Andrew Bettridge
@andrewbettridge.bsky.social
Married, old gay guy in Brisbane.
Copywriter by day but I swear you’d never know it from my posts.
May post shirtless selfies in the future so I’d appreciate it if family and workmates could stay the hell away.
Copywriter by day but I swear you’d never know it from my posts.
May post shirtless selfies in the future so I’d appreciate it if family and workmates could stay the hell away.
Listening to an 80s mixtape and the vocals are split between the most beautiful, soulful voice you’ve ever heard and your niece and her mates at karaoke.
November 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Listening to an 80s mixtape and the vocals are split between the most beautiful, soulful voice you’ve ever heard and your niece and her mates at karaoke.
My husband and I have been together so long that when he puts a pair of speedos on I can tell he’s going swimming.
November 22, 2025 at 3:39 AM
My husband and I have been together so long that when he puts a pair of speedos on I can tell he’s going swimming.
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Here's a🧵about the San Francisco Egg Wars of the 1800s. It has bloody gunfights, marauding pirates, a bunch of (literally) batshit deaths & some nasty looking eggs...
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Here's a🧵about the San Francisco Egg Wars of the 1800s. It has bloody gunfights, marauding pirates, a bunch of (literally) batshit deaths & some nasty looking eggs...
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The Zohran press conference is your regular reminder that the entire administration folds like tissue paper at the slightest hint of confidence and conviction, and thus the fact that national democrats are playing a game of capitulation and weakness is exactly why they're all getting away with it
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The Zohran press conference is your regular reminder that the entire administration folds like tissue paper at the slightest hint of confidence and conviction, and thus the fact that national democrats are playing a game of capitulation and weakness is exactly why they're all getting away with it
Watching “The Phoenician Scheme” which feels like Wes Anderson doing Peter Greenaway. There’s a lovely misanthropy at work here.
November 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Watching “The Phoenician Scheme” which feels like Wes Anderson doing Peter Greenaway. There’s a lovely misanthropy at work here.
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Cheery moment before beddies: here is a picture of trained-bird-act maven Madame Marzella in bejewelled pantalons and sparkly stage tights, costume jewels, feathered giant hat, cape, embroidered stomacher and, well, parrots. Macaws, possibly? Her husband did the lighting. c1890. Night, night.
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Cheery moment before beddies: here is a picture of trained-bird-act maven Madame Marzella in bejewelled pantalons and sparkly stage tights, costume jewels, feathered giant hat, cape, embroidered stomacher and, well, parrots. Macaws, possibly? Her husband did the lighting. c1890. Night, night.
Top 7 Cinema Releases of 2025 (so far):
The Brutalist
Conclave
Companion (I was surprised)
Flow
Nosferatu
One Battle After Another
Weapons
Top 3 "Great, but, oh, you're going to end it like that, huh?":
The Running Man
Sinners
Queer
The Brutalist
Conclave
Companion (I was surprised)
Flow
Nosferatu
One Battle After Another
Weapons
Top 3 "Great, but, oh, you're going to end it like that, huh?":
The Running Man
Sinners
Queer
November 18, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Top 7 Cinema Releases of 2025 (so far):
The Brutalist
Conclave
Companion (I was surprised)
Flow
Nosferatu
One Battle After Another
Weapons
Top 3 "Great, but, oh, you're going to end it like that, huh?":
The Running Man
Sinners
Queer
The Brutalist
Conclave
Companion (I was surprised)
Flow
Nosferatu
One Battle After Another
Weapons
Top 3 "Great, but, oh, you're going to end it like that, huh?":
The Running Man
Sinners
Queer
Now seated at the local IMAX cinema for the 6.05pm screening of @edgarwright.bsky.social’s “Glen Powell in a Towell”.
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Now seated at the local IMAX cinema for the 6.05pm screening of @edgarwright.bsky.social’s “Glen Powell in a Towell”.
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Leonora Carrington and the House of Fear, a 1992 BBC documentary By Kim Evans based around a visit to the artist in her home in Mexico City.
(with contributions from Helena Bonham Carter, art historian Whitney Chadwick and Carrington's cousin Patricia Paterson)
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
(with contributions from Helena Bonham Carter, art historian Whitney Chadwick and Carrington's cousin Patricia Paterson)
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
Leonora Carrington. 1992 documentary based around a visit to the artist in her home in Mexico City.
YouTube video by Major Esterhazy
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Leonora Carrington and the House of Fear, a 1992 BBC documentary By Kim Evans based around a visit to the artist in her home in Mexico City.
(with contributions from Helena Bonham Carter, art historian Whitney Chadwick and Carrington's cousin Patricia Paterson)
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
(with contributions from Helena Bonham Carter, art historian Whitney Chadwick and Carrington's cousin Patricia Paterson)
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
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Josef Sudek was a Czech photographer.
Originally a bookbinder, Sudek was badly injured during action by the Hungarian Army on the Italian Front of World War I in 1916. Although he had no experience with photography and was one-handed due to his amputation.
Remarkable.
Originally a bookbinder, Sudek was badly injured during action by the Hungarian Army on the Italian Front of World War I in 1916. Although he had no experience with photography and was one-handed due to his amputation.
Remarkable.
November 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Josef Sudek was a Czech photographer.
Originally a bookbinder, Sudek was badly injured during action by the Hungarian Army on the Italian Front of World War I in 1916. Although he had no experience with photography and was one-handed due to his amputation.
Remarkable.
Originally a bookbinder, Sudek was badly injured during action by the Hungarian Army on the Italian Front of World War I in 1916. Although he had no experience with photography and was one-handed due to his amputation.
Remarkable.
I just scrolled through nearly 10 Facebook posts before I got to one from a friend.
November 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I just scrolled through nearly 10 Facebook posts before I got to one from a friend.
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Found a BUTTernut squash at the farmers market
November 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Found a BUTTernut squash at the farmers market
This potato looks like a sad budgie.
November 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
This potato looks like a sad budgie.
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Hold up… this motherfucker has had a THIRD MRI this year?!?
The fuck are we doing??? If this were Biden the NYT would make this a front page story every fucking day.
Just when I think I have a grasp on an answer I’m flung right back into wondering *why* he’s allowed to get away with this shit
The fuck are we doing??? If this were Biden the NYT would make this a front page story every fucking day.
Just when I think I have a grasp on an answer I’m flung right back into wondering *why* he’s allowed to get away with this shit
November 15, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Hold up… this motherfucker has had a THIRD MRI this year?!?
The fuck are we doing??? If this were Biden the NYT would make this a front page story every fucking day.
Just when I think I have a grasp on an answer I’m flung right back into wondering *why* he’s allowed to get away with this shit
The fuck are we doing??? If this were Biden the NYT would make this a front page story every fucking day.
Just when I think I have a grasp on an answer I’m flung right back into wondering *why* he’s allowed to get away with this shit
NOW YOU’RE JUST SOME BODY THAT I USED TO KNOW
November 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
NOW YOU’RE JUST SOME BODY THAT I USED TO KNOW
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It's important to note the fact that Wendy Carlos, whose 86th birthday is today, was the first trans woman to win a Grammy award, in 1970, for her iconic classical album "Switched-on Bach," recorded entirely on the Moog synthesizer which she helped Robert Moog develop.
#musicsky #moviesky #filmsky
#musicsky #moviesky #filmsky
November 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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For groundbreaking synthetic music pioneer Wendy Carlos' birthday, enjoy her in her home studio with cats and friends
November 14, 2023 at 2:00 PM
For groundbreaking synthetic music pioneer Wendy Carlos' birthday, enjoy her in her home studio with cats and friends
Too many reviews praising High Noon, a film in which the sheriff asks civilians to help him take on armed gunmen then condemns them for saying, “Dude, we’ll all be killed and aren’t you the Sheriff?”. Howard Hawks thought it was unspeakably stupid and made the much better “Rio Bravo” as a rebuke.
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Too many reviews praising High Noon, a film in which the sheriff asks civilians to help him take on armed gunmen then condemns them for saying, “Dude, we’ll all be killed and aren’t you the Sheriff?”. Howard Hawks thought it was unspeakably stupid and made the much better “Rio Bravo” as a rebuke.
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Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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The amount of hateful, dangerous, inhuman, weird, stupid, embarrassing and hard to look at and listen to billionaires who have say over the running of society keeps increasing and they don’t have the decency to keep quiet at home about it, want to be celebrities and loved
November 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM
The amount of hateful, dangerous, inhuman, weird, stupid, embarrassing and hard to look at and listen to billionaires who have say over the running of society keeps increasing and they don’t have the decency to keep quiet at home about it, want to be celebrities and loved
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"Worst comes to worst, we can protect them from social media by locking them up." chaser.com.au/national/gov...
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 AM
"Worst comes to worst, we can protect them from social media by locking them up." chaser.com.au/national/gov...