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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 · 1h

This is such a huge relief to me simply because internet funny money pedo bucks seemed like a transparent scam to me but the bubble kept on not bursting and I was starting to question my grip on reality.

warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 1h

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 1h

(Selling Bodahn a pile of darkspawn weapons in Dragon Age) Yeah man, so these are actually insanely tainted. I’m one of two people alive who can safely handle them. Maybe don’t leave them out around your son haha. Okay, take it easy.

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

“Look, there are a few dents but overall they’re in good -why thank you, Ghorza. It is a nice mace. Molag Bal gave it to me.”

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

In fairness, they also don’t ask where those 30 guard uniforms you’re selling came from.

ArtsulSelva @artsulselva.bsky.social · 1h

and you know there’s no “I am the only hope to save the kingdom and I kinda need these items” discount

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1h

a fella could have a pretty good weekend in vegas with all that

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

I love RPG shops. Going over to some dumpy looking peasant and being like “Here’s 50,000 gold pieces. I need a tome of necromancy, three scrolls of fireball, a potion of invisibility, a dagger, an axe, an amulet of feather fall, and no questions asked,” is such a mood.

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 1h

Starship Chu-pers

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Nick Peterson @thetecheng.bsky.social · 1h

Bloomberg got death threats for trying something similar

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

Let’s be honest. We’ve all fantasized about telling someone to contemplate their failings on the tree of woe at least once.

thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 1h

I like The Lord of the Rings a lot but we need more bite sized swords and sorcery fantasy TV/movies. Willow is the platonic ideal of lightweight high fantasy, and Dungeons and Dragons (2023) is its spiritual successor. But overall the field seems very thin 🫤

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

In America, you would literally get Gaddafied for this.

David Sligar @davidsligar.bsky.social · 12h

Attlee taught Labour to walk, now he watches on as they fly

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 2h

Take the redpill, young Johto man. They called it the PC Network for a reason.

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 2h

Pokémon Rangers are clearly a reactionary force espousing man’s traditional relationship with Pokemon over the godless, borderless, frictionless world of the Pokeball and the Pokémon League.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 2h

The alt-Raichu, if you will.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 2h

They look like they’re marching off to join some form of far-right organization.

Every Pokemon Frame in Order @pkmnframes.bsky.social · 3h

Pokemon - Pikachu's Vacation
Frame 1469/2537

Timestamp: 00:11:49.524

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

There's a mod for Skyrim that makes Nazeem the Ebony Warrior and honestly I unironically love the idea of him pretending to be a dunce and actually being an unstoppable ubermensch goading you into becoming a worthy challenge.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 18h

They could be doing ~90% as much substantive damage on half the pushback and political self-harm. But they're fittingly emblematic for the era of "everything has gotten dumber." They're sloppy, inept, ham-fisted. Merits aside, the Court might be at its least intellectually adept in American history.

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

Functionally, yeah. I‘m just covering my ass because otherwise someone will be like “OH, SO YOU’RE SAYING A CLOSETED TRANS WOMAN IN AFGHANISTAN CAN’T DISLIKE CAITLYN JENNER UNLESS SHE LETS THE TALIBAN KILL HER?!“ or something along those lines.

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

It’s kind of hilarious that “RIP to Númenor, but I’m built different” is the ideology of the world‘s most influential and powerful Tolkien superfan.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

They say the only things certain in life are death and taxes.

But America’s billionaires, having taken care of the latter, are now trying to disrupt the former—and make sure nobody can pry their fortunes from their cold dead hands.

These billionaires want to disrupt death—and keep their fortunes forever

Sci-fi meets Silicon Valley meets the trust industry.

www.motherjones.com

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

“You’re clearly not resisting by thriving. I, a Good Leftist Trans (tm) am fighting the good fight by giving the people who want us miserable and afraid exactly what they want.”

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 19h

My contribution to the WW2 discourse is that pissing on the memory of the war as a fight against fascism is undermining the antibodies of the body politic against Trump. You are literally the RFK Jr. of ideology.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 19h

A lot of trans people have internalized the psyop that says we’re basically human torpedoes and you’re doing it wrong if you don’t strike a target then self-destruct upon impact. Heaven forbid you just buy some new socks and a gallon of milk at Target.

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MrNelson007, Defender of Skara Brae @mrnelson007.bsky.social · 19h

JESSIE CONGRATS ON YOUR TRANSITION JESSIE BUT WE STILL NEED TO COOK

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 19h

Oklahoma’s commercial has the shot.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 19h

At the risk of coming across as old fashioned, every now and then a galaxy brain rides a trans woman’s ass for looking like a woman because apparently transing into womaning makes you a bad trans woman and like…. What exactly did you think the goal was here?

Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 19h

I blocked this idiot, but I thought this stupidity deserved to be preserved via screencap.

“Writing for children makes you a sellout who has abandoned the trans community. So does not being as loudly and visibly trans as possible in every waking moment. Being happy means you aren’t really queer.”

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 19h

I’m sure somebody somewhere can come up with an extreme example that justifies it but 99% of the time, I feel like anyone who’s still closeted doesn’t have the right to accuse an out trans person of being too assimilationist. You must be this tall to get on the ride.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 20h

I’m like 70% sure that account is some form of op because “you should never transition and you sold out the trans community by being a successful open trans woman instead of giving up and repping until you die,” sure smells like an op.

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