I'm still reeling.

I once got a sign off of 'Wishes, [Name].'

The brutality of it.

Es werde (Neon)licht.

In the second chapter of ‘Neon Deutschland’ we go on a search for neon signs in the former DDR … starting in Leipzig.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 2961:
Your voice is unique. It’s a combination of many factors: your upbringing and background; the books you’ve read; your personality. Some people may not like it, but it’s yours. Keep it authentic. Trying to sound like someone else is a betrayal of who you are.

"I just don't believe these guys," muttered Ford, shaking his head.

"What can be done?"

Stop using AI, you shower of arseholes.

Man arrested in Kentucky for riding on a horse while drunk, a claimed violation of Ky St. 189.520, operating a non-motor vehicle while intoxicated.

But is a horse a "vehicle"?

No Kentucky cases on this, but police report on left, code's definition of a "vehicle" on right.

Brighton sea front with west pier ruins visible. Sun setting & nice clouds in sky giving pale yellow light

Bye-ton

Brighton west pier ruins with grey sky and large waves.

Apparently the weather's better down south.

Temporary cinema set-up with Baltic branding. Information sheet for today's films in foreground

Kino Perestroika: Soviet film festival at @balticgateshead.bsky.social

The 2026 Legal Philosophy Workshop program is now available. We hope you can join us in Chicago @chicagokentlaw.bsky.social! @hadassanoorda.bsky.social @raff-donelson.bsky.social @gowder.io @almadiamond.bsky.social @sgaloob.bsky.social @ksifferd.bsky.social @yaromeir.bsky.social

Thanks too for @research-nulawuk.bsky.social l for the support in getting the project off the ground!

Logo of the Leverhulme Trust

I think the news has sunk in enough now for me to accept it's real...

Huge, huge thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for awarding me a Research Fellowship in 2026/27 to undertake my project 'Legal status: an ethics led approach' - which will do exactly what it says on the tin.

The ‘time-consuming tasks’ referred to here are reading & thinking. Pretty important tasks if your purpose is to learn something. The ‘help’ offered is to do both for you.

Film poster for La Grazia. Italian president pensively walking through a tree lined field.

Paolo Sorrentino smashed it. Go and see this film.

Correct opinions like this shouldn‘t be controversial. Students come to university to learn how to be a researcher. Every library system I’ve seen has been OK, & every student is taught research skills. LLMs are being sold under the false pretense that developing these skills is unnecessary.

THE TEN STAGES OF BOOK WRITING: 1. Faffing. 2. Terror. 3. More faffing. 4. ‘SHIT I AM SO BEHIND.’ 5.  Zombie who can’t think about anything but book and dreams about book every night. 6. ‘This is awful.’ 7.  ‘This might be OK, and that faffing might have been of benefit after all.’ 8. ‘Oh my god I hope I don’t die before I’m done.’ 9. ‘DONE! Never doing that again.’ 10. Write another book.

Note from my notebook (2018).

Yep. In fact, the real failing of students was when we stopped requiring them to regularly search a library catalogue for their reading and instead produced lists with hyperlinks that students simply had to click. As soon as they have to go off list, they’re lost.

RIP ibid

www.law.ox.ac.uk/oscola

Jürgen Habermas: Niemand verstand die Bundesrepublik wie er Jürgen Habermas war der einflussreichste deutsche Denker seit 1945, bis zuletzt stürzte er sich mit Leidenschaft in jede Debatte. Erinnerungen an einen, der immer schlauer war als seine schlauesten Kritiker.

Jürgen Habermas war der einflussreichste deutsche Denker seit 1945, bis zuletzt stürzte er sich mit Leidenschaft in jede Debatte. Erinnerungen an einen, der immer schlauer war als seine schlauesten Kritiker.

Just seen the "I'll just have the one" glass of wine that keeps getting topped up as the "sip o' Theseus" and, folks, this is a nation of considerable poetic genius.

A Message from Your University President on the Recent Hippopotamus Attacks Dear Faculty, Staff, Students, and AI Summarization Tools, I want to express my deepest gratitude for your patience as we explore innovative soluti...

"Your steadfast commitment to our strategic mission, despite the multiple tramplings, maulings, and other encounters we shall henceforth refer to as 'terminal networking opportunities' has not gone unnoticed."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-m...

A flock of henry hoovers

The spring migration has begun. Nature is healing.

"Where are we going?" "We are going," said Slartibartfast, "to confront an ancient nightmare of the Universe." "And where are you going to drop us off?"

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Full disclosure - I am going through a Sia phase at the moment - but this is exceptional. Cheap Thrills on a mechanical organ.

Only thing that could be better is a brass arrangement at Durham Miners' Gala.

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A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

an image promoting a substack article titled ‘25 medieva manuscripts you can look at online right now’

i made a starter back of beautiful and unique manuscripts you can browse online! (with links) for anyone that wants a good way to spend an afternoon :)

open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...

Just had a yellow wagtail on my windowsill singing it's little heart out. Lifted my mood no-end - but also bloody hell, they've arrived early this year...

Café should always be spelled with an acute accent…

This is the precise point at which The Witcher 3 and being a law prof overlap