Starshark
@starshark.bsky.social
Professional posting instructor, DM for my rates. Will debate those who will own me with facts and logic, fee is A$500, up front, in full, no refunds.
created July 31, 2023
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Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
I just know someone is going to come in and use angle-of-incidence math or some shit to prove you don't need the camera info. So let me just say if there's one thing conspiracy theorists like to do, is fuck up what a photo with a mirror is supposed to depict.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social)
I saw someone 'analysing' a photo with a mirror in it claiming the mirror image doesn't match up (you usually can't tell that stuff unless you happen to know the exact angle the camera is facing) and I nearly lost it. My god, people.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Part of me wants to say that someone who looks like that probably should be careful about their fast food intake. But on the other hand, who cares, we're all going to die, live the dream.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
World's best cook here. Absolutely fry garlic first, 100% agree.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
With the possible exception of when the Sentinels say TARGET DESIGNATE: WOLVERINE. ORDER: TERMINATE or w/e they say when they're on their bullshit. It makes sense in that case. But no other instance!
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
This is why I hate when Marvel uses computer fonts. I don't care how much you mix it up, hand-write that shit.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social)
In my day, we didn't have this 'enter' bullshit. If you wanted to confirm a line of code you used the RETURN key like a REAL man. "Return" to tradition!
Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted reply parent
Which just shows that abandoning trans people to cater to the far right is a losing proposition. It's not only morally bankrupt, it doesn't even help you win elections or stay popular.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
I know it's trite to say at this point, what with everyone including some newborn babies being called pedo by people who don't like them. But just look at that photo and tell me he doesn't have to tell his neighbours he's on the registry.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Ashes to ashes.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
... and very reluctantly, and they felt uneasy or had to make jokes to avoid looking vulnerable etc. But when she went to Germany, the parents would lift their kids up and say, "Look, kid! Tits! She wants you to have a feel!" They apparently didn't really give a toss. /fin
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
There was a performance artist in the 80s? who would go around with a box around her torso and invite people to touch her boobs while she stared at them. Commentary on how men feel uneasy when they know they're being gazed or w/e. Anyhoo, in the UK people would do it only after coaching... 1/x
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Always cracks me up how in Australia or the US or maybe Canada if there's anything with too much side boob YOU CAN'T SHOW IT TO CHILDREN WITHOUT WRITTEN, SIGNED, BLOOD-HANDPRINTED PERMISSION FROM THE PARENTS but Germans are all like wtf? it's not like you can see it going in, it's fine
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Except we were supposed to call them Freedom Muffins, plz don't execute me for treason
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
There were those guys - deep cut this - but remember Swift Boat Veterans for Buchon Chocolat?
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social)
But can you sing The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite without giggling?
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social)
You're an honest-to-goodness Canadian superhero if you ever appeared in the Red Green lodge.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
If you hadn't already, you've well and truly arrived.
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Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Huge slam on anteaters out of nowhere.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Honestly, how hard is it to just check these things. bsky.app/profile/star...
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Tell him next time he looks at my girlās tits, his trip to hospital will end in the basement.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
āClear case of a blown head gasket. Wonāt cost anything to repair tho. āCos itās completely fucked.ā
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
The young-Earth creationistās #1 argument against evolution is, āI just donāt see how it could work.ā
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Iām reminded of the Deckard-is-a-replicant fan theory. I was only shaken out of it when someone pointed out that it would make the theme of the whole movie meaningless.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
I donāt blame anyone if they think this is weird of me, but I find this very unsettling.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
I just found out Iāve been dead the whole time and didnāt notice, which is just as hack as it is confusing.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social)
I wonder how much he got for the bet.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
We have to do gonad and DNA tests of everyone who uses public bathrooms to prevent people from feeling icky. Also, we can't do anything about the gun problem.
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Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. A knuckle kebab, relative to the knuckle sandwich.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
No, but now I finally have a goal in life.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social)
6 people in a city of 9.6 million* omg Sydney's like a third of that and if you told me six people got murdered today I wouldn't blink. *Greater metro stats. Which you just know he's using.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Snugglepot and Cuddlepie wouldnāt be allowed nudity even though in some societies the AoC is six years old! <ā- Libertarian poster
Gideon Samuel (@gideonsamuel.bsky.social) reposted
To add some context here particularly for the United States: The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (or AMOC) is crucial in terms of bringing cold Arctic water down from Greenland to cool the Eastern seaboard. If it fails, 110° New York summers are not an unreasonable guess. š„µ
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Frankly, I reject the premise that heās human. Whereās the long form DNA test?
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
āSup bsky.app/profile/star...
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Wax on? No! Wax off!
Andy Fleming (@slackbastard.bsky.social) reposted
A final post before tomorrow's March for White Australia stoopid. (I may add to this later tonight.) slackbastard.anarchobase.com?p=53306
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
He really canāt take a hint. Now I have to go over everything he said and verify it because I just canāt trust him.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social)
Donāt like it because a condition of funding was not criticising politicians without prior approval. I donāt think that should be what the left is about.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Impromptu parades down the highway. People delayed in their cars pull over. Fuck it, Iām joining the party.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social)
TRUMP: Everyone hates me. But I bet theyād be sorry if I was dead! Put the word out that Iām dead! AIDE: Bad news, sir. Theyāre either cheering or looking to fill the power vacuum. TRUMP: JD! Is this true? VANCE: *slamming laptop* Huh? What? Nothing! I wasnāt doing anything!
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Bite me, you idiot.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social)
Malayan Tapir approves.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Didn't quite get the tweet right, so here it is lest I be accused of taking her out of context. Link to Loreto's article below. noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-browns...
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm referring to when she called Nora Loreto 'disgusting' because Loreto said the pandemic was over, when she was clearly referring to the lockdown period.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Lorenz gets this a lot which just makes it harder when she does something that genuinely should be criticised because she has no way of knowing if it's good-faith or just more Lorenz-hunting.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
:headline from an alternate universe: VANCE FIRST PRESIDENT TO BE SWIRLIED AT G7
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Why do they have to change their messaging, which has more traction with voters, instead of the Newsom-stans? You're the guys who can't win elections against rapist felons, YOU fix yourself.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
So what I'm hearing is that there's nothing to be done. I don't find that argument compelling.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Amazing stuff. Funny thing is, we don't have nearly the number of gun deaths that the US has. Makes me wonder about its effectiveness.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Why aren't people making ARs in Australia, for one example, in that case?
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Guns aren't drugs. If you'd like proof of that, note that the US homicide rate is far above any Western nation. The US, according to World Population Data, also has the highest gun ownership rate and it isn't even close.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Fine, reform law enforcement as well.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, but the office air conditioning is terrible.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Will there be people who refuse to comply. There sure will! But now they are breaking the law. Deal with them as lawbreakers who can either comply or face consequences. It won't be solved overnight. It will be a long process. But the sooner you start, the sooner it gets better.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social)
I can relate to this kind of thinking because I'm neurodivergent. When I see an overwhelming problem, I immediately think, "Nope, uh-uh, can't be done." But you don't tackle the whole problem at once. Start with the ban. Take the voluntary gun surrenders. Work on enforcing the ban. 1/2
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
This is clearly a reptilian in a badly-fitting human mask.
Leena šµ (@leena.reuben.games) reposted
Outstanding reporting here, the playbook laid bare, resistance outlined⦠so much more than weāre used to seeing from all the āget a load of this guyā reportage on right wing kooks
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Hello.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Theo and Andrew ( @aynrandy.boontavista.com and @illybocean.boontavista.com ) Please tell your cohost Ben I said 'fuck you for ruining my fun' tia www.pedestrian.tv/news/no-a-ca...
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Off topic, but there was this bloke in the Northern Territory or Queensland or something who disappeared shortly after he tried to fuck a crocodile. Few years back now. Wonder if they found him.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Hi there. Posting from the third circle of Hell. Please check Royās Tās & Cās before agreeing to sign his contract. Also note that a) he smells a lot like sulphur and b) heās supposed to be dead. Might save you some headache. Also itās goddamn cold here.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Anything at all? What a deal!
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Torrez lied so many times in that interview, and I only saw an excerpt of it. I don't know how people like him can live with themselves, I honestly can't fathom it.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social)
Cube (1997) for its eerily accurate depiction of how government bureaucracy and big business can combine to make a death machine for a reason no-one really knows, much less questions.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
; i am truley sorry for your lots
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
They need to do way instain mother> who kill thier babbys, becuse these babby cant fright back? It was on the news this mroing a mother in ar who had kill her three kids, they are taking the three babby back to new york too lady to rest. my pary are with the father who lost his chrilden
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
It's a pain in the neck. I get injections every three months, but I don't know how much of an option that is for you (I'm in Australia where healthcare is heavily subsidised, don't know where you live).
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Point being: Hollywood is way too individualist to be socialist.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social)
Watching 60s Eastern European sci fi movies, I noticed that they didn't tend to concentrate on a single individual, like a heroic captain. The whole crew all had roles to play. Star Trek is about as close as it gets to this, but you still see more Kirk than Sulu.
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Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe they know Alan Jones has an apartment there and they're hoping he'll talk about it. True story: A guy I knew threw an 8-ball through his window. I wonder if he ever mentioned it on his radio show.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
If I selected this as my topic, it'd get rejected for lack of novelty.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social)
What a damn insane thing for O'Dowd to say. I hope the interviewer took the time to slap her for saying something so brazenly stupid. Society must be preserved.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
What can I say? I was born a poster.
Laura Millan (@lauramillan.bsky.social) reposted
The wildfires that raged across Greece, Turkey and Cyprus this summer were 22% more intense and 10 times more likely than they would have been in a world without climate change, according to scientists at @wwattribution.bsky.social FREE link via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Not just migrants, but a subset of migrants who are often the target of white supremacists in places like Sydney.
Dr nick nobody (@nicknobody.bsky.social) reposted
Nazis and their allies are not welcome in Naarm and any who turn up on Sunday will find that out #auspol
Andy Fleming (@slackbastard.bsky.social) reposted
#auspol #FCKNZS A post on the subject of the March for White Australia on August 31. slackbastard.anarchobase.com?p=53254
Andy Fleming (@slackbastard.bsky.social) reposted
I dunno if there's much to add at this stage, but I'll be sharing further infos on the w/e. Basically, the nazis have declared Melbourne/Naarm is their toy to play with & have vowed to assemble outside Flinders on Sunday, to be joined by an unknown number of sympathisers (c00kers, mostly).
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
*Some would say KBD doesn't count as noir because of this-and-that. I am not one of them. And I wrote an undergrad essay on the topic! It was 2500 words! You don't want this smoke!
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Levin's bibliography is really influential given its modest size. I remember watching Kiss Before Dying and my sister-in-law gave me the book and I was like O shit Ira Levin wrote that too! What didn't he write? But it really wasn't that much. Wide range too; horror, sci fi, noir*, psych drama.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Not in your case. Youāre not doing anything useful with it.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Brave Irminsul ran away Bravely ran away, ran away
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Iām just not convinced because all Iāve heard is that Netanyahu got up Australia about it, and itās foolish to trust anything he says.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Those appear to be (canāt read the first article) targeted attacks against specific individuals who are enemies of the Iranian regime. Who were the targets in the Australian attacks?
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you have any links to these attacks?
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
That is only arguing from credulity, it is not evidence. If I said to you āIsrael has lied so many times before, why not now,ā I doubt you would accept that.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
1) Because itās not as consequential as the US, UK, and Israel and I assume their resources arenāt limitless. 2) That would only work if they claimed responsibility which they famously havenāt. 3) How does that work? See 1 and 2.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
If he stepped into my restaurant, mean looks would be the least of his problems.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
āPropinquityā isnāt a word geez. Mind you, it didnāt set off my spellcheck⦠Let me just look up WAIT WTF?
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social)
Kelly corner self-insert: Hoagieās heroes.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, as soon as I heard they were involved with nazi satanists who encouraged people to off themselves, I gave up trying to find any coherent ideology.
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
For some reason I already feel like a winner!
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
Well it would depend on how often Iām getting fucked. And this government is fucking me constantly! Wait, let me think of another analogyā¦
Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) reply parent
With polls, a certain percentage (as high as 5%) are troll answers. You could get a decent sample for a survey asking if youād like to die slowly and painfully, and a non-zero number of participants will strongly agree.