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🎶 You’re so vain 🎶 🎶 I bet you think this [murder] is about you 🎶

A little bright spot for your day -- @deepstewardship.bsky.social has a collection of incredible deep sea photos collected from partners around the world. Here are a few, and see them all here: www.flickr.com/people/19477... 🦑🐟🌊🧪

Oh, there’s a new Epstein Files release?

Lawyers: Don’t be such a jerk that your judge tees up a “did I f***ing stutter” moment at your next hearing.

Supermassive Drummer Boy

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

We had a good run with the rule of law, but it’s over. Bribery is official policy now, the more brazen the better, because the brazenness is effective advertising for more bribes.

I think this is probably a new era of grand jury practice where there is communal awareness of abusive policing. The GJ just doesn't believe the state. I'm not an expert on the history of grand juries, but my sense is that this is the first time we are seeing that phenomenon at scale.

There's a recently-published W3C Editor's Draft titled "Web User Agents", and it is just full of bangers. But the key idea is that web user agents (browsers and other tools we use to access the web) are for their regular, human users, and owe those users *duties*. w3ctag.github.io/user-agents/

If you run a tech newsroom and fail to hire @cfarivar.bsky.social immediately, you are a dolt

I thought y’all were trying to turn the temperature down? To curb toxic posting? To make social media more friendly? How does trolling your own users fit into that mission? Genuine question.

If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey. This isn’t controversial. A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.

That’s enough Internet for today!

realized i didn't know the origins of "in the ballpark" meaning "approximately correct" and once again had it reaffirmed that you will never regret looking up the etymology of a word

This one looks interesting!

I'm a bit of a dissent apologist for this reason I understand the kinda nihilist dunks on them as meaningless, but i've seen too many dissents become majority opinions to think they don't have value--as doctrinal roadmaps, as mobilizing tools, as records of the truth when the majority lies, etc.

Exactly as the Founding Fathers planned 🇺🇸

Your tax dollars at work

What would happen if she just went into the chamber and started voting on stuff? I know her little voting buttons or whatever wouldn't be set up, but she could walk up to the Speaker's podium and hand Mike Johnson a slip of paper with each vote she takes. Now what, bro?

Great thread on a wacky new trade dress case. I’ll add it to @tm.bots.law soon!

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

I feel very moved by the Portland resistance - inflatable people, hot-to-go dancers and twerking dinosaurs, as this piece outlines , it’s true courage, defanging fear

“warrior ethos”

What a beautiful interview. Shame on @bsky.app for banning this man.

Hey folks, Good news, we've got newly described species of #shark. I'm hoping Etmopterus westraliensis has the same #bioluminescence as the other #lanternsharks; there's always room for more glow-in-the-dark sharks. share.google/1ffc28R6gz3p...

What if we did the shell game, but with humans? Despicable and unjust. The ones ordering and executing this policy, up and down the line, must face justice—no “just following orders.”

I decided last week to name my robot Clanker, but there are some other good robo-slurs on this list. Updated photo:

Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

Perhaps it is time to see what the Space Force’s X-37B is really all about…? One just went back up in August.

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency

Surely, the nineteenth package will do the trick.

there will always be people preaching capitulation as if its strategic. you should always ignore them.

I’m sure all brand owners like Coca-Cola are delighted by the butchering of their famous and valuable brands. Q: Is this dilution? #trademark

[pedant voice] That first one is an emoticon, not an emoj— [yanked off stage by very long cane]

As I've said a few times, I had Judge Young for Evidence. And he was one of my favorite professors (and everyone should read his book, www.mcle.org/product/cata...). And he's written some opinions I absolutely LOATHE. But attacking a Young opinion is like a final boss battle for a lawyer.

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such framing many innovate wow

I, too, would make sure that all the people who would need to coordinate to halt or reverse my political progress were gathered from across the planet in the same room while I demonstrated why they should probably do that

Now might be a good time for Democrats to remind people that when they return to power they will not hesitate to prosecute people who murder civilians.

The Caribbean boat drone strikes don’t have me feeling good about this.

After U.S. democracy is restored, whoever is giving these orders should be prosecuted. If there was intelligence to justify these attacks, I favor declassifying it so they can use it in their defense; if not, these actions amount to running a death squad, making a long jail term appropriate.

Killing regular people with drones is not some special fancy exceptional thing. It’s murder. When accountability is again possible, we need jail time, all the way up and down the chain of command, for these crimes. Heck, politicians might even benefit today from saying “Team Red are murderers.”

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

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Transformative work of the day:

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

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