Lauren O'Neal
@laurenoneal.bsky.social
Nonfiction editor at Penguin Random House. I put the chic in Chicago Manual of Style.
Matthew McFadyen as a Wambsgansian Charles Guiteau is such brilliant casting—even more so once I looked up what he actually looked like.
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Matthew McFadyen as a Wambsgansian Charles Guiteau is such brilliant casting—even more so once I looked up what he actually looked like.
Hell, I don't really like pie at all!
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Hell, I don't really like pie at all!
receiving a lot of OOO responses (every time I send an email, it's so good that someone replies, "Ooo!")
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
receiving a lot of OOO responses (every time I send an email, it's so good that someone replies, "Ooo!")
Reposted by Lauren O'Neal
Again, what we’re seeing is a repeated and increasingly explicit offer of white reconciliation over a shared commitment to preserving white supremacy.
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Again, what we’re seeing is a repeated and increasingly explicit offer of white reconciliation over a shared commitment to preserving white supremacy.
Reposted by Lauren O'Neal
By the time he got to "comma Isaac," it was already over.
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
By the time he got to "comma Isaac," it was already over.
AI: For when you want to be mean to people but you're too stupid.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
AI: For when you want to be mean to people but you're too stupid.
Love when LinkedIn tells me I'm "on a roll" and my "audience showed up." Wow, I got one view on a post I made about a job opening at my imprint that was filled 10 months ago! I'm unstoppable!
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Love when LinkedIn tells me I'm "on a roll" and my "audience showed up." Wow, I got one view on a post I made about a job opening at my imprint that was filled 10 months ago! I'm unstoppable!
Reposted by Lauren O'Neal
This should have been an instructive moment in people’s understanding of just how much people are willing to pay economically for racism and xenophobia.
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This should have been an instructive moment in people’s understanding of just how much people are willing to pay economically for racism and xenophobia.
Reposted by Lauren O'Neal
DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
Darkest part of this is when an AI article fabricates a quote by a real person, and a real-life journalist contacts that source, but the source says she doesn't mind because it sounds like something she would say anyway.
Fascinating read on how a suspicious pitch highlighted a growing problem in freelance journalism: A flood of generative AI that even prestige publications don't catch, complete with fabricated quotes, from scammers who see opportunity in a field so many real humans are struggling to survive in.
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Darkest part of this is when an AI article fabricates a quote by a real person, and a real-life journalist contacts that source, but the source says she doesn't mind because it sounds like something she would say anyway.
Reposted by Lauren O'Neal
Unreal: "The EPA is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing 'forever chemicals' as an active ingredient... The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."
November 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Unreal: "The EPA is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing 'forever chemicals' as an active ingredient... The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."
In Trump's first term, it was common to hear people say, "Why would he do [corrupt thing]? He's already rich, he doesn't need more money." Now, just a few years later, the idea that rich people would ever be satisfied with any amount of money seems absurd.
November 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
In Trump's first term, it was common to hear people say, "Why would he do [corrupt thing]? He's already rich, he doesn't need more money." Now, just a few years later, the idea that rich people would ever be satisfied with any amount of money seems absurd.
My other question is, why is it called Magnolia?
I just watched Magnolia for the first time, and my question is, was Tom Cruise's character considered an exaggeration at the time? (I'm not young, but I was 12 when this movie came out.)
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
My other question is, why is it called Magnolia?
I just watched Magnolia for the first time, and my question is, was Tom Cruise's character considered an exaggeration at the time? (I'm not young, but I was 12 when this movie came out.)
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I just watched Magnolia for the first time, and my question is, was Tom Cruise's character considered an exaggeration at the time? (I'm not young, but I was 12 when this movie came out.)
Reposted by Lauren O'Neal
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
Reposted by Lauren O'Neal
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
We shouldn't have extended the internet to everyone. It should only be available to nerds and weirdos who either build up an immunity to Online Madness or remain naturally confined to forums where their Online Madness can't reach the average citizen.
November 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
We shouldn't have extended the internet to everyone. It should only be available to nerds and weirdos who either build up an immunity to Online Madness or remain naturally confined to forums where their Online Madness can't reach the average citizen.
Reposted by Lauren O'Neal
Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Reposted by Lauren O'Neal
This administration daily says who they are even as the media pundits bend over backwards to not believe them.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This administration daily says who they are even as the media pundits bend over backwards to not believe them.
Saw a guy in a red beret in Midtown, did a double take, and it was, in fact, Curtis Sliwa.
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Saw a guy in a red beret in Midtown, did a double take, and it was, in fact, Curtis Sliwa.
There's this dumpling place where I often get lunch that charges an extra dollar to pan-fry the dumplings rather than steam them. "We can make the food taste good, but it'll cost you."
November 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
There's this dumpling place where I often get lunch that charges an extra dollar to pan-fry the dumplings rather than steam them. "We can make the food taste good, but it'll cost you."
Cheryl Hines have some self-respect challenge difficulty level impossible
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Cheryl Hines have some self-respect challenge difficulty level impossible
It's been dismaying if not exactly surprising to see that conservatives have been radicalized on EVERYTHING. Not just the big culture war issues but corruption, bribery, checks and balances—everything.
November 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
It's been dismaying if not exactly surprising to see that conservatives have been radicalized on EVERYTHING. Not just the big culture war issues but corruption, bribery, checks and balances—everything.
Now watching the show about Garfield (human).
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Now watching the show about Garfield (human).