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Here's one for the internet olds: looking back at the curious case of Kaycee Nicole, the 1999-2001 internet hoax that duped a bunch of protobloggers. www.switchboardmagazine.com/monthly/the-...
The Curious Case of Kacyee Nicole — Switchboard Magazine
In 1999, the early internet felt like a digital frontier—and few stories capture its innocence and deceit like the saga of Kaycee Nicole. Written in cinematic detail, this longform feature traces how ...
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November 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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chrissteller.bsky.social
people walking on the Hennepin Avenue Bridge with the Grain Belt Beer sign reflecting in the Mississippi
October 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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susiedentwords.bsky.social
A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.
April 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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frustratedfan.bsky.social
Sorry Illinois
Moe with his head in the over and a “no funeral” sign taped to his back.
March 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
Thinking a lot lately about Justice (Robert) Jackson's dissenting opinion in Mezei, especially its discussion of the importance of due process even (if not especially) for those the government claims are "dangerous":

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Procedural fairness, if not all that originally was meant by due process of law, is at least what it most uncompromisingly requires. Procedural due process is more elemental and less flexible than substantive due process. It yields less to the times, varies less with conditions, and defers much less to legislative judgment. Insofar as it is technical law, it must be a specialized responsibility within the competence of the judiciary on which they do not bend before political branches of the Government, as they should on matters of policy which comprise substantive law. If it be conceded that in some way this alien could be confined, does it matter what the procedure is? Only the untaught layman or the charlatan lawyer can answer that procedures matter not. Procedural fairness and regularity are of the indispensable essence of liberty. Severe substantive laws can be endured if they are fairly and impartially applied. Indeed, if put to the choice, one might well prefer to live under Soviet substantive law applied in good faith by our common-law procedures than under our substantive law enforced by Soviet procedural practices. Let it not be overlooked that due process of law is not for the sole benefit of an accused. It is the best insurance for the Government itself against those blunders which leave lasting stains on a system of justice but which are bound to occur on ex parte consideration. Cf. Knauff v. Shaughnessy, 338 U.S. 537 , which was a near miss, saved by further administrative and congressional hearings from perpetrating an injustice. See Knauff, The Ellen Knauff Story (New York 1952). Our law may, and rightly does, place more restrictions on the alien than on the citizen. But basic fairness in hearing procedures does not vary with the status of the accused. If the procedures used to judge this alien are fair and just, no good reason can be given why they should not be extended to simplify the condemnation of citizens. If they would be unfair to citizens, we cannot defend the fairness of them when applied to the more helpless and handicapped alien. This is at the root of our holdings that the resident alien must be given a fair hearing to test an official claim that he is one of a deportable class. Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath, 339 U.S. 33 . The most scrupulous observance of due process, including the right to know a charge, to be confronted with the accuser, to cross-examine informers and to produce evidence in one's behalf, is especially necessary where the occasion of detention is fear of future misconduct, rather than crimes committed. Both the old proceeding by which one may be bound to keep the peace and the newer British "preventive detention" are safeguarded with full rights to judicial hearings for the accused. On the contrary, the Nazi regime in Germany installed a system of "protective custody" by which the arrested could claim no judicial or other hearing process, 8 and as a result the concentration camps were populated with victims of summary executive detention for secret reasons. That is what renders Communist justice such a travesty. There are other differences, to be sure, between authoritarian procedure and common law, but differences in the process of administration make all the difference between a reign of terror and one of law. Quite unconsciously, I am sure, the Government's theory of custody for "safekeeping" without disclosure to the victim of charges, evidence, informers or reasons, even in an administrative proceeding, has unmistakable overtones of the "protective custody" of the Nazis more than of any detaining procedure known to the common law. Such a practice, once established with the best of intentions, will drift into oppression of the disadvantaged in this country as surely as it has elsewhere. That these apprehensive surmises are not "such stuff as dreams are made on" appears from testimony of a top immigration official concerning an applicant that "He has no rights." Because the respondent has no right of entry, does it follow that he has no rights at all? Does the power to exclude mean that exclusion may be continued or effectuated by any means which happen to seem appropriate to the authorities? It would effectuate his exclusion to eject him bodily into the sea or to set him adrift in a rowboat. Would not such measures be condemned judicially as a deprivation of life without due process of law? Suppose the authorities decide to disable an alien from entry by confiscating his valuables and money. Would we not hold this a taking of property without due process of law? Here we have a case that lies between the taking of life and the taking of property; it is the taking of liberty. It seems to me that this, occurring within the United States or its territorial waters, may be done only by proceedings which meet the test of due process of law. Exclusion of an alien without judicial hearing, of course, does not deny due process when it can be accomplished merely by turning him back on land or returning him by sea. But when indefinite confinement becomes the means of enforcing exclusion, it seems to me that due process requires that the alien be informed of its grounds and have a fair chance to overcome them. This is the more due him when he is entrapped into leaving the other shore by reliance on a visa which the Attorney General refuses to honor. It is evident that confinement of respondent no longer can be justified as a step in the process of turning him back to the country whence he came. Confinement is no longer ancillary to exclusion; it can now be justified only as the alternative to normal exclusion. It is an end in itself. The Communist conspiratorial technique of infiltration poses a problem which sorely tempts the Government to resort to confinement of suspects on secret information secretly judged. I have not been one to discount the Communist evil. But my apprehensions about the security of our form of government are about equally aroused by those who refuse to recognize the dangers of Communism and those who will not see danger in anything else.
March 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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frustratedfan.bsky.social
Me watching this halftime show, feeling all of my (almost) 55 years:
Homer: “brilliant. I have absolutely no idea what’s going on.”
February 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Super Bowl commercials are never actually funny but they seem like they should be funny because they are very expensive
February 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
wanders.bsky.social
a man in a tuxedo and bow tie looks at the camera in a black and white photo
ALT: a man in a tuxedo and bow tie looks at the camera in a black and white photo
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February 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Captain Ramius from Hunt For Red October saying "they don't know why I'm detecting with this shubmarine. And people dancing saying it's the anniversary of his wife's death and did you know he's Lithuanian?
August 28, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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mattbrown.bsky.social
when somebody tries to build an affordable housing unit in your zip code
January 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
men only want one thing
December 25, 2024 at 3:52 PM
wanders.bsky.social
Another unassailable banger from Jamelle, the Max Martin of political takes
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Dec 23
now that people are anti-fetterman let me say that i think it is disrespectful that he walks around the senate chamber in a hoodie and shorts
December 23, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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drewmagary.bsky.social
Today’s the day. It’s the 2024 Hater’s Guide to the Williams Sonoma catalog!
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The 2024 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog | Defector
[walks out to greet you as you pull into my circular driveway] There you are! Oh my goodness, look at you! You look so festive! Why don’t you leave your bags in the breezeway for now and come on in? A...
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December 20, 2024 at 2:10 PM
wanders.bsky.social
My god Christian destroyed the Dr. Pepper football throw competition. What a thrilling modern age we live in.
December 7, 2024 at 11:07 PM
wanders.bsky.social
I'm sorry, we live in a time where Hunter Bardon gets Pidened?! 🤔
December 2, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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isaacrowlett.bsky.social
we don’t talk enough about the Milwaukee Road’s Olympian Hiawatha Skytop experience

imagine if you had the option to take this on your next vacation instead of squeezing into an airplane seat or white-knuckling it on the highway…
Train with windows all around the car pulling out of a train station with a detailed tower dating from the 1800s Painting or drawing of a train labeled Milwaukee Road and with windows all around and on top of the train car People sitting in the front car of a train with windows all around and above them Photo of a train with windows all around and above it
December 1, 2024 at 8:35 PM
wanders.bsky.social
oh yes
An Illinois football helmet in the outfield of Wrigley Field with the famous manual scoreboard in the background.
November 30, 2024 at 7:37 PM
wanders.bsky.social
More than anything I'm just regretful. They could have worked in two, if not three more catastrophes before the clock hit triple zeroes. Let the boys cook. An awesome specter of possibility. #Bears
November 28, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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jonbois.bsky.social
in competitive chess you can legally win a match by declaring “checkmate” at any time, regardless of where the pieces are on the board. it’s considered rather tasteless and won’t win you many friends, but it’s there whenever you really need to get out of a jam
November 27, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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lawzag.bsky.social
November 25, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
As a prominent podcaster I was never even consulted about important military matters
bartenderhemry.bsky.social Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · Nov 19
Yeah bc you're both morons. Next
Cenk uygur: I asked @elonmusk to put me in charge of cutting the Pentagon. And he said - what are your suggestions? I run the largest left-wing network online and a Democratic leader has NEVER asked me that question. The idea that they would take advice from a populist is disdainful to them.
November 19, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
Seeing media reports portraying yesterday's Fed Soc panel on "judicial independence" in disappointingly equivocal terms.

I'm just going to post the full video here and let everyone's behavior speak for itself. I start @ 41:30; Judge Jones @ 50:23; replies @ 1:12:50:

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The Continued Independence of the Judiciary [2024 NLC]
YouTube video by The Federalist Society
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November 15, 2024 at 1:50 PM
wanders.bsky.social
Quote tweet with the last baseball related photo on your phone (no cheat).
November 9, 2024 at 11:10 PM