Hannah Walser
@hkpmw.bsky.social
Thinking about people thinking about other people. First Amendment, interpretive methodologies, criminal law, law & philosophy. PhD (English) —> JD —> Furman Fellowship at NYU Law. Philly homer; mayor of the quiet car. she/her. hwalser.wordpress.com
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Hannah Walser
@hkpmw.bsky.social
· Apr 4
“Interpretive Facts: Textualism, Empiricism, and the Law-Fact Divide” is now available on SSRN! The article will be published next spring/summer, so I have lots of time to incorporate suggestions. 😊
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Good morning from the snuggle bunch
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Good morning from the snuggle bunch
If there must be a recession, I just need it to wait, like, 2 more months.
a woman wearing glasses and a suit is making a please sign .
Alt: GIF of Liz Lemon imploring someone
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
If there must be a recession, I just need it to wait, like, 2 more months.
For instance: a smart woman director would have known better than to make Elizabeth into a spunky heroine type who banters with Victor. In the novel, Elizabeth is a woman warped by patriarchy into an angelic helpmate, and Victor both toxically reveres her and can’t stand her. More interesting, imo!
I’m only partway through, but Del Toro’s version is pretty disappointing so far, and I can’t help but think that it would have benefited from, uh, a woman’s touch (read: a robust understanding of pregnancy and childbirth as body horror)
November 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
For instance: a smart woman director would have known better than to make Elizabeth into a spunky heroine type who banters with Victor. In the novel, Elizabeth is a woman warped by patriarchy into an angelic helpmate, and Victor both toxically reveres her and can’t stand her. More interesting, imo!
Finally getting around to watching the new Frankenstein movie. I actually wrote my undergrad thesis on adaptations of Frankenstein, but somehow I’m only just now realizing: am I right that there’s never been a major film adaptation directed (perhaps even written?) by a woman?
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Finally getting around to watching the new Frankenstein movie. I actually wrote my undergrad thesis on adaptations of Frankenstein, but somehow I’m only just now realizing: am I right that there’s never been a major film adaptation directed (perhaps even written?) by a woman?
Whoever saved this post, no need to identify yourself, I just want you to know that I get it
Ok I had not seen that picture of the young pope on the left and um, I was not prepared
You know for a FACT this guy has been to a few raves in the 80s. In Chicago. On the SOUTH side. Where house EDM was born 😎🎶
November 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Whoever saved this post, no need to identify yourself, I just want you to know that I get it
Ok I had not seen that picture of the young pope on the left and um, I was not prepared
You know for a FACT this guy has been to a few raves in the 80s. In Chicago. On the SOUTH side. Where house EDM was born 😎🎶
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Ok I had not seen that picture of the young pope on the left and um, I was not prepared
(For the record, I was looking for a book called Legal Realisms by the scholar Christine Holbo. This isn’t rocket science!)
Google “corrected” my search to a nonsensical phrase and then confabulated a meaning for that phrase
November 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
(For the record, I was looking for a book called Legal Realisms by the scholar Christine Holbo. This isn’t rocket science!)
Google “corrected” my search to a nonsensical phrase and then confabulated a meaning for that phrase
November 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Google “corrected” my search to a nonsensical phrase and then confabulated a meaning for that phrase
No spoilers but this really reminds me of something that happens in Cixin Liu’s Death’s End (the last volume of the Three Body Problem trilogy)
This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
No spoilers but this really reminds me of something that happens in Cixin Liu’s Death’s End (the last volume of the Three Body Problem trilogy)
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“Lawyering Without Law” — @knightcolumbia.org call for proposals. knightcolumbia.org/blog/call-fo...
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“Lawyering Without Law” — @knightcolumbia.org call for proposals. knightcolumbia.org/blog/call-fo...
It is wild. The NYT referred to it as an “irregularity” and like … it is indeed irregular, that’s a word for it
Sure. "The Grand Jury did not see the operative indictment" is the kind of fuckup where lawyers literally don't actually know what happens next because it SO fundamental a thing that it is LITERALLY possible nobody had even thought of this as a thing that could happen.
Translate for us non-law-talkers...?
November 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
It is wild. The NYT referred to it as an “irregularity” and like … it is indeed irregular, that’s a word for it
Omg
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Omg
This has been one of those “reading is hard” weekends on the ol‘ Bluesky
November 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
This has been one of those “reading is hard” weekends on the ol‘ Bluesky
Thanks, brain, for not one but two distinct dreams last night in which a job talk went horribly awry, that’s just what I needed
November 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thanks, brain, for not one but two distinct dreams last night in which a job talk went horribly awry, that’s just what I needed
I had the delightful experience of teaching high school for about a year, which is how I know that 14-year-olds are kids, 15-year-olds are kids, 16-year-olds are kids, and 17-year-olds are kids. 18-year-olds? In my experience, usually kids
November 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I had the delightful experience of teaching high school for about a year, which is how I know that 14-year-olds are kids, 15-year-olds are kids, 16-year-olds are kids, and 17-year-olds are kids. 18-year-olds? In my experience, usually kids
Sometimes I do wish there was some kind of gold star or merit badge for Social Media Restraint
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Sometimes I do wish there was some kind of gold star or merit badge for Social Media Restraint
they promptly let the individual go
November 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
they promptly let the individual go
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When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
All right. Done for the night. R.E.M. is what I listen to when I need to feel tender toward men again.
Green Grow The Rushes
YouTube video by R.E.M. - Topic
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November 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
All right. Done for the night. R.E.M. is what I listen to when I need to feel tender toward men again.
oh no. absolutely not. I am on my last nerve, this is NOT the time to take my pasta away
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
oh no. absolutely not. I am on my last nerve, this is NOT the time to take my pasta away
I guess I‘m angry today.
& it’s self-reinforcing. Believing that girls will never be capable of really contributing to human knowledge, culture, civilization means that it’s ok for your bros to use them as sex toys. Using girls as sex toys cuts off their opportunities to learn & grow & contribute to the world. Around we go.
November 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I guess I‘m angry today.
I should stop—just one last thing. It makes total sense that a guy who believes women are cognitively inferior to men would be part of all this. The common factor is a total incuriosity about the inner lives of women and girls. This, too, is something Garcia notes among the Pelicot defendants
What resonates so grimly with the Epstein crimes is the way rape renders women and girls invisible. Even when the focus is on legal accountability for the men who rape, it’s *their* states of mind, their conspiracies, their infighting that takes up all the oxygen.
November 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I should stop—just one last thing. It makes total sense that a guy who believes women are cognitively inferior to men would be part of all this. The common factor is a total incuriosity about the inner lives of women and girls. This, too, is something Garcia notes among the Pelicot defendants
I’m glad that some of these emails are coming out and I hope people keep asking the White House about them.
At the same time, I just finished @manongarcia.bsky.social’s excellent Living With Men, about the Pelicot trial, and I have never had less hope that anyone will care 😔
At the same time, I just finished @manongarcia.bsky.social’s excellent Living With Men, about the Pelicot trial, and I have never had less hope that anyone will care 😔
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I’m glad that some of these emails are coming out and I hope people keep asking the White House about them.
At the same time, I just finished @manongarcia.bsky.social’s excellent Living With Men, about the Pelicot trial, and I have never had less hope that anyone will care 😔
At the same time, I just finished @manongarcia.bsky.social’s excellent Living With Men, about the Pelicot trial, and I have never had less hope that anyone will care 😔
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Vast sin-concealing chaos
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Vast sin-concealing chaos