Rob is reading manuals 🧭

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Rob is reading manuals 🧭

@robisreading.bsky.social

Law talkin guy. Mostly posts about war books, corgis, and silly things my kid says
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I taught a dispute resolution class where one of the units was on restorative justice and some of the more activist students were excited until they found out the number one thing is shame.
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Way back in like 2006 or something I told my buddies we should watch this flick called Infernal Affaires and I rented it from I❤️Video and I finally got them to put it on but it was the last movie of the night and everyone fell asleep before the credits even finished and I'm still mad about.
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Love a game where being a super lib is actually a cheat code.
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Average Pokemon episode: Let's rescue forest creatures from bumbling Team Rocket! Average Pokemon movie: An extra dimensional mech pilot has captured a demon god to destroy all existence and only a boy and his rat can stop him.
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Watching Pokemon and eating tacos with the family.
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That's where most of our normal books went. Our local pride org is starting a "counter programming" private library so a bunch of our woker books went there.
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We just donated a bookshelf worth of books and then another big stack is waiting for recycling. Downsizeing sucks.
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Leave the charms. Take the jalapeño cheese.
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I have an old law school buddy that bellows "Good Morning!" to anyone within shouting distance and at first I just thought he was really extroverted but he's a Marine and it turns out that's half their job.
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we had about half of the residents of our block hanging out like our house was a cooling center because we had enough solar production to run the AC during the day
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And every time I'm like "why shouldn't I manually unmute" and every time it's dead bird don't eat.
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I know a lot of JPs stopped doing weddings after Obergfell. Really messed up.
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It's funny how relative it is too. I went to San Antonio from Houston and found SA to be very pleasant.
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The Woodlands up north got power back pretty quick 'cause most of our lines were buried which makes sense because they don't call it The Woodlands for nothin.
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This is always such a tell because if you actually voted in the primary you would know that there were like a dozen people on the ballot.
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Big handful of cherry tomatoes sounds good right now.
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Incredible that it took until the 1900s till we got a guy to think "you ever notice how some stuff makes you remember other stuff?"
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We're entering drinking from firehose hours.
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I feel like switching now is like hitting on 18 when the dealer is showing 3.
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Yeah! It's why you can get a guy like Putin to be head of the kgb.
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All aircraft. It's called density altitude (hot air means the molecules are farther apart) and it's why runways are longer in the southwest and also why airplanes crash into mountains on takeoff.
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RIGHT?! Someone asked me if Classico is big because the teams are good and I'm like naw dawg they're still fighting the Spanish civil war.
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There's a lot there obv. Like, my dad has a longhorn flag he puts out on game day so I'm steeped in it, and no doubt the capital (and moving the capitol) politics, but CSB and Austin were never in a shooting war.
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This is why I love Euro soccer so much. Do many historical grudges. In the US we only have a handful like Michigan/Ohio and Kansas/Missouri.
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I asked a sports historian buddy if there were any other fun ones and he was like "well it's basically all just race stuff" which 🫤