Bill Childs
@billchilds.bsky.social
Not a real doctor; real worm. I've done radio for kids for a weirdly long time. Not your lawyer, but maybe your amusement park law prof. SpareTheRock.com. Wrote a book: RecreationAndRisk.com (Carolina Academic Press). He/him; my views only here.
St. Paul.
St. Paul.
I think the true triumph of Traitors UK is that they find 22 people who are both absolutely a blast to watch and utter sociopaths.
February 20, 2026 at 3:19 AM
I think the true triumph of Traitors UK is that they find 22 people who are both absolutely a blast to watch and utter sociopaths.
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This man is the result of a botched experiment where they replaced his consciousness with the Matt Birk port-o-potty gif
February 20, 2026 at 2:53 AM
This man is the result of a botched experiment where they replaced his consciousness with the Matt Birk port-o-potty gif
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Taking a very unscientific poll cause I wanna know how niche my weird rabbit hole obsessions are.
Without googling, do you know what McKamey Manor is?
Without googling, do you know what McKamey Manor is?
February 20, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Taking a very unscientific poll cause I wanna know how niche my weird rabbit hole obsessions are.
Without googling, do you know what McKamey Manor is?
Without googling, do you know what McKamey Manor is?
This chapter is tomorrow's class topic and so I am again laughing at my own joke in my book
Every time I get to Chapter Five and the McKamey Manor waiver, I’m reminded that I included this: “[sic, so many sics]” and it makes me laugh every time.
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February 20, 2026 at 12:55 AM
This chapter is tomorrow's class topic and so I am again laughing at my own joke in my book
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For no particularly good reason, I spent a long time today trying to figure out where I had seen hillside waterslides when we were going through Arkansas in the 1980s. I ultimately figured it out via this ad for a furniture store in Harrison, Arkansas, featuring the “Confederate II” waterbed.
February 18, 2024 at 9:40 PM
For no particularly good reason, I spent a long time today trying to figure out where I had seen hillside waterslides when we were going through Arkansas in the 1980s. I ultimately figured it out via this ad for a furniture store in Harrison, Arkansas, featuring the “Confederate II” waterbed.
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both mistaken! It’s “twos formers attorney general”
February 19, 2026 at 2:53 PM
both mistaken! It’s “twos formers attorney general”
Shocking: The MPR underwriting message for the Swanson Hatch law firm describes the firm as having “two former attorney generals,” while their website says “two former attorneys general”
February 19, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Shocking: The MPR underwriting message for the Swanson Hatch law firm describes the firm as having “two former attorney generals,” while their website says “two former attorneys general”
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If memory serves, I asked Sean from that band whether he owns a TV and he said of course he owns a TV.
February 19, 2026 at 2:05 PM
If memory serves, I asked Sean from that band whether he owns a TV and he said of course he owns a TV.
Livid at the fact that I have “Flagpole Sitta” in my head because of a goddamn BMW ad
February 19, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Livid at the fact that I have “Flagpole Sitta” in my head because of a goddamn BMW ad
McLaughlin leaving government to return to her first passion, lying about the deaths of innocent people “for the love of the game”
Breaking Politico:
Tricia McLaughlin, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's spokesperson and a known spreader of disinformation, is expected to inform colleagues Tuesday that she's leaving DHS.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Tricia McLaughlin, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's spokesperson and a known spreader of disinformation, is expected to inform colleagues Tuesday that she's leaving DHS.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin to leave Trump administration
The move comes as public opinion has turned on the administration’s hardline immigration policies.
www.politico.com
February 19, 2026 at 12:04 PM
McLaughlin leaving government to return to her first passion, lying about the deaths of innocent people “for the love of the game”
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At some point you would think the Traitors producers would have a cheat sheet just off camera to help with name spelling
February 19, 2026 at 3:57 AM
At some point you would think the Traitors producers would have a cheat sheet just off camera to help with name spelling
This is probably not a new insight but it had not occurred to me before:
The people who think that if/because AI might be good at some specific things, it should be used for all things are the same people who think that people who are smart at some specific things should be in charge of all things.
The people who think that if/because AI might be good at some specific things, it should be used for all things are the same people who think that people who are smart at some specific things should be in charge of all things.
February 19, 2026 at 12:36 AM
This is probably not a new insight but it had not occurred to me before:
The people who think that if/because AI might be good at some specific things, it should be used for all things are the same people who think that people who are smart at some specific things should be in charge of all things.
The people who think that if/because AI might be good at some specific things, it should be used for all things are the same people who think that people who are smart at some specific things should be in charge of all things.
This advice remains sound, although I will not be doing so since Dena remains injured and not going out for a bit. So have a meal or a drink for me.
A friendly reminder to locals for this afternoon/evening: walking through snow to a local bar or restaurant, when most else is quiet, is among life’s greatest pleasures.
February 18, 2026 at 11:58 PM
This advice remains sound, although I will not be doing so since Dena remains injured and not going out for a bit. So have a meal or a drink for me.
Look what else voice tracking took from us
Feb. 18, 1926: St. Paul, Minn., radio personality “Happy Harry” Geise is arrested for failure to pay alimony when his ex-wife hears him singing “How Do You Do” over station KSTP and calls the police on him.
February 18, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Look what else voice tracking took from us
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Can I say Muppetmaxxing? I’m not sure what it is but I’m in favor of it and I vote
February 18, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Can I say Muppetmaxxing? I’m not sure what it is but I’m in favor of it and I vote
Two more years of developments hasn’t changed my mind materially about this
It’s probably too much for here, but this captures a lot of my targeted skepticism about AI as taking the place of lawyers. It absolutely will massively change some legal tasks, but “briefs, but as intensely dull Mad Libs and sometimes with hallucinations” isn’t a path to success in advocacy.
It was funny when all the big new tech innovations were like Someone Buys Groceries or Drive Me Home because of how it reflected the deficits of the people creating them. But much new AI shit suggests its inventors also don't know why people read or know how to just watch TV, and that's much darker.
February 18, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Two more years of developments hasn’t changed my mind materially about this
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Right-wing school board members across the US leveraged bad faith arguments to gain power. Now they're losing elections after being exposed.
https://badfaithtimes.com/they-banned-woke-and-suzy-still-cant-read/
https://badfaithtimes.com/they-banned-woke-and-suzy-still-cant-read/
They Banned Woke And Suzy Still Can’t Read
Far-right school board officials are finding out the hard way that the political pendulum has swung
badfaithtimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Right-wing school board members across the US leveraged bad faith arguments to gain power. Now they're losing elections after being exposed.
https://badfaithtimes.com/they-banned-woke-and-suzy-still-cant-read/
https://badfaithtimes.com/they-banned-woke-and-suzy-still-cant-read/
incredible opening to a LOE in the Mac Weekly in 1998
February 18, 2026 at 6:28 PM
incredible opening to a LOE in the Mac Weekly in 1998
As usual, I don’t know anything about anything, but it seems weird to have OK Go in the same size font as an Earth, Wind & Fire cover band on a festival poster, and yet here we are
February 18, 2026 at 5:38 PM
As usual, I don’t know anything about anything, but it seems weird to have OK Go in the same size font as an Earth, Wind & Fire cover band on a festival poster, and yet here we are
I again inadvertently wore the school colors to a class I taught (visiting @pdwschmidt.bsky.social at @macalestercollege.bsky.social); consider the hat orange instead of gold.
🎶We’re the blue and orange
We’re the blue and orange
There’s nothing in the world
That rhymes with blue and orange 🎶
🎶We’re the blue and orange
We’re the blue and orange
There’s nothing in the world
That rhymes with blue and orange 🎶
February 18, 2026 at 5:03 PM
I again inadvertently wore the school colors to a class I taught (visiting @pdwschmidt.bsky.social at @macalestercollege.bsky.social); consider the hat orange instead of gold.
🎶We’re the blue and orange
We’re the blue and orange
There’s nothing in the world
That rhymes with blue and orange 🎶
🎶We’re the blue and orange
We’re the blue and orange
There’s nothing in the world
That rhymes with blue and orange 🎶
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Here’s his Pro Boxing Record
February 18, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Here’s his Pro Boxing Record
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That is quite a specific (and lengthily-titled) group picnicking in New Ulm.
February 18, 2026 at 2:09 PM
That is quite a specific (and lengthily-titled) group picnicking in New Ulm.
I genuinely believe that the last couple of months will lead to more people moving here (domestically):
www.axios.com/local/twin-c...
www.axios.com/local/twin-c...
Minnesota reverses domestic out-migration trend
For the first time since 2018, more people are moving to Minnesota than leaving for other states.
www.axios.com
February 18, 2026 at 12:44 PM
I genuinely believe that the last couple of months will lead to more people moving here (domestically):
www.axios.com/local/twin-c...
www.axios.com/local/twin-c...
I suspect this is something that everyone in Minnesota learned about sometime during the twenty years I was living elsewhere, but a friend of mine texted me last night about Kirmser’s:
www.upress.umn.edu/978081663622...
www.upress.umn.edu/978081663622...
Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s
A surprising and vivid remembrance of gay life in the wake of World War II
It is often difficult to imagine gay gathering places in the decades before the ...
www.upress.umn.edu
February 18, 2026 at 12:17 PM
I suspect this is something that everyone in Minnesota learned about sometime during the twenty years I was living elsewhere, but a friend of mine texted me last night about Kirmser’s:
www.upress.umn.edu/978081663622...
www.upress.umn.edu/978081663622...
