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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Marx: The paperclip is money, and capitalism is the machine.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I hear this movie has a big twist.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The film is a perfect epitaph for Warner Brothers.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Digger is a movie about a billionaire nepo baby funding art about how billionaires destroyed the world to distract people from the misery billionaires are still inflicting on the world, and it's the last film released by Warner Bros. before it's taken over by a billionaire nepo baby.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also the problems with permanent DST are mainly in northern latitudes, which can be fixed by adjusting timezones to run SW-NE instead of straight north to south.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Not worth the design constraints" is what the Emperor said about putting shields on TIE Fighters.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Adam Becker has a whole chapter demolishing Yudkowsky in More Everything Forever.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People like lethal injection because it sounds like putting a pet to sleep. Firing squads and guillotines are more humane, but they make the brutality of judicial murder impossible to ignore.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New short story! "Drifting, Falling," a tale of an immortal man who must confront the horror of living through Deep Time. Only from Amazon.

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Drifting, Falling

Amazon.com: Drifting, Falling eBook : O'Hara, Sean: Kindle Store

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You see this even in Vocaloid. Hatsune Miku is the face of the system, but people seek out specific Vocaloid composers for how they use her voice, and it takes talent to fine tune her vocals so they sound somewhat natural.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A) 3200 is a lot less than 5000. B) The article you're pointing to says the stele refers to "Israel" as a people, not a nation-state, implying they were nomadic or living in small communities, which tracks with archaeological evidence that doesn't show a distinct Jewish culture until the Iron Age.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No, that is clearly Criss Angel.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, but if you explained Maury/Jerry/Sally Jesse as "Imagine if r/AITA were a TV show," most GenZers would think that's awesome.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

These are the guys who will tell you with a straight face that there's nothing political about War of the Worlds, then get mad when you start explaining how Wells took the jingoistic Invasion Literature genre and twisted it into a satire of the Scramble for Africa.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have a job, thank you, and I'll keep it because I don't crash out at the thought of somebody drinking coffee in a job interview.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Someone going to a job interview is a functional adult, not a five year who can't be trusted with a big kid cup.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You're assuming the interview is the only thing a person has going on that day. A person bringing coffee to an interview between dropping their kids off at school and going to work isn't some caffeine addict who needs constant dosing; they're just managing their limited time.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Let's not forget AOL/Time Warner, where the acquiring company got chewed up and spat out by the acquisition. At this point, buying Warner Brothers is the business equivalent of getting into a land war in Asia.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The guy behind Trump Steaks doesn't want Americans to enjoy beef? The hell you say!

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A local theater does a monthly noir night, and the host always makes an intro video about the cast. Last December we got the Aldo Ray movie Nightfall.

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NIGHTFALL (1956) - INTRO

YouTube video by joshfadem

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is so true. Maybe she can do something to show off her bipartisan bona fides like campaign with Liz Cheney. That'll definitely fire up Democratic voters.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What is the standard for Englishness. Do you have to be descended from Hengist or Horsa, or is there a blood quantum, like, "Sorry, too many of your ancestors banged Vikings and Normans, so you don't count." And how does any standard not disqualify the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha?

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The bit about "Olde English" is the Hollywood Reporter's characterization, not something Eggers said directly.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He was Nate Silver's protege before Silver turned into a raving loon. It was always weird to listen to him on the old 538 podcast, because he sounds like he's 50, balding and takes bets on horseraces, then you see a picture of him...

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Where inflation hits is big factor. People see gas prices every time they go out, and those prices respond to events within hours. If Trump does something stupid and the price shoots up $.30 overnight, that hits harder than a bag of chips going up the same amount 2 months after tariffs.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The problem with Silicon Valley isn't that they engage in group sex. It's that they come up with convoluted procedures to do it instead of posting on FetLife at 8:00 Saturday night like normal people.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Du Jour will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran. Because Du Jour means Free Palestine.

90s boy band sensation Du Jour posing in front of their corporate jet right before their disbandment.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Ed Sheeran Reddit is pure, undiluted cope right now. "He doesn't need them. He's great as a solo artist." Like he's playing coffee houses instead of stadiums.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My dude, you sure are eager to support murder.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you think "Stop genocide" is political, I dunno what to tell you.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The problem at this point isn't Macklemore getting kicked off the tour, but Sheeran not responding with, "I support the right of the Palestinian people to live in their own country and will be saying so at every concert going forward."

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I never trusted that skeevy, hobbit-looking MFer.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

She's the one who called attention to Macklemore's statement by demanding Sheerhan offer refunds to the audience.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Siri, what generation to Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Seth McFarlane belong to?

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

At least Oppenheimer was trying to win a war against genocidal tyrants. Running a 10% risk of human extinction to make it slightly easier to use a spreadsheet is bananapants.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Janet Leigh's second worst experience in a sleazy motel.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Watching the trailer for the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary made me realize that the inability to see through her very obvious grift is the same cognitive failing that makes people think "AI" is capable of reasoning.

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You Can See Everything | Official Teaser HD | A24

YouTube video by A24

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It doesn't, though. It puts words (or pixels) together in a statistically likely combination. It has the same relation to reasoning as a funny looking cloud does to Abraham Lincoln.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There's an electric lightbulb behind that woman. Foote was almost 60 when Edison invented the lightbulb.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I find Polanski repugnant enough that I don't want to give him financial support. But the moment he dies, I'm watching Chinatown.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Looks like they took the winged Victory from the Prussian triumphal monument in Berlin and replaced the head with Lady Liberty and the laurel wreath with the Torch of Freedom. And also gave her a shield based upon the Washington family coat of arms.

A golden statue of Nike perched atop a column, carrying a staff in one hand and a laurel wreath on the other while wings spread behind her.

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Sean O'Hara @noculottes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Could also result in people being elected to districts where they don't live.

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