i might, ugh, have no choice but to pipe up as @dividedargument.bsky.social‘s (probably) only trans listener re the latest episode

Most orchestras in Palo Alto are Puritanical and cucked

Do I know anyone who can refer a friend in NY who needs a simple will and trust for a new baby?

beauty is overrated. music should be ugly and make you feel bad

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

down with license plate tyrants

Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 5d ago

4th Cir. holds that a personlized license plate—"FTP&ATF"—is private speech covered by the First Amendment, but declines to decide in the first instance whether Virginia's ban on vulgarities ("fuck the police") is reasonable and view-point neutral. Remanded. www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...

something absolutely magical about pairing Beet 32 with “Palais de Mari”—music pour franchir le seuil

Sam Stephenson@sfstephenson.bsky.social · last wk.

A great new classical solo piano record. Highly recommended. Unique sequence of material both venerable and brand new, and tremendous performances by Sarah Rothenberg.

judges are chasers. "judge" is an oppressive class, like Manichaean people or podcaster people.

when I worked for a library half of my job caring for the collection was “find a disintegrating book, throw it out, and (sometimes) order a replacement” I understand a certain kind of person recoils at destroying books, I have been that person, but most books are designed with a limited lifespan

evil maid@lenazun.bsky.social · last wk.

there's no need to get outraged by every single thing. book destruction is not some kind of sin. it's not like they're trashing rare editions. lots of books get pulped all the time. now you're just looking for ways to be mad.

oh man I used to work with this guy. a sad victim of crypto-induced brain liquefaction

Sarah Fackrell@design-law.bsky.social · last wk.

"Plaintiffs’ counsel are lucky that the Court is not sanctioning them for failing to call Smart Study Co. and the limitations of the Hague Service Convention to the Court's attention in the first place." Mou v. BTC King, 2026 WL 2123322 (S.D.N.Y. July 23, 2026). #CivProMatters

spotted: man on the uptown D reading @unlawfulentries.bsky.social’s “Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship”. that’s what we call a blockbuster hit folks

$50k or someone punches you in the stomach for 40 minutes. fuck your million dollars

this is, of course, already happening in Will Stancil’s replies

Devin@dervine7.bsky.social · 2w ago

on Bluesky this would turn into a war where one-boxers say that two-boxers don’t understand economics and two-boxers say one-boxers don’t understand how much $1k would change a poor person’s life

path to american reconstruction: 1. find presidential candidate named bob america 2. after victory, appoint mia hamm to the supreme court

Ben@cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 2w ago

holy shit judit polgar is going to be president of hungary www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

is everybody done sephirothposting at law professors y/n

world’s greatest public nuisance / negligence per se lawsuit

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trump on Canada wildfires:

Ooh, we get to have some Risk Factor Discourse this smokey Friday afternoon! So the first thing: this headline (and the article) are supremely dumb, though not necessarily in obvious ways (but often in obvious ways). So what do SEC filings show? And what does it mean? It's time for Discourse! 1/

Forbes@forbes.com · 3w ago

SEC filings show Taco Bell—and other restaurants—knew cyclospora posed a risk to their businesses and the public.

need to sit down sometime and figure out the right bracha for filing a brief

The question answers itself, really

Empire Magazine@empiremagazine.bsky.social · 3w ago

Question for you – After The Odyssey, what should Christopher Nolan tackle next? Reply with your answer, and you might see it in print in our next issue...

pain is manageable, though the two black eyes look embarrassing. tbd when I’ll be able to feel my lower lip. going to need to be strapped down to my bed to keep from working probably, though I took two weeks off for just this purpose

@alecshea.bsky.social says I look like I survived the western front (eat your heart out Remarque) and he is not wrong

realism is a scourge. just, like, generally.

in a few hours we will find out whether transgender people are citizens of the united states. the answer, of course, is “no”

joined DSA. maybe I want something useful to do with my money; maybe I want to see how long it’ll take for me to be expelled as a counter-revolutionary element; maybe I wanted to be disqualified permanently from government service. tbd

seeing the posts about visitors discovering that you can walk around most of our cities and just be yourself in a multicultural setting, discovering tailgating, starting impromptu block parties, my muslim mayor, etc. etc. it's corny to say it but that's our secret sauce. and it means something

today I found a 1915 Italian-language operetta about the evils of feminism called La candidata by Ruggero Leoncavallo and the later-extremely-fascist Giovacchino Forzano, containing a Dance of the Seven Veils for no reason I can grasp and set in the distant future of.... 1990

I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.

surgeon, for obscure reasons, required a measure of HIV viral load as one of my pre-op clearance blood tests GP is going to argue about this with the surgeon and submit a negative HIV test he’s not wrong: it is demeaning. guess I‘m just used to being demeaned by drs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

everybody seems upset about this result (look: I get it) but the opinion seems perfectly sensible to me? workmanlike but not stretching the law. the plaintiffs want a bold new leap forward in Del state con law, there’s no real precedent for their request, judge trying not to get out over his skis

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

‼️‼️Delaware Superior Court upholds a municipal ordinance allowing individuals to cast votes on behalf of LLCs, trusts, and corporations in local elections against a challenge that the ordinance constitutes unlawful vote dilution for real persons under the state constitution. aboutblaw.com/blQg

i think this is correct as a norm for those in the academy but too many responses assume it is being proposed as a norm for those outside it. I can say whatever I like about the worm man, including [TOS VIOLATION]

Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/2 I think I'm basically with Beau on this. Folks who purport to be playing what he calls the knowledge-production game but are in fact doing something else deserve to be called out for that and don't deserve to be treated according to the norms of the knowledge-production game. BUT ...