Rod O’Connor
@theblueape.bsky.social
Retired public defender. Cal Golden Bear. Fan of the baseball Giants and avid reader of the works of John Steinbeck. I like cats. I don’t like people who don’t.
Wait? People are doing this? WTF? Like, would you use a picture of your loved one in a coffin for their obituary? Why would you want them remembered that way?
Lazy Circles Esq@lazycirclesesq.bsky.social · 3h agoI have a favor Bluesky When your beloved pet crosses the rainbow 🌈 bridge, please post photos of them when they were alive. It’s just too difficult to see deceased animals Thanks
This is why musicians need unions. I’ve watched this poor guy playing the same set for three years without a break from my hotel room. I swear he looks half dead
This guy doesn’t understand that losing elections for niche reasons that matter only to him and his two friends is worse than not running at all.
Jason Wilson@jasonaw.bsky.social · yesterdayThis guy has replies disabled on a quote tweet for some reason, anyway if it costs her the election it will be for the reasons I nominated
It’s a bad answer because it’s going to cost her the election. Full stop
Jason Wilson@jasonaw.bsky.social · yesterdayThis is a bad answer only because Americans (including most users of this site apparently) are rolling drunk on civic nationalism and in denial about stealing a continent
Ok so why is there a picture of Reagan here
ufo-uap.news@ufo-uap-news.bsky.social · yesterdayAvi Loeb, Harvard’s Baird Professor of Science, will throw the ceremonial first pitch at the August 3, 2026 Houston Astros vs. Toronto Blue Jays game at Daikin Park after being invited by Kyle from the Houston Astros, with the moment framed by the modern first-pitch tradition… #disclosure #uap #ufo
One thing I’m reminded of every time I take my annual San Diego vacation is the pure soul-cleansing balm that is watching toddlers play on the beach.
Reading the replies to this death notice of a guy I’ve never heard of & boy, “Sunday Times and Sun Columnist” doesn’t quite capture him
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING: Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle has died aged 66 after a short illness
When it’s too cloudy to hit the beach but your beach hotel has a nice pool too
Fond memories of lefty college students as far back as the ‘80s taking penknives to USA Today’s vending machines changing the slogan “The Nation’s Newspaper” to “Fascist Pap”
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Two kinds of defenses: “I didn’t do it” “They can’t prove it.” Trust me when I say the first one is a LOT more stressful than the second
Eric Blair@protecttruth.bsky.social · 3d agoI once had a longtime criminal defense attorney tell me he felt guilty people often said “there’s no way this could have happened because of X, Y and Z,” instead of ”this did not happen because I did not do it.”
The A’s are what’s wrong with baseball. Manfred & all the owners watched “Major League” & saw Rachel Phelps as the true hero
Jason Fry@jasoncfry.bsky.social · 3d agoThose of you eager to serve wealthy MLB owners as volunteer Pinkertons won’t like to read this, but as usual Joe Sheehan nails the real problem:
The lesson of this San Diego series is the Giants need to find a way to get me to attend more road games
Landon Roupp can take his bigoted bs & his weak-ass cheese somewhere else where both will be appreciated. Say, Atlanta
The extent to which Bernie owes his peak popularity to being “not Hillary” will never be fully acknowledged I fear. Dude had issues. Still does.
Leon English@leonenglish.bsky.social · 3d agoLike big diff btwn 2016 and 2020 for Bernie here is that in 2016 he was the non-Clinton candidate in essentially a two person race, while in 2020 Bernie was already losing in a multi candidate race by the time Michigan rolled around. Neither of those is relevant to El Sayed in the general
Just slop for the Disclosure™️rubes his party has leaned to pay like a fiddle. This will be discussed in at least 3 different podcasts next week
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4d agoTrump having a normal one today
Day 3 of my stay among a certain generation in this idyllic beach community & I regret to inform you that the cop/porn star mustache is definitely back
Saw this sandcastle sculpture yesterday & decided they were trying for Minas Tirith, maybe?
Sure am glad I attended last nights game in person & am watching this one in a beach bar. On the positive side, sunset 🌅 is a plus
The whole schtick of Van Halen was as much DLR as EVH, & Sammy Hagar did himself no favors thinking he could fill those shoes
BevoOne@bevowon.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is a great take on Diamond Dave that so many people never got. If you were a fan of John Waters movies back then you immediately knew what he was doing.
Old enough to remember when the very existence of “the Mafia” was publicly denied by the Mafia
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 5d agoNara Smith is now claiming she’s “not a tradwife” in a recent podcast appearance. This is a linguistic game that all kinds of people play! Sovereign citizens for instance began claiming there’a “no such thing” as a sovereign citizen as soon as the general public became more familiar with the idea.
Well that’s quite the Friday news dump isn’t it
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
People need to start getting disbarred for this shit.
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
I swear I’m losing my mind I somehow managed to rack up my toe and I have no idea how or when
One bystander starts standing up for his neighbors and then others do too. Courage is contagious. Pass it on.
Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 5d ago"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
