Daniel B. Thompson

@dbttheater

dead inside, queer, pedantic, Utahn - yes, I'm great at parties production & stage manager for live entertaintment and the performing arts www.dbttheater.com

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Daniel B. Thompson@dbttheater· Jun 27

From a hot day in August of 2010, lying on a couch at my friend's house the morning after a party, slightly hungover, waiting for him to get up so we could go smoke some weed.

Daniel B. Thompson@dbttheater· Jun 23

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2 LANDOR v. LOUISIANA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS AND
PUBLIC SAFETY
JACKSON, J., dissenting
This severance of rights and remedies is a sleight of hand;
it comes by way of the majority’s full-throated endorsement
of a contract analogy even though what secures the rights
at issue is not a contract but a law. Today’s decision magi-
cally transforms a federal statute into an invitation to be
accepted or declined, deemed binding only if each particular
defendant has explicitly agreed to be penalized. No matter
that laws, as opposed to contracts, don’t ordinarily work
this way. The trick here is the majority’s effortless confla-
tion of law making and agreement making—two different
sources of binding authority.
The majority’s analysis is spellbindingly straightforward:
Spending Clause statutes are contracts, and contracts bind
only those who consent. Ante, at 6–8. But pulling this rab-
bit out of the hat requires misconstruing the Spending
Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause, and ignoring
decades of precedent affirming Congress’s authority to use
the power of the purse to govern. In the end, the Court re-
duces some of Congress’s greatest legislative achieve-
ments—federal laws that secure civil rights, environmental
stability, healthcare, and more—to nothing more than the
wheelings-and-dealings of an especially wealthy private
party. Because I would not so trivialize a federal statute or
the constitutional powers pursuant to which it was passed,
I respectfully dissent.

Daniel B. Thompson@dbttheater· May 28

The poppies be popping #flowersky #poppy #gardensky

A photo of a red and white poppy blossom in a garden.

Daniel B. Thompson@dbttheater· May 13

Blooms in the Colonel Fitzwilliam Memorial Garden this morning: #flowersky #plantsky

Collage of different flowers, including cornflowers, salsify, white alyssum, California poppy, wood sorrel, and snapdragons, in addition to both a small blue flower and a small white flower whose names I cannot recall and can't be bothered to find

Daniel B. Thompson@dbttheater· May 13

A variation on the "goose chasing" meme. A two-frame comic. The first frame is a goose head asking "but does it add value." The second frame depicts the goose now chasing a human and screaming the same question

Daniel B. Thompson@dbttheater· May 13

when the catnip kicks in

A calico cat sits in a garden, staring into the distance

Daniel B. Thompson@dbttheater· Apr 20

called_it.jpg

Screenshot of a Facebook post from Daniel B. Thompson, dated April 20, 2022. Black text on a white background reads:
Just produced an event for a large tech company (who might own this app) and gotta day, folks, that the "metaverse" is the silliest tech idea of my lifetime and these losers are dumping millions of dollars into what is essentially animation.

Daniel B. Thompson@dbttheater· Apr 15

Just received the most insane wrong-number voicemail:

Text transcription of a voicemail message, white text on a black background:
"No, I didn't do anything at all. I'm not sure like what's going on. They're insane. They've all um got cock in the ass too, so. They wanted their assholes pounded till they turned blue. I don't know. I, I'm sure. Yeah, I did. I did call them kind of, but if I have to, I will. But I was thinking maybe you and a few friends can come by or something. If you can. Yeah. Yeah, this person like hella was being hella disrespectful and rude. He's um He looks like Hacksaw Jim Duggan. All he needs is a 2 x 4. Yeah, I know."

Daniel B. Thompson@dbttheater· Apr 13

A protester blows a shofar at Rahm Emanuel

Daniel B. Thompson@dbttheater· Apr 3

This cat was very annoyed that it was snowing. #catsky

A gray and white cat with black markings is curled up on and under a brown fleece blanket on a light blue sheet on a bed. She is grouchy.

Daniel B. Thompson@dbttheater· Mar 30

Little Cat amid the dandelions. #catsky

A gray and white cat with black stripes lies in the sun on grass and dandelions.

Daniel B. Thompson@dbttheater· Mar 1

she's on the Nip

Daniel B. Thompson@dbttheater· Feb 26

My garden is confused.

A small cluster of grape hyacinth grows in a Utah garden in February.

Daniel B. Thompson@dbttheater· Feb 10

Them: "omg, they want tens of thousands of dollars for the rights?!" Ballet/dance/theater production managers:

Still image from a scene in the movie The Ballad of Buster Scrugg. The actors is depicted from the shoulders up with a hangman's noose around his neck. Subtitle text reads: First time?

Daniel B. Thompson@dbttheater· Feb 10

Lots of stories about rights clearances In the Olympics this year and I'm like..... what were you doing before? Getting grand rights, sync rights, etc has been a thing for a long time? Prince and his estate are famously protective of his catalog? This has long been an issue in dance and theater.

Screenshot, black text on a white background. The text reads:
"The requirement that skaters use songs from the 1990s has led to copyright issues — rarely a problem when dancing to classical music or more generic ballroom dancing. Canada’s husband and wife pair of Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain Le Gac couldn’t clear the copyrights to their Prince routine, and changed to the song “Sex Bomb” by Tom Jones in the last week before the Olympics. “Prince has grit and confidence, and that brought us here,” Lauriault said. “Tom Jones and Prince are not the same vibe!”"

Daniel B. Thompson@dbttheater· Feb 4

AUSA Joy Warner was "officially reprimanded" by US District Judge Paul G. Byron in Florida for "lack of candor," calling her actions in the case either "incredibly sloppy lawyering" or " a fraud upon the Court." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...