Andrew Redmond Barry

Children are not born knowing how to hate. You have to expose them to the couples on House Hunters and explain it to them.

The last time the Milwaukee Brewers were in the World Series you could get 12 8-track tapes for only a dollar through The Gorman Thomas Tape Club®.

i think it is fun when people write things that are just totally in tension with easily observable reality. like, this is “charlie brown had hoes” levels of nonsense: “in his first term Trump largely respected the cultural consensus of the Obama years.” www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

Didn’t know she hung out at the Zebulon patio

An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...

Hard to imagine what that would be like

So this Rolling Stone article is making The Rounds on Bluesky, and I might as well throw in my 2 cents, which is probably worth not even that, but whatever: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

spilled iced coffee all over myself interviewing for a job at a bank & an HR recruitment coordinator shouted "this applicant drinking iced coffee" & everyone laughed.

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel with ‘ Make Me Smile ‘. youtu.be/dAoaVU3-ve0?...

dig through the TINKER and burn through the TAILOR and slam in the back of my SOLDIER SPY

Happy Labor Day!

1. Rick Steves has spent $2 million of his own money to rescue a single-screen theater in Edmonds, WA. This is part of a multi-million-dollar effort he has made to invest in community properties in order to preserve local institutions and keep them serving the communities they were built for.

So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.

Released 49 years ago today Lust for Life, the second studio album by Iggy Pop, with the eponymous titel track Iggy Pop - Lust for Life #punkrock #iggypop #lustforlife #history #punkrockhistory #otd

#NowPlaying #NewMusic #MusicSky

‘I had to learn how to be a feminist’: Greg Dulli on surviving grunge, shunning misogyny, and Afghan Whigs’ glorious return

This book is wild: Rocky won’t convert from Catholicism to the Church of England and even though they’re friends, Chase has him executed 😳

Thrilled that @theguardian.com has run this fantastic profile of @gilduran.com and his intrepid reporting on the hard right turn coming out of Silicon Valley-- his forthcoming THE NERD REICH is as gripping and urgent as they come, a staggering piece of writing that puts the bigger picture together

My latest on the Russian missile that landed in Poland, repeated drone incursions into Romania, and why NATO allies are sounding the alarm…

Good question. Has a goth ever been elected?

This is devastating news. I can't quite believe it. RIP Glen Hansard. www.independent.ie/irish-news/o...

Incredible.

I imagine most writers at @theatlantic.com mean well, but it astonishes me how often they still fail to grasp the moment we're in. He was focused on his goddamn coup attempt, ffs.

I know what frogs like. I know what toads want.

phone booth lands outside of garage, doors open. rufus come meet these most excellent babes that we have just plucked from a dire situation out of a crevice of this australian hanging rock

44 years ago today "If the Kids Are United" is a song by English punk rock band Sham 69, released on this day in 1982 with "Sunday Morning Nightmare" as B-side. #punk #punks #punkrock #ifthekidsareunited #sham69 #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo