Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast
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Political science PhD student. Former starfish. World’s third best Bigfoot colonial governance simulation expert. Trans. She/her Not actually a Teen Titan or neocon.
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Will you guys think I'm stupid if I admit I've not been keeping track of most primary races and therefore have an attitude of apathetic general ignorance about everything now that we dodged nominating a Nazi?
It's me, the friend. I died after I took the Jawa's hood off to see what they look like under there and then I saw forever and my brain exploded.
gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 3h agomy friend ran over and killed a jawa in missouri city, texas
Iranian cleric honestly a little let down to discover the United States is actually an Indecisive and Middling at Best Satan.
I'm not saying people aren't allowed to have opinions about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. I just think opinions about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict should be related to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. For example, you can make the sale of F-15s to the IDF about it but not fandom disputes.
This has to be really annoying for the Saudis right now. Like, they have a war to deal with and some hack from EA keeps calling to talk about microtransactions. We are under attack. Go away.
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 17h agoEA officially goes private tonight, meaning: - EA will no longer trade on the NASDAQ for the first time in 36 years - All stockholders of EA (including many employees) will receive $210/share - EA will take on $18 billion (!) in debt, putting it on the hook to pay ~$1.8 billion/year in interest
"Today is August 4, 2026," said a voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." It repeated the date 3x for memory's sake. "Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. […] Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills." —"There Will Come Soft Rains," Ray Bradbury
Saw a fight on here between someone uncommitted for a Dem nominee because they were on Uncommitted and a committed supporter of the Uncommitted candidate getting mad at them for being uncommitted to the Uncommitted candidate because only an entitled brat would say they're uncommitted. Peak Bluesky.
Who do we think gets to be the next target of hysterical persecution once politicians and the media get tired of picking on trans people? My money is on Nigerians. Demographic that’s highly educated and black. Easy to bait resentful morons into getting mad over that.
my all time favorite riddler bit is not canon www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvJh...
RIDDLE ME THIS BATMAN! | BADMAN
YouTube video by Pete Holmes
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast@irhottakes.bsky.social · 24h agoYeah. I think the Riddler would be winning and then he’d bet infinity dollars as a flex and lose it all despite getting every other answer right.
Yeah. I think the Riddler would be winning and then he’d bet infinity dollars as a flex and lose it all despite getting every other answer right.
Fresno Fred@fresnofred.bsky.social · 24h agoEddie 100% has a violent crashout when he loses everything on a daily double question about potent potables.
Lex Luthor would throw the competition on purpose as part of a convoluted (and frankly boneheaded) plot to kill Superman, but in the aftermath he'd make it Very Clear that's what he was doing and he would very loudly insist he totally would've won if he'd wanted to.
This is the plot of a very odd Batman/Superman team up. The Man of Steel and the Caped Crusader join forces to rescue whoever Luthor has taken hostage to blackmail the host so Barbara can beat him at Jeopardy! fair and square.
Luthorcorp bought out the network a month before taping and the host is replaced with whatever the in-universe equivalent is of Aaron Rodgers, on the take 50/50 Luthor still makes the threat, to be clear
I think Luthor would win because he would credibly threaten to kill the host if he did not.
Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe@alexjaffe.bsky.social · yesterdayBabs. Her main deal intellectually is the ability to retain knowledge, while Luthor is more about selfish application, and Nygma is more about creating puzzles. #ngl
“Wait… the Off-Ice is when they let you OUT of the Humancube? OH NO! You’re a HM slave. Quick, we gotta beat up some humans until you evolve or they’ll stick you in the PC box forever when they don’t need to cut any more trees!”
Ranamar@ranamar.bsky.social · 2d agoI feel like the comparison breaks down when you figure that I get you out of the ball when I want you to do something for me, Meganium. Maybe you're saying my bedroom is too big?
Sometimes you see people discussing the stupid backstory of someone on here or another and it kinda freaks me out. Do I have lore? I do not want to have lore, but I feel like I have the personality defects that cause one to have lore. I should work on that.
Honest question. The legal argument from the government is that every pause between bombings makes the next bombing a separate war for legal purposes due to the sixty day thing, right? How many Iran wars are we on at this point?
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · yesterdayUS President Donald Trump is pushing Iran to reach a deal with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz as soon as Tuesday, or face devastating air strikes on the country.
Okay, so I think this is mostly correct, but also gets at the problem here. The real world isn't "solved," it's maintained. If someone filled your car up with gas, you can drive it for a while but that doesn't mean you never have to fill it up again.
Jane@janee.bsky.social · 2d agoI have a hunch that part of it is that the real world/reality is kinda “solved” for lack of a better term. Using public transportation as an example, Buses should arrive at least every 15 minutes if not sooner on routes with higher demand. It’s nigh impossible to argue about that on the facts, but-
If I think about anything too much, at this point, it genuinely almost tips me into some kind of mental health episode. I'm reading insanely dramatic 70s romance comics to distract myself. About 50% of them so far have queer subtext lmao 👍
I feel like I'm going crazy. (Well, even crazier.) Discourse seems divorced from reality. We talk about market vibes instead of the actual physical tankers stuck in the strait. We talk about MAHA polling and not the actual polio disease. We talk about gender ideology and not my actual fucking tits.
Belle Tur@jasoncheathawks.bsky.social · 2d agothere's definitely a bunch of polling going around for democrats that basically says "you can do a little slopulism, as a treat." see also: markey and pressley trying to end fees for public transit instead of just increasing service.
“It’s not a fight between left and right, it’s between top and bottom. Which is why I met with a bunch of plague cultists for the most powerful man in the entire world.”
Weedle@weedle.bsky.social · 2d agoSure the MAHA activists want to make it illegal for trans people to access hormones but they're so authentic and populist about it so
MEGANIUM: How come Humancubes are so much more inefficient than Pokeballs? ME: Humancubes? MEGANIUM: That enclosed space your master keeps you in. ME: My office? MEGANIUM: Wouldn’t it be more efficient to shrink you into a ball? ME: When did you learn to talk? MEGANIUM: F - I mean, Meg!
Inside the Secretive Boards Deciding Trans Troops' Fate www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Inside the Secretive Boards Deciding Trans Troops’ Fate (Gift Article)
The Pentagon is relying on closed-door hearings to kick out transgender service members. An Army Reserve lawyer is one of the few who have seen how they really work.
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