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Nicole

@nicoleevelynd.bsky.social
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PNW Lawyer, former animator, all opinions are my own 🏳️‍🌈

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Nicole @nicoleevelynd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Part of what is wild about this take from Rolling Stone is the music video has less than 100 million views on YouTube, it's certainly popular but not ubiquitous the way they seem to think
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 26/09/2026
Well I can’t say I like that one bit
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Nicole @nicoleevelynd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am once again thinking about this case. So many people read the original New Yorker article and likely still think the facts were a close call. And yet the reality is Plaintiff lost badly and her attorneys are facing possible sanctions.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026
I'm just adding this tiny little thing for the fuckery of it. To recap where we are: Lynne Freeman is getting deposed as to her ability to pay. She was already deposed once and her attorneys refused to let her answer questions without basis. The judge sent a SCATHING order threatening sanctions.
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
9th Cir. declines to extend the property-law concept of adverse possession to a stolen identity. Man lived 30 years using the birth certificate/SSN of a baby who died in infancy. He argued he had become that person because he "had done the work." Held: Nope. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
There is no basis in law or reason for us to conclude that one may adversely possess the identity of another person. The Supreme Court has held that “[a]n individual’s identity is more than just his name or Social Security number.” Maryland v. King, 569 U.S. 435, 450 (2013). A person’s identity is a part of, not separate from, their personhood. And no matter how long one uses another person’s name, they simply do not become the other person.  The identities that Primrose and his wife assumed belonged to infants who were not long for this world. That the infants’ lives were short does not erase their existence or their importance. And no matter what Primrose and his wife did with the infants’ identities, those identities still belonged to the infants who were born on the dates and received the names that were recorded in their birth certificates. It is not at all clear that the infants, their parents, or family were not “harmed” by Primrose’s actions. And Primrose’s contention that he is the one “who had done the work” to establish an identity under the Bobby Edward Fort name by living a life under that name for 30 years is beside the point.
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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worth noting that the Kol Nidre BS is a traditional antisemitic trope going back *literally* to the middle ages. It's in the same category as using blood to make matzoh. So, congratulations to Aladwan for going to the sources.
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986)
a white man, a jamaican woman, an african man, and a black man walk into a restaurant....
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 19/09/2026
Host Ken Jennings confessed to asking his writers to slip a reference to a beloved viral Jeopardy! joke into Friday's episode.
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Jeopardy! hid a deep-cut Bluesky joke about "the slut gnomes of false Berlin" in today's episode
Jeopardy! hid a deep-cut Bluesky joke about "the slut gnomes of false Berlin" in today's episode
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 17/09/2026
and, as ever, my reminder that if you are writing about a court case it is basically authorial and editorial malpractice not to provide a case number or copy of/link to the documents you're talking about
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I shrieked
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Nicole @nicoleevelynd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Someone who has relevant expertise should please check my understanding but if I'm reading the study correctly of the sample group (1893) only 4.5% owned a cat at all and of that group link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Impact of pet ownership in early childhood at ages 1 and 4–5 years on mental health at ages 7–8: findings from the INMA project - World Journal of Pediatrics
Background We aimed to explore associations between the presence of pets at one and 4–5 years of age with internalizing and externalizing problems at 7–8 years. Methods Participants comprised 1893 fam...
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
RIP to the guy who convinced us all that Tina Turner was tall
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old when she stepped into the history books. Bravely accompanied by her mother, she was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white school in the South. It was not long ago… Today is her birthday. She is still with us. She is 72. Happy birthday, Ruby Bridges 💜
Young Ruby Bridges, photo in black and white Ruby Bridges today, photo in full color
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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine
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Turp @turpin4prez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This story should have more attention. ASU's idiot coach brought in some military prick to run a grueling boot camp-style workout in the heat, which included restricting water intake. NHL prospect player suffers a heat stroke and is probably going to die from it. arizonasports.com/ncaa/arizona...
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ASU hockey player Matthew Mayich has no chance of recovery after heatstroke, attorney says - Arizona Sports
"His body ceased functioning in a fundamental way, and this condition is irreversible," Robert Carey said.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 31/01/2026
It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Saving for future use in case I ever make a joke on bluesky dot app.
a beared white dude looking in the mirror, hand on the glass: Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series.
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Tom @taschoene.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I used to walk past a quote from her every day in one of the most unlikely places — the Office of Naval Intelligence. The quote: “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, and become more, you are a leader.” She did and she was. The story of how it got there is kinda surreal.
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Dolly Parton’s Words to Receive a Biblical Level of Reverence from Naval Intelligence Facility
See how a Dolly Parton quote got mistaken for John Quincy Adams before being set straight at a military site. Learn more inside!
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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thank you Empire State Building. NYC ❤️ Dolly.
Empire State Building lit up in bright pink in honor of Dolly Parton. Beautiful.
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 22/08/2026
I will not be posting the Kyrsten Sinema’s boyfriend’s depo transcript and neither should anyone else, because they include his minor children’s full fucking names!
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Random trials is the one to do.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I hear the kids these days use the Y2K bug as a punchline, like everyone was hysterical over this thing that was ultimately harmless. And like, it wasn’t. A lot of people whose names we don’t know worked themselves to the bone to *make* it harmless.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
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Nicole @nicoleevelynd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This news has me thinking of Alyson Stoner's stunning memoir, but specifically this portion of the closing chapter: "If we know the cost of fame leads to premature death and severe mental distress, why are we voluntarily hooking children on a deadly drug?" So sad.
Despite its perks, fame has deleterious effects. Author Jib Fowles recorded that the average lifespan for American celebrities was fifty-eight—compared to an average of seventy-two years for other Americans. A fourteen-year difference. His findings also reveal that celebrities are almost four times more likely to die by suicide than the average American. Further, clinical psychologist and mental health expert on celebrity and fame Donna Rockwell explains that fame mirrors the symptoms and cycles of drug addiction. The celebrity often undergoes the process of “first loving, then hating fame; addiction; acceptance; and then adaptation (both positive and negative) to the fame experience.” She adds, “Becoming a celebrity alters the person’s being-in-the-world. Once fame hits, with its growing sense of isolation, mistrust, and lack of personal privacy, the person develops a kind of character-splitting between the ‘celebrity self’ and the ‘authentic self’…” And these still don’t even begin to dig into the other nefarious elements of the celebrity lifestyle—public scrutiny, cyberattacks, stalking, extreme beauty standards, and more.
  If we know the cost of fame leads to premature death and severe mental distress, why are we voluntarily hooking children on a deadly drug? 
  Our cultural glorification of fame gets projected onto innocent kids. When they become successful by society’s standards, we generally do not understand what we’ve irresponsibly signed them up for. Hollywood stars are constructed to be used and discarded. The track record for famous child performers shows that it’s an exception, not the rule, to have just the right conditions and support system to thrive in—or even survive—the pipeline.
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Nicole @nicoleevelynd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This news has me thinking of Alyson Stoner's stunning memoir, but specifically this portion of the closing chapter: "If we know the cost of fame leads to premature death and severe mental distress, why are we voluntarily hooking children on a deadly drug?" So sad.
Despite its perks, fame has deleterious effects. Author Jib Fowles recorded that the average lifespan for American celebrities was fifty-eight—compared to an average of seventy-two years for other Americans. A fourteen-year difference. His findings also reveal that celebrities are almost four times more likely to die by suicide than the average American. Further, clinical psychologist and mental health expert on celebrity and fame Donna Rockwell explains that fame mirrors the symptoms and cycles of drug addiction. The celebrity often undergoes the process of “first loving, then hating fame; addiction; acceptance; and then adaptation (both positive and negative) to the fame experience.” She adds, “Becoming a celebrity alters the person’s being-in-the-world. Once fame hits, with its growing sense of isolation, mistrust, and lack of personal privacy, the person develops a kind of character-splitting between the ‘celebrity self’ and the ‘authentic self’…” And these still don’t even begin to dig into the other nefarious elements of the celebrity lifestyle—public scrutiny, cyberattacks, stalking, extreme beauty standards, and more.
  If we know the cost of fame leads to premature death and severe mental distress, why are we voluntarily hooking children on a deadly drug? 
  Our cultural glorification of fame gets projected onto innocent kids. When they become successful by society’s standards, we generally do not understand what we’ve irresponsibly signed them up for. Hollywood stars are constructed to be used and discarded. The track record for famous child performers shows that it’s an exception, not the rule, to have just the right conditions and support system to thrive in—or even survive—the pipeline.
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 16/08/2026
Apparently Lilly Wachowski does s tier alt text
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Tristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
And the full link is as brutal as the graphic.
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Jason Arday told the press he was at his limit. It answered with 188 more articles. He is dead at 41.
A full census of the 249 articles fifteen national outlets published about Jason Arday in 22 days, with the last day reconstructed hour by hour. Every article listed and linked.
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Nicole @nicoleevelynd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Horrible
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Nicole @nicoleevelynd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Oh, and I cannot over emphasize this, my God 🧵
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Nicole @nicoleevelynd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Everyone's Eclipse posting but I'm in the PNW 🥲
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Nicole @nicoleevelynd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I have a podcast episode for anyone else who wants to find this distressing: podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/e...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Wait. I. What. But.
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Gloomy Lawyer @gloomylawyer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We're looking at case management software for the office and I don't know how to tell them that this is exactly what I want.
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
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Nicole @nicoleevelynd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I feel that Telfar is playing with trademark fire here
Ad from Telfar depicting their new "Laundry Bags" the bags are bright orange with a yellow target with "Telfar" written in blue in a font similar to the Tide laundry detergent logo
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 30/07/2026
It seems like a LOT of things went wrong here, but I don’t know enough about Canadian criminal procedure to say what exactly they are.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17/10/2025
I generally don’t argue with people online if I clock that they rely on attention as a business model
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 29/07/2026
So this Washington bar exam catastrophe---what the fuck? I have a lot of sympathy with the abolish-the-bar campaign (albeit with some hesitations due to the plague of incompetent lawyers out there), but even if we don't abolish it at a minimum we have to HAVE STANDARDS FOR THE TECHNOLOGY
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David Ziff @djsziff.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Update: Dean Lawson of @uwlaw.bsky.social wrote to our Supreme Court earlier today. She requested the Court grant "diploma privilege . . . to avoid any additional harms to these graduates, specifically to prevent any delay in their careers or admission to the practice." 1/
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Nicole @nicoleevelynd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is cruel. Applicants deserve better
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/07/2026
You may recall the case where Lynne Freeman sued Tracy Wolff for writing a YA set in Alaska where the male lead was hot and broody, just like in Freeman's book. This litigation went on for three years before a judge finally read both books and said there was zero infringement.
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TSN @tsnofficial.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
For just the second time ever, the WNBA All-Star Game drew a higher attendance than the NBA All-Star Game from the same year 😮👏
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
chris nolan should make another odyssey movie but this time write odysseus like the most accurate version we've ever seen of him
George Clooney in O Brother, Where Art Thou
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Nicole @nicoleevelynd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I see a lot of people who have put Pride and Prejudice on hold at the library in response to this thread (yay! Support libraries!) If the hold is long it is also available at project Gutenberg for free: www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1...
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A photo of a nutria on a beach and the text: if you are seeing this the curse is lifted. have a good day
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