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Philip Nelson 💻🧙
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Current hyperfixation: the Muppets

big Tolkien and Le Guin fan, hockey lover, and coffee addict

South Carolina is my home

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scraper beat the email notification by two minutes!
a notification for a response filed on a docket that came in at 1:02 PM An email from the Supreme Court's Electronic Filing System sending notification of a filing that came in at 1:04 PM
September 23, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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Their argument
Argument section in the Florida and Texas amici brief Section I is the equities overwhelmingly disfavor a stay Subsection A is the Purcell principle disfavors a stay Subsection B General equitable principles further disfavor a stay
September 23, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Florida, Texas and 20 others (usual suspects) just filed an amici brief

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/26...
a list of additional signatories to the brief filed by Florida and Texas
September 23, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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I genuinely think nathaniel rakich should be publicly shamed for this behavior. You shouldn't act this way
A series of tweets from nathaniel rakich that say A pox on both your houses. This entire subculture on ET of finding polls early needs to stop. It’s unhealthy and you’re operating without a net if the data is bad. If you are going to cover polls, you need to accept responsibility for your role in public trust in elections. This is not a game. This in response to an account saying they didn't hack the website of the Marist poll. Rakich had claimed that they had hacked the website to get the poll early
September 23, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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Bro is still going
September 23, 2026 at 4:49 AM
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Idk what's going on

But this is a project manager from Marist. Honestly, this is on them if they can't use a CMS properly 1
A quote tweet from Ellis Bates says not cool all. The quoted tweet from Adam Carlson says, Yay Talarico but not cool to violate a embargo.
September 23, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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very funny to see Nathaniel Rakich post this yet Marist literally accidentally uploaded it to their website.

So weird to complain about this. The link is literally live on the marist site, he's just mad he didn't get to it first
A quote tweet from Nathaniel Rakich saying the unethical behavior from this account continues. This poll was under embargo. Shame on anyone who encourages this behavior.
September 23, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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September 19, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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I deleted my posts but if I was a betting person, I would bet the Kennedy center gets demolished.

I replie saying I wasn't trying to be obnoxious and he replied with the follow-up.

Just really ironic given that the person that we're talking about has a documented history of violating orders
A reply that says don't use my account to spread such shit. Thanks! A reply that says I mean, there is a specific explicit court order to give 30 day notice. What do you mean if not "I think they'll just ignore that"
September 17, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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Absolutely losing my mind over Ralph Norman calling DC coffee motor oil and his alternative being a $75 cusinart grinder, some horribly burnt beans, and a percolator
September 17, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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considering doing a rule 610 request with the SC Judicial Branch to get info. curious what the likelihood they provide this to me is
a rule 610 request for Supreme Court cases not listed on C-track a rule 610 request for Supreme Court cases not listed on C-track
September 16, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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example 2
a reddit post asking if a rainbow kitten surprise poster is ai
September 10, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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the aforementioned reporting

apnews.com/article/redi...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Opponents of redistricting in Missouri appealed to U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday after an appeals court let stand a new map backed by President Donald Trump. It's is the latest turn in the legal battle over the 2025 redistricting. The changes are aimed at helping Republicans gain an extra seat in their effort to maintain control of the U.S. House. More appeals are expected, however, with the midterm elections fast approaching. It comes shortly before ballots begin going out in the pivotal midterm elections THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP's earlier story follows below.
September 9, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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from the order

and here's a link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Accordingly, the Court grants Plaintiffs' motion for a temporary restraining order and enjoins, on federal law grounds, Secretary of State Hoskins—as well as his officers, agents, employees, and attorneys—from implementing, using, publishing, distributing, or mandating the use of any congressional district map other than the HE I map for the November 3, 2026 general election. The Court finds that a hearing is not necessary because all parties have participated fully through their briefing, and because all parties agree on the material facts. The Court also denies Plaintiffs' Motion to Expedite as moot.
September 9, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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I love Matt and Mica so much
Magdalena Bay performing
September 9, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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I just love reddit lol
a reddit thread where I asked if the pilots from the amazon air crash are deceased and people got snarky because I asked for a source when someone claimed they weren't dead
September 7, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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having her (my bestie)as my upstairs neighbor is fun lol
A text conversation with my best friend and upstairs neighbor. I ask if she's okay and tells me that her mayo fell out of cabinet.
September 3, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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I've been at the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport overlook since 3:20pm this afternoon waiting on this plane to move lol
A German A350 aircraft sitting at an airport
September 1, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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I got to support my friends tonight with their pho pop up! kamila and dat are amazing humans and they're 23 and 22. Cannot wait to see what all they do as they get even better at what they do!
A bowl of pho
August 26, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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Children flying kites might be terrorists www.bbc.com/news/article...
Four kites were found in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, which is about 800m (2,620ft) from the Gaza border, on Friday and Saturday. Several more were found elsewhere in southern Israel last week, according to local media. The Israeli reports cited military sources as saying they believed Hamas was behind the kites and that they might have been intended to test Israel's response. No suspicious materials were attached to the kites and they did not pose a threat, the military said. But Katz warned there would be "zero tolerance" and said: "A balloon is treated like a kite, and a kite is treated like a drone, with or without explosives."
August 24, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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lol
a reddit comment that says Imagine walking to the kitchen in the moonlight and all you can hear is your "Standard local server" going HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE in all caps
August 20, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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Think this might get me banned off hinge? Lol
A hinge prompt that says my most irrational fear... people who are still enthusiastically consuming new Harry Potter content even after JK Rowling has shown herself to be a truly awful person
August 13, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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actual comment someone posted on the devlog for streets of fortuna. the devlog entry wasn't overly celebratory in any way
Please don't take this the wrong way, but I don't usually meet the chef before the dishes impress me. I mean, my feeling toward the creators, will depend entire on my feeling toward the creation itself, your game. There is no point, in my humble opinion, to celebrate anything before it is worth celebrating, no? It always look very self absorbed to me, talking too much about the creation process of a game before people really wanted to know about it because they like the game. Anyway good luck to you guys!
August 12, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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I've been scraping the South Carolina Food Grades ratings since 2022 so seeing a post like this is amusing. code for both the scrape and twitter bot has been open source for years too lol
a post from someone on reddit explaining how they've been working on a small project to collect the last thirty days of inspection reports from South Carolina Department of Agriculture
August 11, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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specifically for the 2026 term!

I've been doing some scraping :)
a sql query that counts the number of applications to the supreme court for the term year 2026 term year and filters to only non federal lower courts
August 7, 2026 at 6:01 PM