Given how good TikTok users are at coming up with euphemistic workarounds for terms that get censored, I expect we'll soon start seeing posts extolling electric vehicles because of the need to phase out Internal Combustion Engines.

Guy looks like a Roz Chast cartoon come to life

Wife: "Maybe I should do some more pickling." Me: "You could pickle some of those socks you've been knitting." Wife: "You mean combine two of my hobbies?" Me: "Yeah...you'd be a knit-pickler!" She did not enjoy that one as much as I did.

Me: *forwards email to group I am a member of* My computer: *notification ding* Me: Oh, who sent me an email?!

Need your help, #lawsky! Looking for a North Carolina attorney, preferably one in Wake County (Raleigh area), who can provide advice and guidance on potentially filing a 50C civil no-contact order. Thanks, y'all!

Anytime someone has to make a belated reservation for an oral argument, and all the good hotels near the courthouse are already full, I'm always like "Well, you can either get a room at a place out by the airport and drive in like a commuter...or there's always The Moxy as a last resort."

I was looking something up in a guide for Microsoft Word, and I think it's a little *too* basic. It had a line like "The space bar is the long horizontal piece at the bottom of the keyboard. Press it to insert a space after a word or punctuation."

Story of my life

GREAT JOB ALERT: The Appellate Immersion Clinic at Georgetown Law is accepting applications for fellows! This is an incredible opportunity to do great work with incredibly smart, good people. @immersionclinic.bsky.social @brianwolfman.bsky.social www.law.georgetown.edu/experiential...

This is basically classical music by now. "Free Bird" is old enough that it's the equivalent of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan doing their routines to "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." But cooler, of course, because Skynyrd rules.

Amazed that this isn't the most popular sports franchise among the youths. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_...

It would have seemed weirdly propitious to hit 2,000 exactly on January 1, but as of today I have been tracking my calories for 1,999 consecutive days (even though the free version of the My Fitness Pal app is about as useful as a pad and pencil now).

Got off an Amtrak at Penn Station in New York once and realized that I had been sitting a few rows behind Justice Breyer for several hours.

Make a Bond movie academic Diamonds Are Forever: A Gem-Based Exception to the Rule Against Perpetuities

Been saving this one for a moment when I really needed it, and that time has come. My favorite Christmas compilation: youtu.be/8V2IrH1owdw?...

Today's typo observation: The "s" in "reverse" is very important if you're describing what you would like the court of appeals to do with the district court's ruling.

As the year comes to a close, TCM remembers the actors, filmmakers and creatives we lost this year. Gone, but never forgotten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_... Song title and artist: "In the Western Wind and the Sunrise" by Dave Simonett and the Sunrise.

I legit thought this was the dad from the "I learned it by watching you!" PSA.

I'm very saddened to learn (and to learn belatedly) that Steve Minor passed away a few months ago. Only 60 years old. He was one of the original law bloggers, starting the Southwest Virginia Law Blog in 2003. Sharp, funny, generous, a standout lawyer. I'll miss him. www.instagram.com/p/DMMCQnPsDas/

Beautiful timeline synergy @defector.com @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social @samadams.bsky.social

I have reached the "catching typos in a brief I filed months ago" stage of oral argument prep.

Every once in a while during a SCOTUS argument, someone will call the Justices "judges," and sometimes they get snippy about that. One time when it happened, (I think) Justice Stevens very kindly noted that Article III uses the word "judges" to include the ones on the Supreme Court.

This bear is the creature that shows up to remind you that it is a federal felony punishable by up to six years in prison to cause a false distress signal to be sent to the Coast Guard when no help is needed.

Great opportunity here for a new attorney interested in public defense: The Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington and Idaho are hiring a fellowship attorney, a one-year position designed for a recent-ish grad with little experience. www.fd.org/sites/defaul...

Same energy

It is going to break some brains if half of the college football playoff field is Indiana, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Georgia Tech, Texas Tech, and Navy.

@edsbs.bsky.social @celebrityhottub.bsky.social @stevengodfrey.bsky.social @alexkirshner.com So if Tommy Tuberville gets elected Governor of Alabama, and AJ McCarron gets elected Lieutenant Governor, will the Alabama capital building have to fly one of those "House Divided" flags?

@beckyhammer.bsky.social Please keep Bluesky notified if the White House reaches out to your neighbor about where to buy doors.

That clerk probably wanted to crawl in a hole and never come out, but they did the admirable thing and disclosed the mistake right away. A good lesson not only to be careful whom you're texting about cases, but also about how to act if you do mess up.

Today's episode of "Why is this useless trivia stuck in my brain instead of something important?" is that I realized I knew the exact birthdays of all four Beatles. I wasn't in a fan club or anything; I just learned them at some point and haven't forgotten them. I would be happy to do so!

I wonder if he will threaten to move the Super Bowl from Santa Clara as a way to punish San Francisco.

I watched "One Battle After Another" today. Most reviews have been ecstatic, and I was trying to keep my hopes in check, but I really enjoyed it. It gets my highest recommendation.

I look forward to eating at all the subsidiaries of ConSanGro, Inc.

Aw man, now I have to subscribe to Netflix.

Saw this one posted elsewhere earlier and it prompted me to share it again -- perhaps my favorite magazine article of all time. www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

The new Outlook design choice to automatically hide folders when the screen is oriented in portrait mode is driving me bonkers. It seems like a species of web UI design choices that assume everyone looks at everything on a phone. It ought to at least give me an option to restore folders permanently.

Somebody on reddit said that "certiorari" would be a cool name for a car, and now I'm going down that rabbit hole. The Mitsubishi Mandamus The Toyota Scienter The Hyundai Subpoena The Nissan Ultra Vires And, for @smmarotta.bsky.social, the Ford Estoppel

If James Franklin just stayed in Los Angeles and took over as the UCLA coach, I think both teams would take that deal at this point.

Here's a gift link to this story: defector.com/treasury-dep...

The human brain is so strange. I forget a million things a day, but somehow I remember the full name (first, middle, last) of a trial witness in an appeal I worked on as an intern almost 25 years ago. It wasn't even a Key & Peele-level odd name! I'd be happy to forget it! youtu.be/gODZzSOelss?...

Nice story about the founder of Jake's Ice Cream and Jake's Gourmet Popcorn. They're worth a visit if you're in Northern Virginia! wtop.com/virginia/202...

After oral arguments, the Fourth Circuit routinely thanks attorneys who take cases by court appointment. Today, after a case with one FPD and three CJA attorneys, Chief Judge Diaz spent several minutes discussing the Judiciary's dire budget situation (at 1:29:50). www.youtube.com/live/jsoE-rF...

If anyone knows of a way to remove the annoying "Copilot" box from the Microsoft Outlook WEB version, please for the love of all that is holy let me know.

I kind of feel like an announcement for a vacancy for a (trial) federal public defender in Hawai'i is self-recommending for the right person. www.fd.org/sites/defaul...

This gathering of all the top military brass to an in-person meeting on short notice with a secret agenda is probably not going to turn into something like Saddam's Ba'ath Party Purge, but if they were planning something like that, it seems like this is how they'd do it. youtu.be/MohJLPgutKQ?...

Somebody wanted to be my second chair at my oral argument tomorrow.

This was the "sphincter says what" trick first established in the case of Wayne & Garth v. Noway-Way Enterprises. And Judge Bibas ruled, "Not!"