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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 @jonberger.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

In the first season of #Ludwig, the guy who's convicted (wrongfully, we are to understand) of killing the conspiracy-theory blogger is named Rhys Bowen. That happens to be the name of the English mystery writer who wrote the delightful "Her Royal Spyness" series. This doesn't seem like it could […]

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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 @jonberger.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@deborahh I am inexorably reminded of a VERY early attempt to simulate human intelligence, a program from the 1970s called Eliza. (After Eliza Doolittle.) It was supposed to resemble a psychoanalyst. Famously, someone tried saying "my grandmother has a gzorenplatz" to Eliza, and it responded "Is […]

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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 @jonberger.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I would of course love Henry just as much if he didn't have perfectly symmetrical white markings. But isn't he a gorgeous creature? #caturday #catsOfMastodon

An orange tabby cat with white markings sitting by a window in an upright pose and gazing thoughtfully into the distance.

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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 @jonberger.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I'm Starting to Have a Strong Suspicion About Why the Caged Bird Sings #TooEarlyBooks #HashtagGames

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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 @jonberger.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Molly is my cat, but I am not her human. Her human is my wife. Molly is very clear on that point. She's a generally friendly cat and she likes me just fine, but when my wife is out of town, as she is at the moment, I have to constantly reassure Molly that she'll […] [Original post on sfba.social]

A gray tabby cat with white markings lying on a blanket next to a window, gazing contentedly at the camera.

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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 @jonberger.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

@RonSupportsYou @renewedresistance He actually wrote "perimeters of a deal." "Parameters" certainly makes more sense. For one thing, it's unusual for singular things to have multiple perimeters. If the idea is that he's visualizing the deal as some sort of two-dimensional geometric shape whose […]

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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 @jonberger.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

@Nonilex I'd like to point out that one of the elements of a civil lawsuit for the tort of criminal malicious prosecution is "actual innocence." That is, it's one of the things that the plaintiff, the person who was maliciously prosecuted, has to be able to prove by a preponderance of the […]

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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 @jonberger.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

@icastico @msbellows Another Vivaldi user here. I like it. It acts pretty much like Chrome, or at any rate it can be configured to do that. It's highly configurable, which is nice because you can probably make it look the way you want it to, though it can take a bit of messing around to get there.

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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 @jonberger.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

I had a surprisingly pleasant #TSA experience this morning. After I went through the scanner at RDU, the TSA guy beckoned me to come over to where he was standing. I figured, great, I must have left my keys in my pocket or something, or maybe I just get the random hand scan this morning. But no […]

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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 @jonberger.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

@404media.co I used to do criminal appeals, which involves reading trial transcripts. I got one once where every occurrence of the word "thirteenth" was replaced with "itch." There were a lot of them, too, because the crime at issue had happened on the 13th of the month, so there was a lot of […]

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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 @jonberger.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social I'm no fan of prisons, but yeah, they suck. I did court-appointed criminal appeals for years, and a very few of my clients were middle-class white guys. They were, without exception, horrified to discover that not only is prison a pretty unpleasant place, it's also […]

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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 @jonberger.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

Family Feud: Family Court Edition Divorced contestants argue their child custody and visitation issues on national TV. A judge oversees the proceeding, but doesn't make a ruling; instead, two QR codes displayed at the end allow viewers to vote for who won. #AltRealityShows #HashTagGames

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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 @jonberger.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

Nothing special, just a happy Misha lying on my spot on the bed, which he grabs the moment I get up. #caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 @jonberger.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

@proseandpassion Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas said the same thing back in 1972 in his dissent in Sierra Club v. Morton. Here's how it starts: The critical question of "standing" would be simplified and also put neatly in focus if we fashioned a federal rule that allowed […]

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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 @jonberger.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

All discussions of space travel technology must include the word "phase" a minimum of twice in each sentence. #ScifIRules #HashTagGames

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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 @jonberger.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

@Nonilex Doesn't the MAGA world believe that Balogun shouldn't be playing for the US at all, since by their lights he's not a citizen? It should be interesting to see how this plays out in right-wing social media (not that I'm going to look).

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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 @jonberger.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

@catnip Congratulations! This is why my wife and I don't foster: we basically have "#fosterfail" tattooed on out foreheads.

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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 @jonberger.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

@Nonilex The general consensus on SCOTUSblog was that the ruling that states MAY restrict trans athletes without violating Title IX is just the groundwork for the upcoming question of whether Title IX REQUIRES states to do that. That may make its way to the Supremes as early as next term.

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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 @jonberger.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

@RonSupportsYou @renewedresistance I'm very curious to see whether Republicans who dare to breathe a negative word about St. Benjamin will get jumped all over for being anti-Semitic, or whether that assumption just applies to people on the left.

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