Emily Conte
@scholarandcat.bsky.social
Mom to a special needs child. Attorney. Gardner. Photographer. Avid Reader. Superforecaster. Mobile, AL. Currently making a 100+ year-old house into a home.
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Emily Conte
@scholarandcat.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Hello, Friends, I am from the other place and want to start over. I love photography, books, and fostering kittens. I am a mom to a special needs child. I garden but kill lots of plants. I will occasionally post about politics, legal stuff, and forecasting. Meet Bella. She needs a forever home.
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Some are mad because people are on SNAP and not working.
I’m mad because people are on SNAP even though they are working.
I’m mad because people are on SNAP even though they are working.
October 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Some are mad because people are on SNAP and not working.
I’m mad because people are on SNAP even though they are working.
I’m mad because people are on SNAP even though they are working.
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It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
September 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Three authors that I have discovered this summer and really enjoyed their work: John Scalzi @scalzi.com (Starter Villain and When the Moon Hits Your Eye), Anthony Marra (Mercury Pictures Presents), and Helen Simonson (Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand). #BookSky
August 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Three authors that I have discovered this summer and really enjoyed their work: John Scalzi @scalzi.com (Starter Villain and When the Moon Hits Your Eye), Anthony Marra (Mercury Pictures Presents), and Helen Simonson (Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand). #BookSky
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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Satellite data gave us the heads up that #Erin was undergoing explosive rapid intensification.
Hurricane hunter aircraft flew into Erin and captured the actual data to confirm what we suspected.
Investment in NOAA. Investment in NASA. Investment in the USGS. Investment in science.
It matters.
Hurricane hunter aircraft flew into Erin and captured the actual data to confirm what we suspected.
Investment in NOAA. Investment in NASA. Investment in the USGS. Investment in science.
It matters.
August 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Satellite data gave us the heads up that #Erin was undergoing explosive rapid intensification.
Hurricane hunter aircraft flew into Erin and captured the actual data to confirm what we suspected.
Investment in NOAA. Investment in NASA. Investment in the USGS. Investment in science.
It matters.
Hurricane hunter aircraft flew into Erin and captured the actual data to confirm what we suspected.
Investment in NOAA. Investment in NASA. Investment in the USGS. Investment in science.
It matters.
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The key to good legal writing is clarity. Exceptional clarity persuades. Unclarity sows doubt.
Not key? Originality. Humor. Cleverness. A distinctive voice. Torrents of peripheral legal authority. Demonstrations of opposing counsel’s stupidity and bad faith.
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Not key? Originality. Humor. Cleverness. A distinctive voice. Torrents of peripheral legal authority. Demonstrations of opposing counsel’s stupidity and bad faith.
Edit for clarity.
July 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The key to good legal writing is clarity. Exceptional clarity persuades. Unclarity sows doubt.
Not key? Originality. Humor. Cleverness. A distinctive voice. Torrents of peripheral legal authority. Demonstrations of opposing counsel’s stupidity and bad faith.
Edit for clarity.
Not key? Originality. Humor. Cleverness. A distinctive voice. Torrents of peripheral legal authority. Demonstrations of opposing counsel’s stupidity and bad faith.
Edit for clarity.
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We as a country have no idea how bad things used to be here, and the kind of sustained, concerted, coordinated labor it took to make it better.
(Malaria killed millions of Americans in the 19th century, for instance. As far north as Minnesota.)
(Malaria killed millions of Americans in the 19th century, for instance. As far north as Minnesota.)
July 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
We as a country have no idea how bad things used to be here, and the kind of sustained, concerted, coordinated labor it took to make it better.
(Malaria killed millions of Americans in the 19th century, for instance. As far north as Minnesota.)
(Malaria killed millions of Americans in the 19th century, for instance. As far north as Minnesota.)
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GoFundMe has set up a page for the Texan flood victims. Each campaign has been verified by the company's Trust & Safety experts, which means you know your money is going directly to families. Please consider donating if you can. Their stories are heartbreaking.
www.gofundme.com/c/act/flood-...
www.gofundme.com/c/act/flood-...
Donate to US Flood Relief Fundraisers
Help those affected by flooding across the US. Donate to verified fundraisers to offer flood relief to individuals & their families.
www.gofundme.com
July 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
GoFundMe has set up a page for the Texan flood victims. Each campaign has been verified by the company's Trust & Safety experts, which means you know your money is going directly to families. Please consider donating if you can. Their stories are heartbreaking.
www.gofundme.com/c/act/flood-...
www.gofundme.com/c/act/flood-...
100% agree. I live in Mobile, AL, and am worried about hurricane season—both forecasting and competent responses.
Please remember that natural disasters are apolitical. We are all vulnerable. Let’s not shrug off the immense suffering of others or blame them because of politics. Help or shut up.
Please remember that natural disasters are apolitical. We are all vulnerable. Let’s not shrug off the immense suffering of others or blame them because of politics. Help or shut up.
July 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
100% agree. I live in Mobile, AL, and am worried about hurricane season—both forecasting and competent responses.
Please remember that natural disasters are apolitical. We are all vulnerable. Let’s not shrug off the immense suffering of others or blame them because of politics. Help or shut up.
Please remember that natural disasters are apolitical. We are all vulnerable. Let’s not shrug off the immense suffering of others or blame them because of politics. Help or shut up.
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Think of treaties as like vaccines -- more effective than quack cures but deeply unpopular among the stupidest people on earth.
June 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Think of treaties as like vaccines -- more effective than quack cures but deeply unpopular among the stupidest people on earth.
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Judge: But that's not where we live (in a monarchy). We live in *response* to a monarchy.
June 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Judge: But that's not where we live (in a monarchy). We live in *response* to a monarchy.
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Fun Tariff Facts: during the depression the US lost access to many imported paper products. They were replaced with an unusually tough paper stock made of hemp from the Philippines (then a US colony, and tariff exempt).
Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders /
envelopes.
Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders /
envelopes.
April 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Fun Tariff Facts: during the depression the US lost access to many imported paper products. They were replaced with an unusually tough paper stock made of hemp from the Philippines (then a US colony, and tariff exempt).
Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders /
envelopes.
Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders /
envelopes.
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Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
April 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
These two are my current fosters, Ember and Flame. They were rescued by firefighters in a house fire and the group I foster for took them. They had some serious health issues but are doing well now and almost ready for adoption. They are the sweetest kitties!
April 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
These two are my current fosters, Ember and Flame. They were rescued by firefighters in a house fire and the group I foster for took them. They had some serious health issues but are doing well now and almost ready for adoption. They are the sweetest kitties!
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move slowly and build things
April 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
move slowly and build things
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
March 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
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I think about this headline all of the time.
February 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I think about this headline all of the time.
“Democracy requires your courage.”
Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let despair overcome us when our country needs us the most.
Democracy requires your courage.
So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let despair overcome us when our country needs us the most.
February 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
“Democracy requires your courage.”
A camellia bouquet picked from my back yard.
February 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
A camellia bouquet picked from my back yard.
Hard but true.
Seeing a lot of “But they don’t deserve…” And no, of course they don’t. What the fuck does that have to do with anything? The house is on fire. Pass a bucket to whoever wants to put it out. You can remind them what an ass they’ve been later.
February 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Hard but true.
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