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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 5m

I’ll show myself out

Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 5m

Further complicating the issue is that many of the Carolina panthers, although not felidae at all, *are* melinated

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 7m

JADEY

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Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social · 1h

I will always treasure the time that I got to tell the Ancient Near East specialist in the classics & near east department that Ea-Nasir was not only known to randos outside of her field, but had a fanbase and memes.

(She was baffled but pleased, and corrected my pronunciation of his name.)

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 4h

K1: so we need to learn this lesson about writing
Me: ok ok
We talk about the Sumerians, cuneiform etc
K1/ they really wrote on clay?
Me: yep. Entire complaint letter sometimes
K1: ?
Me: let me introduce you to our local main character, Ea-Nasir...

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 1h

Not exactly

A panther is any all-black big cat. Panther-isn’t pops up in both jaguars and leopards. It’s not a species, it’s a coloring.

Mountain lions, cougars, and pumas are all the same thing. A “Florida panther” is a subspecies of cougar named by Floridians who don’t know what a panther is.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 19h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 9h

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 19h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 8h

Menswear Guy increasingly seems like the only one who really studied the blade, is the thing.

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 11h

God grant me the wisdom to never provoke the menswear guy

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 11h

Filing deadline was yesterday

Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 11h

Found typo in filing

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 11h

Leoparss

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 17h

THIS IS THE WAY

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 19h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 19h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 21h

The number of times I’ve wanted to grab someone by the collar and yell FLESH IS STRONGER

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Jake Tapper is looking for the guy who did this

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

Trump's Justice Department is firing the people who prosecute terrorists, Jake Tapper argues. The president's politically motivated personnel decisions make "the United States and the world less safe":

Trump’s Purge of Terrorism Prosecutors

The politicization of the Justice Department is making Americans less safe.

bit.ly

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 22h

Carrying or comporting yourself in a way intended to project an “aura” of magnificence — coolness, badassness, whatever is most appropriate in context.

Synonyms are “Showboating,” or “stunting” among others.

The gif below is a well-known instance of Mohammad Ali aura farming.

two men in a boxing ring with the words espn classic on the bottom

Alt: Ali dodging a dozen punches

media.tenor.com

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 23h

This is the first day of fall that south Texas has seen temperatures under 70°F and let me tell you every single one of my 9 dogs has lost their gd mind

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 1d

Christian Shitting

United States, Index to Passenger Arrivals, Atlantic and Gulf Ports, 1820-1874

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 1d

Simply put they’re morons

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 1d

This has a result of stunted development. They haven’t ever engaged with any ideas they don’t already believe because there’s a very well funded and resourced apparatus designed to discourage and prevent them from doing so

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 1d

This is, on a very deep level, related to how right wing they are. Put aside the Fetterman example showing that conservatism is literally a symptom of brain damage: the conservative half of the legal profession is siloed in order to shield its stupid fucking ideas from analysis/reflection

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

In ways above and beyond simply having a conservative GOP majority (which after all had already been the case for decades), they're just outright bad at the job. They're thoroughly unimpressive, even incompetent, as jurists, in ways that are not historically normal for the Supreme Court.

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 1d

John Roberts owes me $10,000

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 1d

Jonathan Pryce