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Colin May

@satsukikorin.bsky.social

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Citizen, spouse, parent, friend, language guy, drummer for Charmed, I'm Sure and Conehenge, formerly for King Cumulus, Popular Girls and others. No tyrants, no kings! Sapere aude. 自他共楽. 🌏 ✌️ ❤️ 🎵

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Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · May 20

There are only two things to aim for in life:
1) be happy;
2) be not a burden on others.
Balancing these two things is life's essential challenge.

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Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · 7d

Don't stop in doorways or at the top or bottom of escalators.
#wisdom #dadadvice

Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · 8d

For parents at their kids' sports meets, there are really only three things to say: "GO!", "YAY!" or "AWW!", in variations.
#parenting #dadadvice

Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · 12d

Enshittification. The reason I drifted to Bluesky here and expect I'll eventually drift away. We shall see.

(Bluesky is where I share my thoughts for public conversation.)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech

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Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · 14d

the footnote:"See E Fraenkel, The Dual State, pp xiii, 3, 71 (1941) (describing the way in which the creation of a ‘Prerogative State’ where the Executive ‘exercises unlimited arbitrariness … unchecked by any legal guarantees’ is incompatible with the rule of law)"

Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · 14d

"There was the normative one that kept the economy of Germany running as usual. And then there was the separate legal system that operated alongside it, in which anyone deemed an enemy of the regime was stripped of all rights and subjected to arbitrary violence."

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Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · 14d

"Fraenkel’s book analysed how the Nazis had created two coexistent legal systems.

Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · 14d

rb.gy/k71v1q #politics #resist
Trump v Casa "(F)ootnote No 5... takes her dissent to another level entirely.

"In it, she cites The Dual State by Ernst Fraenkel, a German Jewish labor lawyer who fled the Nazis in 1938."

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is trying to warn us about something. Are we listening?

Jackson enters her fourth year on the supreme court on Monday. As its fiercest liberal voice wary of Trump’s growing power, she faces an intense battle ahead

rb.gy

Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · 17d

What is the significance of the "in Texas" part of this post?

Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · 21d

Chump's proclamations-by-tweet read like bits of script written by a teenager who's trying to imitate official-sounding language without having heard or read any.
#politics

Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · 26d

(This assumes that you want people to come visit. If not, substitute "enough that you are comfortable living there", referring to Rule 1: be happy & not a burden on others.)

Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · 26d

Keep your place clean enough that people are comfortable coming to visit, and also messy enough that people are comfortable coming to visit.
#wisdom #dadadvice

Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · 26d

Where is this event happening?

And who is Felonious Monk? I need to give them a fist bump because that's the punchline of the best extended pun/joke I ever told! 🤜🤛

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Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · 27d

Put the trash can right where you will use it. Put the guitar right where you will grab it to practice.

Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · 27d

Make it easier to do the things you want and need to do.
#wisdom #dadadvice

Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · Sep 15

It makes me chuckle to imagine anyone discovering NK Jemisin through a Marie Claire book review.

Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · Sep 14

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... The official is right, but a better statement would have been, "Mr Kirk was not a native Iowan nor a special friend of Iowa. Lowering the flag for him but not other shooting victims would show improper, disrespectful political bias." #politics

Iowa official defies governor’s order to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk

Jon Green says Republican governor failed to issue similar order after other prominent cases of gun violence

www.theguardian.com

Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · Sep 13

#linguistics #wordnerd
Fascinating in an is-this-a-mirage-or-real kinda way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfnA...

Linguists just made a breakthrough in defining a 'word. ' No, really

YouTube video by languagejones

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Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · Sep 10

#politics www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“It is unacceptable for A&M system faculty to push a political agenda.”—Glenn Hegar, chancellor.

So is he going to fire himself now, for Trumpism? And the whole PoliSci department, for studying politics?

Children’s literature professor fired by Texas university over ‘gender’ content

Texas A&M also removes two senior administrators from roles after student’s video sparked Republican pressure

www.theguardian.com

Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · Sep 10

Also, consider this: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

A ‘Third Way’ Between Buying or Renting? Swiss Co-ops Say They’ve Found It.

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Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · Sep 10

I'm left wondering why a federal bill is an worthwhile way to address the problem. How about a link to your proposed bill, or at least summary of its content?

Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · Sep 8

“And how ironic is it that this same Supreme Court that ruled colleges cannot use race in the admissions process has now ruled that law enforcement can use race to conduct raids and detain people.” — LA mayor Karen Bass
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Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · Sep 5

It took till now for the forces of evil (might-is-right narcissists, bigots and cheats) to break it down, but break it they have. What's next for us? Possibly/probably it's devolution of power to the states. TBD.

Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · Sep 5

We have to build new, different institutions, systems and structures that they (or anyone else) can't defeat. The Constitution was an attempt to do just that, in the era it was created.

Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · Sep 5

We know animals can bite us, but we we just take precautions, wear armor, build fences, carry weapons, spread poison... Sound familiar? ☹️ I don't think our resistance should be built on any presumption of fear on the part of our opponents. We have to beat them whether they fear us or not.

Colin May @satsukikorin.bsky.social · Sep 5

#politics #resist #resistance
Seen in a Reddit post: "Deep in their cold empty hearts they fear us and rightfully so. We outnumber them but only if we stand as one."

I don't believe they do fear us. Why would they, any more than most people fear wildlife?