Lauren O'Neal

And just like that we’re back to “Department of Defense”

I'm from California and STILL say "rad" on a daily basis lol. And I'm pretty sure "wicked" is still common in Boston. If "tubular" was ever really used, I think it was only briefly in surf culture.

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

Bringing this one back

The woman sitting next to me at Zone of Interest crunched her way through a box of M&Ms one at a time.

Their lives are precious. How dare these people treat human beings this way

Misinformation about youth gender medicine spread by people who have a professional stake in it? You don't say...

"You've been Chotined. Turn to page 1 to try again."

I love that the first guy Googled him and then the second guy asked his mom for advice and SHE Googled him.

I love the idea that I'll just see it in my inbox and think it's one of the many Substacks that I subscribe to with my work email.

I've now had two random strangers subscribe my work email to their Substack, I guess in hopes of getting a book deal? Pro tip: This is not an effective way to get a book deal.

A screenshot of the current "top lookups" on Merriam-Webster's website, which reads: 1. chargoggagoggmanchaugg... 2. pickle 3. 800-pound gorilla 4. Chargoggagoggmanchaugg... 5. empire 6. fascism 7. symbolism

Was checking a spelling on Merriam-Webster, and I feel like I might have missed a headline.

When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides.

NOT A JOKE

Why is this called "Oceans Calling" and not "Millennials: The Festival"?

reposted but i just wanna make sure that i'm a huge vouch for grace on this

On top of the depravity, it’s just a crooked market. A market that doesn’t stop insider trading has two kinds of customers: insiders and suckers.

If anyone needs another worst-case scenario to fear, last night when we were cooking dinner, the knob on the stove broke and the gas burner was just stuck on high. We had to pull the stove out from the wall with the flame still burning and turn off the gas valve manually.

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

It's gay to email.

We live in a world in which its entirely possible that Iran negotiations failed because people involved bet the under.

A picture of a stationary plane and some airport vans taken through an airport window.

Forgot to post the picture I took of Casablanca while on a layover. Unforgettable, "here's looking at you, kid."

They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.

In fact, given American policies on vaccines, guns, education, school lunch, access to health care, and so on and so forth, it would be easy to argue people overseas love their kids more.

if you dont have nukes and give us everything we want in negotiation, we might still kill you as late night television entertainment for the demented emperor

Correct but doesn’t go far enough—they are devoted to mass death. They’re in love with it

Once again, in actual democracies, people do not need to engage in permanent litigation & political mobilization to retain the basic right to vote, because none of the major political parties make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform. We also don't have to live like this.

Which is 112 more votes than the Libertarian Party

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

So this is the kind of move that would normally qualify someone for asylum. This is overt persecution of a minority.

The level of rage I have towards the New York Times that enabled this while blaming us for it is indescribable.