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Andy Carr
@andycarr.bsky.social
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he/him | 🏳️‍🌈 nerd | mid selfies

studying US law & politics: LPE, bureaucracy, reactionary movements | union stuff @ The New School, roaming adjunct elsewhere

opinions mine, mostly bad

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hilariously niche (and on-target!) spam email; wow, good work, Lily.
just going to present this email verbatim in its entirety, without additional context, typos and all: "Hi, I'm following up if you're interested to get the Registrants/Member list. Association for political theory ( Amherst, MA, USA, 2026 ) 1,000+ Contacts I'm waiting for your response so I can let you know the cost & more details. Hoping to receive your reply soon. Regards, Lily – Business Executive"
November 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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*long, dramatic sigh*

fine I'll take the job, ig
job post from "The Faculty Lounge" which reads "University of Arizona Law Seeks Dean"
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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this is law school casebook pricing, yet I can pick up used copies of KKV for, uhhh, under two bucks.

the political economy of methods training poses Several Problems. in this essay,
screenshot of the canonical King, Keohane, and Verba methods text, Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. while hardcover editions range from $85 to just over $100, the link to "Other Used, New, Collectible" editions is highlighted on the right-hand side of the screen – "from $1.99."
November 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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y tho.
screenshot showing an Amazon search for a book—Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn—more specifically, the one (1) result for that book. it's priced from $250 for a new hardcover edition (with "FREE delivery"); there's bargains on used books, starting from $239.97.
November 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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it has in fact been over a year; it’s been 12 years. why are you texting me.
text screenshot from a former optometrist saying “I haven’t seen [them] in over a year” and to expect “a call…to schedule [my] appointment.”
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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these were from only ~45 minutes of haphazardly browsing; I'm leaving *many* instances out.

whatever "reckonings" some claim have happened in the semi-recent past, that misapprehension needs to be buried forever. any institution that won't clean house after this is irredeemable.
another text exchange, from July 2019—the day before Epstein's final arrest—in which he mentions planning to drive "out to Cold Spring [Harbor the following] Monday morning to have lunch with Watson," referring to the recently deceased molecular biologist (and later famed racist) James Watson. another text exchange screenshot, this time with a sender referring Epstein to Aaron Klein as a guy to connect with Ehud Barak (misspelled, of course). Klein is best known otherwise as a conservative political commentator with longstanding ties to Netanyahu and 2016 Trump campaign efforts, as well as "Middle East coverage" for Breitbart, which I won't dignify as "news" in alt text, sorry. one of many devastating references to "Noam" (Chomsky), this one from a text message exchange in late June 2019, confirming some manner of meeting the following Saturday.
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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no original points by any means, but just casually glancing through some docs ... it's hard to overstate the breadth or reach of JE's communications, particularly in law, politics, media, academia – into the highest rungs of many fields, including/perhaps especially among the latter.
Epstein doc screenshot from anonymized December 10, 2018 email; the upshot is that the sender "spent all day with the Flemish nationalist [and] had the Walloon populists/nationalist [sic] meet them for [the] first time in [their] hotel suite" – presumably referring to Vlaams Belang and Walloon Rally, respectively screenshot showing Epstein email sent to Joscha Bach—German cognitive scientist and philosopher—in July 2016. I won't replicate the content of that message, but to say it involves a great deal of race science and race/gender essentializing would be overly generous. screenshot of text message records, including reference to Jair Bolsonaro "bailing" on a planned meetup. (per the anonymized sender of the message to Epstein: "...furious about the bail—total amateur hour" another text exchange screenshot, this time from late April 2019, with the sender referring Epstein to Nick Bostrom (a "Bill Gates guy"), a reputed Swedish philosopher who previously got into hot water for racist forum posts in the mid-1990s, including use of egregious slurs and racial-intelligence claims.
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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you can pick up two front-row seats to see Jane Krakowski in "Oh, Mary!" later this month for roughly the same price. and you'd probably leave with a better understanding of US politics and political history, tbqf.
screenshot of ticket prices for the quoted Clinton/Cox Richardson/Miranda event getting dunked on. virtual tickets with "on-demand playback of the program" are going for an unhinged $50.00 each; the two lower-priced tiers (balcony and premium balcony, for $100 and $250 each, respectively) are "Sold out!" while the orchestra pricing rapidly escalates: regular orchestra seats are priced at $500 each; "Gold Orchestra" are $1,000 a pop; "Event Host (Premium Orchestra)" are $2,500; and, finally, "Event Co-Chair" pricing is $10,000 (a cost which includes two (2) premium seats!). ticket pricing for two front-row orchestra seats at the hit Broadway show "Oh, Mary!" (Row A, seats 1 and 3): $1,112 (including fees).
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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left my little voicemails and, just in case those phones melt from the righteous burning fury of constituents, I decided to hop on over to the contact forms for New York's illustrious senators – just in case!

and well, would you look at that 🙃
contact form for Senator Schumer (D-NY), screenshot showing "Message Topic," "Subject," and "Comments" boxes. the "Subject" box has an auto-fill automatic dropdown option from a previous message sent to the Senator's office from the last time I did the phonecall-voicemail-form message rigmarole. it reads in full "The CR Vote is Capitulation."
November 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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zero subscription history, work-related links, etc. to Conde Nast but they're hellbent on making me hate them with all my being. signed up last week for Lex's politics newsletter—y'know, right before they obliterated Teen Vogue's whole politics team—and now, JUST as today's news drops, I get *this*
inbox screenshot from 2:03PM today, with the subject line reading "This $19.99 Beauty Box is Worth $247+" from "Teen Vogue" screenshot of the Black Friday sale advert they sent in lieu of a deep-dive politics newsletter
November 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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extremely this:
lower-right corner of the "don't worry about it babe" iMessage meme, showing only "okay [heart emoji] yay [heart emoji]" portion
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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absolutely not wading into P&R discourse in the year of our lord 2025, but I will say that the single-best critical account of the show I've seen (er, rather, heard) is this ep from @gayestepisodeever.bsky.social
screenshot of the podcasts app, showing an April 19, 2023 episode of the Gayest Episode Ever Podcast titled "Parks & Recreation Marries Gay Penguins." the episode includes original (and amazing!) cartoon-y art of Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler).
November 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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🥲🥲
Instagram post screenshot from the Dionne [Foster] for Seattle campaign account showing early tally of 58% of votes cast.
November 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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always, always, always read Mel:
"It was never about the numbers, though. It never is. You can bring insane audience engagement, break records on views, court new eyeballs to your verticals, shape the national and international conversation with accurate, empathetic, even funny coverage of the most important topics that are dominating our minds these days; get new laws passed by exposing the ill-treatment of regular-ass people, etc., etc., etc.; you can win awards—Pulitzers, Murrow Awards, Emmys—champion new ways of Doing The News, including maybe even swallowing your pride and misgivings about giving up editorial control to a goddamn AI fact-checker, and on and on and on – and they will still nuke your job and your entire desk in the name of capital consolidation and kissing the fucking ring."
November 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Abigail, please stop texting me, I’m begging you, I haven’t lived in VA in over 13 years, please, it’s too much
fundraising text screenshot that reads “Hi, it’s Abigail Spanberger. I wanted you to hear this from me personally: …”
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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😒
screenshot of drop-down options for Bluesky posts, showing "Report post" button is highlighted
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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the ol’ guy’s still got a mean right hook tho
zoomed-in screenshot showing AI Curtis Sliwa’s six-fingered right hand.
November 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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I love that hundreds of quotes attest to Wallace Shawn being legendary in such distinct ways/across multiple generations. he is so inextricably Grand Nagus Zek to me, unsurprisingly, and that makes this IRL sighting all the more delightful. 😌
screenshot from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, showing Wallace Shawn as the Ferengi leader known as Grand Nagus Zek — the Ferengi being a humanoid civilization of ultra-capitalists, galactic traders, and all-around pains in the ass. Zek, typical of Ferengi, is shorter than an average human, with a heavily lined/wrinkled face, sunken eyes beneath a prominent brow, jagged and irregular teeth, and enormous ears that protrude outward from each side of the face. Zek’s outfit looks like a heavily patterned, geometric version of an old-timey waistcoat over a high-neck blue sweater. he carries a staff topped with a golden bust of a Ferengi head.
November 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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insta gay behavior
the Dutch PM following Hasan Piker, who I also follow, so, you know, no judgment or anything.
October 31, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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still holding on even after 3 rounds of edits/revisions 🫡😮‍💨
screenshot of footnotes from my dissertation. the footnote numbered 183 reads simply, solely "No."
September 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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“damn, I bet a librarian lives here.”

(if this is baffling, you will simply have to listen to this excellent interview 💁🏻‍♂️)
photo of an especially oversized, architecturally confusing mcmansion with a three-bay garage, a vaulted entry, turreted staircase, and all the usual stuff, in a drab brown-tan color scheme
September 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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screenshot of original post showing 5 reposts, 128 quotes “Everyone disliked that” Fallout 4 meme.
September 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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academic job post screenshot which reads "Department: Political Science Company: [City University of New York] – City College of New York Job Position/Rank: Academic positions: All [Ranks] [Highlighted lines in screenshot] Subfield: International Relations Comparative Politics" DW from "Arthur" meme, showing her standing in sunglasses with one hand on a chain-link fence, staring vacantly and expressionless toward the left-hand side of the image
September 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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portrait of the late French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, but hastily altered to have darker colors/tones and add in a "red laser eyes meme" overlay. he's sitting with his chin resting on his fist, propped up on a reflective table, wearing large-rimmed black glasses and a long-sleeved black shirt. he has a halo of gray hair encircling his bald crown and a slightly-grinning expression.
September 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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deeply relatable. like, I mean, absolutely 100% of it is just an endless stream of this.
screenshot of my Instagram FYP, exclusively showing photos and videos of cute animals.
September 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM