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Andrew Macrae
@acidic.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, guitar player, music obsessive, science fictionist, compassionate productivity advocate, salt-water sojourner, flow-state surfer, finder of lost dogs, compositor of excellent profile bio text. Son of Colin.
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Feb 7
musk railing against the doxxing of his teenage hackers shows he either does not understand what is at stake, or he has put them in an extremely dangerous position and does not care about their safety and wellbeing
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Feb 4
this may not turn out to be the genius play they think it is by May
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Jan 21
making a white supremacist gesture and then denying you made a white supremacist gesture is fkn textbook white supremacist
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · Jan 9
My very last issue (on ♿️) has now come out with BMJ Medical Humanities: I have stepped down from my role as Editor in Chief. There are a lot of factors—after 17 years editing two consecutive journals, it was time. But there’s more, and I feel we should talk about the climate of #academic publishing
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · Jan 4
going so power mad that you appoint your horse to the senate is conservatively x10000 better when compared to letting zoomers humiliate you live on twitch as background noise to someone playing fortnite
airbagged.bsky.social kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · Jan 3
ConnorEatsPants is a legend
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Jan 4
out on the waters of the muwinina and palawa peoples of nipaluna in southern tasmania — the yellow bluff, north bruny
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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · Jan 1
Annoyed at having to move your hands slightly to undo the little bread bag tie? No more. Introducing Breadr™, the AI-powered bread bag tie that opens and closes the bag with a simple voice command. For a $15.99 monthly subscription fee, getting access to your favorite breads has never been easier.
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Dec 30
i know its sacrilegious but once i started chopping it up, i could not stop myself from reimagining this track soundcloud.app.goo.gl/cSxm9iePpdEM...
without you very well of course
Listen to without you very well of course by Andrew Macrae #np on #SoundCloud
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Dec 24
sending out love to everyone struggling with Xmas. my fam is bringing out the top-shelf dysfunction for the holidays. it’s like they’ve been saving it for a special occasion
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Dec 24
fuck it im taking the boat out tomorrow
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Dec 20
crawling towards 2025 like
Boba Fett crawling out of the Sarlac
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Dec 17
merry christmas from coco marmalade
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Dec 13
reading abt US healthcare from australia is like i couldn’t meet my deductible, so i paid a copay, but since i didn’t have prior authorisation, there was a coverage gap because it was out-of-network. luckily i had a coupon, so i only had to pay $13,699 for my lifesaving meds this month
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Dec 6
new music from me. playing with a sampler soundcloud.app.goo.gl/jNDYjpnESysB...
Invisible Art
Listen to Invisible Art by Andrew Macrae #np on #SoundCloud
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Dec 1
9/10 posts on my local naturalists page are ppl posting a photo of a dead animal and asking for an ID and it’s a rat
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Dec 1
the west coast of lutruwita/Tasmania

vestiges of deep-time gondwanaland

the temperate rainforest is so quiet, you hold your breath to hear its heartbeat

the mountains look on, indifferent to the cataclysms that wrenched them from the earth’s crust
the rotting footings of a pier at strahan horsetail falls outside Queenstown Nelson falls in the world heritage area a tree fern frond unfurls
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Nov 24
how can life be so simultaneously long and short? like there’s never enough time until you realise fck ive been working on this skill for 20 years and i know a few things now
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Nov 22
actually it occurred to me i *dont* want to be around to see it because musk has likely already made some shitty bet like it’s ok to burn all the carbon in the ground as long as it fuels the creation of an AI superintelligence that will solve all our problems.
acidic.bsky.social Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Nov 21
reflecting on what a high-risk strategy it was for musk to back trump. like i know he had his thumb on the scale, but still: the margin for victory was slim. it really could have gone either way. and one day he’s going to make a big bet that goes bad and i really hope im around to see it
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Nov 22
There’s a quote earlier in the book where Chigurh is about to kill Wells and says to him:

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Nov 22
Moss is driven by his own code: protect Carla Jean from retribution for his theft of the drug money.
It’s Moss’ slip with the hitchhiker/pool girl that leads directly to his undoing
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Nov 22
This is the last time we see him in the book, too.

So I this theory about the book/story. Chigurh is evil incarnate. He’s figured as this almost supernatural force. And he’s driven by a perverse anti-moral code — the coin toss.
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Nov 22
They rent two rooms, but Moss turns up at the girl’s room with beer and they have a final interaction. It’s pretty clear from the book that Moss *doesnt* sleep with the girl, but that he’s drawn to her and even being there with her is an abrogation of his moral code.
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Nov 22
In the book, there’s no motel swimming pool.
Moss picks up a 16 yo hitchhiker and they go to a diner and then check in to the motel. It’s clear the married Moss knows he is taking an unnecessary risk.
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Nov 22
Up until here, Moss’ motivation is to elude Chigurh and keep his wife Carla Jean safe from retribution. By interacting with the girl by the pool, he wavers in his moral framework, and this allows space for Chigurh’s perverse moral order to triumph.
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Andrew Macrae @acidic.bsky.social · Nov 22
Everything else is implied, but to me it’s clear that this pivotal moment is where Moss abandons his moral authority in the narrative, and Chigurh (aka the devil) catches up with him. It’s the last time we see Moss before he dies offscreen.
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