Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Will Self…yes…would that one could “will self”… 030
Reposted by Rory McCarthyJess Shand Smith @jdshandsmith.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Classic @roryisconfused.bsky.social tweet 15111
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Hanging out w/ 2 year old niece, holding her up with one hand while watering plants with a watering can with my other hand, “and shall we water this one? And this one?”, 3 year old nephew comes up behind me and shouts “I am knuckles” and starts repeatedly punching me in the spine 090
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 09/04/2026The thing is that I’ll go to the pub with friends and have a few drinks and a laugh and it’ll be great and the next day I’ll be walking through London and see some people having a few drinks and a laugh outside the pub and feel that I am forever excluded from the joys of life 0140
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 03/03/2026What I like about the opening of ‘The Boys Are Back in Town’ is how he starts with “guess who just got back today?”, implying that you’ll probably exuberantly respond with “the boys???” 040
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 08/02/2026My three year old nephew video called me while I was at a party in a bar yesterday, wound up in a smoking area with headphones in going “that’s amazing man, that’s such a cool power ranger. And he has a bike too, that’s an amazing bike. What’s the power ranger’s name?” 160
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 07/02/2026I once played drums for a jazz band and it was nothing like Whiplash, but also I once worked at a bookstore that was exactly like Whiplash 010
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Millennials are so old that The Kooks are now protected by Unesco World Heritage 0135
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 01/02/2026feel like we’ve lost the 90s archetype of the slacker in quite a profound and mystifying way, feel like we lost something important with him too 240
Reposted by Rory McCarthyKit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 01/02/2026£500 given out to a working class writer every month. Details in link. Please share :)thewhitepube.co.ukThe Creatives Grantlet's make art less middle class 1200208
Reposted by Rory McCarthyUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Her boredom rose so strong in her sometimes that it felt like terror: it took her by the throat. Not long ago she had been driven to speak of it. She had to talk, she thought, or she would go mad. 0173
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Hello pals, where would be good places to pitch reviews for upcoming novels if I haven’t much of a CV doing such a thing? 010
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Seeing videos of AI-generated fascist propaganda gives me the strong feeling that I’m in some sort of “bad timeline” and that there must be a “good timeline” somewhere where AI doesn’t exist and I’m making a decent wage 080
Reposted by Rory McCarthyChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/01/2026I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...haaretz.comIDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the warAlthough Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun... 15862232159
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 29/01/2026It’s sort of strange how there’s not more overt Sonic Youth influence in guitar music since they’ve been around. Like, they left their mark in different ways on Nirvana (abrasive noise) and Pavement (a sort of open-ended approach to guitar, messy clean tones etc.), but… 120
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Really into the bit in Audrey Hobert’s Sue Me where it sounds like a Crystal Castles song 100
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 29/01/2026I have a deep hatred of that idea that The Lord of the Flies has been ‘disproven’ by that story of those kids on that island 220
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 28/01/2026St. Albans! I went to school there! I think it’s the most cursed place on earth. 000
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I have a Uniqlo voucher but I have all I need from Uniqlo…what should I get from Uniqlo? 200
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 27/01/2026People are uniquely strange online about the band Geese 000
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 26/01/2026I was never a Harry Potter kid in the first place, I had a sort of oppositional defiance against the whole fad…I was instead a Series of Unfortunate Events child, a child who precociously already had Depression 130
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Community and Taskmaster and a general theory of comedy having some sort of pure relation to play, to simply playing games 030
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 26/01/2026The Free Solo guy just reminds me of when I was on Hinge for a while and I went on 3 dates in a row with women who climb, purely coincidentally. I don’t know why. I’m not that tall. 010
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Paranoia, and specifically social media induced paranoia, is the great underrated element of the modern era. 020
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 26/01/2026The rats are all fleeing the sinking ship to instead board what shall be known as ‘the tyrannical rat ship’ 171
Reposted by Rory McCarthydepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 26/01/2026via wiktionary 152562645
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 25/01/2026One of the two best films of this decade, I think 3130
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Sophie laughed a lot at the fact that when she went off on a work trip for a few days I started reading this. She said it’s like something you’d find Gromit the dog reading if Wallace had to leave him alone for a few days. 082
Reposted by Rory McCarthyJan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.” Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism. 37467841828
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Apropos of all these Minnesota stuff, I thought I’d say that I once spent a day there when I was staying out in Wisconsin. Only took these photos. Very chilly place. 040
Reposted by Rory McCarthyWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Historians believe the ‘Mini-polis’ or ‘small-city’ to be an allegorical or metaphorical place, possibly an agglomeration of several different cities, given the unlikelihood of so many significant events occurring rapidly in such a small place. 979298
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 24/01/2026And he was an ICU nurse. An ICU nurse who was just trying to help someone. It is insane. 111635
Reposted by Rory McCarthyAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity 1020257039770
Reposted by Rory McCarthyMatt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year. 142207037876
Reposted by Rory McCarthyMorgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026I have been yelled at for similar takes on here before but this all to me seems completely intuitive. It's good of the Economist to evidence that doing homework on the distraction machine is worse than pen and paper but I'd really only need to self crit the inside of my own head to know this. 1316
Reposted by Rory McCarthyAdolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 24/01/2026"some tools emphasise gamification at the expense of education, meaning that children focus more on winning points than mastering concepts" cc @alfiekohn.bsky.social 1155
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Ever since I found out ‘The Only Living Boy in New York’ was written by Paul Simon about missing Garfunkel when he was away doing a film, I’ve always imagined Garfunkel’s ending ‘ahhh, here I am’ bit as sung by a gigantic Garfunkel head emerging from the skies above New York to delight Paul Simon 311214
Reposted by Rory McCarthythe hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 06/01/2026very well then. send as many men as you can spare. and fresh horses for all of them (covering the phone and leaning over to talk to my wife, the queen) an egg fell. off a wall 0442148
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 22/01/2026The ‘new shoes’ that Paolo Nutini sang about in his 2006 hit ‘new shoes’ are now 20 years old. They would be old shoes now. 2104
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Probably the most profound, straightforward description of what the traumatic actually is 160
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 15/01/2026It’s Philip K. Dick’s world, we’re only just barely surviving in it 040
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 18/11/2025The stipulation that our cat scratches her scratching post but not the couch or the rug probably seems torturously baffling and even positively Kafkaesque to her. As such do the bizarre and incomprehensible vagaries of life appear to us all 020
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Hey u lot what music should I listen to if I wanna listen to more music like Big Thief 200
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Ah…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… 1359
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 16/10/2025I love the bit on synesthesia in the new Patricia Lockwood 47516
Reposted by Rory McCarthyMatt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 27/09/2025I was saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Kaleb Horton. (See thread below.) One of the best American writers of his generation. Most recently at Rolling Stone, but at every outlet where his byline appeared, he had that very rare gift for literary eloquence that read like ordinary speech. 438775
