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Misanthropesq

@misanthropesq.bsky.social
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Transactional and corporate lawyer working primarily with startups. Have been reliably informed I am neither as smart nor as funny as I think I am.

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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social @ifbookspod.bsky.social Love the new episode on climate gate but, based on your description I decided to google Mr. Delingpole. I cannot believe you didn’t talk about, well, this: www.jamesdelingpole.co.uk/Writing/Arti...
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Valencia: Man Made Climate Change is REAL — James Delingpole
An article by James Delingpole.
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I get called this so often, I can’t believe it isn’t allowed. 🐝
The NYT Spelling Bee showing an entry for the word DICKHEAD
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 31/10/2025
(shrug) This is one of the ways you tell the professionals from the amateurs. You don't have to luuuuuuuurve what you're writing. You just have to be able to do it conscientiously and well.
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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
@effinbirds.com I’m not a t-shirt in public kind of guy — I’m kinda old, amplified by the precocious child trait from ~50 years ago of wanting to look‘adult’ Today, though, I was out & about in my ‘Fuck you, I’m hilarious’ t-shirt In my 50+ years, I have never had so many compliments on a garment
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
#lawsky Presented without comment. nationaltoday.com/internationa... (H/t @drewcurtis.bsky.social )
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International Be Kind to Lawyers Day
We appreciate how lawyers get into sticky situations so we can get out of them!
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
May I propose to the Bluesky community the word THOBBER “a person who prefers guess-work to investigation and reinforces his beliefs by reasserting them frequently.” Stefan Fatsis, Unabridged
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I’m just wondering — is anyone keeping track of how many drag queens are in the Epstein files?
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
#lawsky I am a corporate / tech attorney. Other than in a supervisory capacity, I haven’t been in a courtroom in >30 years Can anyone point me to what to do/ how to file to help either immigrants or citizens impacted / abducted by ICE? PA (Phila) / NJ
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
@kenwhite.bsky.social your popehat report was a powerful piece. The fact that you, of all people, felt the need to write it speaks volumes.
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Al Haddrell @ukhadds.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Not so fun fact: Tear gas isn’t a “gas” If it’s not a gas, then what is it? Answer: it’s an aerosol. And this distinction matters. Let’s discuss 🧵
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
#lawsky does anyone know an attorney who specializes in (or has any knowledge of) dental contracts? (Looking for a referral for the spouse of an employee of a client)
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Not understanding people on the internet, December 2025 version: The most interaction I’ve ever received on Bluesky is a post where I said something moderately nice about Adam Sandler.
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Years of reading @rexparker.bsky.social conditioned me to believe that this should have been valid
The word ‘unclued’ proposes as an answer in the New York Times Spelling Bee game
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
According to a band called ‘The Beach Boys’, Christmas comes this time each year. I thought you all should know — it was a surprise to me
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
@joshgondelman.bsky.social long time / first time. Weird question — do you have any little people relatives? I just saw someone walking the streets who looked _exactly_ what I imagine you’d look if you went through some Wonka-esque shrinking machine.
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Four hours and 27 minutes of energy left. LFG!
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
#lawsky I'm wondering if this thing I heard today is only new for me A client asked "Can you make this thread ACP?" I has to ask -- it apparently means 'Attorney / Client Privilege' in that context. Leaving aside the rules for something actually to be 'ACP', has anyone heard this usage before?
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I am a horrible gift giver. Fortunately, the folks at GE stepped out of a Time Machine from the 60’s to show me the perfect present for everyone this holiday season
A General Electric Knife and Scissors Sharpener from ~1965 with a prominent ‘The Perfect Gift!’ mark
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
@stevevladeck.bsky.social sorry to bother, but I’d like your opinion on a shadow docket idea (apologies but I can’t recall the source) Theory is that the SC relies on it for its speed but also bc its informality means they can freely backtrack if they ever allow a democrat back in office
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
@okbjgm.bsky.social Manservant Neville has a new business model, I suppose.
A package for a FatBoy ice cream pop (with a cool vintage scrabble board in the back, if you’re interested)
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The Weeping Somnambulist @pigeon75.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
THE MIDDLEMAN deserved so much more.
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a man in a suit looks at his watch in front of a lake
Alt: Matt Keeslar as the Middleman talks into his watch, while behind him, Natalie Morales as Wendy Watson is being chased by a flying fish.
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Stephen Wark @chirographum.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
OMG, this brilliant series, which I love without reservation, whose DVD sets and comics have pride of place on my shelves, is available for FREE?!?! More for everyone! Hope on board!
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 01/09/2025
Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor. In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.
Onlookers queue up to view the excavations of Caligula's ancient Roman vessels, known as the Nemi ships 1932.
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
@simonpegg.bsky.social I suppose this will get lost in the shuffle of being Simon Pegg, but in rewatching Glass Onion, I noted that Natasha Lyonne appears as ‘Natasha’ in the scene where Blanc is playing Among Us in the tub. Don’t know if that is or isn’t good enough.
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Yes! (and would still - very much - like the end shot of this to be Poker Face's Charlie Cale drive up to Benoit Blanc and ask directions to somewhere, before driving off, proving they're in a shared universe.)
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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.
Kerry Bishe in costume as Donna and Mackenzie Davis in costume as Cameron Howe on the set of Halt and Catch FireScoot McNairy and Lee Pace on the set of Halt and Catch Fire
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
#lawsky I got a doc where the redline was by an AI. It was so bad! Them: 'company will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide services' Me: 'company will provide services' The AI: deleting commercially reasonable creates strict liability Me: This is SaaS not keeping a tiger
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
New lucnh spot found!
A banner for a restaurant that spells ‘lucnh’
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Let me qualify what Josh is saying. It is quite clear that the Constitution requires a census of all persons. It’s quite clear that past Supreme Court cases support this proposition. (For instance, the recent census question case makes no sense if persons doesn’t include immigrants.) /1
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Oh yeah? Well _MY_ father smells of
A label for certified, organic whole elder berries
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Oh yeah? Well _MY_ father smells of
A label for certified, organic whole elder berries
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Catching up on @blankcheck.bsky.social and listening to @joshgondelman.bsky.social talk about Johnny Dangerously. I’m at 4:35 and he has already dropped references to the ship of Theseus and Vonnegut. Don’t know what it says about me that I am locked in. . .
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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
hey everyone, wanna watch my tv show “the middleman” on streaming with no added charges?
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
It has long been my contention that Christians would have been far more successful in convincing Jews to convert if they had used cured pork products rather than torture
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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Okay lets game this out: You are a Nintendo employee given unlimited funds and authority to move Switch 2 production to the US. No new factories, that's going to take way too long, you need to work with existing American Contract Manufacturing capacity. How fast can you do it? 1/x
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Want a fun exercise? Go to foxnews.com and search for 'dow jones'. www.foxnews.com/search-resul...
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Fox News
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Amanda Knox @amandaknox.com · 21/11/2024
You may not be aware that over the last 50 years, the Supreme Court has chipped away at your Miranda rights case by case, rendering them weak and ineffective. You no longer have the right to remain silent, to an attorney, not with the foece you used to. Time for a history lesson. /🧵
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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
🧵 1/ Growing up Jewish in New York during the 1970s, I was inundated with Holocaust history from the time I was six. I saw the films of the Camps starting when I was eight. My very bitter Jewish grandmother frequently told me to be prepared for the day that the Nazis marched through NYC.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
🚨 PSA for Protesters 🚨
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
@okbjgm.bsky.social boy, do I miss the middleman.
A cocktail menu from the o2k lounge
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Who had ‘Marbury vs Madison’ on their precedents to be overturned scorecard?
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Business idea: Chocolate covered pistachios but without removing the shell first. (Obligatory "Trying to distract myself from <waves hands> everything" footnote)
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
@emilynussbaum.bsky.social I just finished Cue the Sun! Amazing. Highly recommended (I had trouble reading about the show that is the source (or maybe stepparent) of our impending doom but that was because I read the news every day and. . .) Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV a.co/d/2C6JJB2
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Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV - Kindle edition by Nussbaum, Emily. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV.
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I now have over 100 followers. I say this not with pride, but rather to note that apparently, that is the threshold at which bots have deemed me worthy of following. (Okay, maybe I’m a little proud of the bots.)
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/12/2024
Speaking of shut the fuck up Friday, I’ve been seeing some people say that the FBI has contacted them for questioning after seeing social media posts, and my extremely urgent advice is that you should under NO CIRCUMSTANCES talk to the Feds without a lawyer.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
For five years, I have been covering what is unquestionably the biggest criminal justice scandal in American history. Today it ended when the most corrupt cop in history took his life. But it's not over. A thread.
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I am reading @emilynussbaum.bsky.social ‘s Cue the Sun, and in the first chapter (excellent so far), I love this about John Crosby: “A genial literary assassin who once joked that his job was to be “literate about the illiterate, witty about the witless, and coherent about the incoherent,””
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Misanthropesq @misanthropesq.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I follow many smart & funny people (at least a few of whom are both) but this may be my new favorite account.
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