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Finger guns and bad puns. Practicing the law, practically perfecting it. Wisconsin Nice. LSG. Classics nerd/violist/I like cats and also yarn. She/her.
Tech curse strikes again, I have bork my ISP, but I got a slightly cheaper plan out of it so win all around I guess
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Tech curse strikes again, I have bork my ISP, but I got a slightly cheaper plan out of it so win all around I guess
2011 WI Act 10
Took the LSAT four months later.
Took the LSAT four months later.
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
2011 WI Act 10
Took the LSAT four months later.
Took the LSAT four months later.
Lots of talk about the downgrade of "professional" degrees. Not enough about how $200k isn't enough for most of the programs that are left. At UW-Madison, you could do law for under $200k (if you are a WI resident) but not med/vet/pharm.
How dare the poors try to do anything at all, I guess.
How dare the poors try to do anything at all, I guess.
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Lots of talk about the downgrade of "professional" degrees. Not enough about how $200k isn't enough for most of the programs that are left. At UW-Madison, you could do law for under $200k (if you are a WI resident) but not med/vet/pharm.
How dare the poors try to do anything at all, I guess.
How dare the poors try to do anything at all, I guess.
I am irrationally irritated by the fact that the city of Green Bay has its Christmas lights already out. It is not even Thanksgiving.
November 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I am irrationally irritated by the fact that the city of Green Bay has its Christmas lights already out. It is not even Thanksgiving.
Princess Liliana Tallulahbelle, Destroyer of Worlds, would like the world to know she has the cutest toe beans.
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Princess Liliana Tallulahbelle, Destroyer of Worlds, would like the world to know she has the cutest toe beans.
Will have been in this job 6 years this week. Going to a conference; best part will be maybe I'll get to grab dinner with my parents.
Everything has been real hard this year. It's hard to celebrate it, much as I would like to.
Everything has been real hard this year. It's hard to celebrate it, much as I would like to.
November 17, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Will have been in this job 6 years this week. Going to a conference; best part will be maybe I'll get to grab dinner with my parents.
Everything has been real hard this year. It's hard to celebrate it, much as I would like to.
Everything has been real hard this year. It's hard to celebrate it, much as I would like to.
Had a meeting today in which an old retired attorney got chippy with me...and the head of a state board, who is a woman in her 40s and therefore cannot be trusted to know anything even though she's been confirmed by the state senate and has been in her position for a number of years. 1/
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Had a meeting today in which an old retired attorney got chippy with me...and the head of a state board, who is a woman in her 40s and therefore cannot be trusted to know anything even though she's been confirmed by the state senate and has been in her position for a number of years. 1/
It is not compromise if only one side is ever giving in.
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 AM
It is not compromise if only one side is ever giving in.
Here we go. Buyback time.
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Here we go. Buyback time.
Well-intentioned person sends me a heads up legislative action alert, not knowing I wrote half of it
It's that kind of day I guess
It's that kind of day I guess
November 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Well-intentioned person sends me a heads up legislative action alert, not knowing I wrote half of it
It's that kind of day I guess
It's that kind of day I guess
My personal top tech tip: BCC is your friend.
I do love a good Midwestern Nice "yeah I sure did CC your boss," don't get me wrong, but I sure didn't need to be getting the reply-alls on this particular 100+ person meeting invite.
I do love a good Midwestern Nice "yeah I sure did CC your boss," don't get me wrong, but I sure didn't need to be getting the reply-alls on this particular 100+ person meeting invite.
November 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
My personal top tech tip: BCC is your friend.
I do love a good Midwestern Nice "yeah I sure did CC your boss," don't get me wrong, but I sure didn't need to be getting the reply-alls on this particular 100+ person meeting invite.
I do love a good Midwestern Nice "yeah I sure did CC your boss," don't get me wrong, but I sure didn't need to be getting the reply-alls on this particular 100+ person meeting invite.
Istg I would like to go one day without the WI legislature trying to make my job harder
October 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Istg I would like to go one day without the WI legislature trying to make my job harder
The world is on fire but I can make pretty things
October 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The world is on fire but I can make pretty things
Today has been one of those days where I just have to put my head down and keep reminding myself that I can apply for PSLF in a month
October 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Today has been one of those days where I just have to put my head down and keep reminding myself that I can apply for PSLF in a month
Super love when people take up my time with questions they should be asking their lawyer because they don't want to pay for their lawyer's time, and then get mad when I tell them they need to ask their lawyer
September 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Super love when people take up my time with questions they should be asking their lawyer because they don't want to pay for their lawyer's time, and then get mad when I tell them they need to ask their lawyer
I'm currently in a town so small it doesn't have a Culver's, and in Wisconsin, that says something.
September 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I'm currently in a town so small it doesn't have a Culver's, and in Wisconsin, that says something.
My dad is a 77-year-old autistic man. Diagnosed ~3 years ago.
This is just ridiculous.
This is just ridiculous.
RFK Jr: I've never seen a case of full-blown autism in a 70-year-old man. You're only seeing it in the kids. It's an epidemic.
September 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
My dad is a 77-year-old autistic man. Diagnosed ~3 years ago.
This is just ridiculous.
This is just ridiculous.
Precious baby intern has not had con law yet and I can't decide whether that's good or bad, under the circumstances.
September 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Precious baby intern has not had con law yet and I can't decide whether that's good or bad, under the circumstances.
My new intern was born after 9/11 😭 I feel v old.
September 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
My new intern was born after 9/11 😭 I feel v old.
This is a conversation I have with myself every day.
The state law stuff I deal with doesn't stop just because nationally everything is a mess.
The state law stuff I deal with doesn't stop just because nationally everything is a mess.
/9 By the way - we should also fight the inclination to abandon the rule of law because bad people are cynically abusing it. First, while bad things happen on a national scale, every day on a micro scale advocates use the rule of law to fight injustice and improve lives.
September 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is a conversation I have with myself every day.
The state law stuff I deal with doesn't stop just because nationally everything is a mess.
The state law stuff I deal with doesn't stop just because nationally everything is a mess.
Reposted by An actual badger
/4 SCOTUS has lost the presumption of regularity -- the mandate of the legal heavens -- through its shadow docket actions, which by invoking SCOTUS' equitable discretionary powers have obliterated the pretext that SCOTUS is merely calling balls and strikes, merely calling lines where they see them.
September 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
/4 SCOTUS has lost the presumption of regularity -- the mandate of the legal heavens -- through its shadow docket actions, which by invoking SCOTUS' equitable discretionary powers have obliterated the pretext that SCOTUS is merely calling balls and strikes, merely calling lines where they see them.
I like a lot of things about my workplace. The inability to comprehend BCC is not one of them.
September 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I like a lot of things about my workplace. The inability to comprehend BCC is not one of them.
The NRA supporting the rights of the trans community was not on my 2025 bingo card but I'll take it.
September 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The NRA supporting the rights of the trans community was not on my 2025 bingo card but I'll take it.
I have an unread message in Teams Chat and Teams won't tell me where it is 😭
September 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I have an unread message in Teams Chat and Teams won't tell me where it is 😭
Like Pritzker would stoop to Doninos when Giordanos exists
Come on now.
Come on now.
Ted Cruz: "I don't want to get between JB Pritzker and the Dominos Pizza line, but I'll tell you what I am willing to get between -- him and his open doors for every human trafficker ... "
September 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Like Pritzker would stoop to Doninos when Giordanos exists
Come on now.
Come on now.