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Bob Starr

@bobstarr.xyz

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Gen X nerd from 🇨🇦 • Twitter to Mastodon to Threads to Bluesky transplant • Here to share commentary* and stuff I find online. *Nerd opinions are not those of my employer.

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Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 3h

@scaramucci.bsky.social liked a tweet of mine once. I still stand by my comment.

Screenshot of liked tweet:

Anthony Scaramucci liked your Tweet

"Whenever I hear someone use the phrase "the fish rots from the head down" in reference to the Trump White House, @Scaramucci should get some monetary compensation. It's applies to nearly everything coming out of the executive branch."

Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 5h

This is unacceptable to our galactuc lord and saviour, Xenu.

Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 5h

RIP Antifa naval vessels.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 1d

New desktop wallpapers in the office are gonna look great!

Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 1d

This is fantastic.

Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 2d

Um...

a black and white image of a glowing circle with the words `` 5 days ... '' below it .

Alt: a black and white image of a glowing circle with the words `` 5 days ... '' below it, from the movie The Ring

media.tenor.com

Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 2d

Don't get me started on the co-opted Punisher logo.

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Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 2d

In some courts here you still have to wear those formal robes you see in the UK. A lawyer friend calls them his Jedi robes lol

Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 2d

Make @jcsalterego.bsky.social editor-in-chief of Bluesky! Something needs to be done to balance out this Bari Weiss nonsense.

Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 2d

Sharing for headline.

The Verge @theverge.com · 2d

CBS News was just taken over by a Substack

Weiss will oversee shows like 60 Minutes and Sunday Mornings.

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Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 2d

There's a large compliment of people in government who thrive, and advance, through chaos. That's what this is regardless of supporting Trump.

Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 2d

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

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Lewis Muirhead @bringthenoise.bsky.social · 2d

Hiring Bari Weiss to bring down the temperature of the discourse is like hiring Animal from the Muppets to reduce workplace noise

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Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 2d

I think a double dose of timeline cleansing is needed because of this Bari Weiss stuff. I'm enraged by it on principle alone.

hailey @hailey.at · 2d

Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 2d

This is absolutely correct and we're seeing one example after another: CBS, EA games, most likely TikTok. The right is devouring media and shifting these companies to its own values.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2d

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

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Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 2d

Timeline cleanse to balance out all my recent ranting on here.

Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 2d

🎃 October 6 🎃
Orange you glad I dressed like a banana?

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Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 2d

Ha! Zing!

Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 2d

I love news of a doomed lawsuit in the morning.

Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 2d

I came into the comments to say this lol +1

Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 2d

Perfectly stated.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2d

The thing about Bari Weiss is how fucking boring she is, she’s not even bad in a fun way. Anyway, congrats. I will continue not relying on cbs news

Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 2d

Manage or most likely fire and replace with writers loyal to her.

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 2d

I'm excited to Bari Weiss to finally get the keys to the cathedral, only to find that there's not a big lever labeled "wokeness" in the control room, just a bunch of journalists doing their job that she now has to manage

Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 2d

CBS News is about to become a propaganda shop for the right. An insult to guys like Murrow and Cronkite who made the network a trusted source of news for decades.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss is now officially the top editor of CBS News.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Paramount acquires The Free Press and names Bari Weiss CBS News’ editor-in-chief

Bari Weiss is now the top editor of CBS News.

www.independent.co.uk

Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 2d

Watching the rise of Weiss has been a horrible thing to witness. She's the worst.

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Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 2d

So true. Also, this is the perfect gif to illustrate your point.

Bob Starr @bobstarr.xyz · 3d

I don't even watch football and feel the pain from this