Andy Birch @outstandy.bsky.social · 6hi was fired a few weeks into my high school tenure at Subway for being "bad at making sandwiches" 120 0
Reposted by Andy Birchlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/10/2026agreed with the caveat that i think taco bell should make it explicit in their marketing that the chicken crunchwrap, their boldest innovation in decades, is transgender 352997385 0
Reposted by Andy Birchtweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 01/10/2026ok time to stake a claim: I don't generally think there's any evidence LLMs could write a rewarding novel of any sort EXCEPT they could definitely do a better job of _Ready Player One_ 1529425 0
Reposted by Andy BirchBryn Boice @brynboice.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I want to beg teachers and professors to bring back reading plays and stories aloud in class. It’s real, real-time, and different people *hear* different things in the text and are eager to discuss their takes. Empathy is imbedded in this work. 1783463 0
Reposted by Andy BirchGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 203190905452 0
Andy Birch @outstandy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026i went no contact with my mother for a couple of years and it was one of the (hardest! but) healthiest things for our relationship. Sometimes cutting a parent off is the best invitation you can give them to do the work! 000 0
Reposted by Andy BirchMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026This has been a slowly metastasizing moral panic for years: Liberals, drunk on therapy-speak, are cutting off their parents over minor slights and miscommunications. There is little evidence of the underlying phenomenon and even less of the cause. Look at this egregiously thin nut graf. 1423753227 0
Andy Birch @outstandy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026prob true of tech writ large tbh; being a designer has really been a dream career for the specific kinds of work and thinking i'm good at but it was a vastly different industry + world when i started in 2013 and i would never in a million years tell someone to swing for it 000 0
Reposted by Andy BirchChuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 04/08/2026wow what a blessing to exist 9655121 0
Reposted by Andy Birchbettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 27/07/2026The people who complain about empty bike lanes do not want full bike lanes. They want no bike lanes. 21594110 0
Reposted by Andy Bircholivianicolai.bsky.social @olivianicolai.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Incredible 2358638 0
Reposted by Andy BirchGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Yet another example of this being a pro-death administration. They are simultaneously making it harder to stop cars from wreaking havoc on our streets while also gutting programs that would enable people to get around safely outside of cars. 219955 0
Reposted by Andy BirchAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026This is, and I am not even joking, going to fuck up so many hyperlexic kids. I got accused of plagiarism because I used the word “porous” in a sixth grade paper and that shit sticks with you, if not on the permanent record, then in the childhood. 26768181569 0
Reposted by Andy BirchJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026This gun’s for hire, even if we’re just… 322085267 0
Reposted by Andy Birchthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15/07/2026solomon in 1 Kings 3 132335354 0
Reposted by Andy BirchErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Maybe you need to do your one minute of Clickens now. For mental health. clickens.chicken.pics 0104 0
Reposted by Andy BirchBill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 12/07/2026"England has defeated the Norwegians and is heading to meet the French" 421348 0
Andy Birch @outstandy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026gender euphoria but it’s being liked by a dog that bites men 020 0
Andy Birch @outstandy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026my ultramarathon hobby was unlocked 5 years ago because the running store guy was like "so your feet hurt after 10 miles because your shoes are too small" 050 0
Reposted by Andy BirchScam Ghouldin @scamgoldin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one. 7194623630 0
Reposted by Andy BirchDouglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 05/07/2026They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven. 9785451741 0
Reposted by Andy BirchJLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Baudrillard spinning in his grave so fast he torpedoes out of the hillside and remains airborne, lasers shooting out of his eyes with such force earth is cleanly cut in two 182079412 0
Andy Birch @outstandy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026like hurts my heart to see the doge name after they cannibalized it but they used to do really critical work! usds.gov/report-to-co...usds.govModernizing the Immigration System at DHS | United States DOGE ServiceThe Challenge Every year, the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) processes millions of immigration requests. This system is mostly paper-based, consist... 040 0
Andy Birch @outstandy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026no (nds has been a hideous, arrogant sham riding the coattails of the work USDS and 18F were doing to actually meaningfully rebuild and improve govtech for normal people) 1131 0
Reposted by Andy BirchCrippled Giraff Decals @crippledgiraff.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Having my organs removed and preserved in my collection of Dunkin' Canopic Jars. 2931471050 0
Reposted by Andy Birchbijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts! 12999991846 0
Reposted by Andy BirchHoratio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Calling The Atlantic to see if they’ll let me write 14k words about the impact of that Sears ad from the 90s. Europeans don’t have AC because they’re not scared their wives will leave them for not calling Sears. 618233 0
Andy Birch @outstandy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026a friend kindly made the 'an unexamined life…' quip in reference to my neck tattoos and dear buddy that is grievously overestimating the thought i put into any of them 010 0
Reposted by Andy BirchTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 06/06/2026A positive masculinity is one which annihilates the distinction and so annihilates itself entirely. 8926158 0
Reposted by Andy BirchAmanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 06/06/2026This is something I struggle with. I appreciate that men want models of how to be. But when we try to populate “positive masculinity” with traits — strong, smart, kind — they are all equally available to women. Masculinity and femininity are empty concepts, absent gender hierarchy. 471635302 0
Reposted by Andy BirchMarielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 13/11/2025Yeah I support LGBTQ Light rail Going from Brooklyn To Queens 628628 0
Andy Birch @outstandy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026lugged an air conditioner on/off the 1 to my 5th floor walkup on a 92° day and feel like i deserve several notches in my nyc rewards punch card 040 0
Reposted by Andy Birchhey man, this sucks @pykea.bsky.social · 31/01/2026"don't be clever, just be brave" is most of the rest of our lives, y'all 2518 0
Reposted by Andy BirchAaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 18/01/2026We have unlimited money for paramilitary forces that kidnap people off the streets but also have something called "school lunch debt" what are we doing here 71630392 0
Reposted by Andy BirchMaureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide! 61212630 0
Reposted by Andy Birchrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 22/10/2025If you can afford it, a *monetary* donation (it goes a lot farther!) to your local food bank would be a most excellent thing to do right now. 6638338 0
Reposted by Andy Birchpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 29/08/2025There’s one policy that Democrats could run on that guarantees they’d sweep back into power: making .webp images illegal 292009269 0
Reposted by Andy BirchMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 01/08/2025This is my advice to teenagers. You’re probably way meaner than you think you are - because people actually care about your opinion more than you think - and you’ll probably wish you had been kinder 840872 0
Reposted by Andy Birchannalise @casualpasta.bsky.social · 29/07/2025there are over 8 million people in this city and the fact that bananas shit doesn’t happen more often is a testament not to cops or politicians but to the fact that people aren’t as violent or scary as some would like us to think 111615291 0
Reposted by Andy BirchAlex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 27/06/2025I will keep pounding the drum that we must utterly abolish and destroy the concept of "parental rights". There are parental *responsibilities*, and those responsibilities may involve parents being given the latitude to decide what is in the child's interests. But no "rights" over another human being 414739 0
