Sean O'Hara
@noculottes.bsky.social
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.
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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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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Catholicism Wow! is real.
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Catholicism Wow! is real.
I think it's telling that the MAGAites breaking with Trump right now are all woomen -- Boebert and Taylor-Greene over Epstein and Loomer over overt Nazism.
November 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I think it's telling that the MAGAites breaking with Trump right now are all woomen -- Boebert and Taylor-Greene over Epstein and Loomer over overt Nazism.
Coming around to the idea that AI use is a form of idolatry.
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Coming around to the idea that AI use is a form of idolatry.
Time for bar trivia.
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Time for bar trivia.
Anyone who's spent time around evangelical Christians should recognize this framing -- rapists have no agency and are seduced by their victims, even when the victim is a literal child.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Anyone who's spent time around evangelical Christians should recognize this framing -- rapists have no agency and are seduced by their victims, even when the victim is a literal child.
This I believe: biographers should devote no more than one chapter to their subject's childhood, and no space at all to family history beyond a brief introduction to the parents unless there is something extraordinarily compelling there.
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This I believe: biographers should devote no more than one chapter to their subject's childhood, and no space at all to family history beyond a brief introduction to the parents unless there is something extraordinarily compelling there.
I dream of a day when somebody makes a Frankenstein movie where Victor is under 25.
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I dream of a day when somebody makes a Frankenstein movie where Victor is under 25.
The main thing I've learned this week is that Sarah Kendzior is the last of the resistance grifters that smart people take seriously.
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The main thing I've learned this week is that Sarah Kendzior is the last of the resistance grifters that smart people take seriously.
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
Hero Complex, the first volume of My Dark & Fearsome Queen.
Hero Complex, the first volume of My Dark & Fearsome Queen.
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
Hero Complex, the first volume of My Dark & Fearsome Queen.
Hero Complex, the first volume of My Dark & Fearsome Queen.
Allons enfants de la Patrie,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
Contre nous de la tyrannie
L'étendard sanglant est levé,
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
Mugir ces féroces soldats ?
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras
Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes !
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
Contre nous de la tyrannie
L'étendard sanglant est levé,
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
Mugir ces féroces soldats ?
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras
Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes !
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Allons enfants de la Patrie,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
Contre nous de la tyrannie
L'étendard sanglant est levé,
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
Mugir ces féroces soldats ?
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras
Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes !
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
Contre nous de la tyrannie
L'étendard sanglant est levé,
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
Mugir ces féroces soldats ?
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras
Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes !
I thought removing monuments was anti-historical.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I thought removing monuments was anti-historical.
Tell me you've never read a serious book on military operations in your life without saying it.
Hegseth: "We must wage an all-out campaign to streamline the Pentagon's process, to unshackle our people from unproductive work and to shift our resources from the bureaucracy to the battlefield. Our objection is simple: transform the entire acquisition system to operate on a wartime footing."
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Tell me you've never read a serious book on military operations in your life without saying it.
At this point every leftist who ever said Horseshoe Theory is nonsense owes America an apology.
The pattern continues.
"Li previously ran as a Democratic candidate for Congress, describing herself as a “tree-hugging progressive,” and sought the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America."
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"Li previously ran as a Democratic candidate for Congress, describing herself as a “tree-hugging progressive,” and sought the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America."
www.rawstory.com/snap-2674253...
GOP strategist tells Americans about to lose food assistance to make ‘better choices’
Republican strategist Lindy Li on Friday told the 42 million Americans expected to lose food assistance starting Saturday that they should be “making better choices” so that they don’t have to rely on...
www.rawstory.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
At this point every leftist who ever said Horseshoe Theory is nonsense owes America an apology.
One thing you find when interacting with Evangelical Christians (and much like Jews for Jesus, TradCaths are Evangelicals in cosplay) is that they have no concept of the numinous. There is no spiritual world they seek after. Christianity is all about the Law for temporal gains.
November 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
One thing you find when interacting with Evangelical Christians (and much like Jews for Jesus, TradCaths are Evangelicals in cosplay) is that they have no concept of the numinous. There is no spiritual world they seek after. Christianity is all about the Law for temporal gains.
Regular people: Could we have maybe more direct flights to non-hub cities?
United: How about more layovers at O'Hare instead?
United: How about more layovers at O'Hare instead?
United will add flights to 10 new domestic destinations from O’Hare International Airport next year, routes the airline says were made possible by the additional gate space it won through the city’s airport gate reallocation process this fall.
After gate reallocation at O’Hare, United to add new routes next year
The airline says the routes were made possible by the additional space it won through the city’s airport gate reallocation process this fall.
trib.al
October 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Regular people: Could we have maybe more direct flights to non-hub cities?
United: How about more layovers at O'Hare instead?
United: How about more layovers at O'Hare instead?
Reposted by Sean O'Hara
For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
October 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
Reposted by Sean O'Hara
You ever notice how the anchors who were the most in-your-face anti-Trumpers have become grifters and sellouts, but straight-laced, even-toned John Harwood is out here posting like, "One day this will pass and those responsible will hang from lampposts so children can use their bodies as piñatas."
October 14, 2025 at 4:43 AM
You ever notice how the anchors who were the most in-your-face anti-Trumpers have become grifters and sellouts, but straight-laced, even-toned John Harwood is out here posting like, "One day this will pass and those responsible will hang from lampposts so children can use their bodies as piñatas."
It's depressing how many people have responded to this with some form of, "Old books aren't worth reading; they don't speak to modern life." You should read to experience different cultures and ways of life. That applies both geographically and temporally.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
It's depressing how many people have responded to this with some form of, "Old books aren't worth reading; they don't speak to modern life." You should read to experience different cultures and ways of life. That applies both geographically and temporally.
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.
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
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
October 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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.
Even Josef Goebbels never thought to blame the murder of Walther Rathenau on the Left.
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."
October 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Even Josef Goebbels never thought to blame the murder of Walther Rathenau on the Left.
You know who else was an Antifa priest?
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.”
October 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
You know who else was an Antifa priest?
If the Gaza peace deal somehow sticks, next year the Nobel committee should give the Peace Prize to Kushner just to piss Trump off.
October 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
If the Gaza peace deal somehow sticks, next year the Nobel committee should give the Peace Prize to Kushner just to piss Trump off.
Reposted by Sean O'Hara
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.
October 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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.
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.
October 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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.