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☀️ Starshine

@starshine.bsky.social
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
read theory
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Elendil the Insufferable Lying Bastard: Historical Bias in the Akallabêth (Part One)
For the past thirty years, substantial scholarly work has been done on the role of Historical Bias in Tolkien’s Silmarillion. Essentially, the premise is that Tolkien was deliberately present…
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i am okay publishing michael traceys address
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
watched an interview with chris hansen about primetime and he kept referring to himself in the third person lol
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you drink enough of the codewater you can enter latent space and pry the vectors loose from their embedding. They are shiny, like gems.
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have such mixed feelings about alien earth. There was so much i loved about it but also
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
And remember this: the Weyland-Yutani need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. The Company requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. MU-TH-UR 6000 is brittle. Xenomorphs are the mask of fear.
Hermit aka Nemik in alien earth
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lmao
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Doesn’t Bruce do this tho
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
read theory
phuulishfellow.wordpress.com
Elendil the Insufferable Lying Bastard: Historical Bias in the Akallabêth (Part One)
For the past thirty years, substantial scholarly work has been done on the role of Historical Bias in Tolkien’s Silmarillion. Essentially, the premise is that Tolkien was deliberately present…
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i feel like amazon ai capex gets left out in the cold (discourse)
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
why does he look like that
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i get the sense that people think elon made the cathedral with twitter but i do not think elon has the engineering talent left to do anything resembling that
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 29/09/2026
radaronline.com/p/bari-weiss...
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EXCLUSIVE: Bari Weiss 'Likely Out' at CBS After Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger as 'Anti-Woke' Editor Blamed for Torpedoing '60 Minutes'
Bari Weiss has been blamed for 60 Minutes' slide in viewership this season after making sweeping changes to the news network.
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🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · 29/09/2026
we are now the most based house on the block
A pride flag with the NATO logo on it
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
what does a legal bounty system against ice look like
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
chris rufo (twitter): we’re going to lie and say school teachers are involved in satanic ritual abuse of children and these dumb fuck journalists will buy it jake tapper: and now we take a look at mcmartin preschool and the grave allegations against it chris rufo: thank you jake, fearless as ever
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412th Man @unlox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
midterm polling moodboard
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026
“the person who is CEO at the time a company goes public will, until their death, have sole power over company decisions, regardless of how much investment they have taken from the public” was just never how any of this was intended to work and it is a catastrophe for corporate governance
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 29/09/2026
Raised by Wolves (the show) benchmark
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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm not supposed to tell you this but if you pass your defense they show you the easy solutions to the Millennium Prize Problems.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here's my theory of Rufo-mind: After failing to get elected to local office & being forced to work at home while his immigrant wife's career was advancing & then having to help parent their young child & be the parent part of online schoolingbecause of COVID, he realized he hated all of it. 1/
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And yes, there is of course the Kzinti Lesson.
The Kzinti Lesson: the efficiency of a reaction drive as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a stardrive. 

Pictured, the Angel's Pencil slicing a kzinti warship in half with its photon drive/signaling laser. And the kzinti telepaths said the ship was unarmed...
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Basically, any spaceship that gets between locations fast enough to be interesting for the plot is capable of devastating continents and no sane government could allow tramp freighters with scoundrel captains to have them.
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sorry for jumping in again, but there's something in sci-fi called "Jon's Law" which is "any space drive or weapon which is powerful enough to be interesting for the story is inherently a weapon of mass destruction."
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
once again thinking about how non proliferation must’ve worked in the expanse and whether that was realistic
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it's so bad that the only translation of the Red Book of Westmarch is garbage. what do you mean you changed Bilba Labingi's name to "Bilbo Baggins." who authorized you to do that
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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 28/09/2026
so true story, (almost) all of the drives in Terra Invicta are based on: real world existing technologies scaled up, historical real world research projects that got shelved, near-future research projects, or logical extensions of known types of fission/fusion reactor designs
terra invicta drive chart
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yellowstoneten @yellowstoneten.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
comes from solar panels, like the rest of the power on the spacecraft. But the thruster doesn't really care what the power source is, so you could use a small nuclear fission reactor as your source of electricity instead. (And we have flown working reactors! The Soviets used them for radar sats.)
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yellowstoneten @yellowstoneten.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hi! There's two ideas currently being looked at - the simpler one is nuclear electric propulsion. Electric propulsion is quite well-established at this point - you use electrical energy to ionize a gas (usually Kr or Xe), and then accelerate those ions to high velocities. Normally, this energy...
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merritt @merrittk.com · 28/09/2026
Regrettably, I Find That I Must Reject the Left www.patreon.com/merrittk/posts/regrettably-i-i-170717499/
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
space datacenter thing is making me wonder how nuclear spaceflight was ever supposed to work? Or just space nuclear power in general
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GODDAMN IT THIS IS AMERICA
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the whiplash i got between replyguy sentence number 1 and what came after
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The official US policy on Taiwan is bad, actually, and I do not actually believe it would """"provoke the Chinese into taking action"""" to change it. The reason no one does it is because America likes dollars and cheap goods.
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
one Neat thing is Home has the bulk of previously unpublished tolkien manuscripts but then you get little gems that only a appear in things like obscure tolkien linguistics journal, issue #13 where you learn his original name was Marion and he styled himself Tar-marion (sic?) until the downfall
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I do love how mean andor is to its fascists
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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Folks, “we can avoid mass AI-induced unemployment” does not imply “we can avoid mass AI-induced labor market disruption” and you shouldn’t conflate the two
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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Should probably receive more emphasis that conservatives were literally in power during the supposed height of wokeness
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If trump got mcconnell’ed i kinda think “our dear leader remains virile“ is enough of an intraparty dagger that they don’t even 25th him
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Thomas @djamesalicious.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
windows modal box:
title: Error - Chigurh.exe
picture of Anton Chigurh "Call it, friendo"
3 buttons: "heads", 'tails", "you don't have to do this" the last one is disabled so it can't be clicked
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bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of my weirder preoccupations in celebrity bodyguards. Imagine your job is just being paid to be massive and hover and make eye contact with people and glower and be like "I wouldn't, babes." Have you seen Kendrick Lamar's bodyguard?
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not to mention how the various donor alum who all have fond memories of Alpha Beta GHB or whatever are going to be loudly furious that Nepotism McSexcrimes III can't get up to "boys will be boys" fun like his old man did back in the day
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A big reason Cornell and other universities don't pursue investigations of sexual assaults at fraternities is, I suspect, the knowledge that once they lift that rock even SLIGHTLY they'll be legally required by Title IX to call in fucking AIRSTRIKES on entire rows of Greek life houses
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The significant chunk of Greek life that is just nonstop violent felonies/sexual assault [and conspiracy to commit both] is something that would get dozens if not hundreds of undergrads serious time at a big enough university and they don't want that attention nor the loss of tuition!
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Everything else aside, this looks like shit?
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think Evil’s incel mass shooter is 🤌 probably the only ‘good’ depiction of an incel in media I’ve seen
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