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”. U can buy me (an unemployed dude) a coffee while I hunt for jobs here https://ko-fi.com/roryisconfused
Ah…someone has committed the only truly chic crime…even as we speak, a suave art thief makes their way through Paris to the sound of quick, tense jazz…
October 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Ah…someone has committed the only truly chic crime…even as we speak, a suave art thief makes their way through Paris to the sound of quick, tense jazz…
I love the bit on synesthesia in the new Patricia Lockwood
October 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I love the bit on synesthesia in the new Patricia Lockwood
Saw a Labour councillor boasting about the tariffs Starmer had negotiated with Trump, and have just seen this too. It becomes the only thing Keir’s fans can brag about: thus far, he’s managed to suck up pretty well to a fascist, he’s managed to make him bully us less than he bullies other countries.
September 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Saw a Labour councillor boasting about the tariffs Starmer had negotiated with Trump, and have just seen this too. It becomes the only thing Keir’s fans can brag about: thus far, he’s managed to suck up pretty well to a fascist, he’s managed to make him bully us less than he bullies other countries.
Really liked this new LRB piece on Gertrude Stein — makes me feel silly for not having read her yet. You can see a lot of where (e.g.) Claire-Louise Bennett has come from; and she intensifies what it is I like so much about Ernest Hemingway (which I don’t find at all in, say, uh, Tom Clancy)
September 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Really liked this new LRB piece on Gertrude Stein — makes me feel silly for not having read her yet. You can see a lot of where (e.g.) Claire-Louise Bennett has come from; and she intensifies what it is I like so much about Ernest Hemingway (which I don’t find at all in, say, uh, Tom Clancy)
Doestoevsky, innit. There’s been a hollowing-out in these sorts, a terminal lack of self-respect, an absolute emptiness that follows, an unmoored irritability and lashing out as a result.
There’re so many out there who take nothing seriously except their own aggression.
There’re so many out there who take nothing seriously except their own aggression.
September 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Doestoevsky, innit. There’s been a hollowing-out in these sorts, a terminal lack of self-respect, an absolute emptiness that follows, an unmoored irritability and lashing out as a result.
There’re so many out there who take nothing seriously except their own aggression.
There’re so many out there who take nothing seriously except their own aggression.
You know, while the “is he a groyper or a radical leftist?” debate rages on, one thing we can definitely say with the ‘if you read this you’re gay’ casing and all is that this killer was into that eerie irony-nihilist affect that’s been plaguing the internet forever, and which is only getting worse
September 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
You know, while the “is he a groyper or a radical leftist?” debate rages on, one thing we can definitely say with the ‘if you read this you’re gay’ casing and all is that this killer was into that eerie irony-nihilist affect that’s been plaguing the internet forever, and which is only getting worse
The sheer eeriness…it should be a bang barge, and it should slither down the canals of England, arriving with a fog as obscure as stone and bone-chilling cold. A single hooded gondolier pushing it along with a stick should summon young men within with a curling, skeletal finger in deathly silence.
September 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The sheer eeriness…it should be a bang barge, and it should slither down the canals of England, arriving with a fog as obscure as stone and bone-chilling cold. A single hooded gondolier pushing it along with a stick should summon young men within with a curling, skeletal finger in deathly silence.
Girlfriend is off on a worktrip so I’m going fucking wild and watching Gilmore Girls with the cat
July 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Girlfriend is off on a worktrip so I’m going fucking wild and watching Gilmore Girls with the cat
My dad’s picked up this habit of pointlessly buying davenports (see below) on auction sites (for actually surprisingly cheap prices) and my mum’s taunting him on the family whatsapp for it
March 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
My dad’s picked up this habit of pointlessly buying davenports (see below) on auction sites (for actually surprisingly cheap prices) and my mum’s taunting him on the family whatsapp for it
After doing this I realised that actually best actress should be Marianne Jean-Baptiste for Hard Truths but otherwise here’s my take
March 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
After doing this I realised that actually best actress should be Marianne Jean-Baptiste for Hard Truths but otherwise here’s my take
@townsendyesmate.bsky.social have you seen this…?
February 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
@townsendyesmate.bsky.social have you seen this…?
A computer originally meant a person who performs arithmetical sums, and for the longest time computers were just calculators, perfect at increasingly complex sums, but computers have now progressed so far that they’re now actually getting worse and worse at maths
February 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A computer originally meant a person who performs arithmetical sums, and for the longest time computers were just calculators, perfect at increasingly complex sums, but computers have now progressed so far that they’re now actually getting worse and worse at maths
No matter how popular a weird tweet I’d do would get there’d be people going “I’m not interested in this sort of thinking so no one wants to hear this, shut up”, you know?
February 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
No matter how popular a weird tweet I’d do would get there’d be people going “I’m not interested in this sort of thinking so no one wants to hear this, shut up”, you know?
Hahahahahahaha
February 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Hahahahahahaha
Sorry to Musk post but this does seem significant
February 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Sorry to Musk post but this does seem significant
Nazi-esque eugenic racism is not a firing offence but pointing it out is “possibly criminal”, what a world
February 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Nazi-esque eugenic racism is not a firing offence but pointing it out is “possibly criminal”, what a world
If you’re wondering if I’m cool, it’s a Friday night and my girlfriend’s pointed out I have the same mandolin as Toby Jones in The Detectorists
February 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
If you’re wondering if I’m cool, it’s a Friday night and my girlfriend’s pointed out I have the same mandolin as Toby Jones in The Detectorists
“We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people”, as if Woodward and Bernstein were doing something untoward by breaking Watergate
February 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people”, as if Woodward and Bernstein were doing something untoward by breaking Watergate
February 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Trump’s “bibliography” actually gives the same message as his platform, over and over – buy this book/vote for me, and you’ll become as wealthy as I am.
February 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Trump’s “bibliography” actually gives the same message as his platform, over and over – buy this book/vote for me, and you’ll become as wealthy as I am.
We’re plasticising! How exciting
February 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
We’re plasticising! How exciting