right After All
From yoga to biodynamism to sustainability to weed, the slow march of progress has revealed an inarguable truth: The hippies won.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
They get bunny ears and trolled in the background. I don't make the rules.
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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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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Success as a writer is 88% hard work, 4% timing and 9% being good at math.
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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
The sign's not bad. Could we just steal the sign?
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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
Slightly unrelated: This seems like a Maureen-appropriate cartoon
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Time to claim victory! ✊
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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...
people.com
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 · 22/06/2026
There's a fun podcast called "Wind of Change" about whether the CIA wrote a famous ballad near the end of the Cold War. crooked.com/podcast-seri...
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Wind of Change | Crooked Media
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Sorry, I borked the acronym. LGBTQIA+ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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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 · 21/06/2026
If it could fold and put away? Maybe.
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
How long do you have to wait for your flight before it’s number one?
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John Ochwat @uppitycitizen.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Yeah, that game was excruciating
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