Carrie O'Hara
@carrieo.bsky.social
it is finally as though that thing of monstrous interest / were happening in the sky / but the sun is setting and prevents you from seeing it
Managed to trade my copy of Worthy of the Event for her copy of Woodworking today.
November 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Managed to trade my copy of Worthy of the Event for her copy of Woodworking today.
Going to have to watch whatever that foul was they called to give gotham the game. Consistently anti-orlando reffing throughout.
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Going to have to watch whatever that foul was they called to give gotham the game. Consistently anti-orlando reffing throughout.
transient random-noise bursts with anouncements was like hey bitch you've been listening to a lot of stereolab albums lately but not me???
November 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
transient random-noise bursts with anouncements was like hey bitch you've been listening to a lot of stereolab albums lately but not me???
it's almost like the pundits who say epstein is a distraction from the kitchen table are being paid to say that by people implicated by epstein
November 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
it's almost like the pundits who say epstein is a distraction from the kitchen table are being paid to say that by people implicated by epstein
I say move the whole national capital city to Grand Island, Nebraska. But splitting the branches up among the prairie states might be even better.
What I first said in sarcasm I increasingly think is a real thing to consider:
Move SCOTUS to a strip mall in rural Kansas.
We can’t fire them. Impeachment* is functionally dead. The 18-yr term thing is a fantasy.
But we can kill a lot of their perks.
Bet Kav would retire fast.
Move SCOTUS to a strip mall in rural Kansas.
We can’t fire them. Impeachment* is functionally dead. The 18-yr term thing is a fantasy.
But we can kill a lot of their perks.
Bet Kav would retire fast.
Devastating piece on the human toll of Kavanaugh Stops.
Especially infuriating to know that rich white guys like Brett K can simply close their eyes to the human suffering their racist jurisprudence has unleashed.
Especially infuriating to know that rich white guys like Brett K can simply close their eyes to the human suffering their racist jurisprudence has unleashed.
November 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I say move the whole national capital city to Grand Island, Nebraska. But splitting the branches up among the prairie states might be even better.
I dunno what opinions of mine are sleeping or awake, but apparently people in Florida are now mad at the "woke right" so that's something to think about.
November 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I dunno what opinions of mine are sleeping or awake, but apparently people in Florida are now mad at the "woke right" so that's something to think about.
turned on my ac for the first time in a week
November 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
turned on my ac for the first time in a week
I guess this means hurricane season is over.
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I guess this means hurricane season is over.
Reposted by Carrie O'Hara
I kind of wish I’d written up the work on email informality I did with students in 2021, about how misspellings can be a sign of bonding and intimacy/trust.
it’s not just about “boy these people are dumb.” think about who you don’t edit yourself for in texts.
it’s not just about “boy these people are dumb.” think about who you don’t edit yourself for in texts.
Important takeaway: I'm never going to apologize for a typo in an email again.
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I kind of wish I’d written up the work on email informality I did with students in 2021, about how misspellings can be a sign of bonding and intimacy/trust.
it’s not just about “boy these people are dumb.” think about who you don’t edit yourself for in texts.
it’s not just about “boy these people are dumb.” think about who you don’t edit yourself for in texts.
Reposted by Carrie O'Hara
This is what it’s like to read about the American governing elite right now.
![At least five Tang dynasty (618–907) emperors were incapacitated and killed by immortality elixirs. In historic recurrences, the newly enthroned emperor understandably executed the Daoist alchemists whose elixirs had killed his predecessor, and then subsequently came to believe in other charlatans enough to consume their poisonous elixirs.
Emperor Xianzong (r. 805–820) indirectly lost his life due to elixir poisoning. The Xu Tongzhi (Supplement to the Historical Collections) says, "Deluded by the sayings of the alchemists, [Xianzong] ingested gold elixirs and his behaviour became very abnormal. He was easily offended by those officials whom he daily met, and thus the prisons were left with little vacant space." In response, an official wrote an 819 memorial to the throne that said:
Of late years, however, (the capital) has been overrun by a host of pharmacists and alchemists ... recommending one another right and left with ever wilder and more extravagant claims. Now if there really were immortals, and scholars possessing the Tao, would they not conceal their names and hide themselves in mountain recesses far from the ken of man? ... The medicines of the sages of old were meant to cure bodily illnesses, and were not meant to be taken constantly like food. How much less so these metallic and mineral substances which are full of burning poison! ... Of old, as the Li Chi says, when the prince took physic, his minister tasted it first, and when a parent was sick, his son did likewise. Ministers and sons are in the same position. I humbly pray that all those persons who have elixirs made from transformed metals and minerals, and also those who recommend them, may be compelled to consume (their own elixirs) first for the space of one year. Such an investigation will distinguish truth from falsehood, and automatically clarify the matter by experiment.
After the emperor rejected this appeal, the palace eunuchs Wang Shoucheng and Chen Hongzhi 陳弘志 assassinated him in 820.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4d2snfeymcblmvoaxvgfs7i6/bafkreicj4uaxsxrzzrod3yxa3uihy7odewkf4jpynd6mplgxek23u2rx5q@jpeg)
![When Xianzong's son and successor Emperor Muzong (r. 820–824) came to the throne, he executed the alchemists who had poisoned his father, but later began to take immortality elixirs himself. An official wrote Muzong an 823 memorial that warned:
Medicines are for use against illnesses, and should not be taken as food. ... Even when one is ill medicines must be used with great circumspection; how much more so when one is not ill. If this is true for the common people how much more so will it be for the emperor! Your imperial predecessor believed the nonsense of the alchemists and thus became ill; this your majesty already knows only too well. How could your majesty still repeat the same mistake?[27]
The emperor appreciated this reasoning but soon afterwards fell ill and died from poisoning. Palace eunuchs supposedly used poisonous elixirs to assassinate Muzong's young successor Emperor Jingzong (r. 824–827).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4d2snfeymcblmvoaxvgfs7i6/bafkreieltlwjzprlfasqdo67fgciczehab5vw7qrdojwhixyyet6f33yc4@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This is what it’s like to read about the American governing elite right now.
I voted Bev Yanez for coach of the year. I wish they send my picks to me as confirmation, since the league data mines me to let me vote. Who else did I vote for? Temwa, Manaka, Debinha, Marta, Esther, Emily (Sams)
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I voted Bev Yanez for coach of the year. I wish they send my picks to me as confirmation, since the league data mines me to let me vote. Who else did I vote for? Temwa, Manaka, Debinha, Marta, Esther, Emily (Sams)
I just met a cat in my parking lot with a jug of brandy about its neck like a saint bernard
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I just met a cat in my parking lot with a jug of brandy about its neck like a saint bernard
I turned off my ac when i left miami on sunday and now coming back on the coldest night of the year my apartment is the perfect ambient temperature and I have tuesday off work.
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I turned off my ac when i left miami on sunday and now coming back on the coldest night of the year my apartment is the perfect ambient temperature and I have tuesday off work.
We were in court today asking for a preliminary injunction and the judge ordered expedited discovery without us even asking for it. So that's (sigh) a good feeling. I think? Mostly. Yes. I'll say yes. If that's our position.
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 AM
We were in court today asking for a preliminary injunction and the judge ordered expedited discovery without us even asking for it. So that's (sigh) a good feeling. I think? Mostly. Yes. I'll say yes. If that's our position.
on the first day of christmas / my true love gave to me / tlön uqbar orbis tertius
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 AM
on the first day of christmas / my true love gave to me / tlön uqbar orbis tertius
salad = random ingredients held together by lettuce OR mayo OR jello OR a giant fried tortilla shell
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 AM
salad = random ingredients held together by lettuce OR mayo OR jello OR a giant fried tortilla shell
Berger reinjures her knee late with a 1-0 lead, stays in the game, and totally boxes a near-post shot to allow KC to tie and go to extra time.
November 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Berger reinjures her knee late with a 1-0 lead, stays in the game, and totally boxes a near-post shot to allow KC to tie and go to extra time.
Cuomo can run for governor of Florida if he isn't sick ot losing yet.
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Cuomo can run for governor of Florida if he isn't sick ot losing yet.
Marta runs the field for a game-ending penalty and Luana puts it home! wow
November 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Marta runs the field for a game-ending penalty and Luana puts it home! wow
If you can't respect that, you're whole perspective is whack.
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 AM
If you can't respect that, you're whole perspective is whack.
biological pronouns. do you even listen to the words you say? biological pronouns.
November 7, 2025 at 5:08 AM
biological pronouns. do you even listen to the words you say? biological pronouns.
tfw you pull up the trial court docket on a case (not yours) filed this year (2025) and it has over 500 entries
November 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
tfw you pull up the trial court docket on a case (not yours) filed this year (2025) and it has over 500 entries
The final victory for my clients in GRACE v. City of Miami came tonight: our independent redistricting commission referendum will now be enshrined in Miami's city charter after 77% of voters said yes.
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The final victory for my clients in GRACE v. City of Miami came tonight: our independent redistricting commission referendum will now be enshrined in Miami's city charter after 77% of voters said yes.
searching for pincites in moby-dick
November 1, 2025 at 3:12 AM
searching for pincites in moby-dick