@roryisconfused Unwell Rory, sickly Rory
Unwell Rory, sickly Rory posts on X about in the, charli xcx, jdvance, theory the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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Social category influence musicians 3.65% celebrities 2.92% travel destinations 2.19% countries 1.46% finance 1.46% technology brands 1.46% gaming 0.73% social networks 0.73% luxury brands 0.73% us election 0.73%
Social topic influence in the 2.19%, charli xcx 2.19%, jdvance 1.46%, theory 1.46%, the first 1.46%, ai 1.46%, london 1.46%, murder 1.46%, rfk 1.46%, drift 1.46%
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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Imagine this in a Spaghetti Western film you know As much as its snowy northern folk it would also perfectly suit Clint Eastwood riding a horse through a desert 🌵 https://youtu.be/DrQRS40OKNEsi=0u3wN8n-JuqY-47Z https://youtu.be/DrQRS40OKNEsi=0u3wN8n-JuqY-47Z"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:24Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@JDVance You like the soundtrack to Garden State. Why are you lying to yourself like this. What have you become JD"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:02Z 15K followers, 153.3K engagements
"My pet theory based on JD Vances love of Garden State is that he named himself JD after JD the protagonist played by Zach Braff in Scrubs @JDVance You like the soundtrack to Garden State. Why are you lying to yourself like this. What have you become JD @JDVance You like the soundtrack to Garden State. Why are you lying to yourself like this. What have you become JD"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:02Z 15K followers, 148K engagements
"Another thing were losing and this is also owing to material conditions and the current shape of the internet is the noble idea of the journalist as a grizzled burnt-out detective sort. They dont go to events they dont influence theyre just endlessly travailed. feel like weve lost the 90s archetype of the slacker in quite a profound and mystifying way feel like we lost something important with him too feel like weve lost the 90s archetype of the slacker in quite a profound and mystifying way feel like we lost something important with him too"
X Link 2026-02-04T15:44Z 15.1K followers, 143.2K engagements
"I 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"
X Link 2026-02-05T11:26Z 15.1K followers, 207.6K engagements
"Vagueposting as a honeytrapthe final logic of the chronic social media users inherent paranoiawe are smothered under such a deluge and flux of worthless information and must deceive ourselves into thinking it is all a quest to finally understand something worthwhile"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:56Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The bitterness people have over the bitterness they project onto it is totally totally unnecessary. And in no world did it ever fucking dissuade people from reading Infinite Jest or diminish the reading rates of young men and drive them into the burly arms of the manosphere"
X Link 2026-02-07T12:40Z 15K followers, [---] engagements
"My 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 thats amazing man thats such a cool power ranger. And he has a bike too thats an amazing bike. Whats the power rangers name"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:50Z 15.1K followers, 94.5K engagements
"Like I also really like Olive Kitteridge. I loved Normal People but some people think Im having a go at Sally Rooney That book was great it had a rare intelligence and capacity for true vulnerability it made me feel things it shook me. Thats very much worthwhile"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:55Z 15.2K followers, [---] engagements
"If theres an excess of either a sort of cartoonishness or detachment that precludes actual emotional engagement which prevents actual vulnerability then I dont really tend to care for a novel. It can be dark it can be severe but it has to achieve genuine tenderness for me"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:59Z 15.2K followers, [---] engagements
"I am planning to take an AIs job"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:31Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Roger Sterling out at a restaurant eating a sandwich with crisps (or potato chips) as the sideroguish and yet sophisticated Perhaps I shall imitate him even"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:24Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"It propulsively rides from a pretty povertised Hungarian upbringing through to Iraq through to the working class immigrant experience through to the upper echelons of British wealth and the property market and it always totally totally convinces you. And thats rare nowadays"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:42Z 15.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Cormac McCarthy Don Delillo Elizabeth Strout Tessa Hadley George Elliot Toni Morrison Frank McCourt Proust Annie Proulx Tolkein etc. maybe i say this to cope with the fact that writing has a long and improbable arc to success but i do find it ridiculous how many people come up to me like im gonna start writing at 25/30/35 and become a great novelist and all i could tell them that nobody has ever started maybe i say this to cope with the fact that writing has a long and improbable arc to success but i do find it ridiculous how many people come up to me like im gonna start writing at 25/30/35"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:01Z 15.2K followers, 81.1K engagements
":( Harold and Maude rules absolute all timer. You see that as a teenager and it totally rewires you and in a beneficial way like the opposite of the Fight Club way Harold And Maude star Bud Cort has died at [--] years old after a long illness. Cort also starred in Robert Altmans Brewster McCloud and had roles in numerous other films and TV shows. https://t.co/x6evhMAVSW https://t.co/4Vtk5CneYS Harold And Maude star Bud Cort has died at [--] years old after a long illness. Cort also starred in Robert Altmans Brewster McCloud and had roles in numerous other films and TV shows."
X Link 2026-02-11T20:55Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements
"thought Szalays Flesh was an astonishingly good novel you know. For me its less to do with all that discourse about masculinity and more about giving a pretty emotionally inarticulate Eastern European strip club bouncer their time in the sun in literary fiction. 🔊 OUT NOW "Amis's talent was to put words to things in ways both unobvious and inevitable." David Szalay and @jackaldane discuss among other things: ✒The first Amis novel David ever read and which his Dad hated ✒The lessons for all writers contained within The https://t.co/cEEp6TTywY 🔊 OUT NOW "Amis's talent was to put words to"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:40Z 15.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Ala the Philip K Dick thesis that artificial intelligence will cause human beings to become more robotic in their thoughts and habits AI will make things that arent made by AI seem more and more AI. People will talk to you with ChatGPT cadences children will draw this way. Heavy lies the crown. Cillian Murphy and Barry Keoghan star in PEAKY BLINDERS: THE IMMORTAL MAN. Premieres [--] March in select cinemas and [--] March [----] on Netflix https://t.co/8GDqYvTvJa Heavy lies the crown. Cillian Murphy and Barry Keoghan star in PEAKY BLINDERS: THE IMMORTAL MAN. Premieres [--] March in select cinemas and 20"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:48Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Freddy is the reason Peggy gets her break hes the one who notices and champions her talents as a copywriter in s1. Also did you know Joel Murray who plays Freddy is Bill Murrays brother Its a fact Jack @xbtsnow God bless Freddy v underrated character @xbtsnow God bless Freddy v underrated character"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:54Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@mcmansionhell What sorta mind body work"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:16Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements
"feel like weve lost the 90s archetype of the slacker in quite a profound and mystifying way feel like we lost something important with him too"
X Link 2026-02-01T22:16Z 15.3K followers, 1.7M engagements
"Nobody really talks about it but being Phantom Threaded is probably the ultimate heterosexual male fantasy"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:28Z 15.3K followers, 417.3K engagements
"What the fuck is all this shit about fucking Jimmy Carr as some sort of wise old men who people consult about the deepest problems of our time Jimmy Carr echoing Peter Thiel with a line that lands hard: Minus the screens from any room were still living in the 1970s. Nothings happened in physics since [----]. String theory has not got us anywhere. But the real shift Take the compute power of AI and point it at https://t.co/aNpzUs8G1s Jimmy Carr echoing Peter Thiel with a line that lands hard: Minus the screens from any room were still living in the 1970s. Nothings happened in physics since 1972."
X Link 2026-02-13T22:50Z 15.3K followers, 471.6K engagements
"Liminality doesnt quite describe these sections of the London Underground. Its more aggressively purgatorial than that you fell more like some cog in a subterranean industrial catastrophe https://t.co/QL6vkurO0Q https://t.co/QL6vkurO0Q"
X Link 2026-02-14T23:13Z 15.3K followers, 807.2K engagements
"You feel that you are being processed somehow that you in the midst of some sort of unknown bureaucratic process there is an air of hostility and even judgement that emanates like heat from the very architecture. There is an intelligence and it is idiotic"
X Link 2026-02-14T23:26Z 15.3K followers, 19.5K engagements
"The ethereal end-of-history melancholy of 90s/Y2K trance pop musiclike being able to easily board a plane it is yet another thing 9/11 took from us [--] years ago today All Saints released "Pure Shores" https://t.co/bpGMaGhqFl [--] years ago today All Saints released "Pure Shores" https://t.co/bpGMaGhqFl"
X Link 2026-02-15T12:58Z 15.3K followers, 58.9K engagements
"You get all these people who post memes about depressing brutalist and modern architecture as opposed to random classical cathedrals but then they go and say mid and NPC and maxxed and mogged and retard and all this endlessly hideous vernacular doesnt it drain the soul too"
X Link 2026-02-15T15:42Z 15.3K followers, 11.5K engagements
"@mcmansionhell @emmatranter_ On the other hand Ive found non-dual awareness type meditation to be really helpful/easy/calming lately"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:09Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"They actually sent him to jail for this and they were right to do so Literary critic Sam Bankman-Fried on Shakespeare: https://t.co/AjrsWv60JF Literary critic Sam Bankman-Fried on Shakespeare: https://t.co/AjrsWv60JF"
X Link 2024-01-20T18:23Z 15.3K followers, 620.6K engagements
"I dont want chic incisive novels by people who know how to mingle at publishing-adjacent partiesI want to read bizarre singular musical novels by quasi-mystic basketcases who are otherwise shit at being alive"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:29Z 15.3K followers, 428.3K engagements
"Notice as well how defensive he is of Freddy when everyones mocking him for pissing himself drunk and getting fired over it. Theres a bunch of moments like this. Mad Men is so interesting because Don is a grade-A philanderer but he is also the most real and respectful (at face value) towards women (and children) on the show. Most of the other men dont hold a candle to Dons power and swagger and so they overcompensate with their blatant Mad Men is so interesting because Don is a grade-A philanderer but he is also the most real and respectful (at face value) towards women (and children) on the"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:48Z 15.3K followers, 121.7K engagements
"At the same time Are any of you pro-Rory books editors who I could bother about some upcoming books I wanna review"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:58Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"They will see us waving from such wuthering heights"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:58Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Or the piano in this as a Charlie Brown soundtrack sort of thing https://youtu.be/nA0UOiVM1u0si=emJQ-r98awOCYfP3 https://youtu.be/nA0UOiVM1u0si=emJQ-r98awOCYfP3"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:25Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@swen_ryan Hes got such a great peculiar sensibility. Its even just that capability to be so wry with the camera"
X Link 2026-02-14T23:27Z 15.3K followers, [--] engagements
"People should send me their proofs I can often get a few thousand likes on a random book post. Also I need to get back into the reviewing game anyway (Maybe I just need to be more formal about this rather than vaguely tweeting wishes into the aether). I thought this was really good/original/batshit https://t.co/sh2hsywP7O I thought this was really good/original/batshit https://t.co/sh2hsywP7O"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:53Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
"I like when you find out something unexpected influenced something you like and it makes you perceive that thing through a whole new lens e.g. that Ennio Morricone was so influential on the first Fleet Foxes album or Vince Guaraldi on Sufjan Stevens (particularly on Illinois)"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:23Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"The thing Im most snobbish about is probably lyrics. Its the way you get someone like David Berman or Simon Joyner something like One For the Catholic Girls and its just so transcendentally above 99% of lyrics put out there that it makes the rest seem utterly worthless"
X Link 2026-02-15T16:15Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
"just screaming at us at all us book shoppers come on You all need to come and join us If not for you then for your children Because if you dont youre all going to die Everyone who they give this vaccine to is going to die in only a few months Its murder"
X Link 2025-08-31T10:46Z 12.9K followers, [---] engagements
"I did not really love the film Parasite"
X Link 2025-08-31T18:53Z 12.9K followers, [---] engagements
"In terms of South Korean cinema I love Lee Chang-Dong and the film Burning"
X Link 2025-08-31T19:10Z 12.9K followers, [---] engagements
"I didnt click so much with Oldboy and that but I feel like I would dig Hong Sang-soo a great deal Ive gotta get round to his work. Squid Game does not seem my sort of thing at all. I liked Broker to the degree that counts as South Korean rather than Japanese. Rory out"
X Link 2025-08-31T19:21Z 12.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Is it the general consensus that the bit where Quint gives that monologue on the boat (about that boat sinking and everyone getting eaten by sharks) is the best bit in all of Jaws Because thats how I feel"
X Link 2025-08-31T21:35Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"And I was thought of it when reading this Sarah Bakewell piece on Clare Carlisles new book. We seem more than ever trapped in the shell of immediate sensation immediate stimulation now. So grounding yourself in your senses in the moment can be just another version of that"
X Link 2025-09-01T13:19Z 13.1K followers, 17.4K engagements
"CBT and mindfulness both seem to try to ignore the past and the future and thus if inadvertently ones sense of self and meaning as tied to these things in favour of the idea that theyre just sources of anxiety and that the present moment has everything you need"
X Link 2025-09-01T13:22Z 13.2K followers, 15.2K engagements
"We must begin to love in order not to fall ill and we are bound to fall ill if in consequence of frustration we are unable to love Freud On Narcissism"
X Link 2025-09-01T19:49Z 13.1K followers, 31.9K engagements
"Someone on here posts photos of sections from books where theyve physically highlighted paragraphs they like and I mean with a highlighter across the words and it agonises me"
X Link 2025-09-02T09:43Z 13K followers, 11.9K engagements
"Its about learning to trust yourself to actually trust yourself innit https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/10/11/a-life-of-ones-own-joanna-field-marion-milner/ https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/10/11/a-life-of-ones-own-joanna-field-marion-milner/"
X Link 2025-09-02T19:24Z 13K followers, [---] engagements
"Its murder you know"
X Link 2025-09-02T19:33Z 13K followers, [---] engagements
"where the past turns its face sparking like emery to open its grace and incredible harm"
X Link 2025-09-03T12:07Z 13.1K followers, 42.2K engagements
"His short story collection Jesus Son is essential. I do mean that. People were telling some guy off for only having just read Bulgakov thats silly well never conquer the whole canon but still: Jesus Son is essential. Read it"
X Link 2025-09-03T13:11Z 13K followers, [---] engagements
"Kate Beaton already did the perfect Wuthering Heights adaptation and we dont need another"
X Link 2025-09-03T22:14Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@dennisbhooper Lydia Davis is the best at it in terms of length/quality ratio. Thomas Bernhards The Voice Imitator (central influence on her + DFW) is v v good too. For all the flash fiction about online theres vanishingly little thats any good really"
X Link 2025-09-04T08:45Z 13.5K followers, [---] engagements
"I think polyamory is basically fine but I have a phobia of the bureaucratic language and structures they frequently drift towards"
X Link 2025-09-04T09:31Z 13K followers, 70.2K engagements
"Heres something really odd: I knew a guy at school who was tall and good looking and charismatic and smart and essentially evil and who kept a handwritten list in his pocket of all the girls hed managed to cheat on his girlfriend with (surely difficult at [--] living a parents)"
X Link 2025-09-04T11:30Z 13.1K followers, 66.7K engagements
"nd I dont think the list was a lie Id definitely witnessed the draw he seemed to have on girls but it struck me when RFK Jrs ex-wife said that hed done that exact same thing. A kind of psychotic separate convergence on that same completely bizarre idea/habit"
X Link 2025-09-04T11:35Z 13K followers, [--] engagements
"And I dont think the list was a lie Id definitely witnessed the draw he seemed to have on girls but it struck me when RFK Jrs ex-wife said that hed done that exact same thing. A kind of psychotic separate convergence on that same completely bizarre idea/habit. How come"
X Link 2025-09-04T11:36Z 13K followers, [----] engagements
"I think that Bruce Springsteens Philadelphia is the saddest song I have ever heard in my life. After that its about [--] different songs by Sufjan Stevens"
X Link 2025-09-04T14:18Z 13K followers, [----] engagements
"And Radioheads True Love Waits"
X Link 2025-09-04T14:19Z 13K followers, [---] engagements
"Getting into the idea of endless insatiable melancholy longing"
X Link 2025-09-05T18:47Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"My new conspiracy theory is that the marketing campaign for this film including the Fortnite collab is being entirely run by Thomas Pynchon as an inside-joke to himself Me handling my non-football-related plans tonight: https://t.co/RGwLiGknBa Me handling my non-football-related plans tonight: https://t.co/RGwLiGknBa"
X Link 2025-09-05T19:58Z 13K followers, [---] engagements
"@MatthewSitman Real big trait of the era: by aggressively supporting this military action I can display that I some dweeb am actually really tough"
X Link 2025-09-06T17:35Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Outer Space"
X Link 2025-09-06T20:33Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Did u know Conor Oberst auditioned for this role Its a fact Jack. And I reckon hed have been p good at it. Hell one could imagine Phoebe Bridgers in the Carey Mulligan role. For all the great folk/y musicians the Coens have worked with there arent really any in this"
X Link 2025-09-06T20:35Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Theres supposed to be a blood moon out UK people get off your phone and look at the sky 🌝"
X Link 2025-09-07T18:33Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Its so strange how often people think others exclusively only pretend to like Rothko Shakespeare classical music in entire etc. I really believe that no one actually pretends to like anything except in the context of say a guy lying to a girl hes trying to sleep with Its astounding how many viscerally angry reactions Rothko precipitates Why do you think ppl are so incensed in the face of simple & profound art Is it jealousy that the work appears so easily made Perhaps simple truths & simple beauties are all the more alienating Its astounding how many viscerally angry reactions Rothko"
X Link 2025-09-08T07:31Z 13.1K followers, 101.1K engagements
"A very particular thing for me songs that start on the 5th rather than 1st chord that sense of drift and unfinishedness and thus since its compelled to move towards the 1st a sort of longing built right into the music"
X Link 2025-09-08T10:59Z 13.2K followers, 33.6K engagements
"The uncanniness of loneliness the uncanniness of longing; where when its for something unknown the mysterious its also for something unrecognised half-remembered perhaps repressed. What it is to be haunted the obscurity of ghosts"
X Link 2025-09-08T11:08Z 13.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Fleetwood Macs Dreams which moves from the 6th and 7th endlessly two major chords but rooted in the melody to a minor 1st though never finding its home there stuck in a melancholy drift"
X Link 2025-09-08T11:12Z 13.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Its interesting how clear the distinction is in quality and approach Gandolfini gets that theres something psychologically tangled going on hes being aggressive because hes being defensive hes emotive in his denial of vulnerability. He was so good. Casting footage for Tony Soprano https://t.co/R4MKzT8vQG Casting footage for Tony Soprano https://t.co/R4MKzT8vQG"
X Link 2025-09-09T18:13Z 13.2K followers, 39.8K engagements
"My girlfriend has gone on a worktrip to Brussels today literally just earlier today and I am already talking to my cat in sentences as if she understands me"
X Link 2025-09-10T18:05Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Pro-tip for everyone sane"
X Link 2025-09-10T19:41Z 13.2K followers, 11.9K engagements
"Getting into King of the Hill. Really really really funny show. The Americans were right about this. You just have these characters with these conflicting notions in this tight community and you let it rip it just endlessly works"
X Link 2025-09-11T21:45Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"You know this site used to be a lot more effective for following breaking news on among other things"
X Link 2025-09-12T12:12Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"This is the thing. Its that irony-nihilism affect (and how strange it is do something so extreme when seemingly motivated by uh irony) and the way school shooters operate as their own continuous subculture. That inscribing on bullet casings itself is now a meme theyre doing. Second shooter in a month who seems to have fried their brain with memes. Probably nothing to worry about. Second shooter in a month who seems to have fried their brain with memes. Probably nothing to worry about"
X Link 2025-09-12T15:14Z 13.2K followers, 25.6K engagements
"All sorts of flaws with Gladwell as a writer generally but he did once (ages ago but it still holds) put out a good piece on how school shooters influence eachother downwards how they have their own culture of references and imitation. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/thresholds-of-violence https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/thresholds-of-violence"
X Link 2025-09-12T15:21Z 13.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Sorry to force this hideous information upon you but it should be noted that the meme is making fun of furries not signifying some sort of allegiance with them; some people are implying otherwise. "Notices Bulge / OwO What's This" - This is the original meme referenced by Tyler Robinson Charlie Kirk's alleged shooter. https://t.co/XYoQWzXDdk "Notices Bulge / OwO What's This" - This is the original meme referenced by Tyler Robinson Charlie Kirk's alleged shooter. https://t.co/XYoQWzXDdk"
X Link 2025-09-12T15:43Z 13.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Me and Sophie are watching this You feel like Helena Bonham Carter in this is a practical info hazard to like [---] people on here theyd get psychotically obsessed with her whole vibe"
X Link 2025-09-20T21:18Z 13.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Starmers a dick and all but I think this is the pattern-seeking paranoia that settles in as a substitute for action and power when youre trapped in absolute learned helplessness"
X Link 2025-09-21T11:27Z 13.2K followers, 52.6K engagements
"Theres this short piece by David Foster Wallace on [--] underrated novels (one was Angels by Denis Johnson) and he named Blood Meridian just saying dont even ask. I would think were he still alive that this would be some ironic hell being inflicted upon him. I didnt even post the most annoying thing in the video https://t.co/MUx4FwLiaB I didnt even post the most annoying thing in the video https://t.co/MUx4FwLiaB"
X Link 2025-09-21T19:50Z 13.2K followers, 41.3K engagements
"Because Im nice here you go heres the rest. Angels really is fucking astonishing as is William Gass at large"
X Link 2025-09-21T19:53Z 13.2K followers, [----] engagements
"I read Blood Meridian when I was a teenager way before all this internet patina caught onto it and I did think it was fucking astonishing and it still is and will be after all this wears off. Not a single image of the Judge is anything like how I pictured him in my head"
X Link 2025-09-21T19:58Z 13.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@HeroSmythe Id say imperial violence/manifest destiny is definitely a key part of whats going on. But then its also doing an anti-anti-western thing the natives are violent too the violence runs everywhere. Certainly the whiteness of the whale informs the Judge: its also v gnostic"
X Link 2025-09-21T21:32Z 13.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Its interesting that Bartleby and Billy Budd are both about a sort of innocence thats passive (sorta) protest against an impure world that drives the plot and that Ishmael has this same innocence in Moby-Dick without it really being of consequence (except that he survives) The attorney would be relieved if Bartleby did not want to but Bartleby does not refuse he simply rejects a nonpreferred The formula is devastating because it eliminates the preferable just as mercilessly as any nonpreferred. Deleuze #MelvilleMonday 🐳 The attorney would be relieved if Bartleby did not want to but Bartleby"
X Link 2025-09-22T18:41Z 13.2K followers, [----] engagements
"New Lockwood new Claire-Louise Bennett new Lydia Davis essay collection its good eating atm 🎉 Happy publication day to Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood 🎉 From one of our most original inventive and prodigiously funny writers this novel is a phosphorescent wild and profound investigation into what keeps us alive in unprecedented times. https://t.co/80Tw95aWKx 🎉 Happy publication day to Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood 🎉 From one of our most original inventive and prodigiously funny writers this novel is a phosphorescent wild and profound investigation"
X Link 2025-09-23T10:35Z 13.5K followers, [----] engagements
"He is passionately in love with everybody photographed by paul mescal https://t.co/T4BHfMNoPE photographed by paul mescal https://t.co/T4BHfMNoPE"
X Link 2025-09-23T12:45Z 13.2K followers, 17.8K engagements
"He is Irelands answer to Jesus Christ"
X Link 2025-09-23T12:46Z 13.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@sabthestrong 🫡 you dont wanna know how many times I dyspraxically failed my driving test before giving up"
X Link 2025-09-27T13:32Z 13.2K followers, [---] engagements
"The most abhorrent vibes are when a guy dresses up in a way he thinks makes him look cool for Halloween Mark Zuckerberg as John Wick for Halloween. https://t.co/idRVOkUMdc Mark Zuckerberg as John Wick for Halloween. https://t.co/idRVOkUMdc"
X Link 2025-09-28T09:44Z 13.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Maybe The Mystery Jets when they leaned into their sort of Syd Barrett trippy naive-folk thing"
X Link 2025-09-28T21:17Z 13.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Did u know they come from Eel Pie Island. Did you know theres this little fucking actual island in London just next to Richmond somehow thats all really arty and eccentric and quaint and cute and people live there such as The Mystery Jets. Mental"
X Link 2025-09-28T21:22Z 13.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Really like Cormac McCarthys books really dislike just about everyone here who makes a big deal about liking Cormac McCarthy particularly BM"
X Link 2025-09-29T13:14Z 13.3K followers, 31.3K engagements
"Blood Meridian See if someone makes a deal of liking Suttree you can go ah theres someone whos reading for themselves and not just claiming their taste off the internet. But Blood Meridian fans in particular have become something very particular. @roryisconfused British Men @roryisconfused British Men"
X Link 2025-09-29T14:47Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Give it to Marilynne Robinson or Yiyun Li or Alice Oswald or Don Delillo and Ill be happy Mostly I am monitoring the odds that I will have a very long day next week https://t.co/xIckDJqIt9 Mostly I am monitoring the odds that I will have a very long day next week https://t.co/xIckDJqIt9"
X Link 2025-09-30T19:38Z 13.5K followers, [----] engagements
"We are in dire need of vaster vibes something resembling the sublime. You can vaguely attend a political process and feel disengaged from it be at a party where someone says something ironic. But have some sort of catastrophic weather to bookend things"
X Link 2025-09-30T23:01Z 13.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Anyhow I have a personal interpretation of Blood Meridian thats actually way more annoying than anyone elses interpretation of Blood Meridian and it rests on the fact that Cormac McCarthy was really into Carl Jung (and again I note that its annoying) Blood Meridian See if someone makes a deal of liking Suttree you can go ah theres someone whos reading for themselves and not just claiming their taste off the internet. But Blood Meridian fans in particular have become something very particular. Blood Meridian See if someone makes a deal of liking Suttree you can go ah theres someone whos"
X Link 2025-10-01T12:55Z 13.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The closest thing to the tonality of Blood Meridian isnt Faulkner nor Dante nor even Moby-Dick as much as it inflects its prose style. Its Kafka. Kafka through and through (I think of McCarthys Sunset Limited where a suicidal man describes eternal life as Kafka on wheels)"
X Link 2025-10-01T12:56Z 13.3K followers, [---] engagements
"One can and shouldnt overdo biographical readings/interpretations so forgive me but Kafkas father per Kafka bullied him relentlessly. Cormac McCarthys father was per Cormac an alcoholic who would beat the shit out of him. https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/05/franz-kafka-letter-father/ https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/05/franz-kafka-letter-father/"
X Link 2025-10-01T13:06Z 13.3K followers, [---] engagements
"What does Blood Meridian start with The kid in his alcoholic emotionally absent (as in just sheer gone to the world really) fathers home. And so the kid runs away. And per psychoanalysis of course you cant run from your past youll just meet it everywhere you go"
X Link 2025-10-01T13:09Z 13.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Sometimes when Im lying in bed unable to sleep I like to imagine my own perfect version of what a future Zelda game would be like and no matter what AI achieves itll never be better than doing that I think OpenAI just killed TikTok. Im already laughing my head off and hooked on my Sora feed. And now the #1 barrier to posting (the ability to sing/dance/perform/edit) is gone. Just 100% imagination. RIP theater kids 🪦 I think OpenAI just killed TikTok. Im already laughing my head off and hooked on my Sora feed. And now the #1 barrier to posting (the ability to sing/dance/perform/edit) is gone."
X Link 2025-10-01T20:36Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Its more of a raw survivalist sort of thing you see. But youve also gotta get back the boat stuff from Wind Waker. And the eeriness of the N64 games you need loads of that eeriness. After that its mainly ripping off Peter Jacksons LOTR films"
X Link 2025-10-01T20:38Z 13.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Im trying hard to think of Pynchonesque films and the only one thats occurred to me thus far is sincerely Dude Wheres My Car Its been endlessly overexposed and coworkerized but I still think The Big Lebowski is the most Pynchonian film not actually based on a Pynchon book Its been endlessly overexposed and coworkerized but I still think The Big Lebowski is the most Pynchonian film not actually based on a Pynchon book"
X Link 2025-10-01T21:31Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The vibe I get off that celebrity is always this sort of imperialist victim; that they want to conquer everything and place themselves as essentially powerful above everyone whilst also possessing even the power of victimhood. But I may be wrong I dont pay much attention"
X Link 2025-10-02T19:49Z 13.5K followers, 46.3K engagements
"Sophie 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 its like something youd find Gromit the dog reading if Wallace had to leave him alone for a few days"
X Link 2025-10-04T17:15Z 13.7K followers, 79.2K engagements
"Thinking about what would be funniest for Charli XCX to do. A diss track over the music for Not Like Us. Tweeting Taylor is Brat"
X Link 2025-10-04T20:45Z 13.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@no_earthquake He taught at my uni weirdly"
X Link 2025-10-05T20:54Z 13.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Im watching X-Files. Were four seasons in and some guy is making fun of Mulder for believing in little green aliens. He called him a sorry son of a bitch"
X Link 2025-10-05T22:23Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@Evalyay @cowboy_postbop I dont think of there being much fog/mist through Eraserhead/Blue Velvet/Wild at Heart/Inland Empire/etc. but I think theres a great deal of darkness/shadows/obscurity"
X Link 2025-10-06T15:53Z 13.7K followers, [---] engagements
"A bunch of people on here dont get that people block people when they just even slightly bore or annoy them that people arent actually interested in tediously arguing their own case to every randomer who shows up their own replies"
X Link 2025-10-07T10:46Z 13.5K followers, [---] engagements
"That theyve no obligation to put up with any condescension or aggression or obnoxiousness that it just makes life easier to block anyone whos vaguely unpleasant. Block block block"
X Link 2025-10-07T10:47Z 13.5K followers, [---] engagements
"I think of the sort of criticism youd get of shopping malls/department stores in the 80s and 90s and how theyre inhuman spaces to be lonely together and to participate in the flux of capital; and I think thats died away because the internet has taken their place"
X Link 2025-10-07T14:40Z 13.7K followers, [---] engagements
"So here right now on the phone on the apps we are in this permanent shopping mall foyer on social networks designed to guide us towards expenditure on algorithms designed to guide our neurological tracks as their physical layouts encourage us to drift from store to store"
X Link 2025-10-07T14:41Z 13.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@resurrecti0ns Theres people whose cynicism exceeds even that of the Grand Hotel Abyss"
X Link 2025-10-07T15:00Z 13.5K followers, [---] engagements
"I now think the funniest thing would Taylor could do would be to extend a message to Charli XCX saying girl lets work it out on the remix and that turning out to be the plan insulting her to get around to that which Charli then ignores"
X Link 2025-10-07T21:08Z 13.5K followers, [--] engagements
"I now think the funniest thing Taylor could do would be to extend a public message to Charli XCX saying girl lets work it out on the remix and that turning out to be the plan insulting her to get around to that which Charli then ignores"
X Link 2025-10-07T21:14Z 13.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@plume__ and why do horses have manes"
X Link 2025-10-07T21:14Z 13.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Its funny reading 19th century romantic poets struggling to describe the gentle melancholy sound of a nightingale simply because they dont yet have the reference points of a 1960s sci-fi ray gun and then a small machine gun that only fires paperclips"
X Link 2025-10-08T10:18Z 13.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Had a dream that my cat was outside the front door with a big old cat and a kitten and my girlfriend was like let them in so I opened the door and let those cats in and other weird cats (one w/angular face one a kitten that kept jumping up very very high etc.) came in too"
X Link 2025-10-08T18:24Z 13.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Several jokes from The Simpsons and Futurama only make sense to people who arent from America when you learn that the Harlem Globetrotters arent a real basketball team but rather a sort of joke team that just do jokes and showboating against a fake team they always beat"
X Link 2025-10-09T21:48Z 13.7K followers, 51.8K engagements
"But I dont know why they made so many jokes about them. Theyre sort of like The Blue Man group I feel where their presence in the culture is hugely disproportionate to how much the writers of television comedies like to make jokes about them. But I may be wrong"
X Link 2025-10-09T21:54Z 13.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Come on this is just breathtakingly cynical Taylor Swift announces The Life of a Showgirl (Deluxe So Punk On The Internet Version). https://t.co/TzyuFvvx7l Taylor Swift announces The Life of a Showgirl (Deluxe So Punk On The Internet Version). https://t.co/TzyuFvvx7l"
X Link 2025-10-10T14:43Z 13.5K followers, 23.9K engagements
"Still feel this is the case whenever someone shares some poem thats formally apt for going viral for virality attention spans and depth of enhancement and then other people use it to characterise and dismiss all of contemporary poetry. Theres so much incredible poetry nowadays I just dont think social media is an ideal forum for it at all. Youve gotta just go and buy a copy of Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan or Dart by Alice Oswald and sit down and read it cover to cover. Theres no substitute. Theres so much incredible poetry nowadays I just dont think social media is an ideal forum for it at"
X Link 2025-10-12T09:11Z 13.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Two rationalism fans that wound up with very quirky ideas of what Effective Altruism would involve"
X Link 2025-10-12T21:36Z 13.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Both of them chatting about old Slate Star Codex blogs Peter Thiel the use of psychedelics for mental health. One a killer and the other a thief both pure products of the bleeding edge of hypermodernity. It would be like a Don Delillo story"
X Link 2025-10-12T21:39Z 13.6K followers, [---] engagements
"And us midwit Oxbridge haters of cliche live in your head rent free and so it goes on and on Ocean Vuong has the ability to breathe life into clichs. Midwit Oxbridge types dogmatically recoil from clichs which is why Ocean lives in their heads rent free. But clichs have universal appeal and writers who regard them with contempt hold the demos with contempt. Ocean Vuong has the ability to breathe life into clichs. Midwit Oxbridge types dogmatically recoil from clichs which is why Ocean lives in their heads rent free. But clichs have universal appeal and writers who regard them with contempt"
X Link 2025-10-14T15:45Z 13.7K followers, 14.2K engagements
"@samjordison The guy that invented the World Wide Web teaches here"
X Link 2013-01-08T13:30Z 12.6K followers, [--] engagements
"LOOK WHAT ARRIVED IN THE POST COME AROUND @dimplevjk @ClaireJoines @MattWimsett http://t.co/vi18JPOh7G"
X Link 2013-10-16T15:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"What the fuck Donald Duck. http://t.co/1GBnZ9WljV"
X Link 2013-11-13T17:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@FloPerry This has PROBABLY been said to you already but are you aware of the Reddit two-dicked man"
X Link 2014-11-07T00:06Z 13.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@mountain_goats Yvette Cooper a forerunner for next British Prime Minister has been equally fearless and upfront http://t.co/FdTPs7pilZ"
X Link 2015-08-31T00:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I'm at #warwick university for my first day as a postgrad student and I don't know how to make #friends"
X Link 2015-09-28T16:30Z 13K followers, [--] engagements
"@FloPerry it's almost a perfect outfit but your makeup is terrible"
X Link 2015-10-30T20:59Z 13.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@FloPerry you know what you've gotta say to any bouncer that asks for your ID in that right"
X Link 2015-10-30T21:03Z 13.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Genius: very useful for Kendrick Lamar and Talib Kweli very funny for club bangers"
X Link 2016-01-09T20:19Z 12.2K followers, [--] engagements
"You remember all those articles about going to America's heartlands to talk to poor trump supporters Maybe they shoulda talked to the rich"
X Link 2016-11-09T14:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Advice for New Years resolutions of 'look less at my phone do other things instead': turn your phone to grayscale"
X Link 2017-01-02T21:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Sufjan Stevens Taika Waititi and the general pantheon of men who are sickeningly unjustly handsome for how talented they are anyway"
X Link 2017-11-03T22:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@samjordison Hey Sam how do we participate in the Guardian book club discussion Is it by leaving comments under this piece or does it happen on another week"
X Link 2018-01-16T10:45Z 12.9K followers, [--] engagements
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