opadit
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she/her | dual-citizen, dual-jurisdiction Philadelphia lawyer in St. John's, NL, Canada | 2SLGBTQIA+🏳️🌈 ally | trans rights are human rights | "[Y]ou do not know anyone as stupid as [the current president]. You just don't." - Fran Lebowitz | go birds
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opadit
@opadit.bsky.social
· Feb 5
my point isn't (merely) doom; my point is that the plaintiffs and lawyers and anybody else opposing the administration needs to be realistic and understand where this is actually going because SCOTUS has almost literally told us that they aren't a co-equal branch against this man
corporate needs you to find the difference between this party and this party
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Another Conservative crosses the floor, bringing Liberals 1 MP shy of majority | CBC News
Ontario MP Michael Ma announced Thursday that he is leaving the Conservative caucus and joining the Liberals.
www.cbc.ca
December 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
corporate needs you to find the difference between this party and this party
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
man, I spent the day away from the computer and visiting with pals I hadn't seen in a few years, and look what happens
Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.
December 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
man, I spent the day away from the computer and visiting with pals I hadn't seen in a few years, and look what happens
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oh neat @gnat.bsky.social's band's new album just dropped
Midnight, by You, Me, Everybody
14 track album
youmeeverybody.bandcamp.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
oh neat @gnat.bsky.social's band's new album just dropped
imagine a blockade of the St. Lawrence on the premise that Canada has violated some provision or other of CUSMA or too many Canadians vacation in Cuba
Blow up boats, seize oil tankers... next they'll just take over the Panama Canal. You really think an invasion of Canada is an impossibility? We still buying planes from these motherfuckers?
December 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
imagine a blockade of the St. Lawrence on the premise that Canada has violated some provision or other of CUSMA or too many Canadians vacation in Cuba
can't wait until the U.S. seizes a vessel bringing in oil from the Canadian offshore
December 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
can't wait until the U.S. seizes a vessel bringing in oil from the Canadian offshore
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Bay of Pigs 2: Petroleum Boogaloo
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Bay of Pigs 2: Petroleum Boogaloo
search term: "starlight tour"
ICE didn't invent this
ICE didn't invent this
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
search term: "starlight tour"
ICE didn't invent this
ICE didn't invent this
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The clerk at my local post office just told me that not one person has asked for the William F. Buckley stamps and they are stuck with a backlog. They have been available for three months.
(However, they are completely sold out of those for Judge Constance Baker Motley.)
(However, they are completely sold out of those for Judge Constance Baker Motley.)
Famed Intellectual William F. Buckley Jr. Will Be Honored on a Stamp
The U.S. Postal Service will honor William F. Buckley Jr., a larger-than-life figure who helped define modern American conservatism as a writer, political commentator and novelist, with a new stamp to...
about.usps.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The clerk at my local post office just told me that not one person has asked for the William F. Buckley stamps and they are stuck with a backlog. They have been available for three months.
(However, they are completely sold out of those for Judge Constance Baker Motley.)
(However, they are completely sold out of those for Judge Constance Baker Motley.)
based on the experience of my elderly parent with ailments including dementia symptoms and dyskinesia, it seems evident that Apple does not want seniors using their phones
The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar
new iOS update is sleek and also defaults in Music to “you must want songs transition as they would on a dance floor.” so many people will wonder why they can’t just listen to an album. Apps > Music > Song Transitions > toggle off.
December 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
based on the experience of my elderly parent with ailments including dementia symptoms and dyskinesia, it seems evident that Apple does not want seniors using their phones
found the default setting where the camera comes on automatically when you swipe the screen
dear christ these engineers just cannot fathom how this default doesn't work for somebody with a challenge to their fine motor control and primarily wants to make phone calls with their (checks notes) phone
dear christ these engineers just cannot fathom how this default doesn't work for somebody with a challenge to their fine motor control and primarily wants to make phone calls with their (checks notes) phone
iPhone's latest update is a frickin' nightmare for my parent with dementia, shaking hands, and very low tolerance for frustration
December 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
found the default setting where the camera comes on automatically when you swipe the screen
dear christ these engineers just cannot fathom how this default doesn't work for somebody with a challenge to their fine motor control and primarily wants to make phone calls with their (checks notes) phone
dear christ these engineers just cannot fathom how this default doesn't work for somebody with a challenge to their fine motor control and primarily wants to make phone calls with their (checks notes) phone
you know what, MOBY-DICK, so that I can enjoy all the speculation as to WTF is going on
mid-century American prose is mostly execrable (don't @ me) but I'd read Moby-Dick over and over again, I find it so enjoyable
mid-century American prose is mostly execrable (don't @ me) but I'd read Moby-Dick over and over again, I find it so enjoyable
omg. Kat Abughazaleh just posted that if she's elected, she'll swear in on a copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
December 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
you know what, MOBY-DICK, so that I can enjoy all the speculation as to WTF is going on
mid-century American prose is mostly execrable (don't @ me) but I'd read Moby-Dick over and over again, I find it so enjoyable
mid-century American prose is mostly execrable (don't @ me) but I'd read Moby-Dick over and over again, I find it so enjoyable
-Yakety Sax- Music
YouTube video by Caleb Hudnall
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
- looneytunes that the nonsense my peers & I were putting up with 25-odd years ago with our babies is now official government policy
- very difficult to hold a job outside the home while exclusively breastfeeding for those first 12 months so maybe think about cui the hell bono with this policy
- very difficult to hold a job outside the home while exclusively breastfeeding for those first 12 months so maybe think about cui the hell bono with this policy
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
- looneytunes that the nonsense my peers & I were putting up with 25-odd years ago with our babies is now official government policy
- very difficult to hold a job outside the home while exclusively breastfeeding for those first 12 months so maybe think about cui the hell bono with this policy
- very difficult to hold a job outside the home while exclusively breastfeeding for those first 12 months so maybe think about cui the hell bono with this policy
defund DHS and ICE and release the Epstein files
December 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
defund DHS and ICE and release the Epstein files
iPhone's latest update is a frickin' nightmare for my parent with dementia, shaking hands, and very low tolerance for frustration
December 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
iPhone's latest update is a frickin' nightmare for my parent with dementia, shaking hands, and very low tolerance for frustration
it's Trump v. Slaughter day & evidently I need to tap this sign again
I don't know what you need to do to prepare for a crash of the economy unseen since 1929 (oh, and the end of independent federal agencies headed by people who aren't lickspittle quislings), but I'd suggest you start preparing now
I don't know what you need to do to prepare for a crash of the economy unseen since 1929 (oh, and the end of independent federal agencies headed by people who aren't lickspittle quislings), but I'd suggest you start preparing now
my point isn't (merely) doom; my point is that the plaintiffs and lawyers and anybody else opposing the administration needs to be realistic and understand where this is actually going because SCOTUS has almost literally told us that they aren't a co-equal branch against this man
December 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
it's Trump v. Slaughter day & evidently I need to tap this sign again
I don't know what you need to do to prepare for a crash of the economy unseen since 1929 (oh, and the end of independent federal agencies headed by people who aren't lickspittle quislings), but I'd suggest you start preparing now
I don't know what you need to do to prepare for a crash of the economy unseen since 1929 (oh, and the end of independent federal agencies headed by people who aren't lickspittle quislings), but I'd suggest you start preparing now
fund the damn courts
at best this is embarrassing; at worst it's dangerous to the rule of law in the province
at best this is embarrassing; at worst it's dangerous to the rule of law in the province
Provincial Court civil hearings, traffic, and contravention cases in Newfoundland and Labrador have been adjourned "indefinitely." Read more about why observers are decrying the lack of transparency around the decision: https://bit.ly/48mNy71
Newfoundland and Labrador provincial courts adjourned ‘indefinitely’
Observers decry lack of explanation and transparency around the decision
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
fund the damn courts
at best this is embarrassing; at worst it's dangerous to the rule of law in the province
at best this is embarrassing; at worst it's dangerous to the rule of law in the province
evergreen post
there's the general enshittification of 21st-century life and then there's the spectacle of a senior citizen with COPD + chronic pain + early dementia trying to navigate the computer who answers the phone when they need to renew a prescription
December 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
evergreen post
the short jingle at the end of the Highmark Blue Shield ad is a ripoff of "Ontario-ari-ari-o" ("A Place to Stand, a Place to Grow"), change my mind
December 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
the short jingle at the end of the Highmark Blue Shield ad is a ripoff of "Ontario-ari-ari-o" ("A Place to Stand, a Place to Grow"), change my mind
I was never able to appreciate Frank Gehry's art, but I've always appreciated whoever it was at The Stranger back in the day who dubbed the Museum of Pop Culture -- then called the Experience Music Project -- "Paul Allen's Technicolor Loogie" at Seattle Center
December 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I was never able to appreciate Frank Gehry's art, but I've always appreciated whoever it was at The Stranger back in the day who dubbed the Museum of Pop Culture -- then called the Experience Music Project -- "Paul Allen's Technicolor Loogie" at Seattle Center
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The Admiral giving kill orders is so beyond the ethos of naval officers, that I have to explain why.
Ever see Master and Commander? We love that shit; duty, honour, homoerotic tension! Bring it on!
We also consider ourselves "above" other branches' officers; as our goal is never to kill,
Ever see Master and Commander? We love that shit; duty, honour, homoerotic tension! Bring it on!
We also consider ourselves "above" other branches' officers; as our goal is never to kill,
December 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Admiral giving kill orders is so beyond the ethos of naval officers, that I have to explain why.
Ever see Master and Commander? We love that shit; duty, honour, homoerotic tension! Bring it on!
We also consider ourselves "above" other branches' officers; as our goal is never to kill,
Ever see Master and Commander? We love that shit; duty, honour, homoerotic tension! Bring it on!
We also consider ourselves "above" other branches' officers; as our goal is never to kill,
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I don’t need no pass on skeleton,,, I did them both,!!!
December 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I don’t need no pass on skeleton,,, I did them both,!!!
a powerpoint presentation of a dozen slides starts with the single step of picking the background of the first slide
December 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
a powerpoint presentation of a dozen slides starts with the single step of picking the background of the first slide
trial postponed to next autumn because they've been "unable to retrieve any documents" from def's previous lawyer -- whose office is almost literally across the street from the courthouse, just walk over there & knock on the door, this jurisdiction kills me sometimes
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Trial for alleged fraudster Philip Chancey postponed again | CBC News
The trial for a man accused of swindling investors out of more than $350,000 has been delayed again, after his new lawyer struggled to get key documents from his previous counsel.
www.cbc.ca
December 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
trial postponed to next autumn because they've been "unable to retrieve any documents" from def's previous lawyer -- whose office is almost literally across the street from the courthouse, just walk over there & knock on the door, this jurisdiction kills me sometimes
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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