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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty

@irhottakes.bsky.social

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Political science PhD student. World’s third best Bigfoot colonial governance simulation expert. Had to drag myself kicking and screaming to she/her, but she/her nonetheless.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · Jan 26

Just going to make today a wiki day for the D&D campaign, I think. Goal is to have all the useful things up and links to the pinned thread here by the end of the day. Character bios and sheets, daily briefs, transcripts of previous acts, etc. People have said it's easy to get lost, want to help.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 13h

I’m fine. Just vaguely baffled. Think I’m going to log off and grade rather than waste time making sense of it.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 13h

I think that’s enough social media for the day. You all have fun.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 13h

Man, fuck me. Things sure escalated quickly from a post yesterday about now I enjoyed my lunch.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 13h

I feel like this conversation is escalating disproportionately to its importance.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 13h

gender affirming avocado hatred

Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 13h

if you've never experienced this universal truth then starfish you *are* unfortunately the cracker waitress in the room, i don't make the rules here re: racialization of avocados

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 13h

Also, people gotta make up their minds about white people and food because they’re always like “your food is unexotic and bland and also how dare you ever try anything from anywhere else.” Give us an out here.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 13h

…I have never experienced this?

Incandescent Rage @incandescent-rage.bsky.social · 13h

There was never anything wrong with avocados. The problem was white people and their sudden enthusiasm for them. You would go to a restaurant and some cracker waitress would make you watch her make mediocre guacamole at your table like it was a magic show.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 14h

Charles Xavier is a good man despite his flaws and the fact everyone else still has the free will to claim otherwise proves it.

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 1d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 15h

They can kill anyone they want if they designate them a terrorist and they designated antifa as terrorists and everyone they don’t like is antifa and they have the greatest killing machine in history and oh yeah, they’re still somehow losing to inflatable frogs.

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 15h

Further premeditated, lawless killing in the Caribbean.

Making at least five such US strikes.

Against unidentified "narcoterrorists" affiliated w/ an unspecified "designated terrorist organization" allegedly trafficking unspecified narcotics.

POTUS is asserting a license to kill outside the law.

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 17h

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17h

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 17h

He made every day the past decade seem like an eternity for us and now he’s concerned about eternity for what he did to us. It restores a sense of cosmic balance. It feels fair.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 17h

I'm sorry to the Christians here but I don't totally get why the Trump "there is nothing that would get me into heaven" line aroused such interest among you.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 17h

I think the human brain is just subject to information overload in general these days. We're trying to run Elden Ring on a Commodore 64 meant to run "Where monkey get next banana?"

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 1d

my best guess as to what’s going on with gender and society is that all the discourse around abortion + trans rights bubbled up and caused heterosexuals to start thinking about gender en masse, along with all the other stuff, and the untenability of it all just isn’t something normies can handle

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18h

In fairness, "What has the Supreme Court said about this?" is a legitimate question when they won't even fucking explain their rulings anymore half the time. We really would like to know.

Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 18h

one of the weirder american traits is immediately taking any complex philosophical questions to "what has the supreme court said about this". like whether free speech covers covid misinformation or whether affirmative action is good is a deeper question than "is this legal"

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

Can't believe there were gamers even in the 17th century, history is so fascinating.

Alexis Trousset (alias Jacques Olivier) emerged briefly from obscurity in 1617, when he published a misogynistic tract entitled Alphabet of the Imperfection and Malice of Women. Trousset composed his diatribe as alphabetically ordered descriptions of female vices, beginning with the letter'A' (a very avaricious animal') and dedicated it to 'the worst creature in the world? The following extract from the preface exemplifies the style and content of the whole book:

Woman! If your arrogant and fickle mind could know the fate of your misery and the vanity of your condition, you would flee from the light of day and seek out the shadows; you would hide in caverns and caves; you would curse your misfortune, regret your birth and hate yourself. Nonetheless, the extreme blindness that deprives you of this knowledge makes you live in society as the most imperfect creature in the universe, the scum of nature, the breeding ground of evils, the source of controversy, the laughing stock of the insane, the scourge of wisdom, the firebrand of hell, the instigator of vice, the cesspool of filth, a monster in nature, a necessary evil, a multiform chimera, a harmful pleasure, the bait of the devil, the enemy of the angels, the mask of God, deforming and undermining the wisdom of the very God who created you.'

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

but enough about fifth edition dungeons and dragons, amirite, folks?

*I am promptly pelted by rotting fruit by a booing audience*

🪡 Ether GhostLace 🪡 (she/her—illiteratis did this) @laceslibgremlin.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a soul-destroying attitude that I have difficulty explaining but basically when people take the risk of people not liking their art out of art the art is worse

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Same with Mister Freeze just being some asshole with no tragic backstory before.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, I think Poison Ivy can do better than Harley Quinn. Ivy's a big girl terrorist. Really cramps her style to be with someone who fights with Batman more than against him the past decade.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

I hate how much that looks like somebody's transition before and after pics.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Was waiting to see how Olivia Reingold (who Oliver's piece destroyed almost as much as Bari Weiss) would respond, and you can see the tweet below which also shows she either did not watch his piece, or just didn't understand it, since he actually addresses this point directly.

Olivia Reingold quote tweeting Variety.

The Variety tweet is about John Oliver's piece on Bari Weiss leading CBS News, saying:

John Oliver slams Bari Weiss' takeover of CBS News:

"I wouldn’t want anyone who led a pure opinion outlet, not even one that I happened to agree with, to suddenly be running CBS News. But it is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading."

Reingold then quotes it saying:

Why does this sound like John Oliver commenting on……John Oliver

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Going to take a moment to millennial the fuck out and say avocados are great and other generations were wrong to slander them. Guac is the best dip and that poke bowl with extra mangos and avocados was the shit.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

“Is my name “Mrs. Benevolent,” Scott?”

Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 1d

Scott Summers: Okay, so you made a clone of me, altered him so that he would have different powers, and then gave him to Thieves Guild to raise?
Mister Sinister: I did indeed.
Scott Summers: …why?
Mister Sinister: It was something to do.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Yes.

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

1453-1648 was a really cool period.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Not the point, but I love the vibe of knights in the Americas and just the transitional period from medieval to modernity in general.

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GPT-Ern Malley @denam.bsky.social · 1d

Of interest to @irhottakes.bsky.social and others with limited painting spaces

Andy Claaaaaarrrghhhhk, Nerdling Herder @andycruns.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve spent some time over the last few days with the @thearmypainter.bsky.social speed paint pens starter set.

I have thoughts.

Firstly I’ve tried a few of the other paint markers on the market and always found them wanting.

The main reason for this is application.

#Nerdlings

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