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Andrew Killeen

@andrewkilleen.bsky.social
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Writer, teacher and learner. Proud dad, proud Brummie, unashamed leftie. Currently wandering the world. Happily married, no DMs thanks.

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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ritu Arya should be the next James Bond. That is all.
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm sure it's cool to sneer at it, but Celebrity Traitors is an absolute hoot of a TV show
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 01/10/2026
I wrote a little something about how we should better separate the legitimacy of the challenges people are experiencing from the legitimacy of what they're then holding up as the solution to those problems. dmitryopines.substack.com/p/on-legitim...
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On Legitimate Concerns
Problems, Policies and How To Parse Them
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Read an interesting thread yesterday comparing disposable income/quality of life in the 70s to now. The consensus was that the best time for ordinary working people was 97-07. Clearly the point where it all went wrong was when a financial/private sector crisis was met with public spending cuts.
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Repost with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only)
Murun Buchstansungur
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Macklemore: "I'm not the victim, Palestinian children are the victims." Ed Sheeran: "I'm very much the victim here."
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you post AI videos or images, I will mute you. Sorry, you may be a lovely person, you may be making an excellent point I agree with 100%, but it's a zero tolerance thing.
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Starting season 2 of The Pitt with a weird mixture of excitement and dread
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 14/09/2026
Adèle Haenel draws a connection between speaking up about sexual abuse & speaking up about the genocide in Palestine & the silencing of both, caused the whole episode to be wiped, thus proving her point as she said. Wd be a shame if everyone watched & shared. www.instagram.com/reel/DdH32Ai...
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Things I was frightened of as a child: Nuns Rabies Daleks The title sequence of The Tomorrow People (not the actual programme, which was really boring) Teenagers in the park. And the park keeper, who was supposed to keep us safe from the teenagers.
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Incredible that there's virtually no coverage of events in Yemen on UK news. I think they haven't been explaining things there to viewers for so long that they now don't know how to make it into a 3 minute narrative.
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's funny, nobody says we shouldn't criticise the government of Iran because it might lead to Islamophobic attacks on mosques
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I wonder how many problems would be solved if we invested millions of dollars in human beings www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades
Company behind ChatGPT says 10,000 of its AI systems cracked the Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hours
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Making maps more accurate is a "mockery of the purpose of the UN," says government that keeps unilaterally renaming bodies of water usun.usmission.gov/explanation-...
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Explanation of Vote Before the Vote for UNGA 80 Adoption on the Resolution to “Correct the Map”
This resolution mocks the work and purpose of this institution. While this initiative is presented as an anodyne effort to update cartographic proportions, the United States clearly sees it cannot be ...
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So... Holding up a placard is terrorism, but masked men blockading a major port is legitimate protest? Have I got that right?
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The worst thing about the Reform scandal is it will change nothing. The regulators are useless, the media supine, and illegality and corruption are already priced in for right wing voters.
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Agricultural collective hires specialist consultants when faced with hostile takeover
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Amaranthine Dewhurst
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Well, that's a satisfying three away points against one of our more recent and unlikely rivals 😁 would it be ungrateful now to ask for a goal from our forwards? #bcfc #kro
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
1. You don't make friends with salad 2. Say the line, Bart 3. We were beaten by the best 4. There's (shakes head, stern face) and there's (nods head, smiley face) 5. Now let us never speak of it again
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I'm watching a TV show and someone was smoking... And there was a little caption in the corner saying "Smoking causes cancer". Is that a thing now? Not cancer link obvs, but the onscreen health warning?
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The (very moving) tributes to Kevin Keegan reminded me of the 70s graffiti: "Jesus saves, but Keegan scores on the rebound." Then it occurred to me that graffiti was once the medium for viral content, for what we now call memes. Not all of it of course, but pre-tagging it had that function...
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Dad: Oh for God's sake, there's plenty for both of you! If you can't learn to share, nobody's having the cup at all.
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I was working on my laptop with the cricket vaguely on in the background, when I was surprised to hear my son ask me what I knew about cocks. It took a baffled moment before I worked out he was asking what I knew about new England batter Jordan Cox.
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Solid midtable performance from the Blues there 😁 #bcfc #kro
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Trump knowingly sent a plane full of staff and journalists into danger he wasn't prepared to face himself... And also sent them on his old plane so his shiny new Qatari plane wasn't risked.
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 24/07/2026
ARE YOU COMING TO TRANS+ PRIDE LONDON TMRW? The amazing bookstore + gallery where I work is literally steps away from Langham Place at 93 Mortimer St. @ibraaz.bsky.social Cafe opens 10 am w/ amazing homemade Tunisian cookies & cake & coffee Books from 11am–6pm Homosexual Intifada? IN STOCK
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
History books tell you that Richard III was a "hunchback". This is a misunderstanding of the original texts, which described him as someone who "backed his hunches", i.e. he was someone who trusted his own judgement. Tudor propaganda has led to this misconception.
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Dinsdale Piranha @heptaglemious.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Absolutely. 🔥 Brexit is a clusterfuck, we need to rejoin the EU 🔥 Climate change is killing us, we need net zero 🔥 The NHS and social care are dying, we need the rich to pay more tax 🔥 Full employment is never happening again, we need UBI
Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Argentina were an absolute disgrace, should never have been in that final. Messi the most overrated player in history.
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I know all the miserable gits will be along in a minute, but can we just seize this opportunity to acknowledge how fabulously, ludicrously entertaining that was? No simulation, hardly any cards, no VAR controversy, just fast, slick, end to end football, with handshakes at the end. Wonderful stuff
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Tell me again how the third place playoff is a pointless game nobody cares about
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I forgot my most unpopular opinion of all... The 3rd place playoff is a great chance for disappointed semifinalists to achieve a kind of redemption, and I'm really looking forward to tonight's game.
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Going to put all my unpopular opinions in one place: 1. Tuchel absolutely has to take responsibility for the Argentina defeat. Every proper football fan watching knew he got it wrong at the time. 2. Kane probably was given little choice about golfing with Trump, and being nice about it afterward.
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It's easy to spot the people commenting on the WC who aren't really into football, they have absolutely no sense of proportion about it. Or humour.
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I'm writing a thriller about a populist politician facing scandal who rejects the idea of distraction by fake assassination attempt as too risky, and instead arranges for his Russian associates to bump off an elderly, no longer useful but high profile member of his party. Is it too implausible? 🤷
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Don't know if I'll stay awake for this game, but anyone assuming an Argentina victory might be in for a surprise
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Were England lucky? Yes. Was it a fix? Feck no, what's wrong with you?
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Loving all the takes on the football from people who don't watch football and know nothing about it but judge it entirely through the lens of global politics
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Norway 1, Bellingham 2
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
A reminder: from the geniuses that brought you Brexit
Daily Mail article arguing that "divisive and petulant" (read: "talented and Black") Bellingham should not go to the World Cup. "Leave Jude at Home"
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
England looking very much second best now
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I just hope everyone has fun and both sides do their best
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
You don't have to think Count Binface is funny, to find the idea of him beating Farage in a by-election absolutely hilarious.
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Sad kitten with caption "when you know all the neutrals want your team to lose"
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
While it's satsifying to see mainstream media finally looking into the murky funding of Farage and his party/company, WHY DID IT TAKE THEM SO LONG? It only feeds into his narrative if persecution. If they'd be on this years ago he'd never have got so far.
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Take me down to the Paradox City Where there is a girl such that, if she is pretty, then all the girls are pretty
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
VAR has been a disaster for this tournament. Referees are human and make mistakes in the heat of the moment, but a decision to review or not review a decision in front of a bank of screens is always going to look like a fix.
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Where am I? (Three views from the same location)
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Andrew Killeen @andrewkilleen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I know we won, but it is a scathing indictment of Tuchel's selections that we ended up with one of our most talented midfielders playing right-back.
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