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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · Jan 13

Apparently, it’s the most depressing day of the year so here’s something to immediately cheer you up - Willem Dafoe saying ‘it’s the creams’

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pierre minar aka Donmexlar @donmexlar.bsky.social · Jul 3

Scenes from the poetry reading @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social last night

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pierre minar aka Donmexlar @donmexlar.bsky.social · Jun 29

I’m faking it by contributing Jackson Browne’s The Pretender and a little story to @major7mag.bsky.social

Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · Jun 29

Thank you @travisflatt.bsky.social , Casey Jo Graham Welmers, @thaddevassie.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, @donmexlar.bsky.social for your work

Their tunes are up on the M7 playlist, give it a follow! open.spotify.com/playlist/3kU...

M7 Master Playlist

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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · Jun 29

now playing: volume 23

happy sunday, pals xo
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Literary Mixtape Volume 23

On AI.

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pierre minar aka Donmexlar @donmexlar.bsky.social · Jun 29

I’m faking it by contributing Jackson Browne’s The Pretender and a little story to @major7mag.bsky.social

Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · Jun 29

Thank you @travisflatt.bsky.social , Casey Jo Graham Welmers, @thaddevassie.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, @donmexlar.bsky.social for your work

Their tunes are up on the M7 playlist, give it a follow! open.spotify.com/playlist/3kU...

M7 Master Playlist

Playlist · keerstee.mack · 141 items · 46 saves

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pierre minar aka Donmexlar @donmexlar.bsky.social · Jun 28

I became queer at a specific moment in the mid 90s watching the Incredible Hulk burst out of his clothes

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · Jun 24

Don't forget to rinse out every jar and tin you finish, guys x

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Derek (cosmic horror) @nocontroller.bsky.social · Jun 22

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · Jun 19

But you don’t need to stop there. This author interview with @donmexlar.bsky.social is packed with thoughtfulness. templeinacity.com/in-conversat...

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Temple in a City literary journal

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · Jun 19

This tiny treasure packs a lot of what it means to love and belong in just a few little lines @donmexlar.bsky.social templeinacity.com/poetry-pierr...

Poetry - Pierre Minar - Temple in a City

Poem Dear Dad by poet and writer Pierre Minar. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · Jun 18

More to share soon including poetry by @donmexlar.bsky.social (and a bonus author interview with super thoughtful answers) @ewenglass.bsky.social and still more.

Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · Jun 18

So much more to share in coming days like a chilling haunt by @wizardhill.bsky.social a tender beauty by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social more by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social author interviews and STILL MORE but don’t wait for us, see for yourself templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

Temple in a city

Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · Jun 16

You can’t invent the fact patterns cases will present by accident.

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Judges.
EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:
In March 2020, Jose Gonzalez visited a Walgreens store in Austin, Texas. Prior to his arrival, an unidentified customer at the same store had used the men's restroom and clogged the toilet. The customer informed a Walgreens employee, who gave the customer a plunger to unclog the toilet.
As the customer was plunging the toilet, Gonzalez used the restroom and, while on his way out, slipped on water that had accumulated on the floor.
Gonzalez sued Walgreen Co. (Walgreens) for his injuries. After the close of Gonzalez's case-in-chief at trial, Walgreens moved

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On appeal, Gonzalez makes three main arguments for why the district court was incorrect that a reasonable jury would not be able to find that Walgreens knew or should have known of the wet floor: (A) The customer's knowledge must be imputed to Walgreens undecan agency theory;
(B) Walgreens's knowledge of the clogged toilet is sufficient; and (C) the evidence creates a fact question as to constructive knowledge. We plunge into a discussion of each argument below.
A.
Gonzalez first argues that "[t]he Customer

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pierre minar aka Donmexlar @donmexlar.bsky.social · Jun 16

I have a lil sad poem by myself called “Dear Dad” in @templeinacity.bsky.social templeinacity.com/poetry-pierr...

Poetry - Pierre Minar - Temple in a City

Poem Dear Dad by poet and writer Pierre Minar. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · Jun 16

A little haunting courtesy of @wizardhill.bsky.social
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Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · Jun 14

What better way to spend a Saturday than submitting your manuscript?

Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · Jun 14

Submissions close tomorrow, June 15! buff.ly/Y3ca92T

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pierre minar aka Donmexlar @donmexlar.bsky.social · Jun 13

It’s a sociopath thing, a boss I had used to do this faux polite cloying tone like he learned if you say polite words it’s important for human communication to appear reasonable; then they say things like ‘do you hear me thank you?’

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Chris Gelardi @chrisgelardi.bsky.social · Jun 11

This moment when some dude whipped out a bagpipe and accompanied a "the people united will never be defeated" chant

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn @deborahelizabeth.bsky.social · Jun 8

If you are an active member of the national guard or the US military and are ordered to violate the constitutional rights of anyone on US soil, call the GI Rights Hotline. You swore an oath to support and defend the US constitution and do not have to follow unlawful orders.

877-447-4487

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pierre minar aka Donmexlar @donmexlar.bsky.social · Jun 9

Oh wow what a thought

pierre minar aka Donmexlar @donmexlar.bsky.social · Jun 8

Scenes from around the house

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pierre minar aka Donmexlar @donmexlar.bsky.social · May 23

Blessed

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pierre minar aka Donmexlar @donmexlar.bsky.social · May 23

You’re a king you say? Well I have a bed measured exactly to your specifications!

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · May 23

Everyone has one Mitch Hedberg joke stashed in their brain like a squirrel to sustain them whenever they need to feel joy for 30 seconds and mine is “they say the recipe for Sprite is Lemon and Lime but I tried to make it at home, there’s more to it than that”

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pierre minar aka Donmexlar @donmexlar.bsky.social · May 19

Retroactive law = no rule of law

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · May 19

🚨🚨🚨 The Supreme Court has just allowed Trump to strip as many as 350,000 people of legal status, effectively IMMEDIATELY.

Every Venezuelan granted TPS through the July 31, 2023 designation has been rendered undocumented as of now, significantly increasing the undocumented population.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · May 19

NEW: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to resume its termination of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants, staying a lower court decision that had halted the process. Only Justice Jackson notes her dissent.

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pierre minar aka Donmexlar @donmexlar.bsky.social · May 19

Memories of the weekend

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pierre minar aka Donmexlar @donmexlar.bsky.social · May 18

After the front came through

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