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.
It was utterly, completely, straightforward. And literally *nobody* thought it was clever and deep when Paul McCartney did the "dream within a dream within a dream" thing in Give My Regards To Broad Street -- they just thought it fatuous. Consistency, people!
does anyone else remember the way inception was sold as this super confusing movie? and that newspapers were printing visual guides on what the plot was? and then you saw the movie and it was actually really straight forward?
what was that about
what was that about
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
It was utterly, completely, straightforward. And literally *nobody* thought it was clever and deep when Paul McCartney did the "dream within a dream within a dream" thing in Give My Regards To Broad Street -- they just thought it fatuous. Consistency, people!
Just in general, if you follow me and I reskeet something and then I see you being a dick in the OP's mentions (and you're not already a follower of the OP or whatever) I'm going to have to block you to make sure I'm not the cause of you doing that to anyone else.
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Just in general, if you follow me and I reskeet something and then I see you being a dick in the OP's mentions (and you're not already a follower of the OP or whatever) I'm going to have to block you to make sure I'm not the cause of you doing that to anyone else.
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so, today I got the surgery center where I got my deviated septum fixed to send me an itemized bill so I could submit to my FSA for reimbursement
my out of pocket cost: $473
what my insurance paid: $4258
what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
my out of pocket cost: $473
what my insurance paid: $4258
what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
so, today I got the surgery center where I got my deviated septum fixed to send me an itemized bill so I could submit to my FSA for reimbursement
my out of pocket cost: $473
what my insurance paid: $4258
what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
my out of pocket cost: $473
what my insurance paid: $4258
what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
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No offence to any of the English masters graduates who follow me or indeed the ones I know in real life, but what has gone wrong for someone to think that 'an English literature masters' is a thing you are doing for anything other than the love of English?
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
No offence to any of the English masters graduates who follow me or indeed the ones I know in real life, but what has gone wrong for someone to think that 'an English literature masters' is a thing you are doing for anything other than the love of English?
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Sat in a restaurant last year listening to someone talk about how they were getting ChatGPT to do their assignments for *an English masters they were doing part-time*. I still think about it occasionally.
Dude in the row in front of mine on a flight is literally producing the entire marketing campaign of a _________ fellowship using ChatGPT. Coolio…
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Sat in a restaurant last year listening to someone talk about how they were getting ChatGPT to do their assignments for *an English masters they were doing part-time*. I still think about it occasionally.
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Announcing a new V for Vendetta adaptation on November the tenth is quite the play.
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Announcing a new V for Vendetta adaptation on November the tenth is quite the play.
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Well, it's already not a faithful adaptation if it's referring to V using male pronouns.
V FOR VENDETTA getting the WATCHMEN treatment with HBO series
V for Vendetta, the celebrated comic book by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, is heading back to the screen. HBO has tapped Pete Jackson for a TV adaptation.
V for Vendetta, the celebrated comic book by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, is heading back to the screen. HBO has tapped Pete Jackson for a TV adaptation.
V FOR VENDETTA getting the WATCHMEN treatment with HBO series
V for Vendetta, the celebrated comic book by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, is heading back to the screen. HBO has tapped Pete Jackson for a TV adaptation.
www.comicsbeat.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Well, it's already not a faithful adaptation if it's referring to V using male pronouns.
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thinking back to when i accidentally signed legal name on a chuck book. i spent so many dang years writing my legal name at UNMASKED signings that it just fell out. had to trot out a 'oh dang looks like this book has a printing error lets get you a new one' and awkwardly replaced the book. so funny
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
thinking back to when i accidentally signed legal name on a chuck book. i spent so many dang years writing my legal name at UNMASKED signings that it just fell out. had to trot out a 'oh dang looks like this book has a printing error lets get you a new one' and awkwardly replaced the book. so funny
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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the thing with jokes is, there's gotta be a joke in there somewhere. If you're faking a news site or a white house press release, it better be really fucking obvious satire, or else you are part of the problem.
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
the thing with jokes is, there's gotta be a joke in there somewhere. If you're faking a news site or a white house press release, it better be really fucking obvious satire, or else you are part of the problem.
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She wasn't killed by a phone.
On Brianna's 19th birthday, this morning I joined @cheshirepcc.bsky.social and the Brianna Ghey Legacy Project Phone Free Education campaign at the launch at Jodrell Bank of a new £150k initiative to make Cheshire the first county in the UK where ALL state high schools have lockable phone pouches.
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
She wasn't killed by a phone.
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It had me looking up: Anita Pallenberg, Andy Warhol, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lord Alfred Douglass, The Profumo Affair, Jim Dine, Sticky Fingers, Jed and Jay Johnson, Billy Name, Barbarella...and more.
November 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
It had me looking up: Anita Pallenberg, Andy Warhol, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lord Alfred Douglass, The Profumo Affair, Jim Dine, Sticky Fingers, Jed and Jay Johnson, Billy Name, Barbarella...and more.
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Spent a large portion of my day reading (not a podcast guy, but I will read the shit out of a transcript!) the history of Sympathy for the Devil by the stones (will put link below) by @andrewhickey.500songs.com and damn if it wasn't a whole journey for my research oriented brain.
November 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Spent a large portion of my day reading (not a podcast guy, but I will read the shit out of a transcript!) the history of Sympathy for the Devil by the stones (will put link below) by @andrewhickey.500songs.com and damn if it wasn't a whole journey for my research oriented brain.
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When Rosie Duffield is in on it I think we can safely say the anti-phone campaign in Brianna's name is actively at odds with tackling transphobia
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
When Rosie Duffield is in on it I think we can safely say the anti-phone campaign in Brianna's name is actively at odds with tackling transphobia
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This is kinda how we got Linux BTW.
The Helsinki University just kinda let Linus tinker with rewriting Minix on the clock. I don't actually remember if they (the uni) didn't like Minix or if it was just... what they did.
The Helsinki University just kinda let Linus tinker with rewriting Minix on the clock. I don't actually remember if they (the uni) didn't like Minix or if it was just... what they did.
Neurodivergent folks should all be paid a stipend to do things we like to do, and the world would end up benefiting from it.
The thing about being neurodivergent is that I Like It. What I don’t like is that the world imposes numerous taxes on me for being like this.
I don’t view it as a Me problem.
I don’t view it as a Me problem.
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This is kinda how we got Linux BTW.
The Helsinki University just kinda let Linus tinker with rewriting Minix on the clock. I don't actually remember if they (the uni) didn't like Minix or if it was just... what they did.
The Helsinki University just kinda let Linus tinker with rewriting Minix on the clock. I don't actually remember if they (the uni) didn't like Minix or if it was just... what they did.
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Every single one of these pictures is if transit or a waiting room, EXACTLY THE PLACES WHERE READING SIMPLY HELPS PASS TIME
Jesus Christ. It’s just reading, not jerking off. It doesn’t need to be hidden behind closed doors.
Jesus Christ. It’s just reading, not jerking off. It doesn’t need to be hidden behind closed doors.
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Every single one of these pictures is if transit or a waiting room, EXACTLY THE PLACES WHERE READING SIMPLY HELPS PASS TIME
Jesus Christ. It’s just reading, not jerking off. It doesn’t need to be hidden behind closed doors.
Jesus Christ. It’s just reading, not jerking off. It doesn’t need to be hidden behind closed doors.
Listening to Micky Dolenz's 2012 album Remember for only about the third time since it came out, and while the arrangements aren't great (apart from the a capella "(I Prithee) Do Not Ask For Love") I'm reminded again of how strong that man's voice still is.
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Listening to Micky Dolenz's 2012 album Remember for only about the third time since it came out, and while the arrangements aren't great (apart from the a capella "(I Prithee) Do Not Ask For Love") I'm reminded again of how strong that man's voice still is.
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I would have sworn I didn’t know the word, but I recently reread Slaughterhouse Five for the umpteenth time, but first in over a decade and this word comes up. “They looked like g———-s, like white people pretending to be black for the laughs they could get.”
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I would have sworn I didn’t know the word, but I recently reread Slaughterhouse Five for the umpteenth time, but first in over a decade and this word comes up. “They looked like g———-s, like white people pretending to be black for the laughs they could get.”
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Wondering why everything seems shit and you have no money compared with 10 years ago?
This is a big part of why:
This is a big part of why:
Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Wondering why everything seems shit and you have no money compared with 10 years ago?
This is a big part of why:
This is a big part of why:
Reminded again in discussion elsewhere that both Roy Orbison and Maurice Gibb met their second wives at Batley Variety Club, a frankly astonishing fact.
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Reminded again in discussion elsewhere that both Roy Orbison and Maurice Gibb met their second wives at Batley Variety Club, a frankly astonishing fact.
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Abolish the Senate. I am absolutely dead serious.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Abolish the Senate. I am absolutely dead serious.
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Could Joyce Carol Oates please tell Elon it's cool to give all your money away to charity and throw yourself into the sea?
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Could Joyce Carol Oates please tell Elon it's cool to give all your money away to charity and throw yourself into the sea?
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In order for Nancy Pelosi to continue her immortal reign, the next incarnation of Nancy Pelosi's soul will soon be identified by the council.
Christine Pelosi, daughter of Nancy Pelosi, has announced she’s running for the California State Senate.
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
In order for Nancy Pelosi to continue her immortal reign, the next incarnation of Nancy Pelosi's soul will soon be identified by the council.
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Musk: i show you, joyce carol oates!!
Musk: i show you i canna post real good!
Musk: I'ma make a real good post!!!
Musk:
Musk:
Musk:
Oates: why aren't you posting elon
Musk: i post when i good anna ready, paisan!!!
Musk: i show you i canna post real good!
Musk: I'ma make a real good post!!!
Musk:
Musk:
Musk:
Oates: why aren't you posting elon
Musk: i post when i good anna ready, paisan!!!
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Musk: i show you, joyce carol oates!!
Musk: i show you i canna post real good!
Musk: I'ma make a real good post!!!
Musk:
Musk:
Musk:
Oates: why aren't you posting elon
Musk: i post when i good anna ready, paisan!!!
Musk: i show you i canna post real good!
Musk: I'ma make a real good post!!!
Musk:
Musk:
Musk:
Oates: why aren't you posting elon
Musk: i post when i good anna ready, paisan!!!
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[at Tesla]
Tesla Shareholders: in recognition of your incredible gift for lowering the price of tesla stock, we would like to award you this trillion dollar bonus
Elon Musk: yeah yeah that'sa fine
Tesla Shareholders: what's the matter? you seem distracted
Musk: no i'm fine
Musk: [muttering] oates
Tesla Shareholders: in recognition of your incredible gift for lowering the price of tesla stock, we would like to award you this trillion dollar bonus
Elon Musk: yeah yeah that'sa fine
Tesla Shareholders: what's the matter? you seem distracted
Musk: no i'm fine
Musk: [muttering] oates
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
[at Tesla]
Tesla Shareholders: in recognition of your incredible gift for lowering the price of tesla stock, we would like to award you this trillion dollar bonus
Elon Musk: yeah yeah that'sa fine
Tesla Shareholders: what's the matter? you seem distracted
Musk: no i'm fine
Musk: [muttering] oates
Tesla Shareholders: in recognition of your incredible gift for lowering the price of tesla stock, we would like to award you this trillion dollar bonus
Elon Musk: yeah yeah that'sa fine
Tesla Shareholders: what's the matter? you seem distracted
Musk: no i'm fine
Musk: [muttering] oates