Zora O'Neill

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

Dutch visitors brought me a giant stroopwafel tin filled with mini stroopwafels and it’s delighting me every day. They also suggested I could use it to hold sewing supplies when the stroopwafels were done. Of course!

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

THANK GOD

Chronically confusing Ethan Klein and Ezra Klein but maybe today is the day I’ll finally learn.

Reminds me how a week after Trump was elected the first time, I got on the subway and someone had drawn swastikas all over the train car. “May” have been a connection.

Friend from Amsterdam came to visit and was like “what is up with NYC, there is so. much. weed.” From *Amsterdam*!

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

An old 1978 commercial produced by the I.L.G.W.U. (International Ladies Garment Workers' Union).

Absolutely deserving of all caps. Maybe even deserving of believing in some kind of higher power because how else is this planet so full of amazing variety for us to admire!

I was grumbling inwardly about having to go all the way to the IFC Center to see The History of Concrete, but it is in fact a real joy to come out into the W Vill with post-movie John Wilson goggles on.

When you pick the ideal seat in the movie theater and it’s clearly other people’s ideal too because it’s squooshier than all the others.

what the hell is this google maps

From my package tracking, a thoughtful reminder.

I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Another reason Trump was on a tear about the name of New Mexico.

Nobody likes surveillance cameras so let’s install those tire-shredding spikes like they have at rental car lots, and they automatically deploy when anyone goes over the speed limit. Who keeps our tires safe? We keep our tires safe! (B/c it’s not as if NYC drivers care about keeping *peds* safe.)

Starting my new life as a howler monkey.

I’d like to thank: -my roof for the cosmos and my husband for tending and picking -my front strip of 6 inches of dirt for the arugula, completely untended, and -my neighbors for the white flowers, set out in a bucket with the sign “free flowers please do not take bucket”

On Tues Oct 27th, Philly will have gone a full month without access to the Academy of Natural Sciences. Join us at academy at 6pm for a candlelight vigil. We’re keeping the light of hope alive. Wear black if you have it. We’re the dark times, but this fight isn’t over.

Made the mistake of reading replies to an Abdul El-Sayed post on Twitter and good god, more power to him and every Muslim in America—I’m so sorry what you have to hear.

Grudging thanks to Trump for making people aware that NM is actually part of the US.

just asked my tailor if he disavows the muslin brotherhood

Found dead www.texastribune.org/2026/10/18/m...

Family ties aren’t a political confession. People can support a movement for its community work or opposition to dictatorship without endorsing everything it does. Judge this Egyptian American by his own words and actions—not his relatives’ affiliations.