The Questionable Authority
@questauthority.bsky.social
Father, Army Husband (Ret.), lawyer. KUSK alum; public servant. Litigation disaster tour guide. Odd Fellow (and odd fellow). Proud member of the terminally online community since 1993. he/him
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Very belated update, but I was just checking on stuff in the large piles of "things I meant to do":
International Shoe killed the furry dildo lawsuit.
That is all; enjoy your weekend.
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International Shoe killed the furry dildo lawsuit.
That is all; enjoy your weekend.
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January 31, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Very belated update, but I was just checking on stuff in the large piles of "things I meant to do":
International Shoe killed the furry dildo lawsuit.
That is all; enjoy your weekend.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
International Shoe killed the furry dildo lawsuit.
That is all; enjoy your weekend.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Kimchee reuben for lunch today.
January 30, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Kimchee reuben for lunch today.
I've spent a significant portion of my life in and around academics.
The American legal academy has a very high opinion of itself and its place in public life. It is also the least intellectually rigorous academic environment I've encountered. And it's not close.
I blame the lack of peer review.
The American legal academy has a very high opinion of itself and its place in public life. It is also the least intellectually rigorous academic environment I've encountered. And it's not close.
I blame the lack of peer review.
Thinking on something @beaubaumann.bsky.social said yesterday. There would be less acrimony in the legal academy if folks developed expertise, workshopped ideas, and incorporated criticism into their work. That's the process of doing scholarship, but it doesn't work when you're chasing litigation.
January 30, 2026 at 3:21 PM
I've spent a significant portion of my life in and around academics.
The American legal academy has a very high opinion of itself and its place in public life. It is also the least intellectually rigorous academic environment I've encountered. And it's not close.
I blame the lack of peer review.
The American legal academy has a very high opinion of itself and its place in public life. It is also the least intellectually rigorous academic environment I've encountered. And it's not close.
I blame the lack of peer review.
All - no stream today. Sorry, start of a busy season at work, with a bunch of new stuff I've got to get figured out.
January 29, 2026 at 10:36 PM
All - no stream today. Sorry, start of a busy season at work, with a bunch of new stuff I've got to get figured out.
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Hi #copyright bluesky! Taking recs on your fave analysis of fair use cases in tech. Working with an independent study student and we wanna crowdsource pairing down the possibilities.
January 29, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Hi #copyright bluesky! Taking recs on your fave analysis of fair use cases in tech. Working with an independent study student and we wanna crowdsource pairing down the possibilities.
Oh, that's not remotely problematic at all.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a bulk popcorn order to place.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a bulk popcorn order to place.
Google’s new world AI model tool let me generate a bunch of Nintendo-inspired games. Including one featuring Link with a paraglider! Gift link: www.theverge.com/news/869726/...
January 29, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Oh, that's not remotely problematic at all.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a bulk popcorn order to place.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a bulk popcorn order to place.
Good post that, if anything, understates the - I'll be charitable here and assume ignorance - truly radical misunderstanding of international copyright law underlying this bonkers 5th Cir decision.
Guest Blog Post: A Volcanic Opinion in the Fifth Circuit Destabilizes International Copyright Law—Vetter v. Resnik #LongRead
blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...
By Prof. Tyler Ochoa
blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...
By Prof. Tyler Ochoa
A Volcanic Opinion in the Fifth Circuit Destabilizes International Copyright Law—Vetter v. Resnik (Guest Blog Post) - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa [Eric’s note: this is another Long Read post from Prof. Ochoa, clocking in at over 10k words.] Territoriality is a fundamental principle of international intellectual prop...
blog.ericgoldman.org
January 29, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Good post that, if anything, understates the - I'll be charitable here and assume ignorance - truly radical misunderstanding of international copyright law underlying this bonkers 5th Cir decision.
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nintendo is going to drone strike the data center responsible for this
Google’s new world AI model tool let me generate a bunch of Nintendo-inspired games. Including one featuring Link with a paraglider! Gift link: www.theverge.com/news/869726/...
January 29, 2026 at 5:52 PM
nintendo is going to drone strike the data center responsible for this
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I think a lot of people outside the government confuse "has a security clearance" for "knows something" when at least in Army terms what it more often means is something like "everything in Afghanistan was done on secret-level computers so if you wanted to do anything at all you needed a clearance"
January 29, 2026 at 4:42 PM
I think a lot of people outside the government confuse "has a security clearance" for "knows something" when at least in Army terms what it more often means is something like "everything in Afghanistan was done on secret-level computers so if you wanted to do anything at all you needed a clearance"
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Half of my feed involves discussions by American lawyers into various points of English law which we would regard as a historic curiosities.
Yet, in the other, we see a Judge presented with this who doesn't reach for the remedy in Mylward v Weldon (1595) 21 ER 136.🤷♂️
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
Yet, in the other, we see a Judge presented with this who doesn't reach for the remedy in Mylward v Weldon (1595) 21 ER 136.🤷♂️
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
To be fair to the Magistrate Judge, I do not believe it was the 375 page amended complaint that did it.
On close read, it appears that it was the 720-paragraph, 946-page proposed second amended compliant.
On close read, it appears that it was the 720-paragraph, 946-page proposed second amended compliant.
@questauthority.bsky.social the crypto dudes suing the other crypto dudes by piling all their grievances into chatgpt and having it produce multi hundred pages of legal documents have finally broken the judge after filing a 375 page amended complaint. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 28, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Half of my feed involves discussions by American lawyers into various points of English law which we would regard as a historic curiosities.
Yet, in the other, we see a Judge presented with this who doesn't reach for the remedy in Mylward v Weldon (1595) 21 ER 136.🤷♂️
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
Yet, in the other, we see a Judge presented with this who doesn't reach for the remedy in Mylward v Weldon (1595) 21 ER 136.🤷♂️
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
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January 28, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Fact check: True.
January 29, 2026 at 5:33 AM
Fact check: True.
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Read the linked case. Trust me. It's short. Read it. For real.
And mourn the loss of this remedy.
And mourn the loss of this remedy.
Half of my feed involves discussions by American lawyers into various points of English law which we would regard as a historic curiosities.
Yet, in the other, we see a Judge presented with this who doesn't reach for the remedy in Mylward v Weldon (1595) 21 ER 136.🤷♂️
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
Yet, in the other, we see a Judge presented with this who doesn't reach for the remedy in Mylward v Weldon (1595) 21 ER 136.🤷♂️
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
To be fair to the Magistrate Judge, I do not believe it was the 375 page amended complaint that did it.
On close read, it appears that it was the 720-paragraph, 946-page proposed second amended compliant.
On close read, it appears that it was the 720-paragraph, 946-page proposed second amended compliant.
January 29, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Read the linked case. Trust me. It's short. Read it. For real.
And mourn the loss of this remedy.
And mourn the loss of this remedy.
Read the linked case. Trust me. It's short. Read it. For real.
And mourn the loss of this remedy.
And mourn the loss of this remedy.
Half of my feed involves discussions by American lawyers into various points of English law which we would regard as a historic curiosities.
Yet, in the other, we see a Judge presented with this who doesn't reach for the remedy in Mylward v Weldon (1595) 21 ER 136.🤷♂️
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
Yet, in the other, we see a Judge presented with this who doesn't reach for the remedy in Mylward v Weldon (1595) 21 ER 136.🤷♂️
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
To be fair to the Magistrate Judge, I do not believe it was the 375 page amended complaint that did it.
On close read, it appears that it was the 720-paragraph, 946-page proposed second amended compliant.
On close read, it appears that it was the 720-paragraph, 946-page proposed second amended compliant.
January 29, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Read the linked case. Trust me. It's short. Read it. For real.
And mourn the loss of this remedy.
And mourn the loss of this remedy.
To be fair to the Magistrate Judge, I do not believe it was the 375 page amended complaint that did it.
On close read, it appears that it was the 720-paragraph, 946-page proposed second amended compliant.
On close read, it appears that it was the 720-paragraph, 946-page proposed second amended compliant.
@questauthority.bsky.social the crypto dudes suing the other crypto dudes by piling all their grievances into chatgpt and having it produce multi hundred pages of legal documents have finally broken the judge after filing a 375 page amended complaint. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#72 in Sokolowski v. Digital Currency Group, Inc. (M.D. Penn., 4:25-cv-00001) – CourtListener.com
REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS - IT IS RECOMMENDED as follows: First, since the pro se plaintiffs first amended complaint has, in effect, been declared a legal nullity by the pro se plaintiffs who seek to...
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January 28, 2026 at 10:18 PM
To be fair to the Magistrate Judge, I do not believe it was the 375 page amended complaint that did it.
On close read, it appears that it was the 720-paragraph, 946-page proposed second amended compliant.
On close read, it appears that it was the 720-paragraph, 946-page proposed second amended compliant.
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Can we get Bruce Springsteen to write a song about the Federal Arbitration Act, do you think?
January 28, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Can we get Bruce Springsteen to write a song about the Federal Arbitration Act, do you think?
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January 28, 2026 at 6:05 PM
I think the dude is lucky he got tackled before she got there.
Toughest congressperson in America rears back for a punch, and refuses to cut short townhall, after asshole sprays her with something.
January 28, 2026 at 3:31 AM
I think the dude is lucky he got tackled before she got there.
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OBSCURE HOBBY POST TIME
One thing I've noticed about anyone who posts a video of them doing anything with a sword online, the reception they get is ENTIRELY dependent on which culture their sword is from.
One thing I've noticed about anyone who posts a video of them doing anything with a sword online, the reception they get is ENTIRELY dependent on which culture their sword is from.
January 28, 2026 at 2:52 AM
OBSCURE HOBBY POST TIME
One thing I've noticed about anyone who posts a video of them doing anything with a sword online, the reception they get is ENTIRELY dependent on which culture their sword is from.
One thing I've noticed about anyone who posts a video of them doing anything with a sword online, the reception they get is ENTIRELY dependent on which culture their sword is from.
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
Statler and Waldorf, jointly and severally.
Because they are clearly a pair of retired law partners, using the seats their firm got for making an endowment to the community theater.
Because they are clearly a pair of retired law partners, using the seats their firm got for making an endowment to the community theater.
Okay, everyone, you heard this beauty of a human!
Who is your favorite muppet and why?
Who is your favorite muppet and why?
I’m going to ask! (Mine is a toss up between Animal and the Swedish Chef.)
January 27, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Statler and Waldorf, jointly and severally.
Because they are clearly a pair of retired law partners, using the seats their firm got for making an endowment to the community theater.
Because they are clearly a pair of retired law partners, using the seats their firm got for making an endowment to the community theater.
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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1: Not sure.
2: Don't really care.
3: Definitely part of breakfast today.
2: Don't really care.
3: Definitely part of breakfast today.
Why is Spam?
January 26, 2026 at 4:48 PM
1: Not sure.
2: Don't really care.
3: Definitely part of breakfast today.
2: Don't really care.
3: Definitely part of breakfast today.
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I see a criticism of Judge Menendez already, but her ability to constrain federal law enforcement is questionable at best. The 8th Cir. is not going to go out of their way to block ICE in MN. She’s asking tough questions. I think her power here is very limited and folks should be prepared for that.
January 26, 2026 at 4:39 PM
I see a criticism of Judge Menendez already, but her ability to constrain federal law enforcement is questionable at best. The 8th Cir. is not going to go out of their way to block ICE in MN. She’s asking tough questions. I think her power here is very limited and folks should be prepared for that.