James Without End
@neverendingjim.bsky.social
flaming bankruptcy lawyer, occasional shitposter / uses bio like an AIM away message / closing his eyes as the dogies retire / he/they
this plus I have a grudge against Charleston for the family member who made us all go there for their wedding on the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend
I've been to lots of cities around the world and the most "haunted by the spectres of their pasts" vibes I've gotten were in Phnom Penh (where you can still see ex-Khmer Rouge hanging out) and Charleston, where it feels like slavery's evils are in every single cobblestone and grand old structure
February 8, 2026 at 3:48 AM
this plus I have a grudge against Charleston for the family member who made us all go there for their wedding on the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend
The musical connection reminds me of one of my favorite footnotes in a judicial opinion, involving a financial professional trading on a famous name.
February 8, 2026 at 1:16 AM
The musical connection reminds me of one of my favorite footnotes in a judicial opinion, involving a financial professional trading on a famous name.
Since @michaelhobbes.bsky.social has already covered F. Lee Bailey on You're Wrong About and J. Michael Bailey on Maintenance Phase, it's really on If Books Could Kill to come up with a third person with that weirdly specific name pattern to cover.
February 8, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Since @michaelhobbes.bsky.social has already covered F. Lee Bailey on You're Wrong About and J. Michael Bailey on Maintenance Phase, it's really on If Books Could Kill to come up with a third person with that weirdly specific name pattern to cover.
Reposted by James Without End
I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
I stand with County Executive Calvin Ball as he signs emergency legislation today prohibiting privately owned buildings from being used as ICE detention centers.
Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
bit.ly/4a2VtHw
Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
bit.ly/4a2VtHw
Redirecting...
bit.ly
February 7, 2026 at 2:34 PM
I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
I've been somewhat deep in the replies of this post and it only just now occurred to me, a lawyer, that a neurodivergence trial is not actually a thing that happens
(yes I am aware of and even have participated in various proceedings that could be considered de facto NDTs)
(yes I am aware of and even have participated in various proceedings that could be considered de facto NDTs)
clip of me talking at length about watches being played at my neurodivergence trial
Episode 49: The Millionaire Next Door
In 1996, two marketing professors revealed the characteristics of America's new elite class: They buy the right kind of watch, marry the right kind of wife and were born the right kind of white.
In 1996, two marketing professors revealed the characteristics of America's new elite class: They buy the right kind of watch, marry the right kind of wife and were born the right kind of white.
February 6, 2026 at 10:58 PM
I've been somewhat deep in the replies of this post and it only just now occurred to me, a lawyer, that a neurodivergence trial is not actually a thing that happens
(yes I am aware of and even have participated in various proceedings that could be considered de facto NDTs)
(yes I am aware of and even have participated in various proceedings that could be considered de facto NDTs)
if it's not called the "untruth" button it SHOULD be
lol love "quietly deleted," picturing a Trump staffer putting a weighted blanket over a snoozing, snoring Trump while holding their finger over their mouth in the "shush!" position while gently tapping the delete button (or whatever it is) on the app
The White House defended Trump’s wildly racist Obamas post. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed the ‘fake outrage’ over a meme video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys. Then Trump’s Truth Social post was quietly deleted.
February 6, 2026 at 6:51 PM
if it's not called the "untruth" button it SHOULD be
It's a soft reboot of The Pink Opaque
As much as I love the movie one of the weirdest things about Kpop Demon Hunters is that it’s kinda shaped like a lega-sequel to a movie that never existed.
February 6, 2026 at 5:53 PM
It's a soft reboot of The Pink Opaque
That's a lovely blue and black watch on the right.
(it's always 2015 somewhere)
(it's always 2015 somewhere)
1. Casio A700M on a mesh bracelet. $75
2. Two-tone Piaget Polo 79. $91,000
2. Two-tone Piaget Polo 79. $91,000
February 6, 2026 at 2:23 AM
That's a lovely blue and black watch on the right.
(it's always 2015 somewhere)
(it's always 2015 somewhere)
I don't know if it's left or right coded but my objection to this take is that if your sportsball team is only making you suffer once a week you need to get a favorite baseball team; for fully half the year our teams get six or seven chances a week to hurt us.
my most right-wing take is loving my spouse, playing with my kids, and letting my favorite sportsball team make me suffer every weekend is a good life bsky.app/profile/nota...
excerpt from the keynote speech at the annual Rape Traffickers Convention
February 6, 2026 at 12:45 AM
I don't know if it's left or right coded but my objection to this take is that if your sportsball team is only making you suffer once a week you need to get a favorite baseball team; for fully half the year our teams get six or seven chances a week to hurt us.
Either this is a typo or I went full Mark Twain doing an accidental "simple country lawyer" bit.
February 5, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Either this is a typo or I went full Mark Twain doing an accidental "simple country lawyer" bit.
I'm doing my part! (mentioning that I saw Hard Boiled on the big screen the other week and it absolutely still kicks ass by today's standards; it's so much better than you're remembering even if you remember loving it)
man, asian movie posting is a lot more enjoyable than political discourse
February 4, 2026 at 11:01 PM
I'm doing my part! (mentioning that I saw Hard Boiled on the big screen the other week and it absolutely still kicks ass by today's standards; it's so much better than you're remembering even if you remember loving it)
made the day of the court security officer who looked at the x-ray of my pockets by letting him know he'd correctly identified my harmonica
February 4, 2026 at 9:48 PM
made the day of the court security officer who looked at the x-ray of my pockets by letting him know he'd correctly identified my harmonica
Obviously there are other things wrong here but how does she think you buy vegetables? They don't come in a box with branding most of the time.
Someone who grew up upper middle class in San Francisco and never had to microwave a Stouffer's dinner has strong opinions about how the poors should be eating.
Also I think she's lying because Lay's only makes potato chips in bags.
Also I think she's lying because Lay's only makes potato chips in bags.
February 3, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Obviously there are other things wrong here but how does she think you buy vegetables? They don't come in a box with branding most of the time.
The casting is fine but all these revisionist takes identifying Helen of Sparta with her Trojan kidnappers need to stop.
February 3, 2026 at 4:28 PM
The casting is fine but all these revisionist takes identifying Helen of Sparta with her Trojan kidnappers need to stop.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college (this does not work for my all-required undergraduate institution):
Freshman Seminar
Freshman Language
Sophomore Music
Junior Math
Senior Lab
Freshman Seminar
Freshman Language
Sophomore Music
Junior Math
Senior Lab
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
Agrarian Revolution in the Third World
Global Opium Trade: 1750-Present
The Logic of War
Marx & Nietzsche
Money, Markets, & Society in the Ancient Mediterranean
Agrarian Revolution in the Third World
Global Opium Trade: 1750-Present
The Logic of War
Marx & Nietzsche
Money, Markets, & Society in the Ancient Mediterranean
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college;
Sex, Death, and Disease
Machine Guns, Masculinity, and Modernity
Excursions in Modern Mathematics
Adolescent Psychology
Biology for the Non-Major
Sex, Death, and Disease
Machine Guns, Masculinity, and Modernity
Excursions in Modern Mathematics
Adolescent Psychology
Biology for the Non-Major
February 1, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college (this does not work for my all-required undergraduate institution):
Freshman Seminar
Freshman Language
Sophomore Music
Junior Math
Senior Lab
Freshman Seminar
Freshman Language
Sophomore Music
Junior Math
Senior Lab
Someone posted about searching "The Baileys" on AO3, and I saw there was nothing. I thought that was a shame, so I wrote some.
And because I'm incurably me, it came out as nearly-smut, with the Baileys addressing D/s-verse legal issues. Mind the tags, please. archiveofourown.org/works/78683141
And because I'm incurably me, it came out as nearly-smut, with the Baileys addressing D/s-verse legal issues. Mind the tags, please. archiveofourown.org/works/78683141
In Which the Baileys Are Consulted on Proposed D/s Legislation - a17tabris - The Baileys (Fictional Constituents of Chuck Schumer) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
February 1, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Someone posted about searching "The Baileys" on AO3, and I saw there was nothing. I thought that was a shame, so I wrote some.
And because I'm incurably me, it came out as nearly-smut, with the Baileys addressing D/s-verse legal issues. Mind the tags, please. archiveofourown.org/works/78683141
And because I'm incurably me, it came out as nearly-smut, with the Baileys addressing D/s-verse legal issues. Mind the tags, please. archiveofourown.org/works/78683141
Might fuck around and write up an analysis of Socrates as the Jimmy Stewart character in Rope, just steadfastly denying that the atrocities committed by his star student(s) had anything to do with his tutelage.
January 30, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Might fuck around and write up an analysis of Socrates as the Jimmy Stewart character in Rope, just steadfastly denying that the atrocities committed by his star student(s) had anything to do with his tutelage.
It's a perfect day to watch No Other Choice, adapted from Donald Westlake's novel The Ax.
January 29, 2026 at 6:38 PM
It's a perfect day to watch No Other Choice, adapted from Donald Westlake's novel The Ax.
<tired Road Runner voice> "sleep sleep"
January 29, 2026 at 5:46 PM
<tired Road Runner voice> "sleep sleep"
Fortunately this was a false alarm and there were additional showings this evening, and it was even better than I thought it would be. Just one of the coolest films ever made and the standard by which every crime action movie should be judged.
Sad that (for reasons of schedule, not snow) I can't make it to the one-night showing of Hard Boiled at my local theater. I bet that movie looks amazing on a big screen.
January 29, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Fortunately this was a false alarm and there were additional showings this evening, and it was even better than I thought it would be. Just one of the coolest films ever made and the standard by which every crime action movie should be judged.
Tremendous album somewhat spoiled in my memory by the fact that, in the neighborhood where I was living when it came out, there was about half a year where 4 or 5 nights a week a car would drive by somewhere between 2 and 5 in the morning blasting Work
to "ANTI" at 10: for me, one of the great records of its decade; the capstone (as of now) to a marvelous run
January 29, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Tremendous album somewhat spoiled in my memory by the fact that, in the neighborhood where I was living when it came out, there was about half a year where 4 or 5 nights a week a car would drive by somewhere between 2 and 5 in the morning blasting Work
Movie reviews again I guess?
Park Chan-wook hasn't had a miss in the last quarter of a century and No Other Choice (어쩔수가없다) keeps that streak alive. He hasn't had a straight comedy in a while and this is probably his funniest, even with the grim subject matter (taken from Donald Westlake). 1/7
Park Chan-wook hasn't had a miss in the last quarter of a century and No Other Choice (어쩔수가없다) keeps that streak alive. He hasn't had a straight comedy in a while and this is probably his funniest, even with the grim subject matter (taken from Donald Westlake). 1/7
January 28, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Movie reviews again I guess?
Park Chan-wook hasn't had a miss in the last quarter of a century and No Other Choice (어쩔수가없다) keeps that streak alive. He hasn't had a straight comedy in a while and this is probably his funniest, even with the grim subject matter (taken from Donald Westlake). 1/7
Park Chan-wook hasn't had a miss in the last quarter of a century and No Other Choice (어쩔수가없다) keeps that streak alive. He hasn't had a straight comedy in a while and this is probably his funniest, even with the grim subject matter (taken from Donald Westlake). 1/7
Superboy Prime basically IS the entire ethos of the administration: "I am angry that the world is not behaving like a bunch of fiction set in the 1950s that I liked but starring me, and I will kill people until it starts doing so."
It’s weirdly hard to think of supervillains who’d work with our stupid evil government simply because the overwhelming majority of them have pride. It’d have to be someone really desperate to be somebody like Stilt-Man or some shit. Doctor Doom types aren’t insecure enough. Maybe the Joker would.
January 28, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Superboy Prime basically IS the entire ethos of the administration: "I am angry that the world is not behaving like a bunch of fiction set in the 1950s that I liked but starring me, and I will kill people until it starts doing so."
We're doing Harry Potter discourse so I'm just gonna say: if you're looking for books by a bigoted author to shit on that not only better embody the author's bigotry but also warped generations of nerds into self-righteous evil justified by their own superior brains, Orson Scott Card is right there.
January 27, 2026 at 4:23 PM
We're doing Harry Potter discourse so I'm just gonna say: if you're looking for books by a bigoted author to shit on that not only better embody the author's bigotry but also warped generations of nerds into self-righteous evil justified by their own superior brains, Orson Scott Card is right there.