🚨 URGENT U.S. TRAVEL ALERT 🚨 Heads up, everyone. A critical rule change goes into effect TOMORROW, Oct 14, that will prevent people with an "X" gender marker on their passport from flying to, from, or through the United States. Please read and share!!! (1/9)

Here's more on what's happening and what it means: papersplease.org/wp/2025/10/1...

I'll probably post more later, but a thing I'm doing today for fun yielded this: gaussian analysts hoverbug suddenly straight lovenuts See if you can figure out what I was doing. (Hint: a=1.)

Researching the history of blind mail laws, I came across this: 14 Stat. 597, 1866 c. 199 (39th), July 13, 1866, paying Sgt. (ret.) George W. Bush (N.Y. 90th reg., co. G) a pension of $8/mo for 2y tile.loc.gov/storage-serv... So George W. Bush actually did do military service. Or, well, one did.

@andrewtorrez.bsky.social @lizdye.bsky.social On Law & Chaos podcast 154, you said you hadn't heard of a pre-answer deposition. Not the same as Trump v Murdock's requested FRCP 32(a)(4)(C) depo, and can't be used on a non US resident, but in theory… there is FRCP 27, which is even pre *complaint*.

LCC11 presenters on BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/did:...

The 11th Language Creation Conference list of presentations[1] and registration[2] are now up! [1] conlang.org/lcc11-presen... [2] conlang.org/lcc11-regist... (1/x)

Out of context: "A brace of abrasive customers"

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

From @charlierad.bsky.social "Access to law - Open justice - Helping lay people" go.bsky.app/S7iL8BE

I made a BlueSky list of conlangers: bsky.app/profile/did:... Please LMK if there's anyone missing (including you), or if I should convert it (or some subpart) to a "starter pack" — it's not entirely clear to me what the difference between the two is, though AFAICT the list can be used as a "feed".

I created an FOI and Open Government starter pack and will add to it when I see more FOI warriors on Bluesky.

Re RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary, I'm reminded for some reason of the They Might Be Giants song Doctor Worm: youtu.be/mHliXVifhEM

The index to all of my conlang critique articles is at gliese1337.blogspot.com/2023/02/some... 2/

My two-part review of Toki Pona, which I wrote at jan Sonja's request explicitly as an outsider to the community, got "popular" because it seems to have made many toki ponists angry: gliese1337.blogspot.com/2024/08/some... At some point, I will probably do a part 3 incorporating their feedback. 1/

And finally, my latest review before Toki Pona looked at @s.ai & Alex's covert tactile languages, Gripping and Backtile: gliese1337.blogspot.com/2023/02/some... 7/7

The LCS is running a contest to create a #conlang flag to represent not just #conlanging, but also the diversity of the conlanging community. What exactly that means, and what such a design might look like, is entirely up to you. Details: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please share widely.

@robertmaguire.bsky.social Would you be interested in collaborating on using public FEC data to prove evasion of hard money contribution limits via structuring & shell corps? I have a couple actual examples from 2014, but never followed up on them — wanted to do it more rigourously to file a MUR.

@conlang.bsky.social Nice handle. Out of curiosity, who are you?

I do widely varying public interest, non-profit work, often novel issues of #law (IANAL), with major disabilities, little funding (s.ai//donate), usually alone. If you could help — not just law, but editing, communicating, emotional support, etc. — LMK. Here's some of what I'm up to lately: 1/?

This is a test of whether my BlueSky custom handle @s.ai works, after changing from @saizai.bsky.social, or displays "invalid handle". Because apparently my name always breaks things. 🤦