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Darth J.D.

@starklyjd.bsky.social

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Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Pop Culture fan that has been reading Marvel comics for 30 years (pejorative). Known for cooking things that bring an immersive experience to your favorite fandom.

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Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · Feb 1

We gonna rock Black History Month the only way I know how:

By highlighting some amazing Black folks in the rock/indie/punk scene.

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Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · 3h

Tlingit.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · 4h

Rudy showing Bluesky mods how to actually run their shitty little site.

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Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · 5h

So because my phone wasn’t charging, Apple decided to rebuild the whole fucking thing.

Which is weird.

Could’ve just got a new phone for all that work.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 7h

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

COWARDS!!!!!!!!!!!

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 7h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · 9h

So I get to Be the lead?!

White text that reads “The secret second killer” on a black background with red splatter.

Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · 9h

Oh you’re dying early, but hilariously.

Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · 9h

And while it’s definitely on her fans for ever falling into the habit of pre-ordering albums sight unseen for the chance to be first/learn some secret/whatever, its still bad business to give less and expect more.

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Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · 9h

It’s not dragging her business acumen. It’s dragging how lazy she’s become about it.

Because it used to be that she would drop clues or some bonus song or whatever that created some worth for Swifties to buy a dozen variants of the same album.

This album offers nothing but a cash grab for Taylor

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Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · 9h

It’s how she breaks records.

She’s not exceptionally talented and doesn’t sing well. But she has cultivated a cult of fans who she has trained to buy every album variant months in advanced because she used to drop clues they could figure out to fuel the parasocial relationship she created.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 12h

We are definitely in an era where a disturbing portion of our news sounds like deranged, satirical Mad Libs.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 12h

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Gay Virginia Republican plagued by Nazi porn scandal brags running mate is ‘100% against’ marriage equality

It's a statewide political ticket of extremes.

www.yahoo.com

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Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · 12h

From what I’ve clocked: Italians and the Irish were the last to be accepted as “white”, so they always seem to go much harder for white supremacy or completely turn against it.

No middle ground.

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Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · 12h

It’s been happening so much over this past year.

They really out here claiming Italians aren’t white enough.

Can’t wait for them to turn on the Irish.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Send @rude1.blacksky.team and team your $$$$ because they are problem solving.

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · 1d

i Was just here for the mess of Taylor Really drumming down into whatever the opposite of a banger is with her last two albums.

But then I read her quote about Ophelia and I want to fight this woman who couldn’t even bother to watch Hamlet.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · 1d

I’m blue ba ba Dee ba ba di.

#HomeRenoWithJD

Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · 1d

I ran out of painters tape on the last wall so I clearly am not finishing this room tonight.

A room with a white ceiling, cream walls, and a grey fake wood flooring with the walls bordered by purple painters tape. There are boxes containing my bedframe and a metal step stool in the room.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

HELLUR!!!!!!

Girl, That’s Scary @girlthatsscary.blacksky.app · 1d

Argue with the government the way you argue with Black ppl in their mentions.

Maybe we’ll get some shit done✨

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Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · 1d

So At some point he pulled a Trump (a minority was successful in a way he didn’t approve of and made that his Joker moment).

Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think I ever had a white Russian.

But my college time was during the era of Vodka Red Bull and Fireball Whiskey so… We had our own struggles.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

*PTSD flashbacks ensue* Why do college students always randomly get obsessed with making White Russians for a semester? Same thing happened with me. Whew, god. How I got over!!!

Stevie 'knows 8 kata now' Mattos @asmattering.bsky.social · 1d

i think about my white russian year and my teeth begin to hurt

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Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · 1d

New bedroom demands a transformation Like I demand a project so here we are.

A bedroom with fake grey wood flooring, cream walls, and a white ceiling. There are also boxes containing my bed frame in the room.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

abcnews.go.com

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Now called the ancient B T standards

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Darth J.D. @starklyjd.bsky.social · 1d

Right. Because certainly they won’t lie THIS time.