Omar Kooheji 🍉

Omar Kooheji 🍉

@ohmz.bsky.social

Neurodivergent (ADHD), I pretend to be an SFF writer, but I wish I had more time to write. I like boardgames, and video games, and tech stuff former SWE. Scotland, but originally from the “Middle East”. He/Him

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Omar Kooheji 🍉
@ohmz.bsky.social

Bradbury Challenge Day 11: Short Story - The Frittening - @lyndseycroal.bsky.social (Dark Crescent) Poem - Stopping by the Woods One Snowy Evening - Robert Frost Essay - On the Sufferings of the World - Arthur Schopenhauer

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Bradbury Challenge Day 10: Short Story - The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - Ursula Le Guin Essay - National Book Acceptance Speech - Ursula K Le Guin Poem - Lady Lazarus - Silvia Plath Having a Le Guin day, also read the first Catwings book to my 2 year old, he loved it.

Omar Kooheji 🍉
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Bradbury Challenge Day 10: Short Story - The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - Ursula Le Guin Essay - National Book Acceptance Speech - Ursula K Le Guin Poem - Lady Lazarus - Silvia Plath Having a Le Guin day, also read the first Catwings book to my 2 year old, he loved it.

Omar Kooheji 🍉 @ohmz.bsky.social

Bradbury Challenge Day 9: Poem - Sea Fever - John Masefield Short Story - Those Who Stay and Fight - N.K. Jemisin Essay - Dreams Must Explain Themselves - Ursula K Le Guin

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@ezetterman.bsky.social

Mordor.

Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social

Destroyed for a Date centre To make billionaires richer So you can chat to a chatbot So AI can take your job Hack your bank account Create a surveillance state 250,000 trees of forest in Muhos, northern Finland, And another 150,000 trees felled at Otanmäki www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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TAHK0
@tahk0.bsky.social

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

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Bradbury Challenge Day 9: Poem - Sea Fever - John Masefield Short Story - Those Who Stay and Fight - N.K. Jemisin Essay - Dreams Must Explain Themselves - Ursula K Le Guin

Omar Kooheji 🍉 @ohmz.bsky.social

Bradbury Challenge Day 8: Short Story - Bartleby, the Scrivener - Herman Melville www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1... Essay - The Harder Truths of True Crime - Phil Christman hedgehogreview.com/web-features... Poem - Introduction to Poetry - Billy Collins allpoetry.com/Introduction...

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Bradbury Challenge Day 8: Short Story - Bartleby, the Scrivener - Herman Melville www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1... Essay - The Harder Truths of True Crime - Phil Christman hedgehogreview.com/web-features... Poem - Introduction to Poetry - Billy Collins allpoetry.com/Introduction...

Omar Kooheji 🍉 @ohmz.bsky.social

Bradbury Challenge Day 7: Short Story- The Last Night of the World - Ray Bradbury (Esquire www.esquire.com/entertainmen...) Poem - Bluebird - Charles Bukowski (allpoetry.com/poem/8509539...) Essay - Waking Up Trans in Trumps America - Gabrielle Bellot (lithub.com/waking-up-tr...)

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Bradbury Challenge Day 7: Short Story- The Last Night of the World - Ray Bradbury (Esquire www.esquire.com/entertainmen...) Poem - Bluebird - Charles Bukowski (allpoetry.com/poem/8509539...) Essay - Waking Up Trans in Trumps America - Gabrielle Bellot (lithub.com/waking-up-tr...)

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Bradbury Challenge Day 6: Essay- A Citizen of Mondath - Ursula Le Guin Poem - No Man is an Island - John Donne Short Story - Hello - @aijiang.bsky.social (BFS Horizons #15 @britfantasysoc.bsky.social )

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Bradbury Challenge Day 6: Essay- A Citizen of Mondath - Ursula Le Guin Poem - No Man is an Island - John Donne Short Story - Hello - @aijiang.bsky.social (BFS Horizons #15 @britfantasysoc.bsky.social )

Omar Kooheji 🍉 @ohmz.bsky.social

Bradbury Challenge Day 5: Short Story: Blessed Street - @emfaulds.com - From Under The Moon Poem - Prayer to Aphrodite- Sappho (The translation spelled both Aphrodite and Sappho differently) Essay - Economy - George Bernard Shaw (Holy shit this was longer than I thought it would be…)

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Bradbury Challenge Day 5: Short Story: Blessed Street - @emfaulds.com - From Under The Moon Poem - Prayer to Aphrodite- Sappho (The translation spelled both Aphrodite and Sappho differently) Essay - Economy - George Bernard Shaw (Holy shit this was longer than I thought it would be…)

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Bradbury Challenge Day 4: Poem - The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer - Robert Burns Essay - Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons - Ursula Le Guin Short Story - Miniatures - @lisamrc8.bsky.social All physical books today! 2nd day in a row I’ve used a book with a cover by @jennicoutts.bsky.social

Omar Kooheji 🍉
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This is boomer propaganda and very likely AI, but still there’s a small part of the “we drank out of the hose pipe” generation in me that thinks it’s kinda sad how things have turned out I love tech, but I think there’s a need to disconnect every now and then which is getting harder and harder.

Omar Kooheji 🍉
@ohmz.bsky.social

So you’re telling me in the future they don’t hire actors anymore, they tell a box to make the videos and pay a mega corporations which profits from stealing decades of copyrighted works without compensating the artist whose work it was trained on, and in doing so is also destroying the environment?

Omar Kooheji 🍉
@ohmz.bsky.social

Bradbury Challenge Day 4: Poem - The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer - Robert Burns Essay - Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons - Ursula Le Guin Short Story - Miniatures - @lisamrc8.bsky.social All physical books today! 2nd day in a row I’ve used a book with a cover by @jennicoutts.bsky.social

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Bradbury Challenge Day 3: Poem - 5 Poems by Emily Dickinson (Because they were super short) Essay - History - Ralph Waldo Emerson Short Story - Dark Crescent (Titular Story from the collection) - @lyndseycroal.bsky.social Man that essay was dense… Dark Crescent was short sweet and creepy.

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Trudi Canavan
@trudicanavan.bsky.social

Look what just arrived on my doorstep! I read #theoutcastmage as a file so I didn’t see the gorgeous cover back then. #thevoiddragon is equally lovely. Congrats on the release of book two @annabelcwrites.bsky.social. I am about to crack open the cover and delve within..,

Omar Kooheji 🍉
@ohmz.bsky.social

Bradbury Challenge Day 3: Poem - 5 Poems by Emily Dickinson (Because they were super short) Essay - History - Ralph Waldo Emerson Short Story - Dark Crescent (Titular Story from the collection) - @lyndseycroal.bsky.social Man that essay was dense… Dark Crescent was short sweet and creepy.

Omar Kooheji 🍉 @ohmz.bsky.social

Bradbury Challenge Day 2: Essay: A Hanging - George Orwell Short Story: Munira and The Moon - @soniasulaiman.bsky.social (Titular story of the collection) Poem: The first couple of poems from Mermaid Theory by Maya Salameh Going to have to give the writing part of the challenge a bash this evening…

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uave
@wishvolo.bsky.social
JBRedux@jbredux.dev

I'm writing a mod in C# and it's reporting a warning on line 3 of a file but the warning is blank for some reason so the "problems" overview just looks like this

Omar Kooheji 🍉
@ohmz.bsky.social

Bradbury Challenge Day 2: Essay: A Hanging - George Orwell Short Story: Munira and The Moon - @soniasulaiman.bsky.social (Titular story of the collection) Poem: The first couple of poems from Mermaid Theory by Maya Salameh Going to have to give the writing part of the challenge a bash this evening…

Omar Kooheji 🍉 @ohmz.bsky.social

Trying something. The Ray Bradbury Challenge, which has you try to read one essay, one poem, and one short story a day for 1000 days… youtu.be/_W-r7ABrMYU?...

youtu.beAn Evening with Ray Bradbury 2001YouTube video by University of California Television (UCTV)
Omar Kooheji 🍉
@ohmz.bsky.social

Day one: The Spike - George Orwell The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe Distribution - Paul Cornell Happy to accept suggestions for any of the categories, I’ve gotten Orwell and Poe from Project Gutenberg, the Cornell story is from Best of British Science Fiction 2021 edited by @wishusdonna.bsky.social

Omar Kooheji 🍉
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I’m not really one to read short stories, poetry, or essays, so… This is an adventure… The rest of the challenge is to write a short story a week… We’ll see how that goes…

Omar Kooheji 🍉
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Thought Experiment: What is in your Apocalypse Library? “Preppers” often only worry about being able to sustain themselves with food. What books would you include in a library to save humanity if you had to rebuild it from scratch? At least a K-12 education, and the tools the rebuild?

Omar Kooheji 🍉
@ohmz.bsky.social

I wonder if just getting GCSE and A Level style text books would be enough? Is there a more interesting way to teach the sciences and the humanities? Sophie’s world did a great job of framing philosophy in a narrative, does such a book exist for other topics?

Omar Kooheji 🍉
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Also wondering if there are games (like board games because in this hypothetical scenario we are unlikely to have power and the internet) that teach through play?

Omar Kooheji 🍉
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Our nursery posts anonymised reports of what the children say when they do activities. We know our son is a chatterbox, and pretty advanced with his speaking, but it shows compared to his peers… He’s among the youngest in the class… Can you guess which one is him?

Omar Kooheji 🍉
@ohmz.bsky.social

Look what turned up in my audible library today! #TheVoidDragon #TheOutcastMage 📚💙 #HowEvenDoHashtagsWork #IHaveNoIdeaWhatImDoing Physical copy arrives today from Waterstones. Might buy it on Kindle, and Kobo too… The Void Dragon by AWARD WINNING AUTHOR @annabelcwrites.bsky.social

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Danna Staaf
@dannastaaf.bsky.social

I missed #KrakenDay yesterday on account of belatedly celebrating Squittleday, so today in honor of "all the fantastical cephalopods of myth, movies, literature and legend" here is How To Draw An Octopus Merperson

Omar Kooheji 🍉
@ohmz.bsky.social

I just realised that Man At Arms in the Masters of the universe / He-Man canon is called Duncan, likely a reference to Duncan Idaho from Dune…

Omar Kooheji 🍉
@ohmz.bsky.social

Okay hear me out, Jump Around by House of Pain, but instead of the screech sampled in the original it’s Godzilla screaming. On a separate note, the signature screech is apparently a saxophone.

Omar Kooheji 🍉
@ohmz.bsky.social

I picture the relationship between the US and the U.K. as that one scene in Avengers where the Loki says he’s a god and Hulk smashes him and says “puny god” We’re full of ourselves, we used to have power, and we’ve done some questionable things, but we’re nowhere near as powerful as we think we are

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The US used to be a rational entity, but right now it’s a powerful beast fuelled by anger and rage, all of its actions (Even the well intentioned ones) cause massive collateral damage, and it could beat the shit out of us.

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Blaž Urban Gracar (Letibus Design)
@letibus.bsky.social

This started as Google translations, with native Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Chinese speakers already confirming/modifying the sentences. Is there anyone who speaks: Arabic, German, French, Hindu, Korean, Portuguese and Russian to check the others too?