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Luke O'Neil
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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.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 17h
Guess people are talking about thinking "the stripper likes you" so good excuse to share this one by @raxkingisdead.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/the-time-it-...
I’m sure plenty of strippers have never fallen in big, irresponsible, week-long love with a customer, but I’m not one of them. Back when I was a stripper, I made great money playing the role of the most glamorous and adoring woman in the world, and I wanted most of my customers to agree that the exchange ended there, just like most of Ani’s do. But damned if there wasn’t a stubborn, needy little damsel crouching low in my spirit who believed that she might find the prince of her dreams in the VIP room. I wasn’t the only stripper cursed with such a traitorous inner damsel—the dressing room was forever abuzz with fairy tales of the girl who’d gotten swept off her feet, and into a mansion, by a besotted customer. She was always a few tantalizing degrees of separation away. She was a little like the mythical El Dorado of clubs that we always gossiped about, where the customers made it rain hundred dollar bills all day every day in some middle-of-nowhere dive whose name nobody could remember. The fairy tale girl probably existed in some form, but the point is that none of us actually knew her, and what we didn’t know we invented lavishly.
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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 13h
What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 15h
Point is it's not some once in a lifetime unicorn thing, although he's very talented, it just makes you realize how few democrats ever do this. They don't tell us what they believe they wait to hear what the polls tell them 50.1% of us believe and go from there.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 15h
I think Zohran is great and inspiring and much needed right now, but all he's doing is like the job as it's supposed to be. Starts with a set of principles and advocates for them. It's like how everyone goes crazy for Chotiner for just doing the job. Not an indictment on either of them but the rest.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21h
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h
bro that stripper likes you bro. dude she’s really into you bro i swear dude
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 17h
Guess people are talking about thinking "the stripper likes you" so good excuse to share this one by @raxkingisdead.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/the-time-it-...
I’m sure plenty of strippers have never fallen in big, irresponsible, week-long love with a customer, but I’m not one of them. Back when I was a stripper, I made great money playing the role of the most glamorous and adoring woman in the world, and I wanted most of my customers to agree that the exchange ended there, just like most of Ani’s do. But damned if there wasn’t a stubborn, needy little damsel crouching low in my spirit who believed that she might find the prince of her dreams in the VIP room. I wasn’t the only stripper cursed with such a traitorous inner damsel—the dressing room was forever abuzz with fairy tales of the girl who’d gotten swept off her feet, and into a mansion, by a besotted customer. She was always a few tantalizing degrees of separation away. She was a little like the mythical El Dorado of clubs that we always gossiped about, where the customers made it rain hundred dollar bills all day every day in some middle-of-nowhere dive whose name nobody could remember. The fairy tale girl probably existed in some form, but the point is that none of us actually knew her, and what we didn’t know we invented lavishly.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 17h
Guess people are talking about thinking "the stripper likes you" so good excuse to share this one by @raxkingisdead.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/the-time-it-...
I’m sure plenty of strippers have never fallen in big, irresponsible, week-long love with a customer, but I’m not one of them. Back when I was a stripper, I made great money playing the role of the most glamorous and adoring woman in the world, and I wanted most of my customers to agree that the exchange ended there, just like most of Ani’s do. But damned if there wasn’t a stubborn, needy little damsel crouching low in my spirit who believed that she might find the prince of her dreams in the VIP room. I wasn’t the only stripper cursed with such a traitorous inner damsel—the dressing room was forever abuzz with fairy tales of the girl who’d gotten swept off her feet, and into a mansion, by a besotted customer. She was always a few tantalizing degrees of separation away. She was a little like the mythical El Dorado of clubs that we always gossiped about, where the customers made it rain hundred dollar bills all day every day in some middle-of-nowhere dive whose name nobody could remember. The fairy tale girl probably existed in some form, but the point is that none of us actually knew her, and what we didn’t know we invented lavishly.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 18h
Says here I saw Alvvays 11 years ago today at Great Scott (RIP)
We spend our days locked in a room, content inside a bubble And in the nighttime, we go out and scour the streets for trouble
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 18h
Clout Chasing Will Be the Death of Us All
by @littlewow.online for @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-420/
Opportunistic infection
Jennie Rose Halperin on the career twists and turns of Instagram influencer Jessica Reed Kraus
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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 21h
"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 · 1d
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
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Ken R @chewieken.bsky.social · 1d
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 1d
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
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Sean T. Collins on One Battle After Another and Kneecap
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d
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
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d
alright well thanks for letting me know
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d
Obviously it took 13-15 years or so but they were pumping out war is hell films and books for a good while there.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah being born at the end of Vietnam and becoming film and book literate in that era completely shaped my whole deal
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d
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!
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d
"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.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d
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.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d
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.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d
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.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d
I don't know but I bet everyone there works at VICE
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 6d
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 · 4d
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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