Leland Renato Grigoli, PhD (@mappermundi) Bsky

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Laws are not self executing. A law is words on paper. A giant piece of paper with "THE LAW" on it isn't going to swoop into the White House and remove Donald Trump. It's not going to stand on the border and stop Israeli bullets. It's not going to stop people from committing sexual assaults.

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That XKCD meme of how the internet works being held up by precarious blocks, edited so the total is 'All knowledge about Buckinghamshire' and the one supporting block is 'An archivist who has worked here since the 1990s with decent Latin skills'.

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BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

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I did not think my expertise in pope kidnapping would be relevant in this day and age but yet here we are.

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As awful as everything is, as real and as terrible as the damage is, it is an arresting thought to consider how much worse this could be if anyone in charge were even vaguely competent.

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