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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.
www.welcometohellworld.com/my-new-book-...
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Was reading the YouTube comments on Robyn videos, as I do for normal reasons, and this guy pissed me off. All that effort just to fuck up this bad.
November 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Thank you always have always will
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Great one today from @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on the carnage, sensuality, and longing of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.

www.welcometohellworld.com/the-love-we-...
The love we all deserve
Rax King on the carnage, sensuality, and longing of Frankenstein
www.welcometohellworld.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
lukeoneil47.bsky.social
Friday Night Lights Out
veryimportant.lawyer Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1h
buzz bissinger ghostwrote the john fetterman book....problematic fashion gap
November 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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If you follow my work you know that I often ask my audience to support my journalism. This time, it's different. My fiancee's mother has been diagnosed with stage IV cancer. She's on fixed income and we had to relocate her to Dallas for care. She needs your help.

www.gofundme.com/f/extend-pat...
Donate to Extend Patti's Joyful Life Amidst Cancer Fight, organized by Kaitlin Siebert
On October 30th, 2025, my mom, Patti, was diagnosed with stage IV color… Kaitlin Siebert needs your support for Extend Patti's Joyful Life Amidst Cancer Fight
www.gofundme.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Watch Girls5eva immediately if you’re a 30 Rock head who hasn’t by the way. Kimmy Schmidt too, although that one always seemed off balance on the real world/live action cartoon scale and varied widely in quality.
lukeoneil47.bsky.social Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1h
It is a 30 Rock joke, sure, but it's more accurately a Girls5eva joke.
November 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
lukeoneil47.bsky.social
It is a 30 Rock joke, sure, but it's more accurately a Girls5eva joke.
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
lukeoneil47.bsky.social
When they go low (bombed into the Gaza mud), we go high (drop the bombs from American-supplied drones.)
parkermolloy.com Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 6h
This is the lady who wrote Michelle Obama's "When they go low, we go high" speech
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."

www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
November 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Baristas are locking arms in front of lines of trucks.

This distribution center is Starbucks’ largest on the East Coast, which is why we’re showing up to send a message. We're ready to continue escalating our ULP strike until Starbucks does the right thing.

#NoContractNoCoffee
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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dougmessel.com
Frankenstein is great for all the reasons Rax elaborates in this piece (which you should read), but the thing that made me angry about it is that it made me want to play Victorian game of Vampire so damn bad
raxkingisdead.bsky.social rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7h
for hell world today i wrote about frankenstein as told by guillermo del toro, our most carnal director
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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"He’s recognizing something simple about the love we all deserve as living beings, and he’s telling it to us in meat and flesh, bone and decay, the only inarguable language there is."
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Excellent reading
raxkingisdead.bsky.social rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7h
for hell world today i wrote about frankenstein as told by guillermo del toro, our most carnal director
November 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
lukeoneil47.bsky.social
Yeah unfortunately the uniform is the exact same for LGBT-friendly union guy who hates cops and will beat your ass and racist shit head union guy who loves cops and hates unions and will beat your ass.
zyla.top hedge Rose @zyla.top · 4h
as a queer person in and around boston it can be extremely confusing to know who your allies actually are and look like, and many will surprise you either way
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Anyone pushing back against this description hasn’t spent much time around aging Boston punks, because while they often stay on the left, it is such an easy slide into reactionary shit head.
gonebabygone.bsky.social The Nucky Thompson of Going on My Phone @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 7h
I love the Dropkick Murphys because "Irish-American" + "gen X" + "punk rocker who's been at it for 30 years" should be the formula for the most racist guy alive but instead Ken Casey is constantly giving interviews where he's like "fascists are demons from hell and that's where they belong"
November 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Defector heads may appreciate this interview I did with Kelsey, Drew, McQuade and Luis five years ago before the launch of the site about what to expect from it and what it took to put it together. www.welcometohellworld.com/you-can-expe...
Obviously there are a lot of newsletters right now. Did you all look at how that has been working in terms of readers paying to support writers they like and get confidence from that that this type of model will work for you? MAGARY: Yeah obviously we'd seen the success that you've had with Substack and that others have had with Patreon and we knew there would be a market for us out there. But also... this is how it's gonna have to be for indie journalism as a whole moving forward. Just you and the readers. No one else getting in the way. PAEZ-PUMAR: We do. Media consumers are becoming more accustomed to paying creators directly, and we think that we have something that no other Sports, Etc. website can offer right now. MCKINNEY: Absolutely. Newsletters have really proven that readers want to support individual writers in their works, which is really encouraging for what we are trying to do. For so long journalism branding has been based around the idea that people pay for the name, and while that's certainly kind of true, what makes the name is the workers. Starting with a new name but the same writers is a real way to test the theory that new media ventures can be built on the platforms individual writers already have.
November 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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This was good defector.com/reflections-...
Reflections On Five Years In Worker-Owned Media | Defector
As I finally got to work on writing Defector’s fifth Annual Report, I found myself noodling on some broader thoughts about the worker-owned media landscape. Tom said some sections would work as a stan...
defector.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Even before Elordi’s Creature can speak fluently, he’s articulate. He’s all prowling, unconscious sensuality, a little sexy and a lot dangerous. His movements are shy but curious, like those of an animal that hasn’t yet learned to fear people. www.welcometohellworld.com/the-love-we-...
But nobody, and no body, in del Toro’s entire canon has ever been as affecting or as tragic as the Creature’s, played to perfection by Jacob Elordi. The last time I saw Elordi, he was Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s 2023 Priscilla, (which I wrote about for Hell World here) and he brings some unexpected swagger to the Creature, too—more a rampaging toddler’s than a rock star’s, but with none of Boris Karloff’s inarticulate groaning in the same role. Even before Elordi’s Creature can speak fluently, he’s articulate. He’s all prowling, unconscious sensuality, a little sexy and a lot dangerous. His movements are shy but curious, like those of an animal that hasn’t yet learned to fear people. In an especially poignant early moment, the happy Creature plays with his chains without understanding that they exist to trap him. He’s still too full of babyish wonder at the world he’s been given. That world is nothing but a dank and unadorned dungeon, but he feels his way around it with pleasure, stroking surfaces and splashing in a stream too shallow to even submerge his feet. In his first several scenes, he’s all body, the way anyone living in chains is. But Elordi masterfully conveys the brain at work inside the striated corpse as we watch him learn to smile and feed animals. By the time it’s the Creature’s turn to tell his side of the story, we’ve been expecting it for some time, having watched him grow up.
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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raxkingisdead.bsky.social
for hell world today i wrote about frankenstein as told by guillermo del toro, our most carnal director
Carnality is everywhere in Guillermo del Toro’s 2025 Frankenstein. I use “carnality” here more for its associations with meat than with sex. I can’t remember another recent film that treats flesh with such overt, expressive sensuality. In one early scene, little Victor Frankenstein’s pregnant mother eats raw offal on the grounds that it’s good for the baby, and we cringe not only because we know this to be incorrect but because of the way the meat squelches between her teeth. Years later, Dr. Frankenstein combs a newly christened battlefield for corpses to build his famous creature. He slaps the dead with vigor, digs his fingers into their purpling thighs. His scalpel cutting through human tissue sounds uncannily like a steak knife slicing a buttery filet. This director demands that you love oozing, stinking, rotting life as much as he does. He knows you don’t know how, and he is going to spend the whole film showing you.
November 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Great news for all 35+ Jane Doe hoodie and shorts head ass guys out there (aka 75% of Hell World readers). pitchfork.com/news/converg...
Converge Announce New Album, Share Video for New Song
Love Is Not Enough is the Boston metalcore band’s first non-collaborative album in nearly nine years
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November 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
lukeoneil47.bsky.social
Great one today from @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on the carnage, sensuality, and longing of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.

www.welcometohellworld.com/the-love-we-...
The love we all deserve
Rax King on the carnage, sensuality, and longing of Frankenstein
www.welcometohellworld.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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🫡
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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attackerman.bsky.social
Enormous mistake as @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social reappoints Jessica Tisch NYPD commissioner. He calls her a pursuer of police corruption but she promoted John Chell. Calls her an opponent of authoritarianism but she collaborated with ICE. The case against Tisch:
Mamdani's NYC Can't Afford NYPD Commissioner Tisch
With ICE on its way, how can we expect an ICE collaborator to protect New Yorkers? Here's a compromise: make Tisch sanitation commissioner again
www.forever-wars.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Was hoping for a much more in depth talk about this one, one of my favorites of theirs, and also a legitimately great performance in the JC canon. Still fun though. Plus Julian shows up to take a random swipe at Nick if you love mess. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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Podcast Episode · The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast · 11/18/2025 · 1h 19m
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November 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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I had no idea they have the fucking guy standing up there on stage the whole time when they do this. The goofball himself. Tire Man.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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A headline that is very confusing in Boston. Is it wicked or not?
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM