Andy Beckerman
@andybeckerman.bsky.social
I host the Beginnings & Couples Therapy podcasts. TV writer. Former philosophy professor. Casiopop king. Figuring out dystopia.
If a person in tech - especially in the upper echelons of the industry - tells you they are "worried about the dangers of AI becoming sentient", you should treat them with the same contempt as if they had just said, "I'm worried the underground lizardmen are going to start a war with the surface".
February 11, 2026 at 11:57 PM
If a person in tech - especially in the upper echelons of the industry - tells you they are "worried about the dangers of AI becoming sentient", you should treat them with the same contempt as if they had just said, "I'm worried the underground lizardmen are going to start a war with the surface".
If Westworld is supposed to be an amusement park where the wealthy abuse and murder beings that can’t really fight back, how is that a vacation from their everyday life?
February 11, 2026 at 3:11 AM
If Westworld is supposed to be an amusement park where the wealthy abuse and murder beings that can’t really fight back, how is that a vacation from their everyday life?
Reposted by Andy Beckerman
No, no. It's fine that residuals are dying. I've got a new constant stream of small checks: class action settlements from companies that failed to keep my personal data safe.
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
No, no. It's fine that residuals are dying. I've got a new constant stream of small checks: class action settlements from companies that failed to keep my personal data safe.
*Looks up at the gate above*
“Work make you free. Work makes you free, folks. Does it? Maybe here. Maybe death is the ultimate freedom. Floating forever in the cosmos. Hi, little planet. Just you and Stan Chera floating forever.”
-Trump cutting the ribbon at Auschwitz II outside Tallahassee
“Work make you free. Work makes you free, folks. Does it? Maybe here. Maybe death is the ultimate freedom. Floating forever in the cosmos. Hi, little planet. Just you and Stan Chera floating forever.”
-Trump cutting the ribbon at Auschwitz II outside Tallahassee
February 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM
*Looks up at the gate above*
“Work make you free. Work makes you free, folks. Does it? Maybe here. Maybe death is the ultimate freedom. Floating forever in the cosmos. Hi, little planet. Just you and Stan Chera floating forever.”
-Trump cutting the ribbon at Auschwitz II outside Tallahassee
“Work make you free. Work makes you free, folks. Does it? Maybe here. Maybe death is the ultimate freedom. Floating forever in the cosmos. Hi, little planet. Just you and Stan Chera floating forever.”
-Trump cutting the ribbon at Auschwitz II outside Tallahassee
Based on every "grown-up" film of the last 50 years, I really thought adulthood would be a string of dinner parties where people talk about their marriages and then one couple announces a divorce.
February 7, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Based on every "grown-up" film of the last 50 years, I really thought adulthood would be a string of dinner parties where people talk about their marriages and then one couple announces a divorce.
In years past, Hulu used to have a Black History Month section. I don’t know exactly what has changed in the world but this is all there is now. I guess, Happy Stronger Together Month, everyone!
February 6, 2026 at 11:35 PM
In years past, Hulu used to have a Black History Month section. I don’t know exactly what has changed in the world but this is all there is now. I guess, Happy Stronger Together Month, everyone!
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
What a delight to talk to Julianna Barwick on today's episode! The rush from making loops, majoring in photography, being an eternal optimist, living parallel lives + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsBa...
What a delight to talk to Julianna Barwick on today's episode! The rush from making loops, majoring in photography, being an eternal optimist, living parallel lives + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsBa...
February 6, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
What a delight to talk to Julianna Barwick on today's episode! The rush from making loops, majoring in photography, being an eternal optimist, living parallel lives + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsBa...
What a delight to talk to Julianna Barwick on today's episode! The rush from making loops, majoring in photography, being an eternal optimist, living parallel lives + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsBa...
Most of the Left: The government is lying to you!
(except about the dangers of covid… in that case, we’re going to believe every word they say)
(except about the dangers of covid… in that case, we’re going to believe every word they say)
February 6, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Most of the Left: The government is lying to you!
(except about the dangers of covid… in that case, we’re going to believe every word they say)
(except about the dangers of covid… in that case, we’re going to believe every word they say)
As much as I love David Lynch and the 8th episode of Twin Peaks: The Return in particular, I think we can all agree it would have been better like this:
February 5, 2026 at 11:02 PM
As much as I love David Lynch and the 8th episode of Twin Peaks: The Return in particular, I think we can all agree it would have been better like this:
We’re a year away from Dems sending out fundraising texts saying they’re working hard to make sure the Zyklon-B the government uses in their is organic and free of impurities.
February 5, 2026 at 2:22 AM
We’re a year away from Dems sending out fundraising texts saying they’re working hard to make sure the Zyklon-B the government uses in their is organic and free of impurities.
Reposted by Andy Beckerman
Reposted by Andy Beckerman
8. Weiss's project is creating an Operation Paperclip for Epstein's cronies. Taking a group of discredited men and rehabilitating them as necessary pillars of system. Dershowitz and Peter Attia are the Wernher von Brauns of reactionary centrism.
January 31, 2026 at 9:30 PM
8. Weiss's project is creating an Operation Paperclip for Epstein's cronies. Taking a group of discredited men and rehabilitating them as necessary pillars of system. Dershowitz and Peter Attia are the Wernher von Brauns of reactionary centrism.
Has Garfield always been this odd or did something happen in the wake of Scott Adams death?
February 4, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Has Garfield always been this odd or did something happen in the wake of Scott Adams death?
Reposted by Andy Beckerman
SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!
Celebrating 400 eps with our third CAVALCAD3 OF STARS! One advice question each with some of our fav folks: @boomboomhiller.bsky.social, Nicole Byer, @amberruffin.bsky.social, Tien Tran & Caleb Hearon!
🔊 tinyurl.com/CTep400
Celebrating 400 eps with our third CAVALCAD3 OF STARS! One advice question each with some of our fav folks: @boomboomhiller.bsky.social, Nicole Byer, @amberruffin.bsky.social, Tien Tran & Caleb Hearon!
🔊 tinyurl.com/CTep400
February 3, 2026 at 7:30 PM
SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!
Celebrating 400 eps with our third CAVALCAD3 OF STARS! One advice question each with some of our fav folks: @boomboomhiller.bsky.social, Nicole Byer, @amberruffin.bsky.social, Tien Tran & Caleb Hearon!
🔊 tinyurl.com/CTep400
Celebrating 400 eps with our third CAVALCAD3 OF STARS! One advice question each with some of our fav folks: @boomboomhiller.bsky.social, Nicole Byer, @amberruffin.bsky.social, Tien Tran & Caleb Hearon!
🔊 tinyurl.com/CTep400
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Too many heist movies set all the sneaking around to cool jazz music. I wanna see someone crack a safe while a Stone Temple Pilots song plays in the background.
January 31, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Too many heist movies set all the sneaking around to cool jazz music. I wanna see someone crack a safe while a Stone Temple Pilots song plays in the background.
Reposted by Andy Beckerman
I don't feel like figuring out how to make this fit the limit, so enjoy it in its excess
January 31, 2026 at 12:22 AM
I don't feel like figuring out how to make this fit the limit, so enjoy it in its excess
I don't feel like figuring out how to make this fit the limit, so enjoy it in its excess
January 31, 2026 at 12:22 AM
I don't feel like figuring out how to make this fit the limit, so enjoy it in its excess
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
It's the 16th anniversary of Beginnings! @elliottkalan.bsky.social returns to talk the enshittification of Hollywood; ego, control issues & comedy writing; the TMNT farmhouse; legacy + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsKa...
It's the 16th anniversary of Beginnings! @elliottkalan.bsky.social returns to talk the enshittification of Hollywood; ego, control issues & comedy writing; the TMNT farmhouse; legacy + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsKa...
January 30, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
It's the 16th anniversary of Beginnings! @elliottkalan.bsky.social returns to talk the enshittification of Hollywood; ego, control issues & comedy writing; the TMNT farmhouse; legacy + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsKa...
It's the 16th anniversary of Beginnings! @elliottkalan.bsky.social returns to talk the enshittification of Hollywood; ego, control issues & comedy writing; the TMNT farmhouse; legacy + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsKa...
Me: I mean, what does it fucking matter? America is fulfilling its destiny as a white supremacist wonderland ruled by cretins and pedophiles! The ruling class project John Foster Dulles began in the 1940s has at last reached its half-witted apotheosis!
Cashier: ... so... plastic then?
Cashier: ... so... plastic then?
January 30, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Me: I mean, what does it fucking matter? America is fulfilling its destiny as a white supremacist wonderland ruled by cretins and pedophiles! The ruling class project John Foster Dulles began in the 1940s has at last reached its half-witted apotheosis!
Cashier: ... so... plastic then?
Cashier: ... so... plastic then?
Grief is funny; sometimes after your cat dies, you break down crying just looking in the fridge, and sometimes after your husband is assassinated, the slow motion sound of a cash register cha-chinging echoes in your brain over and over for the rest of your life.
January 28, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Grief is funny; sometimes after your cat dies, you break down crying just looking in the fridge, and sometimes after your husband is assassinated, the slow motion sound of a cash register cha-chinging echoes in your brain over and over for the rest of your life.
So, Germany 1940, was everyone just like, “Fuck it, I’m having strudel for dinner”?
January 28, 2026 at 5:17 AM
So, Germany 1940, was everyone just like, “Fuck it, I’m having strudel for dinner”?
Reposted by Andy Beckerman
yes we live in a “democracy” but we can’t actually defund ICE because you see they were once bestowed the Legitimacy Emeralds
January 27, 2026 at 11:41 AM
yes we live in a “democracy” but we can’t actually defund ICE because you see they were once bestowed the Legitimacy Emeralds
Every Dem sending me a fundraising text saying “Abolish ICE”, you missed the fucking boat, dipshit. We’ve been saying that for a decade, but you were too busy licking Bain Capital’s ass clean for a $5K donation to the DNC. “Prosecute & Imprison ICE” is the new lowest standard. Get on board or GTFO
January 26, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Every Dem sending me a fundraising text saying “Abolish ICE”, you missed the fucking boat, dipshit. We’ve been saying that for a decade, but you were too busy licking Bain Capital’s ass clean for a $5K donation to the DNC. “Prosecute & Imprison ICE” is the new lowest standard. Get on board or GTFO
Me write essay good that ask: What will it take for America to actually change? The answer might surprise you! (Unless you know me personally or have already read it or are psychic)
👀 theslowdystopia.substack.com/p/here-comes...
👀 theslowdystopia.substack.com/p/here-comes...
January 26, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Me write essay good that ask: What will it take for America to actually change? The answer might surprise you! (Unless you know me personally or have already read it or are psychic)
👀 theslowdystopia.substack.com/p/here-comes...
👀 theslowdystopia.substack.com/p/here-comes...
America answers the question, “What if an entire society had CTE?”
January 26, 2026 at 2:29 PM
America answers the question, “What if an entire society had CTE?”