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RanTLaw

@rantlaw.bsky.social

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Australian law talker. Would prefer to be out on a bike. He/him.

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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · Aug 17

I love how the orthodox answer to all policy problems in the English-speaking world is “moar capitalism”

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 12h

Mine is the Burchfield one but I still find it useful

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 12h

I do. I still like the hard copy

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 12h

Old enough to be a father

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 14h

I know there are time issues but, just moving on has made me cringe.
Politicians and lawyers, we are not the same.

stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 18h

David Pocock asks Don Farrell some serious questions about why the govt has not implemented an important recommendation from the #RobodebtRC.
Farrell caught playing on his phone, not even paying attention.🙄 Pocock hasn’t the patience to try again & moves on. #Estimates

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 14h

(Yes, I have hard copies of both. In the latter case, it is the SOED)

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 14h

Folks, I have resorted to my copy of Fowlers and the OED

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 18h

I can only think of two places like that in which I prefer to work: the old part of the Barr Smith Library and the VSC library

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 19h

So, 0.03% of the impact of cars? Cool

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 19h

I look forward to reading that I was negligent for not having been born 30 years earlier and using the opportunity to buy up half of Fitzroy

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 19h

I love Prime Day, where all US media suddenly tells everyone, through every channel they can to buy things from one evil, increasingly useless, website

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 20h

(or at least that's what I tell myself to make it seem less absurd that I am getting paid to consider the significance of connecting words can, often, be used interchangeably)

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 20h

I can understand the argument but couldn't fathom how that took 2 days, until you mentioned it was a QC

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 20h

If you think about it, the drafting part of this is like the building specs and drawings having to be mm perfect and my job at the moment is working out if it really matters if it is out by 2mm.

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 20h

In my case, it is trying to work out if there is a meaningful difference between the use of 'and' or 'or' in a particular context and, if there is, whether that was meant or was an error.
There is a lot of money riding on this one connecting word

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 20h

Trying very hard to fight the intrusive jokes about the allegations concerning the former UK PM

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 20h

I'm doing a real "it depends on what the meaning of 'is' is"* advice today.

*without the gross bits

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t concentrate on the rest of the story with that rattling around my head.

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Just watching Media Watch’s thing on Kerry Stokes and something has distracted me. Stokes apparently grew up in hard times: forced to leave school at 14, in trouble with law, etc but suddenly he makes money in property development. Where the hell did the money come from to get into that.

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Fair enough. I did start the sarcasm very early today

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. That he does was the key to a joke I was trying to (and failing) to make

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. That was the point I was sarcastically making.

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 1d

BTW. I know he has power. I was using irony

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 1d

I hope this guy never gets power

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

CNN: Isn't that hyperbolic to call them terrorists?

STEPHEN MILLER: No. If anything I'm understating the severity of the situation

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 1d

I hope this guy never gets power

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

CNN: Isn't that hyperbolic to call them terrorists?

STEPHEN MILLER: No. If anything I'm understating the severity of the situation

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 2d

Dog hates Taskmaster so much that I have to mute the titles. But judging from his expression though Greg’s monologue, I think he’s onto me

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe for some. Personally, I'm talking about my subjective view of the quality of the lyrics on this album, compared to her previous work.