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Omar Kooheji ๐Ÿ‰

@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 โ€œMiddle Eastโ€. He/Him

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You have a link cable?

14.02.2026 21:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

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14.02.2026 20:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There are a lot of takes here, but these could really help in getting people out of their cars for those <5mi distances.

14.02.2026 14:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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You stopped?

14.02.2026 17:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Name a film you've seen (at least) 8 times

14.02.2026 10:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.

Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?

Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

14.02.2026 07:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7050    ๐Ÿ” 2246    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 346    ๐Ÿ“Œ 156

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

14.02.2026 00:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20499    ๐Ÿ” 5466    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 156    ๐Ÿ“Œ 103
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The other day Manchester Unitedโ€™s co-owner Jim Ratcliffe said the UK had been "colonised by immigrants"โ€ฆ.today thereโ€™s this billboard outside of Old Trafford ๐Ÿ”ฅโ€ฆ.way to go Manchester ๐Ÿ’ช!

13.02.2026 21:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4953    ๐Ÿ” 1189    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 64    ๐Ÿ“Œ 47
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Swalwell: ICE agents shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good. And the only person in the world who has been held accountable by DHS is the pilot who somehow forgot to move Kristi Noemโ€™s blankie.

14.02.2026 02:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25325    ๐Ÿ” 8009    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 442    ๐Ÿ“Œ 230

Name a videogame youโ€™ve put 500 hours into.

14.02.2026 10:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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a person with a bandage on their head says " i ... don 't like milk " ALT: a person with a bandage on their head says " i ... don 't like milk "

Wait what? I have no memory of this being a plot pointโ€ฆ

The author grew up on a dairy farmโ€ฆ

14.02.2026 08:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€ฆ the gulf war, it wasnโ€™t funโ€ฆ

I think this could be worse, and US intervention in Iraq/Afghanistan really doesnโ€™t fill me with confidence that it will accomplish much aside from furthering US interests.

Anyway, this has been an incoherent mess, so Iโ€™m going to call it hereโ€ฆ

14.02.2026 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€ฆ nuclear power will have much bigger ramifications for the whole area.

Iโ€™m not sure what the alternative is, Iโ€™m not going to pretend to be a political analyst, Iโ€™m not that smartโ€ฆ

But I worry for the region, and my family who still live next door to Iran.

I was in the Middle East during โ€ฆ

14.02.2026 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€ฆ about the west is worse in Iran which has been painted as the enemy by the west for decades.

So yeah, I really hope things get better in Iran, I hope they topple the regime, but Iโ€™m worried that the US meddling will make things worse.

And Iโ€™m also worried that Trump attacking a potentialโ€ฆ

14.02.2026 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€ฆ and our โ€œfaithโ€ erasing our โ€œway of living.โ€

I got both sides of this as Iโ€™m half British, so got a lot of abuse, for want of a better term, for not being Arab enough, and for being white.

Itโ€™s all an understandable backlash against over a century of imperialism, and Iโ€™m guessing the narrativeโ€ฆ

14.02.2026 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

.. embrace their success. Itโ€™s complicated. Itโ€™s always complicatedโ€ฆ But growing up in Saudi an Bahrain there was always this double think of the West as a paragon or progress and prosperity, while also projecting them as morally bankrupt, and corrupt because they wanted to destroy โ€œour cultureโ€โ€ฆ

14.02.2026 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€ฆ He saw the British and the Americans carve up the land and claim the natural resources as their own, seeming under the pretence of benefiting the people, but obviously driven by capitalist greed.

Thereโ€™s a reason that a lot of Arabs still harbour resentment to the west, while also wanting toโ€ฆ

14.02.2026 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€ฆ for anything it does in our neighbourhood. And letโ€™s be honest can you blame them?

My dad grew up in Bahrain as a British colony, he saw his โ€œcousinsโ€ in Palestine have their land taken from them and given to European refugees, who subsequently slaughtered the natives with the wests blessingโ€ฆ

14.02.2026 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Iranian women - before and after the Islamic Revolution - BBC News Images show Iranian women pictured before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

โ€ฆ before the revolution it was quite forward thinking, and progressive/liberal, I really hope it goes back to being that.

Heaven knows the middle east could use it.

But the last time the US meddled in Iran, things got worse. The entire Middle East is very cynical about the westโ€™s motivesโ€ฆ

14.02.2026 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Achomi people - Wikipedia

โ€ฆ country, and letโ€™s be honest, an enjoyer of Iranian food; itโ€™s somewhere I would love to visit, but have never felt safe doing so.

I really hope that what happening right now leads to the regime being toppled and a return of Iran as bastion of culture. Its people have suffered for a lifetimeโ€ฆ

14.02.2026 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Kuhij - Wikipedia

โ€ฆ 47 years, as someone whose name comes from a village in Iran (Kuhij, in Bastak) because my ancestors were a migrant minority of Arabs who settled in Persia long before the west can and started drawing lines in the sand, and mandated that we all carry little booklets that tie us to a single โ€ฆ

14.02.2026 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: US military preparing for potentially weeks-long Iran operations The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if Trump orders an attack, two U.S. officials told Reuters, in what could become a far more serious ...

The Iranian regime has been in power for my whole life, itโ€™s been oppressing its people my whole life, growing up in the Middle East with Iran just across the Gulf; Iran was the the big bad that made even Saudi look reasonable.

Theyโ€™ve funded terror globally, and have oppressed their people forโ€ฆ

14.02.2026 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Everyone who did business with Epstein after his conviction in 2008 knew who he was.

Everyone doing business with Musk right now knows who he is.

Monstrous filth, morally repugnant.

12.02.2026 20:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 683    ๐Ÿ” 174    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Id check the second hand market, they have recently released an update so early adopters might be getting rid of theirs.

13.02.2026 17:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I bought a general purpose ereader that runs Android, I can put any bookstore on it, and itโ€™s the size of a phone so it fits in my pocket.

(I got the Boox Palma 2 but there are others)

13.02.2026 17:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
KaidoTrainer | Learn Electronics. Save the World. An RPG adventure that teaches real circuit building on a handheld device.

This looks neat, an RPG that teaches you electronicsโ€ฆ

13.02.2026 13:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€ฆ baby on my lap, and joke about the interns getting younger every year, and people go along with it and are understanding.

Not everyone has that.

My wife and I are also a team, and I get the impression from the anecdotes that isnโ€™t the case for a lot of the subjects.

13.02.2026 12:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€ฆ but I have a cushty tech job, where I can do a lot of my work from my phone, most of what I do involves coordinating people, and keeping them on the right track because Iโ€™m a manager.

Itโ€™s not like I have to be onsite, or do manual labour/deal with the public. I can join a call with a sickโ€ฆ

13.02.2026 12:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€ฆ has to stay home because heโ€™s unwell.

I think society has a lot to answer for, an my work in particular has been really good at offering me time off to look after my son when he has been ill, or at least allowing me to keep part of my attention on work while Iโ€™m also looking after himโ€ฆ

13.02.2026 12:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€ฆ with a commute Iโ€™d have basically seen my son at the weekends, which would have massively impacted my relationship, and attitude to my son.

As it is Iโ€™m able to get him ready for nursery, and take him in, then I can help out with meal time, and if need be look after him while I work when he โ€ฆ

13.02.2026 12:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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