Brendan
@broberts.lol
Just another annoying gay leftist lawyer/writer. NYer currently based in LA. Formerly brobertslaw elsewhere
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Brendan
@broberts.lol
· Nov 9
I know the early days community-building shit on social media is annoying, but for SEO purposes, in addition to leftist/queer politics, I will likely post about-
-writing (screenplay/novels, horror/comedy)
-sports (Yankees, Oregon Ducks, NYCFC/LAFC)
-gaming
-queer travel
-my two dumb cats
-writing (screenplay/novels, horror/comedy)
-sports (Yankees, Oregon Ducks, NYCFC/LAFC)
-gaming
-queer travel
-my two dumb cats
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Catching up on games since I've been out and this looks MISERABLE
November 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Catching up on games since I've been out and this looks MISERABLE
Watching a fanshot of a recent Radiohead show in London, and was clicking around on setlist.fm, where I love finding little dumb things. For Kid A, Thom Yorke has played it solo 7 times, which is slightly more than 2 Radiohead cover bands, but half as often as John Mayer. Punch Bros dwarf both
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Watching a fanshot of a recent Radiohead show in London, and was clicking around on setlist.fm, where I love finding little dumb things. For Kid A, Thom Yorke has played it solo 7 times, which is slightly more than 2 Radiohead cover bands, but half as often as John Mayer. Punch Bros dwarf both
That Honda poem commercial must hit so hard for the jangling keys crowd
November 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM
That Honda poem commercial must hit so hard for the jangling keys crowd
I haven't posted about Wordle in forever mainly because I regret allowing my subscription to a NYT product to renew, but I do need to share this absolutely bonkers pattern I had today
Wordle 1,622 4/6
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November 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I haven't posted about Wordle in forever mainly because I regret allowing my subscription to a NYT product to renew, but I do need to share this absolutely bonkers pattern I had today
Wordle 1,622 4/6
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Watching NFL on Thanksgiving is already enough exposure to problematic men willingly getting head trauma, I really don't need to additionally hear from Dana White
November 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Watching NFL on Thanksgiving is already enough exposure to problematic men willingly getting head trauma, I really don't need to additionally hear from Dana White
In a long career of doing weird things, this has too be the weirdest thing Patton has done, right?
Mike Patton and the Avett Brothers made their TV debut as AVTT/PTTN
AVTT/PTTN Make Their TV Debut On 'The Tonight Show'
Earlier this month Mike Patton, Scott Avett, and Seth Avett shared their unlikely collaborative album AVTT/PTTN, which is also the name of their new band together. This week, the Faith No More/Mr. Bun...
stereogum.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
In a long career of doing weird things, this has too be the weirdest thing Patton has done, right?
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I cannot stop laughing at this
November 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I cannot stop laughing at this
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The headline and subheading are typical conservative bait but then I read the article and it's really sweet actually??
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The headline and subheading are typical conservative bait but then I read the article and it's really sweet actually??
Self quote-posts are dumb but talking through "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" is maybe the single most memorable part of my Phil major and I will seize on any chance to shoehorn it into a post
Ursula K. Le Guin's "Omelas" but with Carville in the basement being shown pictures of happy queer minorities
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Self quote-posts are dumb but talking through "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" is maybe the single most memorable part of my Phil major and I will seize on any chance to shoehorn it into a post
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haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
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It really is just simple geometry.
You cannot build a functional city if everyone brings a 2-ton living room on wheels with them.
You cannot build a functional city if everyone brings a 2-ton living room on wheels with them.
The entrance to the 3-storey bike parking garage at Utrecht Central holding 12,500 bicycles. It’s free for the first 24 hours, linked to the station, and used by tens of thousands every day. This is what happens when a country treats bikes as real transport infrastructure, not an afterthought.
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
It really is just simple geometry.
You cannot build a functional city if everyone brings a 2-ton living room on wheels with them.
You cannot build a functional city if everyone brings a 2-ton living room on wheels with them.
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jesus christ what a flex
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 AM
jesus christ what a flex
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In case it is: Here are the Bruins walking off the field a last time
November 23, 2025 at 7:23 AM
In case it is: Here are the Bruins walking off the field a last time
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As a general rule, most people decrying "government intervention" regard state activity they approve of as merely ensuring the default, correct state of affairs and state activity they disapprove of as an artificial and unnatural infringement on it.
in general the American individuality and distrust of government disappears once criminal justice enters the conversation
Americans hate the government meddling in their everyday affairs but "criminals" are a separate class of ontologically bad people that they could never ever be a part of
Americans hate the government meddling in their everyday affairs but "criminals" are a separate class of ontologically bad people that they could never ever be a part of
November 23, 2025 at 6:29 AM
As a general rule, most people decrying "government intervention" regard state activity they approve of as merely ensuring the default, correct state of affairs and state activity they disapprove of as an artificial and unnatural infringement on it.
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Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 8
Asuka Arrives in Japan
Asuka Strikes!
Episode 8
Asuka Arrives in Japan
Asuka Strikes!
November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 8
Asuka Arrives in Japan
Asuka Strikes!
Episode 8
Asuka Arrives in Japan
Asuka Strikes!
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NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated.
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated.
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
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Gotham FC is back on top 🏆
This is the franchise's second NWSL championship in three years.
This is the franchise's second NWSL championship in three years.
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Gotham FC is back on top 🏆
This is the franchise's second NWSL championship in three years.
This is the franchise's second NWSL championship in three years.
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kshama sawant:
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
kshama sawant:
USC DOINKS IT and the entire time I had @chriswarcraft.bsky.social's voice in my head- the ball went where his hips were facing (directly at the right upright)
November 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
USC DOINKS IT and the entire time I had @chriswarcraft.bsky.social's voice in my head- the ball went where his hips were facing (directly at the right upright)
Oregon just had one of the strangest drives you'll ever see. Starting at the UO 30 off of an INT, the drive was 12 plays for 56 yards, had 6 combined penalties for a total of 78 yards, and it ended with a TD by way of a direct snap to a UO linebacker, with two other UO defenders blocking for him
November 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Oregon just had one of the strangest drives you'll ever see. Starting at the UO 30 off of an INT, the drive was 12 plays for 56 yards, had 6 combined penalties for a total of 78 yards, and it ended with a TD by way of a direct snap to a UO linebacker, with two other UO defenders blocking for him
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Meets Zohran on Friday, dressing like an East Village poet who wrote something called "A Fairest Autumn" by Saturday.
November 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Meets Zohran on Friday, dressing like an East Village poet who wrote something called "A Fairest Autumn" by Saturday.
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I wonder if right now, zohran is talking to his wife about the smell
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I wonder if right now, zohran is talking to his wife about the smell