Tony Corsentino
@notalegalrecord.net
Boring and useless. Librarian; abolitionist adoptee; bicyclist; Southerner in New England; erstwhile philosophy prof, current LIS adjunct prof. Cis. Trans rights are human rights.
Pinned
abolishing the private #adoption industry and ending the legal practice of plenary adoption—the irreversible rewriting of a child’s legal identity and falsification of their natal kinship relations—does *not* mean abolishing long-term custodial care for a child who needs it. +
i play this little game with myself which I call “is it gen Z slang or just my kid’s typo”
December 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
i play this little game with myself which I call “is it gen Z slang or just my kid’s typo”
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How about he stops doing both?
Quentin Tarantino needs to stop criticising films and start making them again | Peter Bradshaw
Quentin Tarantino needs to stop criticising films and start making them again | Peter Bradshaw
Trolling wokesters, disparaging Paul Thomas Anderson, insulting Paul Dano … the controversial director plays to type with his list of the top 20 best films of the 21st century
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
How about he stops doing both?
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I would be soooo interested in reading a long essay by Ta-nehisi Coates or Eve Ewing about what happened on the way to Kirk's attempted canonization. To me this was one of the most interesting things of the year on multiple levels. It's rich text starting with calling his killing an "assassination."
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I would be soooo interested in reading a long essay by Ta-nehisi Coates or Eve Ewing about what happened on the way to Kirk's attempted canonization. To me this was one of the most interesting things of the year on multiple levels. It's rich text starting with calling his killing an "assassination."
i will, however, be missing the library's first ever staff cookie swap, and i'm legitimately sorrowful over that
i have been posting about a novel i find nearly unreadable, and i have also been posting about the death of my adoptive father. his funeral will take place on the day i was to lead a book-group discussion about the novel. after some thought i have decided it’s ok to say “thanks, pop.”
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
i will, however, be missing the library's first ever staff cookie swap, and i'm legitimately sorrowful over that
reading guardian articles in a desperate quest for understanding
December 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
reading guardian articles in a desperate quest for understanding
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Except that with modern physics and chemistry, alchemy is actually possible - www.nature.com/articles/d41....
December 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Except that with modern physics and chemistry, alchemy is actually possible - www.nature.com/articles/d41....
i try to be judicious about saying “you really ought to read this,” but you really ought to read this.
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
December 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
i try to be judicious about saying “you really ought to read this,” but you really ought to read this.
i finally got my 17yo kid to tell me what they would like for Christmas, but all they said was “jeans.” that’s a rough thing to do to a 50yo guy with an anxiety disorder
December 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
i finally got my 17yo kid to tell me what they would like for Christmas, but all they said was “jeans.” that’s a rough thing to do to a 50yo guy with an anxiety disorder
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anything to get in the carpool lane
December 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
anything to get in the carpool lane
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Jersey City Council is in a dispute with NJ Transit over parking. NJ Transit CEO Kris Kolluri wants to bring in an overnight parking ban at light rail stations, because he reckons that occupants of "luxury residences" have been using park-and-ride lots as regular parking. www.nj.com/news/2025/12...
Were these luxury apartment residents crowding out commuters? NJ Transit says yes.
NJ Transit CEO Kris Kolluri says commuters can't find parking because luxury building residents are using the transit lot instead of their buildings' more expensive options.
www.nj.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Jersey City Council is in a dispute with NJ Transit over parking. NJ Transit CEO Kris Kolluri wants to bring in an overnight parking ban at light rail stations, because he reckons that occupants of "luxury residences" have been using park-and-ride lots as regular parking. www.nj.com/news/2025/12...
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you will never understand what could be wrong with #adoption until you can see what is obvious: adoption is about power. it is about an extreme kind of power that most of you will never be subjected to: the power to decide which families get to exist: who gets to be a mother/father/child of whom.
December 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
you will never understand what could be wrong with #adoption until you can see what is obvious: adoption is about power. it is about an extreme kind of power that most of you will never be subjected to: the power to decide which families get to exist: who gets to be a mother/father/child of whom.
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Ruaa is once again asking for people to contact Bluesky to ask for the return of her account. She was targeted by a literal Neo Nazi (88 in the profile) prior to her suspension and has been on here for well over a year following the rules.
December 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Ruaa is once again asking for people to contact Bluesky to ask for the return of her account. She was targeted by a literal Neo Nazi (88 in the profile) prior to her suspension and has been on here for well over a year following the rules.
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there's no problem you can read your way out of that you can't also read your way into. it's a communication method not a holy virtue
December 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
there's no problem you can read your way out of that you can't also read your way into. it's a communication method not a holy virtue
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I think a big part of why this social media ban and push to remove kids from the Internet really really fucking bothers me, is I'd be dead without the connections I had *online* at that age.
But sure, I'm sure everyone else knows best and there will be no negative outcomes here.
But sure, I'm sure everyone else knows best and there will be no negative outcomes here.
December 10, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I think a big part of why this social media ban and push to remove kids from the Internet really really fucking bothers me, is I'd be dead without the connections I had *online* at that age.
But sure, I'm sure everyone else knows best and there will be no negative outcomes here.
But sure, I'm sure everyone else knows best and there will be no negative outcomes here.
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Anyone telling you to be polite to get acceptance or your basic needs met is not ever going to care about you. They only want you to be easier to ignore.
December 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Anyone telling you to be polite to get acceptance or your basic needs met is not ever going to care about you. They only want you to be easier to ignore.
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For many adoptees, we've never seen a newborn pic of ourselves like many non-adopted people have. With a lack of transparency in practices & altered/sealed records, many of us may NEVER know basic details of our birth... time, hospital, weight/length, etc. Some are not even sure of their birthdate.🥚
December 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
For many adoptees, we've never seen a newborn pic of ourselves like many non-adopted people have. With a lack of transparency in practices & altered/sealed records, many of us may NEVER know basic details of our birth... time, hospital, weight/length, etc. Some are not even sure of their birthdate.🥚
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Published my first thing on Substack. I cannot escape adoption. Happy to have this new perspective though. Let's talk about it! #adoption #reunion #ancestry
Cousins Through Adoption
I've been thinking about starting a Substack for a few months now, but I wasn't sure what my first or second post should be.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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They push back with "it's a real birth certificate because it's issued by the state" but if it has info on it that's not factual, how can it be real? That's the way they need to start viewing their own citizenship. From the lens of the "state decides what's real" and what isn't. 🥚
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
They push back with "it's a real birth certificate because it's issued by the state" but if it has info on it that's not factual, how can it be real? That's the way they need to start viewing their own citizenship. From the lens of the "state decides what's real" and what isn't. 🥚
this.
we adoptees are proof that the state can assign you any identity it chooses—completely rewrite the documents you think “proves” who you are. 🥚
we adoptees are proof that the state can assign you any identity it chooses—completely rewrite the documents you think “proves” who you are. 🥚
Adoption strips adoptees of the birthright to their own family history, legally locks it away, and replaces it with a fake birth certificate. And people think their citizenship is safe? It was never safe. Adoptees are proof of how easy it is for the state to dictate circumstances.
I get a sick feeling, as do many, when the possibility of losing birthright citizenship comes up. Now imagine adoptees, who have no “birthright parentage” guarantee.
December 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
this.
we adoptees are proof that the state can assign you any identity it chooses—completely rewrite the documents you think “proves” who you are. 🥚
we adoptees are proof that the state can assign you any identity it chooses—completely rewrite the documents you think “proves” who you are. 🥚
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U.S. plans to ask visitors to disclose 5 years of social media history www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
U.S. plans to ask visitors to disclose 5 years of social media history
The proposal would affect travelers from countries on the visa waiver program, including Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Japan and South Korea.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
U.S. plans to ask visitors to disclose 5 years of social media history www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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December 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Just $35!!!
One of you has to have that,
PLEASE
One of you has to have that,
PLEASE
i need like $35 asap to make it to my appointment in an hour!
i have like $10
please?
i have like $10
please?
all the minimums have been paid and everything is set for tomorrow.
all i need is about $120 for a ride to my oncologists office today (in an hour, so needed ASAP) and a ride to the hospital tomorrow
please?
we're almost there 🙏🏽
paypal.me/thelongestroad
ko-fi.com/rebekamash
all i need is about $120 for a ride to my oncologists office today (in an hour, so needed ASAP) and a ride to the hospital tomorrow
please?
we're almost there 🙏🏽
paypal.me/thelongestroad
ko-fi.com/rebekamash
December 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Just $35!!!
One of you has to have that,
PLEASE
One of you has to have that,
PLEASE
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So now humans are getting lost/trapped and other humans have to send out search parties to find them because AI doesn't have the capacity to account for sudden trail closures
For me personally? That sums up exactly how unreliable AI is
futurism.com/ai-chatbots-...
For me personally? That sums up exactly how unreliable AI is
futurism.com/ai-chatbots-...
AI Chatbots Are Putting Clueless Hikers in Danger, Search and Rescue Groups Warn
Hikers are ending up in need of rescue because they're following the questionable recommendations of an AI chatbot.
futurism.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
So now humans are getting lost/trapped and other humans have to send out search parties to find them because AI doesn't have the capacity to account for sudden trail closures
For me personally? That sums up exactly how unreliable AI is
futurism.com/ai-chatbots-...
For me personally? That sums up exactly how unreliable AI is
futurism.com/ai-chatbots-...
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Good morning, lovelies🌻✨️
Please, please, please do some hip mobility exercises today. We're going into slip-and-fall season and one accident can be all it takes to worsen LBP, sciatica, or give you new aches🥺
Please, please, please do some hip mobility exercises today. We're going into slip-and-fall season and one accident can be all it takes to worsen LBP, sciatica, or give you new aches🥺
December 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Good morning, lovelies🌻✨️
Please, please, please do some hip mobility exercises today. We're going into slip-and-fall season and one accident can be all it takes to worsen LBP, sciatica, or give you new aches🥺
Please, please, please do some hip mobility exercises today. We're going into slip-and-fall season and one accident can be all it takes to worsen LBP, sciatica, or give you new aches🥺
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“Let kids be kids!”
December 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
“Let kids be kids!”