met Assata Shakur in Cuba in the 1990s; she let me take her photo then on the promise I wouldn't share it, so I won't share it today, either newsone.com/6489574/revo...

Canadians: -travelling to the U.S. less often than prior to 2024- Hoekstra: "maybe if you don't start travelling to the U.S. again we'll make it more risky & time-consuming by halting immigration & customs pre-clearance at Canadian airports, how do you like them apples" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

is there a patron saint for lawyers to pray to when dealing with unrepresented opposing parties

Cutouts for a new mural

enshittification, law edition: our practise management software's default sorting scheme orders items by creation date, not alphanumerically

TFW all you know about Civil War history was what you read in The Confessions of Nat Turner

for decades I've complained about how techbros go from their suburban rec rooms to university dorms to Big Tech & -adjacent employers, insulated from ever having to live like the rest of us on minimum wage here's a thread about the woman who wrote a whole book in 2001 about these guys & the result

happy birthday, Gritty! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXek...

Watching a third of the country beclown and degrade themselves in cultish devotion to this stumbling turnip makes me want to puke.

DJIA slightly up today on news that some number of members of Congress successfully sold shares in manufacturer of Tylenol prior to today

Alberta to use notwithstanding clause on kids' underpants nationalnewswatch.com/2025/09/18/a...

look what an Article III judge can do when they don't fear the president and they don't buy SCOTUS's trend to deny the judicial branch its status as a co-equal branch of government

never heard back from my MP :(

CBC Radio this morning discussed the local fellas' inaugural QMJHL game and sold-out venue, but they never mentioned the result, LOL chl.ca/lhjmq/en/vid...

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

the GOP talking head on CNN's morning show Group Chat panel said that Antifa must be an actual organization because it has a logo

so that's where my bus pass fell yesterday evening as I was hurrying out the door

neato www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

in a couple of years, the legal standard for actual malice under NYT v. Trump will include "failure to endorse"

find your MP and their contact info: www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

thank christ I'm in a "safe" constituency and didn't have to vote for the Liberal

So, like...literally everything going on is just to cover for an old shit bag that rapes kids.

Wikipedia says her dad's from Doylestown (mom is Laraine Newman)

they did have 4chan in 1963; it was called the John Birch Society

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I am once again asking passport issuing authorities to ban the use of 0, O, 1, and I in passport numbers

do you want to get Day of the Triffids? because this is how you get Day of the Triffids

what? the university whose law school gave John Yoo a named faculty position?

As a matter of principle I regret the violent death of anyone even a vile promoter of hatred. As a matter of pragmatism I will not exhibit in public satisfaction over a death which will be represented as a martyrdom by the advocates of industrial scale murder by the state.

friend of mine got paid with a Camaro, once

living away from the U.S. on 9/11 is weird (even though I live in Newfoundland), but I'll always have Hunter S. Thompson's take published 9/12 www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...

corollary to my rule "write every e-mail as if it were going to be read back to you out loud in court"

not only would our practise management software's AI function not be able to create an analysis letter to clients based upon 7 pages of my chicken-scratch shorthand & 2 recorded phone calls, but also is AI terrible at summarizing & analyzing documents published in copypastable "true" PDFs 1/2

how many days will he lie in repose in the Rotunda, is my question

yesterday's near-final draft of a heavily detailed analysis to client, which took couple days to put together, just disappeared off the practise management software as I tried to open it; it's reverted to its initial state, an empty Word doc of our firm's letterhead but, hey, the vendor added AI

spinning in multi-factor authentication hell to retrieve a document that coulda been a fax

people sharing that Madonna at Santa Teresa di Gallura as if they've never seen an Our Lady of Guadelupe

Episode 7, What Is Starfleet?, has been bugging me It wasn't an in-universe documentary. It was in-universe propaganda. Its one of the only episodes that genuinely made me feel gross for identifying with Starfleet.

this Charles Dickens-looking guy in the center of the bottom row

just learned that Nik Everett passed away -- immeasurable loss to the Delaware music scene youtu.be/tY4pZlC3mmA?...

go birds

Given the number of countries the USA has invaded or bombed over the past century, re-branding the US Defense Dept as the "Department of War" pretty much constitutes truth in advertising. #WarDept #DefenseDept #war

Show me an image on your phone that has your energy but is not a selfie.

dak spat first

jesus pete I know it's my own fault for moving to this time zone but why, oh, why did that game have to start so late last night life was easier when I lived on the U.S. west coast & Monday Night Football games started right at/after dinner (apparently I've been 75 years old for 35 years)

My first sculpture made in conjunction with Works on Paper gallery. “Museum Of Art” is 12x18 powder coated 1/8 inch steel mounted on a white wood base. It’s an edition of 15 and the first 5 are being offered at a very reasonable price! Preorders are now available via tinyurl.com/mryvx64b

TV tells a million lies The paper's terrified to report Anything that isn't handed on a presidential spoon I'm just profoundly frustrated by all this ... was wondering why I had Automatic for the People on the brain for the past few weeks

Philadelphia mentioned -- attn: @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz

that the Dershowitz decision includes 2 battling concurrences (one urging SCOTUS to overturn NYTimes v. Sullivan, the other urging, for the love of all that is good and holy, stare decisis) is just kind of ... depressing abovethelaw.com/wp-content/u...

All the Trump death hoax stuff reminded me of my favorite Julia Vinograd poem, "Ginsberg." A cautionary tale on the hazards of hyperstition. Vinograd (1943-2018) was a Berkeley street poet who won a Pushcart Prize. Not long ago that you could see her holding forth at Caffe Med (RIP) on Telegraph.