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Exactly, that’s the dilemma. The platform’s worst instincts are loud, but the good people keep pulling me back. Feels like a microcosm of the internet in general. I’ll keep one foot in both for now and see how it goes.

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Hi my lovely, yes I’m here, it better be much better, or I’m throwing a tantrum

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Cat Cute

ALT: Cat Cute

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Lovely walls. I’m retrying this site as I’m getting tired idling through that great sewer of human vanity and bad faith known as Twitter.” Perhaps it’s not dying so much as finally collapsing under the weight of its own worst instincts.

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Kudos to her for admitting to that.

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Hello you beautiful people I’m back. I can’t be doing idling through that great sewer of human vanity and bad faith known as Twitter. It’s not dying so much as finally collapsing under the weight of its own worst instincts.

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Won’t be long before there’s enough Reform Tories to make a leadership challenge. Farage is so gullible

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

No she’s cashing out to get her pension and walk away from all the insider trading she did when jump was playing with tariffs

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Meanwhile I’m diving with whale sharks and manta rays, forgetting to breathe, and thinking maybe I should check on the coral before it melts without me.

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

After an absurdly scenic seaplane ride, we arrived at LUX Maldives. Where we were greeted by the charming Gabriella, with a lemon-scented towel — the first of many unbearable luxuries. Cocktails, signatures, then our villa with flower messages, fruit, cake, and champagne. The suffering continues. 😉

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Good morning. The sun has risen over our beach villa. It’s glorious. Our first night at LUX set the tone at East Market — imagine an Asian street market floating over turquoise water, live cooking stations everywhere, food so good it should come with a warning. The suffering continues, beautifully

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Breakfast at Lux Maldives, bare feet mandatory. Sandy beach, thatched roofs, breezy perfection. Buffet so generous it’s a heroic struggle. Staff already know our names. Everything you could wish for. The suffering continues, deliciously.

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Just stumbled across this on Apple and… wow. Instantly transported me back to the early ’80s—vinyl on the hi-fi, hairspray in the air, that mix of nostalgia and drama that only that decade could pull off. It’s easy to forget just how incredible Streisand’s voice is. music.apple.com/gb/album/gui...

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Guilty (Duet With Barry Gibb) by Barbra Streisand on Apple Music

Song · 1980 · Duration 4:26

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Exactly. It’s like they want you to wear the flag as a costume, not actually understand why it’s there. Patriotism as decoration, culture as optional — all the pride, none of the thought.

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Because Tim, politics in Britain now punishes choices that don’t boost GDP. The “rip-off degree” panic is middlebrow moralism—learning must have ROI, universities are job factories, and studying English is seen as a luxury, not the foundation of language itself.

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

That painting is stunning. I totally get the struggle of finding time, but even small bursts of creativity could reignite that spark. Quitting the day job might be a dream, but every masterpiece begins with a single brushstroke! 😄

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

He’s going to be angry very angry. The committee look for actual, sustained diplomacy — treaties, conflict resolution, verifiable change. Trump’s foreign policy is all spectacle: a summit here, a tweet there, and then a return to threats.

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I wouldn’t worry too much about typos - this was put out yesterday by Staffordshire Reform Cllr Dave Poole. it’s glorious, isn’t it? Like a GCSE PowerPoint presentation that escaped captivity. fat right” You couldn’t invent a better Freudian typo if you tried.

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Well, my CT angiogram yesterday evening didn’t quite go to plan — my heart refused to slow down below 60 bpm, despite heroic efforts from IV beta blockers 😅 Radiology were excellent and have rescheduled it for after I get back from the Maldives, so the sun, sand, and cocktails won for now.

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

that’s exactly why I ditched TV — it’s rarely worth the attention, but background noise is basically a social crutch for one’s own brain. Music’s the better companion anyway; at least it doesn’t judge your life choices or leave you hanging after a cliffhanger.

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

That’s the modern dilemma, isn’t it? An ocean of content and not a drop worth watching. You’re better off staring at a blank wall—it’s got better pacing and fewer plot holes. I escaped the cult of the glowing rectangle long ago.

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

The following article is basically a polite public service announcement dressed up as science reporting: “please stop eating red mushrooms with white spots because TikTok told you they’re magic.” theconversation.com/interest-gro...

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Interest grows in fly agaric – but here’s why you shouldn’t confuse it with ‘magic mushrooms’

The Alice in Wonderland mushroom is being sold online with vague promises of better health. Buyer beware.

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Mushrooms are not plants they belong to their own biological kingdom, Fungi because they lack chlorophyll and cannot perform photosynthesis. Instead, fungi are heterotrophs, meaning they must absorb nutrients from external sources, much like animals, by secreting enzymes to break down organic matter

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

1,000 people trapped on Everest in a storm—tents collapsing, hypothermia reported. Extreme weather, floods, typhoons… and yet here we are, still treating the world’s highest peak like a theme park. The absurdity of mass tourism in the age of climate change.

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Just finished Smith’s Rewriting the First Crusade—where half the “eyewitness letters” turned out to be monks play-acting at crusading with quills. Now I’m waiting on The Third Crusade (1189–1192): New Interpretations. Curious to see what’s left once the scholars are done with the myths.

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Exactly. The Tories have turned opposition into a contest of cruelty and spectacle. Until they face their failures and rebuild with serious leadership, they’re irrelevant—and that vacuum only fuels the forces the country should fear most.

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Consequential Culture” equals Cancel Culture in a clown suit: the powerful get banquets, the powerless get cancelled, and language bends itself into Kafkaesque/Orwellian pretzels to make it all feel inevitable. Lee’s point: the rules aren’t applied equally. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

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DOUBLETHINK DOES DOUBLETIME

STEWART LEE

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

That’s a theological mic drop if I’ve ever seen one. The Sermon on the Mount didn’t quite cover “Blessed are the racists, for they shall get absolutely rinsed,” but the subtext was clear enough. If Jesus came back tomorrow, half the “Christian patriots” would call immigration on him before lunch.

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

“Went to this place and asked for fish and chips. The guy gave me a funny look and said the only sides were rice or pitta bread. I asked if he meant he’d run out of chips, and he said no, no-one had ever asked him for chips with fish before, and personally he didn’t think they’d go together.” JF

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The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

So Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, has taken the position that it’s unacceptable to protest against Israel’s ongoing campaign of mass killings, not because of legality or public safety, but because such protests might ‘hurt the feelings’ of Jews living in the UK. How is it not antisemitic?

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