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Legal Writing prof at Berkeley Law

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I made dinner one night a week through high school! It wasn’t good for a long time but gave me so much facility and comfort in the kitchen that then I developed into decent skills.

13.03.2026 23:39 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just listened to Delroy Lindo on Fresh Air with Tanya Mosley. What a voice, mind, career, story! I was all in on Sinners already, but wow. Strong recommend on the interview and his whole filmography

12.03.2026 21:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The brain of a Hans Christian Anderson villain; the shoes of a man chased from the pond by a mob of villagers.

11.03.2026 13:19 πŸ‘ 319 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 3
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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

11.03.2026 01:44 πŸ‘ 3782 πŸ” 1501 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 226

Judge: why are you using AI to do run of the mill issue spotting which is a basic part of your job?

(I am also interested in this question)

10.03.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 1273 πŸ” 104 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 20

oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism

09.03.2026 17:04 πŸ‘ 3195 πŸ” 682 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 5

β€œWhat’s with this get up? You look like a bitchy mortician.”

09.03.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My hometown newspaper’s police blotter circa 1995-2010 backs this up

09.03.2026 01:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Will drive my beloved 2015 Volvo wagon into the ground

07.03.2026 15:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Could not believe the energy and voice and joy on the last stop of the tour leg!

07.03.2026 15:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Brandi Carlile singing in a dark arena with a void red screen behind her

Brandi Carlile singing in a dark arena with a void red screen behind her

The world is going to hell but Brandi Carlile taking requests at an arena show is a good antidote

07.03.2026 07:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If i were a young man (EYE am not a young man) and a professional athlete (EYE am the singular most uncoordinated person from Tuscaloosa county) AND or a person with significant means (EYE am Methodist so i give a lot of my money away) ... AND looking for intimate partnership

Chile....

05.03.2026 14:40 πŸ‘ 178 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

04.03.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 3530 πŸ” 591 πŸ’¬ 110 πŸ“Œ 108

I'm trying to think of something that would be less helpful to ADHD people than a machine that does boring tasks but randomly gets small details wrong and therefore requires extreme attentiveness to the boring tasks but I'm having a hard time.

Appeals to our worst impulses and biggest weakness.

04.03.2026 15:32 πŸ‘ 232 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 7

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

04.03.2026 03:21 πŸ‘ 9981 πŸ” 1232 πŸ’¬ 70 πŸ“Œ 41

Sara!! Oh my god! I’m so glad you are safe (and that I already drive a Volvo)!

28.02.2026 01:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The best book snobs recognize the glory of a varied reading diet!

26.02.2026 22:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Concomitant, last week! I tried it so many times assuming I was spelling wrong

26.02.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life β€” years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable β€” rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice

25.02.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 6854 πŸ” 1217 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 32

Milkshake puck

25.02.2026 01:18 πŸ‘ 5002 πŸ” 721 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 22
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These dogs are having the time of their lives following this week's historic blizzard in the Northeast. Please enjoy. 14/10 for all

25.02.2026 00:53 πŸ‘ 15474 πŸ” 2724 πŸ’¬ 255 πŸ“Œ 327

It would be self harm!

25.02.2026 00:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

These are incredible!

23.02.2026 22:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Is this even satire?

21.02.2026 05:26 πŸ‘ 1443 πŸ” 359 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 12

So slimy!

23.02.2026 05:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Right they basically have a skeleton!

23.02.2026 04:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Great analysis from the great @thelincoln.bsky.social, with bonus inclusion of some of the most extravagantly awful writing imaginable.

23.02.2026 03:19 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Detached indeed

22.02.2026 23:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes β€œI love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

22.02.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 13946 πŸ” 2515 πŸ’¬ 107 πŸ“Œ 134

Twizzlers don’t put up enough of a fight

22.02.2026 02:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0