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Mike Godwin

@mnemonic.bsky.social

Lawyer, author, EFF's first hire, Godwin's Law creator (he/him). Retweeting!=endorsing. I tell jokes here, mostly. My opinions here don't necessarily represent any employer or any client. You may have known me as @sfmnemonic on Twitter.

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If I used ivermectin, I'd be too sheepish to admit it.

07.10.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 120    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 0

If I used ivermectin, I'd be too sheepish to admit it.

07.10.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down How Linda McMahon’s latest β€œcompact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

Siva Vaidhyanathan: "Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down" newrepublic.com/article/2013... via @newrepublic.com

07.10.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Russet-tone."

07.10.2025 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If I have not seen further, it is because giants have been standing on my shoulders.

07.10.2025 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 207    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1

Russet-tone makeup plus declaring war on your own country's cities really puts the "dick" into "dick-tater."

06.10.2025 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 201    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

Occasionally, Denzel is on a plane.

05.10.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why are you asking me to respond on a proposition I never asserted? Perhaps you meant to address your question to someone else?

03.10.2025 03:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

03.10.2025 03:43 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These are people who delight in being monsters.

03.10.2025 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I couldn't have guessed that the new season of PEACEMAKER would involve an alternate timeline in which World War II was won by the MAGAzis.

03.10.2025 02:36 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m sure you do. Let us know when you’re back in town.

01.10.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I still remember a lot from Sunday School (stmarks-houston.org), which can be helpful in assessing pronunciamento cheese on Twitter.

01.10.2025 11:51 β€” πŸ‘ 194    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 4

Yeah, I knew the Niven story well before Wikipedia was even a glint in Jimmy's eye.

25.09.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You know, if Jor-El and Lara had had a daughter instead of a son, their plan to preserve Kryptonian genes through their offspring's interbreeding with Earth's humans would have seemed rather less threatening.

25.09.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

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I couldn’t have guessed that when they were trumpeting (so to speak) β€œCommunity Values” they were referring to the Darkest Timeline.

25.09.2025 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 79    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

I couldn’t have guessed that when they were trumpeting (so to speak) β€œCommunity Values” they were referring to the Darkest Timeline.

25.09.2025 11:07 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The technical term for the disfiguring, swelling dickishness in the administration? "Sycophantiasis."

23.09.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 319    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 4

Probably one ought not ought to infer from the contract that the contracting talent has a right to go on-air with a show.

23.09.2025 03:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I wanted to make a joke about this, but couldn't bring myself to engage in Homan Trafficking.

23.09.2025 02:56 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

The Supreme Court has clarified the Administration's theory of checks and balances: a blank check is a kind of check, and a negative balance is a kind of balance.

23.09.2025 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 543    πŸ” 119    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3
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Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid : George Roy Hill : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive yee haw

BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID is available for free at the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/butc...

21.09.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 251    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, Cap is on our side.

19.09.2025 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They’re dead to me now.

19.09.2025 02:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No, the story of Disney has its dark sides, and he was (unsurprisingly for a big-time capitalist) anti-Communist to the nth degree. But he wasn’t a wimp.

19.09.2025 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not ruined, since I alluded to this and other sins.

19.09.2025 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There's plenty one can criticize about Walt Disney, but one of his virtues was that he wasn't a wimp who'd run away if the FCC chairman said something mean to him.

19.09.2025 00:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1360    πŸ” 183    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 2

There's plenty one can criticize about Walt Disney, but one of his virtues was that he wasn't a wimp who'd run away if the FCC chairman said something mean to him.

19.09.2025 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 414    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 4

Netflix gave me Season 2 of Star Trek: Prodigy, but somehow dropped Season 1. Still, they have a lot of good stuff there.

19.09.2025 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I didn't know there was a Jim Breuer show!

19.09.2025 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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