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midnightdayman.bsky.social
Appellate attorney representing disabled veterans, former law clerk. BU Law 2018. Superhero ability: able to tell if food is spoiled
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should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind should auld acquaintance be forgot in days of auld lang syne

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

I need people to understand that Barthes meant "Death Of The Author" to mean that authorial intent should not be the primary lens by which to criticize and understand a text; it has nothing to do with "is buying a book by a bigot acceptable" it is about LITERARY CRITICISM

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

Broke: "How many pieces of the Ship of Theseus must be replaced before it ceases to be the Ship of Theseus?" Woke: "How much of Samus Aran has to be comprised of Metroid DNA before it is factually accurate to call her Metroid from the hit game Metroid?"

submitted 160 days ago • 7 comments

@gbbranstetter.bsky.social Hi I was at your amazing talk at Brown yesterday, and spoke with you briefly afterwards (I’m Dee, if you remember me). Would you happen to be able to relist some of the recently published works (from 2024) you mentioned throughout? I can’t find my list of them.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

this is perhaps our city’s only opportunity to acquire such a fine wooden horse

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

The mad king’s eunuch advisor appears to have detractors in the palace walls my lord

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

to all who celebrate...

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The idea that the federal government can go before a judge and say, “Yeah we arrested the wrong guy, but too bad, so sad” is not alarming nearly enough people yet.

submitted 26 days ago • 114 comments

It’s very weird to me that in all the (genuinely comical) hermeneutic reading of Trump’s decision to annihilate the global trade system, no one actually quotes one of the major reasons he himself cites for it:

submitted 25 days ago • 128 comments

It's over, for I have depicted you as the average PC Engine player and me as the average Game Boy player

submitted 27 days ago • 15 comments

Neat (1994)

submitted 210 days ago • 14 comments

babe what's wrong you've barely touched your holistic pizza that represents ancestral healing

submitted 28 days ago • 96 comments

A lot of people are saying that when Mars is in retrograde, it's bad for the economy. And we're looking into it, folks, we're looking into it. A 25% tariff on Mars isn't out of the question at this point

submitted 33 days ago • 14 comments

the senators recoil in horror as a wounded Caesar rises from the floor and a second health bar appears on the screen

submitted 46 days ago • 18 comments

"they're harming the good government pupperinos" could activate like 50 million people if it gets into the wider media sphere

submitted 46 days ago • 60 comments

Honey? Honey, you're not dressed as an Earthbound battle background again, are you?

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submitted 47 days ago • 88 comments

Me: hmm, where did my keyboard go. Mysteriously keyboard shaped gamecube controller: idk dude

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submitted 51 days ago • 4 comments

Finally can upload this here.

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I think it’s really messed up how openly and flagrantly Sebulba cheated in the Boonta Eve Classic. Just made it absolutely clear that there’s no integrity left in the game.

submitted 54 days ago • 31 comments

(1) They’re still going to cut their funding. (2) Appeasement famously worked great as a political strategy in the 1930s, right?

submitted 68 days ago • 4 comments

Posting this for no reason at all

submitted 70 days ago • 12 comments

Maintaining style, word choice, and meaning in a succinct fashion IS A CORE PART OF WRITING!! Editing yourself is as important as putting your first draft on the page. If you’re not engaging in this necessary step, you’ll never see any progression. Don’t. Do. This.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

I propose, in all seriousness, that the mass firing of federal employees last night/this morning be remembered as “The Thursday Night Massacre” @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

The White House Press Corps needs to walk out.

submitted 76 days ago • 70 comments

We’re very much in the Late Terror stage, where the radical Jacobins who initiated the Terror in the first place (FedSoc, McConnell) get denounced as covert royalists

submitted 76 days ago • 46 comments

It is February 6th. On this day, Mewtwo was born. Happy birthday Mewtwo.

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submitted 93 days ago • 8 comments

Incoming message from the Grammy’s. Lady Gaga wants to know what the fuck you’re doing so close to the Neutral Zone.

submitted 87 days ago • 39 comments