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Andrew Nahem
@lowdudgeon.bsky.social
256 levels of dudgeon

The Manhattan of top hats, endless rounds of martinis, and lorgnettes ⌈⁰⁰
That’s a hilarious reason to use Spotify: because you hate the people who make the music you listen to.
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I mean, I still read my trash performatively. I'm out there all the time on the bench with my new Dan Brown, smiling and chuckling, nodding furiously, as the ladies walk by.
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
THEY WERE LOSING AN AWFUL LOT OF WEIGHT
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Same.
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
AND ANOTHER THING that really bugged me, which Matthew Parkinson-Bennett puts more eloquently than I could have:

bsky.app/profile/matt...
Pluribus on Apple TV: I was excited to see the amazing actress from Better Call Saul have her own show, and it’s a great concept and compelling execution. But it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen in a long time.
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
but it just doesn't play. Yes, most people are idiots, conformist slugs, but I think it might have worked if SOMEONE slightly saw her side, or there was a real debate. Something.
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Carol herself also fails to read the room. “So what's the plan?” when these people obviously don't give a fuck.

But she, like me, is reasonably nonplussed by this reaction because IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, doesn't work as writing. I get that the show wants her to be isolated, alone in her fight,
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Aliens have taken over Earth, turned all your loved ones into pod people (“He's not your son!” “Yes he is!” is the stunning refutation to this), changed everything in your life completely, but they're just chill, that's cool?
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Some have their reasons, there is a sort of “debate,” yet NOT ONE of Carol's very rational points lands with any of them, at all, even for a moment. It's seems unbelievable to me that none of them would be remotely bothered by this, besides being lonely and wanting to join the hive.
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Yes! I noticed that too. That whole sequence bothered me, but that was weird.
November 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Ah, okay.
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Huh. That could well be it. Very close to Gothenburg. My cousins commute between them.
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Not Tjörn, by any chance? (Relatives live there.)
November 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I’m adding that to my proposed list of honorifics. Madman/Madess.
November 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Yes, Madess.
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I thought maybe the fucking clouds would do their goddam job and blot out that fiery orb, but no, they’re “quiet quitting,” as usual.

#FuckingClouds
November 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
To be fair, it DOES look like it's going to be a merry Spider Megacity Christmas ❆🕷️🕸️⛄️‼️
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Right, of course. How thoughtless of me.
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Might have to change your screen name to Sexy Spider Megacity.
November 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM