When you read an Opinion from the Justices and realize it’s absolutely just high-brow shitposting and do they even see it and it really is turtles all the way in all directions.

"Every scrap of progress has been torn from my clenched talons by citizens who loved me more than themselves and their neighbors more than me."

pay attention, men

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

My kid is building me a handheld game console to keep in my bag that only plays Tetris, and that tells you everything you need to know about being a US lawyer right now.

As a middle-aged white suburban mom (and lawyer) I wholeheartedly recommend diving into Benito. The target audience is all of us.

1. I love the Olympics 2. Best Olympic watching was in Germany—they just let you watch 3. American commentators: FOR GODS SAKE STFU!! Why fill every inch of air with blathering nonsense? 4. I’ve not seen US broadcast tv in ages—all commercials are now for RX drugs & gambling? 5. Still 💖 the Olympics

I cannot say this loud enough: CHATGPT IS NOT A LAWYER!!!! The issues AI is causing in litigation are astronomical. It’s costing insane amounts of time & frustration which in turn costs everyone—and even worse—it’s clogging up already backlogged courts with frivolous, lawless garbage.

Why is it always the wrong ones?

All of us. Everyone.

🎵What do you want me to do...To do for you to see you through? For this is all a dream we dreamed, one afternoon, long ago...Such a long, long time to be gone, and short time to be there...🎵 Ten years gone.

lol got Paul Ferney's email dropping new paintings and clicked the link and they were all gone already. I've been trying for one of his painting since I graduated from law school. Sigh.

I found my box of pens I ran through in law school today: 22 Pilot V-5 RT pens drained entirely dry. That's a lot of ink.

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” - James Madison #NOKINGS

As a person with a congenital collapsed lung this is so dangerous for me.

NO. NO YOU CANNOT AND YOU SHOULD NEVER FFS HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO SAY IT AND THATS FREE

Why cant you just call a place anymore for takeout or to make a reservation? Nope. You gotta go through the website, create an account, use a 3P reservation service, have your data collected, confirm the account, log back in... SO. Many. companies. have lost my business because of this.

This is my kid Bean. He has Autism. He's been on the Today Show and in People Magazine and a grocery store named a peanut butter after him. He raised thousands of dollars for autism research and donated thousands in proceeds to hunger projects. His lacrosse team held a special game to honor him.

Me panicking in law school: I only have a week to draft this Motion?? Me in practice: Oh, I have 45 minutes before court! Cool, I can draft that motion!

The strange pull to crawl under my desk and take a nap suddenly showed up.

Folks on Reddit arguing over what the hardest law school class is and lol there is only one answer.

Happy (what would have been your) 59th Birthday, David. Dammit why’d you have to go and die?

Where do you get your fountain pens from? Looking for a new source that is not Goulet, prefer an independent.

If you tap on your shit with galloping fingernails, may you always hear water dripping and never find the source. May your mouse always lag. May you never have a full sneeze. May your socks always be damp and wad up under your heel. May your chocolate chips always be raisins.

real question: how do we just "go to work" and "focus" and not be torn asunder by the cognitive dissonance?

I wish folks understood how incredibly difficult it is and how super-qualified you have to be to get one of those government positions and that “probationary” just means you’re a new-hire for 24 months. These fired folks are some of the best qualified public servants we had & were the future.

my old dog is getting really white-faced and has started sleeping on the main floor to avoid the stairs and my heart is 1000% not ready 🎶there it is, that funny feeling...🎶

So how do we uncouple from G**gle? What email is as good as gmail?

Art is going to matter a lot. Lift people’s eyes and hearts up, find the patch of blue, voice the voiceless. Oh and beefing. National Parks. Kendrick. Mountains. I’m here for it.

Please. Please…don’t make BlueSky just screenshots of the Bad Place(s).

Dozens and dozens of bot accounts found me today. I will block so don’t bother.

Stunned. And timely info for Black History Month. Will now be referring to this absolute icon as the Waite-Smith deck: vintagenewsdaily.com/the-story-of...

Packaging is a disability issue! Listen I know there are lots of fires going but people unable to open what they need is one of them. Put on gloves & pull the little slippery tab on an antacid bottle. Hold pins in your hand & grab the tiny tab on milk. Tape your fingertips & open a pill bottle.

More space-westerns please that’s all I’m saying.

<🎶there it is…that funny feeling🎶> Ah 3 am it’s been a while.

Be extra kind to any federal employees you know right now—please just trust me.

Anyone knit socks on circular needles? I use dp’s and love the idea of circular but can’t figure out—how do you split for heel or gusset?

Knitting and rewatching Firefly. Wasn’t emotionally prepared for the particular gut punch of the opening scene today.

Knitters: Do you block your socks?

You know, I think I’m gonna pass.

Was explaining this to my teens—a law passed by Congress, signed by the president, found valid by S Ct. cannot just be changed by presidential fiat. And we don’t want that precedent! There may be other loopholes but the premise stands.

Guess I’ll go to Costco.

(One of) my claim(s) to fame is thrifting. Finding old abandoned things makes me so happy. I used to do a Twitter thread every Thursday. Here are a few of my favorite finds…

I was born & raised in California. My family + people I love are deep there. Watching these fires is devastating. Seeing Mexico roll up, Canada fly in, the Navajo Nation go west, & so many more send help has me weeping. This is the world I love & want to live in—where people help each other ❤️‍🩹 TY

Narrator: She lost.

Resisting the urge to self-medicate my anxiety about *all this* by buying a dopamine hit though a new fountain pen... Resisting the urge to self-medicate my anxiety about *all this* by buying a dopamine hit though a new fountain pen... Resisting the urge to self-medicate my anxiety about *all thi

Truer today than ever of my home state.

Did anyone in the Yellowstone writers-room ever meet an actual living woman?

Does anyone else feel like they’ve been a bad friend for the last while? I love my friends & they’re important to me, but I’m operating on fumes & haven’t had the wherewithal to even text in some cases—even though I love them. It’s a liminal space I don’t much like.