@notbencarter

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Dad and lawyer in Kentucky.
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What they mean when they say “learning to think like a lawyer”:

How hard do you have to beef it on a trampoline park obstacle course until it's reasonable to ask the staff for any security footage they have of your goof?

Like, do you have to potentially need it to show your doctor/chiropractor? Or, is some lower-level need—like you just want it for your blooper reel—also appropriate?

Pollution levels in Paris after they introduced bike lanes and car restrictions

Red = EU limits for Nitrogen Dioxide pollution

Original graphics by Atelier Parisien d'Urbanisme
https://www.apur.org

This essay I wrote more than 13 years ago is infuriatingly relevant once again.

https://bluegrassroots.ninja/home/2011/9/19/eat-the-young-our-politics-and-the-war-on-my-generation.html

Eat the Young: Our Politics and the War on My Generation — BlueGrassRoots

The recent debate over the debt ceiling has highlighted a broader theme in American politics, one that I don’t hear a lot of other people talking about. Republicans accuse Democrats of attempting to wage class warfare (poor versus rich) while Democrats accuse Republicans of attempting (to

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To wit:
Are other families spending their morning creating stats for giant robot turkeys and zombie pilgrims so they can do some #thanksdnd battles?
No?
Just mine?
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Moana 2: Moana, Mo’ Problems

#boostandfollow 😂

I thought I was coining this word in a text exchange with friends. I was not.

If you're new to Mastodon;

Follow people and hashtags, lots of them. That's how this place works, there is no other way really. If you're waiting for stuff to come to you it aint gonna happen.

Start typing hashtags of things you're interested in and follow them. Put them in your introduction and/or bio.

Start following anyone that looks slightly interesting. Follow people who boost a lot and anyone they boost that looks interesting.

Can someone hand this note to everyone that shows up?

So, we’re going to spend billions of dollars deporting people whose labor we exploit to hold down food costs while also surrendering all the taxes they pay without receiving benefits.

Yep, sounds like the genius who managed to bankrupt casinos.

12 November 1904 | A Polish Jew, Gerszon Willner, was born. A farmer.

In Auschwitz from 28 March 1942.
No. 27380
He perished in the camp on 12 April 1942.