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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 8h

Is it Southland Tales-level maximalist insanity?

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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had a great time talking with Andy about stepping on multiple metaphoric rakes throughout my life and career. Have a listen!

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings... A masterclass on the emotions & business of comics by the great @evandorkin.bsky.social! The “dangerous” 1970s NYC, becoming fearful, feeling like a screw-up, not wanting to be perceived + MORE! 🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsDo...

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There should be an edit feature, or at least a button you can click that says, "I made a typo" or maybe it's just a dunce cap symbol

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Renfield, can you tell me a an orb weaver tastes like?”

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Music criticism may be subjective, but there is one objective truth: if a writer says a band "sounds like Pavement", that band absolutely sounds like any other band in the history of recorded music

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For sale: Pagliacci tickets, never used

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Apologies, but it's one of those things I had to make in order to stop my brain from continually thinking it

a VERY REAL and TOTALLY NOT PHOTOSHOPPED old Penguin Modern Classics edition of R.E.M. Forster's Howards End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t necessarily want the AI bubble to burst because it will wreck a 2008-like economic crash, but if a byproduct of that is that it takes out Oracle (who are over leveraged with data centers) & the family who owns it, I will be smiling from my dirt hovel while I cook my boot stew

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

listen to my song “texas diarrhea bucket” or you are a snob

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings... Great talk with @hutchharris.bsky.social of The Thermals! Growing up in Silicon Valley, industrial musicals, the reality of making music for a living, acting camp + MORE! 🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsHu...

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Covid is fairly dangerous & N95s work to mitigate it. What’s the best way to combat the tidal wave of propaganda telling people the opposite though? Oh! What if a handful of loud, grotesque, off-putting, uncharismatic narcissists were the face of masking? That should turn the tide!

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And she’s a crazed hypocrite to boot? Love this shining avatar of solipsism as an ally!

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m so thrilled that one of the most prominent examples of why one should mask is also a repellant narcissist

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don’t know if this really good news, but WGA just informed everyone that after the merger goes through, we’ll be able to get residuals for saying racist things online.

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One of the things I'm really treasuring about this historical moment is the unrelenting stream of negative news, like a psychic Pompeii in slow motion.

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Maybe we should have taken Rob Bonta's fundraising e-mails at face value, and we wouldn't have been surprised at him allowing the merger to go through

a VERY REAL and TOTALLY NOT PHOTOSHOPPED screencap of a fundraising e-mail from Attorney General Rob Bonta that reads:

Andrew, I am working hard to protect you and Entertainment jobs from unnecessary and illegal mergers.

Can I count on you to chip in and help me with this battle?

Will I fold the moment the fight gets even slightly difficult? Will I make sure that all the writers, actors and craftspeople working in the Entertainment industry get no meaningful or material concessions from the, I repeat, illegal merger? Will I continually ask for money and then betray you in a way that makes Judas Iscariot look like Odysseus?

You bet your sweet bippy, I will!

Eat my ass and give me your money! You have no other option! It’s either business fascists or murder fascists, fucko! Pick one!

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It continually breaks my brain that the same president who spent decades of political capital to aid & abet a genocide was the same guy who was like, “Covid’s nothing! It’s barely a cold, you fucking pussies!” And 95% of the Left was like, “I’ll trust the mass murderer on this one specific issue!”

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

He's ready to vote on the "Monkeys Hosting 1950s Dance Show" Act

A picture of Mitch McConnell showing what's going on in his head these days. And it's a monkey dressed in a polka dot suit on a 1950s dance show.

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia and two hours later, this is announced:

a VERY REAL and TOTALLY NOT PHOTOSHOPPED ad for the Comedy Central/Riyadh Comedy Festival Roast of Mohammed Bin Salman.

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia and two hours later, this is announced:

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I hope this isn’t why the FBI dropped the beastiality disqualification

A tweet about how Shaq was just named an honorary FBI agent by Kash Patel

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

They’re in a surveillance room like the one from Sliver, but it’s all just dog butts and uncollected feces

A still from the movie Sliver showing a room filled with monitors

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Everyone wants to write a long Instagram post about how much David Lynch meant to them; no one wants to wear a mask.

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Zeitgeist: growing class consciousness; spreading contempt for the ruling class and their endemic corruption TV executives: "What if the main character of every show was a billionaire?"

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings... Great talk with Lira and Caufield of Sweeping Promises! Making art under fascism, academia, labor consciousness, existential naivete and MORE! 🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsSP...

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

*Reacher, covered in blood and knife wounds, being pursued by NYPD, FBI and CIA* “I need to blend in.” *puts on a soiled baseball cap he found in a dumpster* “That should do it.”

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hold on, the fundamentally defective technology that is poised to destroy the economy, costs exponentially more than it makes, uses so much water it leaves whole counties withered, taxes the electrical grid beyond capacity & literally poisons every community that hosts a data center is DANGEROUS?!?!

A still from CNN of two idiots talking about how AI could "kill us all by the end of the decade"

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today's the day I submit my proposal for a monument memorializing the victims of American violence. It is a giant piss-filled cube containing the corpses of war criminals like Dick Cheney. Hope Congress approves of it!

A picture of the National Mall with plans for a giant piss-filled cube containing the bodies of Dick Cheney, Henry Kissinger and other American mass murderers.

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world I don’t…he didn’t exist. Shit.” –definitely not The Devil

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of the things that keeps me up at night is the fear that AI will learn how to drink piss better than humans are able to. Can you imagine? Laptops using robot arms to dump mason jar after mason jar filled with hot piss all over the mainframe or whatever? Absolutely chilling.

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I put my sunglasses on in one smooth motion and pop the collar of my leather jacket. Glancing over my shoulder, I mutter, "Sometimes, you have to live dangerously." I pop an American-grown strawberry in my mouth and immediately shit my jeans so badly I am hospitalized for the next year.

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings... Thoughtful times with the wonderful David Rees, creator of Get Your War On! The performative self, not planning ahead existentially, sitting in silence, SST Records + MORE! 🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsDR...

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Comedy Central just started to make clips of old stand-up... what the heck was going on in the 1980s?

a TOTALLY REAL and VERY NOT PHOTOSHOPPED clip of Seinfeld talking about how bad airline food is... because the capybara steaks are just capybara gristle.

a TOTALLY REAL and VERY NOT PHOTOSHOPPED clip of Martin Lawrence talking about how women like to shop... for taxidermied capybaras

a TOTALLY REAL and VERY NOT PHOTOSHOPPED clip of Rodney Dangerfield saying how he gets now respect... unlike some large semiaquatic South American rodents

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Comedy Central just started to make clips of old stand-up... what the heck was going on in the 1980s?

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Everyone’s praising Robert Pattinson’s performance in this, but I’ll be honest, he neither looks nor sounds like Jiminy Glick

The poster for the new Robert Pattinson films Primetime. It’s just Robby from the clavicle up looking intensely with all the movie info at the bottom

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Marxist philosopher: The economic system is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. Interviewer: And is there hope for the future? Marxist: …No. I am hoping things hang together long enough for me to redeem my free Chipotle Ciabatta Bagel Stack as part of Panera’s Panini Club tho.

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🦇bat bisque🦇 @badbisque.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

we're shifting to a piss-based economy

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

•They met on the set of Tot-Skull Rec-Hell •Arnold was his only support after CK’s acrimonius divorce from Joyce DeWitt •CK was the death doula for Arnold’s donkey Chris •💐Hollywood friendships come and go, but TRUE FRIENDSHIPS endure forever💐 •Ghouls and weightlifters *can* be friends!

The Cryptkeeper and Arnold Schwarzenegger hanging out

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings... Wonderful talk with Elisabeth Esselink AKA Solex! WWII-era Indonesian internment camps, art as therapy, aesthetic pessimism, a sheltered childhood and MORE! 🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsSo...

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We love memes, don't we, folks?

A, one might say, brilliant meme depicting a woman feeding a treat to a dog. The treat is labeled "FOUR INTERLOCKING BEATLES BIOPICS" and the dog is labeled "THE ENTIRE BOOMER GENERATION ABOUT TO SHUFFLE OFF THE MORTAL COIL"

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It's "Recall Summer", baby!

A meme from last week's episode. I'll be honest, if you have difficulty seeing, it's honestly not worth typing what we said. It's a fun moment, but if you have to listen to a robot voice read this to you, you'd probably be like, "Well, that was a waste". If you're curious, I'd say listen to last week's Couples Therapy episode with Josh Johnson. It was really fun, and this is from the intro where we discuss "the dog days of summer".

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings... Great talk with Elanor Moss! Navigating the UK class structures, authenticity vs. integrity, being vulnerable in public, songwriting as a character + MORE! 🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsEM...

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Not even reading Zinn prepares you for the reality that the entire American political class is just a cadre of amoral psychopaths, servile cretins, babbling flunkies tongue-tied by their own incompetence, and jumped-up hillbillies drunk on ortolan bunting moonshine.

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