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bradpatrick

@bradpatrick@esq.social

#VoteBlue Lawyer in Florida; ex-Wikimedia Foundation General Counsel; I represent the best submersible manufacturer in the world (Triton Submarines).

Non sub Homine sed sub Deo et Lege. Not under Man, but under God and Law.

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bradpatrick, to random
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I would hate to see such social commentary distributed widely.
https://techpolicy.social/@mnot/112458856001794605

mattsheffield, (edited ) to random
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Reactionary messaging is based entirely on a series of tropes:
-Ungrateful youth
-Nasty woman
-Scary minority
-Evil degenerate
-Uppity intellectual

Ideally the tropes can be combined.

This is why they are so obsessed with lying about college Gaza protests, it allows the right to push dirty hippie, scary minority, and ungrateful youth all at once on an issue that has little public traction (foreign policy).

Most ppl don't care about the policy either way, so the tropes are what they see.

bradpatrick,
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@mattsheffield @kcarruthers Will a quasi-random generator making Mad Lib headlines of this nature have a positive statistical correlation to actual headlines in the wild?

GottaLaff, to random
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Yesterday’s COVID shot hit me like a freight train. I’m pretty useless today. ☹️

bradpatrick,
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@GottaLaff Glad you got it.

andrew, to law
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Trump being made a NY resident for tax purposes owing to his trial would be hilarious and awesome.

@law

https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/trumps-new-york-trial-raises-residency-questions-for-state-tax

bradpatrick,
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@andrew @law People who are not familiar with the gamesmanship and lengths billionaires have gone to in their efforts to avoid enforcement don't get how utterly hysterical this outcome would be.

evan, to random
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It's so nuts that broadcast television advertising is still so instrumental in US elections.

bradpatrick,
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@evan I forget network tv exists except to give me shows to watch on streaming services.

bradpatrick, to random
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To hell with Arizona GOP idiots who blame female promiscuity as a basis to refuse to enshrine contraception as a right. The only cause of unwanted pregnancy is irresponsible ejaculation. By men and boys.

ct_bergstrom, to Birding
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My beloved Barrow's Goldeneyes will be heading back up to Alaska soon, so it was very good to get in the water with this them afternoon. The waves were up today, and I was working on capturing a sense of the ever-shifting, endlessly-dynamic environment that these wonderful birds inhabit.

bradpatrick,
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@ct_bergstrom are they any more or less comfortable if it’s choppy? Your photos are beautiful.

hashtaggames, to HashtagGames
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Time For 9 o'clock hosted by @paul
Originally created in 1926, Winnie the Pooh's adventures have been a staple in childhood learning. Let's play!


How to play: Write something awesome, Use the HashTag, Toot/Post and Repeat!

bradpatrick,
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@hashtaggames @paul @noondlyt

O, Bother Where Art Thou


bkeegan, to random
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Hypothesis: inequality in the distribution of nominations and awards across franchises is correlated with a drop in viewership. https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/emmys-ratings-record-low-1235873962/amp/

Why tune in if Succession, The Bear, and Beef are going to sweep all their categories every time? 🥱

bradpatrick,
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@bkeegan it was on opposite playoff football

CatherineFlick, to random
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Sorting out getting replacement certificates for my degrees after the originals were lost in the great document loss of 2023 and one university (Charles Sturt) just lets me get a new one; the other (U of Sydney) requires me to fill out a statutory declaration explaining what happened to the original which must be witnessed by a Justice of the Peace. WHAT.

bradpatrick,
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@CatherineFlick So sorry for the bullshit. Maybe attach some photos of you receiving your degree holding said certificate. And another giving them a rude gesture.

AbandonedAmerica, to random
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The important thing about finding beauty in ruins isn't showing off where you've been or what a daredevil you are. It's not about being cool, to me at least.

It's the tacit acknowledgement that "functional" isn't the only normal state, that normalcy is in fact itself an illusion. Places are scarred by what they endure. So are people.

They are still worthy of love. Forgotten, silent, unacknowledged though they may be. Even with the scars, perhaps because of them. We still deserve understanding

bradpatrick,
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@AbandonedAmerica As an amateur genealogist, one of the lessons you learn is how rich and amazing the lives of our forebears were. We are alive for such a short time. Even the things we build don’t last forever, but you are exactly right - they are worthy of new love, beyond the love they enjoyed during the flash of a moment they were in use. Your work is awesome.

scalzi, to random
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One, the judges in the case very clearly were not buying it, and it doesn't seem likely that the US Supreme Court would either.

Two, let's be clear that if this argument did pass judicial review and Trump did become president, he would absolutely 100% start murdering people. He wouldn't even blink.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4398223-trump-team-argues-assassination-of-rivals-is-covered-by-presidential-immunity/

bradpatrick,
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@scalzi If this theory were to be approved by SCOTUS, the Rule of Law and America as we know it would no longer exist. If "No man is above the law" is no longer true, we need to have a new Revolution and install a government for which it is.

lerg, to random

Always assume your private internal business comms will be leaked to the media and act accordingly.

bradpatrick,
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@lerg @panamared27401 This is so sad. The Boeing engineers I knew from the 90s were impeccably attuned to their responsibilities, the company's role in leadership worldwide, and the FAA relationship. This is a colossal failure of leadership from the top. Such a disaster.

GottaLaff, to random
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My dear friend, Non Sequitur creator, Wiley Miller made today’s comic “with you and your family in mind”! 🇨🇦

I love when he does this. Occasionally he’ll even add “Laffy” in somewhere. I told him I was surprised it didn’t say “Madam Laffy” on the window.😉 He just said “I actually thought of doing that!”

https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2024/01/05

bradpatrick,
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@GottaLaff Non Sequitur has always been one of my faves!

bradpatrick, to animals
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Bella would like to wish you happy holidays!

noondlyt, to random
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They are going to round people up off the street that "look like" they are illegal immigrants.

Texas governor signs bill making illegal immigration a state crime https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/18/texas-governor-abbott-bills-border-wall-illegal-entry-crime-sb3-sb4/

bradpatrick,
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@noondlyt Nope. Immigration is a federally pre-empted issue, no matter what the Nation of Texas thinks.

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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SCOTUS already granted Jack Smith's petition to expedite the consideration of a writ of certiorari before judgment.

This was lightning fast.

Any hope Trump had that his immunity claim would slow things down is now dashed.

Also, Trump knows how to read tea leaves: SCOTUS immediately giving Jack Smith what he wants is not a good sign for Trump.

I think for fun I'll go see what Trump has to say about all of this.

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bradpatrick,
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@Teri_Kanefield In a perfect world, SCOTUS would issue a PCA (per curium affirmed) 12/21 without writing a full opinion. “No man is above the law.” USDC Affirmed.

clive, (edited ) to random
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Why are so many American pedestrians being killed by car-drivers at night?

Fascinating piece in the New York Times (free link here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/11/upshot/nighttime-deaths.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE0.uEMf.FuV3jZhYzZHu&hpgrp=k-abar&smid=url-share) on this question

After years of decline, the number of pedestrians killed by drivers began to rise in 2008 -- but only at night

No-one's quite sure why

Embiggified vehicles don't seem to be the cause ...

... though distracted driving does seem to be part of it

Also: more people living alongside massive highway-esque suburban roads

bradpatrick,
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@clive I would imagine smartphones and distracted driving are the biggest contributor.

bradpatrick, to random
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So Manchin is not seeking re-election. My kingdom for a competent anti-fascist Democrat to represent Almost Heaven.

design_law, (edited ) to random
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Geekcommerce v. - New complaint alleges, inter alia, infringement of this design patent for a "valve stem cap."

On the one hand, kudos to SRIPLAW for publicly filing some claim charts.

On the other hand, the claim charts show that the accused products are different enough not to infringe.

https://www.scribd.com/document/683350593/Geekcommerce-v-Schedule-A-Complaint

bradpatrick,
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@design_law Is this whole thing a prank?

Brandi_Buchman, to random
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I have been keeping a journal since my mom died that is just for grief. It's been two years and I read back through the earlier entries, the ones I could stomach, and I see my pain in the deepest part of myself is still very much the same today. I know in time it gets easier to process but rereading that helped me realize I am being way too hard on myself with expectations of normalcy or an ease in my depression. And then I remembered my dad died too. And I realized...

bradpatrick, (edited )
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@Brandi_Buchman A pocketful of joy/beauty/wonder, every day. It adds up. Today it was the ground fog lifting in the sunlight. You deserve it.

josephcox, to random

This is wild: law enforcement officers put on camouflage, sneak onto family's property, and take a surveillance camera from their backyard without a warrant. Due to a particular law not many may know about. Lawyers are now fighting to change it. https://www.404media.co/cops-sneak-onto-mans-property-confiscate-surveillance-camera-without-a-warrant/

bradpatrick,
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@josephcox @hacks4pancakes How is this not clear trespass and 4A violation? The trail cams are his private property. I don't get it.

Teri_Kanefield, to random

Someone asked me what I think is going on with Trump's lawyers attacking the clerk.

Yesterday I said this:

"It's hard to tell what is going on with that. My best guess is that Trump's lawyers are fatigued, know they are losing, and are getting weird and paranoid."

Judge Engoron, who sees it all up close, said there is misogyny.

I just saw a picture of the clerk and I have revised my opinion.

The judge may be right . . .

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bradpatrick,
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@Teri_Kanefield @dsurkin As a baby lawyer I watched a big-watch-energy jerk tell off a JA with a “do you know who I am?” When it was my turn I was frightened but was nice to her, she was lovely to me and I got my hearing ahead of his. Just be kind. You can bet she wouldn’t forget him, and not the way he wanted.

GottaLaff, to legal
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As always, I’ll be juggling coverage of Shouty McCokeFace’s testimony from mult sources; if you @ me w a ques, I won’t be able to reply, so please make sure to say “Not for you, Laffy” or, “For others to answer” or something. TY!

THREAD 🧵will start here 1/…

Via Klasfeld:

…from .

’s 2nd day of testimony will begin later this morning. On the 1st, he tried to shift focus to his accountants—& the AG's counsel shed light on his father's trust.

bradpatrick,
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@GottaLaff sigh...they never learn that the admission is inevitable, and delaying it is just going to make it more painful. The judge is judging his obstreperousness. Every minute of stonewalling counts against him.

GottaLaff, to DaftPunk
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Via @emptywheel:

WOWOWOW.

It must really suck for all those people whose full time job it is to report on Congress who should have known better about this being an "offset."

Surely they're all crafting apologies for their subscribers right now?

Jake Sherman:

🚨 BREAKING -- CBO says the 's aid bill is not offset at all.

Will add $12.5B to the deficit in the next decade.

Cuts to IRS will decrease revenue by $26.7B

bradpatrick,
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@GottaLaff @emptywheel Brilliant! Exactly as intended! The GQP have no business being near the levers of government at all.

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