Philip Nelson 💻🧙
@blu3r4d0n.shutdown.network
public servant data scientist 🚈🚝🚊🚌 this account does not represent the views of my employer Current hyperfixation: the Muppets big Tolkien and Le Guin fan, hockey lover, and coffee addict South Carolina is my home https://shutdown.network/links.html
NWS Doppler Radar data indicate that Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, around 830 PM CDT with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph (165 km/h). The estimated minimum central pressure is 971 mb (28.67 inches). See more at hurricanes.gov
regarding Annie Andrews pandering to transphobes: @citationspod.bsky.social did a wonderful three-part series on the authenticity affect. You should go listen to it.
Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n.shutdown.network · 17h agothis is reference to the TERFY Annie Andrews ad. Part of the reason I haven't vocally supported her campaign is that her messaging on trans issues had kind of completely vanished and I was worried something like this may happen
also I'm off duty don't worry about my political posts
Dems do not need to pander. So disappointed but not at all surprised
would it be absolutely crazy to see digger a third time
I just had terrifying experience. I was driving in the dark and noticed a spider on my window. I was in pure panic mode. yanked my shoe off to smash it because there was nothing else. no idea if I got it (I don't think I did)
I did textual extraction on #SCOTUS transcripts to find the "funniest" oral argument of the last decade based on "(Laughter.)" and the top contenders are: Warhol Foundation v Goldsmith (Thomas's Syracuse x Prince hypo where Justice Kagan said she'd be his lawyer) www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...
Pete Hegseth remains undefeated in taking the action at any moment that the man least secure in his manhood in any room would take.
still grinning at this. I was the only one in the auditorium as the lights went down and then he turned the corner lol I saw the shovel and nearly fell out of my seat
Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n.shutdown.network · 3d agoSo I wasn't the only one
Note: Texas is planning on killing Jamaal Howard later today. Requests for stays of execution are pending at the Supreme Court.
No word yet from SCOTUS on the pending requests, despite being into the Texas death warrant window.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3d agoNote: Texas is planning on killing Jamaal Howard later today. Requests for stays of execution are pending at the Supreme Court.
Newly filed petition for extraordinary writ/relief from Johnson & Johnson asking the Supreme Court to vacate Jean Toal's October 2nd order allowing lobbying topics during a 30(b)(6) Deposition in a circuit court talc case. Petition: ctrack.sccourts.org/public/docum...
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New businesses to Greenville try to open anywhere but Woodruff Road challenge: impossible.https://www.postandcourier.com/greenville/news/greenville-sc-ikea-traffic-problem/article_2bf16b12-9561-4bc5-b279-9f6a6ba4efdd.html
Ikea wants to open its first SC store, but traffic concerns may doom it
Combine the first Ikea in South Carolina with Woodruff Road’s notorious traffic problems and you’ll get one tough nut to crack. That’s what developers and the city of Greenville are now debating.
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I used to be really bad at spotting aircraft over 27,000 feet if the sky was clear but I've gotten better at it!
A dual "Hatch Act found dead." / "Oh, they're really worried about South Carolina? They're so cooked." moment
UPDATE: Judge I'Ashea L. Myles announced from the bench that she is granting an extensive preservation order to Tennessee regarding Christa Pike's failed execution, which Myles detailed from the bench. A written order will follow. Full video of hearing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYCp...
Emergency hearing on Christa Pike's failed execution
YouTube video by FOX NASHVILLE
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a heavy handed movie isn't a bad thing. what are y'all so mad about
It would be crazy to see digger a third time, right?
Y'all there's someone fully dressed as digger here to watch the film lol
Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n.shutdown.network · 4d agoOnly one here for Digger in IMAX
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
what a fun read! A Computational Analysis of Oral Argument in the Supreme Court scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcont...
scholarship.law.cornell.edu
BREAKING: For the first time in 10 months, the U.S. admitted a refugee who is not a white South African. In September, the U.S. admitted 3,386 white South Africans and two Afghans (in D.C.) In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 16,287 white South Africans, five Afghans, and nobody else.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 4w agoBREAKING: In August, *every single one* of the 2,646 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 12,901 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
