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Lawyer by day (but only for children), Muay Thai fighting fire eater by night, semi-southpaw Romany Gypsy curmudgeon all the time. Beginning fiddler, 9/11 first responder, retired aerialist, advanced flâneuse.
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Today in socially acceptable racism. Comments are shocking on this. Full of 'Gypsies are thieves and all commit fly tipping' stereotypes. Some saying its not a race thing as they're all just white. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

20 February, 1856 marked the end of over 500 years of chattel slavery of the Romani people in present-day Romania. Roma were also enslaved elsewhere, including the Americas and the Caribbean. The Romani are a global diaspora with our roots in what is now northern India. Opre Roma!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Originalism and persuasive accounts of history are two totally separate enterprises which tells you all you need to know about originalism, and what’s amazing is the legal originalists don’t even deny this anymore.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Must be great to have rule of law www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Ninguém solta a mão de ninguém. Nobody let go of anyone's hand. Unless that hand belongs to anyone even peripherally involved with DOGE. Those dipshits can get dropped, preferably from great height.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

In Spain, I was walking anywhere between 15 to 20 miles a day. Then I got back and had a cold for 4 days. Then today, in pouring rain and having not run in 2.5 weeks, I knocked 3 minutes off my expected (admittedly slow) 5k time. What I’m saying is, go for walks. It’s good for you.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Underused words of the day: twerp; lickspittle

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I know the Trump goons think this is some clever mafia tactic but it's really putting a bunch of sharks in front of their shark peers to see who is going to be the historic chump, the gutless loser, the sniveling weasel with no principles who is so gullible they think they'll get rewarded for it.

submitted 8 days ago • 36 comments

I went to the Alcazar and took a picture of a cat.

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

Opre!

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Madrid mornings

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

When I was a kid, my grandfather gave me the best advice I’ve ever received: “Some people aren’t going to like you because of how you talk or what you look like or where you’re from or the things you believe in, but you know what? That’s not your problem. They can go to hell. Here, have a cookie.”

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Making Americans pay 25% more for coffee and bananas is sure sticking it to, checks notes, Colombia. But those grocery prices, amirite.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

One time in law school while representing a client in the tenants’ rights legal clinic, a landlord’s lawyer flipped a table at me during mediation. So I righted it, took him to trial, and then his client had to pay damages to my client. What I’m saying is, never give in to bullies.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment