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Devilled kidneys for lunch. Amazingly good. Rock Inn, Chiddingstone

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Who did the salute better? Bannon or Musk?

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

Das ist gut, c'est fantastique, it's nice to be a lunatic! #HitMe

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The law is what I say it is, said Humpty Dumpty.

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Today in "the US courts are weird" ....

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Life-threatening infections in Texas have soared among women losing a pregnancy after the state’s abortion ban. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Sharing this amazing umbrella to Legal Bluesky who love the Tunnocks.

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A thing that genuinely worries me is that people are using Chat GPT as their final arbiter of what's true/accurate and babes, it's not the oracle at Delphi.

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Happy International Lego Classics Day! #ILCD #ILCD25 To celebrate, we're thinking through Classicists' least favourite question: why bother studying "dead" languages? Our Lego people will explain! viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/d...

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#ancientbluesky you do all know that it's International Lego Classics Day tomorrow, right? There is still time to get building - anyone can take part with a bit of Lego and enthusiasm. Lego Me is getting some inspiration in Pompeii... www.brickclassicists.com/ilcd #ILCD #ILCD25 Please share!

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iocus bellorum stellariorum /Minimi (A Star Wars/Minimus joke). Luccus: haec est Ala X mea (Luke: this is my X-wing). Rufus: sed alas IV habet (but it has four wings). #ilcd25 #ilcd2025

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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often *the avoidance of loss.* So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses *not* averted?

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Wordle 1,336 2/6* ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I am proud of this!

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Saini J: "It is well-established that the common law does not (yet) give rise to any entitlement of proportionality review" ([67]); rationality involves "lower standards of review" than proportionality does ([95]) www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

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The curious thing about billionaires defying the rule of law and the orders of the court, is that their wealth depends entirely on enforceable legal rights: contract, property, and so on. Those saying court orders have no value need to be careful what they wish for.

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