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Andy Boyle

@andymboyle.bsky.social

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Chicago person. Nonfiction books with Penguin Random House. Journalism in Esquire, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Globe, elsewhere. Fiction in some hip spots. 2023 Hugh Holton award winner. Medium tall.

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · May 20

cool they made a condiment for when you've completely given the fuck up

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 3h

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 3h

booooooooooooooo (good joke)

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · Aug 21

on my run earlier I saw a cyber truck and gave him two thumbs down and the guy (angrily) tried to roll down the window and it got stuck and he tried yelling at me but I couldn't hear him over my own laughter

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 3h

good time to reshare this fond memory

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 5h

somehow this particular well-known organization doubled their rates *and* is giving me two subscriptions now. nobody seems to understand what is going on or how to fix it. v cool world

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 5h

I'm sure breaking a bone is painful but not as bad as trying to cancel a subscription to a conde nast magazine

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 17h

I like to keep it business in the front and party in the back

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 17h

back to his old tricks I see

A fluffy gorgeous cat is wrapped around a handsome bald man’s head, laying on the back of a couch. The cat has his eyes closed and the man is smiling. An AppleTV promo is reflected in his glasses.

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 18h

currently reading a book that whips ass. will update as I learn more

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 18h

ate some oreos my (rude) guests didn’t eat all of at my birthday party and now I’m only medium hungry

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 21h

ate a full dinner about an hour ago and I’m hungry again. fuckin woke mob strikes again

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 22h

gunna try “skibidi toilets for all” with my teenage nephew and see if it gets any traction

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 22h

gunna hold congressional hearings and a senator is going to have to angrily shout about the scourge of skibidi toilets for all (expanded housing)

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 22h

next politico will release shocking texts of a young leftist group chat where they talk about free healthcare and childcare for everyone and “what if we tried to make things better” and it’ll be in the news cycle for two weeks as proof of collusion to destroy america

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1d

basically all of world history says if you’re throwing tear gas by schools and churches and grocery stores you’re the bad guys

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1d

hmmmmmm I believe traditionally it is I who gets to choose between the two!!

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1d

going to a 24-hour horror movie marathon this weekend anyone need anything

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1d

saw someone wrong online in an actual area of my expertise and decided to let them live their truth (being fucking stupid)

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 3d

leaning into middle age hard by reading about two of the most important pairs of brothers in american history

A fluffy cat stands next to a table. On the table are two books: “TROUBLE BOYS: The True Story of the Replacements by Bob Mehr” and “THE BROTHERS: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War” by Stephen Kinzer

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1d

this one whips ass

When It Found Us

While returning from a nearby lake on a camping trip, a couple discovers their camp trashed—with a strange sparkling substance coating everything—and are forced to run when something unnatural give…

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1d

history also says eventually you will lose

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1d

basically all of world history says if you’re throwing tear gas by schools and churches and grocery stores you’re the bad guys

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1d

“it’s bright as fuck out here dude what the hell”