Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Will Self…yes…would that one could “will self”… 030 3
Reposted by Rory McCarthyJess Shand Smith @jdshandsmith.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Classic @roryisconfused.bsky.social tweet 15111 51
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 9
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 14
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 4
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Afterwards someone in the smoking area said “were you just video calling a child?” And I said “yes” and they said “oh. Oh I guess that’s okay then” 050 5
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 6
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 1
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 04/02/2026It could be worse, you could have developed a fetish for shooting multiple arrows into people 120 2
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Millennials are so old that The Kooks are now protected by Unesco World Heritage 0135 13
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 01/02/2026bsky.app/profile/kier... As ever, material conditions are very, very, very relevant here. Geoff Dyer describes getting out of uni and having a flat in Brixton where he could buy food, books, alcohol and weed on the dole. Last time I was on it it was about £70 a month. Barely covers your phone bill. 060 6
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 4
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 208
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Catch anything particularly good there lately? 200 2
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 17
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 1
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 8
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... 15862162156 6.2K
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 29/01/2026…you basically never encounter a new band and think ‘ahh, they’re doing a Sonic Youth thing’. And they were so spectacularly inventive as guitarists that you’d think it’d be more of an endless direct mine of influence for others. 130 3
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 2
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 29/01/2026It sounds like a Crystal Castles song that has been transformed through several layers of filtering into a Taylor Swift song, or vaguely and thinly vice versa 000 0
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 1
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 2
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 0
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 2
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 27/01/2026People are uniquely strange online about the band Geese 000 0
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 26/01/2026W/ Artemis Fowl and Garth Nix on the side 120 2
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 3
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 3
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 1
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Paranoia, and specifically social media induced paranoia, is the great underrated element of the modern era. 020 2
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 7
Reposted by Rory McCarthydepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 26/01/2026via wiktionary 152561645 2.6K
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 25/01/2026A lot of people really don’t like it at all! It’s very particular. I think there’s a sort of vibe you tune into or don’t with it, and if you don’t it must all just register as unbearably slow. 010 1
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 25/01/2026bsky.app/profile/jahd... I also really loved this. This, ‘Flesh’ by David Szalay, and ‘To Rest Our Minds and Bodies’ are my favourite novels to have come out in the last year I think 050 5
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 25/01/2026One of the two best films of this decade, I think 3130 13
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 8
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. 37467831828 6.8K
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 25/01/2026If I were to drill a bit further into this it’s probably somehow related to every young Tory woman I know also loving Taylor Swift 000 0
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Definitely lib coded (or lib in America, centrist with American fascinations in Britain, I feel?), seen as tacky by your standard leftist, but just personally/anecdotally, I’ve only ever known Tory women here to like it, for whatever reason. Like Republicans liking Rage Against the Machine, etc. 100 1
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I just want to earnestly say that the only people I’ve ever met who love Hamilton are young Tory women 210 2
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 4
