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Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #Caturday
It's a little harder to get my homework done, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Picture from overhead. Open law school casebook on the left side of a blue sofa. Sleeping black cat on a red blanket on my lap in the right seat. My feet are propped up on a footstool because it creates a better car nap zone.

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Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · 2d

I read this book and found it to be wonderful!

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Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · 2d

It took me far too long to get around to listening and then I was done listening to all the episodes far too quickly! So happy there are more in the way!

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Wil Screamton @wilwheaton.net · 2d

I sort of forgot to mention that my podcast, It's Storytime With Wil Wheaton, had a wonderful test season earlier this year, and new episodes are on their way!

I will return on October 29th, with a spooky story.

You can find me wherever you get your podcasts, or at patreon.com/storytime

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Making of the Podcast

patreon.com

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Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · 4d

OK. Maybe I haven't completely given up. I did put it away along with my cart.

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Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · 4d

That is it. I give up on humans.

Someone left their shopping cart right next to but not inside and actually blocking the entrance to the return area in the parking lot that had plenty of room for another cart.

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Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · 14d

Having just finished reading American Epic by Garrett Epps, I would like to share with anyone who stumbles into this part of the internet, a paragraph he wrote about the 25th amendment.

The book was written in 2013.

A paragraph from American Epic about the 25th amendment to the US Constitution ending with this thought: "Fletcher Knebel, the author of Seven Days in May, evoked [the possibility of a mad president] in another novel called Night of Camp David, imagining a deranged president who tries to annex Canada and Scandinavia and form a new nation called Aspen."

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Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · 15d

Seeing the words taint and Wade on the same page of a study guide on criminal procedure just makes me want to call off my day of studying and go rewatch Deadpool.

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Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · 21d

A true sign of aging. Two pairs of readers finding their way to the same location.

Two pairs of glasses on a blank page of a spiral notebook.

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Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · 24d

Just met my reading goal for the year! The Shattering Peace by @scalzi.com was number 52. Now I can really settle in to law school homework without that reading goal haunting me, calling me to procrastinate.

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Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks for your great reporting. For those who don't read the whole article, this quote is also included, "Voters in all but five of the state’s 49 legislative districts rejected the state’s voucher program in 2024."

Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · 27d

How I like to "watch" Monday night football. (I do look up when the announcers get excited.)

Black cat asleep on my lap, TV across the room showing tonight's nfl game, and, at the bottom left a copy of The Shattering Peace that was recently open to page 104 and will be open again momentarily.

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · Sep 24

This print was added to our store by popular demand.

PRINT ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com/products/aut...
ORIGINAL COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/autism...

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Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · Sep 21

Reading
American Epic Reading the US Constitution by Garrett Epps

Watching
Stargate Universe

Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · Sep 20

My favorite use of an em dash--since stupid AI made it my current Baader-Meinhof phenomenon concept--has got to be this one from a KAGAN dissent I'm reading for Admin Law.

"But--sorry--footnote 8 provides no support."

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Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · Sep 16

It's pre-order pickup day at my local independent bookstore, Francie and Finch! Hey @scalzi.com thanks for filling up all my free time for the next few days!

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Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · Sep 14

Caturday with beautiful old Panther.

A small black cat sleeping on a red blanket covering my lap. His front left leg is reaching around my hip like a little hug

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Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · Sep 13

Don't forget to stand up and stretch every x minutes. Where x=whatever is the right amount of stretching to keep your joints happy. Healthy Scalzi=more books=happy me!

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Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · Sep 11

I loved that book!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 8

Oh yes I will be writing an essay about how the SNW episode “Four and a Half Vulcans” is wildly offensive and normalizing race science that was mainstream and popular in United States in the 1850s

Like Disco called this shit terrorism

What the fuck is this regressive bullshit

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Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · Sep 7

Reading homework for law school, listening to The Original by Brandon Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal, reading Bury Your Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab, and halfway through By Order of the President: The Use and Abuse of Executive Direct Action by Phillip J. Cooper.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Sep 3

Another day, another whiner complaining that I use the singular "they" in my work, and of course they can go fuck themselves

(you see what I did there)

(also, gift link)

wapo.st/3JEdPUv

Opinion | ‘They’ has been a singular pronoun for centuries. Don’t let anyone tell you it’s wrong.

Jane Austen did it. You can, too.

wapo.st

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Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · Aug 22

After reading your blog post yesterday and agreeing with every point made, today I got a link to a survey for a class I'm
taking this fall because the professor wants to make sure she knows how to pronounce everyone's name correctly. I think I'm going to like this professor.

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Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · Aug 20

Using alliterative cutsy names for prisons feels wrong, like we're trying to make them sound like summer camps, but since this facility previous name was the Work Ethic Camp, I guess that's not much of a change.

Mary Putnam @maryjoyace.bsky.social · Aug 17

I would like all my favorite active authors (looking at you @scalzi.com and @maryrobinettekowal.com) to only release new books when I will have time to read them cover to cover.

(I don't really mean this. I always pre-order and will get to it when the fall semester is over.)