The first time I had a Twizzler it was so NOTHING that I think I actually got angry about it.

There’s a paper to be written about international legal kayfabe and as much as I want to be the one to write it, I keep getting distracted by how to pigeonhole more wrestling puns into international law…

Grateful to be married to someone who came with middle aged dad hobbies pre-loaded at 22.

Middle aged white men (and I’m 49, so I’m in the demographic) absolutely need ridiculous Dad Hobbies or they get squirrely. I think if you’re can’t prove you have a preexisting Dad Hobby or 2 by age 45, you get entered into a national hobby draft and get assigned one. It would solve so many things.

oh my god where to start

Snow much fun! 🐼❄️ Giant Pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao played in the snow at Smithsonian’s National Zoo yesterday🥺 🎥: Smithsonian National Zoo

AND ON TOP OF IT ALL THE TODDLER WON’T NAP

Yoo should have been yote (present perfect of yeet) into Venus 25 years ago by the legal community writ large.

A new international law can rise from everyone—across the world—telling John Yoo to sit this one the fuck out.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

This is a reminder that if you’ve just seen something traumatic, playing 15 min of a visually demanding game (Tetris is the go-to here, but maybe Set? Mah-jongg?) can impede memory formation and help stop it from developing into a trauma. (This doesn’t work for complex trauma but discrete events)

Feeling acutely any and all distance between myself and my baby lately.

Shabana Mahmood here, whose “ultimate vision” is to turn the world into a prison

Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month.

This is amazing

I, however, Have such meagre power, Clutching at a Moment, While you control An hour. But your hour is A stone. My moment is A flower. -Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot" #everynightapoem As ever.

Everything is eugenics

Inshallah, ameen.

The library ebook business is such a scam. Good to see dem state lawmakers are considering banding together to negotiate fairer deals.

Delete Spotify

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

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. 📚

Matt Walsh calling international law 'fake and gay' is concerning, hilarious and more interesting than he realises at the same time.

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

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.

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...

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.

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!

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.

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!).

merry Christmas one and all abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

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. 1/7

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.

Less pettily, there's just so much in this amazing world to wonder about that it seems so sad to abdicate doing that.

“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).

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!!!

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. 1/

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.

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

I need a version of the “Heartbreaking: The worst person you know…” meme but it’s Foucault.

The ICJ will hold hearings on the merits of the genocide case brought by Gambia against Myanmar on January 12-29.

Welcome to my parents’ house! Wake up to the dulcet tones of Sting. Mom watches a period C-Drama at full volume while getting 10k steps in. Dad watches two types of Pakistani pundit shows at the same time at full volume. Do you want to listen to the BeeGees?Go out to dinner? Of course, live music!

It’s always Francis Fukuyama at the scene of the crime.