Luke O'Neil
@lukeoneil47.bsky.social
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
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-...
www.welcometohellworld.com/my-new-book-...
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"Jesus Christ I am alive right now and you are alive right now and someday we will not be but for the duration of this we are both stupidly and beautifully alive." - Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social
Can not recommend 𝑊𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 enough.
#photography #books
Can not recommend 𝑊𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 enough.
#photography #books
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"Jesus Christ I am alive right now and you are alive right now and someday we will not be but for the duration of this we are both stupidly and beautifully alive." - Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social
Can not recommend 𝑊𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 enough.
#photography #books
Can not recommend 𝑊𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 enough.
#photography #books
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It’s a restrained work, I hope, but I have put my whole self into this. flaminghydra.com/the-paramete...
The Parameters
On the bed in the evening, when the air is cool, I read excellent and important books while she watches movies on her iPad. I hate the iPad. The moving images in my peripheral vision distract me from ...
flaminghydra.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
It’s a restrained work, I hope, but I have put my whole self into this. flaminghydra.com/the-paramete...
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look, I had a lot of friends on there. I don't know what to tell you. large swathes of it were bad obviously because it was the mob. but the thumb is on the scale now in a really hideous and obvious way that seems like the magical fever dream of an evil bandit king pigman
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
look, I had a lot of friends on there. I don't know what to tell you. large swathes of it were bad obviously because it was the mob. but the thumb is on the scale now in a really hideous and obvious way that seems like the magical fever dream of an evil bandit king pigman
Luke's TV roundup:
The Chair Company: don't care
I Love LA: don't care
Welcome to Derry: turd
The Chair Company: don't care
I Love LA: don't care
Welcome to Derry: turd
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Luke's TV roundup:
The Chair Company: don't care
I Love LA: don't care
Welcome to Derry: turd
The Chair Company: don't care
I Love LA: don't care
Welcome to Derry: turd
0-0 at the half, 500 flags, an injury every series. This is why we watch.
One hell of a football game here
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
0-0 at the half, 500 flags, an injury every series. This is why we watch.
One hell of a football game here
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
One hell of a football game here
Not my problem
Actually, there is.
punctuation & grammar are quite important if you know the reasoning behind them.
EX: in many languages, Nouns are capitalized (& not just proper nouns). It makes it a lot easier to identify Subject/verb/object.
punctuation & grammar are quite important if you know the reasoning behind them.
EX: in many languages, Nouns are capitalized (& not just proper nouns). It makes it a lot easier to identify Subject/verb/object.
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Not my problem
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Thanks to the good folks at Bookshop.org for making We Had It Coming a staff pick this week bookshop.org/lists/new-bo...
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Thanks to the good folks at Bookshop.org for making We Had It Coming a staff pick this week bookshop.org/lists/new-bo...
They installed touchscreens at my CVS recently. I went in and the guy asked me to "start my check in on the screen" or whatever and I said no I don't want to do that. Then he had to type in my info on his computer himself and I felt like an asshole. This is how they get you. That's his exact job!
CVS is best thought of as a kind of interactive museum exhibit where you can experience everything that has gone badly wrong with American capitalism.
You almost have to respect how CVS keeps frantically changing their systems like every other month and each time it gets progressively worse
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
They installed touchscreens at my CVS recently. I went in and the guy asked me to "start my check in on the screen" or whatever and I said no I don't want to do that. Then he had to type in my info on his computer himself and I felt like an asshole. This is how they get you. That's his exact job!
I liked this piece as many others did but you should also stay away from the somehow still famous NYT parody account linked there for Palestine reasons. On that issue they are in agreement.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I liked this piece as many others did but you should also stay away from the somehow still famous NYT parody account linked there for Palestine reasons. On that issue they are in agreement.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
I do that too in my fiction. Who cares!
related: i don't know whether I could pull it off but I love cormac mccarthy saying fuck quotation marks when anyone's speaking
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I do that too in my fiction. Who cares!
My eschewing of commas is well known but italicizing the names of books and movies etc. is stupid too. There's no reason for a word to appear out of nowhere in the text sideways just because it's a title. Fuck out of here.
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My eschewing of commas is well known but italicizing the names of books and movies etc. is stupid too. There's no reason for a word to appear out of nowhere in the text sideways just because it's a title. Fuck out of here.
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THE CHAIR COMPANY is a high-surrealist critique of the dehumanization of work and a portrait of fragile humanity.
It's also better than Severance. There, I said it.
For @newrepublic.com:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
It's also better than Severance. There, I said it.
For @newrepublic.com:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
“The Chair Company” Is a Horror Show About The Workplace
Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin’s new show is distinctly more surreal and uncanny than “Severance.”
newrepublic.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
THE CHAIR COMPANY is a high-surrealist critique of the dehumanization of work and a portrait of fragile humanity.
It's also better than Severance. There, I said it.
For @newrepublic.com:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
It's also better than Severance. There, I said it.
For @newrepublic.com:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
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wrote an essay about the lowdown, and how it can be hard to think about drama at a time when there never seem to be consequences for bad guys, and how the lowdown offers us a way out
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
Drama in a Time of No Consequences
The Lowdown finds hope in a world where most crimes go unpunished.
www.vulture.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
wrote an essay about the lowdown, and how it can be hard to think about drama at a time when there never seem to be consequences for bad guys, and how the lowdown offers us a way out
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
"The only power you have is to vote" isn't just something the Democrat fandom believes, the actually powerful people in the party do too I guess.
I will not support the Republican bill that’s on the Senate floor because it fails to do anything of substance to fix America’s healthcare crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"The only power you have is to vote" isn't just something the Democrat fandom believes, the actually powerful people in the party do too I guess.
Yes it's my fault for reading Reddit about tv shows I like, but we're reaching new levels of hybrid kinds of annoying guys this year with a thriller mystery show for Tim Robinson fans and a sci-fi show from the Breaking Bad creator that they can all theorize and speculate about.
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Yes it's my fault for reading Reddit about tv shows I like, but we're reaching new levels of hybrid kinds of annoying guys this year with a thriller mystery show for Tim Robinson fans and a sci-fi show from the Breaking Bad creator that they can all theorize and speculate about.
Thanks to the good folks at Bookshop.org for making We Had It Coming a staff pick this week bookshop.org/lists/new-bo...
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Thanks to the good folks at Bookshop.org for making We Had It Coming a staff pick this week bookshop.org/lists/new-bo...
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
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I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...
November 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...
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reminder to any ambitious Dems waiting in the wings: announcing a primary challenge right now to a squishy Democrat who’s up in 2026, whether they voted tonight to shine Trump’s shoes or not, will almost instantaneously be awash in cash. fortune—and a primary challenge—favors the bold.
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
reminder to any ambitious Dems waiting in the wings: announcing a primary challenge right now to a squishy Democrat who’s up in 2026, whether they voted tonight to shine Trump’s shoes or not, will almost instantaneously be awash in cash. fortune—and a primary challenge—favors the bold.
They got president Rodney Dangerfield in Natural Born Killers doing commentary on the Lions Commanders game.
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
They got president Rodney Dangerfield in Natural Born Killers doing commentary on the Lions Commanders game.
People say taste is subjective, but no, this is what good taste is.
In his Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction speech, Jack White shouted out over 30 acts that inspired the White Stripes – none of whom have been inducted
www.stereogum.com/2329132/whit...
www.stereogum.com/2329132/whit...
November 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
People say taste is subjective, but no, this is what good taste is.
Guy who paid $80 for a private dance because the next song is a long one here: Chuck Schumer is a better negotiator than you are
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Guy who paid $80 for a private dance because the next song is a long one here: Chuck Schumer is a better negotiator than you are
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Yeah I’ll call my senators. Call em a dumb ass.
March 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Yeah I’ll call my senators. Call em a dumb ass.