C. Maxwell Solie
@posthumanlawyer.bsky.social
Former aspiring tech policy analyst. Current insurance tax attorney. Every step between the two made sense at the time.
This is absolutely hilarious, because I’d have to think by these dingbats’ own conception, this is not a gingerbread “man.”
Where’s the gingerbread dick, Susan?!
Where’s the gingerbread dick, Susan?!
Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
December 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This is absolutely hilarious, because I’d have to think by these dingbats’ own conception, this is not a gingerbread “man.”
Where’s the gingerbread dick, Susan?!
Where’s the gingerbread dick, Susan?!
Read this whole thread, it’s delightful.
But also fuck if this doesn’t feel like a brutal summation of the last decade-plus of American politics.
But also fuck if this doesn’t feel like a brutal summation of the last decade-plus of American politics.
...So much trouble could have been avoided if the people who knew what was going on were less cagey about it
December 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Read this whole thread, it’s delightful.
But also fuck if this doesn’t feel like a brutal summation of the last decade-plus of American politics.
But also fuck if this doesn’t feel like a brutal summation of the last decade-plus of American politics.
Absolutely. And not for nothing, but this is also the dumbest use of a $6.5b donation to the government.
There’s a reason he’s donating this to “Trump accounts” and not, like, NEH or something. The accounts may not be a grift (just bad policy), but the donation is still dirty as hell.
There’s a reason he’s donating this to “Trump accounts” and not, like, NEH or something. The accounts may not be a grift (just bad policy), but the donation is still dirty as hell.
Remember—Billionaire philanthropy is PR
$6.25B is a lot of money. It’s also only 4.1% of the $152B Michael Dell has hoarded. If Dell paid the 37% tax rate on the wealthy he'd pay $56.25B—and still have nearly $100B, more than he'd ever need
Taxation of billionaires > philanthropy from billionaires
$6.25B is a lot of money. It’s also only 4.1% of the $152B Michael Dell has hoarded. If Dell paid the 37% tax rate on the wealthy he'd pay $56.25B—and still have nearly $100B, more than he'd ever need
Taxation of billionaires > philanthropy from billionaires
December 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Absolutely. And not for nothing, but this is also the dumbest use of a $6.5b donation to the government.
There’s a reason he’s donating this to “Trump accounts” and not, like, NEH or something. The accounts may not be a grift (just bad policy), but the donation is still dirty as hell.
There’s a reason he’s donating this to “Trump accounts” and not, like, NEH or something. The accounts may not be a grift (just bad policy), but the donation is still dirty as hell.
Sense8, now and forever.
The cancelled TV show you'll never stop thinking about
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Sense8, now and forever.
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It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
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auntifa
October 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
auntifa
Stephanie Beatriz is a fucking phenomenal talent. The acting/singing in Hazbin and Encanto are so good, but so different, I still have trouble believing it’s the same person. And it would have been so easy for her to play Quiet as post apocalypse Rosa Diaz, but she didn’t and both are awesome.
October 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Stephanie Beatriz is a fucking phenomenal talent. The acting/singing in Hazbin and Encanto are so good, but so different, I still have trouble believing it’s the same person. And it would have been so easy for her to play Quiet as post apocalypse Rosa Diaz, but she didn’t and both are awesome.
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Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
August 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
In “The Residence” when Al Franken offers to get rid of education “as a concept” if Eliza Coupe plays ball.
“Make sure they speak English. That’s about all we need” — Trump on the duties of the Department of Education
July 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
In “The Residence” when Al Franken offers to get rid of education “as a concept” if Eliza Coupe plays ball.
Great thread.
Been 15 years since I was behind the wheel, and never in circumstances like this, but this hits me where I (apparently) still live.
Bus drivers Show Up.
Been 15 years since I was behind the wheel, and never in circumstances like this, but this hits me where I (apparently) still live.
Bus drivers Show Up.
One other 7/7 thread today. Because I think how the bus network got running again is a real testament to some serious heroes that day:
The bus drivers and staff who got that network running again and got London home that night.
And TfL/the Mayor disobeyed the Security Services to make it happen /1
The bus drivers and staff who got that network running again and got London home that night.
And TfL/the Mayor disobeyed the Security Services to make it happen /1
July 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Great thread.
Been 15 years since I was behind the wheel, and never in circumstances like this, but this hits me where I (apparently) still live.
Bus drivers Show Up.
Been 15 years since I was behind the wheel, and never in circumstances like this, but this hits me where I (apparently) still live.
Bus drivers Show Up.
Really good this is a work from home week, otherwise everyone in the office would have to listen to me humming songs from KPop Demon Hunters nonstop.
Instead, my family gets subjected to it. But they’re doing the same, so it’s all good.
Instead, my family gets subjected to it. But they’re doing the same, so it’s all good.
July 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Really good this is a work from home week, otherwise everyone in the office would have to listen to me humming songs from KPop Demon Hunters nonstop.
Instead, my family gets subjected to it. But they’re doing the same, so it’s all good.
Instead, my family gets subjected to it. But they’re doing the same, so it’s all good.
I want a reboot/sequel of Person of Interest, and I want it queer as hell. All the simmering gay subtext between Finch and Reese made glorious text. The Root/Shaw sapphic disaster romance highlighted from the jump, no being coy.
Also, you know, themes of gov’t surveillance and AI seem timely.
Also, you know, themes of gov’t surveillance and AI seem timely.
June 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I want a reboot/sequel of Person of Interest, and I want it queer as hell. All the simmering gay subtext between Finch and Reese made glorious text. The Root/Shaw sapphic disaster romance highlighted from the jump, no being coy.
Also, you know, themes of gov’t surveillance and AI seem timely.
Also, you know, themes of gov’t surveillance and AI seem timely.
“MAGA accounts”
Obviously not the worst thing in the bill, but seriously, what the shit.
Legislation by troll is fucking exhausting, I tell you.
Obviously not the worst thing in the bill, but seriously, what the shit.
Legislation by troll is fucking exhausting, I tell you.
May 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
“MAGA accounts”
Obviously not the worst thing in the bill, but seriously, what the shit.
Legislation by troll is fucking exhausting, I tell you.
Obviously not the worst thing in the bill, but seriously, what the shit.
Legislation by troll is fucking exhausting, I tell you.
Goddamn, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is just as good as everyone says. Still in the first few hours (I think, I’m a very slow player so it’s hard to tell), and this game hits so hard. Story, acting, combat, art design, everything just freaking sings.
Thanks, Internet. Good rec.
Thanks, Internet. Good rec.
April 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Goddamn, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is just as good as everyone says. Still in the first few hours (I think, I’m a very slow player so it’s hard to tell), and this game hits so hard. Story, acting, combat, art design, everything just freaking sings.
Thanks, Internet. Good rec.
Thanks, Internet. Good rec.
Apropos of absolutely nothing, the structured settlement secondary market is predatory as fuck. The gov’t should kill the whole thing by legislating JG Wentworth or whomever into the fucking sun. Or at least set up a gov’t-funded alternative to kill the economics.
Seriously, fuck those people.
Seriously, fuck those people.
April 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Apropos of absolutely nothing, the structured settlement secondary market is predatory as fuck. The gov’t should kill the whole thing by legislating JG Wentworth or whomever into the fucking sun. Or at least set up a gov’t-funded alternative to kill the economics.
Seriously, fuck those people.
Seriously, fuck those people.
He didn’t change his mind on shit. It was a grift, like it’s all a grift, and he’s gonna do it again and again. Announce tariffs to tank the market, “pause” them to get a bounce, rinse, repeat. He and the other assholes will make trillions while all our 401(k)s, 529s, etc. just fucking crater.
From Tuesday evening to Wednesday afternoon, President Donald Trump and his trade advisers spoke to several Republican lawmakers and top foreign leaders who raised concerns about the faltering global markets.
The 18 hours that changed Trump’s mind on trade
From Tuesday evening to Wednesday afternoon, Trump and his trade advisers spoke to several Republican lawmakers and top foreign leaders who raised concerns about the faltering global markets.
wapo.st
April 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
He didn’t change his mind on shit. It was a grift, like it’s all a grift, and he’s gonna do it again and again. Announce tariffs to tank the market, “pause” them to get a bounce, rinse, repeat. He and the other assholes will make trillions while all our 401(k)s, 529s, etc. just fucking crater.
Saw a billboard today advertising some product as “immune to Trump tariffs” because it was manufactured in-house.
Not sure if that’s a rebuke of the tariffs or an endorsement of domestic manufacturing. But either way, I respect the hustle, getting that sign up so quick.
Not sure if that’s a rebuke of the tariffs or an endorsement of domestic manufacturing. But either way, I respect the hustle, getting that sign up so quick.
April 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Saw a billboard today advertising some product as “immune to Trump tariffs” because it was manufactured in-house.
Not sure if that’s a rebuke of the tariffs or an endorsement of domestic manufacturing. But either way, I respect the hustle, getting that sign up so quick.
Not sure if that’s a rebuke of the tariffs or an endorsement of domestic manufacturing. But either way, I respect the hustle, getting that sign up so quick.
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Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company
IG 3sixteen
IG 3sixteen
April 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company
IG 3sixteen
IG 3sixteen
The whiniest, most bigoted assholes in our society have figured out that very few people in positions of authority-gov’t, colleges, business, down to a fucking amateur tennis league-have any goddamn backbone, let alone moral courage. So bigots whine, authority caves, and everyone else suffers.
in Brooklyn: Cammie won her match at Lincoln Terrace Park last week — and then her cisgender opponent complained to the league, saying “it’s unfair for me, or any other woman in this league, to play against a man under the pretense that he is a woman.”
and the league kicked Cammie out.
and the league kicked Cammie out.
Trans Athlete Claims Amateur Brooklyn Tennis League Kicked Her Out
Cammie Woodman says she was booted from a league that uses Parks Department courts after a cisgender woman complained about losing to a trans player.
www.thecity.nyc
April 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The whiniest, most bigoted assholes in our society have figured out that very few people in positions of authority-gov’t, colleges, business, down to a fucking amateur tennis league-have any goddamn backbone, let alone moral courage. So bigots whine, authority caves, and everyone else suffers.
I love that, thanks to Lower Decks, it’s canon that in Star Trek, TTRPGs are prevalent enough to support an apparently robust interstellar market.
Boimler’s been waiting MONTHS for the Gowron expansion.
Boimler’s been waiting MONTHS for the Gowron expansion.
April 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I love that, thanks to Lower Decks, it’s canon that in Star Trek, TTRPGs are prevalent enough to support an apparently robust interstellar market.
Boimler’s been waiting MONTHS for the Gowron expansion.
Boimler’s been waiting MONTHS for the Gowron expansion.
Among other guidance, an IRS publication on backup withholding was removed from its website in compliance with the administration’s anti-DEI order.
Backup withholding is officially woke, I guess.
Backup withholding is officially woke, I guess.
March 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Among other guidance, an IRS publication on backup withholding was removed from its website in compliance with the administration’s anti-DEI order.
Backup withholding is officially woke, I guess.
Backup withholding is officially woke, I guess.
Finally watched John Wick 4, and the whiplash between the non-action parts—which were quiet and kinda moving—and the slapstick action sequences was a lot.
Not sure if that was intentional, but with how often John shoots a guy in the dick in this film, it has to be, right?
Not sure if that was intentional, but with how often John shoots a guy in the dick in this film, it has to be, right?
March 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Finally watched John Wick 4, and the whiplash between the non-action parts—which were quiet and kinda moving—and the slapstick action sequences was a lot.
Not sure if that was intentional, but with how often John shoots a guy in the dick in this film, it has to be, right?
Not sure if that was intentional, but with how often John shoots a guy in the dick in this film, it has to be, right?
I remember fondly a scene from one of those Mars movies—Mission to Mars or the Red Planet, I think—where the astronauts are on Mars and take a piss, enjoying the arc of the stream in the lower Martian gravity. That seemed fun.
Not enough reason to actually go there, of course. But fun.
Not enough reason to actually go there, of course. But fun.
March 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I remember fondly a scene from one of those Mars movies—Mission to Mars or the Red Planet, I think—where the astronauts are on Mars and take a piss, enjoying the arc of the stream in the lower Martian gravity. That seemed fun.
Not enough reason to actually go there, of course. But fun.
Not enough reason to actually go there, of course. But fun.
Oh man, Invincible season finale, new Reacher, and the new season of Wheel of Time?!
Prime Video’s got the juice today.
Prime Video’s got the juice today.
March 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Oh man, Invincible season finale, new Reacher, and the new season of Wheel of Time?!
Prime Video’s got the juice today.
Prime Video’s got the juice today.
Current policy tax scoring is insane and dumb and I hate it, but fuck it, let’s ball. New plan, pass a law providing for UBI (or whatever, go nuts) that starts paying on July 1, but expires on June 30. So that law costs nothing. Then, pass another law that removes the expiration date.
March 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Current policy tax scoring is insane and dumb and I hate it, but fuck it, let’s ball. New plan, pass a law providing for UBI (or whatever, go nuts) that starts paying on July 1, but expires on June 30. So that law costs nothing. Then, pass another law that removes the expiration date.