Andy Irving
@andy.soundforsound.co.uk
A sour G, broken high E
A slight shot from my tongue
An endless rap between the songs
Because I like it dumb
Survivor of Juggler's Despair
Fediverse: @andy@social.soundforsound.co.uk
Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/8_TxT5t38AKJVROIBlvz9UFIWA_3PfKkmcAPlcao4
A slight shot from my tongue
An endless rap between the songs
Because I like it dumb
Survivor of Juggler's Despair
Fediverse: @andy@social.soundforsound.co.uk
Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/8_TxT5t38AKJVROIBlvz9UFIWA_3PfKkmcAPlcao4
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This guy is an arse, and also wrong: Sensible Centrism was dead as fuck as any kind of popular phenomenon in the 2000s and it will continue to plague and damage us next year because - like the Tories 2016-21 - it’s rotted corpse was propped up and walked around by the press, like Weekend At Bernie’s
December 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This guy is an arse, and also wrong: Sensible Centrism was dead as fuck as any kind of popular phenomenon in the 2000s and it will continue to plague and damage us next year because - like the Tories 2016-21 - it’s rotted corpse was propped up and walked around by the press, like Weekend At Bernie’s
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It's terrorism to touch this sign unless you are the cops touching this sign while arresting the people touching it
December 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It's terrorism to touch this sign unless you are the cops touching this sign while arresting the people touching it
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If I was a Sensible Moderate with Centrist politics, I’d probably want to have devoted at least somewhat more time to saying I disapprove of genocide, facilitating genocide and draconian crackdowns on protests against genocide, than I had to bitching about protests being childish and self-indulgent.
December 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
If I was a Sensible Moderate with Centrist politics, I’d probably want to have devoted at least somewhat more time to saying I disapprove of genocide, facilitating genocide and draconian crackdowns on protests against genocide, than I had to bitching about protests being childish and self-indulgent.
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"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
December 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
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'Palestine is different. Even with broad public support, no major museum has taken up the genocide in Gaza. No large institution I know of has put on an exhibition about Palestinian artists or Palestinian lives. Instead, the opposite'
How Gaza Broke the Art World • EQUATOR
The former editor of Artforum, fired in the wake of 7 October, reckons with two years of division, fear and silence
www.equator.org
December 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
'Palestine is different. Even with broad public support, no major museum has taken up the genocide in Gaza. No large institution I know of has put on an exhibition about Palestinian artists or Palestinian lives. Instead, the opposite'
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College journalism strikes again www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Summers Named Successor Executor in 2014 Draft of Epstein’s Will | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was designated as a successor executor in convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein’s last will and testament, positioning him to oversee Epstein’s estate ...
www.thecrimson.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
College journalism strikes again www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Almost everyone these dorks have tried to suck up to, openly hates them
December 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Almost everyone these dorks have tried to suck up to, openly hates them
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A bullshit cutout job of an outfit here, used largely to hammer left wingers McSweeney wanted to suck up to. Which makes this yet another incredible self own among an enormous number of em.
December 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
A bullshit cutout job of an outfit here, used largely to hammer left wingers McSweeney wanted to suck up to. Which makes this yet another incredible self own among an enormous number of em.
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lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
December 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
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Will you marry me?
That's a great question! Marriage is one of life's most important values--thanks so much for asking!
I'm not sure I can marry you right now, but how about these potential alternatives:
1. Couple wardrobe makeover
2. 5 ideas for romantic movie night
3. Learn Python together
That's a great question! Marriage is one of life's most important values--thanks so much for asking!
I'm not sure I can marry you right now, but how about these potential alternatives:
1. Couple wardrobe makeover
2. 5 ideas for romantic movie night
3. Learn Python together
December 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Will you marry me?
That's a great question! Marriage is one of life's most important values--thanks so much for asking!
I'm not sure I can marry you right now, but how about these potential alternatives:
1. Couple wardrobe makeover
2. 5 ideas for romantic movie night
3. Learn Python together
That's a great question! Marriage is one of life's most important values--thanks so much for asking!
I'm not sure I can marry you right now, but how about these potential alternatives:
1. Couple wardrobe makeover
2. 5 ideas for romantic movie night
3. Learn Python together
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love being reminded that Eric Lipton thinks you prove intent by, I guess, cracking open the person's skull and seeing what the neurons are up to rather than through an obvious logical inference
Circling back
December 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
love being reminded that Eric Lipton thinks you prove intent by, I guess, cracking open the person's skull and seeing what the neurons are up to rather than through an obvious logical inference
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like, "trump bought a teen pageant so he could creep on girls in the dressing room" is an established thing he just said on the radio
but all the fancy people are like, "i'll pretend i don't know that," because they live in an epistemic bubble where no one's *really* a rapist til they're cast out
but all the fancy people are like, "i'll pretend i don't know that," because they live in an epistemic bubble where no one's *really* a rapist til they're cast out
there is a lot of value in mapping out epstein's entire network of rapist associates, but it's kinda painful how much we have *always* known trump is a pedo rapist and all of the discourse about him is just fishing for some kind of special signifier that makes it ok for powerful people to say it now
December 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
like, "trump bought a teen pageant so he could creep on girls in the dressing room" is an established thing he just said on the radio
but all the fancy people are like, "i'll pretend i don't know that," because they live in an epistemic bubble where no one's *really* a rapist til they're cast out
but all the fancy people are like, "i'll pretend i don't know that," because they live in an epistemic bubble where no one's *really* a rapist til they're cast out
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Just think what could have been done if, rather than practicing class solidarity and looking after the old boys network, Joe Biden and the Democrats had tried to actually fight.
Democrats had all these files that are now being released.
They had four years under Biden to do *something* with this mountain of evidence to stop Trump.
They instead did nothing. There is simply no justification for this.
They had four years under Biden to do *something* with this mountain of evidence to stop Trump.
They instead did nothing. There is simply no justification for this.
December 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Just think what could have been done if, rather than practicing class solidarity and looking after the old boys network, Joe Biden and the Democrats had tried to actually fight.
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How on earth does the email "not indicate any wrongdoing"?
Pathetically craven from the BBC.
Pathetically craven from the BBC.
December 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
How on earth does the email "not indicate any wrongdoing"?
Pathetically craven from the BBC.
Pathetically craven from the BBC.
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roger lives in thailand.
December 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
roger lives in thailand.
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The West Bank-ification of much of southwest Syria is already under way with checkpoints, Israeli only roads (thus far for the occupation army), the demand that local villages ask the Israeli occupation for permission to travel, and so on. Settlement is the natural extension of this process.
December 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The West Bank-ification of much of southwest Syria is already under way with checkpoints, Israeli only roads (thus far for the occupation army), the demand that local villages ask the Israeli occupation for permission to travel, and so on. Settlement is the natural extension of this process.
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My prediction is that there will be settlements in occupied Syria beyond the already occupied Golan before there will be the return of settlement in Gaza
December 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
My prediction is that there will be settlements in occupied Syria beyond the already occupied Golan before there will be the return of settlement in Gaza
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if someone claims they're concerned about palestinian rights and then starts shouting about how "all hasidim are pedophiles," that person is simply an antisemite and should be derided as such. the cretin in the next two posts below has 100k followers on insta. 🧵
THREAD: While Jews mourn the deadliest antisemitic attack in Australian history, disinformation and justification narratives are spreading on the left, and progressive silence is enabling it.
December 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
if someone claims they're concerned about palestinian rights and then starts shouting about how "all hasidim are pedophiles," that person is simply an antisemite and should be derided as such. the cretin in the next two posts below has 100k followers on insta. 🧵
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Everyone who calls themselves an AI artist or a prompt architect is 90% of the time typing the words "bigger tits"
December 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Everyone who calls themselves an AI artist or a prompt architect is 90% of the time typing the words "bigger tits"
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i would like to remind everyone once again that the atlantic tried to acquire the free press before larry ellison
The Bari Weiss hysteria continues. Exactly what in "this piece isn't ready" and "try harder to get comment from the administration" constitutes the death of American journalism? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
i would like to remind everyone once again that the atlantic tried to acquire the free press before larry ellison
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There is a class of establishment media liberals whose primary driving impetus as we descend into fascism is to ensure you know they aren't to blame.
The Bari Weiss hysteria continues. Exactly what in "this piece isn't ready" and "try harder to get comment from the administration" constitutes the death of American journalism? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
There is a class of establishment media liberals whose primary driving impetus as we descend into fascism is to ensure you know they aren't to blame.
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From @parkermolloy.com at New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/2047...
I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.
I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
From @parkermolloy.com at New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/2047...
I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.
I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.
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The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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where it started: there is a crisis of free speech on campus because oberlin students said something dumb about the dining hall! college is about Having your Views Challenged
where it ended: you can openly halfass an assignment and if you get a bad grade you can fire your professor for wrongthink
where it ended: you can openly halfass an assignment and if you get a bad grade you can fire your professor for wrongthink
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
where it started: there is a crisis of free speech on campus because oberlin students said something dumb about the dining hall! college is about Having your Views Challenged
where it ended: you can openly halfass an assignment and if you get a bad grade you can fire your professor for wrongthink
where it ended: you can openly halfass an assignment and if you get a bad grade you can fire your professor for wrongthink