Joshua Starnes
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Joshua Starnes
@jstarnes.bsky.social
Film critic for Vital Thrills, former president of Houston Film Critics Society. Writer / publisher, Currently THE BOX for
Red 5 Comics, KULIPARI for Netflix. President of AMP Comics.
Just me reposting my review of Marty Supreme with it opening wide tomorrow:

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Marty Supreme Review
Marty Supreme is electrifying from its first moment as Chalamet stomps across every threshold, demanding all eyes on him.
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December 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Is there a word for a dyed in the wool, blue no matter who voter who hates all liberal media from Vox to Pod Save to Letters from an American.
December 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Considering the genie bottle is open the move is for the FCC to investigate CBS and DOJ to open Paramount antitrust case under next Dem president, not because it can win but to enforce to business there is cost to partisan favoritism and enforce balance.
December 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
What’s really funny about the Bluesky Nate Silver hate, besides the problem with inability to handle critique, is how much everyone will be glued to his poll averages next year and in 28.
December 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
When I was a child I thought as a child and spoke as a child and loved Transformers more than anything.

Then I became a man and put away childish things and realized GI Joe was actually the best all along.
December 21, 2025 at 5:19 AM
The Bluesky experience in a single post.
December 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Sierras.spooky has followed me from all 708 of her different accounts on TikTok. I think she may be obsessed with me.
December 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I wrote 9 pages yesterday. That was a pretty good day.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Everytime one of Trumps master plans for dodging guilt or comeuppance becomes apparent I feel like Spike in Buffy when he first saw the inner workings of the Scoobies.
December 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
There are some people going through things on social media and in the process some crazy shit gets said.
you are not owed the affection of your children, but they are owed yours. if this seems unfair to you you are not fit to have kids. they don't get the choice that you do
December 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I don’t know what anyone expected. Half this place has been attacking Matt Y the last 3 days for saying the same thing.
Genuinely read your original post as "if you want to be influential in commentary, you need to meet people where they are and it's insufficient to silo yourself to one place."
December 16, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Reposted by Joshua Starnes
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Reposted by Joshua Starnes
Anyway, yesterday I made another pie
December 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
He actually looks like a stormtrooper now
Bovino on Abrego Garcia: "When he becomes deportable, he is going to get deported. And he needs to be deported now."
December 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
There are some days when Bluesky is just gonna Bluesky. This is one of those days.
December 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I think his complaint is that there are people who believe things regardless of whether they are true and will not take changing facts into account if they don’t fit prior beliefs which ultimately produces bad or no policy
like his complaint is literally that there are people who believe in things, believe those things are right, and believe in those things regardless of whether they are popular.
December 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The problem with this is thinking of higher education as specifically for high level job training. That definitely can come out of it but that’s not the entire point of it. It’s not called Professional Skills Training, it’s called Higher Education.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
People want to hate on Ella McKay but looking at James L Brooks who created The Mary Tyler Moore show in 1970 and wrote his first film in 1979 still making studio films in the year of our lord 2025 gives me some hope.
December 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A classic MST3K episode!
December 9, 2025 at 5:07 AM
The thing about Bluesky is that so many people here come off like the lit Professor Stephen King pillories at the beginning of IT.
December 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I don’t think Cuellar should have gotten pardoned, he obviously has real corruption problems, but the fact that he didn’t switch parties and add another Texas R seat as Trump obviously wanted is objectively hilarious.
December 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I cannot think of anything more exhausting than looking up and keeping track of other people’s likes and activity on social media. Why do that to yourself?
December 7, 2025 at 4:06 AM
How are these tradeable assets? What asset am I getting some ownership of in the trade?
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 2:24 AM
A lot of people think they’re not going to jail under a future administration.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM