Beck Andoff

Beck Andoff

@andoff.bsky.social

Murals, stickers, zines, etc • Masking for public health and safety • Too old and too radicalized to have any chill ▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎ MisterAndoff.com

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My cinematrix today is the most embarrassingly White Person selections (for Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans or Omar Epps, Vivica A. Fox or Bernie Mac) but it *is* top 4%. What can I say, I owned Dracula 2000 on DVD.

God is this what centrist nerds and rightwing dipshits get to feel every election? It's like the first time you tell your doctor that you're in the "normal amount" of daily pain and she tells you that other people usually aren't in pain every day.

Beck Andoff@andoff.bsky.social

This is the only really happy election night I've had in 20yrs of voting at every level of government. Nunziata is not only out but in THIRD, and a decisive Chow victory. This almost makes up for the night Rob Ford was elected and I wept all night as I watched results come in alone lol

Wallace Shawn wears a respirator at meet&greets at cons! The Grand Nagus is the ultimate role model for convention behaviour 🖤

Johanna T 👻 📚@johannamation.bsky.social

I am b e g g i n g people to mask up at major cons, *especially* ones with 5-digit crowd sizes!! Lightbox this weekend was absolutely ravaged; I’m hearing of SO many attendees and exhibitors who got sick from doing the show this year!! Please stay safe out there! 🙏 🙏

483k for Tory's reelection in 2018 is the highest I've spotted, and Chow is currently at approx 529k with some polls left. She's gotten 46k more votes than any Toronto mayor ever?

Beck Andoff@andoff.bsky.social

I just checked something: I think Olivia Chow received the most votes for mayor tonight of any Toronto mayor ever? According to tonight's incomplete numbers on the city of Toronto website "unofficial" tracker, she's over 500k. I went back through the 80s on Wikipedia, and no one ever cracked 500k.

I just checked something: I think Olivia Chow received the most votes for mayor tonight of any Toronto mayor ever? According to tonight's incomplete numbers on the city of Toronto website "unofficial" tracker, she's over 500k. I went back through the 80s on Wikipedia, and no one ever cracked 500k.

This is the only really happy election night I've had in 20yrs of voting at every level of government. Nunziata is not only out but in THIRD, and a decisive Chow victory. This almost makes up for the night Rob Ford was elected and I wept all night as I watched results come in alone lol

After having Nunziata as my councillor for TOO LONG and her conning her way to a 94 vote victory with misused email address last time, this is a profoundly beautiful sight with 59/62 polls reported.

I'm not losing my mind yet because it's only like 70 out of 1400ish polls reporting so far and who knows what areas those were, but it sure does feel nasty to see Bradford in the lead at all. Really psyched that Padovani is firmly in the lead in Ward 5 though. Nunziata is in THIRD place so far 😈

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Just installed my 26-year-old copy of Word on a new desktop. I will never pay subscription fees for software I already paid for. I will go live in a shack in the woods first.

A huge amount of transphobia right now stems from radicalizing parents who believe their child is their PROPERTY and not a small human being separate from themselves who just needs support and protection.

Parents' Rights is a movement about control and property rights, not protection. It is very noteworthy that the USA never formalized the UNCRC, the children's rights treaty that almost every other UN country adopted in the 90s.

So it turns out The Beast In Me is not about Matthew Rhys as a werewolf? It's season 4 of Hannibal, minus the sexual tension. I can only hope Brittany Snow and Claire Danes fall in love in the next season though.

No matter how much reading I do, I can't understand why Canada allows at-will snap elections. I get having the option of a snap election when the leader of the party changes, but why the fuck do we allow the incumbent to shop for (what they think is) the most advantageous time to get re-elected??

I've read plenty of explanations about stalled out provincial legislature, but surely there must be some kind of rubric for determining if the problem is bad enough for a snap election at any given time.

What an unbelievable failure of ethics-- if you are the very rare wealthy-and-famous illustrator and feel too "lazy" to do a drawing, what an opportunity to hire a young artist! Thousands would kill for the chance to do a commission for Spiegelman. This is not in the noble spirit of Wacky Packages.

Rodrigo Baeza@rodrigobaeza.bsky.social

Oh, shit. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I am unironically a massive fan of Wacky Packages btw, that was a joke but not a dismissive jab. Every artist who worked on that series is a genius who impacted my current art more than any more highbrow artist in history.

This is mind-blowing. My childhood best friend grew up knowing she wouldn't make it to 30. This is like a (diligently science-created) miracle.

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social

The life expectancy of someone living with Cystic Fibrosis more than DOUBLED (26 to 66) from 2008 to 2025!

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The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

Had such a nice interaction with a canvasser for Chiara Padovani-- they seemed so relieved that I voted for her last time, and that I am still pissed Nunziata won by 94 votes (because of unethical email address collection.) Apparently the old ladies in the neighbourhood want Nunziata out though 🥰

Megan Thee Stallion releasing a freestyle with references to both Amanda Lepore and the sitcom Girlfriends, like she's in my 13-year-old brain 😍

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I can’t tell if You Can See Everything is a huge breakaway hit or if it’s specifically managed to dominate the niche demographic: everyone I’ve ever met.

Tech CEOs are never predicting, they're confidently fantasizing. It's your 4th grade assignment where you declare "in 50 years, we'll travel by pneumatic tube and go on vacations to Pluto," but coming from men richer than Croesus who own the news.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

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It has been a real pleasure to see people coming back around on Shyamalan recently.

V’s Knees@gothicneo.bsky.social

M. Night Shyamalan's YouTube channel (which is something he has now) came out of nowhere with this great line.

Signs is a fantastic movie that I don't think I would enjoy watching anymore (Gibson AND Phoenix), The Village fucking rules across the board with one huge caveat (a very dated performance of intellectual disability from Adrian Brody), and his last couple of thrillers have really hit the spot.

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Leaving an Aranet 4 CO2 logger in a classroom proved that ventilation was not functioning. In some cities you can even borrow one of these meters from the public library! Tag me if you'd like help interpreting the results.

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Also here is a loving reminder that if you see someone equating stories of systemic suffering (that they deem misrepresented) to rightwing "fake news" like anti-Haitian propaganda or anti-vax shit, BLOCK THEM. Don't subject yourself to their endless quest to be crowned Most Rational Debate Freak.

The fun thing is he's not impressed by the shortest possible connection, he wants weird winding answers. And I have a no MCU, DCU, Star Wars rule for myself because it's too much of a shortcut with casts that big.

This thing about being desensitized to slurs is important. And in the last couple rounds of wildly ableist discourse pile-ons, the socialists I had to unfollow were ones also still on Twitter. Not a coincidence. Pickling yourself in dehumanizing screeds and slur reply-guys is hurting your heart.

Anil Dash@anildash.com

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

(Clarifying that I specified "socialists" because I mostly follow socialists and communists, and it is a particular subset of socialist and communist that is still on Twitter.)

Lord help me, arguing with strangers on the internet who declare "all cheating is abuse" and want to treat a philandering celebrity like a domestic abuser.

The suggested search on a Tom Hardy video being "Tom Hardy spectrum" 😭 I enjoy that late-diagnosed likes-dogs-better-than-people jiu-jitsu obsessive so much.

Liking Tom Hardy as an autistic public figure was for sure a factor in my goofy last minute costume for Terroronto the other day. Yes, I painted my old CPAP mask black the morning of the market so I could go as Slutty Bane.