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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 2d

I have painstakingly and literally unpicked my mistake. Happily, in fixing my original mistake I’ve now made a much worse mistake. Good thing I’m working with velvet, which really loves being reworked and can take a lot of punishment. (It cannot.) #sewing

Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 3d

I am chagrined to report that, once again, the process of learning from my mistakes – involves making mistakes. #sewing

Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 4d

Frank’s Beach, solitude. End of a lovely day.

Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 5d

That is, it might look "piratical" but it's actually both worse and different, and thus is a question of state responsibility or aggression - precisely because it was done by a government vessel acting on orders.

Why do people find this so hard?

Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 5d

@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social a quote on warships can't be pirates:

G Fitzmaurice: ‘Acts of a piratical character committed by warships on superior orders were *more than acts of piracy*, and might constitute aggression or an act of war engaging the responsibility of the flag State’ [1955] I YBILC 56.

Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 6d

Writing retreat: view at the end of Day 2, and an echidna!

Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 6d

I am writing once again on the codification of the law of piracy, and discovering - once again - why everyone who writes on the subject winds up sounding either tetchy or a bit crazed.

@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social discuss why the subject provokes strong reactions here:

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42. Piracy and Madness

What is it about piracy that causes international lawyers to lose all common sense? This week, in a twist on our “what everyone gets wrong about...” series, Juliette McIntyre talks to Douglas Guilfoyl

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 6d

Barlings Beach: not a bad setting for a short writing retreat.

Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 11d

Academic selfie: it’s been a week, time to head home.

Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 11d

What did the ICJ say in its new UNRWA Opinion? ⚖️Join Juliette McIntyre & Tamer Morris as they unpack Israel’s obligations, what this means for UN agencies working in occupied Palestine, the future of the UN ... and K-Pop Demon Hunters analogies. #CalledToTheBar

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57. The UNRWA Opinion: The ICJ, the future of the UN system and ... K-Pop Demon Hunters?

The UNRWA Opinion: The ICJ, the future of the UN system and ... K-Pop Demon Hunters? In this episode of Called to the Bar: International Law Over Drinks, host Dr Juliette McIntyre (University of Sout

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Asymmetrical Haircuts @asymmetricalh.bsky.social · 11d

Out Now!
In recent weeks the US has struck boats of suspected drug traffickers in intl waters: Venezuela, Colombia & Mexico.
@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & @alonso-gd.bsky.social run us through the basics of what constitutes an international armed conflict
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Episode 146 – When Is It A War? with Tamsin Phillipa Paige and Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg

With the last weeks of U.S. strikes on alleged drug dealer boats and saying they are in “a non-international armed conflict” with drug cartels, we ask ‘when is war’ and whet…

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 12d

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oy, oy, oy!

Dailyfun @dailyfun.bsky.social · 13d

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 12d

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, Reviewer Two looked upon my works and I despair.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 12d

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, I live on the second floor, I live upstairs from you, yes I think you’ve seen me before

David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 12d

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. James Ozymandias, King of Kings.

Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 12d

Academic selfie: remember how you dress sends a message not only about who you are but who you want to be! (Dress for the job you want!) My message is:

… kindly Edwardian time traveller.

Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 12d

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, I live on the second floor, I live upstairs from you, yes I think you’ve seen me before

David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 12d

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. James Ozymandias, King of Kings.

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 12d

My name is Ozymandias, King Of Kings. You looked on my works. Prepare to die.

Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 12d

It's not fucking piracy! States can't commit piracy, and calling it piracy absolves the US of responsibility and says that the individuals who conducted the strikes were mutineers. It's an atrocity crime and deeply illegal but not fucking piracy. Not everything involving boats and violence is piracy

Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 12d

Washington Post edit board: There’s a name for attacks on civilian ships on the high seas: Piracy. That’s also an unfortunately plausible description of the Trump administration’s bombings of vessels around South America that it says are carrying drugs. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | The new pirates of the Caribbean

Attacks against alleged drug boats are lawless.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 12d

Washington Post edit board: There’s a name for attacks on civilian ships on the high seas: Piracy. That’s also an unfortunately plausible description of the Trump administration’s bombings of vessels around South America that it says are carrying drugs. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | The new pirates of the Caribbean

Attacks against alleged drug boats are lawless.

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Dailyfun @dailyfun.bsky.social · 13d

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 13d

Academic selfie: chillier in Canberra today, so broke out this autumnal favourite. Forehead still healing.

Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 14d

Public event! Not republic event!

Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 14d

Academic selfie: in late after a terrific “resilient Australia” UNSW Canberra Republic event. And my forehead stitches held! PSA: get any suspicious skin lumps and bumps checked!

Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks! Seems to have!

Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 15d

Academic selfie and PSA: if you zoom in, at the top of my forehead you will see something that looks like a large pimple. It was a squamous cell carcinoma which has now been removed. If you are a white middle-aged Australian, remember to get a skin check!

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15d

worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.