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D. Paul Angel

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I'm a writer, photographer, and nerd, though not necessarily in that order. I'm also an AvGeek, enjoy tabletop games, and have spent way, way too many years in the legal field. He | Him


D. Paul Angel 's avatar D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com
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Thank you, I hope you have a great rest of your evening too :-)

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D. Paul Angel 's avatar D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com
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FWIW, I think all the distinctions you made, and the explanation you gave was very clear. I know that others mileage may vary, it so often does, but I do think you explained it as well as anyone could.

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Very Very Common Mike Dunford 's avatar Very Very Common Mike Dunford @questauthority.bsky.social
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I've been seeing people saying that because JK Rowling routinely uses UK libel law to silence critics, Gaiman's failure to immediately do so shows his guilt. That's incorrect, and I think it's worth talking about why - it goes to important facets of defamation law abuse. 🧵⚖️

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D. Paul Angel 's avatar D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com
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I do t know if you saw it, but I deleted my reply which was meant to be lighthearted and joking but I don't think I said it right. I think you're great, and that's what it was supposed to convey, but I think I'm too tired to say it right, and didn't want to add any weirdness to your evening.

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D. Paul Angel 's avatar D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com
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I wanted to let you know I deleted my reply because I realized in hindsight it was more of a rant than I wanted it to be, and it may have come across directed at you, which was also not my intent. Suffice to say I'm frustrated, but rants should only be on my timeline, and not in your mentions.

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The sweetest of resistence :-)

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Sage 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Sage 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social
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the best part about ai destroying the internet is we’re getting a lot of entertaining hallucinations as all the websites eat themselves.

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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The super rich right wing have stopped even vaguely pretending about their intentions.

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mary🐇's avatar mary🐇 @mary.my.id
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can we put some other ppl as the face of online privacy instead of snowden and assange

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Sam W's avatar Sam W @samiw.bsky.social
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Keep hammering the point home. Trump absolutely backs Project 2025, because it profits him and stands to give him all of the dictatorial power he craves. Don't fall for his bullshit. The man lies the way fish swim; he literally can't stop.

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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The qualities of the candidate often do not fucking matter if the people who really want that candidate to get elected are willing to play hardball, especially if the candidate is an incumbent. Maybe, just this once, we could learn this lesson from the GOP to save ourselves from true horror.

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Kathryn Tewson's avatar Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social
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My favorite thing is when dudes get so mad that they can’t intimidate you that they go whining all around your skyline trying to posture and flex in the world’s most pathetic display of simpery

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Chris's avatar Chris @brutumfulmen.bsky.social
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Each year, on July 8th, at 1115 UTC, 99% of the world's population has sunlight. Conversely, there is a time when everyone is asleep, and Australia and NZ are awake with only Hawaii and the rest of Oceania watching…

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Michael 's avatar Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social
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i think of some y'all are being entirely too naive about the type of coverage harris would get

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D. Paul Angel 's avatar D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com
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I did see a joke once that "It's Raining Men" and "Let the Bodies hit the Floor" are songs about the same event, just from different points of view. So, depending on their altitude when dropped, it may not be the worst thing for creepy incels…

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Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
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Any chance we can get to $2500 today? Less than $200 away.

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Moira Donegan's avatar Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social
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“He took away abortion and he wants to be a dictator” should be plastered on every surface and blaring out of every speaker.

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Dan Murphy's avatar Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social
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Is it really hard to see that Mark Penn's ratfucking GOP friendly Problem Solvers Caucus is behind the push to get rid of Biden and deliver the White House to Trump and the plutocrats? Is it? No it's not. The editors of big papers are many things, but not stone cold morons. They are on board.

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D. Paul Angel 's avatar D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com
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This, but every time airplanes are involved, lol. "No one is flying 747s between LA and Vegas" "The MD-11 hadn't even been delivered yet, so there's no way he could've flown on one to Boston." "That's not a MiG, it's an F-5, WTH?" Though I do try and keep it to a minimum…

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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fuck these gobshites, in fact if this election win happens with individual average citizens support over theirs it is actually way better, kill what clout they think they have, ruin their robber baron fantasies

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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That Heritage Foundation statement threatening a violent revolution against the left = that moment in a movie in which the forces of evil loudly announce their evil plans. except in real life, unlike in a movie, most normal people don’t even realize this has *happened* (which is our job).

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Liz Truss going full goose stepping neo nazi in public is an excellent indicator of how the Tories are going to react to this rout

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Amanda Smith's avatar Amanda Smith @amandasmith.bsky.social
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If you haven’t called your senators and congressperson, take five minutes to ask them to support Liz Warren & AOC’s calls for impeachment of justices and expansion of the court.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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i refuse to believe that americans who watched the debate think that biden’s first 15 minutes are somehow stronger evidence of old age decline than falling asleep, *in public*, DURING YOUR OWN FUCKING CRIMINAL TRIAL, *IN COURT IN FRONT OF THE JUDGE AND JURY*, but, you know, i’m not a columnist.

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AndrĂŠ Greppi | DRES13's avatar AndrĂŠ Greppi | DRES13 @dres13.bsky.social
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Finally finished this one

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Amy A's avatar Amy A @lolennui.bsky.social
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Here at the New York Times real journalists like me properly cite our sources, which in this case is twitter user ReichFan1488

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gamera obscura 's avatar gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social
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I will defend your right to vote your conscience, whatever that conscience tells you. But if you act like the milquetoast Democratic Party is A BIGGER THREAT than the GOP and its openly fascistic aims, you don’t actually give a shit about human suffering. You’re just nursing a grudge.

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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This is an appalling and horrifying story about the attacks researchers like @katestarbird.bsky.social undergo by those determined to silence any who call out their disinformation and other underhanded tactics. Very similar to what climate scientists experience but with even MORE vitriol.

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Rachel Esselle's avatar Rachel Esselle @rachelsl.bsky.social
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again—F*ck "AI".

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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it rules so hard that the myth of the Kennedy dynasty has resulted in a guy running for president on the libertarian ticket and his platform is that if elected he'll direct the FBI to investigate ghosts

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D. Paul Angel 's avatar D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com
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I do like the idea that Smasnug is just short for Smash Snuggle. Like the Kool-aid Man busting through your wall but it's just for emergency snuggles.

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Sam W's avatar Sam W @samiw.bsky.social
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Everybody needs to see this quote, understand that this is what Project 2025 is about, and internalize the fact that this is what the Republican Party is doing.

This is not a conspiracy theory from the left. They are saying it out loud.
#politics #news

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton)'s avatar Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social
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This is the one good thing Starfield did for me. After it made me angry enough to get over the activation potential to actually leave a review, it also made me resolve that I will make the time to praise the ones that have delighted me rather than just sit there in contentment.

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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this is the point I keep making and I don’t want to be making it but it’s correct no matter how much the opposition sucks and how much this feels like the same old uninspiring message, the danger of letting Republicans hold power is getting worse they are bad and must be defeated every time

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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I am glad this piece about the Heritage Foundation threatening civil war if the left doesn’t accept a monarchy came out in the WaPo. More like this, please.

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Phil Plait's avatar Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social
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Amidst the miasma of news we're soaking in, celebrate the victories when you can. I just submitted my 100th invoice to Scientific American. They pulled my heinie out of the fire after my last venue dumped me, and I'm proud to write for them.

www.scientificamerican.com/author/phil-...

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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the other thing is that people have no sense of how much space cars and so they imagine that a road full of cars must be a lot of people when it very often is not. a well-used bike lane transports like twice as many people during a given time as does a road

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Comfortably Numb's avatar Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly
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I searched the New York Times for "Trump"

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Yechiel ⍼ יחיאל's avatar Yechiel ⍼ יחיאל @yechiel.me
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Obviously the problem isn't the scrutiny, that's a good thing. It's the total lack of proportion between the scrutiny over his debate performance and the (total lack) of scrutiny over the fact that Trump is setting himself up to be a dictator on day one and SCOTUS just handed him the keys to do it!

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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roberts essentially ignores the purpose of separation of powers, which was not to create entirely separate spheres of action but to prevent the emergence of unchecked authority. instead, he says, separation of powers *demands* unchecked authority.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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roberts’ reasoning is fundamentally (lower-case “r”) anti-republican. i know we dunk on the framers here but roberts has issued a rebuke of the revolutionary assumption that concentrated, unaccountable power is a fundamental threat to liberty.

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D. Paul Angel 's avatar D. Paul Angel @dpaulangel.com
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Really good limoncello is such a wonderful delight too! What a great day :-)

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Dave Levitan's avatar Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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Clarkesworld's avatar Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com
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I didn't plan on making these daily updates, but we crossed into the 200s over the holiday and that seems like a reason to celebrate. Only 286 subscriptions remain before we've erased all the losses caused by Amazon!

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Fatima Ayub's avatar Fatima Ayub @thecynicist.bsky.social
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Will wait for a single news outlet to call on Robinson to withdraw from the race.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi's avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social
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…I really think this is the more important presidential-election-related story to have in the news cycle.

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Anna Phylaxis's avatar Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social
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Any outlet that doesn’t cover this story is making a choice to ignore it, and we should be asking why.

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Molly White's avatar Molly White @molly.wiki
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those arguing that taylor swift can't be a role model because she is an unmarried and childless woman at 34 are doing a great job of arguing that children need more women role models who are unmarried and childless at 34

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