Misanthropesq
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Misanthropesq
@misanthropesq.bsky.social
Transactional and corporate lawyer working primarily with startups. Have been reliably informed I am neither as smart nor as funny as I think I am.
#lawsky I'm wondering if this thing I heard today is only new for me

A client asked "Can you make this thread ACP?"

I has to ask -- it apparently means 'Attorney / Client Privilege' in that context.

Leaving aside the rules for something actually to be 'ACP', has anyone heard this usage before?
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I am a horrible gift giver.

Fortunately, the folks at GE stepped out of a Time Machine from the 60’s to show me the perfect present for everyone this holiday season
October 31, 2025 at 12:51 PM
@stevevladeck.bsky.social sorry to bother, but I’d like your opinion on a shadow docket idea (apologies but I can’t recall the source)

Theory is that the SC relies on it for its speed but also bc its informality means they can freely backtrack if they ever allow a democrat back in office
October 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
@okbjgm.bsky.social Manservant Neville has a new business model, I suppose.
October 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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September 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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THE MIDDLEMAN deserved so much more.
September 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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OMG, this brilliant series, which I love without reservation, whose DVD sets and comics have pride of place on my shelves, is available for FREE?!?!

More for everyone! Hope on board!
September 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor.

In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.
September 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
@simonpegg.bsky.social I suppose this will get lost in the shuffle of being Simon Pegg, but in rewatching Glass Onion, I noted that Natasha Lyonne appears as ‘Natasha’ in the scene where Blanc is playing Among Us in the tub.

Don’t know if that is or isn’t good enough.
September 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Yes!

(and would still - very much - like the end shot of this to be Poker Face's Charlie Cale drive up to Benoit Blanc and ask directions to somewhere, before driving off, proving they're in a shared universe.)
Look at that beautiful blue sky! ⏰☠️ Wake Up Dead Man, the new Benoit Blanc mystery. Thanksgiving in theaters, 12/12 on Netflix. More to come very soon…
September 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Can folks do me a favor?

I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January.

I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am.

I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics.

Here’s two favorite set photos.

Repost? I am in the wilderness.
August 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
#lawsky I got a doc where the redline was by an AI. It was so bad!

Them: 'company will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide services'
Me: 'company will provide services'
The AI: deleting commercially reasonable creates strict liability
Me: This is SaaS not keeping a tiger
August 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
New lucnh spot found!
August 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Let me qualify what Josh is saying. It is quite clear that the Constitution requires a census of all persons. It’s quite clear that past Supreme Court cases support this proposition. (For instance, the recent census question case makes no sense if persons doesn’t include immigrants.)
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Let me expand on this point. The Constitution is quite clear that you can't distinguish between kinds of persons in running the Census. And that is especially about apportionment for Congress. The original language makes it pretty clear when it talks about "free persons". But the 14th amendment ...
As Wessel states, now bulldozing the Census. It's critical to note that not counting people "in our Country illegally" violates the constitution. It doesn't speak of citizens or legal status, simply "the whole number of free persons".
August 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Oh yeah? Well _MY_ father smells of
June 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Oh yeah? Well _MY_ father smells of
June 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Catching up on @blankcheck.bsky.social and listening to @joshgondelman.bsky.social talk about Johnny Dangerously.

I’m at 4:35 and he has already dropped references to the ship of Theseus and Vonnegut.

Don’t know what it says about me that I am locked in. . .
May 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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hey everyone, wanna watch my tv show “the middleman”
on streaming with no added charges?
April 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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It has long been my contention that Christians would have been far more successful in convincing Jews to convert if they had used cured pork products rather than torture
April 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Okay lets game this out: You are a Nintendo employee given unlimited funds and authority to move Switch 2 production to the US. No new factories, that's going to take way too long, you need to work with existing American Contract Manufacturing capacity. How fast can you do it?

1/x
April 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Want a fun exercise? Go to foxnews.com and search for 'dow jones'.

www.foxnews.com/search-resul...
Fox News
www.foxnews.com
April 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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You may not be aware that over the last 50 years, the Supreme Court has chipped away at your Miranda rights case by case, rendering them weak and ineffective. You no longer have the right to remain silent, to an attorney, not with the foece you used to. Time for a history lesson. /🧵
Please document the gutting of Miranda in the US. I’ll wait.
November 21, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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1/ Growing up Jewish in New York during the 1970s, I was inundated with Holocaust history from the time I was six. I saw the films of the Camps starting when I was eight. My very bitter Jewish grandmother frequently told me to be prepared for the day that the Nazis marched through NYC.
March 21, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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🚨 PSA for Protesters 🚨
March 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
@okbjgm.bsky.social boy, do I miss the middleman.
February 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM