Sean O'Hara

@noculottes.bsky.social

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Author, translator. Polyglot, polyamorous, polygonal. Knower of things. Mostly real.

Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:33 UTC

The President can't override a pardon for state crimes. He can stop death squads from operating in the US. Thesis not a complicated distinction.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:26 UTC

If Biden wins and a Republican governor sends out death squads against gay people, Muslims, Jews or whoever else he deems demonic, there is zero chance that Biden doesn't send in National Guard to stop him. It's not even a close call.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:48 UTC

Article IV, §4. He calls up the National Guard and tells them to arrest the governor and anyone aiding his murder spree. He voids the state constitution and orders the creation of anew one. If SCOTUS says anything, he responds, "Abe Lincoln, bitches."

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 04:19 UTC

Also it was directed by noted child murderer John Landis, which is good reason to banish to the Phantom Zone.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:56 UTC

No, the one whose brother got an actress fired from Growing Pains because she posed for Playboy.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:22 UTC

Re: Neil Gaiman. Men who make being morally upstanding the defining feature of their public persona always turn out to be hypocrites. This is as true with progressive values as conservative Christian ones.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 04:00 UTC

Neither was Bautista, for that matter. Fascism has requirements beyond "right wing dictatorship."

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:31 UTC

Some people think that because they know what it feels like to turn the shower up too high, they know what it's like to be boiled alive. The George Floyd murder is bad, but Tianaman Square is orders of magnitude worse, and that's still not a worst case scenario.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:11 UTC

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 00:44 UTC

My headcannon is that "counselors" are political officers placed on starships to curb the excesses of the Kirk era.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 18:38 UTC

Guys in robes deciding what science is legally acceptable... sounds more Renaissance to me.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 16:26 UTC

Sure, but SCOTUS can respond that such powers are non-delegable.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:17 UTC

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to be rereading The Pelican Brief.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:17 UTC

The current forecast for America's future: 20% Biden is reelected and prolongs the long, twilight struggle by a couple years. 40% Trump becomes America's Pinochet. 40% John Roberts declares himself God-Emperor.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:01 UTC

No, because the courts will rule that the laws Congress passed don't address trans healthcare, therefore they don't have the power to create regulations on the subject.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:45 UTC

The Lochner Era wasn't that bad, right? Right? ::sobs::

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 05:26 UTC

There are still people who insist Clinton was a great candidate.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 16:18 UTC

Nah, they'll hold it until Wednesday. Thomas delivers the decision wearing shorts and a Hawaiian shirt under his robe so he can go straight to National, where Harlan Crow has a plane waiting to take him to his 4th of July jamboree.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 02:22 UTC

I routinely hit 100+ books per year, even excluding graphic novels/manga. The trick is to read lots of shorter books, and to listen to audiobooks whenever you're doing something that doesn't require 100% concentration (driving, exercising, grocery shopping).

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 15:08 UTC

Did not have "Tammany Hall was good, actually" on my bingo card.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 12:58 UTC

Recipe blogs, content mills and AI all use this style where they use lots of words to say very little.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 12:52 UTC

The "We're all immigrants" shtick also obscures the difference between immigrants and settler-colonists.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 18:28 UTC

The essay I want to write is "The Chuuni Style in American Politics," about the convergence of adolescent fantasies and the fascist need for a plot that explains the world.

(For those unfamiliar with Chuuni:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%A...

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 13:55 UTC

sure seems like this cop who groomed and raped this child then impregnated and murdered her www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/24/m...

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 02:02 UTC

Lawyers already have search engines.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 01:58 UTC

This sounds like Bart Simpson faking his way through a book report.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 13:01 UTC

This was not my experience in the 90s. There were jocks, preps, rednecks, hip hop kids, and theater geeks, etc, but people could belong to multiple groups, and only longstanding animosity was between the rednecks and hip hop kids.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 23:11 UTC

I mean the whole point of Common Law is it evolves as new circumstances present themselves, so any legal theory that rejects that is ipso facto not originalist.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 23:02 UTC

"Ceterum censeo Trump felo est."

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 17:23 UTC

Brunner wrote three more dystopias, Stand on Zanzibar, Shockwave Rider and The Jagged Orbit that were amazingly prescient. The hero of the last one is a blogger.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 17:20 UTC

Though King was still kinda conservative and provincial when he wrote it, so aspects don't hold up. The Ling Walk, however, is one of the best things he ever wrote.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 16:47 UTC

And many of them were considered family films.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 16:46 UTC

Look up the alternate ending. It is bonkers.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 15:41 UTC

Biden can stop him simply by responding, "Buck-buck-buckah."

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 13:46 UTC

Font design is a tool of capitalist hegemons.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 18:23 UTC

Took a horror themed creative writing class in college, and there was a future MFA guy in the class who knew nothing about horror. One girl brought in an amazing story based on Hawaiian mythology, and the guy sneered because "Nobody can say those names." I was like, "You ever hear of Cthulhu?"

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 21:28 UTC

Spot the town that's part of a Stephen King story where the Founders got perfect weather in exchange for occasionally murdering travelers.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 06:27 UTC

John Ganz had to read David Duke's book of sex advice for women as part of his research. That's dedication.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 23:44 UTC

I feel like all the Okada/Kawamori collaborations are more Macross than Macross itself. They're both creators who need someone to rein in their wildest ideas, but instead when they team up, they create a feedback loop on crazy.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 21:38 UTC

Using an umlaut is an undergrad trying to look smart. Knowing that oe is an acceptable alternative to ö is masters level. Doctoral level is using this as an opportunity to explain the difference between an umlaut and diaeresis.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 03:43 UTC

When you guys get through Rambo, you should go back to the OG Vietnam Vet Vigilante movie, Billy Jack.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 17:15 UTC

This would be a great argument if speed limits were arbitrary numbers and not based upon rigorous data analysis to determine the safest speed for a particular road.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 23:44 UTC

The most fun I have in making ebooks is when something in the story makes me go, "Hmm, I wonder if I could format this text conversation to look like it's in a messenger app," or "I bet I could make this classified document look like it's been redacted."

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 14:13 UTC

tHe eCoNoMy iMpRoVeD (iF yOu iGnORe tHe FiNaL yEaR wHeN hIs PoLiCiEs LeD tO a NaTiOnAl CaTaStRoPhE).

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 14:02 UTC

I love how his mind ran straight past "Pay the writers you're stealing from."

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 23:44 UTC

No, that's not what this is. This is like if President Hillary were facing a congress split between Bernie supporters and MAGA Republicans, with traditional Dems reduced to a tiny sliver.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 19:07 UTC

Oh god, is this a thing people are claiming?

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 20:29 UTC

Republicans are right about one thing: New York liberals suck.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 23:14 UTC

Group chats are just instant messaging on your phone, so really this is a reversion to how things used to be with AIM and ICQ.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 14:12 UTC

De Gaulle would be like, "Screw this, Sixth Republic."

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