Maybell Romero
@maybell.bsky.social
McGlinchey Stafford Associate Prof at Tulane Law. Criminal law, rural legal systems, sexual assault, punishment, and cultural criticism. Atrevida y obstinada.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2292637
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2292637
Missed a call for papers because of my concussion. What a bummer!
November 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Missed a call for papers because of my concussion. What a bummer!
This is excellent tasting
November 29, 2025 at 7:31 AM
This is excellent tasting
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Unión Migrante has trainings on how to safely/effectively film 🧊 tonight (lower 9), monday 12/1 (baton rouge), tuesday 12/2 (midcity), wednesday 12/3 (harvey), and monday 12/8 (lacombe) + more coming. DM me for more info if you want to attend one. but be patient as i need to vet if i don’t know you.
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Unión Migrante has trainings on how to safely/effectively film 🧊 tonight (lower 9), monday 12/1 (baton rouge), tuesday 12/2 (midcity), wednesday 12/3 (harvey), and monday 12/8 (lacombe) + more coming. DM me for more info if you want to attend one. but be patient as i need to vet if i don’t know you.
Thank you for this, @melissavandiver.bsky.social! Brian and I were getting drinks at Bar Redux today, and there were pamphlets detailing a lot of these tips, along with free whistles available for anyone who wants one.
I went to an "ojos" training tonight hosted by New Orleans DSA and Union Migrante and thought I'd pass on new things I learned:
1. Low/old info ICE sighting posts are wreaking havoc on immigrant communities. Basically, incomplete or old info is actively harmful (even if ppl have good intentions)
1. Low/old info ICE sighting posts are wreaking havoc on immigrant communities. Basically, incomplete or old info is actively harmful (even if ppl have good intentions)
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Thank you for this, @melissavandiver.bsky.social! Brian and I were getting drinks at Bar Redux today, and there were pamphlets detailing a lot of these tips, along with free whistles available for anyone who wants one.
I’m a yutz and forgot photos!
November 29, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I’m a yutz and forgot photos!
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November 29, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Yes, we will be going up against receptions. Those receptions are invariably boring, have terrible food, and garbage drinks. @brianlfrye.bsky.social will be mixing drinks, I'll be playing records, and you'll be hanging out somewhere that isn't the crappy old Hilton Riverside hotel.
Okay, y’all! @brianlfrye.bsky.social and I are planning our AALS party for the night of Jamuary 7! I hope you’ll cole see us!
November 29, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Yes, we will be going up against receptions. Those receptions are invariably boring, have terrible food, and garbage drinks. @brianlfrye.bsky.social will be mixing drinks, I'll be playing records, and you'll be hanging out somewhere that isn't the crappy old Hilton Riverside hotel.
Okay, y’all! @brianlfrye.bsky.social and I are planning our AALS party for the night of Jamuary 7! I hope you’ll cole see us!
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Okay, y’all! @brianlfrye.bsky.social and I are planning our AALS party for the night of Jamuary 7! I hope you’ll cole see us!
My problem, too, is that there’s a bunch of terrible stuff out there that people have made all by themselves that they try to call "art." Illustration, sure. Tchotkes, sure. Not art.
November 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
My problem, too, is that there’s a bunch of terrible stuff out there that people have made all by themselves that they try to call "art." Illustration, sure. Tchotkes, sure. Not art.
What else did I make?
The soup, with some roasted pepitas, and tagine-style lamb neck, with a bit of butternut purée in the sauce. The couscous has sour cherries and some pepitas. Every bit of our #Shabbat dinner tonight has a squash element. #ShabbatShalom
The soup, with some roasted pepitas, and tagine-style lamb neck, with a bit of butternut purée in the sauce. The couscous has sour cherries and some pepitas. Every bit of our #Shabbat dinner tonight has a squash element. #ShabbatShalom
Roasted it and used half to make a Bremen Kürbitsbrot. The rest, predictably, is going into soup.
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
What else did I make?
The soup, with some roasted pepitas, and tagine-style lamb neck, with a bit of butternut purée in the sauce. The couscous has sour cherries and some pepitas. Every bit of our #Shabbat dinner tonight has a squash element. #ShabbatShalom
The soup, with some roasted pepitas, and tagine-style lamb neck, with a bit of butternut purée in the sauce. The couscous has sour cherries and some pepitas. Every bit of our #Shabbat dinner tonight has a squash element. #ShabbatShalom
Roasted it and used half to make a Bremen Kürbitsbrot. The rest, predictably, is going into soup.
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Roasted it and used half to make a Bremen Kürbitsbrot. The rest, predictably, is going into soup.
It's so unsettling to see @brianlfrye.bsky.social pick up a whole kiwi to just bite into it, without peeling it or anything. He doesn't even rub the fuzz off. 🤢
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
It's so unsettling to see @brianlfrye.bsky.social pick up a whole kiwi to just bite into it, without peeling it or anything. He doesn't even rub the fuzz off. 🤢
Slowly rewatching Downton Abbey and ugh, I forgot how awful this was.
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Slowly rewatching Downton Abbey and ugh, I forgot how awful this was.
I just put a anti-glare and blue light screen protector on my laptop screen and OMG, it's amazing and a little weird to use a matte screen again. Remember when laptop screens were matte in the early 2000s?
November 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I just put a anti-glare and blue light screen protector on my laptop screen and OMG, it's amazing and a little weird to use a matte screen again. Remember when laptop screens were matte in the early 2000s?
For the love of Pete, just make your font bigger, people! Maybe fill your slide with something useful. Or if they’re so lacking in actual content,*don’t use any*.
Right. But why do Powerpoints need to have actual art to fill in the blank space? That's like hanging a Picasso in a Motel 8.
My point is simply that "filling space" is pretty much the ideal use for AI slop.
My point is simply that "filling space" is pretty much the ideal use for AI slop.
November 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
For the love of Pete, just make your font bigger, people! Maybe fill your slide with something useful. Or if they’re so lacking in actual content,*don’t use any*.
One of you just DMed me all "well, what else am I supposed to put on a slide?"
I’m very direct with mine. Black background, BIG white text. Bullet points. Sometimes images of where the relevant facts of a case took place or sometimes statistical figures.
I’m very direct with mine. Black background, BIG white text. Bullet points. Sometimes images of where the relevant facts of a case took place or sometimes statistical figures.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
One of you just DMed me all "well, what else am I supposed to put on a slide?"
I’m very direct with mine. Black background, BIG white text. Bullet points. Sometimes images of where the relevant facts of a case took place or sometimes statistical figures.
I’m very direct with mine. Black background, BIG white text. Bullet points. Sometimes images of where the relevant facts of a case took place or sometimes statistical figures.
Katie is spot on here. I recently saw a slide deck where the unrelated images took up more than half the slides and the text was illegible. Stop using garbage like Canva. Stop including all the language of the presentation on your slides. Stop reading your slides word for word. 1/2
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Katie is spot on here. I recently saw a slide deck where the unrelated images took up more than half the slides and the text was illegible. Stop using garbage like Canva. Stop including all the language of the presentation on your slides. Stop reading your slides word for word. 1/2
I was carrying one of these cameras in this same bag yesterday and people were like "I love your camera purse; does it hold a lot?"
I had to repeatedly explain that it actually holds a working camera! Believe it or not, I’m at least a passable film photographer! 😂
I had to repeatedly explain that it actually holds a working camera! Believe it or not, I’m at least a passable film photographer! 😂
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I was carrying one of these cameras in this same bag yesterday and people were like "I love your camera purse; does it hold a lot?"
I had to repeatedly explain that it actually holds a working camera! Believe it or not, I’m at least a passable film photographer! 😂
I had to repeatedly explain that it actually holds a working camera! Believe it or not, I’m at least a passable film photographer! 😂
Just found this big old butternut at the back of the fridge. Let’s figure out what to do with it!
November 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Just found this big old butternut at the back of the fridge. Let’s figure out what to do with it!
I love when people discover that people from hundreds of years ago were much like we are now. 🥰
Reading letters from the Princess Liselotte of Palantine, the German sister-in-law of Louis XIV, and it's wild because she had this super informal writing style that almost sounds like modern texts
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I love when people discover that people from hundreds of years ago were much like we are now. 🥰
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“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
November 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
Someone is in an excellent mood this morning
November 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Someone is in an excellent mood this morning
We’re finally getting going! Happy Thanksgiving, y’all!
People are already doing leftovers, and we haven't cooked food yet. In our house when we do Thanksgiving Dinner, we really mean dinner. This all won't be read until 8 or so.
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
We’re finally getting going! Happy Thanksgiving, y’all!
People are already doing leftovers, and we haven't cooked food yet. In our house when we do Thanksgiving Dinner, we really mean dinner. This all won't be read until 8 or so.
November 27, 2025 at 11:44 PM
People are already doing leftovers, and we haven't cooked food yet. In our house when we do Thanksgiving Dinner, we really mean dinner. This all won't be read until 8 or so.
Thanksgiving in New Orleans at the Polo Club with @brianlfrye.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Thanksgiving in New Orleans at the Polo Club with @brianlfrye.bsky.social