Zora O'Neill
@zoraoneill.com
Author, ALL STRANGERS ARE KIN (now an AUDIOBOOK!). Editor. I comment on: Arabic, refugees, travel, grammar, Queens, more. she/her. Profile pic: black tee with “love” in white, in Arabic and English. Banner: mosaic of Manhattan skyline seen f/ Queens.
Mandolines:
once the blade tastes blood, it has an appetite..
November 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Mandolines:
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Annual turkey day cartoon reminding everyone that birds are theropod dinosaurs. 🦃🦖
November 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Annual turkey day cartoon reminding everyone that birds are theropod dinosaurs. 🦃🦖
Great news! I wonder if we’ll ever be able to get it here in the US, or if I’ll have to work it into a trip itinerary.
Brazil approves the first vaccine against dengue. The disease killed 6000 Brazilians in 2024.
This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.
This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.
Anvisa aprova vacina brasileira contra dengue, a 1ª do mundo em dose única.
Após 12 anos de pesquisa e cinco de testes, imunizante foi produzido pelo Instituto Butantan. Em 2024, a doença matou quase 6 mil brasileiros.
Confira a reportagem completa: glo.bo/4rf9Hvg #JN
Após 12 anos de pesquisa e cinco de testes, imunizante foi produzido pelo Instituto Butantan. Em 2024, a doença matou quase 6 mil brasileiros.
Confira a reportagem completa: glo.bo/4rf9Hvg #JN
November 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Great news! I wonder if we’ll ever be able to get it here in the US, or if I’ll have to work it into a trip itinerary.
Oh god that spot on my thumb twinges just reading this
I was at the ER the night before Thanksgiving/early hours of Thanksgiving last year with a family member, and we overheard two doctors call that block of time "The Night of the Mandolines" due to the sheer number of sharps injuries during meal prep.
November 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Oh god that spot on my thumb twinges just reading this
Low on the list of AI-driven harms, but I’m really getting sick of all the emails from fake book marketers (and currently from someone impersonating author Holly Black). The ones about my out-of-date guidebooks are stupid, but the faux fan mail is just mean.
November 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Low on the list of AI-driven harms, but I’m really getting sick of all the emails from fake book marketers (and currently from someone impersonating author Holly Black). The ones about my out-of-date guidebooks are stupid, but the faux fan mail is just mean.
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Do you like weird puzzles? You don't mind playing the first experimental iterations of a game? Like this post and DM me your mail, I'll have a surprise in your inbox everyday of December 🎁✨
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Do you like weird puzzles? You don't mind playing the first experimental iterations of a game? Like this post and DM me your mail, I'll have a surprise in your inbox everyday of December 🎁✨
Wow we were weird about bacon 20 years ago. Just came across a recipe from that period that was equal parts Brussels sprouts and bacon. That’s it.
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Wow we were weird about bacon 20 years ago. Just came across a recipe from that period that was equal parts Brussels sprouts and bacon. That’s it.
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So now they’re going to be doing individualized re-review of tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees’ cases on TOP of the re-review of 200,000+ refugees who entered under Biden?
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
So now they’re going to be doing individualized re-review of tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees’ cases on TOP of the re-review of 200,000+ refugees who entered under Biden?
Oh god I feel sick. Just last night chatting with the Afghan guy whose visa I sponsored, feeling like he’s in an ok place legally and might be able to keep his head down and ride this whole administration out.
November 27, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Oh god I feel sick. Just last night chatting with the Afghan guy whose visa I sponsored, feeling like he’s in an ok place legally and might be able to keep his head down and ride this whole administration out.
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
One of this administration's missions is to strip words of all meaning.
US State Department Debases Human Rights Diplomacy www.hrw.org/news/2025/11... At least, instead of calling it "human rights report", could the Trump administration call it something else like "US-allied Policy Report" so that you stop serving more and more damage to those fighting for human rights?
US State Department Debases Human Rights Diplomacy
The 2024 version of the State Department report issued by the Trump administration in August already removed or significantly reduced sections on political freedoms, corruption, gender-based violence,...
www.hrw.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
One of this administration's missions is to strip words of all meaning.
hashtag satisfying
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
hashtag satisfying
1) This is a lovely idea.
2) How do I get the job writing the "Aisles Abroad" column for Grocery Dive?
2) How do I get the job writing the "Aisles Abroad" column for Grocery Dive?
The Netherlands has specific "slow" lines at the grocery store so people can chat.
www.grocerydive.com/news/aisles-...
www.grocerydive.com/news/aisles-...
Aisles Abroad: Dutch grocer Jumbo embraces a slower checkout option
The supermarket chain’s “chat checkout” lanes, which have recently expanded to more than 100 stores, may resonate in U.S. grocery stores as retailers look to reach an aging population.
www.grocerydive.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
1) This is a lovely idea.
2) How do I get the job writing the "Aisles Abroad" column for Grocery Dive?
2) How do I get the job writing the "Aisles Abroad" column for Grocery Dive?
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Ah yes more online services plus a dash of predatory ones like check cashiers.
Why should poor consumers be restricted to online-only food delivery services?
Why should poor consumers be restricted to online-only food delivery services?
Okay, but those services don't have to be provided by a *grocery* store. Pharmacies (including online ones from all the major players!) exist. So do gas stations. So do check cashiers. Etc...
Cheap delivery is not an adequate replacement for a physical store.
Grocery stores provide a range of services, not just food. And that’s assuming online delivery provides sufficient access to food. And there is no reason that poor consumers should be captured by an online-only service.
Grocery stores provide a range of services, not just food. And that’s assuming online delivery provides sufficient access to food. And there is no reason that poor consumers should be captured by an online-only service.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Ah yes more online services plus a dash of predatory ones like check cashiers.
Why should poor consumers be restricted to online-only food delivery services?
Why should poor consumers be restricted to online-only food delivery services?
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Many of you keep saying that you are grateful for all my posts and I'm grateful that you are. Now, if you really are thankful, then please, for this thanksgiving I ask that you buy a book, not one of mine, but any book from an independent bookstore
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Many of you keep saying that you are grateful for all my posts and I'm grateful that you are. Now, if you really are thankful, then please, for this thanksgiving I ask that you buy a book, not one of mine, but any book from an independent bookstore
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Tank fly boss walk jam nitty-gritty
You're listening to the boy
From the big bad city
This is jam hot
This is jam hot.
You're listening to the boy
From the big bad city
This is jam hot
This is jam hot.
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Tank fly boss walk jam nitty-gritty
You're listening to the boy
From the big bad city
This is jam hot
This is jam hot.
You're listening to the boy
From the big bad city
This is jam hot
This is jam hot.
An eerie amalgam of many of my kitchens. The tile in an old apartment, those metal canisters up until v recently (I think they were my mother-in-law's, a wedding gift). Still have orange descoware and those same clamp-top jars. Have *not* adopted Joan's hair ribbons, which look like a fire hazard.
November 26, 2025 at 5:20 AM
An eerie amalgam of many of my kitchens. The tile in an old apartment, those metal canisters up until v recently (I think they were my mother-in-law's, a wedding gift). Still have orange descoware and those same clamp-top jars. Have *not* adopted Joan's hair ribbons, which look like a fire hazard.
It's giving Egyptian-dictator-and-his-broken-economy
National parks have SO MANY people from other countries (since they get real vacations!)
And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.
This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns
And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.
This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
It's giving Egyptian-dictator-and-his-broken-economy
Excellent use of that beep from the barcode scanner, very savvy
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Excellent use of that beep from the barcode scanner, very savvy
this reminds me of when economists blamed people for ruining the housing market by not buying houses after interest rates went up
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
this reminds me of when economists blamed people for ruining the housing market by not buying houses after interest rates went up
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This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
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I love trimming a word count down which is why I’m suited to the more rote parts of what I do day to day. Yassss! Challenge me to trim my words to that count while keeping as close to my original meaning!
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I love trimming a word count down which is why I’m suited to the more rote parts of what I do day to day. Yassss! Challenge me to trim my words to that count while keeping as close to my original meaning!
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And I don't believe in the existence of angels
But looking at you I wonder if that's true
But if I did, I would summon them together
And ask them to watch over you
But looking at you I wonder if that's true
But if I did, I would summon them together
And ask them to watch over you
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
And I don't believe in the existence of angels
But looking at you I wonder if that's true
But if I did, I would summon them together
And ask them to watch over you
But looking at you I wonder if that's true
But if I did, I would summon them together
And ask them to watch over you