grimsqueaks.bsky.social
cat botherer, chronically ill, jewish
raised by lawyers, still recovering
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how about a cat and his muppet bff?
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the gail simone strategy (complimentary)
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People really need to start working the polls more. It's the best way to learn how it all works. And get a bit of the behind the scenes of the massive logistics needed to put on an election. There's a reason elections are done the way they are:
LOGISTICS
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oh, you're not going to believe it until it happens to you, specifically. fascinating. do you just not believe ppl, or do you not believe them about consequences, specifically?
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what would you get out of it if someone did sue you?
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I don't think you understand that what you've been doing is defamation. kathryn has a claim she could make against you. she could file suit, and the facts are not on your side. now, a jury would likely award her only nominal damages, but getting that far would be enough to leave most ppl destitute
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mockery can be sued and the person doing the mocking can be held liable for defamation, if the mockery in question involves making up and disseminating lies. humor is not a blanket defense for defamation
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kathryn has said she doesn't intend to sue, not that she couldn't. there's a difference.
for the record, even a cheap defamation suit that gets thrown out fairly quickly could be financially ruinous. don't fuck around and find out on this, it's not fun for anyone
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(2/2) if they could prove that you did so knowingly, or if you published the lies w/o checking to make sure they were true, you'd be liable. satire needs to be in any way satirical to be a defense, so defaming someone "to prove a point" probably doesn't count as satire, and leaves you still liable
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that's not actually how any of this works. anyone can file suit for any reason. that doesn't mean the suit will go anywhere or do anything but waste time and money, but you can still be sued. also, if you go around making up lies about someone, you absolutely can be sued for it and they'd win, (1/2)
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I mean, yeah but to what end? this zeph lady appears to be running headfirst into a brick wall at speed and I don't see why she wants kathryn to sue her? does she think she can do some legal judo to make kathryn have to pay her or smth?
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what would you get out of being sued? what is the point of all of this?
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this is also just a normal day when the tx lege is in session. every two years, it's several months of headlines like this about every culture war issue
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here’s a cute plushie I made this winter. my first time making my own crochet pattern and it turned out well
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it sort of doesn't matter, bc legal costs can be easily ruinous. even w legal aid, crowdfunding or pro bono lawyers, this can still fuck up someone's life
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both of my parents are lawyers and let me tell you- if you can get more than two lawyers to agree on *anything* it's either a concrete fact or hell has frozen over
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texoplasmosis
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I appropriated this from @gregdoucette.bsky.social and it accurately describes my political views at the moment.
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This is true if the Feds want to talk to you about your friend’s posts, too.
YOU DO NOT TALK TO THE FEDS WITHOUT A LAWYER.
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dani moonstar could also probably manage carrying the ring. bonus points for the parallels between how the ring uses desire the way her powers use fear
laura kinney would be effective in this mission, but she leans towards self-destruction so it's probs not the best for her personal growth
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rasputin iv from x-men could also fit the bill. she's been engineered by mr sinister to be a hero, and I'd give good odds on the ring reminding her of him and making her want to kill it faster
mara from nettle & bone by t kingfisher would hold out against it. she'd hate it from the first whisper
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kate daniels series by ilona andrews. kate's got power but not enough to solve her problems. she's also walked away from political power several times by the end of the first arc.
toby from october daye by seanan mcguire is in a similar boat, and lives w/ a dozen sources of power she's not using
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toby from seanan mcguire's october daye series, too. a friend noted that the luidaeg would go full galadriel on that offer, too.
most t. kingfisher protagonists
wonder woman
aveline, cassandra and neve from dragon age. arguably harding and bellara, too, bc neither of them want power
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storm. ororo simply doesn't need it, and doesn't want power for its own sake.
I'd argue that rogue would resist it, too. I don't even think she'd be all that tempted, bc her whole deal is trying to make peace w having huge and terrible powers.
and defs granny weatherwax
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that sucks, but in the meantime hopefully something works for you. the other thing I've tried is exercise, but that's a double-edged sword
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weirdly the main thing that impacts my rls is electrolytes. if I haven't been drinking enough water and pedialyte or sports drinks, I just can't sleep bc of twitching and nerves. also gabapentin, but I'm not a dr and that's a conversation to have w your gp
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I have family that is, and telling myself it's in service of comedy is all I have some days
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I try to tell myself that lege sessions are the best and brightest of tx comedy, but it doesn't help.
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bc it takes the random chance out of the number of scotus seats any president fills, and limiting it to one term means you're more likely to get ppl who've had long and presumably respected careers already, rather than just younguns who will hold the seat forever like acb
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skye can do no wrong, much like a cop in the newspaper
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I think the question then becomes how an appeals court will rule on if it's conjunctive or disjunctive. so where would you hope that case would go if you were representing the cowboy? or the publisher?
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tx is winnable! I live here, I've been organizing here my whole life, and it's winnable. we just need something to get over the extreme voter suppression. honestly, having worked as an elections judge, if we had same day registration we'd be a swing state, easily