Andrew Hickey
@andrewhickey.500songs.com
That bloke who does that podcast your annoying friend keeps trying to get you to listen to. He/him. Posts every random thought in his head. AuDHD and not many filters. If you're only interested in my podcast you probably don't want to follow.
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Andrew Hickey
@andrewhickey.500songs.com
· Oct 17
Now we finally have pinned posts I can pin this and take it out of my profile:
Do *NOT* share screenshots of my posts to my podcast's FB fan group. This is not, for the most part, somewhere I talk about my work, and I don't like personal stuff about me being shared on platforms I'm not on.
Do *NOT* share screenshots of my posts to my podcast's FB fan group. This is not, for the most part, somewhere I talk about my work, and I don't like personal stuff about me being shared on platforms I'm not on.
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shallow cis bitch 2 cents: this shit is directly a tax on me, a person with trans friends and family members whomst I love and wish to prosper, and instead of living in a god damn society we will all be doing inadequate GoFundMes forever and goddamn it, we don’t have to LIVE THIS WAY
this week, congress has agreed to ban trans participation in sports at military academies and the opening bid to fix aca subsidies bans trans care coverage on obamacare exchanges
why does it feel like we’re not seeing a five alarm fire from the lgbtq+ advocacy groups yet
why does it feel like we’re not seeing a five alarm fire from the lgbtq+ advocacy groups yet
December 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
shallow cis bitch 2 cents: this shit is directly a tax on me, a person with trans friends and family members whomst I love and wish to prosper, and instead of living in a god damn society we will all be doing inadequate GoFundMes forever and goddamn it, we don’t have to LIVE THIS WAY
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When I am finally victorious and my ideological enemies thwarted, all who opposed me shall be lined up and dutifully distributed their equitable share of the rights I fought for and they so vigorously opposed, because That Was The Fucking Point
nah dawg this is petty as shit
these people got brainwashed with propaganda and fearmongering
wanting only people who didn't vote for Trump to survive is misanthropic and gross
these people got brainwashed with propaganda and fearmongering
wanting only people who didn't vote for Trump to survive is misanthropic and gross
This.
December 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
When I am finally victorious and my ideological enemies thwarted, all who opposed me shall be lined up and dutifully distributed their equitable share of the rights I fought for and they so vigorously opposed, because That Was The Fucking Point
For film, probably The Man Who Laughs.
Books The House at Pooh Corner by default (I've not read many 1928 books despite reading a lot from years around it)
Visual art Escher's Tower of Babel
Music Ellington's The Mooche
youtu.be/BPJ5vNmVL3I?...
Books The House at Pooh Corner by default (I've not read many 1928 books despite reading a lot from years around it)
Visual art Escher's Tower of Babel
Music Ellington's The Mooche
youtu.be/BPJ5vNmVL3I?...
December 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
For film, probably The Man Who Laughs.
Books The House at Pooh Corner by default (I've not read many 1928 books despite reading a lot from years around it)
Visual art Escher's Tower of Babel
Music Ellington's The Mooche
youtu.be/BPJ5vNmVL3I?...
Books The House at Pooh Corner by default (I've not read many 1928 books despite reading a lot from years around it)
Visual art Escher's Tower of Babel
Music Ellington's The Mooche
youtu.be/BPJ5vNmVL3I?...
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It’s the Martin Scorcese discourse all over again. People have become utterly unwilling to acknowledge any distinction between pop modes of creative expression and “high” art modes, to the disservice of both.
December 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It’s the Martin Scorcese discourse all over again. People have become utterly unwilling to acknowledge any distinction between pop modes of creative expression and “high” art modes, to the disservice of both.
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And I’m not even saying Saga is bad. It isn’t. Not by any means. But it’s… you know… it’s not that *kind* of art.
December 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
And I’m not even saying Saga is bad. It isn’t. Not by any means. But it’s… you know… it’s not that *kind* of art.
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I feel conflicted about the comics / literature discourse, because on the one hand, of course they’re literature, but on the other hand, people are out here claiming things like that Saga is totally on par with Moby Dick and like, no, no it isn’t, fuck off, do you even read, bro?
December 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I feel conflicted about the comics / literature discourse, because on the one hand, of course they’re literature, but on the other hand, people are out here claiming things like that Saga is totally on par with Moby Dick and like, no, no it isn’t, fuck off, do you even read, bro?
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Gentle reminder that the European Union was established because the first four decades of our 20th century were mostly internecine war and genocide.
December 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Gentle reminder that the European Union was established because the first four decades of our 20th century were mostly internecine war and genocide.
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I can hold two truths in my soul at once: every man in her story is a creepy-ass predator who should be marooned at sea, and also she's an ethics black hole who may have brought upon a new age of victorian era infant mortality.
people who can't hate them all need more spite in their hearts, I guess
people who can't hate them all need more spite in their hearts, I guess
Possibly the only thing more freakish than Nuzzi's prose is the contortions her defenders twist themselves into. "She's not just hot, but she definitely is hot, while also being a vulnerable smol child. Also, criticizing her is sexist."
December 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I can hold two truths in my soul at once: every man in her story is a creepy-ass predator who should be marooned at sea, and also she's an ethics black hole who may have brought upon a new age of victorian era infant mortality.
people who can't hate them all need more spite in their hearts, I guess
people who can't hate them all need more spite in their hearts, I guess
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not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
December 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
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If there’s one firm of clickbait I’m 100% immune to, it’s a stranger telling me that I forgot something or have always been wrong.
December 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
If there’s one firm of clickbait I’m 100% immune to, it’s a stranger telling me that I forgot something or have always been wrong.
It's just fucking bizarre to imagine thinking that you're *only* "needed" in context of traditional masculine patriarchy roles like husband/father/provider. I'm an insecure mass of neuroses, but even I'm OK with being "needed" as a friend, a son, brother, for my work, as a member of my community...
My essay does, however, dismiss this “message” because it’s hogwash. Nobody is telling men they are unwanted at home—quite the opposite—but reifying this “message” does make it easier to vilify single moms (and stereotypical nagging wives).
December 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It's just fucking bizarre to imagine thinking that you're *only* "needed" in context of traditional masculine patriarchy roles like husband/father/provider. I'm an insecure mass of neuroses, but even I'm OK with being "needed" as a friend, a son, brother, for my work, as a member of my community...
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If men need a "place," why is that place always "in control of women?"
My essay does, however, dismiss this “message” because it’s hogwash. Nobody is telling men they are unwanted at home—quite the opposite—but reifying this “message” does make it easier to vilify single moms (and stereotypical nagging wives).
December 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
If men need a "place," why is that place always "in control of women?"
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Turns out that this fits with what she's said about how she wrote it—that she used her phone while she was on hikes to compose the first draft—and it also fits with why it wasn't caught.
Because that kind of transcription is going to introduce SO MANY basic errors.
Because that kind of transcription is going to introduce SO MANY basic errors.
December 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Turns out that this fits with what she's said about how she wrote it—that she used her phone while she was on hikes to compose the first draft—and it also fits with why it wasn't caught.
Because that kind of transcription is going to introduce SO MANY basic errors.
Because that kind of transcription is going to introduce SO MANY basic errors.
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The more I mull this passage, the more strongly I suspect that Nuzzi dictated the book into a speech-to-text program that misheard "caricature" as "character," and that neither she, nor her editor, nor her copyeditors or proofreaders, caught it.
And then she seems to be saying that the "character of myself imagined by others" is the "viral allegory of hubris, female avatar of Icarus." That's not a character of herself so much as a caricature of herself. Or just a character, full stop. "character of myself imagined by others" doesn't work.
December 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The more I mull this passage, the more strongly I suspect that Nuzzi dictated the book into a speech-to-text program that misheard "caricature" as "character," and that neither she, nor her editor, nor her copyeditors or proofreaders, caught it.
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I say this because he feels just the right kind of out-of-touch to go after two actors who, their true talents and qualities and general inoffensiveness aside, have a cultural presence that feels like two slightly different flavors of "Oh it's that guy!" imagine complaining about Wilford Brimley
December 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I say this because he feels just the right kind of out-of-touch to go after two actors who, their true talents and qualities and general inoffensiveness aside, have a cultural presence that feels like two slightly different flavors of "Oh it's that guy!" imagine complaining about Wilford Brimley
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I wonder if Tarantino thought talking shit about Dano and Lillard would be the pivot into his Orson Welles gadfly era
December 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I wonder if Tarantino thought talking shit about Dano and Lillard would be the pivot into his Orson Welles gadfly era
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*presses record*
Idea for movie: a maverick proofreader breaks all the rules & defies his bosses by making er, clear & concise corrections, wait a minute, delete
Idea for movie: a maverick proofreader breaks all the rules & defies his bosses by making er, clear & concise corrections, wait a minute, delete
December 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
*presses record*
Idea for movie: a maverick proofreader breaks all the rules & defies his bosses by making er, clear & concise corrections, wait a minute, delete
Idea for movie: a maverick proofreader breaks all the rules & defies his bosses by making er, clear & concise corrections, wait a minute, delete
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Tonight's BBC Front Row: Kate Winslet, Noah Baumbach, Ukrainian artists fighting the cultural war, we discuss who's backing the Ellisons' Paramount bid for Warner Bros? & we remember architect Frank Gehry. 715pm R4
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
December 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Tonight's BBC Front Row: Kate Winslet, Noah Baumbach, Ukrainian artists fighting the cultural war, we discuss who's backing the Ellisons' Paramount bid for Warner Bros? & we remember architect Frank Gehry. 715pm R4
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Being annoying on your own timeline is free speech. Being annoying in someone's replies is harassment. Quote posts are a gray area of the law still being developed
December 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Being annoying on your own timeline is free speech. Being annoying in someone's replies is harassment. Quote posts are a gray area of the law still being developed
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Seeing Wake Up Dead Man and Andrew Scott’s character, who‘s transparently a pastiche of John C. Wright, reminded me of this old piece, and man, I’m a massive bitch.
(Note that Recursive Occlusion is no longer for sale, though I keep intending to reissue it.)
(Note that Recursive Occlusion is no longer for sale, though I keep intending to reissue it.)
An Open Letter to John C. Wright
The tl;dr here is that Recursive Occlusion, my interactive occult overview of Doctor Who, is now available for just $8.99 from Amazon and Amazon UK. An altogether more impish version of this announcem...
www.eruditorumpress.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Seeing Wake Up Dead Man and Andrew Scott’s character, who‘s transparently a pastiche of John C. Wright, reminded me of this old piece, and man, I’m a massive bitch.
(Note that Recursive Occlusion is no longer for sale, though I keep intending to reissue it.)
(Note that Recursive Occlusion is no longer for sale, though I keep intending to reissue it.)
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Guardian review? The War Between The TERFs And The Surf.
The War Between the Land and the Sea review – prepare to roll your eyes a lot at this fishy Doctor Who spinoff
The War Between the Land and the Sea review – prepare to roll your eyes a lot at this fishy Doctor Who spinoff
Dodgy character names, zero subtlety, a dubious approach to female roles … Russell T Davies’s show about fishfolk is entertaining – but feels like a wasted opportunity to make genuinely great TV
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Guardian review? The War Between The TERFs And The Surf.
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Weeping with joy as I am given the A Lady Should Watch Her Waistline Salad instead of the pizza I ordered, because I know that no Trans girls will be allowed to run a jumble sale with the Girl Guides, and this makes my life as a woman so much better somehow
December 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Weeping with joy as I am given the A Lady Should Watch Her Waistline Salad instead of the pizza I ordered, because I know that no Trans girls will be allowed to run a jumble sale with the Girl Guides, and this makes my life as a woman so much better somehow
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Absolutely incredible company, makes shitloads of money and dominates western pop culture while being handed around an endless series of owners who have the benny hill music playing at all times
December 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Absolutely incredible company, makes shitloads of money and dominates western pop culture while being handed around an endless series of owners who have the benny hill music playing at all times
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Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/
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Headline will be "Worker awarded 50k after being called 'fat'" and then you read it and then it will turn out it was mentioned in passing when they were sacked for pointing out there was no safety equipment on site or something
December 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Headline will be "Worker awarded 50k after being called 'fat'" and then you read it and then it will turn out it was mentioned in passing when they were sacked for pointing out there was no safety equipment on site or something