Rory McCarthy

Girlfriend is off on a worktrip so I’m going fucking wild and watching Gilmore Girls with the cat

Zohran Mamdani says, "For too long, politicians have pretended that we're spectators to that crisis of affordability. We're actually actors, and we have the choice to exacerbate it, like mayor Adams has done, or to respond to it and resolve it, like I'm planning to do."

I’m more present on insta atm if you wanna follow me there — “roryisveryconfused”

Any of you folks watch Deadwood? I’m fairly dazzled by it atm

I believe that if they successfully imported Sims 1 or 2 exactly as they were onto the iPhone, it would functionally end civilisation

Yes! Yes!!! Yes!!!!!

Amazing

Hello: does anyone know which celebrities are (or might be) into L.S Lowry? Asking for a pal who’s helping put together a doc. Or indeed if you’re a published author or whatnot that is!

Sorry, yes

That’s a hell of a lot of reading! I’ll give it a look 👀

Any recent fiction you guys have particularly enjoyed?

Aaages ago, back when it came out, I enjoyed it a lot

Was trying to think of a male analogue to those My Brilliant Friend style stories about intensely attached psychologically tangled (jealousy envy worship etc.) female friendships and I can only think of whatever it is Bart and Milhouse have going on

I like in old movies when actresses are like “oh you stupid man! Oh you stupid, stupid, stupid man!” between passionately kissing the stupid man

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).

Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

Extreme Old Twitter energy here

Lineup is here! Ft @roryisconfused.bsky.social @badsocialism.bsky.social among others!

My dad’s picked up this habit of pointlessly buying davenports (see below) on auction sites (for actually surprisingly cheap prices) and my mum’s taunting him on the family whatsapp for it

The Bakerloo line has an inexplicable 70s in New York vibe to it…a certain tone…a louche scuzziness…Lou Reed, Television…a young Julian Casablancas would have looked at the interior of a Bakerloo line tube and gone “yes, yes this is exactly what I mean”…

I always have this odd feeling Elon Musk shouldn’t even be famous…he seems like just some weird guy, the least charismatic man to ever draw substantial attention to himself

I have a feeling the Musk/Trump fallout isn’t too far off…refusing to sign the bill to abolish the department of education is the first bit…

After doing this I realised that actually best actress should be Marianne Jean-Baptiste for Hard Truths but otherwise here’s my take

> bennett @ImagineAGuy guy who only knew jesus professionally: Honey, did you hear they CRUCIFIED our CARPENTER???

wint @dril i will not be discussing my bug bites. i refuse to give the bugs that have been biting me a platform

I hung out with a friend the first time they did adderall recreationally and at four thirty in the morning they told me earnestly that they felt they could build a spreadsheet that could "fix the world" and then ran out to buy newspapers

You are not “depressed” because of “capitalism”, you are melancholy because your humours are misbalanced in the direction of an excess of black bile, and you are much in need of leeching

People are always like ‘no one had anxiety before modernity’ and Wikipedia pages of pre-20th century figures are always like “he was startled by the sight of an unseemly looking duck [4], whereupon he died of horror [5],[6]”

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Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood

Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

And now suddenly the main aspirational rich tech guy’s shifted, and Sam Altman doesn’t really have a shit about it either, no one’s interested in impressing others through allegiance to Yudkowsky’s blogs, so everyone else turns too. It was all just for show.