Andrew Killeen
@andrewkilleen.bsky.social
Writer, teacher and learner. Proud dad, proud Brummie, unashamed leftie. Currently wandering the world. Happily married, no DMs thanks.
My top five cities:
1. Birmingham (home)
2. Zagreb (current home)
3. Tbilisi (crossroads)
4. Seoul (happening)
5. Istanbul (no explanation necessary)
1. Birmingham (home)
2. Zagreb (current home)
3. Tbilisi (crossroads)
4. Seoul (happening)
5. Istanbul (no explanation necessary)
My top five cities:
1. London (forever)
2. Barcelona (temps perduts)
3. Venice (beauty and light)
4. Madrid (movida)
5. Hong Kong (relentless energy)
1. London (forever)
2. Barcelona (temps perduts)
3. Venice (beauty and light)
4. Madrid (movida)
5. Hong Kong (relentless energy)
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
My top five cities:
1. Birmingham (home)
2. Zagreb (current home)
3. Tbilisi (crossroads)
4. Seoul (happening)
5. Istanbul (no explanation necessary)
1. Birmingham (home)
2. Zagreb (current home)
3. Tbilisi (crossroads)
4. Seoul (happening)
5. Istanbul (no explanation necessary)
Listening to a podcast about Idi Amin, and the parallels with Trump are striking. The theatricality, the self-aggrandisement, the constant need for an admiring audience, the cruel humour... As for the slaughter, do you think they wouldn't do it if they thought they could get away with it?
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Listening to a podcast about Idi Amin, and the parallels with Trump are striking. The theatricality, the self-aggrandisement, the constant need for an admiring audience, the cruel humour... As for the slaughter, do you think they wouldn't do it if they thought they could get away with it?
As I am sending documents from Zagreb to Dublin, the woman behind the post office counter tells me she loved reading Angela's Ashes so much she almost wet herself.
Only after leaving do I realise she meant she nearly cried.
Only after leaving do I realise she meant she nearly cried.
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
As I am sending documents from Zagreb to Dublin, the woman behind the post office counter tells me she loved reading Angela's Ashes so much she almost wet herself.
Only after leaving do I realise she meant she nearly cried.
Only after leaving do I realise she meant she nearly cried.
What's interesting about watching old episodes of The Twilight Zone is how many of them, at the peak of American prosperity, look back with nostalgia at an imagined golden age 50 years earlier.
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
What's interesting about watching old episodes of The Twilight Zone is how many of them, at the peak of American prosperity, look back with nostalgia at an imagined golden age 50 years earlier.
Well done Scotland!
November 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Well done Scotland!
Sometimes Wikipedia raises more questions than it answers
November 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Sometimes Wikipedia raises more questions than it answers
YES
If we don’t signal our virtue every now and again - then so many believe they are utterly alone - “virtue signalling” is not there to say “aren’t I good” but “there are more of us than you might imagine” and “fuck you for demanding that only the brutal and the bullies may speak”
November 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
YES
Just watched Harlan Coben's Missing You. Total load of old bollocks.
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Just watched Harlan Coben's Missing You. Total load of old bollocks.
My kids were into WWE during the 2010s,so I developed a deep loathing of John Cena. But he is incredible as Peacemaker: by turns bombastic, vulnerable, lovable and despicable. It's one of the great tragicomic performances.
November 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
My kids were into WWE during the 2010s,so I developed a deep loathing of John Cena. But he is incredible as Peacemaker: by turns bombastic, vulnerable, lovable and despicable. It's one of the great tragicomic performances.
The tech industry has completely normalised presenting bullshit that doesn't work, without any embarrassment whatsoever
Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.
November 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The tech industry has completely normalised presenting bullshit that doesn't work, without any embarrassment whatsoever
BBC bosses: "We'll do the honourable thing and resign, that will the end of the matter."
Trump: "Great, now you've admitted you were wrong, I'm going to extort millions of dollars from you."
Trump: "Great, now you've admitted you were wrong, I'm going to extort millions of dollars from you."
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
BBC bosses: "We'll do the honourable thing and resign, that will the end of the matter."
Trump: "Great, now you've admitted you were wrong, I'm going to extort millions of dollars from you."
Trump: "Great, now you've admitted you were wrong, I'm going to extort millions of dollars from you."
It is mindboggling to discover that centrists still believe caving to fascists placates them. All it does is give them the scent of blood.
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
It is mindboggling to discover that centrists still believe caving to fascists placates them. All it does is give them the scent of blood.
Disappointed by Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein. I thought it would be more Mary Shelley and less Abbott and Costello.
November 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Disappointed by Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein. I thought it would be more Mary Shelley and less Abbott and Costello.
HMM I WONDER WHO WILL WIN THIS HASTILY COBBLED TOGETHER PEACE PRIZE WHEN IT'S AWARDED IN A CEREMONY IN WASHINGTON inside.fifa.com/organisation...
FIFA introduces the FIFA Peace Prize - an award to recognise exceptional actions for peace and unity
FIFA has announced the introduction of the “FIFA Peace Prize – Football Unites the World” to reward individuals who have taken exceptional and extraordinary actions for peace and by doing so have unit...
inside.fifa.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
HMM I WONDER WHO WILL WIN THIS HASTILY COBBLED TOGETHER PEACE PRIZE WHEN IT'S AWARDED IN A CEREMONY IN WASHINGTON inside.fifa.com/organisation...
Caption competition
November 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Caption competition
My name is Ozymandias, King of King's. My statue has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my inscription.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
October 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
My name is Ozymandias, King of King's. My statue has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my inscription.
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
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October 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
spot.fund/dn8t744sc
I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
spot.fund/dn8t744sc
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.
October 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.
Watching the BBC's "Hidden Music Treasures". The word "treasure" is being stretched like Guy Fawkes on the rack here.
October 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Watching the BBC's "Hidden Music Treasures". The word "treasure" is being stretched like Guy Fawkes on the rack here.
Now I can't go on any social media until I'm up to date with The Traitors, because of thoughtless bastards posting spoilers. Some of us work evenings you know 😡
October 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Now I can't go on any social media until I'm up to date with The Traitors, because of thoughtless bastards posting spoilers. Some of us work evenings you know 😡
I liked it better when being openly racist was a shameful thing... When people who held those opinions kept quiet for fear of being excluded from normal society. When expressing them publicly would finish you in public life. That was a better world, and I would like to go back to it.
October 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I liked it better when being openly racist was a shameful thing... When people who held those opinions kept quiet for fear of being excluded from normal society. When expressing them publicly would finish you in public life. That was a better world, and I would like to go back to it.
"Incontinent US President publishes video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on his people from a plane" is a scenario you would have had a hard time selling as the most dystopian satire only 20 years ago.
October 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
"Incontinent US President publishes video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on his people from a plane" is a scenario you would have had a hard time selling as the most dystopian satire only 20 years ago.
"Women can sue their bosses for running a workplace where sexual aggression is normalised, but men can't sue when their workplace values learning and taking responsibility"
Tbh I think we ought to re-masculinize society through the dispensation of brutal, merciless justice to the class of intellectual quislings who are trying to carry us back to the middle ages
October 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"Women can sue their bosses for running a workplace where sexual aggression is normalised, but men can't sue when their workplace values learning and taking responsibility"
Polanski is far from perfect, as is his party. But he offers HOPE. Remember hope? Optimism? Believing the future will be better for your children?
At least someone is speaking up for the multicultural Britain I grew up in... Speaking up like they mean it.
At least someone is speaking up for the multicultural Britain I grew up in... Speaking up like they mean it.
October 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Polanski is far from perfect, as is his party. But he offers HOPE. Remember hope? Optimism? Believing the future will be better for your children?
At least someone is speaking up for the multicultural Britain I grew up in... Speaking up like they mean it.
At least someone is speaking up for the multicultural Britain I grew up in... Speaking up like they mean it.