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RI Smith

@rismith.bsky.social

Lawyer writing about law, genealogy, and bad ethics. Part time research assistant to @megansearsdo.bsky.social. He/him

created December 19, 2023

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They've treated the sea people very unfairly. Nasty people, the Hittites.

2/9/2025, 3:32:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

That's half of the fun

2/9/2025, 2:49:19 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

One involves a human creating it. The other doesn't. You can usually tell because the AI images have obvious errors that anyone who gave a shit would catch.

2/9/2025, 1:58:13 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Why can't they? Does one of Trump's creditors have dibs?

2/9/2025, 1:48:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

His blood is so chilly that he has no feeling in his hands to catch the ball

2/9/2025, 1:45:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Who can doubt the radical transparency of the Trump administration? This and more in my blog at "Why Does Everyone Keep Asking If I'm a Nazi"

2/9/2025, 1:10:04 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Always be Gary

2/9/2025, 1:02:27 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social)

What if we run a QB draw but the center can't do pass or run blocking?

2/9/2025, 1:01:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Office Gary

2/9/2025, 12:58:42 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

The guy Trump stiffed and refused to pardon for the crimes he committed on behalf of Trump.

2/9/2025, 12:51:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

And Intel profited in the medium term from being seen as a company that stood behind its products. Now, companies that tell their customers to enjoy their shit sandwich only go up in valuation.

2/9/2025, 12:47:38 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

You can find rib shaped BBQ patty MREs from surplus stores if you want things alleged to be food year round.

2/9/2025, 12:38:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

He said the criminals are near.

2/9/2025, 12:35:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social)

Good coverage. Fifteen yard penalty. First down.

2/9/2025, 12:33:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

The point of the Medal of Honor was to recognize enlistedmen, who normally were ignored as all the glory went to senior officers. The Medal of Freedom is the opposite.

2/9/2025, 12:31:21 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe Rudy can sell it to pay some of his debts.

2/9/2025, 12:30:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

I remember.

2/9/2025, 12:25:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

He likes the boots because they hide his lifts

2/9/2025, 12:17:06 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I like scheduling my emergencies.

1/9/2025, 9:58:00 PM | 138 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

It's a day a lot of people have off, so they aren't allowed to visit patients. Sure, that makes sense.

2/9/2025, 12:13:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

"I can't defend Israel. Except for refusing to call what they're doing genocide. And the justification for their genocide. I'll gladly defend those."

2/9/2025, 12:02:12 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Bone-petite

1/9/2025, 11:45:53 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you remember when Bluesky wouldn't ban a Nazi because he was friends with Jay? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

1/9/2025, 11:35:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Pippin, Grant, Longley, Kukoc, Rodman, Harper, Kerr, Armstrong... Nope, none at all.

1/9/2025, 5:16:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Bluesky transforming. Do you see? DO YOU SEE?

1/9/2025, 4:31:23 PM | 70 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social)

My wife referred to my behavior as being cat like—not agility or something cool, but aloofness and hissing at strangers—and I don't think I've ever been so well understood.

1/9/2025, 4:21:17 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Legal realism is great as a predictive tool, but tends toward stupidity when applied as a guiding principle.

1/9/2025, 12:47:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Bet against Cristobal in any big game.

31/8/2025, 11:50:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

OK, yes, I'm a public figure. And yes, I did say that less than two years ago. In fact, I've been saying it for decades. But they can't prove that I knew what I was saying was false, even though it clearly was, so I think it's defamatory.

31/8/2025, 11:48:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Or check his ECF email

31/8/2025, 11:42:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

"I want to go for a walk"

31/8/2025, 11:33:31 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social)

Fire captain to the hose team after seeing this dungeon house

31/8/2025, 11:32:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social)

Happy labor day

3 racks of St. Louis and 1 rack of baby back ribs, well laquored with sauce and captured juices.
31/8/2025, 11:20:25 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

He has an entire security team but drives himself alone?

31/8/2025, 8:50:58 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

He shook his brain loose with the head bobble.

31/8/2025, 8:47:08 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

We rebuilt it with soldiers mulching Central Park

31/8/2025, 7:41:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Last big golf weekend of the year, better stay in the cart

31/8/2025, 7:34:25 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

You make a promise, you honor it, kid.

31/8/2025, 7:32:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

They've definitely gone mask off.

31/8/2025, 7:29:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Really just adopting the full Confederacy playbook

31/8/2025, 5:42:10 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

The McSnot

31/8/2025, 4:59:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Is it dead where it hits the ground or where it comes to a rest?

31/8/2025, 5:56:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

One of the many downsides to the algorithmic moderation Bluesky relies on.

31/8/2025, 4:33:36 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Bullets have unpredictable vectors when penetrating even regular glass. With the massive energy loss at a mile, it's incredibly unlikely either round would penetrate bulletproof glass, let alone be able to hit the original target even if they did.

31/8/2025, 4:32:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 4:20:27 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

It's the Van Hagar of AIRBHG bleacherreport.com/articles/113...

31/8/2025, 12:14:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

AIQBHG

31/8/2025, 12:11:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Posting as required: www.youtube.com/shorts/CIZkg...

31/8/2025, 12:07:22 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Fly anyway. Triple dog dare Israel to murder two US senators.

30/8/2025, 11:59:32 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Roe tigh

30/8/2025, 11:50:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

This is lefty discrimination

30/8/2025, 10:07:42 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Ya, we need to get back to the boomer method of a gift purse with cash in envelopes. That was classy, right?

30/8/2025, 10:06:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

This kills the Pawl

30/8/2025, 9:52:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Article 5 has been invoked once and we did it. Once in 80 years for a minor war is a pretty good record.

30/8/2025, 9:51:17 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Welke studie?

30/8/2025, 9:47:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Pawl, we need to hire Kirby, Pawl.

30/8/2025, 9:40:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Stab anyone curling in squat rack

30/8/2025, 9:33:46 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Rule #1: only blue bloods are allowed to win

30/8/2025, 9:32:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

It's no fun drinking with Graham because he arrives drunk.

30/8/2025, 8:54:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, let's see who wins the New Jersey vote before we get all snooty.

30/8/2025, 8:53:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Glad to see that NY solved the scourge of...over-vaccination?

30/8/2025, 8:24:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

He's really big into em-dashes now instead of parentheses.

30/8/2025, 8:22:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Half the line moved so late that DTs were already past them.

30/8/2025, 6:15:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Texas needs to recruit players who can count if they want to use a silent count.

30/8/2025, 6:13:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

I have nipples, treb. Can you milk me? Please?

30/8/2025, 6:10:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

You know, an autonomous region. Without any right to self-determination. And without set boundaries. And without the right to protect its people from genocide. On second thought, that doesn't seem very autonomous.

30/8/2025, 6:08:34 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

But Frank Sinatra doesn't prefer Orville Reddenbacher

30/8/2025, 5:59:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

2.6 YPA is going to get him drafted by the Browns

30/8/2025, 5:56:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social)

All I want is a single genealogy site that has both good family trees and in-depth DNA analysis tools. Is that too much to ask?

30/8/2025, 5:51:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Highlighted too much while using the most pointless font modification

30/8/2025, 5:48:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Again. He's planning on doing it again.

30/8/2025, 5:46:49 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Corso jumps out from under the desk: Not so fast, midget.

30/8/2025, 4:03:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

You're a skinwalker, Hagrid

30/8/2025, 4:03:08 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

He made no appearances from Wednesday night until this AM.

30/8/2025, 4:01:13 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

And what's an emergency? He gets to decide. And do the tarriffs have to be rationally related to the emergency? Not if Trump says they are.

30/8/2025, 4:00:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Baby I bem ram boy

30/8/2025, 4:08:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Pete and Pete has so many to choose from. Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, Kate Pierson, and Gordon Gano off the top of my head

30/8/2025, 2:12:23 AM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ethel Merman as Lieutenant Hurwitz as Ethel Merman

30/8/2025, 2:07:15 AM | 22 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Has he started dying his hair with that ultimate black paint?

30/8/2025, 1:50:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

We need to take seriously something that makes cold reading look scientific.

30/8/2025, 1:05:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

If it's 380 cubic yards, with two inches of mulch depth, that's 2280 square yards or about 2 acres

30/8/2025, 12:04:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Grant was only a drunk when he wasn't leading troops. He sobered up when he had something to do he was good at.

29/8/2025, 8:16:02 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Obviously, the original meaning of the first amendment requires dueling for insults to one's honor.

29/8/2025, 7:57:38 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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i assume he was quietly transferred to another server

29/8/2025, 4:45:39 PM | 3215 500 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Batman: object to form

29/8/2025, 4:59:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, new automatic weapons. If you have a small fortune and patience, you can get the tax stamp for a pre-ban fully automatic.

29/8/2025, 4:57:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 4:55:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Subtext: God will know his own

29/8/2025, 4:50:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Doubling down with a video in a cemetery didn't help

29/8/2025, 4:48:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Honey, come quick, Republicans found the death panels they like

29/8/2025, 4:35:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Now that I cannot be a judicial activist who empowers a minority to have a beer super majority of the legislature, I must step down.

29/8/2025, 4:33:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

OK, he also was granting unanimous consent consistently. You do know that is the opposite of delay, right?

29/8/2025, 4:30:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

The Quaida is giving real Chris Farley vibes

29/8/2025, 1:54:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Just tell us where you left the body. Gritty is worried.

29/8/2025, 1:50:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Any other things Schumer has failed to do that I should know don't count for reasons?

29/8/2025, 1:35:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

The cat and every gym bro.

29/8/2025, 1:10:27 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess I imagined several democrats consistently voting for Trump nominees. And the voting records imagined it, too. Damn, I guess I'll have to have a word with the parliamentarian.

29/8/2025, 12:59:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

You should have known that our product would disregard the safety measures we constantly talk about, ignore our representations about its capabilities, and know that it will try to kill you.

28/8/2025, 10:12:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you follow someone who corrected me, you're not a real person. I am very smart.

28/8/2025, 10:10:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RI Smith (@rismith.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe he could try whipping his caucus to stop approving them. Dunno, seems like something a leader would do.

28/8/2025, 10:06:01 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view