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AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · Apr 26

Jeffy from family circus is drawing tells his dad to hold still or he won't get him right. But he's drawing the promo poster from the movie The Snowman, which has a crude sketch of a snowman and it says "mister police. You could have saved her. I gave you all the clues"

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AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 1h

Baffled by his statement down thread that no court has found his conduct amounted to an insurrection. I thought that's exactly what the Colorado courts found?

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AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 6h

Haha yes

AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 6h

I think that was defamation per se, lol

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AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 6h

Nethack is so funny. Despite being lawful, the mysterious force barely touched me this time. But Rodney harassed me within an inch of my life, way worse than any other time. Almost died on the rogue level

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 9h

If you are unable, as our political press is philosophically committed to being, to assess claims except on their form, you leave yourself endlessly open to being manipulated by frivolous claims

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AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 9h

I do that all the time

AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 10h

We saw so many in Yellowstone last summer. They are beautiful

AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 17h

A guy I went to high school with got into an out of office reply all loop with the county bar listserv today. Eighteen emails to every lawyer in the county before someone apparently figured out how to stop it

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AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 19h

Anyway

theonion.com/report-its-n...

Report: It's Not Okay To Just Start Talking To People You Don’t Know

STANFORD, CA—Citing how devastatingly uncomfortable it makes people feel, a new report released by the Stanford University Sociology Department revealed Wednesday that it’s never okay to just start ta...

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AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 19h

Watching The Sadness (2021), a Taiwanese movie about a violent viral zombie outbreak.

The zombies are scary, but nothing compared to this awkward scene of an older man trying to strike up a conversation with a young woman who just wants to read her novel on the train

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AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 23h

What on earth

The money that you wasted on this could've fed 50 families or allowed one healthy adult to go to the hospital & get an aspirin.

AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 1d

The RV car chase at the end is seriously awesome

AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 1d

Now they're at a country and western bar where a brawl has broken out. Just the thing you do when you're Peter Fonda on the run from a satanic cult

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AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 1d

In Race with the Devil (1975), someone says it's time to "warm up the martinis"

Not sure what kind of martinis they're drinking

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AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 1d

Glad I remembered the bookmark feature for this thread

AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 1d

Oh bsky, never change

Jamelle Bouie posts about a great deal on a folding ebike, which let's him get to the amtrak station in a little less than five minutes

Two hours later, he responds to someone in the ensuing thread: "you seem like a real asshole"

AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 1d

My accidental #hooptober themes this year:
- Americans acting like fools in Mexico
- Killer plants

AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 1d

And the client wants to know why this document doesn't violate something they heard about called the Rule Against Perpetuities

AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to teach law students real world skills, this is it

Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 1d

I'm starting to think a good law school exam would be "produce a single draft that accurately reflects the comments you've received" and the question is a single word document with tracked changes from 8 different people at unspecified times interspersed with comment bubbles.

AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 1d

And do it in a way that won't offend the Big Law partner who hasn't been very involved, yet has made some bizarre changes

AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, who talks about interesting lyrics on the internet? Absolutely no one

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

FINALLY

A conservative professor on how to fix campus culture

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AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 1d

So now Music Discussion Age Gap discourse is a thing

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AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 2d

When TCW has too much Grand Cru with dinner

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AJL @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 2d

Medusa and castle are done. Time for the knight quest. I don't know if I have the patience to go back and save Clarence