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William Burns

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A Knight of Fortune's Wheel. He/him.

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William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · Nov 14

The great consolation of being a failure is that you have a much more accurate idea of who your friends are.

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William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 6h

Snorkel hates Hegseth because of the "no fat soldiers" policy and will refuse for that reason.

William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 7h

"The Cat who Walked by Himself" is probably the best thing ever written about the relationship of human beings and cats.

William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 7h

They also mean illegal by "rare"

William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 7h

Killing smart-ass city folk is what Zero signed up for.

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William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 7h

Fuzz is terrified that if the brass ever decides to investigate him for any reason they'll find out about his gender dysphoria.

William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 7h

The only civilian General Halftrack will fire on is Mrs. Halftrack.

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William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 8h

Claudia Sheinbaum.

William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 8h

Finished the Perlstein tetralogy today. Learned a lot. A lot of it was a nostalgia thing for me growing up in the seventies. OTOH, it could have been cut by about a third without losing much.

William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 8h

The American picture of colonial Spanish America is dominated by Mexico.

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William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 14h

America loves queer-friendly socialist Muslims!

William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 16h

Who gets partitioned this goaround?

William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 16h

I really do not want an American Frederick the Great, thank you.

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William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 16h

Jared? I don't know. . .

William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 18h

Fake dictionaries are fun. Flaubert made a "Dictionary of Received ideas" which is very amusing.

William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 21h

60's TV Batman set the pattern, and ever since all Catwomans can be divided into Julie Newmar Catwomans and Eartha Kitt Catwomans.

William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 22h

Calvinophobia is a widespread madness.

Danielle Gembala @ddmgembala.bsky.social · 1d

Over drinks with fellow archaeologists at a conference some decades ago, we discussed who we would hypothetically time travel to remove from history. Columbus and Calvin were the two universally chosen. Hitler was nearly unanimous but one person thought removing Goebbles was better.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 1d

Also funny that apparently nobody cares about W's opinion.

William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 1d

By anyone other than Gore Vidal.

William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 1d

Etta James. You Can Leave Your Hat On

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William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 1d

It is.

William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations on your new White House job!

William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 1d

Ben Jonson is funny even if the actors aren't that great.

William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 1d

Why the NFL plays on Sundays.

William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 1d

The trouble with Shakespeare's comedies is that they're not funny.

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William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe he just wanted somebody to do the dishes.

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