Reposted by Robin AllanJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed 3544911081
Robin Allan @robinallan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Every federal law clerk dreamed of drafting an order like this to the worst counsel but this one actually sees the light of day! 060
Reposted by Robin AllanAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/20268. often, when people say LLMs "can do" something they mean LLMs can produce output that looks like the output of doing something 9. producing something that looks like the output of doing something is not the same thing as doing it 4447111
Reposted by Robin AllanSteven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise. 159191023849
Reposted by Robin Allanthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The rev woke up with the spirit of the Lord on him this morning, read the whole thread 526637
Reposted by Robin AllanTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Ask yourself why a CEO who can call the president on the phone needs to write a pleading open letter like he is a daycare provider who needs money for markers? 2778146
Reposted by Robin AllanCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026The fun thing about living under a common law legal system is having to explain to people that we don’t have set laws that you just look up, we just have an overarching series of contradictory narrative fallacies that are all semi-load bearing. 843058
Reposted by Robin AllanBrian Barrish @brianbarrish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026MALALA SAYS GO BIRDS 242171306
Reposted by Robin Allandan mentos @danmentos.com · 10/09/2026REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo 346473961
Reposted by Robin Allanbig bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time 216167654233
Reposted by Robin AllanBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 05/09/2026"Wispr Flow is supposed to make writing effortless and magical." Writing is not meant to be either effortless or magical. Hope that helps. 1342337
Reposted by Robin AllanKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026“In what Joey Termini of Termini Brothers Bakery is calling the "most South Philadelphia thing ever," a Route 47 bus drove through wet concrete after two people reportedly hopped off to move street barricades so the bus could pass… only two minutes after city crews poured [concrete] into the road”inquirer.comSEPTA bus drives through wet concrete outside of Termini Bros. in what locals say is the ‘most South Philly thing ever’A SEPTA Route 47 bus got stuck in freshly poured concrete on Thursday, only two minutes after city crews repaired the road outside of Termini Brothers in South Philadelphia. 48428
Reposted by Robin AllanSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Relatedly: “As current and former Harvard College Writing Center tutors, we write to condemn the dissolution of the Writing Center as an independent entity and the laying off of its director.”thecrimson.comIn Defense of the Harvard College Writing Center | The Harvard CrimsonAs current and former Harvard College Writing Center tutors, we write to condemn the dissolution of the Writing Center as an independent entity and the laying off of its director, Jane Rosenzweig. 412020
Robin Allan @robinallan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Watching this episode of French giggling on repeat to cheer myself up 000
Reposted by Robin AllanMarisa Ingemi @mingemi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Valks win in NY 79-60 and sweep the season series. All three of NYL's lowest scoring games this season are against Golden State. 311115
Reposted by Robin AllanMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I hate this kind of thing, because just beneath its surface is a smug piety that treats "politics" as nothing but mess and rancor rather than as something with a direct connection to people's lives, and argues for being "above politics" as a kind of virtue. It's so dishonest. Anyway, good morning. 221015104
Reposted by Robin Allankate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT 89204146218
Reposted by Robin AllanAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This is my favorite type of AI whinging because it does require admitting you’re a talentless piece of shit up front 171177161
Robin Allan @robinallan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026We’re years into these stories. If you really believe it saves you time, factor in the time to quote and cite check every piece of output. Maybe it does save time and then you actually understand the material the client pays you to understand. 020
Reposted by Robin AllanTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking. 161869290
Reposted by Robin AllanVirginia Stonek @delcontexto.bsky.social · 10/08/2026You can't grab a piece of AI-generated text and then add nuance to it. Writing just doesn't work that way. Nuance comes from structure, syntax, grammar and punctuation, not isolated words. It's not like there's some list of nuance go-to words that can be injected into a text for it to sound natural 12210
Reposted by Robin AllanSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face. 7763701313
Reposted by Robin AllanSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026“Universities denounced themselves as complicit in systemic racism.” Well yes, my university for example held the charred bones of Black children killed by Philadelphia police and at least one faculty member was using them to teach forensics so yes, gosh, there was some necessary self-denouncing 423050560
Reposted by Robin AllanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026My man looks like Mel Gibson headbutted a wasps' nest 5498542694
Reposted by Robin AllanJaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 11/08/2026Got a dream piece today: I profiled Deb Perelman aka @smittenkitchen.bsky.social about 20 YEARS of food blogging www.weareravenous.com/smitten-kitc...weareravenous.comThe Blogosphere Came and Went. Smitten Kitchen Is Still Here.Deb Perelman has kept Smitten Kitchen going through the rise and fall of blogging, the pivot to newsletters, and the looming specter of AI. She has no intention of stopping. 6957163
Reposted by Robin AllanSam @samd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I’m starting to realize that all of the annoying pundits just suffer from oppositional defiant disorder increasing your kids’ risk of melanoma to own the libs 2367124790
Reposted by Robin AllanAdam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The Washington Supreme Ct will extend diploma privilege as an option for all first-time test takers at last week's fiasco of a NextGen Bar rollout. (They can also take the test to have a transferable score.) If an applicant previously failed anywhere, free retake. www.courts.wa.gov/content/publ... 37824
Reposted by Robin AllanMalice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social · 05/08/2026if I send you these it means I’m quietly but enthusiastically rooting for you behind the scenes 1548
Robin Allan @robinallan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026A great Valkyries performance against a solid Toronto team; happy to see Temi again in Balhalla! 050
Reposted by Robin Allanlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/08/2026let's take a moment also to celebrate the first absolute meatball down the middle getting fucking crushed. the first woman in pro baseball league history to get her shit rocked 443581619
Reposted by Robin AllanAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 31/07/2026MLB players are the thoroughbred horses of the human world in that if you take your eye off them for a second they will get loose and find some completely novel Looney Tunes way to suffer a catastrophic injury 531437208
Reposted by Robin AllanBenjamin Alvarez @benjalvarez1.bsky.social · 30/07/2026A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online. www.reuters.com/world/africa...reuters.comUS government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conferenceA U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen... 113917
Reposted by Robin AllanBalls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 30/07/2026If you're a law student and you miss the first Civil Procedure lecture, this is what happens to you years laterballsandstrikes.orgKash Patel’s Ambitious Defamation Lawsuit Foiled By Basic Civil Procedure DoctrineThe litigious FBI director’s case against a blogger who called him a “blatantly incompetent chud” is no match for International Shoe. 24315
Reposted by Robin AllanCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/07/2026The defendants asked the district judge to award attorneys' fees (as a judge is allowed to do in certain copyright cases). The district judge just released a decision on this matter. It is short and readable. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...storage.courtlistener.comOrder on Motion for Attorney Fees – #583 in Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney (S.D.N.Y., 2:22-cv-02435) – CourtListener.comOrder on Motion for Attorney Fees 741522
Reposted by Robin AllanBenjamin 🜬 (they/she) @enbyemu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026For anyone who ever wants to read (or re-read) @trungles.com's Pride & Prejudice readthrough commentary w/o having to slog through needing to constantly expand the original thread, I put it all together on a google doc! 135 glorious pages! 💙📚 docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comPride & Prejudice Commentary by Trung 27943304
Reposted by Robin AllanWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 23/07/2026This is Nymeria. She is demonstrating the rare compact zoomies. Ideal for situations where you don't have much room, but still must zoom. 13/10 (TT: ouruntamedtale) 162101861165
Reposted by Robin AllanProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 23/07/2026To the students writing your papers with AI: I can tell. 1308
Reposted by Robin AllanTrung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 23/07/2026JANE: But you hate Darcy. ELIZABETH: No, I love Darcy. JANE: When did that start? ELIZABETH: Oh I don’t know. It must have happened when I visited his enormous and beautiful and elegantly appointed house. Probably around then. JANE: Oh. Hmm. 1270019
Reposted by Robin AllanTrung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 21/07/2026If they do not patch this up I will riot. I will tear away the veil between the dimensions of my reality and Jane Austen’s imagination and bludgeon Darcy to an oily pulp with a fat-haunched roast of venison. 358825
Robin Allan @robinallan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Fantastic sports writing! I’m not following baseball closely this summer (it’s WNBA time, go Valkyries!) but this is so smart about pitching. You need a guy and you have a guy and he’s the guy. 010
Reposted by Robin AllanChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026In addition to being morally abhorrent, this is both factually wrong as to the people who ICE has killed and legally wrong as to when lethal force can be used. 443061811