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Luke O'Neil

@lukeoneil47.bsky.social

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Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com Books: We Had It Coming (Fall 2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/ A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · Jun 25

My new collection of short stories and poetry -- We Had It Coming -- is available for pre-order now! It's the best thing I've ever written and I think you all will find solace and despair in equal measure within.
www.welcometohellworld.com/my-new-book-...

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 2h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 15h

Read @seantcollins.com on One Battle After Another, the new Kneecap film, and trouble, and Troubles, old and new. www.welcometohellworld.com/our-day-will...

Our Day Will Come

Sean T. Collins on One Battle After Another and Kneecap

www.welcometohellworld.com

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Ken R @chewieken.bsky.social · 9h

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13h

Hm bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 13h

I had a few small beers and wrote about One Battle After Another and Kneecap for the illustrious @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome to Hell World

Our Day Will Come

Sean T. Collins on One Battle After Another and Kneecap

www.welcometohellworld.com

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 14h

Classic self suc failure pose

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 14h

what is he praying for

a strangely constipated AI founding father

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 15h

Read @seantcollins.com on One Battle After Another, the new Kneecap film, and trouble, and Troubles, old and new. www.welcometohellworld.com/our-day-will...

Our Day Will Come

Sean T. Collins on One Battle After Another and Kneecap

www.welcometohellworld.com

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 16h

alright well thanks for letting me know

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 16h

Obviously it took 13-15 years or so but they were pumping out war is hell films and books for a good while there.

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah being born at the end of Vietnam and becoming film and book literate in that era completely shaped my whole deal

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 16h

The idea is that you're supposed to "grow out of" your youthful dalliance with Rage Against the Machine or The Clash or whatever, in order to graduate into adulthood, when you simply resign yourself to How Things Are. But you were right all along to believe in all that shit!

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 16h

"Youth" and its attendant hipness stretches out a lot longer now, and so if you are a sober and serious adult who believes wars must naturally happen, you have to attach signifiers of unseriousness to an increasingly large cohort, ie "Brooklyn" as a derogatory term.

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 16h

I'm sure it stretches back forever, but this kind of thinking, that being opposed to war is some kind of flight of fancy of the youth really ramped up during Vietnam, not very long after the concept of teenagers as a culture class was invented.

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 17h

Some kind of pathological compulsion to convince yourself that anyone who is upset about watching people being slaughtered every day for years is a hipster from Brooklyn, the stereotype from like 20 years ago.

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 17h

I saw the Belle & Sebastian offshoot band Looper do an in store at the Other Music in the village in like 2000 by the way.

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 17h

I don't know but I bet everyone there works at VICE

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 5d

This is my blood

This is my blood
I marvel at the design of our weapons. So sophisticated
that they can transform any man woman or child into
a terrorist. Writing in their flight between launch and
concussion an entire alternate history of a life.
Just as the cop’s bullet convicts you of a crime. Its
presence in your body evidence enough that it always
belonged there.
A violent transubstantiation.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 3d

Terroir
orbooks.com/catalog/we-h...

Terroir
They had been bombed so frequently by now that even
the children had come to know the category of missile
by the sound they made as they fell or the size of the
hole they left behind. The sensibility of a sommelier.

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 17h

Posting my so-called "horror" at witnessing tens of thousands of civilians being burned alive or assassinated on my fixie bicycle outside Other Music

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 17h

Some kind of pathological compulsion to convince yourself that anyone who is upset about watching people being slaughtered every day for years is a hipster from Brooklyn, the stereotype from like 20 years ago.

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 17h

I'm like pretty pro Palestine for a lefty Zionist lib Jew but

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 21h

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

⁦
@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

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like a daughter to him

Disgusted barbie

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 22h

10 years of Donald Trump and Democrats literally have not learned a single thing. A losing party of losers.

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23h

My boss Bari Weiss is really riding my ass.

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d

The whole internet loves María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan activist who loves democracy!

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 1d

congrats to everyone celebrating this victory over Trump, hope the likes are worth it bsky.app/profile/joad...

Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 1d

the movie Knowing is about me

Tweet from María Corina Machado that reads, "This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.

We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.

I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!"