Rory McCarthy
@roryisconfused.bsky.social
Hey, it’s Rory. I like fiction and I like films and I like people. “Well, sir, I guess there’s just a meanness in this world”.
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Walking in the middle of Hampstead Heath, an American guy came up to me and said “hey, how do I get out of here?”, I said “well, that depends where you need to go”, and he looked at me like I was some fucking Alice in Wonderland character
My three year old nephew video called me while I was at a party in a bar yesterday, wound up in a smoking area with headphones in going “that’s amazing man, that’s such a cool power ranger. And he has a bike too, that’s an amazing bike. What’s the power ranger’s name?”
February 8, 2026 at 4:07 PM
My three year old nephew video called me while I was at a party in a bar yesterday, wound up in a smoking area with headphones in going “that’s amazing man, that’s such a cool power ranger. And he has a bike too, that’s an amazing bike. What’s the power ranger’s name?”
I once played drums for a jazz band and it was nothing like Whiplash, but also I once worked at a bookstore that was exactly like Whiplash
February 7, 2026 at 7:33 PM
I once played drums for a jazz band and it was nothing like Whiplash, but also I once worked at a bookstore that was exactly like Whiplash
Millennials are so old that The Kooks are now protected by Unesco World Heritage
February 3, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Millennials are so old that The Kooks are now protected by Unesco World Heritage
feel like we’ve lost the 90s archetype of the slacker in quite a profound and mystifying way, feel like we lost something important with him too
February 1, 2026 at 10:53 PM
feel like we’ve lost the 90s archetype of the slacker in quite a profound and mystifying way, feel like we lost something important with him too
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£500 given out to a working class writer every month.
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The Creatives Grant
let's make art less middle class
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February 1, 2026 at 10:57 AM
£500 given out to a working class writer every month.
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Her boredom rose so strong in her sometimes that it felt like terror: it took her by the throat. Not long ago she had been driven to speak of it. She had to talk, she thought, or she would go mad.
January 31, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Her boredom rose so strong in her sometimes that it felt like terror: it took her by the throat. Not long ago she had been driven to speak of it. She had to talk, she thought, or she would go mad.
Hello pals, where would be good places to pitch reviews for upcoming novels if I haven’t much of a CV doing such a thing?
January 30, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Hello pals, where would be good places to pitch reviews for upcoming novels if I haven’t much of a CV doing such a thing?
Seeing videos of AI-generated fascist propaganda gives me the strong feeling that I’m in some sort of “bad timeline” and that there must be a “good timeline” somewhere where AI doesn’t exist and I’m making a decent wage
January 29, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Seeing videos of AI-generated fascist propaganda gives me the strong feeling that I’m in some sort of “bad timeline” and that there must be a “good timeline” somewhere where AI doesn’t exist and I’m making a decent wage
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I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
It’s sort of strange how there’s not more overt Sonic Youth influence in guitar music since they’ve been around. Like, they left their mark in different ways on Nirvana (abrasive noise) and Pavement (a sort of open-ended approach to guitar, messy clean tones etc.), but…
January 29, 2026 at 5:23 PM
It’s sort of strange how there’s not more overt Sonic Youth influence in guitar music since they’ve been around. Like, they left their mark in different ways on Nirvana (abrasive noise) and Pavement (a sort of open-ended approach to guitar, messy clean tones etc.), but…
Really into the bit in Audrey Hobert’s Sue Me where it sounds like a Crystal Castles song
January 29, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Really into the bit in Audrey Hobert’s Sue Me where it sounds like a Crystal Castles song
I have a deep hatred of that idea that The Lord of the Flies has been ‘disproven’ by that story of those kids on that island
January 29, 2026 at 1:38 PM
I have a deep hatred of that idea that The Lord of the Flies has been ‘disproven’ by that story of those kids on that island
Hm. Fucking hell
In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
January 28, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Hm. Fucking hell
St. Albans! I went to school there! I think it’s the most cursed place on earth.
Goodwin was born in St Albans in Hertfordshire.
Farage needs a geography lesson.
Farage needs a geography lesson.
January 28, 2026 at 7:47 AM
St. Albans! I went to school there! I think it’s the most cursed place on earth.
I have a Uniqlo voucher but I have all I need from Uniqlo…what should I get from Uniqlo?
January 27, 2026 at 10:58 PM
I have a Uniqlo voucher but I have all I need from Uniqlo…what should I get from Uniqlo?
Men’s Mental Health is v bad atm
January 27, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Men’s Mental Health is v bad atm
People are uniquely strange online about the band Geese
January 27, 2026 at 1:26 PM
People are uniquely strange online about the band Geese
I was never a Harry Potter kid in the first place, I had a sort of oppositional defiance against the whole fad…I was instead a Series of Unfortunate Events child, a child who precociously already had Depression
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”
Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”
Opinion | Why Gen Z Doesn’t Love ‘Harry Potter’
The wizarding worldview is naïve.
nyti.ms
January 26, 2026 at 11:06 PM
I was never a Harry Potter kid in the first place, I had a sort of oppositional defiance against the whole fad…I was instead a Series of Unfortunate Events child, a child who precociously already had Depression
Community and Taskmaster and a general theory of comedy having some sort of pure relation to play, to simply playing games
January 26, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Community and Taskmaster and a general theory of comedy having some sort of pure relation to play, to simply playing games
The Free Solo guy just reminds me of when I was on Hinge for a while and I went on 3 dates in a row with women who climb, purely coincidentally. I don’t know why. I’m not that tall.
January 26, 2026 at 7:53 PM
The Free Solo guy just reminds me of when I was on Hinge for a while and I went on 3 dates in a row with women who climb, purely coincidentally. I don’t know why. I’m not that tall.
Paranoia, and specifically social media induced paranoia, is the great underrated element of the modern era.
i genuinely think if you think protesters are paid to be at a protest you are potentially the lowest rung of the ladder of intelligence. you just won’t make it
January 26, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Paranoia, and specifically social media induced paranoia, is the great underrated element of the modern era.
The rats are all fleeing the sinking ship to instead board what shall be known as ‘the tyrannical rat ship’
January 26, 2026 at 12:27 PM
The rats are all fleeing the sinking ship to instead board what shall be known as ‘the tyrannical rat ship’
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via wiktionary
January 26, 2026 at 10:06 AM
via wiktionary
One of the two best films of this decade, I think
This evening’s film: La Chimera. Something really special, my god. boxd.it/cP63Yb
A ★★★★★ review of La Chimera (2023)
The magic of this film is hard to put into words. Josh O’Connor plays Arthur, an Englishman in Italy who has a strange gift for being able to find hidden tombs, tombs filled with Etruscan treasures th...
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January 25, 2026 at 10:33 PM
One of the two best films of this decade, I think