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Shawn M.Nov 24, 2023

Ken White Nov 20, 2023

I’ve been incredibly angry — furious, even for ME — about the most loathsome and contemptible defamation suit I’ve ever seen in my career, and now Mike Masnick at TechDirt has written about the despicable case and about my anti-SLAPP motion to dismiss it. Reading it just makes me angrier.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/20/if-you-kill-two-people-in-a-car-crash-you-shouldnt-then-sue-their-relatives-for-emailing-your-university-about-what-you-did/

If You Kill Two People In A Car Crash, You Shouldn’t Then Sue Their Relatives For Emailing Your University About What You Did

Holy shit. So, in 2021 there was a car accident in Atwater California that killed a married couple, Pam and Joe Juarez. According to police reports at the time, a 20-year-old Stanford student, King…

Techdirt

Shawn M.Sep 6, 2023

Scalzi Sep 5, 2023

All day long I've been trying to thing of something snarky and clever to say about this, but my brain just keeps coming back to "Good, enjoy prison, you seditious piece of shit," and you know, I think I'm just gonna go with that

#uspol

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/us/politics/enrique-tarrio-proud-boys-sentenced.html

Enrique Tarrio, Ex-Leader of Proud Boys, Sentenced in Jan. 6 Case

The prison term for Enrique Tarrio was the most severe penalty handed down so far to any of the more than 1,100 people charged in connection with the Capitol attack.

The New York Times

Shawn M.Aug 18, 2023

Scalzi Aug 18, 2023

It looks like I just passed 30,000 followers here on Mastodon. Cool! To celebrate this big round number, I have made a donation to the children's literacy organization First Book, because if there's anything the world needs now, it is more and better readers.

Thank you for following me here, folks. It's good to be here, and I'm glad you're here, too.

https://firstbook.org/

First Book | Nonprofit Focused on Education Equity for Kids in Need

First Book is a nonprofit social enterprise that provides educational equity through new books and other essentials to children in need.

First Book

Shawn M.Aug 10, 2023

Scalzi Aug 10, 2023

Okay, so, remember when I did a poll here about whether or not you all wanted Mastodon to be the new home of my burrito-related crimes, and you said "yes" by a 96% - 4% margin?

Just remember that. You asked for this.

With that said:

Today's burrito: Mashed potatoes, American Cheese, Cholula, Coho salmon in a honey-mustard glaze, sweet relish, and Manwich-slathered ground beef.

Enjoy.

Shawn M.Aug 5, 2023

Ken White Aug 3, 2023

Anti-SLAPP win this morning. Dear CA plaintiffs and lawyers: just a reminder, under CA law even if I take a case pro bono you have to pay my fees, at rack rates, if I win an anti-SLAPP.