#leaving cert 2022

[keresnotceres]

ker’s masterlist:

A list of my works for your convenience. Anything listed that is not underlined is unposted but is in the works! This is a working post, so it will update. As a result, more fandoms may be added.

This account is a side blog! If you get a reblog/like/follow from miloticaquarium i promise it’s me!! just like,, a less cool version of me lol

I also take requests :) Rules + Information under my works!

CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE II (2022)

headcanons:

TF 141: General HCs [sfw]

TF 141: NSFW HCs [nsfw]

TF 141: Civilian Lover [sfw]

TF 141: Realizing They Love You [sfw]

TF 141: “I Love You” [sfw]

MW2 Characters: as Lovers [sfw]

MW2 Characters: as Lovers (Angst) [sfw]

Valeria & Alejandro: 3some HCs [nsfw] (afab reader)

Ghost, Soap, & Gaz: Tattoo Artist Lover [sfw]

MW2 Characters: High School AU [sfw]

tbc…

oneshots:

ANGST:

You, With the Watercolor Eyes (Ghost x GN!Reader)

While on deployment, Ghost has nightmares in which you, his lover, fall out of love with him. The emotional turmoil from this causes him to fall into old, self-destructive habits. [sfw]

tbc…

FLUFF:

tbc…

SMUT:

Good, Good, Great (Ghost x Fem!Reader)

The two of you are roommates. You’re a bottle girl for the local strip club Myth, Ghost had been coerced into discussing information at the strip club. You’re miraculously on shift, and you’re flirting your way into a damn good tip. Just so happens that Ghost doesn’t like to share (even if you aren’t really his). [nsfw]

Say You're Mine (Ghost x Fem! Reader Good, Good, Great pt 2)

A few months later, Ghost takes his leave without telling you. He shows up to Myth unexpectedly on a busy Friday night while you have a plethora of tables to attend. Ghost doesn't seem to enjoy how you're serving a bachelor party, and he chooses to do something about it when the two of you get back to your shared flat. [nsfw]

tbc…

STAR WARS (THE MANDOLORIAN)

headcanons:

tbc…

FAIRY TAIL

headcanons:

Team Natsu: General HCs [sfw]

Sabertooth: General HCs [sfw]

tbc…

I usually stick to headcanons, but I sometimes stray to a one shot occasionally, requests are open for both! Please read the information below carefully before you request :)

I WILL WRITE: (I will gladly take requests for these)!

FEM and GN readers: As a cis girl, I am not particularly comfortable writing a male reader. Keep this in mind when requesting, please. If you don’t want a feminine reader, please let me know to write with a GN reader in mind and I’ll happily do so!

Fem and Masc characters: I will write for both! I like both so why wouldn’t I write for both?

Angst: My FAVORITE thing to write!! Please send me sad things to write about and I will literally speed right through it like a child mowing through a bag of apple slices.

Fluff: Sometimes consuming copious amounts tooth-rotting fluff to cope with the depressing content you just consumed is just what you need!

Smut: I can and will do it because I am nothing more than a simp; but you better look at the thin ice and will not write sections before you even think of asking me. Generic kinks and light BDSM are okay, see other categories for constraints.

Mental Health Struggles: Reader or character! Can include mental illnesses, coping mechanisms, and things like self harm or eating disorders. Not technically mental health related, but insecurities and family issues are also welcome.

THIN ICE: (I could write it, but it icks me).

Pregnancy and/or Breeding Kink, Somnophilia, CNC, and Cheating.

Throwing up/Vomit: I am extremely emetophobic. The only way I'll accept anything with something like this is: a) it's previous to what I am writing and/or b) it relates to an ED.

Slowburn: Not really my thing. Like, I could try, but it won’t really end up being a slow burn. Maybe like a going-the-speed-limit burn.

I WILL NOT WRITE: (If you ask me for any of these, you’re getting blocked!).

MALE reader: I’m sorry but as a person who is not and will not ever be a man I just don’t feel comfortable writing in the perspective of one.

Certain kink/fetishes (DDLG, ageplay, scat, uro, & other such bodily functions, feet), Incest, Pedophilia/Underage, Rape, Sexual assault, and Yandere/Stalker behavior.

KER is the singular form of KERES, a female spirit of death from Ancient Greek mythos. CERES is a dwarf planet named after the Roman goddess of agriculture, fertility, and motherly relationships.

[thewatsonbeekeepers]

don’t want to say this like it’s a brag more that I’m just proud and have no one to tell! but maths was my fave for fun hobby (as an eng person) and I haven’t done it since leaving cert in 2015 - just did the 2022 past paper bc I couldn’t sleep and I got 87% 8 years on. well chuffed. gonna get back into maths for fun I think

[masterofd1saster]

CJ court watch 20jun24

SCt decided three cases of interest on 20jun24.

Diaz v. United States, 602 U. S. __ (2024) was a 6-3 decision on expert opinion evidence. The parties framed the issue as an opinion on drug smugglers' state of mind. It's really best understood as an opinion on cartel operations. Delilah Diaz was caught smuggling 54 pounds of meth in a car.

She had a lame, implausible cover story. The government called Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Andrew Flood at trial to testify

that “in most circumstances, the driver knows they are hired . . . to take the drugs from point A to point B.” App. to Pet. for Cert. 15a. To use an unknowing courier, Agent Flood explained, would expose the drug-trafficking organization to substantial risk. The organization could not guarantee where, if at all, the drugs would arrive. Id., at 16a, 26a. Even if the drugs reached the intended destination, the organization would then have to retrieve the drugs without detection. Id., at 16a, 24a–25a. According to Agent Flood, drug-trafficking organizations are often unwilling to take those chances with hundreds of thousands of dollars on the line. Agent Flood acknowledged on cross-examination that drug-trafficking organizations sometimes use unknowing couriers.

Federal Rule of Evidence 704(b) says

“EXCEPTION: In a criminal case, an expert witness must not state an opinion about whether the defendant did or did not have a mental state or condition that constitutes an element of the crime charged or of a defense. Those matters are for the trier of fact alone.”

Because Flood didn't testify about Diaz specifically, his testimony did not violate Rule 704.

The court's break down was interesting. J. Gorsuch joined the dissenters. J. Jackson joined the majority.

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Chiaverini v. City of Napoleon, 602 U. S. __ (2024) was another 6-3 decision with another interesting ideological break down.

JUSTICE KAGAN delivered the opinion of the Court. This case involves what is often called a Fourth Amendment malicious-prosecution claim under 42 U. S. C. §1983. To succeed on such a claim, a plaintiff must show that a government official charged him without probable cause, leading to an unreasonable seizure of his person. See Thompson v. Clark, 596 U. S. 36, 43, and n. 2 (2022). The question presented here arises when the official brings multiple charges, only one of which lacks probable cause. Do the valid charges insulate the official from a Fourth Amendment malicious-prosecution claim relating to the invalid charge? The answer is no: The valid charges do not create a categorical bar. We leave for another day the follow-on question of how to determine in those circumstances whether the baseless charge caused the requisite seizure.*** Soon afterward, the officers launched a criminal proceeding against Chiaverini in municipal court. They filed three complaints, each charging him with a separate offense. Two were misdemeanors: receiving stolen property and dealing in precious metals without a license. The third was a felony: money laundering. To support their accompanying application for an arrest warrant, the officers submitted an affidavit making the case for probable cause on all three charges, but focusing on the felony.***

He was arrested on a warrant for the three charges.

The county prosecutors, though, decided that they had higher priorities. They failed to present the case to a grand jury in the required time. The court therefore dismissed the charges.***

He sued, lost, and appealed to the 6th Cir.

It did so without addressing either of Chiaverini’s arguments about the felony charge’s basis. In the Sixth Circuit’s view, there was clearly probable cause to support the two misdemeanor charges the officers had filed.*** And because that was true, the court thought, the validity of the felony charge did not matter. “So long as probable cause supports at least one charge against Chiaverini (like his receipt-of-stolen-property violation),” then his malicious-prosecution claim “based on other charges (like his money-laundering charge) also fail[s].” Id., at 10a. Or said another way, a single valid charge in a proceeding would insulate officers from a Fourth Amendment malicious-prosecution claim relating to any other charges, no matter how baseless.***

Back in the day, someone like Chiaverini didn't have to prove

that every charge brought against him lacked an adequate basis. Rather, courts in that era assessed probable cause charge by charge. “[I]f groundless charges” are “coupled with others which are well founded,” explained one State Supreme Court, the groundless ones could still “constitute a valid cause of action.” Boogher v. Bryant, 86 Mo. 42, 49 (1885). Another agreed: It was no “defense that there was probable cause for part of the prosecution.” Barron v. Mason, 31 Vt. 189, 198 (1858). Or as a leading treatise from the era summarized the rule: “It is not necessary that the whole proceedings be utterly groundless.” 2 S. Greenleaf, Law of Evidence 400 (10th ed. 1868); see 1 F. Hilliard, Law of Torts or Private Wrongs §1, p. 435, n. (b) (4th ed. 1874). One bad charge, even if joined with good ones, was enough to satisfy the malicious-prosecution tort’s “without probable cause” element.***

The 6th Cir.'s rationale

receives support from neither half of the claim’s name—neither from the Fourth Amendment nor from the malicious-prosecution tort we have invoked as an analogy. And the question is not close, as shown by the parties’ decision not to contest it in this Court.***

The dissenters had a point that §1983 doesn't create a tort of malicious prosecution.

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Gonzalez v. Trevino, 602 U. S. __ (2024) was another wrongful arrest case. Decision was more or less 8-1.

as a general rule, a plaintiff bringing a retaliatory-arrest claim “must plead and prove the absence of probable cause for the arrest.” At the same time, we recognized a narrow exception to that rule. The existence of probable cause does not defeat a plaintiff ’s claim if he produces “objective evidence that he was arrested when otherwise similarly situated individuals not engaged in the same sort of protected speech had not been.”*** Gonzalez was elected in May 2019. Her first act in office was to help gather signatures for a petition seeking [City Manager Ryan] Rapelye’s removal. Eventually, over 300 residents signed the petition. The petition was introduced at the next city council meeting, where discussions grew heated after various residents rose to Rapelye’s defense and spoke against Gonzalez. The discussion over the petition continued the next day.***

She introduced the petition at a city council meeting. She then took the petition with her and did not deliver it when confronted. She was charged with and jailed for stealing the petition, but the case was dismissed before trial. She sued, and the 5th Cir. ruled against her.

Gonzalez alleged that she had reviewed the past decade’s misdemeanor and felony data for Bexar County (where Castle Hills is located) and that her review had found that the Texas anti-tampering statute had never been used in the county “to criminally charge someone for trying to steal a nonbinding or expressive document.” ECF Doc. 1, at 17. Gonzalez’s search turned up 215 felony indictments, and she characterized the typical indictment as involving “accusations of either using or making fake government identification documents.” Ibid. Other felony indictments included ones for fake checks, hiding murder evidence, or cheating on government exams. Every misdemeanor case, according to Gonzalez, involved “fake social security numbers, driver’s licenses, [or] green cards.” Ibid. Gonzalez pointed to this research as evidence that the defendants had engaged in a political vendetta by bringing a “sham charge” against her.***

a plaintiff must produce evidence to prove that his arrest occurred in such circumstances. The only express limit we placed on the sort of evidence a plaintiff may present for that purpose is that it must be objective in order to avoid “the significant problems that would arise from reviewing police conduct under a purely subjective standard.” Id., at 407. Here, Gonzalez provided that sort of evidence. She was charged with intentionally “removing . . . a governmental record.” Tex. Penal Code Ann. §37.10(a)(3). Gonzalez’s survey is a permissible type of evidence because the fact that no one has ever been arrested for engaging in a certain kind of conduct—especially when the criminal prohibition is longstanding and the conduct at issue is not novel—makes it more likely that an officer has declined to arrest someone for engaging in such conduct in the past.***

[stefanorossiautomotiveinternat]

Diplomatic Post: London (Episodio 6)

Quest’ultimo aveva appena spento novantacinque candeline – eppure pareva ancora in discreta forma, in quanto riusciva sempre a portare a termine le celebrazioni liturgiche pubbliche che prevedevano la sua presenza fisica. Il pontefice non fece un solo cenno, nell’udienza con Odescalchi, all’Argentina, preferendo iniziare il colloquio a due con l’amara ammissione che la Santa Sede negli ultimi tempi aveva un poco perso la capacità di comprendere ciò che si stava svolgendo su suolo britannico con il fenomeno Brexit; gli disse che parte della colpa risiedeva a suo parere nel fatto che il precedente nunzio, amico personale di Tony Blair e di una buona parte dei politici labouristi all’ex prime minister legati, aveva consegnato alla Segreteria di Stato rapporti eccessivamente imbevuti del proprio pregiudizio negativo e contrario al Leave; aggiunse anche che da quel momento in poi avrebbe riposto molta fiducia nel fatto di avere a Londra una persona così esperta della società britannica quale egli era. Odescalchi lo ringraziò per la fiducia riposta e passò ad altro, nella fattispecie ai problemi in quel momento provocati dall’agitarsi degli episcopati di Germania e Francia. Il papa disse che per quanto riguardava le lamentele a voce alta da parte di un bel numero di vescovi francesi in materia di Summorum Pontificum, egli si sentiva doppiamente amareggiato; amareggiato da coloro che avevano abusato e profittato di quel motu proprio, ed amareggiato da coloro che prendevano certe oggettive criticità come pretesto per cancellare un documento che a suo parere costituiva un sofferto ed assai meditato balancing act dovuto alla tradizione liturgica della Chiesa prima ancora che a prosaiche esigenze compromissorie con questa o quella frangia del cattolicesimo integrista. Passando poi alla situazione tedesca, il pontefice ammise di non riuscir più a comprendere, lui tedesco di nascita, cosa stesse accadendo nella sua Germania; confessò solamente, con un filo di voce, l’intima amarezza che la sua patria nativa gli stava causando. L’udienza si concluse con Odescalchi commosso quasi sino alle lacrime: nonostante la discreta forma fisica dell’ultra-nonagenario pontefice, egli presentiva in cuor suo che quella sarebbe stata la sua ultima udienza privata con Leone XIV. Non sarebbe stato smentito dal successivo corso degli eventi. Aprile 2022 – Kent, Inghilterra. Quel sabato pomeriggio il settantenne parigino Etienne Giscard d’Estaing, esoterista ed occultista di fama mondiale, era alla guida della sua Polestar 2 per raggiungere una mansion settecentesca ubicata nelle immediate vicinanze di Royal Tunbridge Wells (Kent), di proprietà di una delle più importanti ed illustri famiglie aristocratiche inglesi, dove l’attendeva l’impegno clou dell’associazione di cui era presidente, ovvero l’annual dinner conference in cui avrebbe intrattenuto i selezionatissimi partecipanti nonché membri britannici dell’associazione con un suo speech avente per tema “il ruolo chiave di gnosticismo, esoterismo ed occultismo, in termini di humus culturale e cornice concettuale, nello sviluppo della tecnica dalle scoperte dell’epoca rinascimentale sino all’Artificial Intelligence dei giorni nostri”. Sarebbe arrivato di lì a poco, intorno alle 15, accolto dal padrone di casa, l’ottantacinquenne duca di Norfolk, con tutti gli onori: il maestro delle cerimonie del duca aveva infatti già predisposto tappeto rosso e picchetto d’onore – con sette colpi di fucile sparati nell’istante in cui la Polestar 2 dell’esoterista francese avrebbe varcato il cancello d’ingresso; quindi sarebbe stato accompagnato negli appartamenti reali – ovvero, l’ala della mansion destinata alle visite dei membri della Corona britannica – dove si sarebbe rinfrescato e riposato. Tra le 18 e le 18.15 sarebbero arrivati i membri britannici dell’associazione, tra le 18.15 e le 19 si sarebbe tenuto il cocktail, alle 19 avrebbe avuto inizio l’attesissima conferenza di Giscard d’Estaing, cui avrebbe poi fatto seguito, dalle 20 alle 22, la cena in onore del presidente dell’associazione.

[thatsmyverb]

Me @ the English corrector

[theskeletondetective]

Well lads. How are we feeling for Friday?

[nirvanaida]

Leaving Cert: Okay we’ve definitely avoided a way for them to be sad on the english paper none of these could be sad

Me about to make the items essay about my relative who died last Sunday:

[geibheann]

me walking into paper two tomorrow knowing that maidhc dainín likes to steal eggs and pádraig mac suibhne hates women

[ariseastrae]

Fuck Gerard Way for wearing those shorts when i have JUST started my leaving cert. How the hell am i meant to concentrate now!

[crowdemon-boyo]

@SEC where the FUCK was my iron tablet experiment

[puzzleless]

Why was the genetic cross so badly worded 😫

[muttdogbaby]

Keith hitting his sliotar into the air from a height of 1.2 meters

[little-irish-rabbit]

Leaving cert tomorrow, I'm hanging on by the thread of state examination memes please don't let me down folks

[milesofmorales]

I am litterally shitting pissing and crying about the leaving cert right now

[taispinimoragam]

I just found out you can take fucking Maltese on the leaving cert? wtf. like you can take Maltese but not Chinese, the most spoken language in the world.