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Sean O'Hara

@noculottes.bsky.social

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Author, translator. Polyglot, polyamorous, polygonal. Knower of things. Mostly real. My posts may be licensed for training data in large language models and generative AI at a cost of US $1000 per word.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · Feb 22

New short story available on Amazon/Kindle Unlimited: A Portion for Foxes.

Bronze age refugees find their migration blocked by neolithic warriors. In generations to come, the outcome of their confrontation will give rise to a mighty empire.

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Cover shows barbarian woman in skull headdress.

Text: Fantastic Tales
A Portion for Foxes
Blood in the River
Birth of an Empire
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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 1h

The Cask of Amontillado with Homer bricking Flanders in his cellar.

Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 1h

The only VPs who ever got respect were LBJ and Dick Cheney, who were both scary as fuck.

Vance I'd the Pillsbury Doughboy with pubes glued to his cheeks.

Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 1h

Move the Court to a remote town in Nebraska where Justices won't be able to hobnob with power players, and impose a code of conduct on gifts with an explicit clause saying that even unintentional transgressions are impeachable.

Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 1d

According to my parents who were in the army at the time, this happened during the first government shutdown under Carter, then everyone realized what a horrible idea it was not to pay soldiers. This is the first time in decades that no allowance has been made for military pay.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 2d

Here's how you know AI isn't creative: It won't create anything unless prompted, and once prompted, it won't stop halfway through to work on an unrelated project that suddenly grabbed its interest.

aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 2d

the thing is even if you took out all the possible issues one might have with it, the actual process of using it would be a literal nightmare for me. i cannot IMAGINE having creativeness being locked behind of the equivalent of standing over a co-worker's shoulder mentally begging Just Let Me Do It

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 2d

Even Josef Goebbels never thought to blame the murder of Walther Rathenau on the Left.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 2d

You know who else was an Antifa priest?

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 2d

A Newsmax host defended ICE agents shooting a minister in the head with a pepper ball by falsely claiming he was “actually an antifa member masquerading as a pastor.”

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 2d

If the Gaza peace deal somehow sticks, next year the Nobel committee should give the Peace Prize to Kushner just to piss Trump off.

Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 3d

There were three kinds of alternative rock songs from male singers:

1) I'm a suicidal drug addict.
2) My best friend committed suicide while on drugs.
3) Let me imagine what it's like to be a serial killer or stalker.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 3d

I can hear the bead of sweat rolling down Douthat's temple as he asks that question.

Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 3d

No, no, you don't understand, "adulterers" are women who cheat on their husbands. Men are incapable of restraint in the face of temptation, so clearly they're the victim of a seductress if they stray.

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Justin @justinlawguy.bsky.social · 4d

True libertarians are right about a lot (not all) things. The problem is, there are only about 7 of them, and they've all been banned from official libertarian conferences.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 4d

What's the law regarding vacancies if Congress refuses to seat a member? Does it go back for a special election, or can the governor make appointments?

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 4d

Good on Karl Liebknecht's girlfriend for protesting at her age.

Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 4d

YouTube just recommended a channel called 1984 Lore that's devoted to sussing out all the details Orwell ellided, and this just reinforces my conviction that talking about fiction in terms of "lore" is the antithesis of critical thinking.

Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 4d

"We won't tell you what to think. We're just gonna deplatform ideas that don't fit our preferred ideological lens. We support freedom, and we decide who gets to be free."

Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 5d

Franklin died a quarter century before she was born.

Now Mary Shelley was acquainted with Aaron Burr, who frequented her father's bookshop while living in exile in London.

Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 5d

John Cale was friends with Aaron Copland before he joined VU.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 5d

And Betty Hutton attended Throwing Muses concerts with her priest. (She met Kristin Hersh while taking college classes. Kristin was a minor at the time, and Betty the oldest person in class, si neither of them fit in with the regular students.)

Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 5d

His first movie under the MPAA ratings system got an R for nudity and graphic violence.

Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 6d

Walters is such a desperate pick-me loser that everyone holds him in contempt. It's telling that he used his position as an audition for Trump's Education Secretary and was completely shut out.

Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 6d

People who preach nonviolence in all circumstances don't understand that it's a tactic that only works in liberal democracies. Even Gandhi said that his techniques would have failed against Nazi Germany.

Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 7d

The hearing doesn't cover what's happening in Illinois.

Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 7d

Alternatively, the best pop songs are about the travails of youth, and the further removed a songwriter is from youth, the less interesting their lyrics become.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 7d

I remember a period when he was hyping the hell out of the Breunigs. Pretty sure that's how I first became aware of them.