Neiha Lasharie
@neihalash.bsky.social
(International) Lawyer; Research Fellow, Partners in Justice International. Thinking about eugenics, gender, decoloniality, "white slavery," Islamic law, and Carlos Sainz (not in that order, all within the context of int'l law). she/her
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The library ebook business is such a scam. Good to see dem state lawmakers are considering banding together to negotiate fairer deals.
Are you currently 480th in line for an e-book and wondering why @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social doesn't just ... buy more copies?
The short answer: e-books are incredibly expensive. But D.C. lawmakers have a plan to curb the excessive pricing from publishers, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:
The short answer: e-books are incredibly expensive. But D.C. lawmakers have a plan to curb the excessive pricing from publishers, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:
Libraries can't afford e-books. D.C. lawmakers have a plan.
The demand and price for e-books is up — and it’s busting the D.C. Public Library budget.
51st.news
January 16, 2026 at 2:51 AM
The library ebook business is such a scam. Good to see dem state lawmakers are considering banding together to negotiate fairer deals.
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Delete Spotify
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 16, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Delete Spotify
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This is a trap. If you accept their framing of the problem and then "offer ideas," your ideas are half as effective as the ones the Nazis (literally!) propose
The US and other countries face aging, shrinking populations. Conservatives have shaped debate over the issue. Some liberals say it's time for progressives to weigh in.
As birthrates tumble, some progressives say the left needs to offer ideas and solutions
The US and other countries face aging, shrinking populations. Conservatives have shaped debate over the issue. Some liberals say it's time for progressives to weigh in.
n.pr
January 13, 2026 at 4:46 PM
This is a trap. If you accept their framing of the problem and then "offer ideas," your ideas are half as effective as the ones the Nazis (literally!) propose
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Aiming to read more in 2026? We have some amazing books awaiting review for Medical Law Review. Please do share with networks and PhD students- always very happy to support ECRs through the reviewing process. 📚
January 12, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Aiming to read more in 2026? We have some amazing books awaiting review for Medical Law Review. Please do share with networks and PhD students- always very happy to support ECRs through the reviewing process. 📚
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Matt Walsh calling international law 'fake and gay' is concerning, hilarious and more interesting than he realises at the same time.
January 11, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Matt Walsh calling international law 'fake and gay' is concerning, hilarious and more interesting than he realises at the same time.
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Reposting our CfP for Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal as the deadline nears.
If the post below made you think “surely someone should write about this…”, this could be your sign to do it ✨
Deadline: 13 January 2026.
@joelcolonrios.bsky.social
If the post below made you think “surely someone should write about this…”, this could be your sign to do it ✨
Deadline: 13 January 2026.
@joelcolonrios.bsky.social
Would you ask a judge to declare a house haunted? What about suing a fortune-teller for mispredicting your future? Should the law even allow these claims?
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
January 2, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Reposting our CfP for Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal as the deadline nears.
If the post below made you think “surely someone should write about this…”, this could be your sign to do it ✨
Deadline: 13 January 2026.
@joelcolonrios.bsky.social
If the post below made you think “surely someone should write about this…”, this could be your sign to do it ✨
Deadline: 13 January 2026.
@joelcolonrios.bsky.social
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One week into 2026, and this is as fitting as ever.
January 7, 2026 at 10:04 AM
One week into 2026, and this is as fitting as ever.
The most underrated video game of the year is Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. I sunk over 100 hours into it WITH A TODDLER/WORK/OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES, and I can see myself sinking a hundred more into it. Just a perfect game (minus the screaming hard combat). The storydriven medieval romp of my dreams.
December 31, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The most underrated video game of the year is Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. I sunk over 100 hours into it WITH A TODDLER/WORK/OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES, and I can see myself sinking a hundred more into it. Just a perfect game (minus the screaming hard combat). The storydriven medieval romp of my dreams.
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![soul nate @MNateShyamalan
[every assassin's creed game]
NPC: hello it is i, your best friend wolfgang amadeus mozart! i made you this crossbow](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k5zurjvwdwxqwpvd4ggk3w76/bafkreifgkpt3imcrfefdpjk5t6zitguuqmlao2bhlfraligrzoyhxh2n4e@jpeg)
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I think it's even worse. Instructure seems to aspire to be able to sell a student's data portfolio to future employers, who can assess what type of worker they'll be.
www.forbes.com/sites/rayrav...
www.forbes.com/sites/rayrav...
www.forbes.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I think it's even worse. Instructure seems to aspire to be able to sell a student's data portfolio to future employers, who can assess what type of worker they'll be.
www.forbes.com/sites/rayrav...
www.forbes.com/sites/rayrav...
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Canvas used to be helpful but that time has passed.
Last semester I gravitated some of my course materials off Canvas. This coming semester I will pull off even more.
Last semester I gravitated some of my course materials off Canvas. This coming semester I will pull off even more.
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
December 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Canvas used to be helpful but that time has passed.
Last semester I gravitated some of my course materials off Canvas. This coming semester I will pull off even more.
Last semester I gravitated some of my course materials off Canvas. This coming semester I will pull off even more.
Also imo strength training just makes you appreciate your body so much more. I had a c-section and strength training made me feel like my body was my own again while also helping me recover core. As for cardio, I have a toddler and that keeps the heart rate up. Anyway, yes to this whole thread!
I used to try and do the steady cardio thing (walking/running/whatever) but was getting a lot of pain. Proper strength training helped to stabilize my joints & now I'm pain-free. So def do your cardio, but also make sure you're doing some supportive strength work too.
December 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Also imo strength training just makes you appreciate your body so much more. I had a c-section and strength training made me feel like my body was my own again while also helping me recover core. As for cardio, I have a toddler and that keeps the heart rate up. Anyway, yes to this whole thread!
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One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background.
The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
December 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background.
The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
It’s been a good year personally but the some standouts are that I passed the bar on the first try, got really into strength training, and read more books (for fun) than I have since I was in high school (41 and counting!).
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025, no matter how big or small
Reading & writing has kept me alive this year.
Somehow, it’s been my most productive year as an author.
Here’s a guide to what I’ve published in 2025, in case you’ve lost track.
Individual links below but it’s all on itch: danifinn.itch.io
And elsewhere: books2read.com/ap/nAApPp/Da...
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Somehow, it’s been my most productive year as an author.
Here’s a guide to what I’ve published in 2025, in case you’ve lost track.
Individual links below but it’s all on itch: danifinn.itch.io
And elsewhere: books2read.com/ap/nAApPp/Da...
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December 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
It’s been a good year personally but the some standouts are that I passed the bar on the first try, got really into strength training, and read more books (for fun) than I have since I was in high school (41 and counting!).
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In June 1940, Bordeaux was a city in panic. Nazi tanks were approaching, and tens of thousands of refugees—families, elderly, children—desperately sought visas to neutral Portugal.
Portugal’s Circular 14 banned diplomats from giving visas to Jews, stateless people, and political refugees.
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Portugal’s Circular 14 banned diplomats from giving visas to Jews, stateless people, and political refugees.
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December 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
In June 1940, Bordeaux was a city in panic. Nazi tanks were approaching, and tens of thousands of refugees—families, elderly, children—desperately sought visas to neutral Portugal.
Portugal’s Circular 14 banned diplomats from giving visas to Jews, stateless people, and political refugees.
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Portugal’s Circular 14 banned diplomats from giving visas to Jews, stateless people, and political refugees.
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
...*were* they every student's worst nightmare? I took most of my undergrad exams (and a very memorable masters exams)—years 2013-2019 basically—in a Blue Book. It was fine. But a good hand wring is surely part of writing a good essay, no?
Now if we're talking BLUEBOOKS, yes, that's torture.
Now if we're talking BLUEBOOKS, yes, that's torture.
Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
www.wsj.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
...*were* they every student's worst nightmare? I took most of my undergrad exams (and a very memorable masters exams)—years 2013-2019 basically—in a Blue Book. It was fine. But a good hand wring is surely part of writing a good essay, no?
Now if we're talking BLUEBOOKS, yes, that's torture.
Now if we're talking BLUEBOOKS, yes, that's torture.
“These are not natural consequences of war. They constitute a pattern of reproductive violence.” New report out by the @theguardian.com on #violence against #mothers and #children in #ConflictZones www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Childbirth under attack: how women and babies became targets in conflicts around the world
Guardian investigation reveals at least 119 direct attacks on hospitals and delivery wards since start of wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Less pettily, there's just so much in this amazing world to wonder about that it seems so sad to abdicate doing that.
My personal 2c on the AI in academia discourse is that if I discover you have used AI to replace your reading or writing, you are going on a literal list.
I am that petty. I don't want to deal with people who don't actually understand their areas.
I am that petty. I don't want to deal with people who don't actually understand their areas.
December 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Less pettily, there's just so much in this amazing world to wonder about that it seems so sad to abdicate doing that.
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“I don’t need a machine, I have a community” is such a lovely way of putting what academia is, can and should be
Also I don’t need to read every book and article, discerning whats important for my research and what isn’t is a really important skill. And what I also do is collaborate with other researchers, organise conferences, edit books, review others‘ work. I don’t need a machine, I have a community
December 22, 2025 at 6:59 AM
“I don’t need a machine, I have a community” is such a lovely way of putting what academia is, can and should be
There’s so much joy in the doing, it sucks so bad that we’ve lost sight of that in favor of the done (badly).
December 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
There’s so much joy in the doing, it sucks so bad that we’ve lost sight of that in favor of the done (badly).
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This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!
December 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!
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Citation is easy. It's a couple of lines on your credits page.
Citation is encouragement. Every time somebody else acknowledges me this way, I feel like the work is worthwhile.
Citation is introspection. You are marking your trajectory, the ports you have called at, as a maker.
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Citation is encouragement. Every time somebody else acknowledges me this way, I feel like the work is worthwhile.
Citation is introspection. You are marking your trajectory, the ports you have called at, as a maker.
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December 21, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Citation is easy. It's a couple of lines on your credits page.
Citation is encouragement. Every time somebody else acknowledges me this way, I feel like the work is worthwhile.
Citation is introspection. You are marking your trajectory, the ports you have called at, as a maker.
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Citation is encouragement. Every time somebody else acknowledges me this way, I feel like the work is worthwhile.
Citation is introspection. You are marking your trajectory, the ports you have called at, as a maker.
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Potty training my kid with (a mild version of, thank you masking!) this season’s flu is not a joke. Boasting about how well hydrated they are has come back to bite me.
December 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Potty training my kid with (a mild version of, thank you masking!) this season’s flu is not a joke. Boasting about how well hydrated they are has come back to bite me.