Leon English
@leonenglish.bsky.social
Detroit area lawyer. Michigan stan. Personally (as opposed to professionally) interested in China.
Open borders YIMBY.
Open borders YIMBY.
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Leon English
@leonenglish.bsky.social
· Aug 31
Intro post.
I'm a lawyer. My areas of law are not super interesting to a general audience so I don't post about them much. This is not my real name, anymore, because my wife is a fed and I don't want her to be purged. I am a lifelong metro Detroiter. Michigan is great, hands off our lakes.
I'm a lawyer. My areas of law are not super interesting to a general audience so I don't post about them much. This is not my real name, anymore, because my wife is a fed and I don't want her to be purged. I am a lifelong metro Detroiter. Michigan is great, hands off our lakes.
Wife no longer a fed.
I mute my threads when they hit the discover feed.
I do a lot of stream of conscious posting.
Fuck Sam Alito.
I mute my threads when they hit the discover feed.
I do a lot of stream of conscious posting.
Fuck Sam Alito.
God, I didn't realize he'd been shot. What a hero; what a terrible tragedy that he had to be one.
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
God, I didn't realize he'd been shot. What a hero; what a terrible tragedy that he had to be one.
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Part of the problem i feel is that people want to treat Twitter as a Habermasian public sphere when in reality, the ideological skew is defined by Musk
This is probably the worst sales pitch I've ever heard - "join this app, everyone is radicalised, hates you and wants to argue with you" - 99% of social media users don't want an experience that resembles that at all
December 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Part of the problem i feel is that people want to treat Twitter as a Habermasian public sphere when in reality, the ideological skew is defined by Musk
I have always understood co-ops to be a structure to have ownership of particular units in a building, a situation which doesn't have any single perfect answer, rather than something that is or isn't inherently "good"
December 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I have always understood co-ops to be a structure to have ownership of particular units in a building, a situation which doesn't have any single perfect answer, rather than something that is or isn't inherently "good"
I should not post when I am grumpy and tired.
But I am most inclined to post when I am grumpy and tired.
Life is a series of dilemmas.
But I am most inclined to post when I am grumpy and tired.
Life is a series of dilemmas.
December 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I should not post when I am grumpy and tired.
But I am most inclined to post when I am grumpy and tired.
Life is a series of dilemmas.
But I am most inclined to post when I am grumpy and tired.
Life is a series of dilemmas.
I'd agree it's insane to frame the negative change in healthcare as the inefficacy of what Mangione did if I hadn't seen people on here literally say that it was the solution.
December 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I'd agree it's insane to frame the negative change in healthcare as the inefficacy of what Mangione did if I hadn't seen people on here literally say that it was the solution.
My favorite example of the sort of knee jerk hatred of any story in which private equity is involved was when the story went around about Hooters getting bought out by private equity and people popping up to mourn it.
Nevermind that it was private equity buying it from... private equity.
Nevermind that it was private equity buying it from... private equity.
December 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
My favorite example of the sort of knee jerk hatred of any story in which private equity is involved was when the story went around about Hooters getting bought out by private equity and people popping up to mourn it.
Nevermind that it was private equity buying it from... private equity.
Nevermind that it was private equity buying it from... private equity.
The thing is, small and medium sized business are ultimately things that specific people do, and people are not immortal, which means either someone steps in to take it over (which can be private equity, on occasion) or it closes when the person dies or moves on.
You seem to be positing a situation in which the business would just keep running but for the private equity. I am telling you that is not always the case, and that is a situation where it isn't bad.
I agree that situations in which private equity buys up a going concern and ruins it are bad.
I agree that situations in which private equity buys up a going concern and ruins it are bad.
December 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The thing is, small and medium sized business are ultimately things that specific people do, and people are not immortal, which means either someone steps in to take it over (which can be private equity, on occasion) or it closes when the person dies or moves on.
I mean
One thing about realizing you aren't actually built different
Is understanding that going back to Twitter would be more likely to change you than vice versa
One thing about realizing you aren't actually built different
Is understanding that going back to Twitter would be more likely to change you than vice versa
I have a friend for instance - an assistant headteacher in a grammar school in South East England - who has radicalised herself into racism and fascist apologia simply by being there. Would that be the case if liberals she took seriously were still posting on the app by which she’s addicted?
December 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I mean
One thing about realizing you aren't actually built different
Is understanding that going back to Twitter would be more likely to change you than vice versa
One thing about realizing you aren't actually built different
Is understanding that going back to Twitter would be more likely to change you than vice versa
Has Wurman written about the vast literature supporting presidential pardons for state crimes yet?
December 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Has Wurman written about the vast literature supporting presidential pardons for state crimes yet?
Im generally anti car but I also don't know what I'd do if I didn't have ten minutes in the car to myself after getting home
December 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Im generally anti car but I also don't know what I'd do if I didn't have ten minutes in the car to myself after getting home
He looks like a walking corpse and things can happen
December 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
He looks like a walking corpse and things can happen
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I always thought the lyrics said “raspberry beret” so you can imagine my embarrassment.
December 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I always thought the lyrics said “raspberry beret” so you can imagine my embarrassment.
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We should just call it "Deconstruction."
Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.
December 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
We should just call it "Deconstruction."
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The last quarter of the year has been so busy that I haven't done a Xueting Sunday #popculture post for a while. Here's a treat. Today, I'm talking about the trend of making your own Christmas trees in China. And people are being very creative. This one is made of good wishes in calligraphy. 1/
December 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The last quarter of the year has been so busy that I haven't done a Xueting Sunday #popculture post for a while. Here's a treat. Today, I'm talking about the trend of making your own Christmas trees in China. And people are being very creative. This one is made of good wishes in calligraphy. 1/
Oh this is some bullshit
December 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Oh this is some bullshit
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Hello friends, I recently lost my health insurance + benefits & am currently looking at a bill of over $16,000 for which I cannot pay. This would not necessarily be an issue if I were not visually impaired and currently out of full time work, but I am humbly asking for assistance now. Any bit helps.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Hello friends, I recently lost my health insurance + benefits & am currently looking at a bill of over $16,000 for which I cannot pay. This would not necessarily be an issue if I were not visually impaired and currently out of full time work, but I am humbly asking for assistance now. Any bit helps.
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I love how Real ID was so necessary for security they could punt its implementation for literal years, it’s still not fully adopted because states don’t have the capacity to do all the appointments, now it’s a $45 surcharge if you don’t have it but it also doesn’t count for anything if you do
December 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I love how Real ID was so necessary for security they could punt its implementation for literal years, it’s still not fully adopted because states don’t have the capacity to do all the appointments, now it’s a $45 surcharge if you don’t have it but it also doesn’t count for anything if you do
Ah, yes. Theater kids. Definitely not the ones who were playing ttrpgs before.
I cannot express how pathetic you have to be to believe this happened in the TTRPG hobby in the last decade
December 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Ah, yes. Theater kids. Definitely not the ones who were playing ttrpgs before.
A) I don't give a shit that someone dressed in drag, I care that they were raping underage trafficking victims
B) Fuck Bill Clinton, too, who fucking cares
B) Fuck Bill Clinton, too, who fucking cares
December 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A) I don't give a shit that someone dressed in drag, I care that they were raping underage trafficking victims
B) Fuck Bill Clinton, too, who fucking cares
B) Fuck Bill Clinton, too, who fucking cares
My pictures suck cause I was trying to take them while also trying to keep my kids on the move so they didn't get antsy, but the Henry Ford Museum of Innovation is a legitimately great museum of industrial history and design, highly recommend if you find yourself in Detroit.
December 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
My pictures suck cause I was trying to take them while also trying to keep my kids on the move so they didn't get antsy, but the Henry Ford Museum of Innovation is a legitimately great museum of industrial history and design, highly recommend if you find yourself in Detroit.
Finally a truck I would drive
December 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Finally a truck I would drive
Gonna have to add a portrait of Stephen Miller to this exhibit in the near future
December 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Gonna have to add a portrait of Stephen Miller to this exhibit in the near future
How the fuck does a US citizen carry immigration documents
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
How the fuck does a US citizen carry immigration documents
My God the car discourse is the gift that just keeps giving
So many unhinged takes
So many unhinged takes
December 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
My God the car discourse is the gift that just keeps giving
So many unhinged takes
So many unhinged takes