By far the funniest part of this insane post is that even the maniacs who believe this stuff are so media-pilled they refer to it as a 'leaked photo'. As if God, CEO of Heaven Studios, had included it in a press kit for awards season, but embargoed it til January 27th.

We'll be doing a live Arena show at @dublinbookfest.bsky.social celebrating 100 issues of @thedublinreview.bsky.social. We'll have editor Brendan Barrington, contributors Sara Baume, @patrickfreyne.bsky.social, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and @mrkocnnll.bsky.social. Do come, it's going to be special...

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

“It is often said that many nonfiction books should really have been magazine articles; this one feels like a LinkedIn post mercilessly stretched to nearly three hundred pages.” —Mark O’Connell on Palantir’s founder’s first book

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Yeah man, keep being patronising snobs, that’ll get liberalism back on the road

Terrible book, terrible guy, great magazine

Yes, in the same way your thermostat suffers from the pain of burning

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Instagram ads have gotten exponentially worse recently, right? Just an endlessly encroaching tide of slop and cheap scams

The NYT talked to @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social and me about MARS, which opens tonight at Galway Arts Festival

Oo remembers lying awake after dinner at Combray for maman to give you a goodnight kiss?

Don’t tell me about a thing being “downstream of” another thing. I don’t want to hear it, and I won’t listen to it!

This is an X screenshot I can get behind. No more J.K. Rowling screengrabs, just Bryan Johnson being delusional about how well his age reversal project is going

Patrick Collison here, illustrating a mindset that is, in many ways, a simple misunderstanding of life itself

For those of you who were simply too lazy to read my essay about MrBeast and the attention economy yourselves, here's me reading it for you www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

thinking again about this 2018 cover

Seems a little drastic, he could just shut them down in the normal way

(sliding out from under The Gyre on a mechanic's creeper, covered in grease) okay, bad news

This is on Thursday, and my last gig until after the Summer. @urchinette.bsky.social @mrkocnnll.bsky.social and @prasifcat.bsky.social Tickets went in a couple of days but as there are frequently cancellations, @booksupstairs.bsky.social keep a wait list: booksupstairs.ie/all-events/w...

‘Postliberalism’ is mainly books with titles like ‘The Fate of Civilisation and the Death of God at the End of the West’ by men with backgrounds as investment analysts

I worked in a hotel during a golf tournament when I was 18, and brought room service to Tiger Woods, who was sitting on a couch in his underwear watching himself play golf on tv

This essay is the best description of Mr Beast I have ever read: His oeuvre is “a Hobbesian gameshow of all against all,” and he “may not be the genius we need, or the genius we want, but he may be the genius we deserve.” via @mrkocnnll.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

every year there is a new pr blitz about a hardcore band whose gimmick is Not Being a Hardcore Band

This is basically like Christmas morning for me, the guy who goes around posting "and this surprises you how?" under people's political tweets

This is just deeply, deeply sad

Sweet Christmas, this is a good piece on somebody that I don't really enjoy. These fragments from @mrkocnnll.bsky.social really speak to the primacy of MrBeast and how he may be the perfect emblem of Where We Are Now. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

A problem with The Mountainhead is that it’s kind of a stretch to believe billionaire tech founders coming out with the kind of viciously witty lines Jesse Armstrong writes, in a way that it somehow wasn’t with the Murdoch-style old media bastards in Succession

One of the great editors. Not only did David countenance 5,500 words of MrBeast exegesis, he suggested the idea and made the piece the best version of itself it could have been. He also let me be just a shade more pretentious than he was comfortable with, for which I'm also grateful

I did not wake up this morning looking for profound insight into MrBeast’s whole deal but @mrkocnnll.bsky.social has provided it

If you woke up this morning longing to read an essay about MrBeast that quotes Walter Benjamin, you're in luck. @mrkocnnll.bsky.social on the Junklord of Misrule is depressing, hilarious, bang-on: www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

Definitely closing off the ticket list for this later today as we're pretty much full as it is. Last call to come see me have fun with @prasifcat.bsky.social, @mrkocnnll.bsky.social and @urchinette.bsky.social...

You know the way you've always wanted to read a 5,500 word critical close-reading of the oeuvre of MrBeast? Well I have written exactly that www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

🔥 WRITEHAWKS at Books Upstairs 🔥 Thurs 19 June @rickoshea.bsky.social with another wonderful panel of writers: @urchinette.bsky.social @mrkocnnll.bsky.social & @prasifcat.bsky.social to wax lyrical about some of their favourite books, booking essential : booksupstairs.ie/all-events/writehawks4/

My column this week is about the Trump administration’s farcical attempt to accuse South Africa of a “white genocide”

The American right is simply going to have to try harder if it’s going to produce a counterculture

Want to come to the Royal Irish Academy and hear @mrkocnnll.bsky.social Brian Rossney & myself discuss AI & creativity? Sold out but a few returns now available for tonight www.ria.ie/events/disco...

I wrote about the government’s quiet capitulation to the anti-immigrant right’s tactic of violence and intimidation www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

We're looking forward to hosting award-winning author Mark O'Connell next Thursday 27 March 2pm. Come and join us! This event is free and open to the public. @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @oonaf.bsky.social @mrkocnnll.bsky.social @flordtk.bsky.social

“Mangione gave the Unabomber manifesto four stars, which in relative esteem places it below Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens (five stars) and above Steve-O from Jackass’s memoir A Hard Kick in the Nuts (three stars).”

I wrote about ole Luigi www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

I wrote this on young men, and why we need to stop lying about why they're easy prey for reptiles like Andrew Tate. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Believing humans can be reduced to one "smart" score that translates across disciplines--so someone who is "smart" at, say, running a tech start-up or being a reality TV star must inherently be "smart" at international diplomacy--is one of the most childish worldviews you can have. Truly juvenile.

in some ways being the richest man in the world is already kind of like doing the biggest seig heil possible at all times

international global system international global system international global system

Pretty much the first I thing I do on Saturday mornings is read @mrkocnnll.bsky.social 's latest for the Irish Times. This week's is essential reading. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

incomparable

I spoke to @mrkocnnll.bsky.social at @tlrhub.bsky.social last month about difficult men, big second acts, the spectre of the author in non-fiction writing, and his very exciting new book project. Recording available at the link below. www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...