Mark O’Connell
@mrkocnnll
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Writer of A Thread of Violence (2023), Notes from an Apocalypse (2020), To Be a Machine (2017) Agent: [email protected] (UK); [email protected] (US)
Dublin
Joined February 2009
Today and every day
Best-selling Irish author Sally Rooney has told the high court that the proscription of Palestine Action under terror laws means she is unlikely to be able to publish new novels in the UK and may have to withdraw her current books from sale. The ban on Palestine Action as a
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every image reply to this "Conservatives don't read" post is a heater
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“The biggest piece of literature ever written” is an incredible thing to say
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I spoke to two dozen BBC journalists, from frontline reporters to senior staff, about how the BBC came to symbolise the West's failure to prevent genocide in Gaza - and how the row over its coverage fed directly into the current meltdown. https://t.co/5J6EnMkJYs
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How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
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Very happy to say that the beautiful Guardian Long Read Magazine is out now, ft. incredible writing by Emmanuel Carrère, @chiggi, @mrkocnnll, @ImogenWK, @Changxche + many others. Order your copy here
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Feels like someone a little bit smarter than Alex Karp is tricking Alex Karp into being the eager public face of certain things.
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They should get Trump to do a sales presentation out the front of the White House for the Sydney Sweeney boxing movie like he did with the Teslas for Elon when the stock market value started sliding
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May she never die, and never stop posting
She cooked him so fucking hard and he immediately started posting about movies to prove her wrong
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"Like a surreal David Lynch movie." - Eli Roth
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👀 Inbox: The Anti-Defamation League announces launch of initiative “to track and monitor policies and personnel appointments of the incoming Mamdani Administration and protect Jewish residents across the five boroughs.”
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Apparently, the Democrats subreddit banned any posts about Mamdani lol
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The “everybody is twelve now” theory of architecture
Great call by Scots College Sydney replacing its modernist monster of a library with a building in Scottish baronial style. Increasingly around the world, people are defying the modern architecture lobby with traditional designs that most people prefer. https://t.co/hYpV1rASoK
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I feel like it used to be way easier to shoot the breeze and joke around with your pals on twitter without having multiple dumbasses breathing down your neck
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A racism so profoundly potent that it births entirely new and counterintuitive national stereotypes
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I am hearing that on his deathbed DJ Carey received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet!
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Not to brag, but I’m pretty sure I could easily have grasped the full weight of this there and then
A clinical psychologist says that Israeli soldiers who marked homes for bombing in Gaza later grasped the full weight: I was responsible for the deaths of thousands https://t.co/iSnZc2q0W9
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This is digital humanities
Before you read a novel, calculate the average IQ of its characters. Don't waste your time reading about low IQ individuals
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I’ve rarely seen a more depressing encapsulation of things as they currently stand
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