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Wife: Oh no. It can't be Garbage day. Me: Stupid girl. All you had, you wasted. Wife: We *cannot* do this all day. It's a long drive. Me: I'm getting it out of my system before we get in the car.

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LOL. I didn't mean to start a therapy session. :) In my view, most people want to be with a "safe" person who is going to respect them and their boundries and all that. Being able to *suck up to their parents* is a different valence that can be, rightly, a turn off.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 23h

And, for the record, I was able to suck up to *every* parent of every girlfriend... EXCEPT FOR MY WIFE'S. Her mother, more or less, hated me, until the day she died (and I didn't like her much neither). So, you know, [Alanis voice] isn't it ironic? :)

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Thank you to everyone who stood with me over the years. It’s been a scary journey but I have always been grounded in my work and ability to provide exemplary service to my constituents. Trump and his administration have been after me since I arrived in Congress.

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It was only much later in life that I learned that being the “safe” guy for the parents, uhh, “reduced my desirability” by significant, unrecoverable amounts. :)

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It was only much later in life that I learned that being the “safe” guy for the parents, uhh, “reduced my desirability” by significant, unrecoverable amounts. :)

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As a “boyfriend,” I was always super aware that leaving a message was talking to my girlfriend’s parents and adopted all appropriate formalities. :)

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Nic 🍉 @nml-dc.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I don’t think younger people appreciate that “voice messages” used to be essentially broadcast to a person’s entire family :)

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"Be underestimated" in combination with "collaborate with someone who knows your worth" is actually genuinely a robust way to move through the world and win the contests that matter.

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Me: So if you're good at catching and good at focusing, why don't you think you're good at football. 11yo: I'm not really the fastest. Me: Neither was I. 11yo: But I'm also not as angry as you so I don't want to run into people. Me: Oh. ... What if I told you they *deserved* it? 11yo: Yeah. No. :(

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11yo: I scored a TD in flag football. Me: NO SHIT. 11yo: Really Me: You're messing with me. 11yo: No really. See, because I'm really bad at football, nobody actually guards me. So the QB took advantage of that, since they knew I could catch. I caught the ball and nobody was around me and I scored :)

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Have you heard the story where Bill Belichick calls Flores (his former assistant) to *congratulate* him on getting the Giants job, only for Flores to have to tell him he didn't, and Bill belatedly realizing they gave the job to Brian Daboll, not Brian Flores?

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Alice Lastname @elinde.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

ngl: I have *fun* writing this one up :)

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Elie is the most engaging political writer in the business. I wanna invite him to dinner!

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I still might be wrong. I acknowledged yesterday that I am sometimes unreasonably hopeful at the *start* of the term.

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Is Blockbuster Video the Answer to Our Digital Privacy Woes?

The Supreme Court was asked to apply a Blockbuster Video law to [gestures broadly] the Internet. And… I think they might go for it. I think there is a small chance Blockbuster might help us restore some measure of digital privacy. My latest in @thenation.com. You can now call me Kurt Loder.

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The Supreme Court is weighing whether a 1988 video-store law can be used to protect our digital privacy.

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Sammy @deadheadlawyer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"The legal realists were right" is the best starting point for this convo.

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In any event, I actually answer your four questions similar to how you do yourself. I just think that the *aggreed upon downsides* are not really downsides, when understood properly. It's not a "so what" answer. It's a "no, actually this might be better" answer.

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I disagree, categorically, that adding additional justices, even in a "tit-for-tat" way, is a "race to the bottom." I think having a great many *more* judges is actually good for democracy, representation, ethics, and limiting the importance and power of any individual judge. Furthermore...

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if people do not like a 200, or 300, or whatever person Supreme Court, supported by 1,000 memeber lower courts, then, perhaps, the judicary could be taught to MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS and rid us of their unelected supremacy. So, no race to the bottom. Just democracy, *by any means necessary.*

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I think that if the court is going to act like a super-legislature, then it should be *treated* like a super-legislature, and tha means every incoming adminstration *should have to* bring with them the amount of justices necessary to have their agenda upheld. That's just democracy, baby. BUT...

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Yeah, man. Yeah. ... yep :(. I won't go so far as to say we get the media we "deserve," because nobody deserves this crap. But we get the media we "want." Or white people want, at least. Because people vote with their eyeballs and the least common demoninator eyeballs reward... crap.

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Right? It might not be the "smoking gun," but it sure as shit is the actual gun.

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Brian Flores case against NFL takes new turn with Korn Ferry document | PFT PM | NFL on NBC

Mike Florio on @profootballtalk.bsky.social does a really good job of breaking down what this all means in the context of the ongoing litigation www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiTi...

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Controversial Search Firm Memo on Brian Flores Unsealed by Court

This Brian Flores document is some one the most racist dogwhistle shit *put in writing* I've seen in an employment discrimination suit. frontofficesports.com/article/bria...

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The memo says Flores is “Polished and a good presenter despite growing up in Brownsville, Brooklyn.”

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He wasn't even "fighting a robot," he was fighting *a human* who controlled a robot. THAT'S NOT A BOXING MATCH. That's fighting another human with a gun or a tank or some other machine that *does the fighting for him.* I can beat the fuck out of my Roomba. Wake me when it can actually challenge me.

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They did, but they tweaked it (in 2013) in a way that maybe *only* applies to Netflix and not "internet streaming" or really any of the stuff that's now ubquitious since 2013.

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I'm always more optomistic at the start of the term than five months in when I remember everything relentlessly sucks and these people have no decency and are hellbent on killing us all.

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I'm always more optomistic at the start of the term than five months in when I remember everything relentlessly sucks and these people have no decency and are hellbent on killing us all.

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Oh for sure. But "informed consent" will have to be a fight for a different day.

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Anyway, fellow kids, *this* is why we take notes and examine our priors.

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Anyway, fellow kids, *this* is why we take notes and examine our priors.

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Having reviewed my notes and written my piece, I'd like to revise my earlier prediction. I think *there's a chance* that internet privacy actually WINS and Paramount loses this case. I think Roberts, Kav, and even Gorsuch are "in play" for an Elena Kagan: "Consent or GTFO" type ruling.

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