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Charles O’Connor

@coconnor8.bsky.social

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power rando (he/him) PFP: old bearded guy wearing a hoodie and sunglasses in the snow Banner: pink crabapple blossoms in the foreground, a rusty old schwinn leans against a claw foot bathtub in a spring garden

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · Jun 1

I regret to inform you that they’re coming out with a new version of white that doesn’t include you

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 9h

Look I've been holding off from months asking this on Bluesky because of my pride but I need help.

My car needs brakes, my rent is past due and my step kid needs shoes.

I hate having to ask this

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 18h

I swallowed capitalism

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 1d

poetry

Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has stripped power from the gop congress. At what point do we get anything but anonymous expressions of concern whispered to the DC press corp?

What price are *dems* making them pay for their fealty?

Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not a fancy fashion salon. It’s nothing but a Quonset hut, BUT…

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IDEAL Clothing store commercial 1960s/70s Hammonton NJ

YouTube video by NiCKi BRaTZ

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 1d

Biden just needed to be Bush I level tough with Bibi, and it would not have been a deciding issue

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 1d

New song done

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Don't Tell Me, by Earthhater

track by Earthhater

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 1d

Not a real Nobel Prize

Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 1d

New song done

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Don't Tell Me, by Earthhater

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 1d

Whistle pigs

Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, fixed the tune

Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 2d

Not terrible prices tbh, but not all styles are available in all sizes

Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 2d

I passed my 10 year old Matterhorns to my son when resoling them made them a bit too narrow for me. They were the best footwear I’ve owned, an extension of my feet. (I took care of them)

Carolinas are holding up going into year 3 but they’re stiffer and heavier

Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 2d

If a brand keeps the quality up. A pair of @drmartens.bsky.social used to last. My current pair self destructed while I was on a trip.

Not great

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 2d

Millions of trump voters would disagree

Self pity + power over others is the dream

Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 2d

Getting dangerously close to actually saying something

Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 2d

She and Roberts still keeping up the pretense the others no longer give a shit about

Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks (for this and other info). Unfortunately these are things normies like myself need to know now

Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 2d

How’s the traffic cone method work?

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 2d

They’re probably the only people who could be satisfied living in VR, and we ought to trap them in it

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 2d

Omen IV: The Nepo-Antichrist*

*for all I know, there was already an Omen IV that I couldn’t be bothered to look up

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 2d

The right uses the balance of the press as a fulcrum

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

The overriding goal of too many journalists is to provide “balanced” coverage from a “neutral” position in equidistance to both sides. That framework is much easier to justify if you pretend to be dealing with “normal” politicians – as opposed to committed ideologues pursuing an extreme project.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 2d

There’s no easy solution, and these men are the least capable of making hard solutions work

They’re idiots with incredible luck who’ve been told they’re geniuses

If they can’t solve the crisis, who can?

We can

Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 2d

The level of hard work we’re going to have to put into muddling through the climate crisis is huge

They don’t wanna

They need to be stripped of any influence over the direction of society

For our own survival

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