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she/her | dual-citizen, dual-jurisdiction Philadelphia lawyer in St. John's, NL, Canada | 2SLGBTQIA+🏳️‍🌈 ally | trans rights are human rights | "[Y]ou do not know anyone as stupid as [the current president]. You just don't." - Fran Lebowitz | go birds
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your wordle and puzzle dollars at work
NYTimes frames the Matt Gaetz sex trafficking issue thus: "A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz." Includes a photo of a somber-looking Matt Gaetz and headline: "In Matt Gaetz Scandal, A 17-Yeaer-Old Was Left Vulnerable to Exploitation"
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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well, hot damn

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25-125 DAVIS, KIM V. ERMOLD, DAVID, ET AL. The motion of Foundation for Moral Law for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae out of time is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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results in New Jersey's governor race broken down by county making me scratch my head as to how Vineland (Cumberland County) would vote Dem while Salem and Cape May Counties predictably voted GOP
map of the counties in New Jersey; all are blue except for the red counties, counterclockwise from top left: Sussex, Warren, Hunterdon, Salem, Cape May, Ocean, and Monmouth
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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"I could smell the onions and mustard."
Marlon Brando as Colonel Kurtz saying, "The horror! The horror!" in APOCALYPSE NOW
November 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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I don't think it's summer any more
#nlwx
screen shot of government of Canada weather forecast for St. John's NL: 3 weather alerts, a wind warning, a coastal flooding statement, and a special weather statement
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I said, more like Shut-Down Ohtani
Yesavage strikes out Ohtani in the third from left: Trey Yesavage (Blue Jays) starting to walk off the mound; Shohei Ohtani (Dodgers), cheeks puffed out and batting helmet flying off as he's just missed on a strong swing; Alejandro Kirk (Jays) getting up and about to throw the ball behind Ohtani is home plate umpire Alan porter
October 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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more like Shut-Down Ohtani
Shohei Ohtani (Dodgers) strikes out looking in the bottom of the 5th from left: Ohtani (Dodgers) looks at home plate umpire; Alejandro Kirk (Blue Jays) holds strike pitch he has just caught; John Tumpane (umpire) starting to signal strike out
October 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
still image of the team from BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION
October 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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I call it my MULTI PASS; the newer U.S. passports have them, too
Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich in THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997) Jovovich holds a card labelled "Multi Pass" to the viewer
October 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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new Bsky accounts from the government? happy Halloween!
Drawing of a bat in a medieval English manuscript turned into an internet meme saying: BLOCK EARLY - BLOCK HARD MOVE ON
October 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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TFW you called the trial judge a "f---ing c--t"; that judge held you in criminal contempt of court; you appealed the holding; and your case at the intermediate appellate court is heard by a panel of -checks notes- three women judges

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Before: LETICA, P.J., and RICK and BAZZI, JJ. PER CURIAM. Appellant, Marshall Tauber, appeals as of right the order entered by Oakland Circuit Court Judge Yasmine I. Poles that held him in criminal contempt and required him to pay a fine of $7,500. Appellant, an attorney, was appointed to represent a criminal defendant. A hearing addressing bond was held over Zoom before Judge Poles. After the court’s bond ruling, appellant apparently believed that the Zoom hearing had disconnected and used derogatory curse words apparently in reference to the judge. But, the judge heard appellant, and he was held in criminal contempt. On appeal, appellant alleges that he was deprived of due process and there was insufficient evidence to support the criminal contempt. We affirm.
October 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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tell me you never attended one of your children's well-baby appointments without telling me you never attended one of your children's well-baby appointments
Screen snip of Acyn on X, embedding a short video of RFK Jr, some guy I can't identify, Marco Rubio, and the president sitting at a table: "Trump on Autism: Obviously, something that is artificially induced, whether it's the vaccines in terms of these massive vaccines twice the size of a jar like that, a glass of water like that, into a baby's body."
October 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Wikipedia editors are ON IT
Trey David Yesavage (born July 28, 2003) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Prime Minister of Canada. He played college baseball for the East Carolina Pirates, and was selected by the Blue Jays in the first round of the 2024 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut in 2025. He struck out 11 New York Yankees in his first ever playoff appearance (October 5, 2025)
October 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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god bless Wikipedia editors
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Cowen Text: Cowen is a teetotaler, stating he is "with the Mormons" on alcohol,[35] later stating: "I encourage people to just completely, voluntarily abstain from alcohol and make it a social norm".[36] Notably, he also believes AI actresses being virgins is an important benefit of the technology. [37] The mouse-over text for note 37 is: Cowen, Tyler (October 2, 2025). "My Favorite Actress Is Not Human". The Free Press. Retrieved October 2, 2025. - https://www.thefp.com/p/my-favorite-actress-is-not-human-tilly-norwood-artificial-intelligence
October 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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WTF, @safety.bsky.app @bsky.app @support.bsky.team

"self-harm"?!
this app has labeled this photo as "self-harm": well-known historical photo of an enslaved man, known as Peter or Gordon, showing the scars on his bare back from whippings he received while in bondage full photo and info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_(enslaved_man)
September 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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🎵 one of these campaign signs is not like the others 🎵
signs posted in a small grassy area in anticipation of provincial and municipal elections, clockwise from top left: Sheilagh O'Leary for MHA, John Whelan for MHA, Brenda Halley for City Council, Walter Harding for City Council, Toni Bragg for City Council, Greg Smith for City Council, and Calm Tom for Mayor of Happy Hour
September 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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What's your sign?

incredibly, we got enough tomatoes from our home gardening efforts this week so that I could put up 4 pints (500 mL jars) of tomato puree/passata, with one near-pint for the fridge for immediate use
Canada Food Board propaganda poster from the era of the First World War: "WASTE NOT - WANT NOT (image of a granny type holding a jar of food and showing a table of produce and other jars of food to a young woman) "PREPARE FOR WINTER "Save Perishable Foods by Preserving Now" Foreground: 5 wide-mouth pint jars of tomato puree on a kitchen towel, 4 processed and sealed and one unprocessed Background: base of a pressure canner on the stove
September 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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enshittification, law edition: our practise management software's default sorting scheme orders items by creation date, not alphanumerically
screenshot: a column of file folders under the headings "type" and "item": folder icon - 2025 folder icon - 2024 folder icon - 2022 folder icon - 2023 folder icon - 2021 folder icon - CSRs and ADRs folder icon - 2020
September 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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CBC Radio this morning discussed the local fellas' inaugural QMJHL game and sold-out venue, but they never mentioned the result, LOL

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screenshot of final score: Moncton Wildcats 5, Newfoundland Regiment 7
September 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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the GOP talking head on CNN's morning show Group Chat panel said that Antifa must be an actual organization because it has a logo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_S
September 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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so that's where my bus pass fell yesterday evening as I was hurrying out the door
office chair with bus pass card stuck upright in the gap between the front of the seat cushion and its base
September 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Show me an image on your phone that has your energy but is not a selfie.
sunflower in the process of blooming: most petals are still folded into the center, but two are sticking up as if giving a peace sign or V for victory
September 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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R.I.P. the obnoxiously large lawyer umbrella that my Patents prof lent/gave to me in like 2009 -- that was some walk to work this morning
screenshot of weather.gc.ca current conditions for St. John's NL: Rain, 15C (60F), wind SSE 35kph (22mph), gusts 51kph (32mph), air pressure 101.5kPa (30.0in/Hg) and falling, dew point 15C (59F), visibility 4km (3mi)
August 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Massachusetts' only new flag
diagram of the Philly Philly football play from Superbowl LII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philly_Special
August 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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diagram of the Philly Philly football play during Superbowl LII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philly_Special
August 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM