Ryan O'Leary
@rolearysid.bsky.social
I watch people play games for a living. Husband, swim dad, author. Also, I got bars.
If you're looking for a good cause to donate to on #GivingTuesday, might I suggest Franklin College athletics? In D3 sports, even a little bit can go a long way.
Donate to your favorite team or to the general athletic fund: www.givecampus.com/s/10wotl
#GRIZTuesday
Donate to your favorite team or to the general athletic fund: www.givecampus.com/s/10wotl
#GRIZTuesday
#GRIZTuesday 2025
Join me & be an MVP! Make a gift on #GRIZTuesday 2025 now to support FC student athletes!
www.givecampus.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If you're looking for a good cause to donate to on #GivingTuesday, might I suggest Franklin College athletics? In D3 sports, even a little bit can go a long way.
Donate to your favorite team or to the general athletic fund: www.givecampus.com/s/10wotl
#GRIZTuesday
Donate to your favorite team or to the general athletic fund: www.givecampus.com/s/10wotl
#GRIZTuesday
"Did you know dogs and bees can smell fear?"
So can I.
So can I.
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 AM
"Did you know dogs and bees can smell fear?"
So can I.
So can I.
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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
October 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
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A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
October 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Ceddanne snags that ball at the wall 98 times out of 100.
October 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Ceddanne snags that ball at the wall 98 times out of 100.
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Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
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I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”
October 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”
Vultures don't circle until you're already dying.
Papers crippled themselves by giving content away online for years and then deciding too late to put up paywalls. They undervalued their intellectual property, weakening themselves enough that the vultures started to swoop in.
Papers crippled themselves by giving content away online for years and then deciding too late to put up paywalls. They undervalued their intellectual property, weakening themselves enough that the vultures started to swoop in.
If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.
I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink
A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.
www.pbs.org
October 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Vultures don't circle until you're already dying.
Papers crippled themselves by giving content away online for years and then deciding too late to put up paywalls. They undervalued their intellectual property, weakening themselves enough that the vultures started to swoop in.
Papers crippled themselves by giving content away online for years and then deciding too late to put up paywalls. They undervalued their intellectual property, weakening themselves enough that the vultures started to swoop in.
Said it before but I'll say it again: I've covered numerous HS FB players who wound up playing on Sundays. Caden Curry is the best high school player I ever covered.
Now the rest of the country is seeing it too. Dude is a monster.
Now the rest of the country is seeing it too. Dude is a monster.
September 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Said it before but I'll say it again: I've covered numerous HS FB players who wound up playing on Sundays. Caden Curry is the best high school player I ever covered.
Now the rest of the country is seeing it too. Dude is a monster.
Now the rest of the country is seeing it too. Dude is a monster.
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My dad first signed up for Twitter to follow live sports and he’s a freak about U of I. One day he said to me “Twitter is abuzz about Illini golf,” and I was like dude you only follow Illini sports accounts. And that’s how every reporter feels Charlie Kirk was the most important person in the world.
September 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
My dad first signed up for Twitter to follow live sports and he’s a freak about U of I. One day he said to me “Twitter is abuzz about Illini golf,” and I was like dude you only follow Illini sports accounts. And that’s how every reporter feels Charlie Kirk was the most important person in the world.
And I'm ashamed to admit it has sometimes taken me a long time to see through it.
Turns out, its easier to manipulate people by pretending to be nice.
Who knew?
Who knew?
September 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
And I'm ashamed to admit it has sometimes taken me a long time to see through it.
#4 sounds pretty awesome
How do concentration camps close?
The top five answers on the board.
Survey says:
5. Defeat in War
4. Death of Cult Leader
3. External Pressure
2. Judicial Action
1. Citizen Action
The top five answers on the board.
Survey says:
5. Defeat in War
4. Death of Cult Leader
3. External Pressure
2. Judicial Action
1. Citizen Action
How Does This End? | 5 Ways Concentration Camps Close | Andrea Pitzer | Next Comes What
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
www.youtube.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:35 AM
#4 sounds pretty awesome
The body language every time these two meet should be enough on its own to make this all obvious to MAGA, but…cults gonna cult:
Trump Confesses that the United States Is a Client of Russia - emptywheel
The hold Putin has over Trump is existential for Trump. And unless we can expose that, the US will increasingly become a mere satellite of Russia.
www.emptywheel.net
August 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The body language every time these two meet should be enough on its own to make this all obvious to MAGA, but…cults gonna cult:
That’s twice in the past year that I could not have been more wrong about somebody. So much for getting wiser with old age.
August 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
That’s twice in the past year that I could not have been more wrong about somebody. So much for getting wiser with old age.
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The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left."
It’s between democracy and oligarchy.
The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.
It’s between democracy and oligarchy.
The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.
August 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left."
It’s between democracy and oligarchy.
The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.
It’s between democracy and oligarchy.
The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.
And to expect someone to help you out with that.
It’s not right wing to be horny. It’s right wing to be impressed that you’re horny.
August 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
And to expect someone to help you out with that.
Since last Friday, Max Clark is 12 for 24 with four doubles, two triples, six runs, two steals and two walks, raising his AA average from .188 to .321.
How has your work week gone?
How has your work week gone?
August 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Since last Friday, Max Clark is 12 for 24 with four doubles, two triples, six runs, two steals and two walks, raising his AA average from .188 to .321.
How has your work week gone?
How has your work week gone?
Can he just go ahead and die already
President for Life? Trump plans 164% White House expansion to entertain his oligarch friends
Don't tell DOGE... Proposed 90,000 sq. ft. expansion of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave would add a single ballroom for Trump to entertain his wealthy and powerful friends
Don't tell DOGE... Proposed 90,000 sq. ft. expansion of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave would add a single ballroom for Trump to entertain his wealthy and powerful friends
President for Life? Trump plans 164% White House expansion to entertain his oligarch friends
Don't tell DOGE... Proposed 90,000 sq. ft. expansion of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave would add a single ballroom for Trump to entertain his wealthy and powerful friends
www.thealtmedia.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Can he just go ahead and die already
Living through the warp-speed self-destruction of an empire is some wild shit.
July 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Living through the warp-speed self-destruction of an empire is some wild shit.
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If you’d told me a decade ago that the NYT and WaPo would roll over for a Republican president going full fascist while the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal went on the attack — and that Bill Kristol was pressing the attack harder than Nancy Pelosi — well, I’d have had you committed.
July 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
If you’d told me a decade ago that the NYT and WaPo would roll over for a Republican president going full fascist while the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal went on the attack — and that Bill Kristol was pressing the attack harder than Nancy Pelosi — well, I’d have had you committed.
Reversing Roe was never about “protecting life.” It was always about controlling women.
(And if they wanted birth rates up, maybe make it affordable to raise children.)
(And if they wanted birth rates up, maybe make it affordable to raise children.)
Republicans wanted fewer abortions and more births. They are getting the opposite | Judith Levine
The rate of voluntary sterilization among young women jumped abruptly after Dobbs, and there’s no reason to believe it will drop off.
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Reversing Roe was never about “protecting life.” It was always about controlling women.
(And if they wanted birth rates up, maybe make it affordable to raise children.)
(And if they wanted birth rates up, maybe make it affordable to raise children.)
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Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy.
Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.
That’s why Trump is attacking the Dept. of Education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning.
It's fascism.
Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.
That’s why Trump is attacking the Dept. of Education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning.
It's fascism.
July 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy.
Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.
That’s why Trump is attacking the Dept. of Education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning.
It's fascism.
Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.
That’s why Trump is attacking the Dept. of Education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning.
It's fascism.
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If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.
July 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.