Liz

Wow. New followers! Nice to meet you all. I'm Liz. I'm a lawyer who lives in Louisiana and practices in criminal post- conviction settings. I'm a trans woman, and I'm an Episcopalian. My Christianity related posts are marked with ⚓, if you aren't in a spot for Christian posts right now.

Yikes. RIP

The Marge Simpson "that's true but he shouldn't say it" meme gets used ironically but it's a pretty normal social convention that there are true things you don't say to people in rough emotional states

Sometimes I feel like I'm useless as a lawyer and contribute nothing and then I remember that even if I AM a garbage lawyer and my complaint ends up being pretty low quality I'm still forcing ICE to spend time and resources responding to it. So that's pretty nice. Also, you know. Imposter syndrome

who hit enter on the originating prompt charge them

Holy shit. That really was a year, wasn’t it?

🇧🇷🗳️ Et voilà, c'est fait : Datafolha annonce la réélection de @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social pour un quatrième mandat. Un incroyable retournement de situation trois semaines après un premier tour désastreux !

@bsky.app you've been vibecoding and didn't account for the clocks going back didn't you

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Why is AI-generated language so hard to understand?

I’m an AI skeptic verging on an AI hater, but I haven’t gone back in time and retroactively started to despise Google Translate. This is a horrible move from the moderators and should be slapped down by Reddit admins.

Being a queer Christian can be exhausting. Not all of the time. Not even most of the time. But some of the time… woof. I need to read some affirming theology, I think. ⚓️

yeh tbh if AI is so great you should be proud of it, you should disclose it everywhere and put a bunch of stickers yourself that you used it for your project showing everyone how cool and cutting edge you are, no? like, it's the future right? you love it right??

Anyway I still think the most trans ttrpg ever made is CHANGELING THE LOST and if you disagree with me that’s totally fine and I absolutely understand your viewpoint but you need to understand that you’re wrong

I once heard someone describe G&T programs as a special ed program to address issues posed when students with perhaps more academic skills than social ones proved disruptive in class, and it... made a decent number of things click in my brain

Wednesday night, I sent a letter to every member of the Texas House of Representatives about recent 'false flag' texts and mailings sent to millions of Texas voters by the "Texas Transgender Student Union", a fake organization from WY intending to impact our elections. #txlege #txsen

Every aspect of life as a gay man is unimaginably better than it was when I was born in the mid 80s. We beat the plague that was killing us by the hundreds of thousands and then won broad social and civic equality.

Not as good as last year’s jaunty crawfish but still quite nice as a mark of Civic Participation™️

I'm reminded of Hogfather, and Terry Pratchett's observation kids understand that stories have blood. It's the parents, the adults, who avert their eyes, who sanitize these stories for themselves.

If you're engaging in amateur Halloween sculpture this weekend, be sure to use a pumpkin carving kit. It's Knife Ghost season!

I don’t want to hear people say “eat the rich” so much as I want to hear them say, to the rich, “To the law, your money is of no consequence whatsoever. It will shield you from the law the same way empty air would shield you from a blade: it is irrelevant. No favors, no exceptions.”

this is my favorite death cult

And finally keeping at it, year-in, year-out demands not ironic detachment but sincere, even 'cringe,' commitment - of the kind that feels like vulnerability. It is not enough to be angry all the time, you must also be grieved and sorrowful and even sometimes joyous too.

It turns out that choosing the lesser of two evils is, in fact, a moral imperative. And some folks want to wait for the Revolutionary Perfect, but I would equally challenge them to demonstrate a single time where a 'start from nothing, year-0' revolution has turned out well for most people.

we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

Courage is knowing the world is going to break your heart, and allowing it to do so anyway

It's nice to see Paul Bettany get to be... creepy. And by creepy I mean hot. Paul Bettany is hot. That's it. That's the post. #visionquest

yknow m night may not have had a 100% hit rate over his career but you can tell his heart is always in it whether hes making the dumbest stuff youve ever seen or a modern classic

I swear to god, where the hell does the "lawyer and attorney are different" thing come from? All three major models are regurgitating the claim, but there aren't any sources that really back it up. Even the ones the AI's cite when pushed don't really stand for that proposition.