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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"It" doesn't want to do shit. It's a tool. Does a hammer "want" to frame a painting? And the only helping here is Meta helping itself to your data.

A screenshot from the linked article, reading: "Muse wants to help. It's an AI agent, a tool that goes out into the world for unsupervised tasks."

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Air travel has gotten so much worse!" Air travel:

A graph of fatal airliner accidents over time, showing a marked downward trend since the 1970s to today.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A while ago, I joked about Iran holding out long enough that they end up with a permanent UNSC seat. Well...

Paragraph 7 of the US-Iran MOU

"The United States of America undertakes to terminate all types of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the United Nations Security Council resolutions, I.A.E.A. Board of Governors resolutions, and all unilateral U.S. sanctions, primary and secondary, in an agreed-upon schedule as part of the final deal. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America acknowledge the critical importance of the sanctions termination issue above mentioned, and express their intentions to immediately address these issues in the negotiations in order to achieve mutual agreement on them."

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Reasonable advice, if we operate on the assumption that it's some alternate reality 2026. Otherwise, "the fox's lawyer should write a memo on when it's lawful to kill hens" is a bit...politically naive.

Screenshot from the article: "For a start, the Department of Justice’s OLC should produce a written opinion on when the United States considers it lawful to target a foreign head of state under domestic law and the law of armed conflict. It need not be public in full, but the opinion should be available to the relevant congressional committees in classified form."

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Far better listening than whatever fascist drivel Hegseth is spouting.

An image of a vinyl album cover sitting on a closed turntable. The cover is mostly black with red text. The text, in bold, reads "Chants, Poemes et Discours du Temps de la Resistance." The text covers the bottom third of the cover. In the center is a black and white oval image of a person listening to a 1940s radio

An image of the inside of the vinyl fold, detailing the contents of the album. It reads:

Deuxieme Disque, Face Deux

Les Français Libres
Appel Du 18 Juin 1940 (Speaker)
Général de Gaulle*– Appel Du 18 Juin 1940
Messages Personnels / Bulletin D’Informations / Radio-Paris Ment / La Défense Élastique (Pierre DAC).

II – Les Alliés

Voix De Churchill En Français (21 Octobre 1940)
Voix De Staline (3 Juillet 1941)
Voix De Roosevelt (8 Décembre 1941)
III – Le Débarquement
Annonce Du Débarquement.
Reportage À Omaha Beach

Libération De Paris

Le C.N.L. : Appel Aux Barricades
Barricades À Montmartre
Les Cloches De La Libération
Reportage Sur Les Champs-Elysées

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Some plays hit the perfect mix of "substantive interest" and "language practice."

A screenshot about the play "Operation Hellfire,' put on by the Nationale Theater (Netherlands).

The screenshot reads: "Operation Hellfire is een politieke thriller over het Internationaal Strafhof."

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Amendment L.67's initial sponsors list is an hell of a reminder that some interests (namely, that sweet sweet oil money) cut across armed conflict.

Screenshot of UNGA Draft Resolution A/80/L.67, reading:

Algeria, Bahrain, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Kuwait, Oman and Saudi Arabia:*

amendment to draft resolution A/80/L.65
Advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the
obligations of States in respect of climate change In operative paragraph 2, replace “as identified by the Court” with “taking into account the views of the Court, as appropriate,”.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

When you have this delicious spread, who needs leaves anyways.

Image shared from service members deployed as part of the (illegal) war against Iran. A cafeteria tray with a fork, carrot slices, a brown meat puck, and a mysterious silver-ish piece of something

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

My annual reminder that I listen to a very healthy amount of music, especially when accounting for vinyl, radio, live shows, and band camp downloads uncounted in #SpotifyWrapped

A screenshot of a Spotify Wrapped summary.

Top artists: The Mountain Goats, Taylor Swift, Dessa, Enter Shikari, Lucy Dacus

Top songs: Getting Ready to Get Down (Josh Ritter), True Blue (boygenius), Emily I'm Sorry (boygenius), The Good That Won't Come Out (Rilo Kiley), Forever Half Mast (Lucy Dacus).

Minutes listened: 144,503
Top Genre: Freak Folk

A screenshot of a Spotify Wrapped summary showing a top-5 album list.

1. the record (boygenius)
2. All Hail West Texas (The Mountain Goats)
3. The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volumes 3 & 4 (The Mountain Goats)
4. The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volumes 1 & 2 (The Mountain Goats)
5. The Execution of all Things (Rilo Kiley)

A top-5 genre list from Spotify Wrapped.

1. Freak Folk
2. Anti-Folk
3. Alternative Country
4. Pop
5. Rock

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Big talk from the guy who just fired almost every member (162!) of Dornsife's support staff.

Screenshot from the article reading:

"What do you see as Dornsife’s greatest strengths? And what is a strength that this community might not recognize about itself?
First off, the level of talent here is extraordinary. Faculty, staff, students — across the board, we’re operating at a very high level. There’s intellectual excellence, but also a real commitment to each other and to the mission of the College. That’s not something you can take for granted in academia."

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Fun fact, the EPP thinks you're an idiot. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Screenshot from the article reading: "Marketing plant-based products using meat labels "is misleading for the consumer", the member of the conservative EPP group in the EP said."

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

In the DOJ's defense, this outcome could only have been foreseen by anyone over the age of 12 with a passing familiarity of current events.

Screenshot from the article reading: "The FBI and the Justice Department planned to wait to see whether Homan would deliver on his alleged promise once he became the nation’s top immigration official. But the case indefinitely stalled soon after Donald Trump became president again in January"

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Apropos of nothing in particular, I've found myself recalling this random line almost every day since I encountered it doing archival research.

An excerpt of a typewritten letter reading "I confess that I am getting a little anxious as to where all this is leading us." The signature is at the bottom right of the page in blue ink "S. Lloyd."

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

First time breaking out the camera in a while. I'm pretty happy with this shot of cherry blossoms reflected on the water. #photography

A picture of pink cherry blossoms reflected on blue water. The blossoms go across the center of the frame with white clouds behind them

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Honestly, I found #SpotifyWrapped a bit underwhelming this year compared to some past iterations (I miss the genre info), but this bit did get a laugh out of me.

A Spotify Wrapped card titled "Goblincore Banjo Folk Punk," describing my August listening. Featuring The Mountain Goats, AJJ, and Apes of the State

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

A bit late to the game with my #SpotifyWrapped post, but no real surprises this year. A reasonable 139,176 minutes, covering 8,871 songs by different 2,860 artists.

Image of a Spotify Wrapped summary.

Top artists:
1. The Mountain Goats
2. Taylor Swift
3. Dessa
4. Anberlin
5. Enter Shikari

Top songs:
1. True Blue (boygenius)
2. Hot & Heavy (Lucy Dacus)
3. A Better Son/Daughter (Rilo Kiley)
4. Garden Song (Phoebe Bridgers)
5. I Don't Wanna Be Funny Anymore (Lucy Dacus)

Total minutes: 139,176

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

What a night. Finally heard Symphonie Fantastique - an all-time favorite - live, as well as a tremendous piano performance by Daniil Trifonov. Also, Het Concertgebouw is an amazing venue with some incredible seats.

Image of a concert hall, taken from behind the Orchestra, looking out toward the seats

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

With timezones, this is a Tuesday that doesn't feel entirely like an election day. Tomorrow's 9am class, though? Different story.

A map of poll closing times in the US election, shaded for CET. East coast polls close starting at midnight, with some wear coast polls not closing until after 4am CET.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Coming soonish to an International Studies Quarterly near you - "The Argumentative Power of International Law: Legal Rhetoric, Human Rights, and the Universal Periodic Review." This paper comes from my book project examining the use of IL language & argumentation. [1/2]

Screenshot of an article abstract. The article tests the effectiveness of legal framing in human rights arguments, applying statistical research methods to recommendations in the Universal Periodic Review, to find that arguments framed on legal grounds outperform those framed on non-legal grounds. This calls attention to the value of legal argumentation and the place of legal rhetoric in IOs and human rights

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

I had the privilege of spending the last few days in Berlin for the @kfgintlaw.bsky.social Concluding Conference. The time I spent with the KFG as a postdoc was immeasurably enriching - personally and professionally - and the Concluding Conference was certainly a bittersweet moment.

A group photograph of conference participants standing outside the KFG building.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Flying boats don't get enough love. They're the perfect mix of kinda feasible, kinda silly.

A black and white photo of a Martin P6M Seamaster, a jet powered flying boat. Picture is looking down at the plane on the water.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

Fact check: Laughably false. Trump is a 78 year old man held together by racism and McDonalds. He would actually be very bad at jiu-jitsu. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Quote from article: Campaigns are about many things: the state of the nation and the national mood, candidate character and candidate quality, policy prescriptions, the strength of a party’s infrastructure, money and advertising. But they are also about some intangibles, things that do not rise to the level of high policy or dignified debate, including sometimes a day-by-day jujitsu contest at which Trump once excelled.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

This guy is gonna sweep the electoral college

The cover of the book "The Kid Who Ran For President"

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

A "restricted fire areas" only makes sense when there are "unrestricted fire areas." Also, remember that an "unrestricted fire area" is fundamentally incompatible with IHL. Ordering evacuations doesn't mean a license to use indiscriminate violence in an area. [IntLaw, poliski] t.co/UsCPbP9ozw

Excerpt from the ICJ decision, paragraph 41: "41. According to the Respondent, the Israeli Defense Forces implement “[r]estricted fire areas” and “tactical pauses in fighting along evacuation routes” to enhance the security of the Palestinians evacuating..."

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

A huge decision from the European Court of Human Rights today. States have obligations to adopt & apply "measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible, future effects of climate change" [polisky, IntLaw] Link to the press release: t.co/9yp2paHV4I

The first page of the ECHR press release accompanying the decision. Full text is linked in the post.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

2 quick thoughts on France's draft UNSC resolution: 1. Any sensible reading of OP11 rightly rejects the "demilitarized" red herring that is often attached to Palestinian statehood; 2. Even with a veto, there's nothing stopping France from fully recognizing Palestinian statehood. [IntLaw, polisky]

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

"We're gonna policy change youth slang!" Sure, yep, good luck with that one.

Quote from article: His Wetenschapsinstituut voor de Ontengelsing van de Taal (WOT) agency will first “unEnglish” official reports and then tackle youth slang in schools, linked with online language migration.

“You hear teenagers describing an invitation, for example, as nice or chill, but this makes no sense in Dutch,” said Tilburg University linguistics professor Onsa Taal, who is advising the WOT. “It’s never cold enough to chill, for a start. And their grandparents cannot understand a word they are saying.”

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

The UNSC has (finally) adopted a resolution demanding an immediate (although temporary) ceasefire. 14 votes in favor with the US abstaining. [IntLaw, polisky]

Picture of a UNSC draft resolution authored by Algeria, Ecuador, Guyana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, and Switzerland.

Operative Paragraph 1: "Demands an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan respected by all parties leading to a lasting sustainable ceasefire, and also demands the immediate and unconditional release of hostages, as well as ensuring humanitarian access to address their medical and other humanitarian needs, and further demands that the parties comply with their obligations under international law in relation to all persons they detain."

Operative paragraph two reiterates previous demands regarding the flow of humanitarian assistance and protection of civilians in Gaza

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

Okay, hear me out...maybe you're having a hard time teaching this because you're just kinda...wrong?

Quote from a NY Times article: "Constitutional-law education is in a crisis, Justin Driver, a professor at Yale who has taught the subject for 15 years, told me.

“One of the primary challenges when one is teaching constitutional law is to impress upon the students that it is not simply politics by other means,” he said. “And the degree of difficulty of that proposition has never been higher.”"

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

Nothing demonstrates "national security credentials" like using the same tool, in the same way as every predecessor, with almost certainly the same results. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Quote from the article - "As he (Biden) intensifies his reelection campaign, the president must also showcase his national security credentials and his ability to keep Americans safe"

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Happy Spotify Wrapped day to those who celebrate 🎧

Screen grab of a Spotify Wrapped summary.

Top Artists - the Mountain Goats, Taylor Swift, Anberlin, Dessa, Enter Shikari

Top Songs - $20, Not Strong Enough, Garden Song, True Blue, Bite the Hand

Minutes listened - 135,575

Top genre - Indie Rock

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

If you're in Berlin and interested in the International Criminal Court (or international law more broadly), you don't want to miss this. www.kfg-intlaw.de/News%20and%2...

Poster for the lecture "The International Criminal Court - Between Internationality and Sovereignty," being given by Dr. Ute Hohoff on Tuesday 17 October at 6:15pm. The event is being held at Humbold University in Berlin, Lecture Hall 1072.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Trying my hand at something different - learning a language without depending solely on a judgemental owl.

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