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.

El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"

One of the things about discourse around The Odyssey is that only a couple of movies a year manage to get into 'the discourse' now, so everyone has to have an opinion on them In the old days there would be a Peter Greenaway film out by now to distract everyone & give them something new to talk about

Everyone Abbie is our Sophie in It’s a Superpower?? You all know she’s an incredible actor and comedian but she’s also a fucking brilliant writer and this show will be amazing. Go and give her a Daily Tism fam audience if you’re in Edinburgh!

Abbie Weinstock@abbieweinstock.bsky.social · 20h ago

Giraffe @ Pleasance Cellar 1:45pm 5th-31st August (not 15th, 25th) Give us a like/ a share/ a follow (not physically; as Eliana learns in the show that sort of thing can get you into trouble!) www.pleasance.co.uk/event/giraffe Photo credit: rebecca need-menear Poster design: Alice Gorman

A new Bond actor to be announced by Christmas, reportedly, and even with a concentrated giddy-up you'd have to think a finished 007 film is at least another three years away; almost a full decade on from Craig's last outing. I haven't missed Bond. Has anyone?

I don't dunk on people but the dude saying 'If you hate AI, could you get through a working day if it all went away tomorrow?!'is testing my resolve on that so much. I don't use your dogshit thief machine incompetence tech, Sparkie. I fucking work for a living.

There is a substantial chunk of the electorate that thinks of themselves as Republicans, that still tends to vote Republican, but wants Republicans to win fair and square. They like GOP policies, but they also like democracy. (And yes, that's a contradiction. Voters are vast.)

The decisive failure of GOP referenda in Kansas Amendment 1 and Missouri Amendment 4 yesterday is yet another reminder of something I've been saying for a while: Voters, even Republican voters, now regularly despise and repudiate GOP attempts to use them to destroy democracy.

One thing I really hate is when I notice a similarity between short phrases in two songs I know well but don't enjoy, and then get a looping overlapping medley of the two stuck in my head forever.

This is one of the first bits of this show I built up fully. Too tempting. #TFNation come-downers should get this listened to. Not only is it about - well, listen to the clip - but he's played by that kid on the old transformers dvd who said that "two quid for a fist" thing you remembered

The Daily Tism@thedailytism.com · 6h ago

No affiliation!!!! Please don’t sue us. @gracejarvisohno.bsky.social guest stars in this week’s It’s a Superpower??

Think it's funny that guys were trying to run 'Emily Wilson is just against and doesn't like or appreciate action cinema' and she's out with a new piece wherein she loudly proclaims her love for Die Hard. Hilarious. 😂😂😂

it pisses me off SO much that as someone who runs a pub I'm meant to enforce this transphobic, sexist garbage. fuck off. the only solution, since we don't have a disabled toilet, is that the toilets are ALL gender neutral and I'll get new signs saying one has cubicles other has urinals

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 10h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

Quote from Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson: 'At the EHRC we want a society where everyone’s rights are respected and realised, so that we can all live well together. Our statutory guidance will help services across the country comply with the Equality Act, protecting service users from discrimination and harassment while reducing the risk of the provider being subject to litigation. 



As Britain’s equality regulator, our work doesn’t end upon publication of this guidance. We monitor compliance with the law and take enforcement action where proportionate and necessary, in line with our well-established regulatory model and decision-making framework.'

Revolver turns sixty today. Been my favourite Beatles album for about forty of those years (and how gratified I was in the 90s to see it overtake Pepper as the critical favourite too). There is no "best album ever" but if there was, it'd be hard to make a case against this being it.

Everything I write, everything I make, rests on a lifetime of cultural experiences, some of which others will share. And even if I wanted to write something perfectly accessible, unless it’s a picture book for five year olds, *I don’t know what you, random stranger, have and have not read*?

Girón: oh also, people are way too divided these days Girón: like, some people are pro something, other people are against that same thing Girón: and ai is just one more thing that you have to have an opinion on! Girón: everyone should stop having opinions on ai and just be pro ai!

Girón: oh no boo hoo hoo ai is bad, well maybe you didn't know this but you've already been forced to use ai constantly, against your will by the powers that be Girón: so maybe you should give up and learn to love the slop Girón: unless you like being a hypocrite

Look I know I am not saying anything new here but I am *raging* that a bunch of self-proclaimed 'feminists' are in fact doing the work of patriarchy by trying to force us all back to a place where women must conform to a narrow set of stereotyped standards. FUCK OFF. I LIVED THROUGH THE '90S.