iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Carl Levitt

@amalgamatedthought.bsky.social

79 followers 207 following 509 posts

Good Faith and Fair Dealing

Posts Replies Media

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Four panels:
1. Meme man: How many days of Omer are you on?
2. Other guy: like maybe 5 or 6 my dude
3. Meme man : you are like a little baby, watch this
4. Meme man (ascended): שבועות

110 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Liberal Democracy, a system of governance unique to Mars.

A screenshot from Surviving Mars where the colony sets up a government "unique to Mars". One of the options is "Liberal Democracy".

000 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

010 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Dr. Who,” or “Transformers.”

Alicia from the Twighlight Zone episode "The Lonely".

010 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Today we really saw a concrete example of equity being strong when a court is aligned with state violence.

Just as the Walker doctrine places a court's orders beyond their intrinsic support in substantive legal interpretation, Rizzo v. Goode, 15 1
Younger v. Harris,152 and City of Los Angeles v. Lyons153 invoke a
weak conception of equity and, in the name of principles of deference
that emerge from ideas of federalism or separation of powers, place the violence of administration beyond the reach of "law" - even court
law. The rules of Rizzo, Younger, and Lyons are the rules of judges
as potential outsiders looking in at state violence. When the question
is whether judicial interpretations that circumscribe the authority of
the wielders of state violence will be given full effect, jurisdictional
principles require that the judges' interpretations be given less than
their intrinsic authority. Even if the judge is considered to have been
correct in holding that a police practice violated the constitutional
rights of its victims' 5 4 or that a prosecution poses a present threat to
the exercise of constitutional rights, 155 some principle of deference -
whether to states, administrators, or legislative majorities - requires
that equity, the only effective remedy, stay its hand.
Thus, equity is "strong" when the court is aligned with state
violence and "weak" when the court is a counterweight to that vio-
lence. The result in all cases is deference to the authoritarian appli-
cation of violence, whether it originates in court orders or in systems
of administration. Law, even constitutional law, succumbs to the
hermeneutic of jurisdiction. The jurisgenerative impulse that led a
judge to find the chokehold practices of the Los Angeles Police De-
partment unconstitutional,' 5 6 the jurisgenerative impulse that compels
the creation of law by forcing the court to grapple with substantive
issues, is silenced. The apologetic and statist orientation of current
jurisdictional understandings prevents courts from ever reaching the
threatening questions.1

000 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Oh hey, Sotomayor explicitly recommends that the plaintiffs file for class certification in as fast as possible.

From Sotomayor's Dissent: "Nevertheless, the parents of children covered by the Citizenship Order would be well advised to file promptly class-action suits and to request temporary injunctive relief for the putative class pending class certification. See A. A. R. P., 605 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 7); Califano, 442 U. S., at 701–703; see also ante, at 1–2 (opinion of KAVANAUGH , J.) (recognizing that lower courts, in some circumstances, can “award preliminary classwide relief that may . . . be statewide, regionwide, or even nationwide”). For suits challenging policies as blatantly unlawful and harmful as the Citizenship Order, moreover, lower courts would be wise to act swiftly on such requests for relief and to adjudicate the cases as quickly as they can so as to enable this Court’s prompt review."

200 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

An image of One Million Chessboards with 12 boards surrounded by a 2 deep bloc of pieces.

000 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The headquarters of the Italian fascist party. Contains a face on a field of the word "si" repeating.

Upside down Mussolini. Sic semper tyranis!

010 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

When you have to deal with a coup.

A blond man with a neutral expression. Jean Otus from the manga and then anime ACCA: 13 Territory Inspection Department.

010 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Huh, it sure didn't feel like I was that early.

Bluesky celebrating 10 million users. Lists poster as #89,285.

100 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

Meme using the Clockwork Orange Eye Machine template with words that read "Watching the debate".

100 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

Somehow I don't think there were actually 22,000 animated gifs on that cd labelled "22,000 animated gifs" I got off of archive.org.

A gif of a 3 and 1/2 inch floppy that if working correctly is spinning.

110 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

"Say the line Bart Template" where the class asks for the new passcode and Bart says 0451.

030 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

A conversation in one of the servers I am in inspired me to make this:

A top and bottom text meme with the top text reading "The Rashbam" and the bottom text being the phrase "I know writers who use subtext and they are all cowards. The word use is crossed out and the word interpret is substituted.

010 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Todd Howard has lost his way.

From the Elderscrolls 3: Morrowind. "With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created."

061 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Nothing but respect for *my* academician.

Academician Prokhor Zakharov, head of the University faction in Sid Mier's Alpha Centauri.

000 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

The New York Metropolitans' Home Run Apple.

000 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

Anyway, here is a picture of my cat.

010 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 28/06/2023

@ironspike.bsky.social Hell yeah! My Poorcraft books arrived today. Thank you for doing all of the work that goes into making sure this and things like this get made.

010 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 20/06/2023

Mods are figuring out their moderation policy, honor the 6th house and the tribe unmourned.

000 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 19/06/2023

"Who of us wouldn't like a plate of blins and a cat nearby?" -Running with Pictures (Tr. from the original Russian)

A cat sitting on a chair next to a plate of blini.

020 0

Carl Levitt @amalgamatedthought.bsky.social · 28/05/2023

Today I learned that the "I should buy a boat" cat from a Bjork music video where the cat is Bjork's SO.

000 0