#3l — Public Fediverse posts

A soda company restarted its "Share a soda with [NAME]" campaign, so—of course—I got the most triggering name possible on graduation week. Had a whole ass nightmare of exactly the kind my self-hating subconscious loves to concoct, ugh.

Can't wait until I'm out of this school environment and I can go back to trying to cut soda. #3L

It's sick that lawyers can only comprehend class solidarity when it's the lawyer class defending its authority to tell other classes what to do. #3L

The core dilemma of being a lawyer is working with and ostensibly on the same side as people who believe that roving bands of armed guards who are authorized to throw people into cages is OK. #3L

Lawyers are planning on doing protests on "Law Day" advocating for a return to the rule of law.

...May 1.

Fucking colonizers. #3L

One of my student orgs put together a Field Day. Did an egg race, three-legged race, and played a bunch of fake spikeball on a beautiful day outside. Good memory. #3L

Famously, I don't believe that credit has any value. But I have been talking about not getting it more often lately, and I think people who pay attention to this (probably nobody) would see it as a contradiction.

But I'm not talking about credit as if it has value at all; I'm observing a different contradiction entirely. It is interesting to me that people who otherwise firmly assert that credit has value and must be given will nevertheless deny it to someone. #3L

Thompson Reuters spent $650 million in cash to take my favorite source of free legal opinions (casetext) off the internet.

In fairness, the free legal opinions service they offered was not really part of their business. But, like, Fuck. #3L #LawFedi

Today, I sent the kind of "Everything you have done is wrong" email that people dream of sending to hold a manipulative colleague accountable.

If it will have fallout, I do not know exactly what that will be right now. But no regrets. #3L

Saw a Caravan Palace concert tonight and it may have legit changed my life. Not because of the music necessarily (although that was fun) but because the nostalgia put me in touch with a much younger version of myself who was in a lot of pain. That version of me is not around anymore but I've been acting like the maladaptive lessons I learned as him are necessary. They're not. Exciting times. #3L

Just encountered an unironic "I can excuse Nazism but I draw the LINE at gay sex." #3L

I have seen so many statements in support of Perkins Coie and the "rule of law" from legal channels I am obligated to subscribe to. Not one peep about people literally being disappeared in the streets. #3L

I love how the prison mail service calls their review of my letters "quality control" rather than "censorship." #3L

Everybody agrees they like my energy better when I have a crush, but nobody wants me to have a crush on them. Curious. #3L

"I'm being objective, not an advocate."
"You're being a fucking loser." #3L

The curse of academia is that so many academics are, to their core, fucking losers with nothing to offer the world. So, of course, they normalized all the signs of being a loser with nothing to offer the world as signs of prestige. #3L

There's something about the obvious injustices of police interrogation that makes very well-meaning people sincerely believe the rules could not possibly be as lax as they are, so their explanations auto-correct to the wrong things.

For example: "The police cannot lie to you about whether you are detained."

Whether or not a person is detained is a factual analysis that explicitly has nothing to do with the cop's intent. They cannot meaningfully "lie" about it because if a cop says you are not detained when you are, you are detained. (But, of course, if a cop says you are detained when you otherwise would not be... the cop is detaining you, what?) #3L

The irony is that I picked journal despite knowing that it would probably be hellish because I knew I would feel regret if I didn't. But I'm definitely working on it the most, and I'm pretty sure it has cost me opportunities that would have been really valuable to me spiritually. So, like, I kind of have to regret it even though I did ultimately enjoy it?

Truly, the only person I really despise is this person I seem to have no choice but to be. #3L

It is extremely common for my peers to not know the difference between a statute and a regulation. Law school is fucking fake, dawg. #3L

Oh, look at that. Yet another salient prediction that unionism and liberal reform were no threat to capitalism because their proponents accepted the premises and posture of capitalists from... 1928.

Bonus points for the observation that the offshoring of production necessary for the continued growth of capitalism was (and is) imperialism. #3L

"I wrote this dissent in longhand on the back of an airplane folder while traveling from Los Angeles to Washington."

We take judges too seriously, lol. #3L

Gave a speech today about why law school is bad and punctuated it with "Law school is for boring, ugly, serious people. And you, button, are none of those things." It killed, lmao. #3L

Welp. They, uh, took down the Public Service Loan Forgiveness website.

That was most of the reason I made peace with the student debt load of law school.

Anyone suddenly become a world-renowned expert in detrimental reliance? #3L

I wish I could just reply "CRINGE" to some statements in these papers instead of explaining the problem like they're five, lol. The Academic Voice is a disease. #3L

... I haven't touched Westlaw this semester, and I won't have an involuntary reason to, lmao. #3L

Cut off my hair that had been growing since the first day of 1L Fall Semester. I intended to keep it going until graduation.

It was beautiful, but I didn't take care of it properly, so it became dirty and frustrating to have on my head. Sad day.

But, hey, next time I won't be intending to grow it out to an arbitrary time. And, ideally, I'll have the disposable income to get professional help more than once a year. So the future looks bright. And probably grey, lol. #3L

Imagine me going full Batman whenever a lawyer uses the words "arguably" or "allegedly" in their legal scholarship.

"This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it." #3L

My International IP term paper has a pretty short word limit at 2500 words.

So. It's currently at 2,353 words.

But. It's 5,920 words including endnotes, lmao. #3L

Ayyy, I passed the MPRE. One more box-checking exercise down. #3L

Lmao, one of the cases before SCOTUS this term is a straight woman claiming that she was discriminated against for not being gay because gay people got promotions she applied for. Her argument is that she shouldn't need to explain the background details as to why she thinks her employer was prejudiced against straight people. #3L

I could never be happy long-term in academic publishing because we have so much freedom and yet the papers are still so cowardly. COWARDLY. #3L