Andrew Parker
@andrewparker.bsky.social
Formerly of the birdsite as Apark2453, but staking my claim to the full name!
Lawyer, overanalyzer of godawful subcultures, always up to dunk on some chuds.
If you’re into all of that too… I’m sorry, but welcome friend!
Lawyer, overanalyzer of godawful subcultures, always up to dunk on some chuds.
If you’re into all of that too… I’m sorry, but welcome friend!
I keep returning to this because I simply can't put into words how insane it is to compare "presuming the leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus has a hand in leading it" to antisemitic tropes about Jews "secretly controlling everything from the shadows"
It's not a secret, it's literally his title.
It's not a secret, it's literally his title.
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I keep returning to this because I simply can't put into words how insane it is to compare "presuming the leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus has a hand in leading it" to antisemitic tropes about Jews "secretly controlling everything from the shadows"
It's not a secret, it's literally his title.
It's not a secret, it's literally his title.
This also applies to the purported RIF "protections". Unless, again, I'm missing something pretty substantial, this only stops Trump "between the date of enactment of this Act and the date specified in section 106(3)."
So until January 30. He can fire everyone again in three months?
So until January 30. He can fire everyone again in three months?
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This also applies to the purported RIF "protections". Unless, again, I'm missing something pretty substantial, this only stops Trump "between the date of enactment of this Act and the date specified in section 106(3)."
So until January 30. He can fire everyone again in three months?
So until January 30. He can fire everyone again in three months?
Tear gas refers to the entire category of lachrymatory agents, not to any specific chemical. OC gas is a form of tear gas. See e.g., this from the Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality.
This would be like saying "they clarified that they beat the baby with a tonfa, not a baton."
This would be like saying "they clarified that they beat the baby with a tonfa, not a baton."
November 9, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Tear gas refers to the entire category of lachrymatory agents, not to any specific chemical. OC gas is a form of tear gas. See e.g., this from the Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality.
This would be like saying "they clarified that they beat the baby with a tonfa, not a baton."
This would be like saying "they clarified that they beat the baby with a tonfa, not a baton."
“I hear this in personal conversation with lots of people but few people are saying it out loud” is the kind of statement only Charles Xavier can say with a straight face.
November 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
“I hear this in personal conversation with lots of people but few people are saying it out loud” is the kind of statement only Charles Xavier can say with a straight face.
Honeybear, Clearsky thinks it’s reporting data from February 2024 and Bluesky only has 25 million accounts.
November 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Honeybear, Clearsky thinks it’s reporting data from February 2024 and Bluesky only has 25 million accounts.
Weirdly, I remember tons of stories from the New York Times covering Trump campaign events focused on crowd size.
“Record crowd”, “packed arena”, not just “here’s what was said at this rally of some number of people”
“Record crowd”, “packed arena”, not just “here’s what was said at this rally of some number of people”
October 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Weirdly, I remember tons of stories from the New York Times covering Trump campaign events focused on crowd size.
“Record crowd”, “packed arena”, not just “here’s what was said at this rally of some number of people”
“Record crowd”, “packed arena”, not just “here’s what was said at this rally of some number of people”
This is, obviously, not the most important part of the article. But good god is this a weird way to describe the lyrics to the Ghostbuster’s theme.
October 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This is, obviously, not the most important part of the article. But good god is this a weird way to describe the lyrics to the Ghostbuster’s theme.
Did a chatbot write this?
October 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Did a chatbot write this?
Unless it’s saying certain bigoted assholes should rest in piss.
Or running a blocklist identifying fans of a notorious sex pest voice actor.
Those are definitely things you can’t “just do”.
Or running a blocklist identifying fans of a notorious sex pest voice actor.
Those are definitely things you can’t “just do”.
October 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Unless it’s saying certain bigoted assholes should rest in piss.
Or running a blocklist identifying fans of a notorious sex pest voice actor.
Those are definitely things you can’t “just do”.
Or running a blocklist identifying fans of a notorious sex pest voice actor.
Those are definitely things you can’t “just do”.
For the record: the deleted post and original article referred to “the autism problem” that Trump “wants to solve”.
Please explain, for the record, what “more specific context” was needed to discover that referring to a group of people as “the ___ problem” in need of a “solution” was wrong.
Please explain, for the record, what “more specific context” was needed to discover that referring to a group of people as “the ___ problem” in need of a “solution” was wrong.
September 24, 2025 at 3:21 AM
For the record: the deleted post and original article referred to “the autism problem” that Trump “wants to solve”.
Please explain, for the record, what “more specific context” was needed to discover that referring to a group of people as “the ___ problem” in need of a “solution” was wrong.
Please explain, for the record, what “more specific context” was needed to discover that referring to a group of people as “the ___ problem” in need of a “solution” was wrong.
Two mistakes in the first paragraph.
First “Utah prosecutors claimed” is not “more evidence has emerged”. Now more than ever “cop or lawyer of a right-wing government said so” can’t be mistaken for “evidence”.
Second, no carefulness in choice of words would have mattered.
Not your best work.
First “Utah prosecutors claimed” is not “more evidence has emerged”. Now more than ever “cop or lawyer of a right-wing government said so” can’t be mistaken for “evidence”.
Second, no carefulness in choice of words would have mattered.
Not your best work.
September 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Two mistakes in the first paragraph.
First “Utah prosecutors claimed” is not “more evidence has emerged”. Now more than ever “cop or lawyer of a right-wing government said so” can’t be mistaken for “evidence”.
Second, no carefulness in choice of words would have mattered.
Not your best work.
First “Utah prosecutors claimed” is not “more evidence has emerged”. Now more than ever “cop or lawyer of a right-wing government said so” can’t be mistaken for “evidence”.
Second, no carefulness in choice of words would have mattered.
Not your best work.
Perhaps doing a last-minute google search for "track suit squat" to arrive at the conclusion "ackshually this meme did not originate from the pepe version therefore he probably knows it from the slav squat not from its association with Pepe I am very smart" may not be the best analysis.
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September 13, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Perhaps doing a last-minute google search for "track suit squat" to arrive at the conclusion "ackshually this meme did not originate from the pepe version therefore he probably knows it from the slav squat not from its association with Pepe I am very smart" may not be the best analysis.
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If you don’t already know that one of these means “loss” and the other (if posted on 4chan) is a rape joke, and why, you’d have to be pretty committed to listen to me go through all the layers of abstraction to explain it.
And I’ll sound like an absolute lunatic explaining it.
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And I’ll sound like an absolute lunatic explaining it.
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September 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
If you don’t already know that one of these means “loss” and the other (if posted on 4chan) is a rape joke, and why, you’d have to be pretty committed to listen to me go through all the layers of abstraction to explain it.
And I’ll sound like an absolute lunatic explaining it.
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And I’ll sound like an absolute lunatic explaining it.
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I know no one needs proof we’re in hell, but goddamn.
Michael Cohen having a podcast talking to notorious grifter and perpetual L recipient Allison Gill simply should not be in any just world.
Michael Cohen having a podcast talking to notorious grifter and perpetual L recipient Allison Gill simply should not be in any just world.
September 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I know no one needs proof we’re in hell, but goddamn.
Michael Cohen having a podcast talking to notorious grifter and perpetual L recipient Allison Gill simply should not be in any just world.
Michael Cohen having a podcast talking to notorious grifter and perpetual L recipient Allison Gill simply should not be in any just world.
This is a perfect example of the fascinating semiotics to the concepts of violence and legitimacy.
Is the violence against trans people and immigrants Kirk has helped bring about not violence? Is violence brought about through politics somehow apolitical?
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Is the violence against trans people and immigrants Kirk has helped bring about not violence? Is violence brought about through politics somehow apolitical?
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September 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This is a perfect example of the fascinating semiotics to the concepts of violence and legitimacy.
Is the violence against trans people and immigrants Kirk has helped bring about not violence? Is violence brought about through politics somehow apolitical?
1/
Is the violence against trans people and immigrants Kirk has helped bring about not violence? Is violence brought about through politics somehow apolitical?
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Incidentally, I was trying to find what if anything Yglesias had ever actually done that earned such a prominent voice in politics.
I didn’t find that, but I did find this:
And I can’t tell if it’s pure projection or some amount of introspection the brain worms took from him.
I didn’t find that, but I did find this:
And I can’t tell if it’s pure projection or some amount of introspection the brain worms took from him.
August 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Incidentally, I was trying to find what if anything Yglesias had ever actually done that earned such a prominent voice in politics.
I didn’t find that, but I did find this:
And I can’t tell if it’s pure projection or some amount of introspection the brain worms took from him.
I didn’t find that, but I did find this:
And I can’t tell if it’s pure projection or some amount of introspection the brain worms took from him.
How anyone can read this analysis and think “yep this seems very smart and thoughtful” baffles me.
“Probably isn’t true… probably costs them at least a few votes… probably hurts Republicans”
“Probably isn’t true… probably costs them at least a few votes… probably hurts Republicans”
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
How anyone can read this analysis and think “yep this seems very smart and thoughtful” baffles me.
“Probably isn’t true… probably costs them at least a few votes… probably hurts Republicans”
“Probably isn’t true… probably costs them at least a few votes… probably hurts Republicans”
It’s wild to see the same “OMG they made it too easy to get this thing that made me feel like a special winner that’s infringing on my experience” arguments that cropped up about WoW periodically, but coming from a game’s producer rather than “hardcore” internet assholes.
August 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
It’s wild to see the same “OMG they made it too easy to get this thing that made me feel like a special winner that’s infringing on my experience” arguments that cropped up about WoW periodically, but coming from a game’s producer rather than “hardcore” internet assholes.
I get that republicans are just aping the Trump style, but good god does referring to Jewish enslavement in Exodus as “people were completely oppressed, economically, oppressed in many different ways” sound just so fucking dumb.
August 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I get that republicans are just aping the Trump style, but good god does referring to Jewish enslavement in Exodus as “people were completely oppressed, economically, oppressed in many different ways” sound just so fucking dumb.
It took me far longer than I’d like to realize how funny it is for a European to lecture on how European people would *never* call themselves European as a way to distinguish themselves from other people on the same continent.
August 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
It took me far longer than I’d like to realize how funny it is for a European to lecture on how European people would *never* call themselves European as a way to distinguish themselves from other people on the same continent.
“At least in official communications” is a weird qualifier when we’re talking about how to refer to people in conversation.
But I’m also not sure how the European Union’s website isn’t “official communications”.
Maybe this just isn’t a hill worth dying on?
But I’m also not sure how the European Union’s website isn’t “official communications”.
Maybe this just isn’t a hill worth dying on?
August 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
“At least in official communications” is a weird qualifier when we’re talking about how to refer to people in conversation.
But I’m also not sure how the European Union’s website isn’t “official communications”.
Maybe this just isn’t a hill worth dying on?
But I’m also not sure how the European Union’s website isn’t “official communications”.
Maybe this just isn’t a hill worth dying on?
I'll admit I'm not an expert on Chinese culture, but I'm pretty sure money given as a gesture of friendship and gratitude is rarely conveyed via "envelope stuffed in a bag of potato chips."
August 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I'll admit I'm not an expert on Chinese culture, but I'm pretty sure money given as a gesture of friendship and gratitude is rarely conveyed via "envelope stuffed in a bag of potato chips."
Why did you expect him to be a member of a bar association if you’re aware that in both states you checked a “bar association” is entirely different from the “state bar”?
For future reference: information from the judiciary beats “ABA said so” every day of the week.
For future reference: information from the judiciary beats “ABA said so” every day of the week.
![David: “I’ve gone ahead and checked and you’re not a member of either the North Carolina state bar or Mississippi bar”
Also David: “if he had [been wearing a suit all day in a federal courthouse] one would expect him to still be a member of a bar association”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:co3k2pz6th2kgyx7elxp6xhp/bafkreidkesdvrpgrxkx7k6vlgijhpuxfx4uqs4fini2wzlnfkjihftkb7e@jpeg)
August 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Why did you expect him to be a member of a bar association if you’re aware that in both states you checked a “bar association” is entirely different from the “state bar”?
For future reference: information from the judiciary beats “ABA said so” every day of the week.
For future reference: information from the judiciary beats “ABA said so” every day of the week.
Not for nothing, but even a small amount of digging would have found that the North Carolina State Bar and the North Carolina Bar Association aren’t the same thing.
August 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Not for nothing, but even a small amount of digging would have found that the North Carolina State Bar and the North Carolina Bar Association aren’t the same thing.