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@rismith.bsky.social

Lawyer writing about law, genealogy, and bad ethics. He/him

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I really hope you made the answer some lyric from that god awful Alan Jackson song.

19.02.2026 03:19 — šŸ‘ 2    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0

The happiest day for everyone but one person in the house.

19.02.2026 03:13 — šŸ‘ 8    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0

They thought it was a different kind of dirt.

19.02.2026 03:11 — šŸ‘ 1    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0

Someone remembered that "read all instructions before starting" test from 3rd grade and fed it to their chatbot girlfriend. Science.

19.02.2026 03:10 — šŸ‘ 23    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 2    šŸ“Œ 0

Honestly, I expected her to plagiarize someone substantially dumber.

19.02.2026 02:58 — šŸ‘ 4    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 2    šŸ“Œ 0

"So what we are proposing is that everyone just route all of their traffic directly to the US government. We promise that we will use this information responsibly."

19.02.2026 02:55 — šŸ‘ 2    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0

They were flying away from New York to trick everyone into thinking they weren't going to attack the World Trade Center. Again. Again.

19.02.2026 02:27 — šŸ‘ 2    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0

It's down there somewhere, let me take another look.

19.02.2026 02:25 — šŸ‘ 0    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0

"The good news is we just raised $100 billion. The bad news is that we need 30 times that to survive the next five years." The market thinks this business plan is worth $800 billion.

19.02.2026 02:20 — šŸ‘ 7    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 1    šŸ“Œ 0

Somehow, Ben Solo died

19.02.2026 01:45 — šŸ‘ 1    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0

I don't know who this person is or who he's talking about, but I'm not sure they're any more familiar with academic discipline.

19.02.2026 01:36 — šŸ‘ 4    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 1    šŸ“Œ 0

Amazingly frustrating when you argue that the docket isn't publicly available to you, as a journalist, because you're 1300 miles away and access is limited to in person terminals and the magistrate judge just replies, "see, your need is met because it's publicly available."

19.02.2026 01:32 — šŸ‘ 98    šŸ” 4    šŸ’¬ 3    šŸ“Œ 1

Well, of course. You don't pardon your drug dealer just to keep him locked up.

19.02.2026 01:08 — šŸ‘ 0    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0

You can't have a heist movie without the nerd who spends way too much time on the internet downloading things.

18.02.2026 04:36 — šŸ‘ 1    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0

Tired: vouchers for private schools

Wired: IOUs for private schools

17.02.2026 00:36 — šŸ‘ 0    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0

It's not gay if I'm only fucking your thighs and butt cheaks (penetrative anal sex wasn't the most common, but it certainly happened)

17.02.2026 00:35 — šŸ‘ 1    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 1    šŸ“Œ 0

Even the most lax voter ID laws require presentation of a non-picture voter registration card that has your name. Even by the terms of this silly analogy, he loses.

16.02.2026 21:20 — šŸ‘ 1    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0

I assume after he farts in them

16.02.2026 21:17 — šŸ‘ 0    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0

I want to do something that my agency is supposed to do. I write myself a warrant saying I can arrest someone for breaking that rule. That's it.

16.02.2026 21:12 — šŸ‘ 7    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 1    šŸ“Œ 0
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a man stands in front of a $ 8,400 sign ALT: a man stands in front of a $ 8,400 sign
16.02.2026 20:46 — šŸ‘ 33    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes I think doctors are getting revenge on being asked nearly verbatim questions to the ones they answered in their interrogatoties by making me fill out paperwork at the appointment I submitted a few days before the appointment.

16.02.2026 20:24 — šŸ‘ 2    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0
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pretty stunning chart

15.02.2026 19:58 — šŸ‘ 3115    šŸ” 1130    šŸ’¬ 228    šŸ“Œ 523

The first thing I saw here was some tech bro arguing that he needs AI because it makes him feel like he is accomplishing more, so that's enough bluesky for today.

16.02.2026 00:09 — šŸ‘ 1    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0
Trudy Wiegel in a wedding dress attended by the other sherriff's deputies at the prison. Not pictured: Craig, the Truckee River Killer

Trudy Wiegel in a wedding dress attended by the other sherriff's deputies at the prison. Not pictured: Craig, the Truckee River Killer

Wiegel and Craig

15.02.2026 02:37 — šŸ‘ 3    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0

Blocking quote posts of Madeleine Albright biting her lip while looking at someone's package is unamerican.

15.02.2026 01:43 — šŸ‘ 0    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0

This is literally the story of the Graham cracker.

15.02.2026 01:41 — šŸ‘ 5    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 2    šŸ“Œ 0
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a train with purple smoke coming out of it and a building in the background ALT: a train with purple smoke coming out of it and a building in the background

Where we're going, we don't need holes.

15.02.2026 01:39 — šŸ‘ 2    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0

You see, US history begins in the Caribbean, which is why we are blowing up anyone who has a boat there.

15.02.2026 01:37 — šŸ‘ 17    šŸ” 1    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0
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a man is blowing flames out of his mouth while playing a musical instrument Alt: Till Lindemann is blowing flames out of his mouth while playing guitar. Because fire.

They're Rammstein coded

15.02.2026 01:32 — šŸ‘ 4    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0
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thomas the train is on the tracks and the caption says it was time for thomas to leave he had seen everything ALT: thomas the train is on the tracks and the caption says it was time for thomas to leave he had seen everything
15.02.2026 01:27 — šŸ‘ 2    šŸ” 0    šŸ’¬ 0    šŸ“Œ 0

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