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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

it isn’t carceral to say someone shouldn’t be a wealthy public figure. it doesn’t violate your free speech rights when I say I wish you would shut up. you do not have a legal right to be beloved

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

fabulous example for teaching deontic vs epistemic modality

Newspaper headline: judge rules SC inmate who believes he is immortal can’t be executed

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

had what i thought was a mildly groundbreaking idea in a very hot and developing area of law and my professor was like wow i think this is really promising but did not disclose that he wrote and published the exact same proposal six years ago LOL anyway

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

it's crazy the things i have survived and overcome to now be absolutely felled by the thought of having to learn about unjust enrichment under the family law act

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

just here to announce that I’ve had an exceptionally good week

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

teaching myself to knit continental. WHICH SUCKS. a pox on europe and their stupid inefficient purling methods, every one of them annoying in a new and exciting way

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

reading the NYT profile of that looksmaxxing guy and I have to say it was a very artful move by god to give him a slight lazy eye

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

not loving it on this platform guys I gotta say

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

newrepublic.com

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email

The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

“Ordinary, salt of the earth people would never tolerate a sexual abuser in their midst. Now time to take a big sip of coffee and respond to this group text with my old fraternity brothers.”

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

spent like half my life going to the mat for Chomsky and I have been humiliated and betrayed beyond measure like actually you know what aspects WAS wack. maybe those lexical functional grammar freaks were right. I can’t do this anymore

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

reporting in from x the everything website

Twitter trending topic: "AI images show Charlie Kirk and Renee Good in Heavenly Reconciliation"

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

not to make everything about me but i do think the fact this was an anti-lesbian hate crime is being somewhat underdiscussed

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

optometrist asked if I knew what astigmatism was and I said i’m not sure but I think it’s when part of your eye is flatter than it’s supposed to be. he’s like well, no… it’s when your eye isn’t as round as it’s supposed to be. like ok it’s your degree buddy i’m not taking it

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

biggest lacuna in american education right now is the concept of skits. every day i see someone taking an obviously staged video 100% seriously

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

never seen the American spelling of this word before and it has shaken me to the core

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

at every moment of my life i am either writing a cover letter or thinking about how i should be writing a cover letter

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I can’t be trusted with dry clean only clothes because I start saying stuff like “did you know that wool is naturally odour resistant”

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

every time I see a picture of Justin Bieber I am chilled to the bone by how much he looks like my brother and how likely it is that we’re related

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

entire crim exam was about the very last topic we covered for approx ten minutes inspiring work everyone

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

it’s always “studies show” and never the doi of the studies that show

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 08/03/2025

i am once again asking for scheduled skeets so i can daily spread the gospel of the blessed saint scully the enigmatic

text messages
friend: Omg just got to 4:54 pm
me: what was that moment like
i'm crying
friend: Gasped so loud that Penelope woke up and fled

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

anybody know anybody working on the intersections of linguistics and the law? specifically criminal law? i know about tammy gales at hofstra but i am looking for more and i trust you all to come through for me

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

the people who invented aluminum free “deodorant” unleashed a scourge upon this earth

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The real MeToo “cancel culture” was what happened to the women and other victims who came forward. They were retraumatized, harassed, humiliated, sued, fired, and blacklisted. Then they were the subject of a revisionist history that MeToo went “too far” and deserved a reactionary backlash

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

being a teacher is so thankless dude. I just walked by a kid who was saying she didn’t like her homeroom teacher because he “takes too many bites to finish his lunch”

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

the best thing about "AI" is that it should never work at all and yet it works sometimes. but because i'm constantly being told that it works perfectly, my reaction when it works only occasionally is "damn, this thing sucks" instead of "holy shit this is incredible"

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

i feel like apple tv was offered westworld and turned it down and now they're solely dedicated to never letting that happen again

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

revealed to my law school friends that i use firefox and one of them said "oh my god are you like an old person???? do you use bing???"

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

saw someone cite the wong kim ark dissent as proof that birthright citizenship is unconstitutional. why don’t you try googling the word dissent and go from there

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

why is every hip toronto restaurant called like general public. public garden. st. public. crying in public the new single from the band chairlift. &etc

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

the samosas at my local place are now $1.49 instead of $1… thanks a lot president trump 🙄🙄

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

just saw a post that said “so the government can ban TikTok but not [CSAM] … makes you think.” well I am definitely thinking but I’m not sure you are

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 17/01/2025

Imagine if diamonds really were your best friend, how sad. Imagine if it really was raining men, how terrible. I think songs are just awful

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

which one of you is responsible for this

Chat with Albert Camus in the #1 philosophy app, built in collaboration with philosophy professors at University of Toronto

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

been eating a lot of cinnamon toast lately

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I don’t particularly care for this pick but non-linguist reactions make it all worth it

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

there are two separate guys in my mentions insisting that the phrases “that sucks” and “fuck that” are explicit threats of sexual violence, can’t believe I ever thought this site didn’t have sufficiently wild takes

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

the other day I was reading this critically acclaimed and influential sci fi book and the main character, a personable fellow who was in no way intended to be morally grey, had a fun futuristic spin on the phrase “fuck ‘em.” namely: “rape ‘em.” and I didn’t really like that!

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I watched so much house md at such a formative age that now when I see hugh laurie in something and he’s not limping i’m like “how are you doing that”

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

WaPo posted a brutal takedown of the awful digital blackface meta AI profile. when you click on the comment section this is the first thing that comes up lmao

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

has anyone found a good storage solution for dpns? i have all mine in a big ziploc bag in smaller plastic bags and i can't do it anymore

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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

always interesting to see which discourses make the platform jump

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