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@bcdreyer.social, could you please begin a campaign against people who don't know the difference between "vice" and "vise"? Particularly journalists and their editors? (And maybe judges?)

Nobody claims Chicago is in a "vice hold of violence."

From a Chicago Sun-Times article reporting on Judge Ellis's ruling in the Bovino use-of-force case:

"The [Trump administration] would have people believe, instead, that the Chicagoland area is in a vice hold of violence, ransacked by rioters and attacked by agitators," she added. "That simply is untrue. And the government's own evidence in this case belies that assertion."

November 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM

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@golux13.bsky.social

Doesn't parody have to be somehow commenting on the parodized property? From Dr. Seuss v. Penguin Books: "Courts have allowed parody claims only where there was a discernable direct comment on the original." (I don't know if this is still good law, or if it's been changed by later cases.)

In sum, satire and parody are generally egregious forms of infringement, taking the best elements of the most expressive works. The choice to take protected elements from a copyrighted work is reasonable and fair only when it is necessary. It is necessary only when one of the targets of the satirist is the work itself, because only then is it fair to presume that the satirist has no alternative to infringement, and only then is it fair to presume that the author would not profit from the granting of a license. The reasonableness extends only to that appropriation of the original that is required to fulfill the parodic purpose.

October 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM

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@golux13.bsky.social

Who robbed the Louvre right answers only

Redford and Newman posing as The Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy.

October 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM

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@golux13.bsky.social

He may be the smartest person on the panel (low bar), but this shows that he doesn't really understand that Rufo, Yarvin, et al., don't give a shit about "majority support" or public approval of their program.

But challenged by Rufo, who explicitly endorses such a political test for public employment, he reverts back to the public relations argument - saying the problem with Rufo's position is that "it doesn't command majority support."

September 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM

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@golux13.bsky.social

So this is their vision of a new Democratic Party?

Steve Buscemi, obviously a middle-aged man, dressed in a hoodie and a generic band t-shirt, wearing a backwards baseball cap, holding a skateboard over his shoulder. Caption: "How do you do, hellow kids?"

August 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM

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@golux13.bsky.social

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel.

Gif of a portion of the tea room scene in "Withnail and I"

June 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM

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@golux13.bsky.social

More hilarity ensues. Maybe ICE will raid Elon's house.

Facebook post from Alt National Park Service account, reading:
"This just keeps getting more upside down.
Steve Bannon says he’s advising Trump to cancel all of Elon’s federal contracts and launch multiple investigations into the world’s richest man.
His reason?
Bannon claims Elon Musk is “an illegal alien” and says the administration should formally investigate his immigration status and deport him immediately.
Yes, really. The billionaire who helped push some of the harshest anti-immigration policies in modern history… might now need an immigration lawyer."

June 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM

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@golux13.bsky.social

So... the answer "How can Democrats win" is "Be Republicans"? This guy can fuck off into the sun.

Some of Jentleson’s pitch, these people said, was already laid out in a New York Times op-ed published soon after the 2024 election loss. He urged Democrats to declare “independence from liberal and progressive interest groups that prevent Democrats from thinking clearly about how to win” and to reject the “rigid mores and vocabulary of college-educated elites.”

June 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM

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@golux13.bsky.social

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

Richard Benjamin and the rest of the cast of Quark, an almost completely-forgettable space sitcom that I loved as a kid.

March 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM

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@golux13.bsky.social

Who is your celebrity “Birthday Twin” (born same day as you)? Answer with pic or gif only

Frank Sinatra - mugshot, Nov 27 1938 (22 years old)

January 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM

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@golux13.bsky.social

Post a pic you took with no description to bring some zen to the timeline.

(Yes, I know, the alt text is technically a description. Don't read it if you don't want to.)

A young girl sits on her father's shoulders in the middle of a large crowd at a rock music festival, backlit and silhouetted by the stage lighting.

January 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM

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@golux13.bsky.social

Snack or advice? You decide.

One end of a package of Polish cookies with the word "Hit" in large letters above the word "nuts" in smaller letters.

December 19, 2024 at 10:38 PM

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@golux13.bsky.social

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced or stayed with you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 6.

#BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge
The Story of Ferdinand the Bull, Munro Leaf

A red book cover featuring a bull etched in black, holding and sniffing a white flower. There are several other white flowers scattered on the red background. At the top, it reads, "The Story of Ferdinand the Bull by Munro Leaf." At the bottom, it says, "Drawings by Robert Lawson."

October 3, 2024 at 4:45 PM

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@golux13.bsky.social

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced or stayed with you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

I've been slacking. Day
5.

#BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge
Bored of the Rings, The Harvard Lampoon (Doug Kenney, Henry Beard)

A twisted version of a Tolkienesque landscape. A giant hookah sits in the foreground left. A large shadowy figure with a porcine head rides an angry-looking giant pig, apparently chasing a couple of small figures in the lower right who are fleeing on black sheep. A tree/tower/ volcano in the center holds aloft a toothbrush with a glowing head. There's a lot of shit going on here.

October 2, 2024 at 4:42 PM

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@golux13.bsky.social

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced or stayed with you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 4.

#BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge
Egil's Saga (Egills Saga Skallagrimssonr)

Penguin Classics cover of Egil's Saga, showing a 17th-century illustration from the saga. A thick-set man wearing a light brown tunic, blue pants, dark brown boots with white fur at the top, a blue cloak, and a black, broad-brimmed hat. He has a neatly trimmed mustache and beard. His right hand holds a drawn sword, while his left is on the hilt of another weapon, and he is looking back over his right shoulder with a concerned expression.

September 29, 2024 at 4:50 PM

Yours Turkey, Johnny Dollar

@golux13.bsky.social

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced or stayed with you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 3.

#BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll

Book cover with the title and author's name in the top third and John Tenniel's (I'm pretty sure) etching of Alice holding the "Drink Me" bottle.

September 28, 2024 at 8:59 PM

Yours Turkey, Johnny Dollar

@golux13.bsky.social

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced or stayed with you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

I don't promise a full 20 days, but here's Day 2.

#BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge
The Player of Games, Iain M.
Banks

Book cover for The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks. The title is in a black banner at the top, the author's name in a black banner at the bottom. The rest of the cover shows a spherical machine on the left and a woman's face on the right. Her face is partially obscured by an abstract game board. There are other spheres that could be planets, rushing toward the upper right, and other abstract symbols.

September 27, 2024 at 9:16 PM

Yours Turkey, Johnny Dollar

@golux13.bsky.social

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced or stayed with you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

I don't promise a full 20 days, but here's Day 1.

#BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

Book cover for The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death, by Charlie Huston. A woman lies on a floor on what appears to be a B&W crime scene photo with case file coding on the right. The woman's photographic image is replaced by a yellow silhouette containing the title and author's name, with the words "BESTSELLING author of SLEEPLESS" on one upper thigh and the words "A NOVEL" running down her other thigh.

September 27, 2024 at 12:47 AM

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@golux13.bsky.social

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #448,357!

(Immediately after complaining that I couldn't find the card, I found it.)

Top 5%! I believe this entitles me to a Dukedom, or at least a Barony?

September 17, 2024 at 3:50 PM

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@golux13.bsky.social

Don't know if it counts, because it was a movie, but it's streaming-only on Peacock, so I'm considering it a TV show. And I'd be OK with either of these two coming to save me.

Image from John Woo's remake of "The Killer" showing Omar Sy and Nathalie Emmanuel confronting each other, each with a pistol pointed at the other's face.

September 6, 2024 at 2:09 PM

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@golux13.bsky.social

Can someone on the Bluesky team - @pfrazee.com, @why.bsky.team, @jay.bsky.team, anybody? - please explain what this is doing in my feed? Did I miss a memo? One appeal of Bluesky is no algorithm suggesting who/what to read or follow. What gives? (I see no setting to turn this off.)