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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026

Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The one good thing about him is that he will betray anyone that trusts him, no matter what, the second it seems appealing to him to do, even for petty reasons. It's only good because he is so obviously nasty and faithless that the only people who could trust him deserve exactly what they get.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One big advantage with going after Vought, Hegseth, etc. is that they're openly committing very real crimes, and also that Trump does not have the ability to easily replace them.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

After the last few years we, and they, deserve this so much. So, so much.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The AG's office claims that it's a budget thing, which is probably at least partially true. But it's hard not to suspect that the fact that the Conviction Review Unit amounted to the Taking Back Klobuchar's Convictions Unit was also a factor in the decision.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A disastrous fire could do the funniest thing...

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Now I'm thinking about how many articles I've seen explaining that doing cognitively difficult tasks and memory exercises in old age reduces the risk of dementia, and wondering where we're going with all of this.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It never says it explicitly in the article, but if you read between the lines it's pretty clear that the different brains hate each other, too.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Suppose you are a moderately affluent person living in a city with a fuel efficient car..."

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The key phrase isn't 'directly impact me' as much as it is 'an issue'. The stuff that directly impacted him before doesn't count as an issue (usually retroactively, because he would have been on the wrong side of it if so.)

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One thing that's surprisingly fun is looking up the mileage for those giant aggro-douchebag trucks, and then using where it looks like gas prices are going to come up with an estimate of how much that person will be spending for each mile.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For whatever reason it's "large quantities of sniper ammunition" that's getting to me. Does he know what snipers even do? Some poor moron, pretty enough to make it through Hegseth's purges, spend years training as a sniper only to get into position and discover a belt fed machine gun.

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SHOEGAZE COMMANDO @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Chud America especially hates Minnesota because they think white Minnesotans are race traitors

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

THOSE PRESS BRIEFINGS COULD BE AN EMAIL.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 19/09/2026

if you’re the white woman who was picking up a bat in downtown minneapolis on hennepin ave between washington & 3rd on 9/15 at noon, the minnesota department of health would like to talk to you because that shit was RABID! i would also like to talk to you because girl, wtf

mi
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
protecting, maintaining and improving the health of il Minesotans
RABID BAT FOUND ON SIDEWALK
On Tuesday, September 15 at about 12pm, a bat was found on the sidewalk on Hennepin Ave between N. Washington Ave and N 3°St.
The bat died and was sent for rabies testing. This bat tested positive for
rabies.
A woman was seen crouching by the bat and putting it into a bag. She was described as a 25-to-30-year-old white woman, about 5'5", with curly brown hair and a curly-haired golden retriever-like dog. If this was you, please call 911 and ask to be connected to Animal Care & Control.
Bites from bats are tiny, may be painless, and may not leave a mark. An person who had physical contact or touched this bat should talk with health care provider this weekend for assessment. During the week, Minnesota Department of Health can also provide rabies assessments at 651-201-5414.
If vou did not touch or have any contact with the bat, you have no risk of rabies and do not need shots.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Well obviously that's what the FBI would say. We know ALL about THAT.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18/09/2026

This is horrifying. Please join me in calling for an immediate return to getting our false intelligence about WMDs from the CIA and other organic sources.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I know they're thinking that "nationalize" means "buy," but the spicier "declare that it belongs to the government now" version would be very, very funny and deserved.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

People like to talk about the advantage of liberal democracy being related to fairness or the consent of the governed or that sort of thing, but it's turning out really clear that the big advantage is that it's hard* to get millions of people deranged in the exact same way. *hard, not impossible

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The great bit about the rationalist cult is that a bunch of people convinced themselves they were too smart to fall for some grimy cult leader, and then joined a cult lead by a completely fictional one.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's times like this that I like to think back to the ICE signing bonus that they advertised so heavily, and that one of the conditions of it was that you had to pay it back in full if you didn't work there for at least five years.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think it would be great if Macklemore decided to still do the rest of the tour, but just in smaller venues near to where the big concerts are, Hedwig style.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What made the gay rights movement so powerful was how they quietly voted in favor of politicians who called them mentally ill and advocated their removal from public life, and didn't make a fuss about it. It was very persuasive of them.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The AI is just too good right now for an IPO. Once people got to see the financial records, the shares would be worth so much that it would be unfair to other shares. That's why.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

(Thing they don't get it right about: destroying countless lives.)

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's only the fact that Irish unification might actually be a good thing that stops this from being a hilarious choice for his next Legacy Building Foreign Policy Adventure.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The idea of using AI to make something in the spirit of a Werner Herzog movie is so intrinsically funny that I can't help but wonder whether he was being trolled. The style of his movies is "Not Doing That Kind Of Thing"! That's one of their main features!

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Early on in college my roommate, late at night, saw me sit bolt upright in bed, point at the wall, and say something, before lying down again. He is the second person to report seeing me doing that. Neither one would tell me more about what I said than "it sounded like a different language."

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Listening to Behind the Bastards, and for the price of a single ad the Washington State Patrol gets a shout out, like, weekly. Monopoly Go must be furious.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The most sympathetic read on the 'reaching out to MAHA' stuff is that it's not reaching out to them, it's reaching out to the people who are still lost in wishful thinking about their toxic relatives and friends coming around, and not being publicly embarrassing anymore.

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

That’s why Tim offered mape a .75% raise and higher healthcare premiums last contract! Happy Labor Day Tim!

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

One of the oldest inks is a combination of lampblack and a binder to help seal it to the surface you write on. In English it's usually called India Ink.The ink is from China. Everyone else calls it Chinese Ink, with one exception. The exception is China, where it is called India Ink.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

That thing is going to have like twenty Iranian guys hiding in it by the time it's finished, just waiting for everyone to let their guard down.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Earlier this week I was on an E Line that passed another E Line, and then three blocks later it caught up and the two drivers had an argument while stopped at the light.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Those DEA goons are just modeling responsible behavior for the students. Everyone knows even glancing exposure to Byron Nelson Highschool could have serious health consequences.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It has been very funny over the last year watching the dynamic between left wing radicals and normie liberals shift from "We have serious concerns about your complicity in these problems" to "No no no we don't say those words in front of the undercover federal agents!"

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm starting to wonder if Lisa Demuth's intention was less to become governor, and more just to prevent some rabid lunatic killing the downballot races for the Republican party, and moving people to the DFL long term.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I don't know if funny is the word, but it's certainly something that the easiest way to get an accurate picture of how the US/Iran war is going is to take the official US statements and switching "US" and "Iran" in them.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I refuse to see any morally significant difference between this and the other, many murders committed by DHS in their ethnic cleansing campaign. This is their intent.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I can't wait until it really sinks in to Trump that he can just rename stuff like that. Gulf of America might have been a fluke, but now Lake America? It is so stupid and we deserve it so much.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There's a lot of music out there, but with this and the theme song to Téléfrançais! already written it's hard to see why people keep making more.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This feels like one of those things that people desperately avoid realizing right up until the last minute, because realizing it when you aren't in the middle of an immediate panic makes it hard not to also realize that it's a foundational assumption of capitalism as an economic system.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I was genuinely surprised by how much fun a 100 year old Kodak No. 2 Brownie would be to use, and that it would still take decent photos too.

Black and white photo of steps leading up to an art deco light outside an office building.

Black and white photo of the decorative cast iron archway over two posts at the entrance to a courtyard.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Leaving aside the obvious potential for like half the country to have a foodborne illness in the near future, if you’ve interacted at all with actual farmers it is really hilarious that he thinks they’re gonna react positively to being told to work more and/or pay more people to do this.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We're absolutely going to sail a destroyer straight into like six mines and it will sink and we will all have to try to pretend that it's not funny.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So, it's obvious he's not talking about people who immigrated to the United States here, right? Immigrants do not make up 31% of the US population, unless you're proposing a very different type of distinction.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's very funny to watch Trump try to will "time is on my side" into being, when there are very obvious countdown clocks running that do not apply to Iran. It would be funnier if it wasn't going to end horribly for all of us, yes, but at least we get this?

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