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Teacher / lawyer: health law, contracts, ethics. UChicago Law alum. Interests in cooking, video games, jazz. Skeets are exclusively jokes. Reskeets and likes are strictly by accident.

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People who prize political uniformity are not going to like what this site is likely to become in the future.

Because that view is limiting growth, and I think Capital is starting to intervene.

10.03.2026 19:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank god!

10.03.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looks like a $250 deductible of if I end up needing to go through my insurer. Not a big deal, a little annoying.

10.03.2026 16:20 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah. She admits fault, I don’t expect a fight. The bigger problem is that I don’t think her parents added her to their policy and now I get to find if their policy covers other drivers.

10.03.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I got into a fender bender this morning; 16-year old on her way to school rear ended me. And the one time having all these cameras would have helped me, I forget to hit the button to save footage.

Story of my life.

10.03.2026 15:32 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Woman sues author Amy Griffin, saying her memoir 'The Tell' stole stories of sexual abuse β€” The Associated Press A woman has sued memoir author Amy Griffin, saying Griffin stole descriptions of childhood sexual abuse from incidents in her life.

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09.03.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is also just not a well-constructed complaint.

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09.03.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Reading through the Amy Griffin (The Tell) lawsuit, and I do not rate its chances of success very highly.

I have a generally low opinion of Griffin - recovered memories are hokum, her ties to MDMA funding are questionable - but conspiring to steal another survivor’s account doesn’t ring true.

09.03.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Is the cat with a Gatling gun plagiarized from something? Everything else I can identify, but that one is new to me.

09.03.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The most that any steakhouse can ever be asked to do in the service of women’s rights.

08.03.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

To the point of the weekend where I suggest to @mithradatesvi.bsky.social that we just stop eating food and wearing clothes, because there would be so many fewer household tasks.

08.03.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Listening to a student worker down the hall getting reamed out over how little work they’ve been doing, feeling a lot of second-hand embarrassment.

He def deserves it though. He’s here so little I didn’t even realize he had an office in the same suite as me until today.

06.03.2026 17:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A good friend’s kid bombed out of military training for health reasons about two years ago. At the time I felt bad, because he was chasing his dream, but man, what a lucky guy.

Boots on the ground feels increasingly inevitable, and no one’s life should be sacrificed for the mad king.

05.03.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Noem getting fired for stealing his spotlight by using government funds for ads starring herself instead of for psychopathic behavior or incompetence is so on brand for this administration.

In Trump I the fireable sin was making him look bad. In Trump II the sin is upstaging him.

05.03.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve been following a pro-Iranian propaganda account on another site, and it is a trip.

Apparently all US radar sites in the region have been blown up, Israel is being invaded by Hezbollah, and the US is going to run out of munitions any minute now (and has already run out of rocket interceptors).

05.03.2026 18:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump says he needs to be involved in selecting Iran's next leader, Axios reports U.S. President Donald Trump told Axios ​on Thursday that he needs to β€Œbe personally involved in selecting Iran's next leader.

Ayatollah Rubio just does not roll off the tongue.

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05.03.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, it dilates the eyes and can make you light sensitive. Not exactly ideal for an eye exam.

05.03.2026 17:01 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This just happened to my poor, long-suffering sister-in-law, who really didn’t deserve it.

For my own sins my child deserves a thousand crossbows, but we are all in shock that this got sprung on her.

05.03.2026 00:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The obvious follow-up question is, how responsible are these boys?

Hellions.

Absolute. Hellions.

04.03.2026 23:16 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Two crossbows in a box, from a 10/10 madwoman.

Two crossbows in a box, from a 10/10 madwoman.

On a scale from 1-10, how crazy would you rate a grandmother buying her 6- & 10-year old grandsons crossbows without first asking permission from the parents?

Pic related.

04.03.2026 23:07 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the kind of brazen mendacity we get now that the DOJ is run by news cycles rather than any type of plan.

03.03.2026 18:06 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I found pure strength to be a lot easier than pure dex, but I liked mixing just a little bit of faith in with strength for fire-based miracles even better.

Int/dex will always be my favorite though.

02.03.2026 22:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Happy cerebral palsy awareness month! Is this CP or just me? οΏΌ
Happy cerebral palsy awareness month! Is this CP or just me? οΏΌ YouTube video by Zach Anner

Happy cerebral palsy awareness month. Enjoy some Zach Anner to celebrate.

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02.03.2026 01:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My experience: Useless for deep research, surprisingly good at giving me a jumping off point. If I’m not sure what words and phrases courts commonly use to refer to a very niche issue, it’s shockingly good at surfacing those. Just garbage at interpreting what they mean and applying them.

01.03.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Scofield v. Guillard, 3:22-cv-00521 - CourtListener.com Docket for Scofield v. Guillard, 3:22-cv-00521 β€” Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

If you’re following the pro se tiktok psychic Idaho murders defamation case (which you should be), she’s now trying to disqualify a juror

www.courtlistener.com/docket/66679...

27.02.2026 14:35 πŸ‘ 137 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 10
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a man stands in front of an ice cream truck that says popeye Alt: a man pops out a foldable chair to observe the ongoing drama
27.02.2026 14:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I thought NPCs were stupid because they say the same thing every time I pressed A to talk, and then I had a kid and they ask the same question over and over and suddenly it all clicks. My kid is the protagonist.

27.02.2026 04:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

People act like AI is changing everything, but I’m more impressed with battery and audio tech. $40 buys me a pair of high quality, noise cancelling earbuds and a carry case no larger than a pack of Altoids that can charge them for (literally!) 190 hours?

Modern miracles.

26.02.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hitting β€œnew document” and just sailing out into that wide open sea to shores unknown.

25.02.2026 23:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, my citation no longer supports the completely different argument you are now making? Statute says, β€œSlit my wrists.”

25.02.2026 22:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0