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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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Erin Shhh (she/her) @erinshhh.bsky.social · 6h

Did Gavin Newsom write this

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 9h

The hunger
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The hunger
Well we just got back from stringing up our weakest
friend in the middle of the town square for the
vampires to feast on overnight. No one liked the
actual doing of it when it came to doing it I’ll say that.
But the past is the past. Time now to hunker down
inside and wait for them to leave us alone for good.
Figure out tomorrow what to do with all these surplus
wooden crosses.

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

The pleasure is all mine I’m sure

Thank you for confirming your appointment.

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willYum @urpalwilly.bsky.social · 5h

even though I had read this in WTHW some time ago, I took this pic from We Had It Coming and I keep coming back to it cuz it’s so simple but says so much. “how it actually is” “in case you need reminding” “look at what we allow” all cut to the heart of it. thx @lukeoneil47.bsky.social

I told you before that I know it can be uncomfortable to encounter an unhoused person in distress but that is because it is an up close and personal look at How It Actually Is. A peek under the hood of this country.
The churning gears and foul combustion. It's no wonder then that so many of us want these humans simply disappeared. And they are humans in case you need reminding.
They aren't a threat so much as they are an
indictment.
Look at what we allow.
It's the hideous beating of the tell-tale heart.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 9h

The hunger
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Nerdist @nerdist.bsky.social · 7h

Jim Lee promises that DC will never use AI, saying "AI doesn't dream, feel, or make art."

Iconic Artist Jim Lee Takes Firm Anti-AI Stance at DC Comics

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 8h

Bill Belichick forced Tom Brady, the Tom Brady you have heard of, from football, out of the door. Brady immediately and hilariously won another Super Bowl the next season.

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The hunger
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 10h

Made dozens of good friends, built up a following big enough to be able to quit freelancing and write whatever I want and publish four books. Every other part bad though for sure.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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

Blasphemy

Ken Reid @kennethwreid.bsky.social · 1d

They released the plans for the Kowloon redevelopment. Not a joke. Look how insane this is.

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

Terroir
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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.

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

Now I hate to show off, but as something of a cinephile myself, I'm picking up on some subtle Coens influence on the new Sterling Harjo series.

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Marie (same one) @marieberd.bsky.social · 1d

Kaleb’s Los Angeles memorial will be held this Thursday afternoon. If you cared about him and would like to send flowers or well wishes, DM me for delivery instructions etc

Marie (same one) @marieberd.bsky.social · 11d

my husband @kalebhorton.bsky.social hated the phrase “passed away” and had nothing but scorn for softening euphemisms in general. he was a firm believer in the comedy rule of threes, but only if the third thing can hit as a surprise. and he just died

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

-What should we name our series?
-I could not possibly give less of a fuck.
-How about... Doc?
-I do not care.

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

Says here an amoral reactionary centrist in media (who was already rich) has attained further riches by flattering the powerful. Ah crap.

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 1d

sometimes people will say this country is nothing more than hamburgers, narcissism masked as faith, and institutional violence meted out on behalf of the state, and I'll go "nuh uh." but I cannot muster a nuh uh right now

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 1d

The Knife - Heartbeats (Live)

This is the best song of the 21st century

The Knife - Heartbeats [Live] - Silent Shout [Best Quality]

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

Perfect

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

I know I should have known that sort of thing and maybe I already did know that and I had forgotten or tried not to think about it too much but does it sicken you too thinking about it right now? That there are so many people around the world who have been brought by our works to talk about bombs like we might different kinds of precipitation. Look at the little app on our phones and figure out what will be falling from the sky today rain or snow or sleet.

I was reminded of this Doonesbury cartoon from 1973.

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

From one year ago

“This is a new missile, Mama,” said Jumana, my nine-year-old daughter. “It makes a sound like a snake when it falls!”

Every day for the past year I have seen or read something that has changed how I think about the world. About people too. Here's one that was published today by a woman named Nour Abdul Latif about living in Gaza:

The nights of genocide had begun; entire residential blocks burned before our eyes. I held my children tightly, trying to shield them from the terror, but how could I? “This is a new missile, Mama,” said Jumana, my nine-year-old daughter. “It makes a sound like a snake when it falls!”

After five nights of constant red skies from the intense bombing, we watched the residents of the Al-Karamah neighborhood evacuate, knowing that our turn would be next.

On the sixth day, I began packing my essentials in preparation for moving to a safer place. It was the hardest task I had ever faced — how could I fit my entire life into a single bag?
What if anything stood out for you there because for me it was the daughter's recognition of a novel type of munition flying over her head. Imagine being bombed so frequently that you come to know – even as a child – the different kinds of missiles sent to kill you by the sounds they make? By the size of the holes they leave behind. A sommelier's expertise in destruction. And what a bounty of varietals we have delivered to her and so many millions of others like her in our bloody history.

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timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 1d

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Kaleb Horton Obituary (2025) - Los Angeles, CA - Los Angeles Times

View Kaleb Charles Horton's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

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

Couple of gut punch songs here if you don't know them.

Young Jesus "Sunrise"

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Songs: Ohia "Ring the Bell"
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Sunrise, by Young Jesus

from the album The Fool (Expanded Edition)

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

Finally got one

A stack of my books followed by the first few pages

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