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Mike Godwin

@mnemonic.bsky.social

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Lawyer, author, EFF's first hire, Godwin's Law creator (he/him). Retweeting!=endorsing. I tell jokes here, mostly. My opinions here don't necessarily represent any employer or any client. You may have known me as @sfmnemonic on Twitter.

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 18h

If I used ivermectin, I'd be too sheepish to admit it.

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 18h

If I used ivermectin, I'd be too sheepish to admit it.

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 19h

Siva Vaidhyanathan: "Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down" newrepublic.com/article/2013... via @newrepublic.com

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 1d

"Russet-tone."

Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 1d

If I have not seen further, it is because giants have been standing on my shoulders.

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 1d

Russet-tone makeup plus declaring war on your own country's cities really puts the "dick" into "dick-tater."

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 3d

Occasionally, Denzel is on a plane.

Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 5d

Why are you asking me to respond on a proposition I never asserted? Perhaps you meant to address your question to someone else?

Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 5d

Hey, hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 5d

These are people who delight in being monsters.

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 5d

I couldn't have guessed that the new season of PEACEMAKER would involve an alternate timeline in which World War II was won by the MAGAzis.

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 6d

I’m sure you do. Let us know when you’re back in town.

Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 6d

I still remember a lot from Sunday School (stmarks-houston.org), which can be helpful in assessing pronunciamento cheese on Twitter.

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah, I knew the Niven story well before Wikipedia was even a glint in Jimmy's eye.

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 12d

You know, if Jor-El and Lara had had a daughter instead of a son, their plan to preserve Kryptonian genes through their offspring's interbreeding with Earth's humans would have seemed rather less threatening.

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 12d

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I couldn’t have guessed that when they were trumpeting (so to speak) “Community Values” they were referring to the Darkest Timeline.

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 12d

I couldn’t have guessed that when they were trumpeting (so to speak) “Community Values” they were referring to the Darkest Timeline.

Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 15d

The technical term for the disfiguring, swelling dickishness in the administration? "Sycophantiasis."

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 15d

Probably one ought not ought to infer from the contract that the contracting talent has a right to go on-air with a show.

Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 15d

I wanted to make a joke about this, but couldn't bring myself to engage in Homan Trafficking.

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 15d

The Supreme Court has clarified the Administration's theory of checks and balances: a blank check is a kind of check, and a negative balance is a kind of balance.

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 16d

BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID is available for free at the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/butc...

Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid : George Roy Hill : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

yee haw

archive.org

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 19d

Yeah, Cap is on our side.

Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 19d

They’re dead to me now.

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 19d

No, the story of Disney has its dark sides, and he was (unsurprisingly for a big-time capitalist) anti-Communist to the nth degree. But he wasn’t a wimp.

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