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Kirsten Scrimshaw
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Founder and Partner, Ally Workplace Law; employment & labour lawyer; investigator; West Coast-er; Meme Historian; and grammar pedant. She/her. (Tweets are not legal advice.)
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There was great coverage at the end of this week’s The Insiders on both Joy Division as well as other potentially appropriate band shirts for certain other Australian politicians: youtu.be/vSXE7VJ5XlE?...
Government hoping to strike a deal to reform Australia's enviromental laws | Insiders | ABC NEWS
YouTube video by ABC News In-depth
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I feel like if you were a kid in the 80s seeing Episodes 4-6 in the theatres then stuff we learned about Atilla the Hun was vague enough to be confusing.
Bring back trains!
Take it easy. Take a train.
I do this! Is it a common issue, or something tied to GenX?
It is frustrating on many levels how frequently I find myself repeating versions of this in all facets of my life.
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people
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Let’s be clear. If a completely immature & unhinged maniac is allowed to do this kind of thing out of toddler-level spite when President’s DON’T EVEN HAVE THE POWER TO UNILATERALLY LEVY TARIFFS, then there simply IS NO LEGITIMATE TRADE RELATIONSHIP between the United States & Canada or any country.
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Ronald Reagan was Antifa.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 10d
President Trump said he's ending "all trade negotiations" with Canada because of recent television ads protesting US tariffs. https://cnn.it/42U06zw
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It's that time of the year again! Make sure to submit your resolutions you want to see up for debate at our AGM before December 5.

Find out how: https://bit.ly/48SsHGO

#CBAAGM
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Aboriginal Law practitioners/scholars: any good commentary and/or summaries of the Cowichan Tribes decision out there? Prepping to teach it soon and man, even this law nerd thinks that it’s a loooooong decision
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This skeet is very confusing. Why is "supreme court" not capitalized (I assume you're referring to the Supreme Court of Canada)? Where in the linked article does it refer to the Minister wanting the SCC to "artificially create limits" (I searched the article and couldn't find any reference to that)?
My mother was called to the bar in Queensland when I was in high school and I remember she had to borrow a wig! She then worked entirely as a solicitor and never donned one again. Fair enough, in Qld.
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I do not share @dieworkwear.bsky.social ‘s fine detail pedantry about men’s suiting, but this I have an opinion on:

The robes with fur stoles, without wigs, are like a suit with sneakers. Terrible clash of register.
i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses
Plus NSW still has the wigs! I lost track of how long it’s been since any Canadian Justices have worn wigs!
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I also assume the new robes don’t require animal skins and so are probably more humane. Still, drab.
And so our lives become little more drab. 🥲
New ceremonial robes vs old ceremonial robes. #SCC
I hate the war on Christmas. /s
For the love of all that’s good and holy, how is the press still doing this? Congratulations to Woman, wife of Eamonn Mullally, on her appointment.
Her husband gets a mention before we learn her name…