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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The people who bear the brunt of antisemitism are the Jews. Say what they said about literally any other bigotry and see how it looks.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thing is, the prior hurt was desperate optimism. Understandable but still, more hope than actual. Talarico is winning right now. Beto was never winning. He was close enough for people to let themselves believe, but he was never within even 2 points of being tbe frontrunner.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How are you getting lumped in? If other people's trauma makes you feel defensive, dude, seek therapy, seriously.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lawyers get some form of "testimony isn't real evidence!" like 20 times a year in online discussions. Meanwhile, convictions like Caleb Flynn are won on the stand every day. Like, most convictions. No idea where this myth that you nees video if something for it to have happened came from.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I like their chances if they cam get to the bullpen that early.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I pull the Letterkenny all the time.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is pretty much my line, give or take a word.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

...I hate that my first reaction to this was "which one"

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Agree. Honestly, we know the truth. They didn't hide it. And it's not about reconciliation. It's accountability, criminal and civil, period. Call it consequences. You touched the stove and thought because the burn was delayed it wasn't hot, but we're coming for that hand.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I forget to take a shower I turn on at least once a month.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Your turning on the shower but never getting in it is like, the most relatable list related ASD content I've seen in a minute ngl

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"It's just a joke!" "How?" "*inanearglebargle* WOKE!" "Seems kinda creepy to me, but okay." You don't have to turn it into a TEDTalk. In fact, don't. But people don't like conflict and inserting even a little friction like this can have powerful effects.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The crash out and disappear is a perfectly useful result of such confrontation.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think folks want it to be this massive Rocky 4 moment of "If I can change, you can change", and true, it's rarely that. But there are a whole host of outcomes and responses that are still useful, even defensiveness.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This works, btw. It's actually pretty incredible and heady just how powerful it is in practice. Every time I've done it the impact is pretty memorable.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nope. For a whole bunch of reasons, but the upshot is no, you can't sue the government under a civil RICO theory period, much less for purging a citizen from a voter roll or something.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There's a lot of tortious shit that seems to be going down, but trafficking torts would be a bit of a stretch, though depending on some plausible facts and the particular plaintiff I could see it. It's not really civil RICO, though.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think its not your responsibility to "convert people" if you don't want it to be. Honey and salt and whatever, but that's your problem literally to the extent you want it to be. What's in other's hearts is their burden and issue. And being honest and emotional still reaches the open minded.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was told more than once that my life before 25 more or less disqualified me from being an attorney. Too blue collar and steange, apparently.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But that'd be writing for free, Denys, for a potentially limited audience who may or may not like what I write! That'd require *shiver* bravery! Also I am self-aware

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

These people are talking shit about writing for money while literally debasing themselves with takes like this for engagement and, ostensibly, money. Hypocrisy.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

...the hypocrisy is *staggering*.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

...the acknowledgements thing can't be real, right? What deranged people review the *acknowledgements*. "0/10, didn't effusively thank her mother, which is a manifest betrayal of 4th wave feminism and my 5th-grade level understanding of Marx or some shit"

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

People getting offered good money to write books for money are by and large writing said books for said money, folks, sorry to blow your mind.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Same. Audiobook, hardcover, ereader. I'll read one of em. Tbd which.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But beyond lawyer pedantry, the tie-in, industry standard is advances are non-refundable, plenty of books do or don't earn out, and I'm a "money in my pocket today beats a chance at money in my pocket tomorrow" kind of guy as a rule.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

She's a successful author doing her job and paying her bills. No idea at all why you think saying so is an own.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What's the Royalty and Advance clause say?

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

She's an author. An *incredible* author It's her job. People work for money. News at 11. The only artists who refuse to "sell out" as the socks having a go at her define it are the artists nobody ever asked.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey, throwing to Watson is working! Let's not doing it for half the game!

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

He's fast, big, and slippery. When he's really going he's the most unstoppable *looking* back aince Derrick Henry.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It did not become readily apparent how big, in full, until the damn New York Times wrote about it, but, yeah, lot of significant stuff got rolling. But I remember the two novels I was reading and always will: Middlegame and then Into the Drowning Deep, which I also love and frequently gift.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyway that was the week the threadnought started.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everybody should. It's a great long novel paced like a novella and I read it until 5 am to finish it in one sitting when I hate work at 7 am the next day because I wasn't gonna just do a whole shift at the office not knowing what happened to Rodger and Dodger. I'm disciplined but I'm human.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Masquerade is the standard bearer, but I love Apocalypse for all those same reasons.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's mainly character syndrome and the height of vanity, but it can be hard to see that when having big feelings.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Many things that trigger you are offensive! You being triggered by a thing does not make it offensive.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Many things you don't enjoy are bad. You not enjoying a thing does not make it bad.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lesson that *still* needs to be learned: Many things that upset you are terrible. A thing upsetting you doesn't make it terrible.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do you have a favorite article for those explanations. Wpuld love to read and better equip myself to talk about this.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dude I read this and I swear I twitched, the memories, the nightmares

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"I'm not gonna reimburse this, you need to use the system" "Well I guess I ain't going then, so that's a puzzler!"

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Or they give you corp carsa thay never have enough limit and aren't paid down regularly, but they still send you into the goddamn field and get pissed when you submit receipts because I'm not just gonna eat this, Ruthanne! ...flashbacks sorry

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Idk that I'd talk much dmack early, man, the reaper seems protective of me rn. It was all "this is gonna be easy" last week then down goes Moore and Nacua

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have a tool I use that I programmed that applies a point value to a player based on history and projection and I use it to help consider and make offers for trades. And I enjoy fantasy sports just fine?

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