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philawsophist.bsky.social
Progressive lawyer shouting into the void. He/him, mostly. If you're not still masking,* you're excluding me and people like me from public life. * in an infectious disease way, not a neurodiversity way www.lawexplainer.com www.medium.com/@pkovalsky
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Partner: You have presents! Any idea what they are? Me: Oh! They're gifts to mark the occasion of my birth.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Pro tip: respond to people via the channel that they contacted you, especially if you're a large organization. If I email you, don't call me back. If I call you, don't send a carrier pigeon. If you offer multiple modes of contact, respect people's choices about which one they want to use.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Honestly, shit like this is peak comedic syncretism.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Iron Widow: Right-wing men ruin Zetian's life Heavenly Tyrant: Left-wing men ruin Zetian's life

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Government tries to solve the collective action problem by acting collectively. Privatization tries to solve it by making individual inaction intolerable. Cruelty is literally the point. But you can't sustainably torture people into productivity. Pain short-term motivates, but long-term enervates.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Isn't it weird how everyone you know is "back to normal" when you've casually abandoned all the people who are vulnerable or staying cautious for other reasons and thereby driven/siloed them away from public life?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

"oh, you know what would get you a lot more votes in your 'democracy' of reducing everything to binomial competition? An incredibly undemocratic act of oppression!"

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I just…have my suspicions about the revolutionary capacity of a left-wing population who abandoned disabled and high-risk people at the drop of a hat for an assurance of their own normality. But it’s not to late to fix that particular choice (except for all the dead and disabled people who can’t)

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

Mask bans kill disabled people. It’s a eugenics tool. By others not masking in solidarity, you’re saying your comfort and convenience is more important than our lives. Abled comfort and convenience do not outweigh disabled lives and safety. Does your “we keep us safe” include disabled people?

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

I've been seeing a lot of folks encouraging Dems in government to adopt the obstructionist playbook. There's a lot of cases where that's important and appropriate (like, please immediately stop confirming anyone for appointed positions). Lots of people resigning in protest, etc.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

It probably says something about me that my brain saw the "work[ing] to fix this error" and went immediately to "oh, Ada Palmer is feverishly churning out [at least] two volumes of sapphic smut." A variation on Mitch Hedberg's "If you find yourself lost in the woods... fuck it, build a house."

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

It's tempting to see what's happening as a "bull in a China shop" scenario, as these chaos gremlins run around smashing things roughly at random. I need you to understand that that's not a good understanding of the situation. Not because they're not bulls, but because they're not in a China shop.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

‪ANNOUNCER: “next time on Maury, tune in to learn Necessity’s story as we find out who the FATHER of invention is‬”

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

My explicit policy is "I can teach you how to date, or I can teach you how to date *me*, but not both." If you don't acknowledge the conflict of interest, you're not ready to be a responsible teacher *or* partner. You *must* have impartial, disinterested resources outside the relationship.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Just finished @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social's She Who Became The Sun, a thoughtful and finely crafted work about gender and power and desire. I do have to say that the fisting scene, though not unwelcome, arrived with very little foreplay. What a gift to/from narrator @natalienaudus.bsky.social!

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments