Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty
@irhottakes.bsky.social
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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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.
OH COME ON.
My therapist said I should take the next few days to a week off but I should also get back to not posting for the near future because it would risk forming bad habits that would be hard to break when it's time to get back to work, so I guess this is it for at least a few weeks. I'll still check DMs.
January 3, 2026 at 2:39 PM
OH COME ON.
My therapist said I should take the next few days to a week off but I should also get back to not posting for the near future because it would risk forming bad habits that would be hard to break when it's time to get back to work, so I guess this is it for at least a few weeks. I'll still check DMs.
December 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
My therapist said I should take the next few days to a week off but I should also get back to not posting for the near future because it would risk forming bad habits that would be hard to break when it's time to get back to work, so I guess this is it for at least a few weeks. I'll still check DMs.
The fact that the BlueSky Kool Kids Klub is allergic to having a job rather obscures the important point that a major trans rights issue is that it's impossible to seriously plan a career around a coin toss saving throw every election cycle.
as a trans person, I will not feel included in society again until the people who intentionally robbed me of rights I had for decades until this year see some comparable impairment of their own way of life
women and other people who can get pregnant deserve this even more overwhelmingly
women and other people who can get pregnant deserve this even more overwhelmingly
December 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The fact that the BlueSky Kool Kids Klub is allergic to having a job rather obscures the important point that a major trans rights issue is that it's impossible to seriously plan a career around a coin toss saving throw every election cycle.
BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP DOJ ANNOUNCES THE ENTIRE SOMALIAN NATION SPENT 27 HOURS A DAY ON EPSTEIN'S PLANE.
December 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP DOJ ANNOUNCES THE ENTIRE SOMALIAN NATION SPENT 27 HOURS A DAY ON EPSTEIN'S PLANE.
I assume that at some point in Final Fantasy Tactics, it's going to dawn on us that we're obviously the baddies but it'd be really funny if it never does and this entire game is just Peasantry Oppressor 1997 Remastered.
December 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I assume that at some point in Final Fantasy Tactics, it's going to dawn on us that we're obviously the baddies but it'd be really funny if it never does and this entire game is just Peasantry Oppressor 1997 Remastered.
A transition timeline as told through a Steam chart.
December 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A transition timeline as told through a Steam chart.
Time to make use of absolutely none of our God-given potential for creativity because cheap shock value horror films and pornography is easier.
Cool stuff entering public domain:
Betty Boop
Nancy Drew + her first 5 novels
The Maltese Falcon novel
Disney's first iteration of Pluto as "Rover"
The first fully voiced Academy Best Picture: All Quiet on the Western Front
The Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers
Dream a Little Dream of Me
I Got Rhythm
Betty Boop
Nancy Drew + her first 5 novels
The Maltese Falcon novel
Disney's first iteration of Pluto as "Rover"
The first fully voiced Academy Best Picture: All Quiet on the Western Front
The Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers
Dream a Little Dream of Me
I Got Rhythm
🕛 At midnight, new creative works enter the public domain in the US.
🎙️ In the latest Future Knowledge podcast, James Boyle (The Public Domain) explains why the public domain matters & how digital enclosures are quietly fencing it off.
🎧 Listen now ➡️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...
🎙️ In the latest Future Knowledge podcast, James Boyle (The Public Domain) explains why the public domain matters & how digital enclosures are quietly fencing it off.
🎧 Listen now ➡️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...
December 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Time to make use of absolutely none of our God-given potential for creativity because cheap shock value horror films and pornography is easier.
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December 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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-A feudal Japanese warlord informs his men that the surrounded opposing commander has committed seppuku before allowing his castle to be taken.
December 31, 2025 at 3:06 AM
-A feudal Japanese warlord informs his men that the surrounded opposing commander has committed seppuku before allowing his castle to be taken.
*tries to think of something that would get a lot of likes and remembers hating AI is popular*
I think C-3PO should be killed with hammers.
*gets canceled for implying the soulless machine is alive*
I think C-3PO should be killed with hammers.
*gets canceled for implying the soulless machine is alive*
December 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
*tries to think of something that would get a lot of likes and remembers hating AI is popular*
I think C-3PO should be killed with hammers.
*gets canceled for implying the soulless machine is alive*
I think C-3PO should be killed with hammers.
*gets canceled for implying the soulless machine is alive*
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Let's just leave it to the waluologists.
December 31, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Let's just leave it to the waluologists.
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Maybe? It’d have to be high school rather than fourth grade then, but come to think of it, I don’t think I met him until middle school? It all blurs together. I just remember that specific rant because it’s not the sort of thing that happens every day.
December 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Maybe? It’d have to be high school rather than fourth grade then, but come to think of it, I don’t think I met him until middle school? It all blurs together. I just remember that specific rant because it’s not the sort of thing that happens every day.
I knew a guy in fourth grade who was an avid Daisy-Waluigi shipper. Weirdly wasn’t otherwise inclined to nerdy things. Reasonably athletic, popular, and so forth. No idea why this specifically meant so much to him.
idk if i’ve ever seen a “romance subplot” in a video game that I thought was handled well. maybe cyberpunk 2077’s judy is the best by default? maybe zagreus and thanatos in hades as a runner-up?
December 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I knew a guy in fourth grade who was an avid Daisy-Waluigi shipper. Weirdly wasn’t otherwise inclined to nerdy things. Reasonably athletic, popular, and so forth. No idea why this specifically meant so much to him.
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Sequel era Republic households commonly put up portraits of Dooku, Grievous, and Skywalker, and in turn First Order loyalists display Vader, Palpatine, and Obi-wan (for killing Grievous)
December 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Sequel era Republic households commonly put up portraits of Dooku, Grievous, and Skywalker, and in turn First Order loyalists display Vader, Palpatine, and Obi-wan (for killing Grievous)
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Anakin seeing the 'you have been autobalanced' message pop up on the lenses of the vader helmet
December 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Anakin seeing the 'you have been autobalanced' message pop up on the lenses of the vader helmet
Anakin restores balance to the Force by ensuring there are two Jedi and two Sith. Ben trains Luke so there’s three Jedi, so Anakin kills Ben so there’s two again. But then Yoda dies, so there’s one Jedi and two Sith, so Anakin has to kill Palpatine. Chronically overworked Chosen One.
"Only two there are; a master and an apprentice" gets to apply to both the Jedi and the Sith.
So... the force is back in balance? Yay?
So... the force is back in balance? Yay?
December 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Anakin restores balance to the Force by ensuring there are two Jedi and two Sith. Ben trains Luke so there’s three Jedi, so Anakin kills Ben so there’s two again. But then Yoda dies, so there’s one Jedi and two Sith, so Anakin has to kill Palpatine. Chronically overworked Chosen One.
Honestly, my only take on Jon Stewart in 2025 is that it kinda sucks for us libs that everyone else has e-girls and podcast bros and shit and we’re stuck with the moldy meatloaf from 2004 we found in the back of the fridge.
December 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Honestly, my only take on Jon Stewart in 2025 is that it kinda sucks for us libs that everyone else has e-girls and podcast bros and shit and we’re stuck with the moldy meatloaf from 2004 we found in the back of the fridge.
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It's good she's doing this, but what a gigantic farce and an embarrassment for our entire profession that we're forcing a graduate student to waste precious time away from her studies to battle the Republican grievance machine on her own.
Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
December 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
It's good she's doing this, but what a gigantic farce and an embarrassment for our entire profession that we're forcing a graduate student to waste precious time away from her studies to battle the Republican grievance machine on her own.
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"And then... and *then* Raynor gets over Fenix's death during the apocalypse and finally makes out with un-Zergified Kerrigan in a bar in heav-"
*is smote with a banhammer.*
*is smote with a banhammer.*
December 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"And then... and *then* Raynor gets over Fenix's death during the apocalypse and finally makes out with un-Zergified Kerrigan in a bar in heav-"
*is smote with a banhammer.*
*is smote with a banhammer.*
Going back in time the year Brood War was released to tell people Jim Raynor will help Kerrigan’s Zerg swarm install Arcturus‘s son who was never mentioned as king and getting banned from every nerd forum for trolling.
That's still better than the resolution of the Terran Dominion - replace Arcturus with his son and heir-apparent.
December 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Going back in time the year Brood War was released to tell people Jim Raynor will help Kerrigan’s Zerg swarm install Arcturus‘s son who was never mentioned as king and getting banned from every nerd forum for trolling.
Tbh, CIS lost causers were basically vindicated after the Alliance to Restore The Thing That Spectacularly Failed had the second spectacular failure fail spectacularly.
This is why the early Rebellion is such a mess, half of them are former Separatist lost causers
December 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Tbh, CIS lost causers were basically vindicated after the Alliance to Restore The Thing That Spectacularly Failed had the second spectacular failure fail spectacularly.
From the perspective of the average person in universe, Star Wars is the story of Count Dooku warning everyone Palpatine was a tyrant and being tragically ignored the misguided old Jedi companions he was forced to take up arms against, only to be vindicated upon death.
December 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
From the perspective of the average person in universe, Star Wars is the story of Count Dooku warning everyone Palpatine was a tyrant and being tragically ignored the misguided old Jedi companions he was forced to take up arms against, only to be vindicated upon death.
Jeff Amidala, normal guy, reading the newspaper and shaking his head at the relatives.
not just that…..Luke and Leia have *cousins* on Naboo. Padme had sisters and had nieces!
Did anyone ever bother telling Luke and Leia that Padme was their mom? It’s perversely humorous that the order the movies were made means it looks like nobody bothered to remember her after she died.
December 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Jeff Amidala, normal guy, reading the newspaper and shaking his head at the relatives.