Matt Busche

Matt Busche

@mrbusche.com

Software Engineer. Wheel of Fortune expert. @northerniowa alum. Lover of spreadsheets. Buffalo cauliflower connoisseur.

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Most 20-point, 10-assist games in WNBA history Caitlin Clark - 20 Caitlin Clark (2026) - 10 Courtney Vandersloot - 10 Diana Taurasi - 9 Caitlin Clark (2024) - 8 #fever #wnba

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Replying to @maxberger.bsky.social

The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil. The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

This is a great read about writing an HTML5 spec compliant parser in Python and a fascinating follow up by Simon converting the library to JavaScript for "free" simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/...

simonwillison.netI ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5 hoursI wrote about JustHTML yesterday—Emil Stenström’s project to build a new standards compliant HTML5 parser in pure Python code using coding agents running against the comprehensive html5lib-tests testi...
Simon Willison@simonwillison.net

JustHTML by @emilstenstrom.bsky.social is a new Python library (no dependencies) that parses HTML according to the HTML5 specification and passes the 9,200 test html5lib-tests suite It's 3,000 lines of code mostly written by coding agents over a couple of months simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/...

Being forced to login to Apple TV every day on a PC makes it the absolute worst streaming experience. It thinks I'm logged in, but also doesn't recognize I have a subscription and I have to go through 5 clicks to fully log in. It's an abysmal user experience.

What are some songs where you are Astounded when you look at the play count? These should all be at 100M+ but some haven't cracked 1 million.

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If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

Nunn is so committed to Iowa District 3 he didn't show up to the Ankeny Summerfest parade which is almost 10% of his district population

Laura Belin@laurarbelin.bsky.social

#IA03's Zach Nunn got his marching orders: "Just spoke to Great Combat Veteran Zach Nunn, and he is committed to the mission of, HOLDING THE MAJORITY," Trump posted to his Truth Social website. "He is a team player, with a tremendous future — And 100% MAGA." www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

"based on their physical appearance" Their training is just the image from family guy

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."

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Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Breaking News: Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, was detained by ICE agents at an immigration court as he tried to escort a migrant out of the courthouse to prevent his arrest. nyti.ms/4jWkANE

One pot recipes are the best - "Ready in 15 minutes" when that means 5 minutes to cook a pound of noodles with like 8 oz of liquid. Is there some trick to cooking noodles very quickly without liquid? Almost every time I end up tripling the liquid and the time it takes to cook.

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In case y'all missed it - Utah Republicans ordered a study on transgender healthcare, expecting it to come back unsupportive. Instead, it found that trans youth care was safe and effective, and that transgender youth need it. Whoops. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

sltrib.comUtah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?

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i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

Painful how accurate this is.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

"We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school." 💯 💯 💯

Alex Kirshner@alexkirshner.com

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

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A swing voter is not a centrist. It's like, a guy who loves guns but has a gay sister, loves weed but hates food stamps because his cousin who owes him 50 bucks gets them. (Also, Osama was Iraqi.) You don't win that guy with a carefully crafted platform, you do it by not seeming fucking lame

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social

I really feel like more people need to constructively engage with this! You can think the moderation/centrism discourse is often braindead (as I do!) but the center left really needs a pretty robust convo about what winning, say, an Iowa or Kansas or Texas or Ohio senate seat would look like.

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Sometimes I think about a poll during the 2016 election that ranked “corruption” as the top concern of voters. This was because this was a word Fox News used frequently with Hillary Clinton. That word has mysteriously disappeared from the vocabulary of the American press this year.

abcnews.go.comTrump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: SourcesPresident Trump poised to accept "palace in the sky" as a gift from Qatar: Sources

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Replying to @karaswisher.bsky.social

Full quote: “The world’s richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children,” Gates told me, exhibiting a rare burst of real anger about the cuts to U.S.A.I.D. “He put it in the wood chipper, because he didn’t go to a party that weekend.”

Do billionaires next, sir

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls ... they don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five."

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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

Logging in to Century Link and downloading my bill literally takes 5 minutes (????). Hopefully someone notices my UTM parameters and is the change I need to save 5 minutes to get my internet reimbursed each month.

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"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson

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Let's be clear that this thing Trump just said about having no trade deficits with any country would be far more radical, more disruptive, and more expensive, than every single leftist dream you have ever heard put together, including Medicare for All, Guaranteed Housing, and Universal Basic Income.