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Sometime law talker but would prefer to be out on a bike. He/him.


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If only Biden aging could have been predicted

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I’m glad you’re okay. Sorry about the roo and the car

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The Remainiacs' suggestion to replace Biden? Pete Buttigieg LMAO

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The Western Australian: Kerry Stokes: Why I'm backing Godzilla

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The Advertiser: Godzilla is coming to Melbourne after they took it from Adelaide

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The SMH: Godzilla is coming to Sydney: Monster answers Newington old boy's anti-co-ed campaign call.

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Paul Kidd 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸's avatar Paul Kidd 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @paulkidd.gay
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Imagine being lectured by Americans about being ‘ungovernable’.

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We had a moment in Australia, after a High Court judge was accused of harassment. Since then, it's not often talked about.
That said, I have heard there are people within the profession that female lawyers warn each other about.
www.theguardian.com/law/2020/jul...

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Must be fake because he's appropriately dressed for the weather.

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Jaunty Art's avatar Jaunty Art @jauntyart.bsky.social
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Saw this on mastodon and it is fantastic. AI in medicine

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Curious how France is described as political chaos because two parties with ≈60% of the seats in Parliament will negotiate a PM, whereas Netanyahu is always described as the will of the Israeli people, rather than the negotiated choice among eight parties with 53% of the seats.

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The problem is that they only have to win once

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FWIW, I don't think France is suddenly less racists. However, I'm still relieved when more than half vote against a party that is only a couple of steps removed from putting people in gas chambers.

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I hope so. I could be very wrong but it seems to me that there is enough there to make a large number of people to say "fuck no" and actually get out and vote against it.

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A question for those in the US: Are the Dems/anyone else doing any on-the-ground campaigning about Project 2025 at all? It seems to me that there is a smorgasboard of tangible things to campaign against in that manifesto.

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I am once again begging conservatives to make it to the end of one piece of media they intend to reference

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Have they ever defined what "better" means?

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BREAKING: Upside side down French flag spotted outside the Alitos' summer residence

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When the France election results are good

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Produced by MGM Television

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James Poniewozik's avatar James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social
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So many journalists going to be spending their time in leftist brasseries interviewing voters and trying to figure out how they missed this movement

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Happy uniting to fight Nazis day to all who celebrate

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I liked both. I only watched the show because we ended up with Prime for something else. I wouldn't go out of my way for it though.

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I like to think Good Omens was all Pratchett.

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Now that Labour has won does JKR become Secretary of State for Health or will she just advise?

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Rishi needs to work on his o face

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I was very happy to see Corbyn get in. I was even happier seeing how upset it made the 'Remaniacs' podcasters.

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Rees-Mogg to return to his natural environment: a novella by a Wodehouse tribute act

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This evil motherfucker just lost and this is what he had to stand next to for it

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Yep. There is a reason the Libs and Nats have traditionally been in favour of both.

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Yep, no preferences at all. It is the candidate with a plurality of votes who wins. There is also the influence of voluntary voting. It's the same issue in the US.

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Yep. By a reasonable margin too.

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That Pulp playlist did not have the most apt song for the day: Cocaine Socialism. So, I have had to remedy that myself.

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Has he? I haven't seen that result yet. I'm sure he will be comfortable retiring to his natural environment: a Wodehouse novella

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I love that Michael Fabricant lost his seat. It's the first win against the AI overlords.

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Whether Starmer is a bad cover version of Cameron, Blair or Corbyn, I'll leave to you to decide. There are arguments for all of them.

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As it looks like Starmer is going to win, I am listening to Pulp's 'Bad Cover Version'. Seems appropriate.

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Corbyn winning his seat and, thereby, making Labour right-wingers upset is pleasing.

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There are many things that are wrong about the UK. One that is not is their tradition of very serious politicians having to stand up, on election night, next to joke candidates in dress-up i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d1...

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All of this stuff is so normalised for me I can only think of things that only real law nerds will know (eg a quip about woollen underwear) or don't seem so weird.

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Lawyers have heard of Wednesbury because it is an administrative law principle (Wednesbury unreasonableness) we have to learn to pass exams. Most of us have reason to ever use it again but it remains seared into our brains.

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But then what did the West Wing teach us?

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Iron Knob, South Australia Mount Buggery, Victoria

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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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My sympathies to my American colleagues who actually have to work in that messed up system they have there

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