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Meaghan O’Connell

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writer // author of And Now We Have Everything // no longer the senior features editor at Romper // email: oconnell.meaghan@gmail // https://www.meaghano.com/

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That is SO goofy and stupid but I’m excited for you

10.03.2026 16:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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THE GROUP CHAT: How We Get By In which we say the money part out loud.

Scratch is back at a time this convo is more urgent than ever, thank fuck. read for juicy rates and subscribe to cure your feelings of alienation!! www.talkscratch.com/the-group-ch...

10.03.2026 16:14 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

scolding people for not respecting jeff bezos' property rights is not ever going to be woke

09.03.2026 21:45 👍 23 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

“and when do you expect to hear back about the submission process” “THERE IS LITERALLY NO TELLING.”

05.03.2026 19:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

omg

04.03.2026 01:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

for me? feeling unseen 😩 childhood holdover of being raised by adults who can’t acknowledge reality / cope with denial. and your sweet parentified brain long ago suspecting they need you to be a certain way (DOING WELL) to be loved.

28.02.2026 19:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

another day explaining the vagaries of the media and publishing industries to my horrified therapist ✨

27.02.2026 16:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

it’s cool to know that if you’re ever under cyberattack all you need to do is turn off the computer

27.02.2026 05:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

that was heaven. i have been obsessed w CF since i did a tumblr/thisrecording-ish reading with him in a coffeeshop in i think 2009????

26.02.2026 18:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

TERRY

26.02.2026 18:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

i love everyone involved in this ipod video's creation and embedding

26.02.2026 18:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Two days ago, I was told that Superintendent Carvalho privately refers to me & my advocacy group as “those Schools Beyond Screens bitches.” Yesterday, he learned that karma’s a bitch, too. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

26.02.2026 11:15 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0
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Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

“I just want Zohran’s nonbinary praetorians to march across the country and put all these guys in cuffs.” Nauseated but lol harpers.org/archive/2026...

24.02.2026 02:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
FBI TEEN ACADEMY 2026 FLYER.pdf

well, there's summer camp sorted drive.google.com/file/d/1X5Xk...

23.02.2026 23:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i think we should get to vote on who teaches AI "morals"

23.02.2026 23:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This one hits hard.

21.02.2026 22:59 👍 35635 🔁 10542 💬 778 📌 592

genuine question why does open AI board let Sam Altman out of his enclosure to speak to the public

21.02.2026 19:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

oh no, lol. that’s not true either.

19.02.2026 22:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No you’re right!!

19.02.2026 19:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

in seriousness, disclaimers belong at the beginning of stories. it should be in the headline, imo. at LEAST the subhed. shit journalistic practice from editors who know better.

19.02.2026 19:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

i blame the fuckery of the second person. lorrie moore you have a lot to answer for

19.02.2026 18:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

now REALISM in fiction...that's a thing

19.02.2026 18:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

yeah CNF has an already established definition and it's not "hypothetically--"

19.02.2026 18:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

this is so stressful to me and i love it

16.02.2026 20:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

of course he did

16.02.2026 20:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

jealous of people who were not raised in a high-control religion and can embrace The Testament of Ann Lee without thinking about it too much, including seemingly the director

16.02.2026 20:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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15.02.2026 04:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

the way my blood went cold reading this

09.02.2026 19:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

actual lol

07.02.2026 23:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i want to join the book review coop that comes out of this 😭

04.02.2026 16:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0