Scott Wortley

no really, holy shit

horrendous. Another example. Who knew putting vape shops in these old buildings ran risks...

oh no. sorry to hear that. A former scottish presiding officer (speaker of the parliament) seems to have been similarly affected.

Did you ever see Bob Roberts with Tim Robbins and Gore Vidal?

@beaubaumann.bsky.social your twitter account seems to have been hacked. Received an odd direct message from you with a malware link.

have you ever listened to Karin Krog and Rigmor Gustafsson? I hear shades of them in her work (and am going to look for more by her)

one of my former students explained to me that the thing about these models is that very thing it produces is a hallucination based on probability. the amazing thing is any of it being right.

the wee free by 93

Positive prescription in Scotland requires an ex facie valid title before the possession kicks in at all. Stops this sort of spurious stuff

Would be the best thing for the game up here.

I would quite like fans from both to be banned from znnsome upcoming games, but given scottish football authorities that action feels unlikely. Would be nice to have a behind closed doors thing, and no fans from one the team with the pitch invasion allowed at the semi final.

Fingers crossed

Ideal outcome this season is neither of them winning a trophy

Usucapio eh? Bloody hell

“Apparently their neighbours claim that they woke up one morning to find that the garden had suddenly been dwarfed”

Big Sam until the end of the season surely?

Because of things he has written in the past, particularly about history and the union.

Yep. It even disregards the different englands

What was Peru's best ladybird book of English history (I assume the Scots, Welsh and Irish are of no interest to him despite maternal links)

I often wonder where Daniel "Dan "the man" Hannan" Hannan got his view of history from

Reminded me of the not the nine o'clock news joke. The United States is making up for being late to the last two world wars by being really punctual for this one

This is an important thread about the BBC Written Archives.

We're gonna need a bigger supercomputer

GET ME ...THE SUPERCOMPUTER!

Oh redux, while laughing

Basically Posner pragmatics ftw

Consequentialism is not framed as widely as that article would have you believe.
If Scalia is viewed as the high water mark of textualism his analysis is not as extreme as the one critiqued.

But even scalia in reading law has an absurdity canon. It may not be as wide as some, and I know his view of holy trinity is criticised because some suggest he does not apply an absurdity approach but it is there and is based on evaluating the result (canon 37), and even his canon on

I can't think of any from wide reading over jurisdictions. It feels like a strawman argument used to criticise textualism albeit in this case produced by a self proclaimed textualist.
The disconnect between their view of law and law in real life grows ever wider.

This article confuses me. Consideration of consequences of constructions of legislation seems built in to principles of interpretation. The idea that you reject readings which lead to absurd results (which seems part of textualists' analysis across systems) surely assumes this?