Robin Allan @robinallan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Wowza. Especially enjoy Judge Kaplan explaining that all discovery is fishing 060
Reposted by Robin AllanAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Having a LLM or another person writing your papers feels like a victory but it is just your own defeat, you felled by your own contempt for your future and anyone who believes in you. 261675261
Robin Allan @robinallan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“How the hell do I get down from here without dying” > “I still don’t understand Rooker-Feldman Abstention” 030
Robin Allan @robinallan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I teach first-year law students and just recommended bouldering as a way to absolutely guarantee they not think about law school for brief periods 150
Reposted by Robin AllanAndrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat... 9041621674
Reposted by Robin AllanMarisa Ingemi @mingemi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Nakase: “This job for me, I love it. Sometimes I love it too much to a point where I overwork, and so I just want to make sure I'm being smart. So for all you guys too, I know you guys work extremely hard. Just make sure you guys take care of yourself.” 0454
Reposted by Robin AllanMarisa Ingemi @mingemi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Tip Hayes: “It’s Gabby F—- Williams.” 0929
Robin Allan @robinallan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This! Delighted to get the Lynx out of the way but this Liberty team is not the Liberty of six weeks ago 010
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 3545501101
Robin Allan @robinallan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As handily as Indy won tonight it doesn’t seem crazy that it could happen again! 100
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 4448112
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. 161191483869
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 526537
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? 2779145
Robin Allan @robinallan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Do we know why Ceci wasn’t on the bench with Gabby and Ja? 110
Robin Allan @robinallan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I did that this morning! (And afternoon. Dumb schedule this semester.) 010
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. 842958
Robin Allan @robinallan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026My August-September every year teaching 1L legal analysis! 190
Reposted by Robin AllanBrian Barrish @brianbarrish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026MALALA SAYS GO BIRDS 242170306
Robin Allan @robinallan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026when I put on my pack and my hiking boots, sticking it to modernity is top of mind 031
Robin Allan @robinallan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I know, it’s incredibly persistent! Doesn’t stop her from being amazing in everything (best think about The Hour, as a foreign correspondent with a drinking problem and a Secret) 030
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 346475961
Robin Allan @robinallan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Spotting duckface is the best part of any British movie or tv series. 190
Robin Allan @robinallan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026For sure! I was one of them as a law clerk and now I’m a legal writing prof. 020
Robin Allan @robinallan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This just prompted me to turn the song on and bop around; better evening now than before! 110
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 215167554232
Robin Allan @robinallan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I use frozen butter but there’s too much breakfast desire hy the time they’re cut and in the pan to do another cooling round. Gotta change that. 020
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
Robin Allan @robinallan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It’s so good! Fab writing and beautiful performances 010
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
