Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Funniest possible thing for two MSPs to get into a violent altercation over.
Historian of US liberalism, Congress, and the C20th Democratic Party. Trade unionist. Lanyard class warrior.
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Funniest possible thing for two MSPs to get into a violent altercation over.
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"Your chilled food will resume after these messages."
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Having to stand there while my fridge plays a 30-second ad (no option to skip) before I can open the door.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social) reply parent
You think they'd have a workaround if that was the case. Reagan was very short-sighted and he wasn't this listless.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Genuinely feels like a plot detail in one of those Left Behind books where the Antichrist becomes U.S. president.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
It's striking how bad he still is at delivering a prepared speech.
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Daniel Rowe (@danrowe.bsky.social) reposted
We’re advertising for a 30 month postdoc position in US Politics (very broadly construed). The role is mainly research, but allows the holder to gain experience teaching UK and US undergraduates. Happy to answer any and all questions. Application deadline 27/10. (Start date early 2026.)
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Is it time to give Labour to Sam Allardyce until the end of the parliament?
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
The best Robert Redford story is Mike Nichols' recollection of trying to explain to Redford why he wouldn't be a good fit for the lead role in The Graduate. Literally unable to grasp the concept of a woman not being interested in him.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
"Don't you think he looks wired?"
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Me, a landsman:
Ed Morrish (@edmorrish.bsky.social) reposted
[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." - the other Frank Wilhoit.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Didn't realise Vin Diesel had been making them for that long.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
It is an especially good stick.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
The electrical engineering programme at Dixie Technical College is well known as a hotbed of Marxist indoctrination.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Moving tribute, sir.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
FAO all "unfunded hobbyist researchers" 👇 www.ucu.org.uk/join
Hetan Shah (@hetanshah.bsky.social) reposted
We've got a chunky @britishacademy.bsky.social report out looking at the emergence of 'cold spots' where you can't study arts, humanities or social science subjects close to home. We call for an urgent review of HE funding & monitoring of at risk subjects www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
The easy way to avoid a crisis in US-UK relations is to let Trump take credit for this firing. Another of Epstein's cronies driven out of public life by heroic undercover FBI informant Donald J. Trump!
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
A lot of people thinking VERY CAREFULLY about the emails of consolation they plan to send to Mandelson today.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Netflix and Amazon phoning Mark Gatiss's agent to find out his availability for their rival films about the Mandelson scandal.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
I think someone should ask Keir Starmer - who took over as DPP a few months after these emails were written - if he agrees that billionaire nonce Jeffrey Epstein wouldn't have been prosecuted in the UK.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Molly Knight (@mollyknight.bsky.social) reposted
what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Ending up in the Epstein files because you reflexively signed, "Have a great one, Jeffers!" on a birthday card circulating round the office.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Embarrassing how much this is my jam.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Straightforward from here: 1. Impeach Starmer 2. Constitutional crisis 3. Call by-election 4. Burnham v. Farage 5. Prime Minister Burnham
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Oh no, it really is going to replace academics.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm excited to find out!
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
If I was Keir Starmer, I would simply make fewer mistakes and be better at governing.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
I think this new emergency alert system is working really well.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Nadine's not going to like this.
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Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Wouldn't have been able to waterboard this out of me.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
My first lecture after the Reform government mandate the new Patriotic Pedagogy Panopticon database, 2029:
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Rachel Rees (@rachel-rees.bsky.social) reposted
A final little bit from me in today's edition: the south London flagger who told the BBC he was one of many “hardworking business people” hanging British flags -- and his £98,000 false injury claim When I called him, he gave this gem of a quote
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
You have to admire a candidate who says to the media, "Um, I have an IMPORTANT campaign announcement TODAY. You should be there later TODAY," and then the announcement is "My opponent is AWFUL and I do NOT like him."
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
"Seamless, huh?"
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
When you definitely understood Minority Report.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
I didn't expect the fascist takeover to be this embarrassing.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Going to be very funny when she starts agitating for Boris to take over.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
"Evening, prime minister."
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Defence barrister sobbing because they have to convince a court this man is not an obsessive harasser.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Critical support to Comrade the Earl of Grantham.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Also me at an academic conference:
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course, the funniest inducement would be to offer Adams the post of U.S. ambassador to Turkey.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
More evidence that Trump continues to think of HUD as "the Department for Black Guys" because it has "Urban" in the name.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Going to flood the Internet with this until the AI-generated Lincoln is saying it to viewers.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Screaming, crying, throwing up.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
EXC: President Trump has committed to staffing the Space Command HQ in Hunstville, Alabama, with even more Nazis than worked there in the 1950s.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
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Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
"I'd also like to express my fondness for that particular flag." [Electorate booing, murmuring]
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social) reply parent
At this point, Donald Trump is a more robust critic of Elon Musk.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
It's quite impressive that the drift of Starmer's government is such that a minister in that government doesn't know what line to take on the question, "Is Keir Starmer a traitor and his government illegitimate?"
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
He only moved to Mississippi in 2021.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social) reply parent
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
These grainy, unfocused, Bigfoot-style photos are sure to assuage those rumours.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social) reply parent
This is like when Piers Morgan had a tantrum over the Greggs vegetarian sausage roll. An entire political movement driven insane by the mere existence of consumer choice.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
You don't *have* to buy the sourdough, though. Other breads are available.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Is there some epidemic of asylum seekers buying snowmobiles that I missed? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Donald Trump is so obsessed with the Kennedys that he wants to do his own Bay of Pigs.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social) reply parent
We'll always have Paris* *the few hours of hope.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah, well. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the shitpost.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Yeah, he's alive
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social) reply parent
This is just a fraction of the deranged, racist nonsense he's been posting over the last 24 hrs FYI.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social) reply parent
"The owner of a social media platform has accused Keir Starmer of importing foreign rapists to 'replace' the white population, endorsed every far-right agitator in his mentions, and called for the violent overthrow of Starmer's government. Should Keir Starmer continue to use the platform: Y/N?"
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Absolutely no reason or justification for the UK government, the Labour Party, or any Labour MP, to continue to have accounts on X.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Maybe the fake Melania and the Trump double will fall in love? What a heartwarming tale that would be.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course, the real reason you can't make Life of Brian now is that the (woke) Hollywood studio executives would probably say something like, "This is just Life of Brian! We can't make this, we'd be sued."
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Yeah, imagine if you tried to make Life of Brian now. It'd probably be picketed by religious groups, banned in several markets, the BBC and ITV might refuse to screen it, the cast would probably have to defend it in a televised debate with a bishop.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Labor Day Weekend at Donnie's.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
He's going to order the Army Corps of Engineers to flood DC so he can sail a destroyer down the National Mall.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
I'm going to start replying, "Oh, you know, overburdened by mitochondrial challenges, inflammation, and suchlike" when people ask how I am.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Same energy.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
As a historian (though admittedly with no expertise here), I much prefer the Ridley Scott "shut up, nerds" approach to that of film/TV makers who take the exact same creative liberties while boasting about how faithful they are to the historical record.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Ann Selzer, you will be avenged.
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Very funny that he thinks that Rolling Stone is the official magazine of the Rolling Stones.
Jay (@duniagamemaster.bsky.social) reposted
It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social) reply parent
"He's spinning the ball on his finger! Just take it! Take the ball!"
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Shakespeare is, of course, the original "guy who took a girl to the park, pointed out a tree or a bird, and then ran off in the opposite direction."
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
Setting aside the moral case here (let's not set aside the moral case here), if you can't go in studs up on "Farage's Taliban subsidy," why are you even in politics?
Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
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Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)
I think this is a key part of his appeal. He's a politician who doesn't seem to hate or fear the electorate.
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